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Kimihiro Watanuki is a high schooler cursed with the ability to see spirits, which swarm toward him and try to devour him wherever he goes. Fleeing one such attack, he stumbles into a shop that grants wishes, run by Yuuko Ichihara, a witch who offers to free him of his sight for a price of equal value. The price is his labor: Watanuki becomes Yuuko's part-time cook and housekeeper, and between chores she sends him on errands into the supernatural, each request from her clients carrying its own bargain and cost.
Yotsuba&!
よつばと！
Yotsuba Koiwai is a bright, green-haired five-year-old who moves to a new town with her easygoing adoptive father. Knowing almost nothing about ordinary life, she meets everything — air conditioners, doorbells, cicadas, a rope swing — with wide-eyed wonder. The three Ayase sisters next door, especially good-natured Fuka, fold her into the neighborhood as each self-contained chapter follows Yotsuba discovering some small piece of the everyday world for the first time.
Homunculus
ホムンクルス
Susumu Nakoshi, a thirty-four-year-old who has walked away from his life to live in his car between a homeless park and a luxury hotel, agrees to let medical student Manabu Ito drill a hole in his skull. After the trepanation, Nakoshi's left eye starts showing him a warped figure inside each person he meets—what Ito calls their homunculus. Drawn into the strangers behind these visions, Nakoshi is forced back toward the past he was hiding from.
Negima! Magister Negi Magi
魔法先生ネギま！
Ten-year-old Negi Springfield, a prodigy fresh out of a magic academy in Wales, is sent to Japan as part of his training to become a full Magister Magi. His assignment turns out to be teaching English at Mahora Academy, where he is handed homeroom duties for a class of thirty-one teenage girls. While keeping his magic a secret and searching for clues about his missing father Nagi, Negi grows close to students like Asuna Kagurazaka and runs up against the immortal vampire Evangeline. Ken Akamatsu draws the shounen manga.
S.A: Special A
S・A
Hikari Hanazono has placed second to Kei Takishima since a childhood wrestling match she lost to him, and she has chased him through school ever since, determined to beat him at anything. Both now sit among the top seven students at elite Hakusenkan Academy, a ranked group called Special A, or S.A. While Hikari treats Kei purely as a rival to topple, she stays oblivious to his feelings for her, surrounded by fellow S.A. members Akira, Tadashi, Ryuu, Jun, and Megumi.
The Legend of the Strongest, Kurosawa!
最強伝説黒沢
At 44, Kurosawa has spent decades as an unpromoted foreman at a construction company, single, friendless, and so overlooked that the only thing he confides in is a roadside traffic-control robot. Fed up with his hollow routine, he resolves to win over his coworkers, but every clumsy attempt at connection backfires into fresh humiliation. Then a run-in with a group of middle-school delinquents knocks his life onto an entirely unexpected path.
Historie
ヒストリエ
Eumenes is a sharp, bookish boy in the Greek city-state of Cardia, raised by the noble Hieronymus and haunted by recurring nightmares. When his true Scythian heritage comes to light, his comfortable life unravels and he is cast into slavery, beginning a long journey across the fractured Greek world of the fourth century BC. Surviving shipwreck, mercenary raids, and the schemes of fading city-states, Eumenes slowly works his way toward the rising court of Macedon, where he will one day serve Alexander the Great.
Baccano!
バッカーノ!
In Prohibition-era America, an immortality elixir resurfaces and quietly scatters among a sprawling cast of alchemists, thieves, mafiosi, and Camorra thugs whose paths begin colliding by chance. This manga adapts Ryohgo Narita's novels, centering the 1931 transcontinental train arc aboard the Flying Pussyfoot, where con artists Isaac and Miria, the gang of the Rolling Bootlegs, and a host of others find their separate schemes tangling into one bloody, chaotic ride. Multiple viewpoints weave together as the elixir's secret pulls everyone toward the same rails.
Fullmetal Alchemist (novels)
鋼の錬金術師
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric travel the country chasing rumors of the Philosopher's Stone in this series of side-story novels set alongside the Fullmetal Alchemist saga. In the first book, The Land of Sand, the pair reach the mining town of Xenotime only to find two impostors trading on the Fullmetal Alchemist's name and reputation. Each volume collects self-contained cases that drop Ed and Al into new towns and new alchemical trouble.
Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls
バジリスク ～甲賀忍法帖～
In 1614, a centuries-old truce between the Kouga of Manjidani and the Iga of Tsubagakure is torn up to settle which of Tokugawa Ieyasu's grandsons will inherit the shogunate: ten elite ninja from each clan are named to fight to the death. Gennosuke of the Kouga and Oboro of the Iga, betrothed in the hope of ending the feud, find themselves on opposing sides, each forced to choose between the person they love and the survival of their own clan.
Pluto
PLUTO
In a near-future where humans and advanced robots coexist, Europol detective Gesicht investigates a string of killings in which both robots and human rights advocates are found with horn-like objects driven into their heads. The trail points to a culprit targeting the world's seven most powerful robots — Gesicht among them. Reworking Osamu Tezuka's "The Greatest Robot on Earth" arc from Astro Boy, the case forces Gesicht to weigh memory, grief, and what separates machine from man.
Death Note Short Stories
DEATH NOTE短編集
This collection gathers the Death Note one-shots and side stories that Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata produced outside the main series. It includes the C-Kira chapter, in which a new Death Note user starts killing the elderly and draws the attention of Near, and the a-Kira chapter, where a found notebook becomes the center of a global auction. Also collected are early-life vignettes of L, the Taro Kagami pilot chapter, and a run of four-panel gag strips.
High School Debut
高校デビュー
Haruna Nagashima spent middle school devoted entirely to softball, and now that high school has started she sets herself a brand-new goal: to fall in love and land a boyfriend. The trouble is she knows nothing about fashion, trends, or flirting. She corners Yoh Komiyama, a popular and good-looking upperclassman, and begs him to coach her into someone attractive, and he reluctantly agrees on one condition: she is forbidden from falling for him. Haruna throws her full athletic intensity into her romantic 'training.'
Lunar Legend Tsukihime
真月譚 月姫
After a childhood accident, Shiki Tohno can see faint lines across everything around him, and cutting along one makes the object fall apart; a woman named Aoko Aozaki gives him glasses that hold the power in check. Years later, recalled to the Tohno estate, Shiki crosses paths with Arcueid Brunestud and, in a sudden loss of control, cuts her down with his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. She revives as a True Ancestor vampire and presses Shiki into helping her hunt the threat that brought her to town.
Beauty Pop
ビューティーポップ
Kiri Koshiba is a naturally gifted hairstylist who quietly gives plain classmates makeovers without taking any credit. At her school, the Scissors Project — a flashy trio led by champion stylist Shogo Narumi, alongside Kazuhiko Ochiai and Kei Minami — runs public beauty makeovers and is hailed as the best in the country. When Kiri's anonymous talent outshines Narumi's polished showmanship, she is pulled into a rivalry she never wanted and onto the team itself.
Trinity Blood
トリニティ・ブラッド
Centuries after a war between humans and vampires nearly ended civilization, an uneasy cold standoff holds between the Vatican, human governments, and the vampiric Methuselah empire. Abel Nightroad travels as a clumsy, good-natured priest in the Vatican's service, but he is secretly a Crusnik, a being that preys on vampires. When he meets a young sister named Esther, the two are drawn into the schemes of the Rosen Kreuz Order, which works to shatter any chance of peace.
Sand Chronicles
砂時計
When her parents divorce, twelve-year-old Ann Uekusa moves with her mother from Tokyo to the rural town of Shimane, where her grandparents live and everyone already knows everyone. Lonely at first, Ann is taken in by a circle of local children: the steady Daigo Kitamura and the siblings Fuji and Shika Tsukishima. As family hardship presses on her, Ann's bond with Daigo deepens into a first love, and the story follows their relationship across the years and the choices that pull them apart and back together.
Death Note
Death Note
Light Yagami, a brilliant and bored high school student, finds a black notebook dropped by the shinigami Ryuk: anyone whose name is written in it dies. Convinced he can purge the world of criminals and rule it as a god, Light begins a secret killing spree. His campaign draws out a reclusive detective known only as L, who matches wits with him while neither knows the other's true identity.
Welcome to the N.H.K.
