Liar Game
LIAR GAME
Nao Kanzaki, an honest and trusting college student, opens a package holding 100 million yen and a notice that she is now a player in the Liar Game Tournament, where contestants are pushed to deceive one another out of their money and losers take on matching debt. Out of her depth against a swindler in the first round, she turns to Shinichi Akiyama, a brilliant ex-convict con artist, to help her survive. Together they advance through rounds of higher stakes while trying to expose the organization running the game.
Bitter Virgin
Bitter Virgin
Daisuke Suwa, a small-town high schooler set on leaving for a city university, overhears classmate Hinako Aikawa confessing in a church and learns the secret she carries alone: years of abuse by her stepfather. Unable to forget what he heard, Daisuke begins quietly watching out for the shy, withdrawn girl, and the two grow closer as Hinako struggles with her fear of men and her doubt that anyone could accept her past.
Higurashi When They Cry: Abducted by Demons Arc
ひぐらしのなく頃に 鬼隠し編
In the summer of 1983, Keiichi Maebara moves to the quiet rural village of Hinamizawa and quickly falls in with a tight after-school games club: cheerful Rena Ryuugu, brash Mion Sonozaki, and the younger Satoko Houjou and Rika Furude. Village life feels warm and easy until Keiichi learns that, for four years running, the annual Watanagashi festival has been marked by a murder and a disappearance. This first arc opens the When They Cry mystery, with the same days replayed and re-examined across later chapters.
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
イキガミ
In a nation governed by a National Prosperity Law, one in a thousand schoolchildren is secretly inoculated with a capsule that will kill them between the ages of 18 and 24. Twenty-four hours before death, the chosen receive an ikigami, a death notice delivered by a government messenger. Kengo Fujimoto carries these notices for a living, watching strangers spend their final day while the weight of the job he serves slowly bears down on him.
The One
원
Won Eumpa, a former child prodigy trained in classical music by his father, returns to Korea hoping to live quietly as an ordinary high schooler. His music teacher and a pop idol classmate named Jenny spot his talent and start pulling him toward the stage. Set in the Korean entertainment industry, the manhwa follows Eumpa as a debut in an idol group, song theft, and a tangled love triangle drag him into the spotlight he wanted to avoid.
Neuro: Supernatural Detective
魔人探偵脳噛ネウロ
Neuro Nougami is a demon who feeds on mysteries, and after devouring every puzzle in the demon world he crosses into the human one in search of fresh ones. He fastens onto Yako Katsuragi, a sixteen-year-old whose father's murder was ruled a suicide, and sets up a detective agency in her name, casting himself as her assistant while she takes the public credit. Using his 777 Tools of Hell, Neuro chases the killings he finds most interesting and drags a reluctant Yako along to front each case.
Veritas
베리타스
Gangryong Ma is the brawling boss of his middle school who believes strength is simply winning every fistfight. Everything changes when a powerful man called Lightning Tiger saves him and takes him on as a student, teaching him the Enlightenment of Thunder and Lightning, a Korean martial art that refines ki into devastating lightning attacks. When Lightning Tiger is seemingly killed by agents of an organization named Reunion, Gangryong is forced into a special school where collected fighting styles are honed.
Sidooh
SIDOOH―士道―
In 1858, as the Bakumatsu era throws Japan into upheaval, brothers Shotaro and Gentaro Yukimura are orphaned when cholera takes their mother. With her dying breath she tells them to take up their late samurai father's sword and grow strong enough to survive a merciless age. Tricked by a ronin named Kiyozo Asakura and sold to a secluded village, Shotaro fights his way into its ranks, and the two boys begin a brutal road toward becoming samurai.
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You
君に届け
High school freshman Sawako Kuronuma is so often compared to the ghost girl from The Ring that classmates nickname her "Sadako" and keep their distance, certain the rumors of curses are true. In truth she is shy and eager to be liked, and her isolation begins to crack when popular, openhearted Shota Kazehaya treats her as an equal and draws her into school life. Through new friends like Chizuru and Ayane, Sawako slowly learns to reach the people around her.
