Top Manga of 2004

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

Johnny Joestar, a paralyzed former jockey, enters the Steel Ball Run, a transcontinental horse race across 1890s America that promises a fortune to whoever reaches the far coast first. He signs up 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 along the route and the ambitions of President Funny Valentine.

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Vampire Knight

ヴァンパイア騎士

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Yuki Cross, adopted daughter of Cross Academy's headmaster, works as a school guardian to keep one secret: the elite Night Class is made up of vampires, and the human Day Class must never find out. She patrols with 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.

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Übel Blatt

Action

Fantasy

Drama

In the Empire of Szaalenden, fourteen lancers were once sent to seal the path of the dark invaders Wischtech. Seven of them came home celebrated as saviors and rose to power as lords, while the four who actually finished the mission were branded the Lances of Betrayal. Years later, a youth named Köinzell travels the empire hunting those honored 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.

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Suzuka

涼風

Shounen

Sports

Drama

Yamato Akitsuki moves to Tokyo to live in the boarding house his aunt runs and start at a new high school. There he meets Suzuka Asahina, a standout high jumper who has a room in the same building and quickly takes over his attention. Hoping to get closer to her, Yamato joins the track-and-field team, and turns out to have real talent in the hundred-meter sprint as he chases both the event and Suzuka.

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Molester Man

痴漢男

Drama

Romance

Molester Man is a shy, socially awkward otaku who spends his evenings posting on the textboard 2channel. Walking home one night he is mistaken for a groper, and he is held until the misunderstanding clears. The woman who accused him had been hounded by a real stalker for about a year, and she starts asking him for a man's read on her situation. What grows between them, and the circle of friends that forms around it, plays out in the thread he keeps posting.

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Mysterious Girlfriend X

謎の彼女X

Romance

Supernatural

Seinen

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.

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Remina

地獄星レミナ

Sci-Fi

Horror

Seinen

Professor Oguro wins the Nobel Prize for finding a wormhole and the rogue planet that comes out of it, and he names the planet Remina after his daughter, born the same night. As the planet swallows other worlds on its way 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.

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Cat Street

キャットストリート

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

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.

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A Certain Magical Index

とある魔術の禁書目録

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

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, and seems to void his own good fortune along with it. When a nun named Index collapses on his balcony, her mind crammed with 103,000 forbidden grimoires kept out of circulation by the Church of England, Touma is dragged into the standoff between Academy City's science and the world's hidden magic.

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Samurai Champloo

サムライチャンプルー

Action

Adventure

Mugen, a wild ronin with a self-taught, breakdance-inflected swordstyle, and Jin, a disciplined swordsman trained in a formal dojo, are about to kill each other in an Edo-period teahouse when Fuu, a young waitress, steps between them. She hires both to protect her instead, and asks them to help her find a mysterious "samurai who smells of sunflowers." The reluctant trio sets out across Japan together, bound by a debt none of them particularly wanted.

The Familiar of Zero

ゼロの使い魔

Fantasy

Isekai

Romance

At Tristain Academy for young mages, Louise is derided as 'Zero' for never completing a spell correctly, until her familiar-summoning ritual drags Saito Hiraga out of his ordinary life in Japan and into Halkeginia. Magically bound as Louise's familiar, Saito serves the short-tempered noble while the two navigate court politics, rival students, and Saito's growing role in the kingdom's defense. This original light novel series is the source material behind the manga and anime adaptations, spanning Louise and Saito's story across the greater conflicts of Halkeginia.

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The Tyrant Falls in Love

恋する暴君

Drama

Romance

Comedy

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.

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Kekkaishi

結界師

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

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.

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FINISHED

Biomega

バイオメガ

Action

Sci-Fi

Horror

Zoichi Kanoe, a synthetic human working for Toa 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, Zoichi reaches the containment facility on 9JO to extract a girl named Ion Green before the outbreak consumes everything.

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FINISHED

The Tatami Galaxy

四畳半神話大系

Experimental

Drama

Slice of Life

A nameless third-year college student, known only as Watashi, has spent two years chasing an idealized campus life and come up empty every time. Convinced that everything went wrong because of the club he picked, whether the tennis circle, the film circle or another, he starts fantasizing about the parallel version of himself who joined a different one. His only real companion through each failed attempt is Ozu, a friend he describes as a kind of 'demon,' whose schemes keep dragging Watashi into new misfortune.

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Black Blood Brothers

Action

Fantasy

Supernatural

A decade after the Hong Kong Crusade left him famous as the vampire swordsman "Silver Blade," Jirou Mochizuki returns to Japan with his younger brother Kotarou, aiming for a quiet life in the Special Zone, a city built for humans and vampires to coexist. That peace is short-lived: survivors of the Kowloon Children are already moving to breach the Zone's defenses, and when Kotarou is taken by one of them, Jirou has no choice but to fight again to get him back.

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FINISHED

Deep Love: The Story of Ayu

Deep Love アユの物語

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Ayu is a seventeen-year-old Tokyo high schooler who sells herself through enjo kosai, convinced that money is all that is left in a world she reads as filthy and hypocritical. An elderly woman she meets by chance treats her with a warmth she has no answer for, and a stray dog with a mutilated tongue, which Ayu names Pao and leaves in the old woman's care, works on her the same way. Adapted from Yoshi's cell-phone novel, Ayu's story turns on whether those two attachments can outweigh the life she has settled for.

