Strawberry 100%
いちご100%
Aspiring filmmaker Junpei Manaka glimpses a girl in strawberry-print underwear on the school rooftop and becomes fixated on finding her, certain she is the muse for the movies he wants to make. His search leads him to bookish Aya Toujou and to Tsukasa Nishino, while spirited classmate Satsuki Kitaoji takes a liking to him. Junpei revives the school's defunct film club around them and stumbles through high-school romance, unsure which of the girls is the one he saw on the roof.
Aria
ARIA
Akari Mizunashi arrives on Aqua, a terraformed Mars whose city Neo-Venezia recreates Venice with canals and gondolas, to apprentice as an Undine at the small Aria Company. Under her mentor Alicia Florence, one of the city's celebrated gondoliers, Akari rows passengers through the canals and slowly earns her own standing. Outings with fellow trainees Aika of Himeya Company and Alice of Orange Planet fill out her days as she settles into the unhurried rhythm of the water-world.
What a Wonderful World!
素晴らしい世界
Inio Asano builds this manga from loosely linked short stories about young people in modern Japan, with no single protagonist carrying the whole. Across its chapters a job-hunting graduate, a bullied student, an aimless musician and others cross paths with the same scenery — train platforms, classrooms, cramped apartments — as each faces a small turning point in an ordinary day. The vignettes connect through recurring faces and locations rather than a continuous plot.
Zaregoto
戯言シリーズ
An unnamed nineteen-year-old narrator known only by nicknames like Ii-chan accompanies his friend, the reclusive computer genius Tomo Kunagisa, to a private island owned by the wealthy heiress Iria Akagami. Iria has gathered a handful of brilliant specialists at her isolated mansion, but on the third night one of her guests, the painter Kanami Ibuki, is found beheaded in her studio. Iria refuses to involve the police, and Ii-chan is left to pick apart a locked-island murder among people who are all hiding something.
Aishiteruze Baby
愛してるぜベイビー★★
Kippei Katakura is a flirty high schooler more interested in chasing girls than anything else, until his aunt vanishes and leaves her five-year-old daughter Yuzuyu with his family. Kippei is handed the job of looking after the abandoned little girl, and the round-the-clock work of feeding her, walking her to nursery, and calming her tears forces him to grow up fast. Helping him through it is Kokoro Tokunaga, a reserved classmate who steadily gets closer to him.
Love Monster
ラブ・モンスター
After failing her chosen high school's entrance exam, Hiyo Osora receives a mysterious acceptance letter to SM Academy, a school she never applied to, and discovers its students are monsters in disguise. The tengu student council president, Kurou Tenma, tells her two things she never expected: she is a tengu herself, a rare white crow, and the two of them were engaged as children. Now Hiyo must survive a campus full of yokai while her unusual nature draws unwanted attention.
Skip Beat!
スキップ・ビート!
Kyoko Mogami leaves Kyoto and her old life to follow her childhood friend Sho Fuwa to Tokyo, working herself ragged to bankroll his climb toward pop stardom. When she overhears Sho dismiss her as a dull, convenient servant he never cared for, the heartbreak hardens into a vow: she will break into show business and beat him at it. Kyoko signs with the talent agency LME and runs straight into Ren Tsuruga, a top actor who scorns her revenge as a reason to perform, and discovers that acting may matter to her for its own sake.
Suicide Circle
自殺サークル
After more than fifty schoolgirls throw themselves under a train in a mass suicide, Saya Kota walks away as the only survivor. In the aftermath she grows fixated on a girl named Mitsuko and begins drifting away from everyone she knows. Her best friend Kyoko watches Saya turn into someone unrecognizable and tries to understand what has taken hold of her, only to be pulled toward the same cult-like group and the supernatural pull behind the deaths. Usamaru Furuya's horror manga reworks the premise of the film of the same name into its own story.
Ouran High School Host Club
桜蘭高校ホスト部
Scholarship student Haruhi Fujioka stumbles into the Third Music Room at the elite Ouran Academy and accidentally shatters an eight-million-yen vase belonging to the school's Host Club. To work off the debt, Haruhi — mistaken for a boy thanks to short hair and a plain uniform — is drafted as a host alongside flamboyant club president Tamaki Suoh and the calculating Kyoya Ootori. The club entertains wealthy classmates while Haruhi navigates a world of privilege from the outside.
