Top Manga of 2006

Spice and Wolf

狼と香辛料

Kraft Lawrence is a traveling merchant working the roads of a medieval-style countryside, hauling goods between towns in hopes of one day opening his own shop. One night he finds Holo, a centuries-old wolf deity worshipped as a harvest goddess, hiding in his cart in human form with wolf ears and a tail. She bargains for passage north toward her old homeland of Yoitsu, and her sharp instinct for people and prices begins reshaping how Lawrence trades.

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ONGOING

Kingdom

キングダム

Action

Drama

Adventure

Xin is a war orphan in the state of Qin who trains daily with his friend Piao, both dreaming of becoming Great Generals during China's Warring States period. When Piao is recruited into the palace and dies serving as a body double for the young king Ying Zheng, Xin is drawn into the struggle to put Ying Zheng back on the throne. Xin sets out as a Qin foot soldier with one ambition: to rise through the ranks and become the greatest general under the heavens.

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FINISHED

Pandora Hearts

パンドラハーツ

Shounen

Fantasy

Drama

Oz Vessalius, heir to a noble house, is cast into the Abyss during his coming-of-age ceremony, condemned for a sin he does not understand. In that otherworldly prison he strikes a contract with Alice, a Chain known as the Bloody Black Rabbit, and escapes back to the surface. Taken in by the secret organization Pandora alongside Break and Sharon, Oz joins their investigation into the Abyss and the Tragedy of Sablier as he searches for the truth behind his sentence.

ONGOING

Black Butler

黒執事

Action

Shounen

Drama

Ciel Phantomhive, the boy Earl who serves as the Queen's Watchdog over Victorian London's underworld, is bound to Sebastian Michaelis, a demon posing as his flawless butler. The pact is simple: Sebastian solves the cases and protects the Phantomhive name, and when Ciel's revenge against those who murdered his family is complete, the demon may claim his soul. Between manor duties and royal errands, Ciel hunts the figures behind the night that left him an orphan.

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FINISHED

Future Diary

未来日記

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Yukiteru Amano is a withdrawn boy who logs everything around him on his phone rather than taking part. The god of space and time, Deus Ex Machina, turns that phone into a Future Diary that predicts events up to ninety days ahead, then drops Yukiteru into a contest among twelve diary holders. The last one standing inherits Deus's throne, and every other holder is fair game to be eliminated. Yukiteru's only ally is classmate Yuno Gasai, who carries her own diary and an obsessive devotion to keeping him alive.

FINISHED

21st Century Boys

21世紀少年

Thriller

Sci-Fi

Drama

Kenji Endo and his childhood friends are left in the fragile aftermath of the catastrophe engineered by the masked cult leader known only as Friend. A movement claiming Friend has been reborn keeps the danger alive, and the survivors finally chase down the questions the main series left open: the meaning of the old prophecy and who Friend truly was. These two volumes close out 20th Century Boys and read as a direct continuation, not a standalone entry point.

CANCELLED

Highschool of the Dead

学園黙示録 HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD

Action

Shounen

Ecchi

Takashi Komuro is a chronically truant second-year at Fujimi High School when a stranger appears at the front gate and bites a teacher, and within minutes the dead are rising and tearing through the campus. Takashi grabs his childhood friend Rei Miyamoto and her boyfriend Hisashi Igou and breaks for the roof as the school collapses into slaughter. He falls in with a small band of survivors, among them the composed kendo ace Saeko Busujima and the sharp-tongued genius Saya Takagi, who arm themselves and fight their way off the grounds into a Japan overrun in a single day.

ONGOING

Snow White with the Red Hair

赤髪の白雪姫

Shoujo

Fantasy

Drama

Shirayuki is a herbalist in the kingdom of Tanbarun whose striking red hair draws the eye of its idle prince, who orders her to become his concubine. Rather than obey, she cuts off her hair, leaves it behind, and flees across the border into neighboring Clarines, where she is found by Zen Wistaria, the kingdom's second prince. Zen takes an interest in her resolve, and Shirayuki sets out to earn a place at the Clarines court on her own merits as a court herbalist.

FINISHED

To Love Ru

To LOVEる -とらぶる-

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Ecchi

Shy, clumsy high schooler Rito Yuuki can never confess to his crush Haruna Sairenji. His life upends when Lala Satalin Deviluke, the runaway crown princess of the planet Deviluke, teleports into his bathtub while fleeing an arranged marriage. When her father's retainer Zastin comes to drag her home, Lala declares she will marry Rito to stay on Earth, and a misunderstanding leaves him accidentally engaged to an alien princess hunted by her would-be suitors.

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FINISHED

Emanon: Memories of Emanon

おもいでエマノン

Experimental

Sci-Fi

Drama

In the winter of 1967, a young man heading home by ferry after a long trip meets a girl in blue jeans who tells him to call her Emanon. Over the night's crossing she explains that she carries an unbroken genetic memory reaching back through her maternal line to the origin of life three billion years earlier, including ancestors that were never human. Their conversation about life and that inheritance lingers with him long after she slips away the next morning, leaving only a note.

#11

FINISHED

Monogatari Series: First Season

〈物語〉シリーズファーストシーズン

Drama

Romance

Supernatural

Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high schooler left part vampire after a near-fatal attack, keeps crossing paths with classmates haunted by supernatural oddities. When he catches Hitagi Senjougahara as she falls and finds she weighs almost nothing, he pulls her toward Meme Oshino, the drifter who once helped reverse his own condition. First Season collects the opening Monogatari stories (Kizumonogatari, Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, and Nekomonogatari: Kuro) that introduce Araragi and the cursed girls around him.

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FINISHED

Beast Master

ビーストマスター

Shoujo

Romance

Supernatural

Yuiko Kubozuka loves animals, but every creature she meets bolts away from her in terror. The transfer student Leo Aoi has the opposite problem: animals flock to him, yet his wild eyes and feral manner make classmates treat him as a monster. When Yuiko looks past his frightening face and becomes his first friend, Leo grows fiercely attached to her. The catch is that being attacked or seeing blood tips him into an animal rage that only Yuiko seems able to calm.

#13

FINISHED

Usogui

嘘喰い

Thriller

Action

Drama

Baku Madarame, the gambler known as Usogui, the Lie Eater, stakes his life on rigged and deadly games against opponents who cheat without remorse. His wagers are refereed by Kakerou, an underground organization whose officials enforce every bet to the letter, and Baku's real aim is to out-gamble Kakerou itself and seize control of it. Backed by his protege Kaji and his bodyguard Marco, he reads bluffs and engineers traps across contests like Escape the Abandoned Building and Hangman.

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FINISHED

Gintama: 3-nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei

銀魂 3年Z組銀八先生

Shounen

Comedy

Ginpachi Sakata teaches homeroom for class 3-Z at a high school where nothing about him fits the job, from the permanent sugar habit to the silver perm and the dead-eyed stare. His roster is the Gintama cast rebuilt as students: Shinpachi Shimura, Kagura, Hijikata and Okita all sit in his room and treat every school day as an excuse for a fight, a scheme or a complaint. Tomohito Osaki writes this light novel spin-off out of the parody chapters Hideaki Sorachi drew for Gintama.

Black Bird

BLACK BIRD

Shoujo

Action

Fantasy

Misao Harada has seen spirits since childhood, and on her sixteenth birthday the attacks turn deadly. Her childhood friend Kyo Usui returns to save her and reveals himself as the head of a tengu clan. Misao is the Bride of Prophecy: her blood grants power to any demon who drinks it, and marrying her is said to bring prosperity to the groom's whole clan. Kyo means to make her his bride while rival demons close in for her blood.

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FINISHED

Girl Friends

GIRL FRIENDS

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Mariko Kumakura is a quiet, top-of-the-class high schooler who eats lunch alone until her outgoing classmate Akko Oohashi decides to befriend her. Akko pulls Mariko into shopping trips, makeup and a wider circle of friends, and the shy girl slowly comes out of her shell. As the two become inseparable, what Mariko feels for Akko stops looking like friendship, and she has no idea what to do with it.

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FINISHED

Sundome

すんドめ

Ecchi

Drama

Romance

Hideo Aiba belongs to his school's Roman Club, a group of virgins who hunt UFOs and the paranormal under one rule: lose your virginity and you're out. When transfer student Kurumi Sahana joins, she takes a particular interest in Aiba and bends him to a reward system of her own, pushing him to the edge again and again while never letting him finish. Aiba falls for her completely and does whatever she asks for the next reward.