Moe Kare!!
萌えカレ!!
Hikaru Wakamiya is an otaku who longs for a boy who will protect her. Her wish takes a strange turn when a beautiful, shameless boy she dubs the Perverted Prince steals a kiss from her. Soon after, she meets a quiet, gentle boy who looks exactly like him, down to the face but not the eyes. The two turn out to be half-brothers a year apart, and Hikaru finds herself caught between them.
Secret Unrequited Love
ぼくの初恋をキミに捧ぐ
Mayu and Takuma have loved each other since age eight, when they met as the daughter of his doctor and the patient with a heart condition. One night Mayu overhears that Takuma is unlikely to live past twenty, a fact he doesn't yet know himself. The two go searching for a four-leaf clover, and Takuma makes the impossible promise to marry her when they both turn twenty.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱
Kyon, a high school freshman who long ago gave up believing in the supernatural, sits beside Haruhi Suzumiya, a classmate who announces she only cares about meeting aliens, time travelers, and espers. A stray remark from Kyon inspires Haruhi to found the SOS Brigade to hunt them down, dragging in quiet bookworm Yuki Nagato, timid Mikuru Asahina, and ever-smiling Itsuki Koizumi. Kyon soon learns his fellow members are exactly the kinds of beings Haruhi seeks, sent to watch her. This manga adapts the light novels.
Ai Kora
あいこら
Fifteen-year-old Hachibei Maeda obsesses over individual body parts rather than whole people, prizing a perfect set of features he hopes to one day assemble. When he moves to Tokyo for high school and ends up boarding in a shed beside Yume Hospital's lodging house, he finds himself surrounded by girls who each embody one of his ideal traits, starting with the petite Sakuraba and the long-legged Kirino. Living among them, Hachibei slowly learns to see the people behind the parts he fixates on.
Cross Game
クロスゲーム
Ko Kitamura grows up next door to the four Tsukishima sisters, who run a batting center and café. He is closest to Wakaba, born the same day as him, while her younger sister Aoba — a gifted pitcher — resents how much of Wakaba's attention Ko takes. When Wakaba dies suddenly, Ko and Aoba are left circling each other, bound by her memory and her wish to see Ko pitch at the national high school baseball tournament at Koshien. This manga follows them through school, rivalry, and the game that connects them.
Maid-sama!
会長はメイド様!
Misaki Ayuzawa rules Seika High as its first female student council president, cracking down on its rowdy boys at a school only recently turned co-ed. To support her mother and sister, she secretly works shifts at the Maid Latte café—a secret that popular, unflappable Takumi Usui discovers and quietly keeps. Instead of exposing her, Usui starts turning up at the café and shadowing her, leaving Misaki to guard her double life while figuring out what he actually wants.
Bunny Drop
うさぎドロップ
Thirty-year-old bachelor Daikichi Kawachi returns home for his grandfather's funeral and meets Rin, the old man's six-year-old illegitimate daughter, whom the rest of the family treats as an embarrassment to be shuffled aside. On impulse, Daikichi takes Rin in himself, with no experience and no idea how to be a parent. Day by day he works out nursery schedules, sick nights, and his own job around her, and finds an ally in Yukari Nitani, the single mother of a boy Rin befriends at daycare.
Kiss×sis
キス×シス
Keita Suminoe is a middle-schooler cramming for high school entrance exams in a house he shares with his twin stepsisters, Ako and Riko, neither of whom is related to him by blood. The two openly compete for his attention, smothering him with affection at home and in public while the prim Ako and the bolder Riko each try to edge the other out. Their parents quietly encourage Keita to eventually marry one of them, leaving him caught between studying and the sisters' constant advances.
Shugo Chara!
しゅごキャラ!
