Blade of the Phantom Master
신 암행어사
In the fallen kingdom of Jushin, Munsu travels the ruined provinces as an Amen Osa, a secret royal inspector empowered to expose corrupt officials and tyrants. He is hunting the man who assassinated the king and brought the country down, accompanied by his loyal bodyguard Sando and a reluctant, third-rate summoner named Bang Ja. Modeled on Korean folktales, the story moves from village to village as Munsu uncovers the rot left behind by Jushin's collapse.
Zatch Bell!
金色のガッシュ!!
Kiyo Takamine is a brilliant but withdrawn junior-high student whose father sends him a strange amnesiac boy named Zatch Bell. Zatch turns out to be a mamodo, one of 100 demon children dropped into the human world every thousand years to fight for the title of Mamodo King. Each mamodo is paired with a human who can read their spellbook, channeling their own emotions to cast attacks, and a mamodo is knocked out of the contest the moment their book burns. Bonded to Zatch, Kiyo is pulled into a battle that runs alongside ordinary school life.
Aqua
AQUA
Akari Mizunashi leaves Manhome — Earth — for Aqua, the terraformed Mars whose city of Neo-Venezia recreates Venice with canals and gondolas in place of streets. She apprentices at the small Aria Company under the gondolier Alicia Florence, training to become an Undine, one of the city's guides who ferry visitors through the waterways. Across quiet, slow-paced chapters she settles into the city's rhythms alongside the company's mascot cat, President Aria. This two-volume work is the prequel to Aria.
Vagrant Soldier Ares
떠돌이 용병 아레스
In a world modeled on ancient Rome, a young swordsman named Ares enlists with the Temple Mercenaries, the most respected guns-for-hire in the land of Chronos, chasing the man who stole his master's sword. There he falls in with two comrades: Michael, a stoic spear fighter, and Baroona, a sharp archer hiding a grim past. As the three take contracts together, the friendships forged on the battlefield grow as central to the story as the wars that surround them.
Himizu
ヒミズ
Fourteen-year-old Yuichi Sumida, all but abandoned by his abusive parents, drops out of school to run his family's small boat-rental business by a riverbank, sharing the place with a handful of homeless people he lets shelter there. His classmate Keiko Chazawa fixates on him, copying his words onto her bedroom walls and pushing to help him keep the boathouse afloat even as he keeps turning her away.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
ゼルダの伝説 ムジュラの仮面
While searching the forest for his lost fairy Navi, Link runs into Skull Kid, who steals the Ocarina of Time and curses him into the body of a Deku Scrub. The theft drags Link into Termina, a parallel land doomed to be crushed by a falling moon in three days unless Majora's Mask is stopped. This Akira Himekawa manga adapts the Nintendo 64 game, expanding the townsfolk Anju and Kafei into central figures.
Finder Series
ファインダーシリーズ
Akihito Takaba, a twenty-three-year-old freelance photographer chasing a career-making scoop, snaps shots of crime lord Ryuichi Asami's dealings and is abducted for it, drawing him into a charged, dangerous entanglement with the man he tried to expose. As the two keep circling each other, the Hong Kong boss Fei Long — who blames Asami for his father's death — sets his sights on Takaba as leverage for revenge. The Finder Series is an ongoing yaoi manga centered on this Tokyo-and-Hong-Kong underworld triangle.
Bleach
Bleach
Ichigo Kurosaki, a teenager who can see ghosts, meets Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper who hunts the corrupted spirits called Hollows. When a Hollow attacks his family and wounds Rukia, she transfers her powers to Ichigo so he can fight in her place. Now a substitute Soul Reaper, he takes on the duty of guiding lost souls and battling Hollows while keeping his double life hidden from those around him.
Love★Com
ラブ★コン
Risa Koizumi, unusually tall for a girl, and Atsushi Otani, short for a boy, are constantly mocked as their class's mismatched comedy duo and bicker endlessly to match. The two strike a truce to help each other chase their respective crushes, only for both setups to fall apart. As Risa and Otani keep teaming up over shared music and gags, her feelings for the shorter boy she once treated as a rival start to shift into something else.