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FINISHED

Flunk Punk Rumble

ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん

Shounen

Romance

Comedy

Class representative Hana Adachi has decided that Daichi Shinagawa, a delinquent who wants only to be left alone, is going on the class's upcoming social studies field trip. Behind her bookish glasses, Adachi is nothing like the model student she plays, and she has her own reasons for refusing to let Shinagawa drift. The two trade barbs and reluctantly team up at Monshiro High School, pulling their classmates into the fallout.

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#19

ONGOING

Nichijou

日常

Shounen

Slice of Life

Comedy

In the small town of Tokisadame, high-schoolers Yuuko Aioi, Mio Naganohara, and deadpan Mai Minakami drift through ordinary days that constantly tip into the absurd. Across town, the eight-year-old inventor known only as Hakase lives at the Shinonome Laboratory with Nano Shinonome, the android she built, and Sakamoto, a black cat whose scarf lets him talk. Their overlapping routines turn small events into runaway chaos, from a dropped sausage to a goat ride to school.

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FINISHED

Classmates

同級生

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Hikaru Kusakabe writes his own songs and plays guitar in a band, while classmate Rihito Sajou is the quiet honor student who never seems to need anyone. When Kusakabe finds Sajou alone after class, struggling to memorize the lyrics for the chorus festival, he offers to coach him. The after-hours practice sessions at their all-boys high school turn the two boys into something neither expected, as casual help slides into a first relationship for both of them.

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FINISHED

Sun-Ken Rock

サンケンロック

Action

Ecchi

Drama

Ken Kitano, a Japanese delinquent, drops out and follows Yumin, the girl he loves, to South Korea after she leaves to become a police officer there. Broke and adrift in Seoul, he saves an old man from a beating and is recruited by a small street gang, which makes him its boss. As the Sun-Ken Rock group grows, Ken hides his criminal life from Yumin, who despises gangs and has no idea what he does.

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FINISHED

Franken Fran

フランケン・ふらん

Horror

Seinen

Comedy

Fran Madaraki is the masterwork of the vanished biomedical genius Dr. Naomitsu Madaraki: a stitched, bolt-headed girl left to run his laboratory in his absence. Bound by a single rule, to preserve human life at any cost, she takes on clients who come to her with impossible wishes and grants them through grotesque surgery. Each request gives her exactly what was asked for, often warped into a horror the client never imagined, as Fran applies her father's forbidden techniques with cheerful, unblinking literalism.

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FINISHED

Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

デスノートアナザーノートロサンゼルスBB連続殺人事件

Thriller

Drama

In Los Angeles, a serial killer stages a string of murders as an elaborate puzzle aimed squarely at the detective L. Unable to investigate in person, L recruits retired FBI agent Naomi Misora to work the crime scenes and decode each clue the killer leaves behind. Set before the events of Death Note, the novel follows Misora through a case narrated after the fact by Mello as a true-crime report.

My Girl

マイガール

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

Masamune Kazama is a twenty-three-year-old stationery-company employee still hung up on Yoko, a university student four years his senior who struck up a conversation over the ladybug charm on his pencil back in high school and then left to study abroad. Word reaches him that Yoko has died overseas, and at her funeral he learns she raised a daughter there in secret: five-year-old Koharu, who is his. Masamune takes Koharu in, and the two feel their way toward being father and daughter around the memory of the woman they share.

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FINISHED

Mitsudomoe

みつどもえ

Shounen

Comedy

The Marui triplets rule class 6-3 with very different styles: eldest Mitsuba schemes and provokes, middle child Futaba throws punches first, and youngest Hitoha retreats into gothic daydreams before snapping into blunt cruelty. Their new homeroom teacher, Satoshi Yabe, spends most of his time failing to keep order while nursing a hopeless crush on the school nurse. Each chapter is a fast, self-contained string of gags built around the sisters needling him and each other.

Zero's Familiar

ゼロの使い魔

Fantasy

Isekai

Romance

At Tristain Academy, magic student Louise is mocked as "Zero" for her inability to cast a single working spell, until her familiar-summoning ritual pulls Saito Hiraga, an ordinary Japanese teenager, into her world instead of a proper familiar. Bound to Louise by magical law, Saito adjusts to serving a hot-tempered noble while uncovering unexpected fighting instincts of his own. This manga adapts the early volumes of the original light novels, following Louise and Saito through academy life and their first clashes with rival students like Kirche.

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FINISHED

A Devil and Her Love Song

悪魔とラブソング

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Maria Kawai transfers to Totsuka High after being expelled from a strict Catholic girls' school, and her blunt, sharp-tongued honesty instantly makes her an outcast among her new classmates. Two boys take an interest after hearing her sing: the outwardly kind Yusuke Kanda, who coaches her to soften how she comes across, and the gruff Shin Meguro, who keeps his distance. Their attention slowly draws Maria into the social tangle she had braced herself to face alone.

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FINISHED

Ergo Proxy: Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker

エルゴプラクシーセンツォン・ヒッチャーズアンドアンダーテイカー

Sci-Fi

Drama

Adventure

Set between episodes three and four of the Ergo Proxy anime, this side-story manga follows three travellers crossing the wasteland aboard the Centzon: the autoreiv Dorothy, the astronomer Leon, and the mercenary Heart, bound together by little more than a shared wish to see the stars. Ergo Proxy regulars Pino, Vincent, Quinn, and Hoody turn up along the way, and the questions that haunt the main series surface here too: what an autoreiv owes its creators, how the Cogito virus spreads. It expands the world without altering the anime's own plot.

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FINISHED

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

機動戦士ガンダムユニコーン

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Banagher Links is an ordinary student at the Industrial 7 colony until he meets Audrey Burne, a girl on a mission to keep the Vist Foundation's darkest secret, Laplace's Box, out of Neo Zeon hands. His discovery of the prototype Unicorn Gundam and its psycho-frame draws him into direct conflict with Full Frontal, the masked leader of the Neo Zeon remnant faction the Sleeves. This light novel is the original version of the story its manga and anime adaptations would later retell.

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FINISHED

sola

Drama

Romance

Supernatural

Yorito Morimiya spends his days photographing the sky from the roof of his apartment building, chasing a color he can never quite capture. He meets Matsuri Shihou, a girl who cannot go out in sunlight and who turns out to be a Yaka, a creature of the night that has lived for centuries, and their meetings after dark become the one thing either of them looks forward to. When a swordsman named Takeshi Tsujidou comes hunting Matsuri, Yorito has to decide how far he will go to keep her alive.

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FINISHED

Blood+

Action

Shounen

Supernatural

Where the manga and anime follow Saya Otonashi's fight against the Chiropterans beat for beat, this official novelization fills in the gaps around it: deeper background on the decades-long war between her bloodline and these blood-feeding creatures, and on chevalier Hagi's long wait to find her again. Kai Miyagusuku and the rest of Saya's adoptive family keep their same roles from the anime. Across four volumes it expands the anime's story rather than retelling it.

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ONGOING

Witch Buster

위치헌터

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Witches have nearly crushed humanity, and the survivors pin their hopes on the Witch Hunters, fighters with powers strong enough to face them. Tasha Godspell, a top-ranked hunter known as the Magic Marksman, fights alongside his sword-wielding Jack-o'-lantern partner Halloween. Beneath his work lies a private goal: to track down the red witch Aria Godspell, his younger sister, rather than simply hate the enemy he hunts.

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FINISHED

Hanamaru Kindergarten

はなまる幼稚園

Romance

Seinen

Slice of Life

Anzu has a crush on her kindergarten teacher, Tsuchida, and spends most of her school days scheming to get his attention, with mixed results. Tsuchida barely notices, since his eye is on Yamamoto, the teacher from the classroom next door, leaving Anzu to lean on her friends Koume and Hiiragi for support. The manga follows the kindergarten's daily routines and small dramas from Anzu's determined, kid's-eye point of view.

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FINISHED

Fate/Zero

Thriller

Action

Fantasy

Ten years before Fate/stay night, seven mages summon legendary heroes as Servants and fight the Fourth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City, a winner-take-all contest for a Grail said to grant any wish. Kiritsugu Emiya enters on behalf of the Einzbern family: a mercenary who once dreamed of saving everyone and now wins by any means, paired with the proud knight-king Saber. Around them, rival Masters and their Servants chase clashing ideas of heroism. Gen Urobuchi wrote this light novel as a prequel to Type-Moon's Fate/stay night.

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FINISHED

Toradora!