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
史上最強の弟子ケンイチ
Kenichi Shirahama is a weak, bullied high-schooler until he befriends transfer student Miu Fūrinji and follows her to Ryōzanpaku, a dojo run by her grandfather where six masters of different fighting styles live and train. Taken on as their disciple, Kenichi commits to a punishing daily regimen under all six teachers to stop being a target. His new strength soon puts him in the path of Ragnarok, a gang of delinquent fighters determined to recruit him or break him.
Eyeshield 21
アイシールド21
Sena Kobayakawa is a timid first-year at Deimon Private Senior High whose years of running errands have given him explosive speed. Yoichi Hiruma, the scheming captain of the Deimon Devil Bats, spots that talent and strong-arms Sena into the American football team as a running back. To hide him from rival recruiters, Sena plays behind a tinted visor under the codename Eyeshield 21, while the underdog Devil Bats set their sights on reaching the Christmas Bowl.
Gakuen Alice
学園アリス
Ten-year-old Mikan Sakura is heartbroken when her best friend Hotaru Imai transfers to a distant boarding school and is barred from writing home, so she runs off alone to find her. She discovers Alice Academy, a hidden school for children born with special powers called Alices, where a teacher named Narumi tells her she has an Alice of her own and enrolls her. Settling in among gifted classmates, Mikan begins to sense that the academy's bright surface hides stricter rules and buried secrets.
MeruPuri
めるぷり メルヘン☆プリンス
Airi Hoshina, a practical high school freshman who dreams only of a cozy married life someday, carries an old family mirror to school until she drops it. When she goes back for it, a cheeky seven-year-old named Aram has climbed out of the glass — the prince of Astale, fleeing his half-brother Jeile through the portal her mirror happens to be. A botched spell ages Aram to seventeen whenever he is left in the dark, tangling Airi's tidy plans around him.
Midori Days
美鳥の日々
Seiji Sawamura is a feared high-school delinquent whose unbeatable 'Devil's Right Hand' has scared off every girl he tries to date. After his twentieth rejection, he wishes aloud that his right hand were his girlfriend. He wakes to find Midori Kasugano, a shy classmate who has loved him from afar for years, now living as a tiny girl growing from his right wrist, while her own body lies unconscious at home.
Rozen Maiden
Rozen Maiden
Jun Sakurada, a middle schooler who has shut himself away from school after being bullied, is chosen as the master of Shinku, a sentient porcelain doll crafted by the maker Rozen. Shinku is one of seven Rozen Maidens, each powered by a gem called Rosa Mystica and bound to fight one another in the Alice Game to become the perfect doll. As Shinku's life-energy host, Jun is pulled into the dolls' contest and slowly drawn back toward the world he abandoned.
King of Thorn
いばらの王
Kasumi is one of 160 people infected with the Medusa virus, a plague that turns the body to stone, chosen for cryogenic sleep aboard a sealed facility called the Thorn while a cure is sought. She enters cold sleep without her twin sister Shizuku, and when she wakes the place is overgrown with thorns and roamed by monsters, with only a handful of other survivors and no clear answers about what happened while they slept.
Kare First Love
「彼」first love
Sixteen-year-old Karin Karino is shy and plain, hiding behind thick glasses, until a chance encounter at a bookstore brings her face to face with the easygoing Kiriya. He sees the beauty she keeps hidden and asks her to be his girlfriend, but Karin's classmate Yuka has feelings for Kiriya too. As her first love and first relationship begin, Karin must weigh her new romance against the friendship she risks losing.
Heads
ヘッズ
Jun Naruse is an average company man who loves to draw and falls for Megumi, a woman he meets at an art-supply shop. When gunmen storm his office, Jun shields a little girl from a bullet and is left near death, his survival possible only because a transplant replaced half of his ruined brain with a donor's. He recovers quickly and seems fine, but a creeping change in his behavior raises the question of whose mind now shares his skull.
Pastel
ぱすてる
Mugi Tadano is a high schooler living mostly on his own after his mother's death and his father's long absences. When his first love moves away, his best friend Kazuki drags him to work a summer job at a beachside inn in Onomichi, where Mugi catches sight of Yuu Tsukisaki. After an early misunderstanding, Yuu and her younger sister move into Mugi's house following their own father's death, turning his quiet home into the stage for a romantic comedy.
Goth
GOTH リストカット事件
Kamiyama is an outwardly friendly, popular student who hides a cold fascination with murder, and Yoru Morino is a withdrawn classmate who shares it. The two trade books on grim subjects until a string of local killings draws them in: a murderer who severs his victims' left hands and arranges the bodies in public. When Morino finds the killer's notebook, the pair use it to seek out the corpses themselves and work out who he is.