Fullmetal Alchemist
鋼の錬金術師
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric break alchemy's greatest taboo when they try to bring their dead mother back to life. The transmutation fails: Edward loses an arm and a leg, and Alphonse loses his entire body, his soul bound to a suit of armor. Now Edward serves as a State Alchemist in Amestris, and the brothers hunt for the Philosopher's Stone, a relic that might restore what they lost, while uncovering the military's secrets and the truth behind the homunculi.
Freesia
フリージア
In an alternate Japan worn down by prolonged war and recession, prisons have closed and a Vengeance Act lets crime victims hire proxies to legally kill the criminals who wronged them. Hiroshi Kano, a mentally unstable former military assassin trained to manipulate an enemy's senses, takes contracts as one of these vengeance proxies. He shares a flat with his catatonic mother and his girlfriend while colleagues like Mizoguchi and the disillusioned newcomer Yamada work the same grim trade.
Nodame Cantabile
のだめカンタービレ
Shinichi Chiaki is the top music student at Momogaoka College, a perfectionist pianist and violinist who secretly dreams of conducting but is stuck in Japan by a phobia of planes and the sea. His neighbor Megumi Noda, who calls herself Nodame, is a gifted but chaotic piano student who plays everything by ear and keeps her apartment a disaster. After they meet by chance, Nodame falls for Chiaki almost at once, while he slowly comes to recognize the strange brilliance in how she plays.
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
銃夢 Last Order
This direct sequel to the original Battle Angel Alita picks up the cyborg warrior Alita's story after she is resurrected by Desty Nova's nanotechnology in the floating city of Tiphares. She wakes into a city torn apart, where Tiphareans with brain chips clash with those without and the automated defenses slaughter anything that moves. Still chasing the truth of her own buried past, Alita fights her way outward, with the search eventually carrying her beyond Earth.
Worst
WORST
Hana Tsukishima is a good-natured country boy who moves to the city and enrolls at the notorious Suzuran Boys' High School, a place ruled by brawling delinquents. Set in the same world as Hiroshi Takahashi's Crows, the story follows Hana as he throws himself into Suzuran's tangle of gangs and rivalries, fighting his way toward the top of its pecking order.
ES: Eternal Sabbath
ES エターナル・サバス
Neuroscience professor Mine Kujo crosses paths with a man calling himself Ryousuke Akiba, who is in truth a genetically engineered human carrying the ES gene, a trait that grants extended life along with the power to alter minds and memories. Together they hunt a second ES carrier, Isaac, who fled the research center and turns the same mental abilities toward harming people.
O-Parts Hunter
666～サタン～
Ruby Crescent dreams of becoming a treasure hunter like her father, chasing O-Parts: relics buried in ruins that grant superhuman powers to those who can wield them. On her travels she meets Jio Freed, a lonely boy who claims he will conquer the world and who turns out to be a powerful O-Part Tactician. Jio becomes Ruby's bodyguard, and the two set out across a near-future world hunting O-Parts while a darker force stirs inside him.
Gyo: The Death-Stench Creeps
ギョ うごめく不気味
While vacationing in Okinawa, Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori are driven from their rental by an overpowering rot they call the death stench. The smell turns out to come from sea creatures that have crawled onto land on skittering metal legs, starting with a fish and soon scaling up to far larger horrors. As the walking dead-fish swarm the mainland, Tadashi tries to keep Kaori safe and trace where the machines and the stench came from.
Full Moon o Sagashite
満月をさがして
Mitsuki Koyama, a twelve-year-old orphan, dreams of becoming a singer to honor a childhood promise to her friend Eichi Sakurai, but a tumor in her throat will steal her voice if she accepts the surgery that could save her. One night two shinigami appear: Takuto and Meroko, sent to collect her, who instead take pity and transform her into a healthy sixteen-year-old. Under the stage name Full Moon, Mitsuki chases her dream against the clock while keeping the shinigami at her side a secret.
Emma
エマ
In late-Victorian London, Emma works as a maid-of-all-work for Kelly Stownar, a retired governess living quietly on her own. When William Jones, the son of a wealthy merchant family climbing toward the gentry, comes to call on his former teacher, he and Emma are drawn to each other across the rigid lines of class. His family's ambitions and the gap between a housemaid and a gentleman stand squarely in the way of anything between them.