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FINISHED

Durarara!!

デュラララ!!

Thriller

Action

Shounen

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.

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The Gentlemen's Alliance †

紳士同盟†

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Haine Otomiya, a gang delinquent in her early teens under the name "Seashore Cinderella", was handed to the Otomiya family by her father in exchange for a fifty-million-yen loan. At fifteen she enrolls at the elite Imperial Academy to chase Shizumasa Tougu, the student-council "emperor" who once told her to live as she pleased. Given the top platinum ranking, Haine becomes his bodyguard inside the council's rigid hierarchy.

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Kitchen Princess

キッチンのお姫さま

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

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 with flan after her parents' death. The spoon turns out to be unique to Seika Academy, so Najika enrolls at the elite school to find him, and there meets two brothers, the hot-tempered, blunt Daichi Kitazawa and his elder brother Sora, the academy's acting director. Cooking her way through Seika, she edges closer to the prince she has chased for years.

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Air

AIR

Fantasy

Drama

Romance

Yukito Kunisaki drifts from town to town performing a one-man puppet show, searching for 'the girl in the sky' his late mother once told him about. He settles for a while in a quiet seaside town and meets Misuzu Kamio, an odd, cheerful girl obsessed with learning to fly, along with several other locals whose lives keep circling back to her. As Yukito stays longer than planned, hints surface that Misuzu and the town's past are tied to the very search his mother left him. This manga, illustrated by Yukimaru Katsura, adapts Key's original visual novel.

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Voices of a Distant Star

ほしのこえ

Sci-Fi

Drama

Romance

Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao are middle-school classmates on the edge of confessing when Mikako is chosen to crew a mecha in humanity's war against the alien Tarsians. Her ship pushes farther and farther from Earth, and the cell-phone messages that are the only thing left between them take months, then years, to arrive. This manga retells Makoto Shinkai's short film, drawn by Mizu Sahara.

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Shuffle!

SHUFFLE!

Ecchi

Fantasy

Romance

Ten years after the barriers between the human world and the realms of gods and demons came down, Rin Tsuchimi finds himself hosting two visiting princesses: Sia, daughter of the king of gods, and Nerine, daughter of the king of demons, each hoping to become his bride. Between his childhood friend Kaede Fuyou and the watchful eyes of the two reigning dimension lords, Rin's ordinary school life stops being ordinary. This light novel series adapts the Shuffle! visual novel, the same source the anime and manga are drawn from.

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Gankutsuou

巌窟王

Thriller

Sci-Fi

Drama

Teenager Albert de Morcerf is dazzled by the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo when the two meet in Paris, unaware that the Count is quietly working through a decades-old plan targeting the city's aristocracy, Albert's own father included. Set in a far-future science-fiction Paris rather than the 19th-century one of the source, the story reworks Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo around Albert, Franz d'Epinay, and the Count's circle. This light novel is a prose version of the Gankutsuou anime.

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FINISHED

Junjou Minimum

純情ミニマム

Romance

Comedy

Two shorter stories fill in the childhoods behind Junjou Romantica: in one, Akihiko Usami moves in across the street from Hiroki Kamijou and the pair spend their days in a hideout of their own, years before the rivalry and affection that define their adult relationship take shape; in the other, a younger Misaki Takahashi grows up alongside his older brother Takahiro. Neither half continues the main series' romances, and both look back at how its cast started out.

Sekirei

セキレイ

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

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.

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Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji

賭博堕天録カイジ

Thriller

Drama

Seinen

Kaiji Ito came out of Teiai's underground labor compound with his debt cleared and nothing else, and has spent the months since sponging off Sakazaki, the man he beat the Bog with. Sakazaki finally hands him severance money to leave. Then Miyoshi and Maeda, two of his former workmates from underground, turn up: their casino boss Muraoka has been bleeding their wages away at a mahjong variant of his own design called 17 Steps, and they want Kaiji at the table.

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Earl and Fairy

伯爵と妖精

Shoujo

Fantasy

Adventure

Lydia Carlton works as a fairy doctor in Victorian Britain, one of the few people who can see and speak with fairies at all. On a voyage to visit her father she is seized by Edgar Ashenbert, a young man claiming the earldom of Ashenbert, who needs her sight to track down the legendary sword that would prove his claim. Edgar becomes her first real client, though Lydia is unconvinced by his story, especially once a wave of burglaries starts pointing his way. The manga adaptation is drawn from this original light novel series.

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Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan

撲殺天使ドクロちゃん

Supernatural

Comedy

Dokuro Mitsukai is an angel sent back from the future to kill middle schooler Sakura Kusakabe before he can invent the immortality technology that stops women aging past twelve and earns God's anger. She decides instead to keep him too distracted to ever get there, which in practice means beating him to death with Excaliborg, her spiked club, on the slightest impulse and reviving him a moment later. Sakura's ordinary days collapse into a string of increasingly absurd, gag-driven disasters he never asked for.

Reborn!

家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!

Action

Shounen

Supernatural

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.

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Hayate the Combat Butler

ハヤテのごとく！

Shounen

Romance

Comedy

Hayate Ayasaki has worked since childhood to cover for his deadbeat parents, who finally saddle him with a crushing gambling debt and sign his organs over to the yakuza. Fleeing the collectors, he decides to kidnap someone rich for ransom and picks Nagi Sanzenin, the young sole heir to an immense fortune. Nagi takes his fumbled confession for a declaration of love and hires him as her butler instead, and Hayate ends up guarding the sheltered, manga-obsessed girl from everyone circling her family's money.