Air Gear
Air Gear
Itsuki "Ikki" Minami runs the streets as a brawling gang leader until he gets his hands on Air Treck, motorized skates that let riders climb walls and tear through the air. Hooked on the rush, Ikki forms a Storm Rider team called Kogarasumaru and dives into the rooftop world of A-T turf battles. He soon learns the girls he lives with belong to the legendary team Sleeping Forest, and that every Storm Rider is chasing the summit known as the Trophaeum Tower.
Zetman
ZETMAN
Jin Kanzaki is the last experiment of a scientist who fled the Amagi Corporation to keep the boy from being destroyed along with the lab's other creations. Raised to pass for an ordinary kid, Jin carries the power to transform into the superhuman ZET, while his childhood friend Kouga Amagi, heir to the same corporation, dreams of becoming a hero and fights in a powered suit as Alphas. As monstrous Players begin hunting humans, the two are pulled onto opposite paths. This is Masakazu Katsura's seinen manga.
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin
RAINBOW ―二舎六房の七人―
In 1955, six teenage boys branded violent criminals are shipped to the Shounan Special Reformatory and packed into a single cell numbered 2-6. There they meet Rokurouta Sakuragi, an older inmate and former boxer the others come to call An-chan. Under his guidance, the group's unofficial leader Mario Minakami and the rest learn to endure the brutality of the guards and the doctor who run the place, holding onto each other to survive.
Wandering Son
放浪息子
Shuichi Nitori, a quiet grade-schooler assigned a boy at birth who wishes to be a girl, transfers to a new school and is seated beside Yoshino Takatsuki, a classmate assigned a girl who wishes to be a boy. The two become fast friends and recognize something of themselves in each other. Across grade school and into adolescence, the two navigate gender identity, first crushes, and the start of puberty among friends and family who don't always understand.
School Rumble
スクールランブル
Tenma Tsukamoto, a cheerful but unremarkable second-year, is hopelessly fixated on her aloof classmate Oji Karasuma, who cares about little beyond eating curry. What she never notices is that reformed delinquent Kenji Harima attends school only to be near her, and is just as tongue-tied trying to confess. Across their high school class, crossed signals, eavesdropped half-sentences, and grand plans that collapse keep the love triangle spinning through one comic misunderstanding after another.
Zombie-Loan
ZOMBIE-LOAN
Michiru Kita has Shinigami Eyes that let her see a ring around the neck of anyone close to death, darkening as their end nears. When she notices pitch-black rings on two living classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana, she learns the pair survived a fatal accident by borrowing their lives from an outfit called Zombie-Loan. To repay the debt they hunt down illegal zombies, and they pull Michiru in to use her sight to track their targets.
Bakuon Rettou
爆音列島
In 1980s Japan, Takashi's parents move to a quiet Tokyo neighborhood hoping to keep him away from bad influences, but he quickly falls in with classmates obsessed with motorcycle rallies. Drawn into a biker gang, the Zeros, Takashi discovers the pull of speed and the open road, and chooses a delinquent life that runs straight against the society his family wanted for him.
Akumetsu
アクメツ
In a near-future Japan crushed by corruption and a collapsing economy, a masked figure calling himself Akumetsu begins assassinating the politicians and businessmen he blames for the country's ruin. The trail runs through Shou Hazama, a sleazy, ordinary high-schooler, and his friend Shiina Nagasawa, whose family is driven to debt and desperation by the same rot. Each Akumetsu wears a mask that bores into the skull and copies its wearer's memories, letting the campaign continue even as one killer after another dies.
Seeds of Anxiety
不安の種
Masaaki Nakayama builds Fuan no Tane out of dozens of two-page horror vignettes, each dropping an ordinary person into a brush with the paranormal and cutting away before the dread resolves. Schoolyards, stairwells, train platforms, and quiet apartments host glimpsed figures, wrong silhouettes, and presences that should not be there. Grouped loosely by theme — school life, unexpected visitors — the short pieces favor creeping unease and urban-legend texture over gore or explanation.
Elfen Lied
エルフェンリート
Lucy is a Diclonius, a horned mutant who can lash out with invisible telekinetic arms called vectors. After a violent escape from the seaside research facility that held her for experiments, a head wound splits her into a second, childlike personality called Nyu. Two cousins, Kouta and Yuka, take the helpless girl in near Kamakura, unaware that a Special Assault Team and rival Diclonius are hunting her down.
