JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part7 スティール・ボール・ラン
In 1890s America, a transcontinental horse race called the Steel Ball Run offers a fortune to whoever crosses from coast to coast first. Johnny Joestar, a paralyzed former jockey, enters after watching Gyro Zeppeli use spinning steel balls to make his legs twitch for the first time in years. Riding alongside the racers, Johnny chases the secret of Gyro's Spin while the contest hides a deeper purpose tied to relics scattered across the route and the ambitions of President Funny Valentine.
Suzuka
涼風
Yamato Akitsuki moves to Tokyo to live above his aunt's bathhouse and attend a new high school. There he meets Suzuka Asahina, a standout high jumper who lives in the same dormitory and quickly captures his attention. Hoping to get closer to her, Yamato joins the track-and-field team, and finds he has a real talent for the hundred-meter sprint as he chases both the sport and Suzuka.
Molester Man
痴漢男
Molester Man is a shy, socially awkward otaku who spends his days posting on the textboard 2channel. On his way home from a part-time job he is mistaken for a stalker and briefly arrested. Once the misunderstanding clears, he learns the woman involved was already traumatized by a real stalker, and he reaches out to her, gradually growing close to her and her friends as the chat-log romance unfolds.
Kekkaishi
結界師
Yoshimori Sumimura would rather bake cakes than fight, but as heir to one of two rival kekkai lineages he spends his nights guarding Karasumori, the sacred land his school is built on, which draws ayakashi spirits to it. Beside him is Tokine Yukimura, heir to the neighboring clan that claims the same duty and the same disputed legacy. Using kekkai barrier magic to trap and destroy the creatures, the two teenagers patrol the grounds night after night while their families' old feud simmers around them.
Voices of a Distant Star
ほしのこえ
Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao are middle-school classmates close to confessing their feelings when Mikako is selected to pilot a mecha in humanity's interstellar war against an alien force. As her ship travels ever farther from Earth, the only link between them is cell-phone text messages that take longer and longer to arrive. This manga adapts Makoto Shinkai's short film, with art by Mizu Sahara.
Otokomae! Beads Club
男前！ビーズ倶楽部
Oikawa Ibuki is a girl whose blunt, manly temperament keeps scaring off romance, so on transferring schools she vows to pass as a soft, ladylike type and finally find love. Her resolve lasts until she charges in to rescue a stray dog and is caught in the act by Urabe Takumi, the school's mysterious "crow messenger," who pulls her into the beads club that quietly handles students' troubles.
Honey x Honey Drops
蜜×蜜ドロップス
A summer job throws fifteen-year-old Yuzuru Hagino together with Kai Renge, a difficult boy from the wealthy Renge family who attends the elite Kugeka track at Houjou Academy. When Kai picks her as his Honey, an assistant chosen from the regular students, the role would cover all her school fees, a lifeline given her family's money troubles. Yuzuru resists taking it on even so, as Kai treats her at first like a plaything to tease.
Sekirei
セキレイ
Minato Sahashi, a sharp but anxious young man who has flunked the college entrance exam twice, has his life upended when a girl named Musubi falls out of the sky onto him. She is a Sekirei, one of 108 superpowered beings, and she chooses Minato as her Ashikabi, sealing a bond with a kiss that unlocks her full strength. That bond enters them in the Sekirei Plan, a survival tournament run by the MBI Corporation, and soon more Sekirei attach themselves to Minato, crowding his apartment and the battles he never asked to join.
Rosario+Vampire
ロザリオとバンパイア
With grades too poor for any normal high school, Tsukune Aono is enrolled by his parents at Yokai Academy — which turns out to be a boarding school for monsters, where any human caught on campus is to be killed. He survives by befriending Moka Akashiya, a vampire who likes his company and his blood, and discovers that pulling the rosario from her neck unleashes a far more powerful version of her. Other monster students like the succubus Kurumu and the young witch Yukari drift into his circle.
Mysterious Girlfriend X
謎の彼女X
Akira Tsubaki tastes a puddle of drool left by Mikoto Urabe, the quiet transfer student asleep at her desk, and promptly falls feverish. Urabe explains he has caught 'lovesickness' from her saliva, and the only cure is a daily taste of her drool. That bizarre ritual becomes the foundation of their relationship: through her saliva, the two can sense each other's feelings, even as they keep almost every other kind of contact at arm's length.
Cat Street
キャットストリート
Keito Aoyama was a celebrated child actress until stage fright froze her during a performance at age nine, after which she quit acting and shut herself away for years. At sixteen, the principal of El Liston — a free school for young people who struggle with conventional schooling — finds her drifting through the streets and offers her a place. There she reconnects with childhood friend Taiyou and meets fellow students Rei, Kouichi, and Momiji. Yoko Kamio's shoujo manga follows her slow return to the world.