とらドラ！

Shounen

Drama

Romance

Ryuuji Takasu is a kind-hearted student whose sharp, intimidating eyes make everyone mistake him for a delinquent. Starting his second year, he ends up beside Taiga Aisaka, a tiny, fierce-tempered girl the school calls the Palmtop Tiger. When Ryuuji discovers Taiga has a crush on his best friend Yusaku Kitamura, and Taiga learns he likes her own best friend Minori Kushieda, the two strike a deal to help each other win over their respective crushes. These are the original light novels behind the manga and anime.

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FINISHED

Hotel

HOTEL

Drama

Seinen

In the title story, a lone computer keeps running on an Earth where every living thing has died out, holding to the mission it was given across 27 million years. Four more short pieces follow. Hanako wakes from a long sleep with three days left to live; Jun Shiozaki sets out to bring the extinct tuna back; and Noriko, pregnant by her married lover Matsumura, is told the thing growing inside her may be a tumor instead. Each story in this seinen collection stands on its own.

Ace of the Diamond

ダイヤのA

Shounen

Sports

Drama

Eijun Sawamura is a junior-high pitcher whose self-taught delivery makes the ball break unpredictably at the plate, though a wild pitch cost his team its final tournament game. Scouted by the powerhouse Seido High School, he leaves rural Nagano for Tokyo and finds himself competing against far more polished teammates for a spot on the mound. There he pairs with the sharp catcher Miyuki Kazuya and sets his sights on becoming Seido's ace and reaching the national stage at Koshien.

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FINISHED

Shinobi Life

シノビライフ

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Beni Fujiwara is the daughter of a rich, overbearing father she despises, and she has grown careless enough with her own life that being a kidnapping target barely moves her. That changes when Kagetora, a ninja sworn to a princess of centuries past, falls out of the sky in front of her, carried forward through time. He takes Beni for the princess he served, who has her face and her name, and pledges himself as her bodyguard, and the two are soon pulled back and forth between her era and his.

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FINISHED

Polar Bear Café

しろくまカフェ

Slice of Life

Comedy

Shirokuma runs a café where the puns are as constant as the coffee, welcoming a mixed crowd of humans and animals through its doors every day. His regulars include Panda, a laid-back panda who mostly wanders in to relax, and Penguin, a dry-witted penguin who trades quips with him across the counter. The manga follows their loosely connected days of errands, outings and conversation, with the café as the hub everyone drifts back to.

The Qwaser of Stigmata

聖痕のクェイサー

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Oribe Mafuyu's ordinary life at St. Mikhailov Academy ends the day she meets Sasha, a silver-haired transfer student who turns out to be a Qwaser: someone who draws destructive power from a substance called Soma to command a single element. His arrival drags the academy into open warfare between rival Qwasers, all hunting for a religious relic known only as the Icon. Mafuyu finds herself sheltering Sasha and pulled into a conflict she never asked to join. This manga is the source material behind the 2010 TV anime.

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ONGOING

Place to Place

あっちこっち

Romance

Seinen

Slice of Life

Tsumiki Miniwa is a tsundere who can't bring herself to admit she likes her classmate Io Otonashi, and Io is too oblivious to notice anyway: a stalemate their friends Mayoi Katase and Hime Haruno seem determined to drag out for laughs. Running as a four-panel strip in Manga Time Kirara since 2006, the manga plays the will-they-won't-they entirely for comedy, one short gag at a time.

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FINISHED

Run with the Wind

風が強く吹いている

Sports

Drama

Kakeru Kurahara is a talented but directionless runner with a shady past when dormitory leader Haiji Kiyose catches him shoplifting and recruits him on the spot for an outlandish plan: fielding a team of ten amateurs from Chikusei-sou dormitory for the Hakone Ekiden, one of Japan's most demanding relay races. None of the other residents have serious running experience, but Haiji's conviction pulls them in one by one. This novel is the original source for the manga and anime adaptations.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Portrait of Heroes

銀河英雄伝説～英雄たちの肖像～

Sci-Fi

Drama

Seinen

Reinhard von Lohengramm commands the Galactic Empire's fleets from a position his birth was never meant to reach, while Yang Wen-li holds Iserlohn Fortress for the Free Planets Alliance. This manga continues Katsumi Michihara's earlier Legend of the Galactic Heroes adaptation, picking up the third of Yoshiki Tanaka's novels where the first run stopped. Its attention stays on the officers on either side of the line and on the politics behind them rather than on fleet counts.

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FINISHED

Kämpfer

けんぷファー

Action

Romance

Comedy

Ordinary high schooler Natsuru Senou wakes up one morning turned into a girl, and a talking stuffed tiger informs him he has been chosen as a Kämpfer, a fighter marked by a colored bracelet and bound to battle the opposing side until one of them wins. Akane Mishima, the mild school librarian who turns into a gunslinger in her Blue form, fights beside him; Shizuku Sangou, the student council president and a Red, settles for a truce with them instead. Natsuru is left juggling school life with a secret he cannot explain to anyone.

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FINISHED

Okami-san and Her Seven Companions

オオカミさんと七人の仲間たち

Slice of Life

Comedy

Ryouko Ookami has a delinquent's reputation at Otogi Academy, sharp teeth included, but her real work happens after class at the Otogi Bank, a student club that fixes other people's problems in exchange for a favor owed back later. Her small, shrill best friend Ringo Akai keeps the ledger, and classmates nicknamed after fairy tales take the jobs on. The arrival of Ryoushi Morino, a boy too afraid of being looked at to speak up, completes the seven companions of the title. This light novel series is the original source for the Ookami-san manga and anime.

Tick! Tack! -Never Say Goodbye-

Fantasy

Romance

Seinen

A watch drops Rin Tsuchimi, Nerine, Mayumi Thyme and Itsuki Midoriba into the past, where the demon king Forbesii is still a young man with no wife and no daughter. Nerine begins to change while they are there, the first sign that four visitors from the future are quietly rewriting the years that made her. Getting home means putting history back the way they found it. This manga adapts Tick! Tack!, Navel's follow-up to Shuffle!, and carries that cast over intact.

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FINISHED

Ladies versus Butlers!

れでぃ×ばと!

Ecchi

Romance

Comedy

Orphaned young and raised by his uncle's family, Akiharu Hino enrolls at Hakureiryou Academy to train as a butler for the nobility, only to find his delinquent looks and eyebrow scar terrify the mostly-female student body. His childhood friend Tomomi Saikyou needles him with staged mishaps while proud aristocrat Selnia Iori Flameheart starts noticing him despite herself, and his standoffish roommate Kaoru Daichi slowly warms to him. Akiharu spends his days living down a reputation he never earned.

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FINISHED

Tartaros Gekijou

タルタロス劇場

Supernatural

Seinen

Comedy

Tartarus is the tower that Gekkoukan High School becomes during the Dark Hour, and the joke here is to treat it as a stage. Makoto Yuki, Mitsuru Kirijo, Junpei Iori and the rest of SEES get run through gag strips about evokers, exam weeks and dormitory chores, and the cast later widens to take in Yu Narukami's group from Persona 4. It started life as a web comic before a magazine picked it up, and it stays comedy the whole way.

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FINISHED

Kanokon

かのこん

Ecchi

Romance

Supernatural

Country transfer student Kouta Oyamada barely settles into his new city high school before the prettiest girl in the year above him, Chizuru Minamoto, asks to see him alone. She reveals fox ears and a tail, admitting she's a kitsune with her sights set on him, and Kouta's ordinary school life turns into a running string of encounters with supernatural classmates like fellow spirit Nozomu Ezomori. Manga adaptation of the Kanokon light novels, running alongside the same-named anime.

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FINISHED

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan Ripiru

撲殺天使ドクロちゃんりぴる

Ecchi

Supernatural

Seinen

Sakura Kusakabe is fourteen and has invented nothing yet, but in twenty years he will, and the accidental immortality his work causes is enough for heaven to send an assassin after him. Dokuro Mitsukai of the Rurutie order decides distraction beats murder, which in practice means braining him with her spiked club Excalibolg and reviving him afterward. Fellow angel Sabato turns up to do the job properly. This manga continues the Dokuro-chan story from the light novels.

#51

ONGOING

Saint☆Young Men

聖☆おにいさん

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Jesus and Buddha take a vacation from the heavens and move into a cramped apartment in the Tachikawa suburbs of Tokyo, sharing rent as roommates while trying to pass as ordinary young men. Easygoing Jesus splurges on impulse and gets swept up in everything around him, while frugal, level-headed Buddha keeps the budget and unwinds with manga. Each chapter follows a slice of their daily life, from public baths to shopping trips and festivals, as they marvel at modern Japan and try not to let their divine natures show.

