Hunter x Hunter
HUNTER×HUNTER
Gon Freecss grew up believing his father was dead, until he learns that Ging is alive and one of the world's elite Hunters. To find him, Gon sets out to pass the brutal Hunter Exam and earn the same license. Along the way he falls in with Killua, a boy from a family of assassins; Kurapika, the last of a clan wiped out by the Phantom Troupe; and Leorio, who needs the license to fund his medical studies, each chasing the rank for reasons of their own.
Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror
うずまき
High schooler Kirie Goshima lives in the small town of Kurouzu-cho, where her boyfriend Shuichi Saito grows convinced that the place itself is cursed — not by a ghost or a monster, but by the spiral. As the shape begins to take hold of the townspeople, ordinary citizens become obsessed with whirls and patterns, their bodies and the town warping in grotesque ways. Kirie and Shuichi watch the curse spread through Kurouzu-cho with no clear way to escape it.
Shamo
軍鶏
Ryo Narushima is a top student bound for Tokyo University until, with no warning, he murders both his parents. Convicted at sixteen and sent to a juvenile reformatory, he is beaten and brutalized until inmate Kenji Kurokawa, a former revolutionary jailed for an attempted assassination, teaches him karate. The training reshapes Narushima into a cold, calculating fighter who carries that violence out of the reformatory and into the world.
Ichi the Killer
殺し屋1
In the Kabuki-cho red-light district of Shinjuku, a manipulator known only as the Old Geezer programs a fragile, tearful young man named Ichi to kill on command, hiding a blade in his boot. The Geezer aims Ichi at the Anjo yakuza family to murder boss Yoshio Anjo and seize his money. When Anjo vanishes, his sadistic lieutenant Kakihara — his cheeks slit and pinned — begins tearing through the underworld to find whoever took his boss.
Rookies
ROOKIES
Koichi Kawato arrives as the new teacher at Futakotamagawa High, where the baseball club is a group of delinquents barred from competition after starting a brawl during a match. The players care only about girls, cigarettes, and goofing off, but Kawato refuses to give up on them and pushes them to remember they once loved the game. He sets them a goal that sounds impossible for thugs with a ruined reputation: reaching the national tournament at Koshien.
Last Quarter
下弦の月
Seventeen-year-old Mizuki Mochizuki, reeling from her father's remarriage and a cheating ex-boyfriend, falls for Adam, a British musician she meets one night under the full moon. She slips away from family and friends to be with him in an abandoned mansion, until he warns he must leave by sunrise. In a parallel thread, grade-schooler Hotaru Shiraishi, hospitalized after an accident while chasing her cat Lulu, finds herself drawn to that same mansion and to a presence she cannot name.
Vagabond
Vagabond
In the aftermath of the Battle of Sekigahara, the headstrong Shinmen Takezo and his friend Matahachi Hon'iden survive the slaughter and return home as outlaws. Hunted for his violence, Takezo is captured by the monk Takuan Soho and Matahachi's betrothed, Otsu, who set him on a new path. Renamed Musashi Miyamoto after his village, he sets out across feudal Japan to test himself against the land's strongest swordsmen.
Fruits Basket
フルーツバスケット
After her mother's death leaves her orphaned, cheerful Tohru Honda ends up living in a tent on land owned by the Sohma family, until Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure Sohma take her in as their housekeeper. She soon stumbles onto their secret: thirteen members of the family are possessed by spirits of the Chinese zodiac and transform into those animals when hugged by someone of the opposite sex or when their bodies grow weak. Welcomed into the cursed household, Tohru sets out to understand the Sohma and the burden each of them carries.
Immortal Rain
メテオ・メトセラ
Machika Balfaltin inherits her late grandfather's unfinished bounty: kill the immortal known as Methuselah. When she finally tracks him down, she finds Rain Jewlitt, a clumsy, gentle man who has lived for centuries and lost more than he can carry. Unable to bring herself to take his life, Machika tags along as Rain waits for Yuca, the figure tied to his immortality, while bounty hunters and a shadowy organization close in around them.