The Gentlemen's Alliance †
紳士同盟†
Haine Otomiya, a fifteen-year-old at the elite Imperial Academy, was handed to the Otomiya family by her father for fifty million yen and once ran with a gang as the delinquent "Seashore Cinderella." After Shizumasa Tougu, the academy's student-council "emperor," tells her to live as she pleases, she falls for him and enrolls to win his heart. Given a top platinum ranking, she becomes his bodyguard inside the council's rigid hierarchy.
Kitchen Princess
キッチンのお姫さま
Najika Kazami is a cheerful thirteen-year-old with a gift for cooking and a single memento — a silver spoon left by the 'flan prince,' a boy who pulled her from drowning and comforted her after her parents' death. Following that spoon, she enrolls at the prestigious Seika Academy to find him, and there meets two brothers: the hot-tempered, blunt Daichi Kitazawa and his gentle, refined sibling Sora. As Najika cooks her way through the elite school, she edges closer to the identity of the prince she has chased for years.
Aiki
愛気
Kunitoshi Joukyuu is a master of aikido and arguably the strongest fighter alive, except his own father once dislocated and reset every joint in his body in a single night to cap him at half his strength. Lazy and loose with his morals, Joukyuu is dragged into service when two muscular female instructors beg him to train their young mistress, the small, raven-haired Kizuki. He grudgingly drills a growing circle of women into capable martial artists while hunting for a way to undo the lock on his real power.
Remina
地獄星レミナ
Professor Oguro wins the Nobel Prize for discovering a rogue planet emerging from a wormhole in the Hydra constellation, and names it Remina after his daughter, born the same night. As the planet swallows other worlds on its path toward Earth, public fear curdles into the belief that the Oguros summoned it, and mobs across Tokyo turn on the family and on the girl who shares the planet's name. Remina becomes a hunted fugitive while the thing in the sky draws closer. This single-volume horror manga is the work of Junji Ito.
Vampire Knight
ヴァンパイア騎士
At Cross Academy, the Day Class of humans never learns that the elite Night Class is made up of vampires. Yuki Cross, adopted daughter of the headmaster, works as a school guardian to keep that secret and protect the students, alongside her childhood friend Zero Kiryu, who hates vampires after they destroyed his family. Yuki's own past begins on a snowy night ten years earlier, when the Pureblood Kaname Kuran saved her from a vampire attack.
Übel Blatt
Übel Blatt
In the Empire of Szaalenden, fourteen heroes were once sent to seal the path of the dark invaders Wischtech; four of them betrayed the others and were branded the Lances of Betrayal, while the survivors were hailed as saviors and rose to power as lords. Years later, a youth named Köinzell travels the empire hunting down those celebrated nobles one by one, carrying a grudge against the men the world remembers as heroes. His campaign of revenge cuts through a brutal medieval fantasy world.
Kobato.
コバト。
Kobato Hanato is a cheerful, clumsy girl bound by a contract: to reach a place she longs to go, she must fill a small bottle with the mended pieces of people's wounded hearts, which take the form of konpeito candies. Guiding and scolding her is Ioryogi, a gruff spirit trapped in the body of a blue plush dog. As Kobato wanders the city helping strangers, she stumbles into a struggling nursery school and the people tied to it.
Happy Cafe
幸福喫茶3丁目
Uru Takamura is small enough to be mistaken for a grade-schooler, but after her mother remarries she sets out to support herself and takes a part-time job at a little shop called Cafe Bonheur. Her new coworkers are Satsuki Shindou, a gifted pâtissier who almost never smiles, and Ichirou Nishikawa, who drops off to sleep the moment he gets hungry. Determined to be useful, Uru learns the rhythms of the cafe alongside the two of them.
Sweet Blue Flowers
青い花
Fumi Manjōme moves back to her hometown near Kamakura and, on the way to her new all-girls school, reunites with Akira Okudaira, her best friend from kindergarten. Shy and recently hurt by a first love, Fumi leans on the warm, dependable Akira as the two re-enter each other's lives. At her school Fumi is drawn to Yasuko Sugimoto, a poised older student, and a tentative first relationship begins in this slow yuri drama of girls' schools and shifting feelings.
After School Nightmare
放課後保健室
Mashiro Ichijo passes as a handsome, popular boy at school but hides a secret body that is male above the waist and female below. A teacher enrolls Mashiro in a strange after-hours class where students enter a shared dream and take the form of their true selves, fighting one another for the chance to 'graduate.' As Mashiro is drawn between classmate Sou Mizuhashi and the fragile Kureha Fujishima, the dream forces a reckoning with the gender identity Mashiro has spent a lifetime concealing.