Amu Hinamori is a grade-schooler whose cold, sharp-dressing image at school hides a shy girl who can never say what she means. After wishing for the courage to become her would-be self, she wakes to find three colorful eggs that hatch into Guardian Characters — Ran, Miki, and Su — tiny embodiments of who she wants to be. The Guardians of her school recruit Amu as the Joker, tasked with finding and purifying corrupted X Eggs while the Easter company hunts a wish-granting egg called the Embryo.
Ga-Rei
喰霊
High-school freshman Kensuke Nimura has always been able to see spirits, so he keeps his head down and ignores the supernatural around him — until a dangerous encounter throws him together with Kagura Tsuchimiya, a young exorcist who commands a spirit beast called Byakuei. Kagura hunts malevolent entities as an agent of the Ministry of the Environment's Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division, and Kensuke is drawn into the secretive organization, his spirit sight making him an asset against the threats they pursue.
Dance in the Vampire Bund
ダンス イン ザ ヴァンパイアバンド
Mina Tepes, the centuries-old princess and ruler of all vampires, pays off Japan's entire national debt to win the right to build the Bund — a sovereign vampire district on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay. Protected by her werewolf guardian Akira Kaburagi, she steps onto live television to announce vampires' existence to humanity and her intention for both species to coexist. Holding the throne means facing assassins, political rivals and old enemies who would rather see her plan fail.
Baki Hanma
範馬刃牙
Baki Hanma keeps fighting toward the one opponent he has trained his whole life to face: his father, Yujiro Hanma, the "Ogre," widely called the strongest creature on Earth. This installment of Keisuke Itagaki's series follows Baki through a string of brutal, no-rules bouts as he closes the gap before the long-promised father-and-son showdown. Returning underground fighters and fresh challengers test how far Baki has come.
Fate/stay night
Fate/stay night
Shirou Emiya, an ordinary high schooler who dabbles in magecraft, accidentally summons the swordswoman Saber and is drawn into the Holy Grail War — a secret battle in which seven mages called Masters command Servants, heroic spirits from history and legend, in a fight for an all-granting Grail. This manga adapts the original Fate route of the visual novel, following Shirou and Saber as their clashing ideals force him to confront what it means to fight a war he never chose.
Bloody Kiss
ブラッディ・キス
Kiyo Katsuragi, a high school student, inherits her late grandmother's grand mansion — only to find it already occupied by two vampires, the dhampir Kuroboshi and his servant Alshu. Kuroboshi promptly declares Kiyo his "bride," the single human he intends to feed on, and starts flirting with her at every turn. This two-volume shoujo comedy follows Kiyo as she tries to keep her new life and her studies on track while sharing a roof with the two.
Children of the Sea
海獣の子供
Cut off from her summer club after lashing out at a teammate, middle-schooler Ruka Azumi wanders to the aquarium where her father works and meets Umi and Sora, two boys raised by dugongs who are strangely at home in the water. Scientists puzzle over the brothers' origins while ocean life vanishes around the world, and Ruka, pulled into their orbit, begins witnessing phenomena she cannot explain. Daisuke Igarashi ties the children's mystery to the wider question of what the sea itself is doing.
Rockin'★Heaven
Rockin'★Heaven
Sawa Konishi enrolls at Heaven's Wing Academy because she likes the uniform, only to discover it has just gone co-ed after years as an all-boys school. The other students freeze her out, and Ran Matsuyuki, the boy who runs the place, makes no effort to hide his dislike of her. When her shoes are thrown into the water and she falls in after them, it is Ran who pulls her out, and the unexpected gentleness behind his harsh front begins to draw her in.
Flower in a Storm
花にアラシ
Riko Kunimi is a high schooler hiding superhuman strength when the rich and reckless Ran Tachibana barges into her classroom, declares he has fallen for her, and demands she become his bride. Backed by enormous wealth and his own bodyguards, Ran chases her relentlessly while Riko keeps trying to outrun him and hold on to a normal life, in a short shoujo romantic comedy that runs only a couple of volumes.