Forest of Piano
ピアノの森
Kai Ichinose, a boy growing up in a red-light district, slips into the nearby forest at night to play an abandoned piano that no one else can coax a sound from. When transfer student Shuhei Amamiya, son of a famous pianist, is dared to play that same forest piano, the two meet and Kai's raw, untrained talent astonishes him. Former concert pianist Sosuke Ajino, now Shuhei's teacher, hears Kai play and resolves to draw him toward proper training, even as Kai resists refining the wild style that is entirely his own.
Love Hina
ラブひな
Keitaro Urashima has failed the University of Tokyo entrance exam twice, chasing a childhood promise to attend the school with a girl whose name he can no longer remember. Sent to his grandmother's old inn, he finds it converted into the all-female Hinata House and is unexpectedly made its manager. Among the residents is Naru Narusegawa, a top-ranked exam hopeful, and the more they study together the more Keitaro suspects she may be the girl from his promise.
Hikaru no Go
ヒカルの碁
Sixth-grader Hikaru Shindo uncovers an old Go board in his grandfather's attic and releases Fujiwara no Sai, the ghost of a Heian-era Go master who longs to keep playing. Bound to Hikaru, Sai guides his moves, and a casual game draws the attention of Akira Toya, the gifted son of a top professional. Stunned that an apparent beginner could match him, Akira fixes on Hikaru as a rival, and Hikaru gradually moves from playing for Sai to wanting to master the game himself.
One Outs
ワンナウツ
Hiromichi Kojima, the slumping star batter of the pro Lycaons, travels to Okinawa to train and runs into Toua Tokuchi, the unbeaten king of a one-on-one gambling game called One Outs. Tokuchi throws no harder than 134 km/h yet wins through cold psychology and probability rather than raw stuff. Convinced this gambler is the team's missing piece, Kojima drags him onto the Lycaons under a brutal contract: paid for every out, fined heavily for every run he allows.
Chrno Crusade
クロノクルセイド
In 1920s America, Rosette Christopher works as an exorcist for the Order of Magdalene alongside her partner Chrono, a demon who fights at her side under a contract that quietly drains her own life. The two travel the country hunting demonic threats while Rosette searches for her missing younger brother Joshua, taken by the demon Aion. This manga by Daisuke Moriyama gathers a small crew around them, including the apostle girl Azmaria, as the trail toward Joshua deepens.
The Garden of Sinners
空の境界
Shiki Ryougi carries the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, a power that lets her see the lines of mortality on anything and sever them, recently regained after waking from a two-year coma. Drawn together with Mikiya Kokutou, a level-headed young man with a knack for investigation, she takes on a string of grisly supernatural cases across the city. Each episode pulls the pair deeper into killings, hauntings, and the darker edges of human nature.
Angelic Layer
エンジェリックレイヤー
Seventh-grader Misaki Suzuhara moves to Tokyo to live with her aunt and is captivated by Angelic Layer, a game in which players called Deus mentally control custom dolls known as Angels on a field called the layer. An eccentric inventor who calls himself Icchan urges her to build her own, and she names her Angel Hikaru. Small but quick, Misaki enters competition and begins climbing the ranks against seasoned Deus.
Shaman King
シャーマンキング
Yoh Asakura is a shaman, a medium who channels spirits of the dead, and he partners with Amidamaru, the ghost of a centuries-old samurai. His easygoing goal is to become Shaman King, the one who commands the Great Spirit and can reshape the world, by winning the Shaman Fight held once every 500 years. His friend Manta Oyamada tags along as Yoh trains under the demanding regimen set by his fiancee Anna, while the tournament draws out rivals including his estranged twin brother Hao. Hiroyuki Takei draws the shounen manga.
A Distant Neighborhood
遥かな町へ
Hiroshi Nakahara, a middle-aged salaryman, boards the wrong train after a few drinks and ends up in Kurayoshi, his childhood hometown, where he stops by his mother's grave. There he blacks out and wakes as a fourteen-year-old, his adult memories intact, living again with the family he lost decades ago. Knowing what is coming, Hiroshi sets out to understand why his father walked away one night and never returned.