Loveless
LOVELESS
On his first day at a new school, twelve-year-old Ritsuka Aoyagi meets Soubi Agatsuma, a mysterious young man who claims to have been close to Ritsuka's older brother Seimei, murdered two years earlier. Soubi declares himself Ritsuka's Fighter, partner in spell battles waged through carefully chosen words, with Ritsuka as his Sacrifice. Bearing the name Loveless and missing his memories, Ritsuka follows the trail toward the organization Septimal Moon to learn the truth about Seimei's death.
7 Seeds
7SEEDS
Knowing a meteor will wipe out most life, governments freeze healthy young people to be revived once Earth is safe again. Natsu Iwashimizu, a withdrawn and easily frightened girl, wakes far in the future as part of Team Summer B alongside Arashi Aota and the others, with no memory of how she got there. The world they find is overgrown with new species and barely survivable, and several separate teams must learn to endure it.
.hack//Legend of the Twilight
.hack//黄昏の腕輪伝説
After his twin sister Rena wins a contest for limited rare avatars in the online game The World, Shugo gets to play as the legendary character Kite. On their first outing together, a monster kills Shugo, and a mysterious girl named Aura revives him and leaves him with the Twilight Bracelet, an item that both empowers and burdens him. With Rena and the item hunter Mireille, Shugo sets out to learn what the bracelet is and why it chose him.
Classic Literature Club Series
〈古典部〉シリーズ
Houtarou Oreki, a self-described energy-saver who avoids effort whenever he can, joins Kamiyama High School's failing Classic Literature Club at his sister's insistence. There he meets the relentlessly curious Eru Chitanda, whose "I'm curious!" pulls him into one small campus mystery after another. Alongside childhood friends Satoshi Fukube and Mayaka Ibara, Oreki finds his knack for quiet deduction put to constant use as the club untangles puzzles hidden in everyday school life, beginning with the riddle behind the anthology titled Hyouka.
Ultra Heaven
ウルトラヘヴン
Kabu is a junkie and small-time dealer in a future where mind-altering drugs are legal and dispensed at licensed pump bars, where bar doctors mix each customer a tailored chemical high. Recovering from a near-fatal overdose, Kabu keeps chasing stronger stimulants until a stranger offers him a new illegal compound called Ultra Heaven. Taking it pulls him through layered hallucinations where dream, memory, and reality stop holding their shape.
Godchild
ゴッドチャイルド
In 19th-century England, young earl Cain Hargreaves heads a noble family shadowed by a dark reputation and a collector's fascination with poisons. Alongside his loyal manservant Riff and his ten-year-old half-sister Mary Weather, Cain investigates the strange murders that keep crossing his path. Behind them lies Delilah, his late father's secret organization that experiments with reviving the dead. This gothic shoujo manga continues Kaori Yuki's earlier Earl Cain stories.
Claymore
クレイモア
On a medieval island preyed on by shape-shifting man-eaters called Yoma, a secretive body known only as the Organization sells the services of half-human, half-Yoma warrior women, each marked by silver eyes and a great sword. Clare, ranked No. 47 among them, kills a Yoma posing as a village family and saves an orphaned boy named Raki, who has lost everyone. Raki takes up with Clare as her companion, and the two travel from town to town as she works her contracts.
The Ravages of Time
火鳳燎原
The Ravages of Time retells the fall of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era through the schemes of a young Sima Yi rather than the familiar heroes. At its center are two operatives whose names form the work's Chinese title: the masked killer Liaoyuan Huo and the strategist Sima Yi's confidant Yuan Fang, who move through the shadows of warlords like Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and the Sun family. Battles are won as much by intelligence networks and deception as by armies in the field.
Alice 19th
アリス19th
Fifteen-year-old Alice Seno lives in the shadow of her confident older sister Mayura and struggles to speak up for herself. After she rescues a talking rabbit named Nyozeka from traffic, she discovers she can wield the Lotis Words, runes whose spoken power can shape reality. When a quarrel over the boy Kyo causes Alice to unleash a word that makes Mayura vanish, she must train as a Lotis Master to pull her sister back from the dark Maram Words that have taken her.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN
During a stalemate in the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, teenager Amuro Ray ends up piloting the prototype RX-78-2 Gundam when Zeon raids the Side 7 colony. Joining the crew of the warship White Base, he repeatedly clashes with the masked Zeon ace Char Aznable as they push toward Federation lines. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, character designer on the 1979 anime, retells that original story here, later expanding it with Char and Sayla's family history.