Bartender
バーテンダー
Ryuu Sasakura is a bartending prodigy said to mix the finest cocktails anyone has ever tasted. He works at Eden Hall, a small bar tucked into a corner of Tokyo's Ginza district, where troubled patrons each arrive carrying some private burden. Episode by episode, Sasakura reads the person across the counter and serves what regulars call the Glass of the Gods, the one drink suited to the moment, helping each guest find their own way forward.
Arakawa Under the Bridge
荒川アンダー ザ ブリッジ
Kou Ichinomiya, heir to a corporate empire, lives by one rule drilled into him since childhood: never owe anyone anything. When pranksters strand his trousers atop a bridge over the Arakawa River and he tumbles into the water, a girl named Nino pulls him out. To settle the debt he cannot stomach owing, she asks only one thing in return: that he love her. Kou ends up moving in beneath the bridge, among an Arakawa riverbank full of self-styled eccentrics.
Yomawari Sensei
夜回り先生
Osamu Mizutani teaches at a night high school in Yokohama, but his real work begins after dark. Walking the city's entertainment districts, he seeks out runaways, recluses, and teenagers tangled in drugs or self-harm, the kids society has written off. This autobiographical manga draws on Mizutani's years of night patrols, with art by Seiki Tsuchida turning each encounter into a case of a young person he refuses to give up on.
New Voices in the Dark
新・闇の声 潰談
Junji Ito gathers fresh horror stories in this anthology, several built around Soichi, the spiteful, nail-biting boy who curses everyone around him. One installment continues the haunted-mansion thread from the earlier Yami no Koe; others follow a girl found bloodied on a mountain road at night and a couple living inside a mansion of inherited books that begins to warp around them. Each short story stands alone, linked only by Ito's slow turn from the ordinary into the grotesque.
Vassalord.
Vassalord.
Charley, also called Cherry, is a cyborg vampire who hunts other vampires for the Vatican while clinging to his faith and refusing human blood. For sustenance he depends on his own sire, Johnny Rayflo, a wealthy, hedonistic Progenitor who lounges in a mansion full of vampire servants. Their lopsided bond drives them into the trail of Vassalord, a drug rumored to turn humans into vampires, and toward the question of who created it and how Rayflo is tied to it.
Hayate the Combat Butler
ハヤテのごとく！
Hayate Ayasaki has worked since childhood to cover his deadbeat parents, who finally saddle him with a crushing gambling debt and try to sell his organs to the yakuza. Fleeing the collectors, he runs into Nagi Sanzenin, the young sole heir to the immense Sanzenin fortune, and a clumsy attempt to kidnap her for ransom backfires into Nagi hiring him as her butler. Hayate ends up guarding the sheltered, manga-obsessed girl from the schemers circling her family's money — never noticing the crush she's developed on him.
Black God
クロカミ
Keita Ibuki, a video-game programmer in Tokyo, learns that everyone is born one of three identical Doppeliners who secretly share a single fate, and that godlike Mototsumitama keep the world's balance. His ordinary life ends when he meets Kuro, a young Mototsumitama who forms a contract to save him after a fatal injury. Together with his childhood friend Akane Sano, Keita is drawn into a conflict over a powerful Mototsumitama clan that has begun disrupting the natural order.
Deep Love: The Story of Ayu
Deep Love〜アユの物語〜
Ayu is a Tokyo high schooler who sells herself through enjo kosai, convinced that money is all that matters in a world she sees as filthy and hypocritical. Her bleak outlook begins to crack when she meets a kind old woman who treats her with unexpected warmth, and when she takes in Pao, a badly abused dog that trails after her. Adapted from Yoshi's pioneering cell-phone novel, the manga follows Ayu as these encounters force her to reconsider the life she has resigned herself to.
D.Gray-man
D.Gray-man
In an alternate 19th century, Allen Walker carries a cursed left arm that channels Innocence, a substance forged to destroy demons called Akuma. After his foster father Mana dies and the Millennium Earl tricks him into a grief he can never undo, Allen joins the Black Order, a religious body of Exorcists who wield Innocence against the Earl's plan to wipe out humanity. With his arm able to take weapon forms, Allen sets out to free the human souls trapped inside every Akuma.
Reborn!
家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!
Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada is a clumsy, timid middle schooler until a gun-toting infant named Reborn arrives claiming to be his home tutor. Reborn reveals that Tsuna is the next heir to the Vongola, a powerful Italian mafia family, and sets about training him with the Dying Will Bullet — a shot that drives its target to act on their final regret with reckless resolve. As Tsuna reluctantly grows into the role, schoolmates and rivals are drawn into the Vongola succession around him.
