Sanctuary
サンクチュアリ
Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami survived the Cambodian killing fields together as boys and emerged with a single pact: to seize control of a stagnant Japan and remake it as their own sanctuary. They split the work in two. Hojo climbs through the Tokyo underworld as a yakuza, while Asami pursues a seat in the National Diet as one of its youngest members. From opposite sides of the law, the two friends push their plan forward against entrenched politicians, rival bosses, and anyone who stands between them and power.
Crows
クローズ
Harumichi Bouya transfers into his second year at Suzuran All-Boys High School, a place so overrun by delinquents that its students are nicknamed Crows for their black uniforms and bad reputation. He soon falls in with a group around Hiromi Kirishima that is trying to topple the school's reigning boss, Hideto Bandou. From there the fights spread outward to rival schools and gangs around the town, including the hardened students of Housen Academy and the bikers of the Front of Armament.
Tokyo Babylon
東京BABYLON
Sixteen-year-old Subaru Sumeragi is the thirteenth head of the Sumeragi clan, a line of onmyōji, and works in modern Tokyo to lay restless spirits and shield ordinary people from supernatural harm. He lives alongside his flamboyant twin sister Hokuto, who designs the bold outfits they both wear, and Seishirō Sakurazuka, a gentle veterinarian who openly courts him. The gloved, soft-spoken Subaru handles each case across the city while the bond between the three deepens.
Basara
BASARA
In a future Japan reduced to desert by catastrophe, twins Sarasa and Tatara are born in a remote village under a prophecy that names Tatara the "child of destiny" who will overthrow the tyrant Golden King and his sons. When soldiers kill Tatara, Sarasa cuts her hair and takes his name and his role, leading the rebellion in his place so her people don't lose hope. Disguised as a boy, she rises as the figurehead of the Tatara army.
GTO: The Early Years
湘南純愛組！
Eikichi Onizuka and his best friend Ryuji Danma are two feared Shonan delinquents who fight as the Oni-Baku duo and decide they're done being lonely tough guys with no luck with women. Their clumsy bid to reinvent themselves and finally grow up keeps detouring into brawls with rival gangs and bosozoku across town. The series is the high-school prequel to Great Teacher Onizuka, following Onizuka before he ever stepped into a classroom.
Slam Dunk
スラムダンク
Hanamichi Sakuragi is a red-haired delinquent with no interest in school until he meets Haruko Akagi, who assumes the towering first-year must play basketball. To get close to her, Sakuragi joins the Shohoku High basketball team, where captain Takenori Akagi drills him in fundamentals and the sharpshooter Hisashi Mitsui and ace rival Kaede Rukawa round out the lineup. With raw athleticism but zero technique, Sakuragi sets his sights on carrying Shohoku to the national tournament.
Battle Angel Alita
銃夢
In the Scrapyard, a grimy city built from the refuse that rains down from the floating utopia of Zalem, cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido finds the discarded head and torso of a female cyborg still alive in the trash. He rebuilds her and names her Gally after his dead cat, but she wakes with no memory of who she was. As her body relearns the lost martial art Panzer Kunst, Gally takes up Ido's secret trade as a Hunter-Warrior, claiming bounties on the criminals who prey on the Scrapyard while she searches for the truth of her past.
Yu Yu Hakusho
幽☆遊☆白書
Yusuke Urameshi is a fourteen-year-old delinquent who dies shoving a child out of the path of a car, a selfless act nobody expected of him. With no place ready for him in the afterlife, the ferry-girl Botan delivers an offer from Koenma of the Spirit World: pass a series of trials and return to life. Once revived, Yusuke is named a Spirit Detective and tasked with hunting demons who prey on the human world, soon joined by his rival Kazuma Kuwabara. Yoshihiro Togashi draws the shounen manga.