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FINISHED

KimiKiss: Various Heroines

キミキス～various heroines～

Drama

Romance

Seinen

Kouichi Aihara, a high schooler in class 2-A, moves through five separate storylines, each volume built around his growing relationship with a different classmate. Adapted from Enterbrain's KimiKiss dating-sim game, the manga treats every arc as its own contained romance, letting readers see Kouichi's dynamic shift completely depending on which girl the story follows. The same game went on to spawn several other KimiKiss manga and a separate anime series.

#53

FINISHED

Love Lab

ラブラボ

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

At an all-girls middle school, student council aide Riko Kurahashi walks in on council president Maki practicing kissing on a pillow, and gets pulled into keeping the secret. What starts as damage control turns into an ongoing project: the two study romance together, working through practice hand-holds and other 'field research' with fellow council members Sayori Mizushima and Yuiko Enomoto. The 4-koma comedy never lets any of it turn into real romance, which is exactly the point.

#54

FINISHED

The Beast Player

獣の奏者

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

Elin's mother is a Touda steward, responsible for the kingdom's armored war serpents, and when several of them die mysteriously she is executed for it, leaving Elin alone in the wilderness before her tenth birthday. A beekeeper takes the girl in, and she grows up discovering she can hear and calm the creatures other people fear, from the Touda to the flying Royal Beasts that answer to the queen. This is the original novel behind the story, following Elin from that early loss into a kingdom drifting toward war between the queen's domain and that of the grand duke who commands its armies.

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FINISHED

Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom

劇場版NARUTO -ナルト- 大興奮！三日月島のアニマルパニックだってばよ

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Naruto Uzumaki joins Kakashi, Sakura and Rock Lee on what starts as a routine job escorting Michiru, prince of the Land of the Moon, and his son Hikaru home from a world tour, complete with an entire circus troupe Michiru buys for the boy, saber-toothed tiger included. They arrive to find the throne taken: a minister named Shabadaba has seized power with hired ninja and struck down the king. Getting the prince his kingdom back falls to Team Kakashi. This light novel retells the third Naruto film.

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Chrome Shelled Regios

鋼殻のレギオス

Action

Sci-Fi

Adventure

In a future where pollution-born creatures called contaminoids have overrun most of the land, what's left of humanity survives inside mobile fortress-cities known as Regios. Layfon Alseif transfers into the academy city of Zuellni and is talked into its 17th military arts platoon, led by third-year student Nina Antalk, alongside Felli Loss, Sharnid Elipton and Harley Sutton. Layfon keeps quiet about the past that made him one of the strongest fighters in his old city, and about why he left it behind.

#57

FINISHED

Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee

テガミバチ

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

In Amberground, a land of permanent night lit only by an artificial sun, Lag Seeing becomes a Letter Bee, a government courier who carries mail across a country split into rigid castes. Lag can read the memories bound up in people and objects, and he travels with Niche, a wild girl who serves as his Dingo, or bodyguard. His real reason for taking the job is to find Gauche Suede, the Letter Bee who once delivered Lag himself as a child and has since vanished, while armored insects called Gaichuu prey on travelers between the districts.

#58

FINISHED

Otomen

オトメン（乙男）

Shoujo

Romance

Comedy

Asuka Masamune is the manliest student at his school: captain of the kendo team, a standout in judo and karate. He also hides a secret that would shatter that image. He is an otomen, a boy who loves cooking, sewing, cute things and shoujo romance manga. He keeps it buried until he falls for Ryo Miyakozuka, a martial artist's daughter who can fight but cannot cook or sew to save her life. His classmate Juta Tachibana, who secretly draws a shoujo manga modeled on them, nudges Asuka toward the side he keeps hidden.

#59

FINISHED

Switch Girl!!

スイッチガール!!

Shoujo

Romance

Comedy

Nika Tamiya is the most popular girl at her high school when she is in "on" mode: made up, dressed to the last detail, friendly with everyone. At home in "off" mode she lives in a ratty sweatsuit and glasses, hair tied back over games and manga, and she guards that secret closely. Everything shifts when transfer student Arata Kamiyama moves into her building, catches her off guard, and turns out to run on the same on/off switch, hiding a handsome face behind his own scruffy mode.

#60

FINISHED

Midnight Secretary

ミッドナイト・シークレタリー

Drama

Romance

Supernatural

Kaya Satozuka prides herself on being the perfect private secretary, even as her boss, Director Kyouhei Touma of the Touma Company, needles her about her severe, buttoned-up wardrobe. Then she discovers his secret: Kyouhei is a vampire, and her own blood happens to taste irresistible to him. Rather than flee, the unflappable Kaya commits to serving him as flawlessly as ever, navigating his appetites, his womanizing, and the rules of a hidden vampire society where partners are prized for the advantage they bring the clan.

#61

FINISHED

Immortal Regis

불멸의 레지스

Action

Fantasy

Supernatural

Jae-hyuk works four jobs to support Jae-hoon, his terminally ill little brother. Walking home one night he sees a girl named Serin fighting a monster overhead, and he dies trying to shield her. Serin revives him as an undead bound to her, but the law of her world, Chaos, bars him from the living: staying on Earth would kill him or drain what life his brother has left. Set on getting home, Jae-hyuk unseals a sentient weapon called Diffor and is drawn into Chaos and its feuding bloodlines.

#62

FINISHED

Omamori Himari

おまもりひまり

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

On his sixteenth birthday, orphan Yuuto Amakawa is approached by Himari, a sword-wielding cat spirit who tells him his family descends from the twelve Demon Slayer houses. Bound by an old oath, Himari moves in to guard Yuuto from the ayakashi now hunting him, a job his severe cat allergy makes no easier. As word of his bloodline spreads, other spirits and a slayer named Kuesu turn up in his life, drawn by the protective charm his grandmother left him.

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FINISHED

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

コードギアス反逆のルルーシュ

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

In a world where the Holy Britannian Empire has conquered Japan and renamed it Area 11, exiled prince Lelouch Lamperouge lives in hiding and nurses a vow to destroy the empire that broke his family. A chance encounter with a mysterious girl named C.C. grants him Geass, the power to compel anyone to obey a single command absolutely. Taking the masked identity of Zero, Lelouch turns that power on Britannia's armies. This manga adapts the Code Geass anime.

#64

FINISHED

Broken Blade

ブレイクブレイド

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Rygart Arrow is an "un-sorcerer": one of the few people unable to power the quartz that runs everyday life and warfare in the kingdom of Krisna. When the rival nation of Athens invades, his old academy friends King Hodr and Queen Sigyn pull him into the conflict, where he is paired with an ancient golem that only an un-sorcerer can pilot. Rygart climbs into the war machine to defend Krisna while his childhood friend Zess fights for the other side.

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FINISHED

Maria†Holic

まりあ†ほりっく

Romance

Seinen

Comedy

Kanako Miyamae enrolls at an all-girls Catholic academy hoping to find a girlfriend, since she breaks out in hives whenever a boy touches her. She is immediately drawn to the incoming first-year Mariya Shidou, until she learns Mariya is a cross-dressing, sadistic boy hiding behind the girls' school uniform. Mariya keeps her quiet by threatening to have her expelled, then sets about tormenting her at every opportunity, with his maid Matsurika Shinouji and school priest Touichirou Kanae adding to the chaos around them. The manga plays the arrangement as escalating comic warfare between the two.

#66

FINISHED

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas

聖闘士星矢 THE LOST CANVAS 冥王神話

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Tenma grows up in an Italian village alongside the gentle, painting-loving Alone and Alone's sister Sasha, two centuries before the era of the original Saint Seiya. The coming Holy War pulls the three apart: Sasha is recognized as the earthly incarnation of the goddess Athena, and Alone is chosen as the vessel of Hades, lord of the underworld. Tenma takes up the Pegasus Cloth as one of Athena's 88 Saints and fights his way toward his friend across a battlefield of gods and warriors.

#67

FINISHED

Higurashi When They Cry: Eye Opening Arc

ひぐらしのなく頃に解目明し編

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

This arc retells the events of Hinamizawa from Shion Sonozaki's side, opening the answer half of the When They Cry mystery. Shion slips out of the all-girls school she was confined to and settles in Okinomiya, where she keeps trading places with her twin sister Mion to move freely. A chance run-in with Keiichi Maebara stirs up memories of Satoshi Houjou, the boy she once loved, and pulls her back toward Hinamizawa and its curse.