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FINISHED

Nabari no Ou

隠の王

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Miharu Rokujou drifts through school determined to care about nothing and no one. That ends when his teacher Tobari Kumohira and his classmate 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 while Kumohira keeps pressing him to join the school's nindo club. Miharu is forced to decide what to do with a power he never asked for.

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Kobato.

こばと。

Fantasy

Romance

Supernatural

Kobato Hanato is a cheerful, clumsy girl bound by a contract: to reach the place she longs to go, she has to 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 stuck 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 who keep it running.

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Superior

シューピアリア

Action

Fantasy

Romance

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, Sheila joins him in disguise, meaning to win his trust and kill him, and travels at his side without letting on that the queen he is hunting is walking beside him.

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FINISHED

Aiki

愛気

Action

Ecchi

Drama

Kunitoshi Joukyuu is a lazy, shameless aikido prodigy, by reputation the strongest fighter alive, except that his father sealed away most of his power before dying. A struggle for control has turned a local high school into a battleground, and Rin Kizuki, granddaughter of the school's chief director, comes to him for help. Joukyuu takes the job with as little effort as he can manage, drilling the girls who line up under him into real martial artists while he hunts for a way to break his father's seal.

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FINISHED

Desire Climax

欲情(C)MAX

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Seventeen-year-old Mio Omori takes on part-time work to keep her desperately poor family afloat, with little time left for anything else. Walking home one night, she is cornered by Shoei Jinnai, a boy who snatches her first kiss, pushes money at her, and tells her he is buying her. Mio has no idea who he is or why he has decided this, and shaking him off turns out to be far harder than getting rid of a stranger.

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City of Light

ひかりのまち

Drama

Slice of Life

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. Other youths scrape by around him: Satoshi jumps from one odd job to the next, and Momoko was abandoned by her mother. Hoichi runs shady errands while dreaming of buying the whole town and turning it back into the country village where he was born.

Happy Cafe

幸福喫茶3丁目

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

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.

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B Gata H Kei

B型H系

Ecchi

Romance

Slice of Life

Yamada, a fifteen-year-old first-year high schooler, sets herself a goal of one hundred casual partners, yet she is a virgin who panics at every opening. To get past her nerves she goes looking for an inexperienced first partner and settles on Takashi Kosuda, a plain, awkward classmate. Her clumsy seductions keep backfiring across four-panel gags, and despite herself she starts to actually fall for him.

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Sweet Blue Flowers

青い花

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Fumi Manjome moves back to Kamakura after ten years away and runs into Akira Okudaira on the way to school, the childhood friend who used to stand up for her when she cried. Fumi starts at Matsuoka Girls' High School still bruised by a first love that ended badly, and leans on the steady Akira as the two fold back into each other's lives. At Matsuoka she grows close to Yasuko Sugimoto, a poised third-year, and a first relationship slowly takes shape.

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After School Nightmare

放課後保健室

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Mashiro Ichijo passes as a handsome, popular boy at school while hiding a body that is male above the waist and female below. An unfamiliar nurse leads Mashiro to an infirmary in the basement that nobody remembers being there, and enrols him in a class held after hours. Its students enter a shared dream in the shape of their true selves and fight one another for the single thing that ends the class: graduation. Pulled between classmate Sou Mizuhashi and the fragile Kureha Fujishima, Mashiro cannot keep the dream and the daylight apart.

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FINISHED

Bartender

バーテンダー

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

Ryuu Sasakura is a bartending prodigy said to pour the finest cocktails anyone has tasted, sought out by the hotel employee Miwa while she staffs a newly opened bar. He works at Eden Hall, a small bar tucked into a corner of Tokyo's Ginza district, where every customer arrives carrying something private. Chapter by chapter, Sasakura reads the person across the counter and serves what regulars call the Glass of the Gods, the one drink that fits the moment, and sends the guest back out steadier than they came in.

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FINISHED

Arakawa Under the Bridge

荒川アンダーザブリッジ

Seinen

Comedy

Kou Ichinomiya, heir to a corporate empire, lives by one rule drilled into him since childhood: never owe anyone anything. When bullies hang his trousers from a bridge over the Arakawa River and he falls into the water trying to get them back, a girl named Nino pulls him out. Asked how he can repay a debt he cannot stomach carrying, she tells him to love her. Kou ends up living beneath the bridge among the self-styled eccentrics of the Arakawa riverbank.

Yomawari Sensei

夜回り先生

Drama

Seinen

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, shut-ins, and teenagers tangled in drugs or self-harm, the kids society has written off. Drawn from Mizutani's own twelve years of night patrols, each chapter follows one young person he refuses to give up on.

New Voices in the Dark

新・闇の声潰談

Supernatural

Horror

Junji Ito gathers fresh horror stories in this anthology, several built around Soichi, the spiteful boy who chews iron nails and curses everyone around him. One installment picks up the haunted-mansion thread from the earlier Yami no Koe. Others follow a girl found covered in blood on a mountain road at night, and a couple living in a mansion of inherited books that begins to warp around them. Each story stands alone, linked only by Ito's slow turn from the ordinary into the grotesque.

Vassalord.