NHKにようこそ！
Tatsuhiro Sato is a twenty-two-year-old hikikomori who has shut himself in his apartment and convinced himself that a shadowy organization called the NHK engineered his withdrawal from society. His isolation cracks when Misaki Nakahara, a girl who claims to know all about him, hands him a contract: nightly meetings in a local park where she will counsel him out of being a hikikomori. Drawn back into contact with his neighbor and former classmate Yamazaki, Sato lurches between half-finished schemes to rejoin the world.
Gintama
銀魂
In an Edo-period Japan that aliens called the Amanto have conquered and forced to ban swords, the silver-haired samurai Gintoki Sakata runs an odd-jobs shop called Yorozuya, taking on any task for cash he usually spends on sweets and pachinko. He picks up Shinpachi Shimura after helping rescue Shinpachi's sister Tae, then the alien girl Kagura with her monstrous strength. The three handle the strange jobs nobody else will touch across a city of humans and aliens.
Bokurano: Ours
ぼくらの
On a summer trip to a seaside cave, fifteen middle-schoolers meet a man named Kokopelli who invites them to test a new game: piloting a colossal robot called Zearth against enemies that threaten Earth. They sign on thinking it is harmless, then watch the first battle reveal what the contract really costs each pilot who takes the controls. From there the children take turns at Zearth's helm, forced to weigh the planet's survival against the price the game extracts from them one by one.
Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson
俺と悪魔のブルーズ
RJ, a poor young husband in 1930s Mississippi, slips out to the local juke joint claiming he wants to learn lullabies for his unborn child, when what he really wants is to become the greatest bluesman alive. A midnight bargain at a crossroads hands him sudden, uncanny guitar skill at a price, and his new gift pulls him through a Delta full of gangsters, racial violence, and danger. Akira Hiramoto reimagines the legend of bluesman Robert Johnson.
Kingdom Hearts
キングダム ハーツ
On the Destiny Islands, Sora and his friends Riku and Kairi dream of leaving home to explore other worlds, until a storm of shadow creatures called the Heartless tears their islands apart and scatters the three. Armed with a weapon called the Keyblade and joined by Donald Duck and Goofy, Sora sets out across Disney-inspired worlds to find his lost friends and hold back the Heartless. Shiro Amano's manga adapts the first Kingdom Hearts video game.
No.6
NO.6
In the walled utopia of No.6, privileged elite Shion shelters a fugitive boy who gives only the name Nezumi, or 'Rat,' on his twelfth birthday. Four years later, a parasitic wasp infection that ages its victims to death spreads through the city, and Shion is arrested as a suspect. Nezumi reappears to break him out, pulling him beyond the walls into the slum known as West Block and the truth the city hides.
Lucky☆Star
らき☆すた
Konata Izumi is a small, sleepy high schooler whose encyclopedic grasp of anime, games, and manga shapes how she sees everything around her. Her days revolve around classmate banter with sharp-tongued Kagami Hiiragi, Kagami's gentle twin Tsukasa, and the polished, knowledgeable Miyuki Takara. Told in four-panel strips, the series drifts through their ordinary school routine and pop-culture-soaked conversations with no overarching plot.
Kimi wa Girlfriend
キミはガールフレンド
Hatsune grew up the only girl among six brothers, and the habit left her blurting out the blunt opposite of what she means, so classmates write her off as cold and stuck-up. Her isolation cracks when she joins the school's Maidens' Club and meets Kirie, a boy who reacts oddly whenever a girl comes within arm's reach of him. Where everyone else keeps their distance, Kirie takes Hatsune as she is, and her first real friendship begins.
Nijigahara Holograph
虹ヶ原ホログラフ
Arie Kimura is a pale, long-haired fifth-grader who unsettles her classmates with a fairy tale about a monster said to live in the Nijigahara tunnel. Convinced she must be sacrificed to the creature, seven of them push her down a well and pass it off to the adults as an accident, leaving Arie comatose. The narrative then splits across two timelines eleven years apart, tracing how those children grew up and how the dread of the prophesied monster — heralded by swarms of butterflies — keeps surfacing.
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-
When Princess Sakura's memories scatter across countless worlds as feathers, her childhood friend Syaoran, a young archaeologist, sets out to recover them and save her. A bargain with the Dimensional Witch Yuuko sends him traveling between dimensions alongside the stern warrior Kurogane and the mysterious mage Fai D. Flowright. Each world they reach holds a fragment of Sakura's heart, and Syaoran races to gather every feather before her self fades away entirely. The journey weaves together characters drawn from across CLAMP's earlier works.