#68

FINISHED

Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi

明日のよいち！

Action

Shounen

Ecchi

Raised in the mountains and trained with a sword since childhood, Yoichi Karasuma has mastered the Ukiha Divine Wind Style by seventeen, so his father sends him to the city to learn how to live among people. He boards at the Ikaruga dojo with the four Ikaruga sisters, where the eldest, Ibuki, serves as assistant instructor and keeps the household in order. Clumsy with modern life and hopeless around women, Yoichi stumbles through school while rival swordsmen start turning up at the dojo's door.

#69

FINISHED

School Days

Thriller

Drama

Romance

Makoto Itou rides the same train every morning and grows fixated on Kotonoha Katsura, a classmate from another section he is too timid to approach. His friend Sekai Saionji offers to play go-between and bring the two together, while quietly keeping her own feelings for Makoto to herself. This manga retells 0verflow's game, following the triangle from Makoto's first crush through confessions and shifting loyalties at school.

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FINISHED

Takemitsu Zamurai

竹光侍

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

The ronin Souichirou Senou comes down from Shinano province and takes a room in Edo's Katagi tenement, his real blade pawned and a bamboo one at his waist. His neighbors size him up warily at first, then settle: he teaches the local children at the temple school, likes his dumplings, and meets the noise of the city with an open, almost childlike attention. Under the calm sits a swordsman's pull toward the strongest opponents he can find.

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FINISHED

Jormungand

ヨルムンガンド

Thriller

Action

Drama

Koko Hekmatyar moves weapons across the world's conflict zones under the cover of HCLI, an international shipping firm that doubles as a smuggling operation. Her newest bodyguard is Jonah, a former child soldier who despises arms dealers but is bound to her by a deal struck with her brother Kasper. Surrounded by a hardened squad of guards, Koko trades in war while claiming, against all appearances, that her real aim is world peace.

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FINISHED

The Flowers of Evil

악의 꽃

Thriller

Shounen

Drama

Se-Joon and Se-Wa are twins whose closeness unsettles everyone around them. Se-Wa, written off by classmates and neighbors as unstable, sees no one in the world but her brother and will not tolerate anyone else holding his attention. Se-Joon insists that what he feels is ordinary sibling affection, though his own behavior keeps hinting at something closer to hers. When their childhood friend Su-In comes back into their lives, the sealed world the two of them built starts pulling apart.

#73

FINISHED

Higurashi When They Cry: Time Killing Arc

ひぐらしのなく頃に暇潰し編

Thriller

Shounen

Drama

Sent from Tokyo to the mountain village of Hinamizawa, the young police investigator Mamoru Akasaka is looking into the kidnapping of a government official's grandson. With little to do while the case stalls, he falls into conversation with Rika Furude, the quiet shrine maiden of the village, who tells him to leave before the summer festival. This manga adapts the fourth question arc of Higurashi When They Cry and is set five years before the other arcs.

#74

FINISHED

Yozakura Quartet

夜桜四重奏

Action

Shounen

Supernatural

Akina Hiizumi is the only human on a team of three supernaturally gifted friends: Hime Yarizakura, believed to be the reincarnation of an ancient dragon; Ao Nanami, a telepathic satori whose cat ears work as antennas; and Kotoha Isone, who can conjure objects out of spoken words. Together they run the town of Sakurashin's human-youkai coexistence under a barrier raised by the spirit cherry trees known as the Seven Pillars, handling supernatural incidents as they crop up. Akina's own inherited ability lets him cut the link between the two worlds and send stray youkai home.

#75

FINISHED

Voices of a Distant Star: Words of Love/Across the Stars

ほしのこえあいのことば/ほしをこえる

Sci-Fi

Drama

Romance

Set in 2046, this novel follows Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao, middle school classmates carrying an unspoken first love, after Mikako is recruited into the UN Space Force and boards the warship Lysithea to hunt the alien Tarsians. As she pushes farther into the outer solar system, the delay on every message back to Noboru stretches longer, and he is left on Earth unable to move past her as the years pass. The book tells the story twice, once in Mikako's voice and once in Noboru's. It is a second, separate novelization of the same film.

#76

FINISHED

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

逆転裁判

Thriller

Drama

Seinen

Phoenix Wright argues cases the games never covered: his old friend Larry Butz is back in the defendant's chair on a murder charge, and the president of a computer company stands accused of killing an employee inside his own house. The investigation into that second case turns on a figure known only as the Spider Man, and a familiar prosecutor is waiting when it reaches court. This manga supplies extra Ace Attorney trials rather than adapting the ones players already know.

#77

FINISHED

Ten no Haoh: Hokuto no Ken Raoh Gaiden

天の覇王北斗の拳ラオウ外伝

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Raoh is one of four boys taken in and trained in Hokuto Shinken, and only one of them can inherit it. This side story to Fist of the North Star follows his youth beside Toki, Jagi and Kenshiro, the discipline that shapes him, and his rise to the point where he throws out the school's rules and names himself Ken-oh. The conqueror the main series fights is assembled here, piece by piece, across five volumes.

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#78

FINISHED

Persona 3: Comic Anthology

ペルソナ3 コミックアンソロジー

Supernatural

Comedy

Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori and Mitsuru Kirijo share a Tatsumi Port Island dormitory with Makoto Yuki, the transfer student who can carry more than one Persona at a time. Twenty-nine short comics spread over two volumes put that cast through gag pieces and side scenes built on the Dark Hour, the Evoker and the climb through Tartarus. This is the two-volume Persona 3 anthology line, separate from the single-volume collections that carry their own subtitles.

Persona 3: Comic Anthology - Cogito, ergo sum

ペルソナ3 コミックアンソロジー Cogito, ergo sum

Supernatural

Comedy

Junpei Iori, the class clown of the S.E.E.S. dormitory, shares the Dark Hour with Makoto Yuki, Yukari Takeba and Mitsuru Kirijo, the twenty-fifth hour in which Gekkoukan High School becomes the Shadow-filled tower Tartarus. Eighteen artists take that setup in their own directions across this volume, from classroom comedy to fights settled with an Evoker. Cogito, ergo sum is one of several stand-alone Persona 3 anthology volumes put out in 2006, each with its own roster of contributors.

Blood+ Russian Rose

BLOOD+ ロシアン・ローズ

Action

Drama

Supernatural

Saya Otonashi and her chevalier Haji pass the opening years of the twentieth century in Russia, long before the Okinawa schoolgirl life Saya later wakes into. Revolution gathers across the country, and the chiropterans that only Saya's blood can crystallize move through that unrest as freely as through any other city. These two volumes trace the pair through those years, a side story set well outside the timeline the main Blood+ story follows.

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FINISHED

Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED C.E.73 Stargazer

機動戦士ガンダムSEED C.E.73 STARGAZER

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Sven Cal Bayan flies for Phantom Pain as a Natural in a war the Coordinators are still fighting, while Selene McGriff works on the other side of that line, building the mobile suit called Stargazer. C.E. 73 pulls the two of them toward each other as the conflict widens past the fronts either was assigned to. This manga runs beside the main Gundam SEED television line rather than inside it, six chapters long.

#82

FINISHED

Chou Kochikame

超こち亀

Comedy

Kankichi Ryotsu, the Kameari patrolman whose money-making schemes collapse the moment the fad behind them dies, spends this anniversary volume outside his own beat. Five crossover one-shots put him next to Golgo 13, Lupin III, Kinnikuman, the Dragon Ball cast and a Jump gag lineup that includes Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar. Around those stories sit tribute pages drawn by dozens of other mangaka, which makes the book a thirtieth-anniversary celebration of KochiKame rather than a new installment of it.

Dengeki Bunkoyomi

電撃文庫MAGAZINE 公式海賊本電撃BUNKOYOMI

Comedy

Thirteen Dengeki Bunko authors each take one month of the calendar and write their own series into it. Kazuma Kamachi sends Toaru Majutsu no Index into a March gift exchange, Yuyuko Takemiya turns Toradora! into Nisetora!, Keiichi Sigsawa moves Kino no Tabi into the Gakuen Kino classroom, and Mamizu Arisawa, Gakuto Mikumo and Keisuke Hasegawa contribute pieces from Inukami!, Asura Cryin' and Shinigami no Ballad. Illustrations accompany every story. The one volume shipped as an official spoof companion to Dengeki Bunko MAGAZINE rather than as part of any single series.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS THE COMICS

魔法少女リリカルなのはStrikerS THE COMICS

Action

Fantasy

Drama

This manga opens where the A's epilogue stops and runs six years forward: Nanoha Takamachi is fifteen, and the gap the television seasons leave between A's and StrikerS gets filled in. The early chapters put Nanoha, Fate Testarossa and Hayate Yagami on a Relic escort job for the Saint Church, then follow Subaru Nakajima and Teana Lanster from their first meeting through training school. Later chapters sit between StrikerS episodes and after its end, on Erio and Caro.