Action

Drama

Romance

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 rich, hedonistic Progenitor who spends his nights as a playboy and enjoys needling his servant. Their lopsided bond drags them onto the trail of Vassalord, a drug that turns humans into vampires, and toward the question of who made it and how Rayflo is tied to it.

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Otokomae! Beads Club

男前！ビーズ倶楽部

Shoujo

Romance

Comedy

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 hauls her straight off to the beads club.

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Honey x Honey Drops

蜜×蜜ドロップス

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

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 among 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.

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Maburaho VS Slayers!? - Dragon All Stars Gekitouhen

まぶらほＶＳスレイヤーズ！？　ドラゴン☆オールスターズ激闘編

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Kazuki Shikimori, the Aoi Academy student who can cast only eight spells before he turns to ash, is thrown up against Lina Inverse and her companions in this one-volume crossover special. It sets the magic-school comedy of Maburaho beside the sorcery-and-bandits adventure of Slayers and runs the two casts straight at each other, a standalone tie-in rather than a continuation of either series.

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Wild Ones

アラクレ

Shoujo

Romance

Comedy

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.

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Color Bleach+: Bleach Official Bootleg

徒然日常絵詞カラフルブリーチ

Shounen

Supernatural

Comedy

Ichigo Kurosaki's Soul Society gets a handbook here: sixty-six pages of full-color manga drawn for the volume, a squad-by-squad tour of all Thirteen Court Guard Companies, and an entrance exam that tells a reader which Soul Reaper they are. Parody magazine pages and fake advertisements are written as though the Seireitei ran its own press. The comics spin off from the main Bleach manga rather than continuing it, and nothing in the volume moves Ichigo's story forward.

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D.C.S.G.: Da Capo - Second Graduation

D.C.S.G. ダ・カーポ～セカンドグラデュエーション～

Drama

Romance

Supernatural

Nemu Asakura comes home to Hatsunejima, and Junichi Asakura's settled routine on the island reshapes itself around having his sister back. Around them the cherry trees keep blooming out of season, as they have since the start of Da Capo, and the wishes attached to those trees still find their way into ordinary school days. This three-volume manga adapts the Da Capo Second Graduation game, staying with Junichi's generation rather than the later cast of Da Capo II.

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Gunsmith Cats Burst

GUNSMITH CATS BURST

Action

Seinen

Rally Vincent runs a gun shop in Chicago and takes bounty work on the side, backed by Minnie May Hopkins, an explosives specialist who tends to use more charge than the job needs. Burst picks their partnership back up after the first series closed, with informant Becky Farrah still routing jobs their way and the city's dealers and bail jumpers supplying the rest. This manga runs five volumes and keeps the original's habit of drawing real firearms and real cars in detail.

.hack//Another Birth

.hack//Another Birth もうひとつの誕生

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Drama

Akira Hayami's younger brother Kazu falls into a coma while playing The World, the online game at the center of the .hack series, and she logs in herself as BlackRose to find out why. A beginner at first, she soon meets Kite, a Twin Blade whose friend Orca was struck down the same way, and the two set out after the secrets hidden inside the game. This light novel retells the four original .hack games from BlackRose's side, adding the parts of her life that happen offline.

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FINISHED

Futari wa Precure

ふたりはプリキュア

Shoujo

Kids & Family

Action

Nagisa Misumi is sporty and Honoka Yukishiro is bookish, and although they attend the same school they have almost nothing in common, until a shower of shooting stars drops two unlikely visitors into their lives. Mepple and Mipple are refugees from the Garden of Light, which the forces of darkness have conquered, and they give the girls the power to become Cure Black and Cure White, together known as Pretty Cure. This manga version ran as short comics alongside the TV anime.

#56

FINISHED

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

機動戦士ガンダムSEED DESTINY

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

An uneasy peace between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT unravels as terrorists plot to steal Gundam-type mobile suits and reignite full-scale war. Aboard the warship Minerva, pilots Shinn Asuka and Lunamaria Hawke, alongside returning veterans Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala, are pulled into the conspiracy as it threatens both the fragile truce and their own relationships. This manga condenses the TV series into four volumes, trimming character development in favor of a faster-paced retelling.

#57

FINISHED

La Corda d'Oro

金色のコルダ

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

At Seisou Academy, non-musician student Hino Kahoko is chosen by the tiny fairy Lili to play a magic violin that lets her join the school's elite concours competition. Thrown among trained musicians like violinist Tsukimori Len and trumpeter Hihara Kazuki, Kahoko must learn to perform without ever having held an instrument before. This manga adapts Koei's dating-sim game and launched the wider La Corda d'Oro multimedia franchise.

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#58

ONGOING

Sunshine Sketch

ひだまりスケッチ

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Yuno moves into the Hidamari Apartments to start at Yamabuki High School's art course and finds that her neighbors in the little building, Sae, Hiro, and Miyako, are all students at the same school. The four settle into a shared routine of art assignments, apartment hallway chats, and run-ins with their eccentric homeroom teacher Yoshinoya, a self-described otaku who teaches art. This ongoing 4-koma manga follows their daily life across the school year in short comic vignettes rather than one continuous plot.

#59

FINISHED

Burst Angel: Angel's Adolescence

爆裂天使 ANGEL'S ADOLESCENCE

Action

Sci-Fi

Seinen

Takeru is bullied and short on confidence, and his ordinary life ends the night two girls, Jo and Meg, burst into his room fleeing armed thugs and prove to be far tougher than anyone chasing them. Their fellow mercenaries Sei and Amy round out the crew Takeru finds himself pulled into. This manga is a prequel to the Bakuretsu Tenshi TV anime, covering Jo and Meg's early bounty-hunting days and the first time the four of them meet.

