Spice & 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.
Future Diary
未来日記
Yukiteru Amano is a withdrawn boy who logs everything around him on his phone rather than taking part.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.
Witch Buster
위치헌터
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 own sister, rather than simply hate the enemy he hunts.
Toradora!
とらドラ！
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 nicknamed 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.
Hotel
HOTEL
Set in and around the Hotel Platon, a first-class hotel in Tokyo, this seinen manga follows the staff who keep it running and the guests who pass through its doors. Each self-contained chapter centers on a different crisis or human drama — a desperate guest, a delicate request, a problem only the front desk can quietly solve — handled by the hotel's employees as they balance professional duty against the personal stories unfolding in their rooms.
Otomen
オトメン（乙男）
Asuka Masamune is the manliest student at his school — captain of the kendo team, a standout in judo and karate — and he 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 can't cook or sew to save her life. His classmate Juta Tachibana, who secretly draws a shoujo manga modeled on them, nudges Asuka toward embracing the side he keeps hidden.
Kingdom
キングダム
Xin is a war orphan in the state of Qin who trains daily with his friend Hyou, both dreaming of becoming Great Generals during China's Warring States period. When Hyou is recruited into the palace and dies serving as a body double for the young king Ei Sei, Xin is drawn into the struggle to put Ei Sei 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.
The Flowers of Evil
惡の華
Takao Kasuga, a bookish middle-schooler devoted to Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, impulsively steals the gym clothes of Nanako Saeki, the classmate he idolizes. Sawa Nakamura, a withdrawn girl who despises their provincial town, witnesses the theft and forces Takao into a pact, using his secret to bend him to her whims. Caught between his crush on Saeki and Nakamura's escalating demands, Takao is dragged into a private game of shame and transgression.
Shinobi Life
シノビライフ
Beni Fujiwara is a wealthy high schooler so often targeted by kidnappers that danger has become routine. Her life upends when Kagetora, a ninja sworn to guard a princess from centuries past, falls out of the sky after time-traveling into the present. Mistaking Beni for the descendant of his lost mistress, who shares her face and name, Kagetora pledges himself as her bodyguard, and the two are soon pulled back and forth between her era and his.
Immortal Regis
불멸의 레지스
Jae-hyuk scrapes by on four jobs to support Jae-hoon, his terminally ill little brother. Walking home one night, he sees a girl named Serin fighting a monster across the sky and dies trying to shield her. Serin revives him as an undead bound to her, but the rules of her world, Chaos, forbid him from staying among the living: remaining on Earth would kill him or drain what life his brother has left. Desperate to return home, the newly raised Jae-hyuk unseals a sentient weapon called Diffor and is pulled into a struggle over which ancient bloodline will claim the title of immortal regis.
Black Butler
黒執事
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.
Highschool of the Dead
学園黙示録 HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD
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.
Snow White with the Red Hair
赤髪の白雪姫
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.
Emanon: Memories of Emanon
おもいでエマノン
In 1967, a young man heading home by ferry after a long trip meets a striking 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 every ancestor in her maternal line, including those 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.
Beast Master
ビーストマスター
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 — a bond complicated by the bloodlust that surfaces in him at the sight of blood, which only Yuiko seems able to calm.
Black Bird
ブラックバード
Misao Harada has seen spirits since childhood, and on her sixteenth birthday the attacks turn deadly. Her childhood friend Kyo Usui returns and saves her, revealing himself as the leader of a clan of tengu demons. Misao learns she is the Bride of Prophecy, a girl whose blood is said to grant a demon clan prosperity, and Kyo intends to make her his bride while rival demons close in to claim her.
Classmates
同級生
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.
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
Set before the events of Death Note, this novel follows a serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles with a string of murders staged 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. The case is narrated after the fact by Mello, who recounts the duel of wits as a true-crime report.
Switch Girl!!
スイッチガール!!
Nika Tamiya is the most popular girl at her high school when she's in "on" mode — polished, stylish, and effortlessly charming. At home in "off" mode she's a slovenly, unkempt mess, and she guards that secret carefully. Everything shifts when transfer student Arata Kamiyama moves into her building, discovers her hidden side, and turns out to run on the same on/off switch himself, hiding a handsome face behind his own scruffy off mode.
Midnight Secretary
ミッドナイト・シークレタリー
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.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ
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.
Broken Blade
ブレイクブレイド
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.
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
聖闘士星矢 THE LOST CANVAS 冥王神話
Two centuries before the original Saint Seiya, orphans Tenma, Alone and Sasha grow up together in Italy until the looming Holy War tears their lives apart. Sasha is revealed as the earthly incarnation of the goddess Athena, while the gentle, painting-loving Alone becomes the vessel of Hades, lord of the underworld. Tenma takes up the Pegasus Cloth as one of Athena's 88 Saints and fights to reach his friend Alone across a battlefield of gods and warriors.
Takemitsu Samurai
竹光侍
The ronin Senou Souichiro leaves the northern province of Shinano and settles into a modest tenement in Edo, carrying only a bamboo practice sword. Where other samurai cultivate stoicism, Senou meets the noise and bustle of the city with open, almost childlike curiosity, taking quiet pleasure in everyday life among his neighbors. Beneath that calm, though, runs a pull toward combat and a habit of seeking out the strongest fighters he can find.
Fairy Tail
FAIRY TAIL
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 and the ice mage Gray and armored knight Erza to take on jobs that pull them into the magic, rivalries, and dangers of the wider world.
Higurashi When They Cry: Time Killing Arc
ひぐらしのなく頃に 暇潰し編
Mamoru Akasaka, a young Tokyo detective, is sent to the rural village of Hinamizawa to investigate the kidnapping of a government official's grandson. While he waits out the case, he crosses paths with Furude Rika, a quiet shrine maiden who warns him to leave the village before its summer festival. This manga adapts the fourth question arc of the Higurashi When They Cry mystery, set five years before the events of the other arcs.
