Case Closed
名探偵コナン
Shinichi Kudo is a celebrated high-school detective whose body is shrunk to that of a child after a shadowy crime syndicate, the Black Organization, force-feeds him an experimental drug meant to kill him. Hiding his identity under the alias Conan Edogawa, he moves in with his childhood friend Ran Mouri and her bumbling private-eye father Kogoro, secretly solving the cases that come their way while searching for a lead back to the men who poisoned him.
Dragon Head
ドラゴンヘッド
Returning from a school trip, Teru Aoki survives when his bullet train derails inside a mountain tunnel during a violent quake. He wakes in the rubble to find nearly every classmate dead, with only the injured Ako Seto and the unstable Nobuo Takahashi left alive in the dark. As Teru keeps Ako going and Nobuo's fear curdles into something dangerous, the three claw toward the tunnel mouth, not yet knowing the world outside has been gutted by a far larger catastrophe.
Angel Sanctuary
天使禁猟区
Setsuna Mudo is a troubled Tokyo high-schooler hiding forbidden feelings for his younger sister Sara, until he learns he is the reincarnation of Alexiel, an angel who once rebelled against Heaven and was cursed to be reborn endlessly as a human. As angels and demons take an interest in his rebirth, Setsuna is pulled into a war between Heaven and Hell that turns on the soul inside him.
Kodocha: Sana's Stage
こどものおもちゃ
Sana Kurata is a bubbly, popular child actress whose sixth-grade classroom has been thrown into chaos by Akito Hayama, the sullen 'boss' of the boys who keeps two teachers in line with secret blackmail. Furious that his antics keep wrecking class, Sana sets out to take him down and restore order. As she pries into Akito's home life, the standoff between the two slowly turns into something closer.
Monster
MONSTER
Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a gifted Japanese neurosurgeon building a career in 1980s Germany when he defies hospital politics to operate on a critically wounded boy instead of the town's mayor. The boy, Johan Liebert, survives. Years later, a string of murders points back to Johan, now grown into a calculating killer, and Tenma is framed for the deaths. Stripped of his position and hunted by police, Tenma sets out across Germany to find the man whose life he once saved and stop what he has become.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン
Fourteen-year-old Shinji Ikari is summoned to the fortress city of Tokyo-3 by his estranged father, Gendo, who commands the secret organization NERV. With creatures called Angels attacking the city, Shinji is pressed into piloting Evangelion Unit-01, a giant biomechanical weapon, despite no training and no wish to fight. Taken in by NERV officer Misato Katsuragi and serving alongside the withdrawn pilot Rei Ayanami, Shinji faces each Angel while trying to earn the approval of a father who keeps him at arm's length. This manga is Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's own retelling, distinct from the anime.
Rurouni Kenshin
るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-
Once the assassin known as Hitokiri Battōsai during the war that ended the shogunate, Kenshin Himura now wanders Meiji-era Japan with a reverse-bladed sakabatō he has sworn never to kill with again. In Tokyo he meets Kaoru Kamiya, whose Kamiya Kasshin-ryū dojo is being slandered by a killer using the Battōsai name. Kenshin takes up residence at the dojo, and Yahiko and Sanosuke gather around him as his past keeps catching up.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
ヨコハマ買い出し紀行
Alpha Hatsuseno is a gentle android who runs a small coffee shop on the outskirts of a Yokohama slowly reclaimed by the sea, in a future where the oceans have risen and humanity is quietly winding down. She tends the cafe alone, waiting for the owner who left her in charge, and serves the few travelers and neighbors who still pass through. When a fellow robot gives her a camera, Alpha begins venturing out to see more of the changed coast, settling into the unhurried days of a peaceful, fading world.