Natsume's Book of Friends
夏目友人帳
Orphaned teenager Takashi Natsume has spent his life seeing yokai that no one else can, and being shunned for it. When he inherits the Book of Friends from his late grandmother Reiko, he learns the notebook holds the names of dozens of spirits she once bound to her will. Natsume decides to release each name back to its owner, and gains a bodyguard in Madara, a powerful yokai who poses as a stout cat Natsume calls Nyanko-sensei while waiting to claim the book for himself.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱
Kyon, a sardonic high schooler at North High, becomes the unwilling confidant of his classmate Haruhi Suzumiya, who announces she has no interest in ordinary humans and wants only to meet aliens, time travelers, and espers. On a whim she founds the SOS Brigade, a club to hunt down the supernatural, and drafts Kyon into it alongside the quiet Yuki Nagato, the timid Mikuru Asahina, and the smiling Itsuki Koizumi. This manga adapts Nagaru Tanigawa's light novel series for a younger readership.
Absolute Boyfriend
絶対彼氏。
Riiko Izawa is a high schooler who keeps getting turned down whenever she works up the nerve to confess. After yet another rejection, a strange salesman offers her a free three-day trial of a custom-built android boyfriend, and she orders one she names Night. When she fails to return him in time, she's saddled with an enormous bill — and a flawless artificial partner who grows more devoted, and more human, by the day.
Shigurui
シグルイ
In Tokugawa-era Japan, a duel is set between two crippled swordsmen: the one-armed Fujiki Gennosuke and the blind Irako Seigen. Both trained under the cruel grandmaster Kogan Iwamoto at the Kogan-ryū dojo, where Seigen rose to challenge Gennosuke for the title of successor before a bitter falling-out left one man without his sight and the other without an arm. Their long, brutal history surfaces in flashback as the rivals advance through a lethal tournament fought with live blades before Lord Tokugawa Tadanaga.
Alive: The Final Evolution
アライブ-最終進化的少年-
High-schooler Taisuke Kanou lives an ordinary life with his sister Yoko until the sky darkens and a wave of mass suicides sweeps the world. Those who don't take their own lives sometimes evolve instead, gaining strange powers. When Taisuke discovers he is one of the evolved and so is his friend Yuichi Hirose, the two are pulled into a hidden conflict among others like them, tied to a being that craves the death it was never granted.
Buso Renkin
武装錬金
Kazuki Muto dies trying to save Tokiko Tsumura from a homunculus, an alchemical monster that feeds on humans. Tokiko, a warrior of an alchemist order, revives him by replacing his ruined heart with a kakugane, a device that takes the shape of a weapon matching its wielder. Now carrying a lance-form buso renkin, Kazuki joins Tokiko in hunting the homunculi and the masked alchemist who creates them.
MÄR
MÄR -メルヘヴン-
Ginta Toramizu, a nearsighted Tokyo junior-high student obsessed with fairy tales, is pulled into the fantasy world of MÄR-Heaven, where his frail body becomes strong and his eyesight perfect. There he meets the witch Dorothy and takes possession of Babbo, a talking ÄRM — one of the magical weapons that define combat in this world. As Ginta learns to wield ÄRMs, he is drawn into the brewing war against the Chess Pieces while weighing his wish to return home.
Soul Eater
ソウルイーター
At the Death Weapon Meister Academy in Death City, students pair off as meisters and living weapons, training under the school's headmaster Shinigami. Maka Albarn wields a partner who can shift into a scythe, the wisecracking Soul Eater, and the two hunt corrupted souls in the hope of turning Soul into a true Death Scythe. Alongside fellow meisters Black Star and Death the Kid, Maka chases the ninety-nine evil souls and single witch her weapon must devour to reach that rank.
Chibi Vampire
かりん
Karin Maaka comes from a family of vampires who settled in Japan two centuries ago, but she is a backwards case: instead of drinking blood she produces far too much and has to inject it into others. Her quiet attempt to pass as a normal high-schooler falls apart when transfer student Kenta Usui arrives, because being near him makes her blood surge uncontrollably. Stuck in the same class and the same part-time job, Karin scrambles to hide her condition from Kenta even as he starts noticing that something about her does not add up.