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FINISHED

Diebuster

トップをねらえ2！ -ダイバスター-

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Nono, a country girl chasing her dream of becoming a space pilot, joins the elite Fraternity, a defense force built around teenage pilots called Topless, who each command a giant mecha known as a Buster Machine. She idolizes ace pilot Lal'C Melk Mark from the moment they meet, and works to prove herself worthy of flying alongside her as the Fraternity holds the line against invading space monsters. This manga adapts the Diebuster OVA, the sequel to the original Gunbuster.

#86

FINISHED

Princess Princess Plus

プリンセス・プリンセス＋

Shoujo

Slice of Life

Comedy

Kiriya Matsuoka and Tomoe Izumi are Fujimori Academy's new princesses, the two first-years picked each year at the all-boys school to dress as girls and carry the student body through its events. Toru Kouno, Yuujirou Shihoudani and Mikoto Yutaka, who held the post before them, run the training. It goes badly: Matsuoka grew up wealthy and notices nothing, Izumi says exactly what he thinks, and neither can stand the other. Student council president Akira Sakamoto needs the two of them working as a pair before the school calendar starts. This one-volume sequel continues Princess Princess.

#87

FINISHED

Strawberry Panic!

ストロベリー・パニック!

Drama

Romance

Nagisa Aoi transfers to St. Miator's, one of three prestigious all-girls schools sharing the grounds of Astraea Hill, and meets Shizuma Hanazono, the school's reigning Etoile and its most admired student. Shizuma takes an interest in Nagisa almost immediately, drawing her into the hill's web of couples and rivalries alongside her roommate Tamao Suzumi and Chikaru Minamoto, student council president of neighboring St. Lulim. These novels retell and expand the illustrated Strawberry Panic! stories that started the franchise; the manga and anime grew from the same source.

Brave 10

BRAVE10

Action

Adventure

Seinen

Kirigakure Saizo, an Iga ninja who kills for a living and trusts no one, saves the shrine maiden Isanami from an assassination attempt and finds himself drawn into her fight when her home is burned down by men loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Isanami's only remaining path leads to the warlord Sanada Yukimura, who is gathering ten extraordinary warriors, the Sanada Ten Braves, to change the course of the Sengoku era. One year before the Battle of Sekigahara, Saizo's skills make him a natural fit for the group.

#89

FINISHED

Iron Wok Jan! R: The Summit Operations

鉄鍋のジャン！R頂上作戦

Shounen

Drama

Comedy

Jan Akiyama, the abrasive young master of Chinese cuisine who treats every dish as a fight, opens this sequel to Iron Wok Jan! by beating a crowd of top-rank chefs in China. Back in Japan, he quit the Gobanchou Hanten restaurant almost at once and dropped out of sight for more than six months, and he resurfaces at the Big Ootani Cup, a major Chinese cooking contest. Its presumed winners are backed by the Thirteen Dragons, a rich, mafia-linked group that leans on the judges, and they never counted on Jan.

#90

FINISHED

Persona 3: Comic Anthology - Memento Mori

ペルソナ3 コミックアンソロジー MEMENTO MORI

Supernatural

Makoto Yuki transfers into Gekkoukan High School and learns that a hidden twenty-fifth hour, the Dark Hour, turns the school into a tower called Tartarus and most of the city into coffins. Eighteen short comics by different artists work from that premise, following him and the S.E.E.S. dormitory of Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori and Mitsuru Kirijo, who summon Personas by putting an Evoker to their own heads. Memento Mori was the first Persona 3 anthology volume, and its stories stand alone rather than adapting the game.

Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet

planetarian ～ちいさなほしのゆめ～

Sci-Fi

Drama

Four illustrated short stories set in the ruined world of the Planetarian visual novel, arranged around its events: two before, two after. The opening piece returns to the planetarium where the robot Hoshino Yumemi worked, seen through the eyes of a human colleague who watches her behave in ways nobody can explain. The rest look elsewhere, from a sniper's war in a distant country to the children of a sealed-off settlement who meet an old traveler. The collection widens the setting rather than retelling the main story.

Higurashi When They Cry Side Story: Cat Killing Chapter

ひぐらしのなく頃に外伝猫殺し編

Thriller

Supernatural

After losing a card game whose forfeits keep escalating, Keiichi Maebara, Mion, Rena, Satoko and Rika end up parading through town in costume and detouring to Yagouchi, an abandoned village outside Hinamizawa. There Mion tells them about the disused quarry nearby: a boy went into its hole years ago and never came out, and his father died when his car went over the edge into the river while searching for him. This one-shot short story sits between the original arcs and the answer arcs, in the same rumor-soaked register as the main series.

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The Knight in the Area

エリアの騎士

Shounen

Sports

Drama

Kakeru Aizawa quit playing soccer as a child after one of his shots injured a teammate, and has managed his older brother Suguru's team ever since, convinced he lacks the talent that put Suguru on Japan's under-15 national side. When a truck hits both brothers and Suguru dies, his heart is transplanted into Kakeru, and Kakeru steps back onto the pitch to chase the World Cup dream his brother can no longer live out, alongside childhood friend Nana Mishima and teammate Ryuuichi Araki.

#94

FINISHED

Futari wa Precure Splash☆Star

ふたりはプリキュア Splash☆Star

Shoujo

Kids & Family

Action

Saki Hyuuga, ace pitcher of her school softball team, and Mai Mishou, who would rather sketch than stargaze, first crossed paths at a mysterious tree during a summer festival five years ago, where they saw two glowing spheres. Back at that tree they meet Flappy and Choppy, spirits of flower and bird from the Land of Fountains, who choose the girls as the new Pretty Cure. Their task is to protect the Seven Fountains from Dark Fall, which is hunting for the last of them. This manga adapts the anime series of the same name.

#95

FINISHED

Kamisama Dolls

神様ドォルズ

Thriller

Action

Supernatural

Kyouhei Kuga fled his hometown and his duties as a seki, someone able to control the ancient living puppets called kakashi through sheer will, to build an ordinary student life in Tokyo. That life ends the night he finds a murder victim in his building's elevator and his younger sister Utao arrives carrying Kukuri, the kakashi he once partnered with, to warn him that his former friend Aki and Aki's own kakashi are responsible. His classmate Hibino Shiba is pulled into the fallout as Kyouhei is forced back into a world he tried to leave behind.

#96

FINISHED

Otoboku: Maidens Are Falling for Me!

乙女はボクに恋してる

Ecchi

Romance

Seinen

Mizuho Miyanokouji's grandfather leaves an unusual condition in his will: his grandson must enroll at Seio Girls' Academy, the school Mizuho's mother attended and his own ancestors founded. With help from his cousin and childhood friend Mariya Mikado, who already studies there, Mizuho gets a makeover convincing enough to pass and starts attending classes as a girl, keeping the secret from nearly everyone around him. This manga adapts the original visual novel, which also produced an anime series and several OVAs.

#97

FINISHED

Code Geass: Suzaku of the Counterattack

コードギアス反攻のスザク

Action

Sci-Fi

In this alternate-timeline manga, Suzaku Kururugi is shot for refusing to execute his friend Lelouch, survives, and is recruited as the test pilot for the Lancelot, which here is a powered bodysuit rather than a Knightmare Frame. Taking the job to protect the people he cares about, Suzaku is thrown into a running fight against the vigilante Zero and the Black Knights, forced to weigh his ideals against what defending Britannia actually costs.

Honey and Clover Spin-off

ハチミツとクローバースピンオフ

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Some time after the original Honey and Clover ends, the art-school friends' lives have settled into new shapes. One chapter follows Ippei Matsumoto, Yamada's childhood friend from the Hamadayama shopping district, who runs a bakery there and is introduced to Sakura Misono, owner of a family cake shop over in Koenji; the two find they suit each other and decide to marry. Another picks up Ayumi Yamada's long-running triangle with Nomiya and Mayama and finally moves it toward a resolution. The two chapters work as a coda to the main manga.

#99

FINISHED

.hack//XXXX

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

While playing The World, the most popular online game on Earth, a boy named Kite watches his friend Orca take a hit meant for him and fall into a real-world coma. Determined to find out what happened and pull Orca back, Kite logs back into the game and starts digging through its depths, crossing paths with the celebrated veteran Balmung and a hot-tempered newcomer called BlackRose. What looks like a simple rescue mission keeps turning up signs that something is deeply wrong with the game itself.