Black Lagoon
ブラック・ラグーン
Rokuro Okajima is a mild Tokyo salaryman until a business trip ends with him taken hostage by the Lagoon Company, a crew of mercenary smugglers operating out of the Thai port city of Roanapur. When his employer writes him off and orders him silenced, Rock cuts ties with his old life and signs on as the gang's negotiator. He works alongside Revy, a foul-mouthed gunhand nicknamed Two Hands, and boss Dutch, running guns and contraband through a lawless underworld where survival is the only rule.
We Were There
僕等がいた
On the second day of high school, cheerful fifteen-year-old Nanami Takahashi develops a crush on the popular Motoharu Yano, the most talked-about boy in their class. As she gets closer to him, she learns that Yano's previous girlfriend died in a car accident the summer before, and that her shadow still weighs on him. Nanami and Yano begin a relationship strained by that loss and by the trouble each of them has in fully trusting the other.
Genshiken
げんしけん
Kanji Sasahara enters Shiiou University still hiding his otaku interests until he joins Genshiken, short for the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, a club devoted to manga, anime, games, and doujin. Among regulars like the blunt veteran Madarame and the hardcore fan Kousaka, Sasahara learns to own his hobbies. Kousaka's fashionable girlfriend Saki Kasukabe, the lone non-otaku, keeps getting dragged into the clubroom and reluctantly into its conventions, cosplay, and collecting.
Junjo Romantica
純情ロマンチカ
After failing his college entrance practice exams, Misaki Takahashi is sent for tutoring to Akihiko Usami, an acclaimed novelist and the close friend of Misaki's older brother Takahiro. Usami, who privately writes BL fiction and harbors his own feelings, soon turns the lessons into something more, and Misaki finds himself pulled into a relationship he never expected. Alongside the main couple, the series follows two other male pairings in the Junjo Egoist and Junjo Terrorist storylines.
Gunslinger Girl
ガンスリンガー・ガール
In modern Italy, a government front called the Social Welfare Agency takes in young girls who have been orphaned or left for dead, rebuilds their broken bodies with cybernetics, and conditions them into assassins. Each girl is paired with an adult male handler to form a unit known as a fratello. Henrietta, who survived the slaughter of her family, becomes one of the Agency's deadliest operatives, her memories erased as she carries out the state's covert killings alongside her handler.
Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light
蛍火の杜へ
Six-year-old Hotaru Takegawa gets lost in a forest watched over by a mountain spirit and is found by Gin, a masked, human-like being who warns her that he will vanish forever if a human ever touches him. She keeps returning every summer to visit him, and the two grow close across the years even as Gin barely ages while Hotaru becomes a young woman. This Yuki Midorikawa one-shot was collected alongside three other short stories.
Life
ライフ
Ayumu Shiiba enters high school in Nishidate hoping to leave behind the breakdown that followed losing her closest friend, and she begins cutting herself to cope. At first she finds a fresh start and a new friend in Manami Anzai, but the relationship soon turns controlling and cruel as Manami's hidden behavior surfaces. As bullying and manipulation close in around her, Ayumu has to find a way to hold on. Keiko Suenobu's shoujo manga deals frankly with self-harm and abuse.
Pretty Face
プリティフェイス
Masashi Rando, a karate-fighting high schooler, secretly loves classmate Rina Kurimi. After a bus accident leaves him burned beyond recognition and comatose for a year, a deranged surgeon rebuilds his face — using the only photo found on him, a snapshot of Rina. Masashi wakes looking exactly like the girl he loves, and when Rina mistakes him for her long-missing twin sister Yuna, he plays along, moving in with the Kurimi family while searching for the real Yuna to reclaim his identity.
Voices in the Dark
闇の声
Voices in the Dark collects seven standalone horror stories by Junji Ito, among them 'Bloodsucking Darkness', 'Glyceride', 'The Earthbound', and 'The Mystery of the Haunted House'. Each one builds an ordinary situation into grotesque body horror or creeping psychological dread, from a household where unease festers into decay to people fixed in place where they stand. The anthology runs on Ito's hallmark blend of physical revulsion and quiet wrongness rather than a single continuing cast.
The Embalmer
死化粧師
In a Japan where cremation is the norm and embalming is treated as unclean work, Shinjurou Mamiya practices the trade and bears the stigma that comes with it. Each chapter follows a separate case at his table and the toll the work takes on him, from the families he serves to his own restless need for closeness. He keeps women at arm's length even as he refuses a real relationship with Azuki, the one woman he loves.