#60

FINISHED

Durarara!! Side Stories?!

デュラララ!!外伝!?

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

Izaya Orihara and the otaku Erika Karisawa turn up across several of the nine short stories in this side-story collection, threading through the same cast as the main Durarara!! novels amid Ikebukuro's tangle of gangs, gossip, and rumors. The pieces reach back into the cast's earlier lives, from Mikado and Masaomi as children to Anri and Mika in middle school and Shizuo's first days working with Tom, and forward to a coming-of-age ceremony that arrives out of nowhere. Each chapter stands on its own rather than building one continuous plot.

#61

FINISHED

Chi's Sweet Home

チーズスイートホーム

Kids & Family

Seinen

Slice of Life

A kitten wanders away from her mother during a walk and ends up lost near an apartment complex, where a young boy named Yohei and his mother Miwa find her and bring her home. Pets aren't allowed in the building, so the Yamadas have to hide her, and when she answers to the sound "chi" during her first attempts at housebreaking, the name sticks. Told largely from the kitten's point of view, the manga follows Chi's earliest days learning her new family's routines, the other animals around the neighborhood, and the rules of a home she isn't supposed to be in.

#62

FINISHED

Ubel Blatt 0

Übel Blatt ～ユーベルブラット～ 0

Action

Fantasy

Drama

A young swordsman known only by the black blade he carries, Köinzell crosses a war-scarred land on the trail of seven celebrated heroes who ambushed their own comrades, took the credit for the victory, and left the dead branded the Lances of Betrayal. Every fight strips back a little more of what happened to him before the story begins, without yet revealing the shape of the revenge he's building toward. Numbered volume 0, this book collects the series' opening chapters rather than a separate side story.

#63

FINISHED

1/2 Prince

½王子

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Nineteen-year-old college student Feng Lan builds a male avatar for the hyper-realistic VRMMO Second Life, refusing to lean on the usual perks that come with playing female. Her creation, the elf swordsman Prince, turns out too striking to stay unnoticed, and the disguise gets riskier once real-world classmates start recognizing her online. Around Prince an odd party forms, from the hidden Game Master Lolidragon to the wolf-beastman priest Ugly Wolf and the necromancer Doll, as she navigates Second Life's competitions while guarding her secret identity.

#64

FINISHED

Drops of God

神の雫

Drama

Seinen

Shizuku Kanzaki has spent his life avoiding wine, the one subject his critic father drilled into him as a child, until that father's will forces his hand. To inherit the estate, Shizuku must identify twelve legendary bottles known as the Apostles and, beyond them, the almost mythical Drops of God, competing against Issei Tomine, the adopted son already celebrated as the country's finest young sommelier. Working from a beer-company day job and nothing like Tomine's formal training, Shizuku starts hunting down the first Apostle before his rival can name it.

Shoshimin Series

小市民シリーズ

Thriller

Slice of Life

Comedy

Jougorou Kobato wants to live an ordinary, unremarkable life, done with the trouble that comes from showing off how sharp his thinking is. He and classmate Yuki Osanai agree to a pact meant to keep them both in check, one seasonal-dessert-themed mystery at a time, since normal life keeps refusing to stay normal around them. This is the original novel series that both manga lines and the anime adapt.

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#66

FINISHED

Itou Junji Kenkyuu: Horror no Shinen kara

伊藤潤二研究ホラーの深淵から

Supernatural

Horror

Junji Ito's thirtieth-anniversary book puts interviews, essays and color art alongside four short stories that had never been collected before. Yon & Muu no Yuurei Bukken drops the two cats from his own household comedy into a haunted property. Kubitsuri Kikyuu Sairai brings back the hanging balloons that drift through the sky wearing their victims' faces, and Kyoufu no Juusou and Masei round out the set. It is a companion volume built around his career rather than a standalone story.

Deep Love: Real

Deep Love ［REAL］

Drama

Seinen

Eighteen-year-old Yoshiyuki walks into Platinum, a host club in Shibuya, with a wound on his heart and no sense of where his life is going. Everyone there writes him off as wrong for the job except Taku, the club's owner and number-one host, who sees something different in his eyes and takes him on. Under Taku's direct guidance Yoshiyuki discovers a talent for hosting, and his climb brings fierce sales rivalries with other hosts and customers carrying wounds of their own. This manga carries the world of Yoshi's mobile-phone novel Deep Love into the host industry.

Kimi to Boku.

君と僕。

Shounen

Drama

Slice of Life

Twins Yuuta and Yuuki Asaba have been inseparable from childhood friends Shun Matsuoka and Kaname Tsukahara since kindergarten, and their tight-knit group only grows when half-Japanese transfer student Chizuru Tachibana joins their high school class. Nothing dramatic happens to this group of five: no rivalries, no grand romance plots, just the small, ordinary moments of a friendship that's already lasted years. Told across loosely episodic chapters, it's a slice-of-life series built entirely on how comfortable these five are with each other.

#69

FINISHED

Rosario+Vampire

ロザリオとバンパイア

Action

Shounen

Ecchi

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.