#100

FINISHED

M×0

エム×ゼロ

Shounen

Fantasy

Comedy

Hot-tempered Taiga Kuzumi bombs the entrance interview for Seinagi Private High School after a girl in the room laughs at his answer. Storming back the next day to confront her, he is mistaken for a truant and dragged through the school's barrier, only to discover that Seinagi secretly trains wizards. A tangle of misunderstandings leaves everyone convinced Taiga is an elite magic user, when in truth he cannot cast a single spell. He has to bluff his way through magic lessons and rivals while hiding that he has no power at all.

#101

FINISHED

Kingdom Hearts II

キングダムハーツⅡ

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Roxas is spending the last days of summer vacation in Twilight Town with his friends Hayner, Pence and Olette when the town starts turning on him. The group is blamed for a string of stolen photos, strange white creatures attack, and Roxas keeps dreaming about a boy named Sora whom he has never met. Then a girl called Naminé appears with a secret she means to share with him. Shiro Amano's manga adapts the Kingdom Hearts II game, starting from its Twilight Town prologue.

#102

FINISHED

Fairy Tail

FAIRY TAIL

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Lucy Heartfilia dreams of joining Fairy Tail, the rowdiest wizard guild in the kingdom of Fiore, where mages take paid jobs and brawl as often as they cooperate. She gets her chance after meeting Natsu Dragneel, a fire-eating Dragon Slayer searching for his foster father, the dragon Igneel, alongside his flying cat Happy. Recruited into the guild, Lucy teams with Natsu, the ice mage Gray and the armored knight Erza to take on the jobs posted on Fairy Tail's request board.

#103

FINISHED

The Voynich Hotel

ヴォイニッチホテル

Supernatural

Seinen

Comedy

Taizou flees his past to the tiny South Pacific island nation of Blefuscu, where he checks into the run-down Voynich Hotel without realizing what it harbors. The hotel belongs to a former Mexican wrestler, Kandre Umeda, and is kept by two witch maids, Elena and Beluna, plus a homicidal cook named Amelia; contract killers, drug dealers and ghosts drift through the lobby. Through loosely linked, darkly comic episodes, Taizou settles into island life as the Voynich's supernatural and criminal undercurrents swirl around him.

#104

FINISHED

My Balls

オレたま

Ecchi

Romance

Comedy

Kouta Satou is a hapless virgin whose body becomes the prison for the Queen of Terror, a demon bent on destroying the world, after a freak sealing accident locks her inside him. The only way to keep her contained is for Kouta to abstain from ejaculating for a full month. A lesser devil named Elyse, sent to free the queen, throws every temptation she can at him, turning his ordinary life into a thirty-day test of willpower.

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FINISHED

Baccano! 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad

バッカーノ! 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad

Thriller

Action

Supernatural

Aboard the Flying Pussyfoot express, the assassin Claire Stanfield, riding along as part of the train crew, the volatile Ladd Russo, and gentle thief Jacuzzi Splot collide over a centuries-old bid for eternal life that traces back to a 1711 ritual. This manga condenses the train-set second and third Baccano! light novels into its own version of the Flying Pussyfoot arc, adding new characters Jacques-Rosé Boronial and Rosetta not found in the original books.

#106

FINISHED

Higurashi When They Cry: Atonement Arc

ひぐらしのなく頃に解罪滅し編

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

In the village of Hinamizawa, summer 1983, Rena Ryuuguu grows suspicious when her father starts dating Rina Mamiya, a woman Rena becomes convinced is scheming to take his money. Rena's attempts to investigate spiral into paranoia about everyone around her, including her closest friend Keiichi Maebara, as she becomes fixated on the town's buried history of murders and disappearances. This arc of the manga answers questions raised in earlier chapters about Rika Furude and the curse hanging over Hinamizawa, following Rena to the edge of what she's willing to do to protect her father.

#107

FINISHED

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

時をかける少女とき／かけ

Sci-Fi

Drama

High schooler Makoto Konno spends her afternoons playing baseball with best friends Chiaki Mamiya and Kousuke Tsuda, until a bike accident triggers a strange power: she can leap backward through time. Makoto starts using her leaps for small fixes, dodging a bad grade or ducking an awkward confession from Chiaki, without realizing each change reshapes the people around her in ways she can't take back. This manga adapts the 2006 animated film of the same name, retelling Makoto's story with a brief epilogue tying back to Kazuko Yoshiyama, the protagonist of the original novel and its earlier manga.

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#108

FINISHED

xxxHOLiC: AnotherHOLiC

×××HOLiC アナザーホリックランドルト環エアロゾル

Drama

Supernatural

Seinen

Kimihiro Watanuki still owes Yūko Ichihara payment for freeing him from the spirits that plague him, so he keeps working off the debt at her wish-granting shop in this collection of three side stories. One customer asks for help with a compulsion that keeps driving her to hurt herself, another receives text messages from a friend who is already dead, and a stranger offers Watanuki a way out of his shop-bound servitude that carries a catch of its own.

#109

FINISHED

Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody

劇場版BLEACH ―MEMORIES OF NOBODY―

Action

Shounen

Supernatural

Karakura Town is overrun by blanks, vacant souls spilling in as the barrier with Soul Society thins without warning. Ichigo Kurosaki crosses paths with Senna, an amnesiac shinigami who doesn't exist in any official record, right as a man named Ganryu and his faction called the Dark Ones start hunting her down. This novel retells the story of the first Bleach film, following Ichigo's fight to protect Senna from a group that wants her erased.

#110

FINISHED

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

雲のむこう、約束の場所

Sci-Fi

Drama

Adventure

Hiroki Fujisawa, Takuya Shirakawa, and Sayuri Sawatari grow up in an alternate postwar Japan where Hokkaido has been annexed by the mysterious Union, and a colossal tower built there is visible from the mainland. Fascinated by the structure, the three friends vow to build a plane and cross the strait to reach it, but before they can, Sayuri falls into a coma and is sent away to Tokyo for treatment. This manga adapts the first two-thirds of the 2004 anime film's plot.

#111

FINISHED

Cat Planet Cuties

あそびにいくヨ！

Sci-Fi

Ecchi

Seinen

Kio Kakazu is at a memorial service for a family ancestor when a girl with cat ears appears out of nowhere and introduces herself as Eris, an alien from a planet he's never heard of. She moves in without much explanation, and this ordinary teenager living in Okinawa suddenly finds his routine upended by an extraterrestrial roommate with feline instincts and zero grasp of human boundaries. This manga adapts the Asobi ni Iku yo! light novels, released overseas as Cat Planet Cuties.

#112

FINISHED

Japan Sinks

日本沈没

Thriller

Sci-Fi

Drama

Deep-sea submersible pilot Onodera and geophysicist Professor Tadokoro trace a string of earthquakes and a sunken Ogasawara islet to a single, unthinkable conclusion: the Japanese archipelago itself is sinking. This second manga adaptation of the 1973 novel runs far longer than the earlier 1970s version, folding in the look of the 2006 live-action film and widening the disaster's scope across a present-day Japan.

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#113

FINISHED

Haruka Nogizaka's Secret

乃木坂春香の秘密

Romance

Seinen

Comedy

Ordinary student Yuuto Ayase stumbles onto the biggest secret at Hakujō Academy: Haruka Nogizaka, the school's flawless, seemingly untouchable princess, is a die-hard otaku who devours anime, manga, and games in private. Sworn to silence to protect her public image, Yuuto finds his everyday life quietly rearranged around her double life. This manga adapts the original light novel, condensing its opening volumes into a shorter run.

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#114

FINISHED

The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

夜は短し歩けよ乙女

Romance

Comedy

One night in Kyoto, a college student known only as the girl with black hair sets out to drink her way across the city, drawn from a wedding reception into a used-book fair and onto the stage of a guerrilla theater troupe. An upperclassman who has liked her for months trails behind, engineering chance meetings he hopes will finally register with her. The novel later inspired both a manga adaptation and a 2017 animated film.

Samurai 7

SAMURAI 7

Action

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Kanna Village faces annual raids from the Nobuseri, mechanized ex-samurai who return every harvest to strip the fields bare, so the water priestess Kirara sets out to hire protection the village can only pay in rice. She recruits the veteran strategist Kanbei, who brings along the earnest young Katsushiro as his student, to train the villagers and prepare their defenses. This manga adapts the anime, itself built on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

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#116

FINISHED

Witchblade

ウィッチブレイド丈琉

Action

Ecchi

Supernatural

Takeru is a fifteen-year-old girl raised inside a Buddhist convent, haunted by recurring nightmares tied to a mystical weapon called the Witchblade, sealed somewhere within the temple grounds. When demons resembling figures from Oni folklore attack her home, Takeru becomes the Witchblade's new bearer, awakening a power bound to her family's hidden lineage. Her childhood friend Kou, who descends from a line of demon hunters, and Seishu, a monk who lives at the temple with her, stand by her as she confronts what the weapon has made her responsible for.