Biomega
Biomega
Zouichi Kanoe, a synthetic human built by Toha Heavy Industries, rides through ruined cities on a talking motorcycle whose AI, Fuyu, is fused into its frame. His mission is to find people who can resist the N5S virus, a Mars-born infection that turns the population into disfigured Drones. Racing the rival Data Recovery Foundation, which wants the virus to spread, Zouichi reaches the containment facility of 9JO to extract a girl named Eon Green before the outbreak consumes everything.
Durarara!!
デュラララ!!
Shy transfer student Mikado Ryugamine moves to Tokyo's Ikebukuro district at the urging of his childhood friend Masaomi Kida, hoping for an exciting city life. On his first night he glimpses the Black Rider, an urban legend who turns out to be Celty Sturluson, a headless Irish dullahan working as an underground courier while she searches for her stolen head. As Mikado is drawn toward a faceless online gang called the Dollars, his path crosses Ikebukuro's most dangerous residents.
Nabari no Ou
隠の王
Miharu Rokujou is an indifferent middle schooler who wants nothing to do with anyone, until classmates Tobari Kumohira and Kouichi Aizawa reveal themselves as ninja from Banten and tell him his body holds the Shinra Banshou, the most coveted secret art in the hidden ninja world of Nabari. Rival clans converge to claim the power sealed inside him, dragging the reluctant Miharu into their schemes. Kamatani's manga follows him as he is forced to decide what to do with a power he never asked for.
Superior
シューピアリア
In a world where humans and monsters have warred for years toward mutual extermination, the surviving humans name Exa their Hero and send him to kill the Demon Queen Sheila. Exa accepts the quest but refuses to slaughter monsters indiscriminately, convinced they are living beings like anyone else. Intrigued by his principles, Sheila joins him in disguise to travel at his side, hiding that the queen he has sworn to kill is walking beside him.
Desire Climax
欲情(C)MAX
Mio Omori scrapes by on part-time jobs, raising her little brother Hinata alone while their mother stays hospitalized. Walking home one night, she runs into a violent young man who steals her first kiss, throws money at her, and declares he'll "buy" her. The next day her mother reveals that their landlord, an old friend of Mio's late father, has offered her work as a maid at his mansion, placing Mio squarely back in the path of the family she would rather avoid.
City of Light
ひかりのまち
On a sunlit hill sits a town nicknamed the city of light, though its glow hides a bleak underside. Tasuku, a young boy, works there as a 'messenger' for a shadowy group that arranges suicides over the phone. Around him drift other youths scraping by: Satoshi jumps from one odd job to the next, Momoko was abandoned by her prostitute mother, and Hoichi runs shady errands while dreaming of buying the whole town and turning it back into the country village where he was born. These linked short stories trace their tangled lives.
B Gata H Kei
B型H系
Yamada, a first-year high schooler who calls herself the epitome of B-type H-ism, sets a goal of one hundred casual partners — yet she is a clueless virgin who panics at every chance. To get past her nerves she hunts for an inexperienced first partner and settles on Takashi Kosuda, a plain, awkward classmate. Her clumsy seductions keep backfiring as the four-panel gags pile up, and despite herself she starts to actually fall for him.
Wild Ones
アラクレ
After her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Sachie Wakamura is taken in by the grandfather she has never met, only to learn he heads a yakuza gang. To ease her into her new home, he assigns her a young, level-headed bodyguard, Rakuto Igarashi, who shadows her everywhere. Sachie scrambles to keep the gang connection hidden from her classmates while pursuing an ordinary high school life, all the while resisting her growing feelings for Rakuto.
A Certain Magical Index
とある魔術の禁書目録
Touma Kamijou is a luckless student in Academy City, a metropolis of espers ranked by the power they can train into reality. His right hand holds the Imagine Breaker, which cancels any supernatural force — esper or magical — but also seems to void his own good fortune. When a nun named Index collapses on his balcony, her mind crammed with 103,000 forbidden grimoires for the Church of England, Touma is dragged into the standoff between Academy City's science and the world's hidden magic.
The Tyrant Falls in Love
恋する暴君
Souichi Tatsumi is a hot-tempered agricultural-science graduate student in Nagoya, notorious among his peers and openly hostile toward gay men. Tetsuhiro Morinaga, his junior in the lab, has nursed a years-long crush on Souichi and assists him with research while keeping his feelings barely contained. After a drunken night at Morinaga's apartment pushes their dynamic past the breaking point, the two fall into a volatile, lopsided relationship that neither knows how to name. This yaoi manga is a sequel to Takanaga's Challengers.