#70

FINISHED

Black God

黒神

Action

Fantasy

Romance

Keita Ibuki, a freelance game programmer scraping by in Tokyo, learns that every person is born one of three identical Doppeliners who secretly share a single fate. Guardians called Mototsumitama hold the world to a balance known as the Coexistence Equilibrium. His ordinary life ends the night he takes a fatal wound and Kuro, a young Mototsumitama, saves him by binding the two of them under a contract. With his childhood friend Akane Sano caught up in it, Keita is drawn into the Kaionji Group's move against that balance.

#71

FINISHED

Working!!

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Sixteen-year-old Souta Takanashi takes a part-time job at the Hokkaido family restaurant Wagnaria after being recruited by his tiny senior coworker Popura Taneshima, who is mistaken for a child despite being seventeen. The rest of the staff includes manager Kyoko Shirafuji, who dodges her own paperwork, and waitress Mahiru Inami, whose fear of men triggers a reflexive punch. Souta, who cannot resist anything small and cute, settles into the restaurant's daily chaos.

#72

FINISHED

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

Section 9's counter-terrorism unit gets its own original case in this three-volume novel series: Major Motoko Kusanagi leads Batou, Togusa, and the rest of the team after a group calling themselves the Awakened, who can hijack minds and bodies through the net. The investigation pulls Kusanagi deep into cyberspace chasing the group's reach, with Tachikoma, Saitou, and Ishikawa backing the team's field and surveillance work. The novels tell an original story set in the Stand Alone Complex television series' 2032 rather than adapting its episodes.

#73

FINISHED

Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (Novelization)

NARUTO―ナルト― 大活劇！雪姫忍法帖だってばよ!!

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Kakashi takes Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke, and Sakura to see a film starring an actress Naruto idolizes, and the mission that follows matters more than any autograph. Her manager, Sandayuu Asama, hires Team 7 to escort that same actress, Yukie Fujikaze, to the Land of Snow for her next shoot. Waiting for them there is a group of ninja in chakra armor with orders to seize her. This light novel is the official novelization of the first Naruto feature film, an anime-original story told in prose rather than animation.

#74

FINISHED

Fullmetal Alchemist Chronicle

鋼の錬金術師クロニクル

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

This Fullmetal Alchemist guidebook gathers what never made it into the collected volumes across the manga's nine-year run. Inside are a long interview with Hiromu Arakawa, conversations with fellow manga creators and members of the anime's voice cast, a plot and character guide, a series timeline, and uncollected art. Its centerpiece is "Fullmetal Alchemist: Prototype," an alternate version of the story's first chapter that Arakawa originally drew, set in a desert oasis town instead of Liore and reshuffling several character roles. Relay-style 4-koma gag strips round out the collection, which works as a reference companion rather than a continuation of the main story.

#75

FINISHED

Denpa-teki na Kanojo

電波的な彼女

Thriller

Supernatural

High school delinquent Juu Juuzawa wants nothing more than to be left alone, but Ame Ochibana insists she was his knight in a past life and refuses to leave his side. After a classmate is found murdered and the police get nowhere, Juu lets Ame help him track down the killer, wary of how much of her story about their shared past he can believe. This light novel is the original source for the Denpa-teki na Kanojo manga and OVA.

Haruka Nogizaka's Secret

乃木坂春香の秘密

Romance

Comedy

Yuuto Ayase is an unremarkable student at Hakujō Academy until he learns the truth about Haruka Nogizaka, the school's celebrated honor student: behind her perfect image, she is obsessed with anime, manga, and otaku culture. Bound to keep her secret, Yuuto is pulled deeper into her world with help from Hazuki Sakurazaka, the head maid of the Nogizaka household, as social hierarchies at the academy threaten to expose them both. This light novel is the original source for the manga and anime adaptations.

Psychic Detective Yakumo

心霊探偵八雲

Thriller

Supernatural

When her friend Miki collapses after a dare gone wrong at a supposedly haunted building, college student Haruka Ozawa turns to Yakumo Saitou, a fellow student rumored to be psychic. Yakumo rejects the label but admits what is behind it: his red left eye lets him see the dead. Haruka doubts him until he passes on words from her older sister, who died when Haruka was a child, and the two start digging into what really happened to Miki.

Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys

劇場版ポケットモンスターAG 裂空の訪問者デオキシス

Kids & Family

Action

Fantasy

Ash and his friends arrive in LaRousse, a futuristic city that runs entirely on technology, where they meet Tory Lund, a boy who has feared Pokémon since a stampede caught him on his father's polar expedition four years earlier. Deoxys, a Pokémon from outer space, returns to search for its missing partner and draws Rayquaza down from the ozone layer; to keep it out, Deoxys walls the city off behind a force field and pulls residents inside one by one. Tory's link to that incident puts him at the center of the crisis. This manga adapts the film of the same name.

#79

FINISHED

My-HiME

舞-HiME

Action

Shounen

Drama

Transfer student Yuuichi Tate arrives at Fuka Academy and discovers it's under attack by monsters called Orphans, fought off by girls called HiME who wield elemental powers. Yuuichi learns he's the Key, the one person who can unlock a HiME's full strength, for not one but two rivals, Mai Tokiha and Natsuki Kuga, dragging him into their conflict. This manga tells its own version of the story, on a storyline separate from the TV anime it grew out of.