#117

FINISHED

Negima!? Neo

ネギま!?neo

Shounen

Fantasy

Romance

Ten-year-old wizard Negi Springfield arrives in Japan to complete his mage training as the homeroom teacher of an all-girls academy class of thirty-one teenage girls. He quickly grows close to hotheaded student Asuna Kagurazaka and grows attached to classmates like Nodoka Miyazaki and Konoka Konoe while keeping his magic hidden. This manga retells the story from the Negima!? anime continuity in monthly chapters, running alongside the show rather than adapting Ken Akamatsu's original series.

#118

FINISHED

Shigofumi: Stories of Last Letter

死後文 -Stories of Last Letter-

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

Fumika works as a courier for the dead, delivering shigofumi, final letters the deceased leave behind, together with her talking staff and partner, Kanaka, in the light novel series that inspired the Shigofumi anime. Each volume follows a new case where a shigofumi forces the living to confront a truth the departed couldn't say while alive, while Fumika quietly wrestles with a mystery of her own: unlike every other letter carrier for the dead, she keeps growing older.

#119

FINISHED

Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea

ポケモンレンジャーと蒼海の王子マナフィ

Kids & Family

Action

Fantasy

Ash and Pikachu cross paths with Jackie, a Pokémon Ranger escorting a Manaphy egg, and the meeting draws them toward a temple said to hold the Sea Crown, a treasure sealed away by an ancient civilization known as the People of the Water. A pirate calling himself the Phantom wants both the egg and the crown for himself, and Ash joins Jackie's mission to keep them out of his hands. This manga adapts the ninth Pokémon film across four chapters.

#120

FINISHED

Library Wars

図書館戦争

Action

Drama

Romance

Iku Kasahara enlists in the Kanto Library Defense Force in 2019, inspired years earlier by a soldier who kept a censored book she wanted from being confiscated. Japan's Media Betterment Committee can legally seize any material it judges offensive, and only libraries, protected now by their own armed defense units, may preserve and circulate what the government bans. Training under her demanding superior, Atsushi Doujou, Kasahara begins a career that mixes military drill with running battles over censorship. This is the first novel in the Library War series, the source for the Library Wars manga, anime, and films.

#121

FINISHED

Book Girl

“文学少女”シリーズ

Thriller

Drama

Romance

Konoha Inoue keeps his past as a bestselling teenage novelist hidden and lives as an ordinary high schooler, until literature club president Touko Amano, who literally eats the pages of books she loves and calls herself a "literary girl", recruits him to write stories for her to consume. What starts as simple assignments turns into real investigations, beginning with a request to help a classmate write love letters that spirals into something darker than either of them expected. Each novel in the series draws its mystery from the themes of a different classic work.

#122

FINISHED

Saint Seiya: Next Dimension - The Myth of Hades

聖闘士星矢 NEXT DIMENSION 冥王神話

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

In the ruins of Elysion, Seiya takes a blow from Hades' cursed sword while shielding Athena, and Hades pauses over something familiar in the boy's face that he cannot place. To save Seiya, Saori sets out for the previous Holy War, 243 years in the past, where a boy named Tenma served Athena as her Pegasus Saint alongside Libra Dohko and Aries Shion, and where the goddess was a girl named Sasha. Written and drawn by original creator Masami Kurumada, this manga weaves the two eras together as a canon continuation of Saint Seiya.

#123

FINISHED

Higurashi When They Cry: Beyond Midnight Arc

ひぐらしのなく頃に宵越し編

Thriller

Shounen

Supernatural

Twenty years after the gas disaster that emptied Hinamizawa and left the village sealed off, the government finally lifts the quarantine, drawing curious visitors back to its abandoned streets. Among them is Akira Otobe, who falls in with a woman calling herself Mion Sonozaki, a name that should be impossible since Mion died in the disaster two decades earlier. When one of the visitors turns up dead soon after, everyone in the group becomes a suspect. Set as an alternate branch off the main Higurashi story, this manga-only arc reimagines the village's mystery with a new cast of outsiders.

#124

FINISHED

MÄR Omega

MÄR Ω

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Kai grew up idolizing Ginta, the hero of the War Games fought six years earlier in MAR Heaven. Taken in by an ARM smith after his parents died, Kai is attacked by a bandit while out on an errand and stumbles onto Babbo, a living ARM left dormant since the war. His own latent magic wakes Babbo, and Babbo's waking sends the mass-produced fake ARMs across the world out of control. Determined to live up to Ginta's legacy, Kai sets out to find his place among MAR Heaven's warriors.

#125

ONGOING

Otome Youkai Zakuro

おとめ妖怪ざくろ

Fantasy

Supernatural

Seinen

As Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar in the Meiji era, the newly formed Ministry of Spirit Affairs pairs half-youkai girls with human army officers to smooth relations between the two communities. Fox-eared Zakuro is assigned to Second Lieutenant Kei Agemaki, who has spent his life hiding a paralyzing fear of the supernatural from everyone, including the general who is his father. Their prickly start becomes the manga's core as the paired teams take on cases across the youkai district.

#126

ONGOING

Saki

咲-Saki-

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

Saki Miyanaga has quietly mastered a strange trick in family mahjong games: manipulating her own score to land on an even draw every time, so she never has to win or lose. When Kiyosumi High School's club president Hisa Takei sees her play and pulls her into the school's struggling mahjong club, Saki finally lets herself play to win, and her hidden skill becomes the engine driving the team's push toward the national tournament.

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#127

HIATUS

Togainu no Chi

咎狗の血

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

Akira is thrown in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit, and offered one way out: enter Igura, a lethal underground fighting game run in the ruins of Toshima by a man called Arbitro. Set in a post-apocalyptic Japan where the district has slipped outside government control, the manga follows Akira as he collects dog-tag cards from defeated rivals to survive Igura's rounds, uncertain who among the other fighters he can trust.

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#128

ONGOING

The World's Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera

世界一初恋〜小野寺律の場合〜

Drama

Romance

Comedy

Literary editor Ritsu Onodera quits his father's publishing house, tired of colleagues crediting his success to nepotism, and takes a job at Marukawa Publishing to make his own name. Instead of the literature division he wanted, he lands in Emerald, the chaotic shoujo manga department run by the blunt, abrasive Masamune Takano. Ritsu nearly walks out on day one, but Takano goads his pride into staying, and he soon learns that his new boss is the first love he never got over.

#129

ONGOING

Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen

私立ほりつば学園

Fantasy

Slice of Life

Comedy

At Horitsuba Private Academy, a campus so sprawling it works like a small city, exchange student Syaoran tries to keep up with classes alongside classmate Sakura while literature teacher Yuko Ichihara doubles as the school's director. Fellow student Kimihiro Watanuki bickers constantly with classmate Shizuka Doumeki, chemistry teacher Fai D. Flourite trades barbs with gym teacher Kurogane, and two identical mascots both named Mokona turn up wherever the trouble starts. This slice-of-life spinoff drops the casts of Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and xxxHOLiC into one ordinary, if oversized, school.

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Top 250

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To Love Ru

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Monogatari Series: First Season

Beast Master

Usogui

Gintama: 3-nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei

Black Bird

Girl Friends

Sundome

Flunk Punk Rumble

Nichijou

Classmates

Sun-Ken Rock

Franken Fran

Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

My Girl

Mitsudomoe

Zero's Familiar

A Devil and Her Love Song

Ergo Proxy: Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

sola

Blood+

Witch Buster

Hanamaru Kindergarten

Fate/Zero

Toradora!

Hotel

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The Qwaser of Stigmata

Place to Place

Run with the Wind

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Portrait of Heroes

Kämpfer

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Tick! Tack! -Never Say Goodbye-

Ladies versus Butlers!

Tartaros Gekijou

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Love Lab

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Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom

Chrome Shelled Regios

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Otomen

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Immortal Regis

Omamori Himari

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Broken Blade

Maria†Holic

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas

Higurashi When They Cry: Eye Opening Arc

Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi

School Days

Takemitsu Zamurai

Jormungand

The Flowers of Evil

Higurashi When They Cry: Time Killing Arc

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Voices of a Distant Star: Words of Love/Across the Stars

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