Vinland Saga
Vinland Saga
Thorfinn grows up in a quiet Icelandic village as the son of Thors, a renowned warrior who has forsworn battle. When a mercenary captain named Askeladd kills his father, Thorfinn attaches himself to the same band, serving as one of its fighters only to earn the right to challenge Askeladd to a duel. Among raiding Vikings in the wars of eleventh-century Europe, he lives for the day he can take his revenge.
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
惑星のさみだれ
Yuuhi Amamiya is a withdrawn college student who wakes one morning to find a talking lizard named Noi on his bed. Noi names him a Beast Knight, one of the warriors sworn to protect the princess Samidare Asahina from a mage who means to smash the planet apart with the Biscuit Hammer, a giant mallet suspended in the sky. Samidare quickly reveals an agenda of her own, and Yuuhi finds himself bound to a cause far stranger than saving the world.
Dogs: Bullets & Carnage
DOGS／BULLETS & CARNAGE
In a perpetually wintry, dystopian city, four damaged people circle the same buried secret. Heine Rammsteiner is a near-immortal gunman shaped by childhood genetic experiments; Badou Nails is a chain-smoking freelance journalist and informant; Naoto Fuyumine is a swordswoman hunting her parents' killer; and Mihai Mikhaylov is a retired assassin trying to live quietly. Their pasts all trace back to a hidden underground and the organization that runs its experiments.
07-Ghost
07-GHOST
Teito Klein is a former slave admitted to the Barsburg Empire's military academy for his rare command of Zaiphon, a power that turns emotion into force. An amnesiac plagued by nightmares, he vows with his only friend Mikage never to abandon each other on the eve of their graduation exam. When Teito recognizes the academy's Chief of Staff, Ayanami, as the man who killed the king in his dreams, his hidden past as a prince of the fallen Raggs Kingdom begins to surface, setting him against the empire that destroyed it.
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
さよなら絶望先生
Nozomu Itoshiki is a high school teacher so chronically hopeless that the kanji of his name can be read as "despair," earning him the nickname Zetsubou-sensei. His first attempt to hang himself is interrupted by Kafuka Fuura, a relentlessly upbeat student who refuses to accept that anything is wrong. He flees to his new homeroom only to find Kafuka and a class of equally extreme girls waiting. Each chapter takes a Japanese phrase, custom, or anxiety and pushes it to its bleakest, most literal conclusion.
Abara
アバラ
On a ruined far-future Earth of colossal structures and decaying cities, a class of beings called Gaunas can grow weapons and armor out of bone-like matter. Kudou Denji is a Black Gauna who would rather be left alone, but a government organization presses him into hunting White Gaunas, people who mutate into ravenous monsters that tear through what is left of human settlements. Reluctantly drawn into the fight, Denji becomes the line between the survivors and the creatures hunting them.
Unbalance x2
언밸런스x2
Jin-ho Myung, a high school senior, returns a wallet he found at a bookstore to its owner, Hae-young Na — then has to live down the fact that he skimmed some cash from it first, which she lets slide as a loan. When the new term starts, Hae-young turns out to be his homeroom teacher. This Korean manhwa, written by Lim Dall-young and drawn by Lee Soo-hyun, follows the two as accidents and misunderstandings pile up and an attraction neither is supposed to act on takes hold.
A Child's Time
こどものじかん
Twenty-three-year-old Daisuke Aoki lands his first teaching job at Futatsubashi Elementary, where he is put in charge of the third-grade Class 3-1. One of his pupils, the precocious nine-year-old Rin Kokonoe, declares herself his girlfriend and presses provocative advances on him at every turn. As Aoki struggles to keep proper boundaries with his class, Rin's behavior gradually leads him toward the troubled home life that lies behind it.
The End of the World and Before Dawn
世界の終わりと夜明け前
This is Inio Asano's first collection of standalone short stories, gathering one-shots rather than a single continuous narrative. The pieces — among them "Yoakemae," "Alfalfa," and the title story "The End of the World" — drift through the small dramas of ordinary lives, from listless days off to quiet turning points. Asano's grounded, melancholy slice-of-life tone runs through the volume as it moves between unrelated casts and settings.
