Mars
MARS
Kira Aso is a shy, withdrawn art student who barely speaks to her classmates. Rei Kashino is the school's reckless playboy and a competitive motorcycle racer. The two cross paths when Rei steps in to stop a teacher harassing Kira, and a strange connection forms when she asks him to model for a painting of the Roman god Mars. As they start dating, each must reckon with the buried trauma the other carries.
Ping Pong
ピンポン
Childhood friends Yutaka "Peco" Hoshino and Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto have played table tennis together since they were kids, but high school changes the game. The cocky Peco coasts on raw talent while the withdrawn Smile holds himself back, never beating his friend on purpose. When their coach spots what Smile is hiding and pushes him toward the summer tournament, the two face sharper rivals across rival schools, including a Chinese exchange student who nearly made the Olympic team.
Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji
賭博黙示録カイジ
Kaiji Itou drifts through a dead-end life in Tokyo, scraping by on petty jobs while drinking, smoking, and gambling away what little he has. His routine collapses when loan shark Yuuji Endou comes to collect on a debt Kaiji once co-signed for a former coworker. Endou offers a brutal choice: pay it back over ten years, or board the gambling ship Espoir for a single night and risk everything to clear it at once. Fukumoto's manga opens with Kaiji stepping aboard.
Old Boy
ルーズ戦記 オールドボーイ
Shinichi Goto is an ordinary salaryman until he is abruptly kidnapped and locked away in a private cell for ten years, with no explanation and no contact with the outside world. When he is released just as suddenly, he is handed a little money and set loose. Goto sets out to find whoever imprisoned him and to learn why anyone would steal a decade of his life.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
遊☆戯☆王
Yugi Mutou is a shy teenager who finally solves the Millennium Puzzle, an ancient Egyptian artifact passed down through his grandfather's game shop. Completing it awakens a second personality, Dark Yugi, the spirit of a nameless pharaoh who takes over to challenge bullies and crooks to Shadow Games and hand out brutal Penalty Games. As Yugi grows closer to friends Anzu, Jonouchi, and Honda, he draws the attention of rivals who wield the other Millennium Items, including the collector Seto Kaiba.
Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom
花ざかりの君たちへ
Mizuki Ashiya, a Japanese girl raised in the United States, becomes captivated by high jumper Izumi Sano after watching him compete on television. To get close to him, she cuts her hair, disguises herself as a boy, and transfers into Sano's all-boys boarding school in Osaka. There she learns Sano has quit the high jump and sets out to bring him back to it, all while hiding her identity from her dorm-mates and the school doctor, Hokuto Umeda.
Berserk: God of the Abyss
ベルセルク 深淵の神
This is a special Berserk chapter by Kentaro Miura, originally printed in Young Animal but left out of the collected volumes. Apart from the main serialization, it stages a one-on-one encounter between Griffith and a vast entity that calls itself the source behind the world's events. Because it lays out information Miura felt the main story should reveal far later, the chapter was kept out of the tankoubon and circulated only in its magazine form.
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
グレート・ティーチャー・オニヅカ
Eikichi Onizuka is a twenty-two-year-old former biker gang member who decides to become a teacher, partly for the wrong reasons. He lands a job at the private Holy Forest Academy and is handed a homeroom class notorious for breaking every teacher before him. Using street smarts, brute nerve, and unorthodox stunts rather than textbooks, Onizuka sets out to win over the students who are determined to drive him off, aiming to become the greatest teacher Japan has ever seen.
InuYasha
犬夜叉
On her fifteenth birthday, Tokyo schoolgirl Kagome Higurashi is pulled down the well at her family shrine into Japan's Sengoku period. There she frees Inuyasha, a half-demon pinned to a tree, and accidentally shatters the sacred Shikon Jewel into countless shards scattered across the land. Bound together by a subjugation necklace, Kagome and Inuyasha set out to recover the fragments, gathering allies like the monk Miroku and the demon slayer Sango while the malevolent Naraku hunts the same shards.
MPD Psycho
多重人格探偵サイコ
Detective Yousuke Kobayashi is hunting a serial killer when the case turns personal and a second personality, the cold criminologist Kazuhiko Amamiya, surfaces inside him. Diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, he finds that each personality reads crime scenes differently, and that one of them may be linked to the killers he pursues. What begins as a grisly murder investigation widens into a conspiracy reaching far beyond any single case.
Tokyo Crazy Paradise
東京クレイジーパラダイス
In a crime-ridden, futuristic Tokyo of 2020, Tsukasa Kozuki was raised as a boy by her police-officer parents to keep her safe in a city where women are scarce and preyed upon. When her parents are killed, she ends up indebted to her classmate Ryuji Shirogami, the young third-generation boss of the Kuryugumi yakuza, and is bound to serve as his bodyguard until the debt is paid. Tsukasa fights her way through gang conflicts at Ryuji's side, hiding that she is a girl.
Cardcaptor Sakura
カードキャプターさくら
Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto opens a strange book in her basement and accidentally scatters the Clow Cards, a deck of magical cards created by the sorcerer Clow Reed, each able to take a life of its own. Cerberus, the cards' guardian who looks like a small winged plush and goes by Kero, names Sakura the Cardcaptor and tasks her with retrieving every loose card before they cause harm. Her best friend Tomoyo Daidouji sews her costumes and films her hunts as Sakura learns to catch and seal each escaped card.
Bad Company
BAD COMPANY
Ryuji Danma is a delinquent transfer student who becomes fixated on street fighter Eikichi Onizuka after watching him win a brawl, set on goading him into a real showdown. Onizuka brushes off schoolyard power struggles, preferring to rebuild a salvaged motorcycle with his friends, and a mutual acquaintance named Sakura draws Ryuji into the group instead. This short prequel to Shonan Junai Gumi sketches Onizuka's biker-gang youth before the events of Great Teacher Onizuka.