Franken Fran
フランケン・ふらん
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.
Saint☆Young Men
聖☆おにいさん
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 — public baths, shopping trips, festivals — as they marvel at modern Japan and try not to let their divine natures show.
Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee
テガミバチ
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.
21st Century Boys
21世紀少年
21st Century Boys is the two-volume sequel that closes out Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys. 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. It reads as a direct continuation, not a standalone entry point.
Monogatari Series: First Season
〈物語〉シリーズ ファーストシーズン
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.
Sundome
すんドめ
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.
Flunk Punk Rumble
ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん
Daichi Shinagawa is a delinquent who wants nothing to do with school, but class representative Hana Adachi keeps dragging him back into it, insisting he attend the upcoming field trip. Behind her bookish glasses, Adachi is far from the model student she plays at, 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.
The Voynich Hotel
ヴォイニッチホテル
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 is staffed by maids who are immortal witches, among them Berna, and frequented by contract killers, drug dealers, and ghosts. Through loosely linked, darkly comic episodes, Taizou settles into island life as the Voynich's supernatural and criminal undercurrents swirl around him.
My Balls
オレたマ
Satou Kouta is a hapless virgin whose body becomes the prison for Emmaniel, a demon queen bent on destroying the world, after a freak accident seals her inside him. The only way to keep her locked away is for Kouta to abstain from ejaculating for a full month. A lesser devil named Elyse, determined to free the queen, throws every temptation she can at him, turning his ordinary life into a thirty-day test of willpower.
A Devil and Her Love Song
悪魔とラブソング
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.
Fate/Zero
Fate/Zero
Ten years before the events of Fate/stay night, seven mages summon legendary heroes as Servants and fight the Fourth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City, a winner-take-all battle for a wish-granting Grail. Kiritsugu Emiya enters on behalf of the Einzbern family, a ruthless mercenary who once dreamed of saving everyone and now wins by any means, his Servant the proud knight-king Saber. Around them, rival Masters and their Servants pursue clashing ideals of heroism and victory. This is the Fate/Zero prequel by Gen Urobuchi.
The World's Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera
世界一初恋 〜小野寺律の場合〜
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's needling pride traps him in the job, and he soon learns Takano is a first love he never forgot.
Girl Friends
GIRL FRIENDS
Mariko Kumakura is a quiet, top-of-the-class high schooler who eats lunch alone until outgoing classmate Akko Oohashi sets out to befriend her. Akko pulls Mariko into shopping, makeovers, and a wider circle of friends, drawing her out of her shell. As the two grow inseparable, Mariko's feelings for Akko begin to shift into something past friendship in this yuri romance.
Pandora Hearts
パンドラハーツ
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.
Sun-Ken Rock
サンケンロック
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, he saves an old man from a beating and is recruited by a small Seoul street gang, which makes him its boss. As the Sun-Ken Rock group grows, Ken hides his criminal life from Yumin, who despises gangs. This seinen manga is the work of Korean-born artist Boichi.
To Love Ru
To LOVEる -とらぶる-
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.
Nichijou
日常
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.
My Girl
マイガール
Masamune Kazama is a mild-mannered office worker who once loved Yoko, an older classmate who left to study abroad and never returned to him. Years later he learns that Yoko has died, and meets Koharu, the five-year-old daughter she raised in secret and who is also his. Masamune takes Koharu in and slowly grows into fatherhood, the two of them bonding over their shared memory of Yoko and the eraser-carved ladybugs he used to make.
Ace of the Diamond
ダイヤのA
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.
Omamori Himari
おまもりひまり
On his sixteenth birthday, orphan Yuuto Amakawa is approached by Himari, a sword-wielding cat-spirit who reveals that his family descends from the twelve Demon Slayer houses. Bound by an old oath, Himari moves in to guard Yuuto from the ayakashi hunting him — complicated by his serious cat allergy. As word of his bloodline spreads, other spirits and a slayer named Kuesu enter his life, each tied to the protective charm his grandmother left behind.
Higurashi When They Cry: Eye Opening Arc
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 目明し編
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.
Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi
明日のよいち！
Raised in the mountains and trained in swordplay since childhood, Yoichi Karasuma is sent by his father to the city to sharpen his spirit by living with the Ikaruga family, who run the Ukiha Divine Wind Style dojo. Naive about modern life and oblivious around women, Yoichi boards with the four Ikaruga sisters, led by stern assistant headmistress Ibuki. Between his clumsy attempts to fit into school and home, rival schools start targeting both Yoichi and the dojo.
School Days
School Days
Makoto Itou rides the same train each morning and grows fixated on classmate Kotonoha Katsura, but is too timid to approach her. His friend Sekai Saionji offers to play go-between and help bring the two together — while quietly harboring feelings for Makoto herself. This manga retells the 0verflow visual novel, tracing the love triangle from Makoto's first crush as the three navigate confessions and shifting loyalties at school.
Usogui
嘘喰い
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 apprentice Kaji and the brawler Marco, he reads bluffs and engineers traps across contests like Escape the Building and Hangman.
Jormungand
ヨルムンガンド
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.
M×0
エム×ゼロ
Hot-tempered Taiga Kuzumi bombs the entrance interview for Seinagi Private High School after a watching girl laughs at his answer. Storming back to confront her, he is mistaken for a truant and dragged through the school's barrier, only to discover Seinagi secretly trains wizards. A tangle of misunderstandings leaves everyone convinced Taiga is an elite magic user, when in truth he can't cast a single spell. He has to bluff his way through magical lessons and rivals while hiding that he has no power at all.