Change 123
ちぇんじ123
Motoko Gettou looks like an ordinary high schooler, but a childhood of brutal training under three martial-artist foster fathers split her into three personalities, Hibiki, Fujiko, and Mikiri, who together call themselves HiFuMi. When classmate Teruharu Kosukegawa catches Hibiki beating down a groper, Motoko begs him to keep her secret, and the two grow close as he falls for each of her selves in turn. Iku Sakaguchi and Shiuri Iwasawa's manga drives toward fusing the personalities back into one.
Higurashi When They Cry: Cotton Drifting Arc
ひぐらしのなく頃に 綿流し編
Keiichi Maebara has settled into the quiet mountain village of Hinamizawa, but the calm cracks around the annual Watanagashi festival, said to honor the local deity Oyashiro-sama. Every year the festival is shadowed by a death and a disappearance, blamed by villagers on the god's curse. While visiting a maid café, Keiichi mistakes a stranger for his tomboyish friend Mion Sonozaki — only to meet her near-identical twin sister Shion, whose existence he had never heard of. This is the second 'question arc' of the Higurashi mystery saga.
Detroit Metal City
デトロイト・メタル・シティ
Soichi Negishi is a soft-spoken young man who dreams of writing gentle pop songs, yet earns his living as the frontman of the death metal band Detroit Metal City. On stage he disappears into Johannes Krauser II, a corpse-painted demon who screams profane lyrics to an adoring crowd, the exact opposite of the shy man underneath. Negishi loathes the act but cannot quit it, and the Krauser persona keeps overrunning the quiet pop life he actually wants.
Higurashi When They Cry: Curse Killing Arc
ひぐらしのなく頃に 祟殺し編
In the rural village of Hinamizawa, Keiichi Maebara grows close to Satoko Hōjō, a younger classmate still grieving her brother Satoshi, who vanished a year earlier during the annual Watanagashi festival. As Keiichi steps into a big-brother role for her, Satoko's abusive uncle Teppei returns to take custody, dragging her back into a household of cruelty. This third arc of the When They Cry mystery centers the unease around Hinamizawa's deaths on the Hōjō family and the curse said to follow the local god Oyashiro-sama.
Princess Resurrection
怪物王女
Hiro Hiyorimi is killed by a truck on the day he arrives in a new town, then revived by the woman whose maid was driving it, a mysterious noble known only as the Princess, or Hime. Bound to her by the blood that brought him back, Hiro must keep drinking it to hold on to his half-living existence while serving in her household. Around them gather the silent android maid Flandre, the werewolf Riza, and the vampire Reiri.
Solanin
ソラニン
Meiko Inoue, a recent college graduate, drifts through an office job she resents while her boyfriend Naruo scrapes by as a part-time illustrator in the apartment they share. Stuck between student life and adulthood, Meiko quits on impulse, and the couple turns toward the half-abandoned band they once played in as a way to make something honest out of their uncertainty. The story follows young adults in Tokyo trying to figure out what comes after their plans run out.
Lychee Light Club
ライチ☆光クラブ
Nine middle-school boys run the Hikari Club out of an abandoned factory, a secret society curdling into a fascist cult under their self-styled emperor Zera. To punish the corrupt adult world and seize the perfect beautiful girl, they build a machine they name Litchi, fueling it with lychee fruit and tasking it with hunting down young women. As Zera's grip tightens, founding member Tamiya begins to doubt what the club has become. This horror manga adapts a 1980s Tokyo Grand Guignol stage play.
Until Death Do Us Part
死がふたりを分かつまで
Haruka Tooyama, a twelve-year-old girl whose precognition is accurate enough to make her a target for corporations and gangs, sees her parents murdered and herself kidnapped. Using her sight, she singles out the one person in a Tokyo crowd who can help: Mamoru Hijikata, a blind swordsman who draws a blade from his white cane and cuts down her pursuers. She hires him to protect her until death do them part, and the two fall in with the Element Network, a shadowy organization that backs their fight.