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#80

FINISHED

Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun

ご愁傷さま二ノ宮くん

Ecchi

Romance

Comedy

Shungo Ninomiya lives alone in a house too big for one teenager until his mercenary older sister Ryouko decides to fill it, sending the Tsukimura siblings to move in with him. Mayu and her brother Mikihiro are both succubi, and Mayu's androphobia is exactly what the arrangement is meant to cure, with Shungo cast as the test subject. Student council president Reika Houjou is blackmailed into serving the household as their maid, and the cohabitation only grows stranger from there. This light novel is the source material behind the Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun manga and anime.

#81

FINISHED

Bamboo Blade

バンブーブレード

Sports

Seinen

Comedy

Toraji Ishida, a perpetually broke kendo instructor, makes a reckless bet with a former senpai: field a five-girl kendo team that can beat his, and he eats free at the man's family sushi restaurant for a year. His search turns up Tamaki Kawazoe, a first-year prodigy who trains at her father's dojo but treats kendo as just another chore rather than a passion. As Toraji talks her into joining and rounds out the rest of the team, Bamboo Blade follows their unlikely squad from first practice toward real competition.

#82

FINISHED

Ah My Buddha

あまえないでよっ!!

Ecchi

Supernatural

Seinen

Ikko Satonaka is a lecherous monk-in-training whose exorcism powers ignite only through his attraction to women, a complication for a boy living at Saienji Temple among six young priestesses. Chitose Nanbu, Haruka Amanogawa, and the rest of the temple's residents, each aligned with a different Buddhist cosmological realm, must keep Ikko's self-destructive gift in check while training their own developing powers. The manga follows their chaotic cohabitation as exorcisms and misunderstandings pile up around Saienji.

#83

FINISHED

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: Pyramid of Light

遊☆戯☆王デュエルモンスターズ光のピラミッド

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Seto Kaiba beats Pegasus J. Crawford in a duel to win a mysterious card called the Pyramid of Light, said to rival even the three Egyptian God cards, in this novelization of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters film of the same name. Neither he nor Yugi Mutou realizes the card was slipped to him by Anubis, an ancient enemy sealed away five thousand years ago, and the duel that follows drags Katsuya Jonouchi and Hiroto Honda into stakes far past the card game. The novel expands on the film with full decklists and strategy notes for Kaiba, Yugi, and Pegasus.

#84

FINISHED

Le Portrait de Petit Cossette

コゼットの肖像

Thriller

Romance

Supernatural

Eiri Kurahashi, an art student working part-time at an antique shop, becomes fixated on a Victorian-era portrait of a girl named Cossette after her spirit begins appearing to him, pleading to be saved. Every previous owner of the painting has died in a bizarre, violent way, and as Eiri investigates why, he uncovers Cossette's own history: she was murdered centuries earlier by the very artist who painted her portrait. This manga by Asuka Katsura adapts the same year's Le Portrait de Petit Cossette OVA.

#85

FINISHED

Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture

もやしもん

Supernatural

Seinen

Slice of Life

Tadayasu Sawaki can see microbes as small, cartoonish creatures, from sake yeast to mold to anything living too small to spot with the naked eye, a gift that follows him to an agricultural university in Tokyo. Professor Keizou Itsuki notices the ability almost immediately and pulls Tadayasu into his lab, alongside his childhood friend Kei Yuuki and the older students Haruka Hasegawa and Aoi Mutou, where fermentation experiments turn into a crash course in the microbial life that runs through daily food and drink.

#86

FINISHED

Sumomomo Momomo: The Strongest Bride On Earth

すもももももも～地上最強のヨメ～

Action

Ecchi

Romance

Momoko Kuzuryuu, heir to the dragon-blooded Kuzuryuu martial arts clan, is sent to marry Koushi Inuzuka under a family pact meant to keep her clan's fighting bloodline alive. Koushi has quit martial arts to study law and wants nothing to do with an arranged marriage, but Momoko's father insists only a strong husband can carry on what he believes she, as a woman, cannot. The manga plays their culture clash for slapstick comedy as her rivals and admirers keep crashing into Koushi's ordinary life.

#87

FINISHED

The Seven Stories

七つの短編

Action

Fantasy

Comedy

Before The Seven Deadly Sins became a hit, its author drew a 56-page one-shot starring Meliodas and Elizabeth Liones that would later grow into the full series, and that pilot chapter anchors this collection. The rest ranges across genres entirely unrelated to Sins: a cowgirl chasing a flying saucer, a figure-skating story called Blizzard Axel, a two-part piece titled Memory of Moon, and other standalone tales. It works as a career retrospective built around one very consequential prototype.

#88

FINISHED

BLAME! Academy and So On

ブラム学園! アンドソーオン弐瓶勉作品集

Sci-Fi

Horror

Seinen

Killy and Cibo turn up alongside Dhomochevsky and Iko inside an ordinary Japanese school instead of the crumbling megastructure of the main series, their dynamics played for comedy rather than survival horror. Two chapters, Netsphere Engineer and BLAME!², break from the parody format to serve as direct sequels to the original Blame! manga's story, alongside standalone one-shots and dark body-horror vignettes unrelated to either.

#89

FINISHED

All You Need Is Kill

All You Need is Kill

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

Rookie soldier Keiji Kiriya dies within hours of his first battle against the alien Mimics, crushed under a wave of enemy fire he never saw coming. He wakes up the previous morning instead, forced to relive the same day and the same death over and over, each loop teaching him something new about the battlefield he can't yet escape. Renowned soldier Rita Vrataski, said to have broken a similar loop herself, becomes the one person who might understand what's happening to him. Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel, illustrated by Yoshitoshi ABe, later inspired the Hollywood film Edge of Tomorrow.

#90

FINISHED

The World God Only Knows: On the Train + Pilot Films

神のみぞ知るセカイ on the train+パイロットフィルムズ

Comedy

This collection gathers four short pieces by Tamiki Wakaki, built around brief vignettes rather than a single plot. The title story, "On the Train," runs the series' heroines through one-page gags set during a train ride, and it is followed by three of Wakaki's early pilot one-shots: Hiseki no Kaitou Albatross, Koishite!? Kamisama!!, and Yougashiten Galaxy. The second of those is the 2007 prototype that grew into Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai itself, but none of the four continue the main storyline; the book works as a bind-up of Wakaki's shorter, stand-alone comics.

Yu-Gi-Oh! R

遊☆戯☆王R

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Not long after Yugi Mutou defeats Maximillion Pegasus, Pegasus's adopted protege Yako Tenma seizes control of KaibaCorp's headquarters while Seto Kaiba is out of the country. Yako kidnaps Anzu Mazaki and holds her inside the building, guarded by dangerous gamers recruited from around the world, forcing Yugi and his friends to fight their way through Yako's Project R.A. to reach her. What looks at first like simple revenge for Pegasus's death turns out to serve a far darker purpose for Anzu specifically.

#92

FINISHED

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Supernatural

High school freshman Kyon has sworn off anything supernatural, right up until his classmate Haruhi Suzumiya announces to the whole room that she's only interested in aliens, time travelers, and espers. When no one already like that turns up, Haruhi starts the SOS Brigade and drafts Kyon, silent bookworm Yuki Nagato, timid upperclassman Mikuru Asahina, and ever-smiling transfer student Itsuki Koizumi to go find some. Kyon suspects his new club is a lot stranger than Haruhi realizes. This single-volume manga adapts only the opening light novel before its run ended early.

#93

FINISHED

Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo

新ペットショップ・オブ・ホラーズ

Fantasy

Supernatural

Horror

Count D reopens his pet shop in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, picking up after the events of the original Pet Shop of Horrors. He still deals in animals no ordinary shop carries, creatures that range from harmless housepets to something far stranger, and every sale comes bound to a three-point contract. Buyers who break its terms find their deepest wishes twisted into their worst nightmares, and D is never the one who breaks it.

#94

FINISHED

Immortal Rain: Shinigami of the East

東方死神メテオ・メトセラ外伝

Shoujo

Action

Fantasy

This side-story prequel to Immortal Rain follows Zol, a bounty hunter who works under the name Grim Reaper, during his first encounter with Rain Jewlitt. Rain is better known as Methuselah: the most wanted man in the world, and one who cannot be killed no matter how many times he's shot. The gaiden also traces how Machika came to be Zol's granddaughter and the death of her mother, laying groundwork for the pursuit that drives the main series.

#95

ONGOING

D.Gray-man

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

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.

#96

ONGOING

Minami-ke

みなみけ

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Eldest sister Haruka Minami keeps house for her two younger sisters, cooking and managing the family's day-to-day while she's still in high school herself. Kana, a scatterbrained middle schooler, and Chiaki, a sharp-tongued elementary schooler who needles her constantly, fill the apartment with bickering and mishaps, while Haruka's volleyball-captain admirer Hosaka and Chiaki's classmate Makoto drift in and out of their routine. Each chapter is a self-contained slice of the sisters' ordinary life rather than part of an ongoing plot.

Top 250

Top 250

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run

Vampire Knight

Übel Blatt

Suzuka

Molester Man

Mysterious Girlfriend X

Remina

Cat Street

A Certain Magical Index

Samurai Champloo

The Familiar of Zero

The Tyrant Falls in Love

Kekkaishi

Biomega

The Tatami Galaxy

Black Blood Brothers

Deep Love: The Story of Ayu

Durarara!!

The Gentlemen's Alliance †

Kitchen Princess

Air

Voices of a Distant Star

Shuffle!

Gankutsuou

Junjou Minimum

Sekirei

Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji

Earl and Fairy

Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan

Reborn!

Hayate the Combat Butler

Nabari no Ou

Kobato.

Superior

Aiki

Desire Climax

City of Light

Happy Cafe

B Gata H Kei

Sweet Blue Flowers

After School Nightmare

Bartender

Arakawa Under the Bridge

Yomawari Sensei

New Voices in the Dark

Vassalord.

Otokomae! Beads Club

Honey x Honey Drops

Maburaho VS Slayers!? - Dragon All Stars Gekitouhen

Wild Ones

Color Bleach+: Bleach Official Bootleg

D.C.S.G.: Da Capo - Second Graduation

Gunsmith Cats Burst

.hack//Another Birth

Futari wa Precure

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

La Corda d'Oro

Sunshine Sketch

Burst Angel: Angel's Adolescence

Durarara!! Side Stories?!

Chi's Sweet Home

Ubel Blatt 0

1/2 Prince

Drops of God

Shoshimin Series

Itou Junji Kenkyuu: Horror no Shinen kara

Deep Love: Real

Kimi to Boku.

Rosario+Vampire

Black God

Working!!

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (Novelization)

Fullmetal Alchemist Chronicle

Denpa-teki na Kanojo

Haruka Nogizaka's Secret

Psychic Detective Yakumo

Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys