Goodnight Punpun
おやすみプンプン
Punpun Onodera is an ordinary Japanese boy drawn as a simple cartoon bird while everyone around him appears fully human. The story follows him from elementary school onward, beginning with a crush on a new transfer student named Aiko Tanaka and the unstable home he grows up in between a distant mother and an uncle who steps in to raise him. Inio Asano's manga tracks Punpun's quiet inner life across the years as childhood drifts toward a harder adolescence, told in a grounded slice-of-life register set against everyday family strain.
Heaven's Lost Property
そらのおとしもの
Tomoki Sakurai wants nothing more than a quiet, lazy life until a winged girl named Ikaros crashes down from the sky and declares herself his servant. Ikaros is an Angeloid, a humanoid weapon built to obey, and her arrival drags Tomoki into the orbit of a hidden floating realm called Synapse. With his karate-chopping neighbor Sohara, the eccentric Synapse-obsessed Sugata, and student council president Mikako around him, Tomoki finds his peaceful days giving way to a stream of strange new Angeloids.
Bloody Monday
ブラッディ・マンデイ
Fujimaru Takagi is an ordinary-seeming high schooler who moonlights as a top hacker under the handle 'Falcon.' When Japan's intelligence agency Third-i recruits him to crack an encrypted chip, he uncovers footage of a virus that wiped out thousands in Russia, an event tied to a plot code-named Bloody Monday. With his father, a Third-i officer, framed for murder and a terrorist cell already operating in Tokyo, Fujimaru is pulled into a race to stop the same outbreak from reaching Japan.
Freezing
フリージング
Kazuya Aoi enrolls at West Genetics, an academy that trains Pandoras — genetically enhanced young women — and the Limiters who fight beside them against the Nova, interdimensional invaders. He crosses paths with Satellizer el Bridget, a feared upperclassman nicknamed the Untouchable Queen for her ruthless combat record and the phobia that keeps everyone at arm's length. When Kazuya touches her without flinching, he asks to become her Limiter, drawing them both into the academy's brutal ranking duels.
Faster than a Kiss
キスよりも早く
After her parents' death, sixteen-year-old Fumino Kaji has bounced between relatives' homes with her little brother Teppei and decides to run off rather than be a burden. Her homeroom teacher, Kazuma Ojiro, finds her in a park and, when she half-jokingly asks him to take them in, agrees to marry her so the siblings won't lose their footing. Now secretly a teacher's wife, Fumino has to keep the marriage hidden from school, where exposure would cost Kazuma his job.
½ Prince
二分之一王子
Dared by her twin brother to play the full-immersion VR game Second Life, nineteen-year-old Feng Lan logs in as the first player allowed to set her avatar apart from her real looks and builds a handsome male elf she names Prince. Hiding that Prince is a girl, she swears to climb the ranks without leaning on it and gathers an oddball party — the hidden moderator Lolidragon, the priest Wolf-dog, and the necromancer Doll — to fight her way up the game world.
A Certain Scientific Railgun
とある科学の超電磁砲
Mikoto Misaka is one of only seven Level 5 espers in Academy City, a metropolis of students trained to develop psychic powers, where her electromaster ability earns her the nickname Railgun. Alongside her devoted roommate Kuroko Shirai and friends Kazari Uiharu and Ruiko Saten, she works with Judgment, the student peacekeeping force, to handle trouble around the city. Their cases keep pulling them toward the darker experiments hidden inside Academy City's research. This manga is a spin-off of A Certain Magical Index.
Wolf Guy: Wolfen Crest
ウルフガイ 狼の紋章
Akira Inugami is a werewolf and a transfer student who only wants to be left alone after trouble forced him out of his old schools. At Hakutoku, his quiet plan unravels when homeroom teacher Akiko Aoshika, walking home drunk, is saved by him and realizes the boy who rescued her is one of her own students. As bullies, gangs, and others begin to notice what Inugami really is, his hidden nature drags him into escalating violence.
Whispered Words
ささめきこと
Sumika Murasame is tall, athletic, and top of her class, and she is quietly in love with her best friend Ushio Kazama. The problem is that Ushio openly adores cute, petite girls — exactly what Sumika is not. At their co-ed high school the two grow close to classmates Tomoe Hachikusa and Miyako Taema, an out couple, while Sumika keeps her own feelings hidden and watches Ushio chase one unattainable crush after another. This yuri series follows her through the slow, awkward distance between friendship and confession.
Umi no Misaki
海の御先
Nagi Goto moves to the southern island of Okitsushima while his father works abroad, hoping to find the seaside cape his late mother once spoke of with longing. On the island, three girls his age — Shizuku, Soyogi, and Karin — serve as Cape Maidens, revered as the living vessels of the islanders' Dragon God. Because Nagi's mother was once a Cape Maiden and he was born on the day the previous Dragon God died, the islanders take him for the deity's new incarnation, pulling him into their festival and its expectations.
Koi no Kamisama: Naoshi Komi Short Story Collection
恋の神様
Naoshi Komi's first short-story collection gathers six standalone tales, including the title piece and the original one-shot pilot of Nisekoi. The stories range across genres — among them "Island," about Aira and Marue, who dream of leaving a walled-off island cut off from the world for four hundred years, and lighter romantic comedy entries — each a self-contained one-shot rather than part of a continuing series.
Kiss/Hug
キス/ハグ
On the night of the Tanabata festival, Yukino crosses paths with Ryuu, and the two are drawn to each other on sight. Ryuu boldly declares that Yukino will be his, throwing the inexperienced girl, who has never been in love, completely off balance. As a transfer brings them into the same school life, Yukino has to make sense of his sudden, forceful affection and the gap between them while sorting out feelings she has never had before.
Gamble Fish
ギャンブルフィッシュ
Tomu Shirasagi, son of a notorious swindler, transfers into the elite Shishidou Academy where wealthy students look down on his public-school background. He quickly turns that contempt around by exposing himself as a sharp gambler and con artist during a clash with Mika Shishidou, great-granddaughter of the academy's founder. Backed by his roommate Kazuki Mizuhara, Tomu works his way through high-stakes games of chance and bluff against the school's privileged elite.
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun
堀さんと宮村くん
At school, Kyouko Hori looks like a bright, popular girl, while classmate Izumi Miyamura comes across as a gloomy, bookish loner. Away from campus the picture flips: Hori dresses down and runs the household while caring for her little brother Souta, and Miyamura is an easygoing guy covered in piercings and tattoos. When Miyamura walks an injured Souta home, the two classmates discover each other's hidden sides and start spending time together. This original four-panel webcomic by HERO is the basis for the later Horimiya manga.
A Lollypop or A Bullet
砂糖菓子の弾丸は撃ちぬけない
Nagisa Yamada is a guarded, plainspoken middle schooler in a rural town who wants only to graduate and enlist in the Self-Defense Force, shaping a future free of the poverty that followed her father's death and her brother Tomohiko's withdrawal from the world. Her routine cracks when Mokuzu Umino, a wealthy transfer student from Tokyo, arrives declaring herself a mermaid and warning that a storm is coming. Drawn to the one girl indifferent to her, Mokuzu insists that Nagisa become her precious friend.
Darker than Black
DARKER THAN BLACK -黒の契約者-
Ten years after a mysterious zone called Hell's Gate appeared in Tokyo, the night sky is filled with false stars and the world is shaped by Contractors — people who traded their humanity for supernatural powers, each paying an odd price every time they use them. Hei, an emotionless Contractor known by the code BK-201 and called the Black Reaper, works covert jobs for a shadowy syndicate while posing as an ordinary student. This manga adaptation runs alongside the anime, following Hei through assignments under the watch of the agents tracking the Gate.
The 7th Period Is a Secret.
7限目はヒミツ。
After her family moves to a new town, a shy, gloomy girl decides to remake herself, smiling and agreeing with everyone so she can finally fit in. The cheerful front works on her classmates, but she grows uneasy around her young teacher, who seems to see straight through the act to the withdrawn girl underneath. This single-volume shoujo manga follows the quiet tension between the persona she performs and the truth her teacher keeps catching glimpses of.
Doubt
ダウト
A group of fans of the cell-phone game Rabbit Doubt — where players must root out the hidden wolf among the rabbits before it picks them off — agree to meet in person. Yū Aikawa and the others are knocked out and wake in an abandoned psychiatric hospital wired with security cameras, one of their number already dead. To survive, the survivors must play Rabbit Doubt for real, hunting the liar among them while a barcode tattooed on each of them hints at who controls the building.
March Comes in Like a Lion
3月のライオン
Rei Kiriyama turned professional at shogi while still in middle school and now lives alone as a teenager, carrying the weight of a family he lost in an accident and a foster home he walked away from. His isolation starts to thaw after Akari Kawamoto finds him collapsed on the street one night and brings him back to the home she shares with her sisters Hinata and Momo. Between ranked matches and meals at the Kawamoto house, Rei works through his solitude. Chica Umino draws the seinen manga.
Seven Days: Monday–Sunday
セブンデイズ
Toji Seryo is a first-year known for a strange habit: he will date whoever asks him out first on Monday, then end things after seven days. On a whim, jaded upperclassman Yuzuru Shino asks him out half as a joke, and Toji says yes. As the week runs down day by day, what started as an idle dare turns into real feeling, and Yuzuru begins to dread the Sunday when the arrangement is supposed to end.
Today, I Will Fall in Love
今日、恋をはじめます
Tsubaki Hibino starts high school with an old-fashioned look and a knack for styling other people's hair but no confidence in her own. When top student Kyouta Tsubaki, who happens to share her surname, teases her, she snaps and cuts his hair on the spot. Intrigued, the popular playboy Kyouta sets his sights on her, pulling the awkward Tsubaki into his orbit as the two slowly grow closer.
Spice & Wolf
狼と香辛料
Kraft Lawrence is a traveling merchant who roams a world modeled on medieval Europe, hauling goods town to town and saving toward the shop he dreams of owning. Stopping in the farming village of Pasloe, he wakes to find a centuries-old wolf-deity named Holo curled up in his cart, claiming to be the harvest goddess the villagers once revered. Holo bargains a ride north toward her distant homeland, and the two set off as Lawrence works the markets, with the story turning on trade and bargaining rather than swords.
Toradora!
とらドラ！
Ryuuji Takasu has a gentle nature but a glare so sharp that classmates take him for a delinquent. He crosses paths with Taiga Aisaka, a tiny, sharp-tongued girl nicknamed the Palmtop Tiger, and discovers she has a crush on his best friend Yuusaku Kitamura, while she learns he's pining after her own friend Minori Kushieda. The two strike a pact to play matchmaker for each other and keep landing in trouble instead.
Oresama Teacher
俺様ティーチャー
Mafuyu Kurosaki led a gang in Saitama until she was caught and expelled, and her mother shipped her off to distant Midorigaoka Academy with a warning: one more fight and she's disowned. Determined to reinvent herself as a sparkly, friend-collecting normal girl, Mafuyu instead finds that her new homeroom teacher is Takaomi Saeki, the former-delinquent childhood neighbor who shaped her into a brawler. He drafts her into the Public Morals Club to clean up the academy's troublemakers.
Karneval
カーニヴァル
Nai, a sheltered boy with no grasp of the outside world, sets out to find Karoku, the only person he has ever known, guided by nothing but a bracelet left behind in a trail of blood. He crosses paths with Gareki, a teenage thief who robs the mansions of the wealthy, and the two are pulled together when a Varuga in disguise traps them. The bracelet turns out to belong to Circus, the nation's elite defense agency, which takes both boys in as it hunts the human experiments that connect Nai's search to Karoku.
SKET Dance
SKET DANCE
At Kaimei High School, three students run the Sket-dan, a club devoted to solving any problem a classmate brings them. Bossun, the scatterbrained but sharp leader, works alongside Himeko, who swings a hockey stick when muscle is needed, and Switch, an otaku who speaks only through laptop voice-synthesis software. Together they take on requests across the school, from the trivial to the bizarre, often tangling with the student council. Kenta Shinohara's shounen comedy strings these cases into longer arcs.
Kids on the Slope
坂道のアポロン
In the summer of 1966, introverted classical pianist Kaoru Nishimi transfers to a high school in Sasebo, Nagasaki, where he meets Sentaro Kawabuchi, a delinquent his classmates fear. Sentaro's passion for jazz pulls the reserved Kaoru into the music, and the two start playing together in the basement of a record shop run by the family of their classmate Ritsuko Mukae. Across three years of school, their friendship and the bonds around it take shape through jam sessions.
Black Paradox
ブラックパラドクス
Four strangers who met on a website called Black Paradox gather to die together, going by the handles Maruso, Taburo, Piitan, and Baracchi. Each carries a private reason to want out: a premonition of horror, a doppelganger taken as an omen, a robotics worker outdone by a machine modeled on him, a reflection that feels like a death sentence. Before they can finish what they came for, a string of uncanny near-deaths interrupts them and points the four toward something stranger waiting on the other side.
Operation Absolute Peace
絶対平和大作戦
Prince Johanne of Meteora and Princess Euda of Cannan come from two kingdoms locked in a long war. To force a truce, the pair stage a public romance and engagement, presenting themselves as a love match while privately unable to stand each other. Their performance grows complicated as Euda's feelings shift against her will, and as factions that want the war to continue mark both royals as traitors worth killing.
Chocolate Cosmos
チョコレート・コスモス
Sayuki Sakurai is a first-year at Shunei High whose permanent scowl makes classmates mistake her for a bully, even as she longs to fall in love. On a beach trip she meets a charming man who smells faintly of chocolate and tells her he attends her school, though she has never seen him there. Back in class she gets her answer: he is Hagiwara, her new home economics teacher, and her hunt for romance collides with a crush she was never supposed to have.
Onanie Master Kurosawa
オナニーマスター黒沢
Kakeru Kurosawa is a withdrawn junior-high student who keeps to himself and quietly judges his classmates, while indulging a secret habit in an unused girls' bathroom after school. When he learns that the timid Aya Kitahara is being tormented by two popular classmates, she discovers his secret and forces him to take revenge on her behalf. What starts as a crude blackmail arrangement pulls Kakeru out of his isolation and into the messy consequences of the people he chooses to punish.
Altair: A Record of Battles
将国のアルタイル
Tughril Mahmut is the youngest pasha in the history of the Turkiye stratocracy, a war orphan raised to a seat on its council before he is even an adult. Determined that his country never again know war, he uncovers schemes that would drag it into one and works to head them off. When the militaristic Balt-Rhein Empire begins pressing across the continent of Rumeliana, Mahmut leaves home to travel its nations and build the alliances that might hold Balt-Rhein's expansion in check.
The Climber
孤高の人
Buntarou Mori is a withdrawn transfer student who keeps everyone at arm's length until a classmate dares him to climb the outside of the school building. The ascent leaves him hooked, and he throws himself into mountaineering with the same solitary intensity he brings to everything else. Pushing from the climbing club toward ever more dangerous peaks, Buntarou sets his sights on K2, one of the deadliest mountains on earth. The manga draws loosely on the life of real Japanese climber Buntarou Katou.
Noblesse
노블레스
Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, a noble of immense power known as Rai, wakes in modern South Korea after 820 years of sleep, with no grasp of the world that grew up while he was gone. He enrolls in Ye Ran High School, where he reunites with his devoted servant Frankenstein, now the school's principal, and falls in with ordinary teenagers like Shinwoo and Ikhan. As Rai adjusts to convenience stores and cell phones, the shadowy organization known as the Union begins to move against him.
Rosario+Vampire: Season II
ロザリオとバンパイア season II
This second manga series continues the story of Tsukune Aono, a human student attending the monster-only Yokai Academy, picking up after the first series' near-destruction of the school. Tsukune returns to reunite with Moka Akashiya and his other classmates, now carrying Moka's vampire blood held in check by a limiter. Moka's younger half-sister Koko enrolls, and a human organization called Fairy Tale begins to threaten the monster world the academy was built to protect.
Chihayafuru
ちはやふる
Chihaya Ayase falls for competitive karuta after a transfer student, Arata Wataya, shows her the speed of the card game and the dream of becoming Queen, its top female player. Years later in high school she reunites with childhood friend Taichi Mashima and founds the Mizusawa Karuta Club, recruiting members to compete as a team. With Arata far away and Taichi at her side, Chihaya trains to climb the national ranks one match at a time.
Space Brothers
宇宙兄弟
As boys, Mutta and Hibito Nanba see a light streak toward the Moon and swear to become astronauts — Hibito aiming for the Moon, Mutta for Mars. Years later Hibito is a JAXA astronaut bound for a lunar mission, while Mutta has just been fired for headbutting his boss. A nudge from his younger brother sends Mutta back to that childhood promise, and he applies to JAXA's astronaut selection to chase the dream he had quietly buried.
Umineko When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch
うみねこのなく頃に Episode1:Legend of the golden witch
Battler Ushiromiya returns after six years to his family's annual gathering on the private island of Rokkenjima, where his relatives quarrel over the inheritance of the ailing patriarch Kinzo. Kinzo clings to life dreaming of the golden witch Beatrice, said to have given him his fortune long ago. When a typhoon seals the family on the island and a letter arrives signed by Beatrice, people begin to vanish and a chain of impossible murders starts, leaving the survivors to argue whether a human killer or the witch herself is at work.
Tsugumomo
つぐもも
Kazuya Kagami carries his late mother's obi everywhere, until the sash transforms into a kimono-clad girl named Kiriha — a tsukumogami, an object that has gained a soul after long years with its owner. When an amasogi, a spirit born from someone's spiteful wish, attacks and nearly kills him, Kiriha steps in to defend him. Pulled into a hidden world of gods and tsukumogami, Kazuya begins training to fight the amasogi while questions about his own forgotten past start to surface.
Baby Steps
ベイビーステップ
Eiichiro Maruo is a meticulous honor student who has never cared about sports, until a flyer and a classmate named Natsu Takasaki pull him onto a tennis court for the first time. With no athletic background, he approaches the game the only way he knows how: by taking exhaustive notes on opponents' habits and reverse-engineering their shots, turning his classroom discipline into a methodical climb through competitive tennis.
Shiki
屍鬼
During a sweltering summer, the isolated mountain village of Sotoba is struck by a wave of unexplained deaths just as a strange family, the Kirishiki, moves into the long-abandoned Kanemasa mansion on the hill. Village doctor Toshio Ozaki refuses to accept the toll as an epidemic and begins dissecting the pattern behind the dying. His investigation points to the Shiki — risen corpses that feed on the living and are quietly turning Sotoba into a refuge of their own. This manga adapts Fuyumi Ono's horror novel.
Death Note: L Change the WorLd
L change the WorLd
A Death Note spin-off set in an alternate continuity, this novel follows the detective L during his final twenty-three days after writing his own name in the notebook. With the clock running, he sets out to stop Blue Ship, a bioterrorist group that plans to wipe out most of humanity with an engineered virus. Working alongside the boy genius Near and a handful of allies, L races to dismantle the plot in the time he has left, the story turning toward the man behind the detective rather than another battle of wits with Kira.
Dreamin' Sun
夢みる太陽
Shimana Kameko has been miserable at home since her mother's death and her father's remarriage, so one morning she runs off and ends up tripping over a man asleep in a park. The stranger, Taiga Fujiwara, offers her a room in his house on the condition that she explain why she ran away, recover his lost key, and 'have a dream.' Moving in, Shimana shares the place with two other young men, including her classmate Zen Nakajou and the older Asahi Tatsugae.
Sengoku Youko
戦国妖狐
As Japan slides into the chaos of the Sengoku era, the self-styled World Reform Siblings travel the land righting wrongs done by the katawara, the monstrous "darkness that stands beside" humans. Tama is an idealistic youko fox spirit who loves humankind and punishes katawara that prey on it, while her jaded younger brother Jinka borrows her power, wanting only to shed his humanity and become a katawara himself. Their road soon gathers the timid samurai Shinsuke and the reluctant half-katawara Shakugan into their cause.
Bride of the Water God
하백의 신부
To end a drought, a village offers Soah as a sacrifice to the water god, but instead of drowning she wakes in the palace of Habaek, a god who appears as a small boy by day. As Soah tries to find her footing and someone to trust among the gods, she grows close to Habaek's aloof, handsome cousin Mui, never realizing the connection between them. Yun Mi-kyung's manhwa builds its romance from court intrigue and Korean mythology.
Totally Captivated
완전무결하게 사로잡히다
Ewon Jung is forced to run errands for a loan-shark gang with no pay, dumped into the job by Jiho, his jealous ex. The gang's boss, Mookyul Eun, a coldly handsome man with a drunken habit of biting people's necks, takes an immediate interest in his new errand boy. This Korean BL manhwa follows Ewon as he navigates the gang's demands and Mookyul's volatile attention.
Fairy Tail S: Tales from Fairy Tail
FAIRY TAIL S
Natsu, Lucy, Erza, and the rest of the Fairy Tail guild return in a collection of short omake stories drawn alongside the main series. The pieces range from everyday guild antics to comedic side adventures, giving supporting members their own moments in the spotlight. This two-volume compilation gathers bonus tales, many never collected before, rather than continuing the main storyline.
Hetakoi
ヘタコイ
For his twentieth birthday Shizuka decides to visit a hot spring alone, and there he stumbles onto the first naked woman he has ever seen — a drunk girl passed out by the baths. When he starts college, a high school friend talks him into joining the women-dominated travel-and-hot-springs club, where he discovers that the same girl, Ruka, is a member. Now Shizuka has to act normal around her while pretending he isn't picturing that night every time they meet.
Hen Koi!
ヘンコイ！
Watase Yuuto is an ordinary high schooler who keeps finding his belongings tampered with after class. When he sets out to catch whoever is behind it, the culprit turns out to be classmate Aoki Honoka, and the discovery upends the quiet routine he thought he understood. The short ecchi romantic comedy follows the awkward fallout between the two.
Onihime VS
鬼姫VS
Setsuna Kashiwagi, a Japanese high schooler with a failing heart, strikes a desperate bargain with an Oni: ten million yen now in exchange for his life within the year. Soon two princesses of the Royal Oni Clan, Kanna and Rena, attach themselves to him as bodyguards, fending off other Oni who would claim his heart early, on the understanding that one of them will devour it once the year runs out.
Psyren
PSYREN―サイレン―
Ageha Yoshina is a high schooler who solves anyone's problem for a flat ten-thousand-yen fee. When he returns a wallet to classmate Sakurako Amamiya and finds a strange card marked Psyren inside, she flees with a whispered plea to save her before disappearing. Chasing her, Ageha is pulled into Psyren, a deadly game that drops players into a ruined wasteland, and discovers he can awaken psychic powers known as PSI to survive it.
Hanatsukihime
花月姫
Lys was born without a beating heart. To keep her alive, her mother struck a contract with a devil: Lys borrows his heart until she turns sixteen, after which he claims her body. Traveling as a dancer with Siva, a companion she met by chance one night in the desert, she searches for the devil who sealed her fate. Their road soon crosses a self-centered prince and a spirit bound to a ring.
Bokura no Kiseki
ボクラノキセキ
Since childhood, Harusumi Minami has carried vivid memories of Veronica, the princess of a kingdom that fell in ancient times, and believes himself to be her reincarnation. When he admits this aloud, those around him pull away, until in middle school he discovers that the magic Veronica once learned answers to him too. He is not the only one reborn: others who died at Reinsberg Castle have also returned, sharing his classroom and slowly recalling who they were.
Kon no Ki Konoha
コンノキコノハ
As a child, a girl named Akino wanders into a mountain forest and finds a strange blue tree, where she meets a blue-haired boy called Konoha. He is a spirit who lives inside the tree and can only step outside during autumn. Year after year Akino returns to see him, and the two test whether a bond between a human and a spirit who can meet only one season at a time can really hold.
First Love Limited
初恋限定。
Set across a middle school and a high school, the manga follows eight girls and the people around them through interlocking vignettes about first love, each chapter centering on a different character. Kei Enomoto, drawing constant confessions she dismisses as meaningless, clashes with the brash Etsu Kusuda; Ayumi and her friends navigate crushes of their own. The separate threads gradually braid together into a single connected story.
The Flower and the Devil
花と悪魔
On a winter day in early-twentieth-century Japan, the demon Vivi returns home to find an abandoned infant crying on his doorstep. When the baby meets his eyes and breaks into a smile his butler Tony compares to a flower, Vivi takes her in on a whim and names her Hana. Years later the screaming infant has grown into a cheerful young woman, and Vivi finds himself caught between his role as her guardian and his own deepening attachment, even as Hana keeps living as though their natures aren't worlds apart.
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
伊藤潤二の猫日記 よん＆むー
Horror artist J-kun, a self-declared dog person, moves into a new house with his fiancée A-ko and inherits two cats: Yon, the spooky-faced family cat A-ko brings along, and Mu, a Norwegian Forest kitten the couple adopts soon after. This autobiographical comic by Junji Ito drops his usual dread for everyday gags as J-kun, desperate for the cats' affection, narrates their standoffishness with the same grim intensity he'd give a haunting.
Stepping on Roses
裸足でバラを踏め
Sumi Kitamura, a fifteen-year-old in Meiji-era Tokyo, scrapes together food for her adopted siblings while her gambling brother Eisuke piles on debt. A wealthy stranger named Soichiro Ashida offers to clear it all on one condition: she marry him so he can claim his inheritance, and never fall in love with him. Sumi accepts to save her family, then has to play the part of a refined wife in a household where Soichiro's friend Nozomu Ijuin takes an unexpected interest in her.
Deadman Wonderland
デッドマン・ワンダーランド
Middle schooler Ganta Igarashi survives a quake that sank much of Tokyo, until a figure in blood-red armor he comes to call the Red Man slaughters his whole class and lodges a red crystal in his chest. Convicted of the killings he did not commit, Ganta is sent to Deadman Wonderland, a private prison run as a tourist theme park where inmates perform in deadly games. A collar feeds him poison he must keep at bay with candy earned inside, and a strange white-haired girl named Shiro attaches herself to him as he swears to find the Red Man.
The Breaker
브레이커
Shi-Woon Yi is a meek high-schooler worn down by relentless bullying, until a new substitute teacher, Chun-Woo Han, casually displays terrifying martial-arts skill. Shi-Woon begs Chun-Woo to train him, not knowing the man is the Nine Arts Dragon, an outcast warrior at war with the hidden society of martial-arts clans known as the Murim. As Shi-Woon learns the basics of inner energy, he is unknowingly pulled into Chun-Woo's feud with the Murim's ruling Martial Arts Alliance.
Strobe Edge
ストロボ・エッジ
First-year student Ninako Kinoshita has never been in love and barely understands what the feeling means until she gets to know Ren Ichinose, a quiet, popular classmate she keeps meeting on the morning train. As she realizes her growing crush, she also learns that Ren is already dating Mayuka Korenaga, a model and the older sister of Ninako's childhood friend Daiki, who has long held feelings of his own for her.
K-On!
けいおん!
To save the Light Music Club at all-girls Sakuragaoka High School from being shut down, four students sign up as its only members. Yui Hirasawa joins on a whim with no idea how to play an instrument; bassist Mio Akiyama is mature but crippled by stage fright; drummer Ritsu Tainaka appoints herself president; and wealthy, sheltered Tsumugi Kotobuki takes the keyboard. Between practice and far more tea and cake, they form the band Houkago Tea Time.
I Am Here!
ココにいるよ！
Hikage Sumino is so unnoticed at school that classmates seem to look right through her, and her only company is a blog where she writes as Himawari and two online friends cheer her on. When the two most popular boys in her class, Hinata Mutou and Teru Mikami, begin to actually see her, Hikage gets her first real chance to step out of the shadows. As she grows closer to them, jealousy and gossip test whether she can finally hold her ground in front of others.
Seitokai Yakuindomo
生徒会役員共
Takatoshi Tsuda enrolls at Ousai Academy the year it goes co-ed, and as one of the few male students he is drafted onto the student council as vice president by president Shino Amakusa. Alongside the tiny, sharp-tongued secretary Aria Shichijo and the level-headed treasurer Suzu Hagimura, Takatoshi spends his days as the lone straight man, batting down the council's endlessly off-color jokes and misunderstandings in a four-panel gag format.
Venus in the Blind Spot
伊藤潤二短編集 BEST OF BEST
Venus in the Blind Spot gathers a selection of Junji Ito's short horror stories, from an adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's "The Human Chair" to the much-cited "The Enigma of Amigara Fault," in which hikers find human-shaped holes opening in a mountainside after an earthquake. The collection runs through stand-alone tales such as "The Licking Woman," "Billions Alone," and "Keepsake," alongside an autobiographical piece about Ito's admiration for horror artist Kazuo Umezu.
Maken-Ki!
マケン姫っ！
Takeru Ohyama enrolls at Tenbi Academy, a former all-girls school now gone co-ed, expecting an easy life surrounded by pretty classmates. Reuniting with childhood friend Haruko Amaya, he learns the school trains students who channel an inner energy called Element and fight using crafted weapons known as Maken. Takeru soon finds himself entangled with Inaho Kushiya, who claims to be his fiancée, and Kodama Himegami, who declares she wants to kill him, while his own latent ability stays a mystery.
A Certain Magical Index
とある魔術の禁書目録
Touma Kamijou lives in Academy City, a metropolis where students are trained as espers with measured psychic powers. His own right hand carries Imagine Breaker, an ability that cancels any power it touches and, with it, his luck. His ordinary misfortune ends the day he finds a nun named Index draped over his balcony railing, her mind crammed with 103,000 forbidden magical texts that draw the world of sorcery down on him.
Dengeki Daisy
電撃デイジー
Orphaned Teru Kurebayashi keeps going thanks to text messages from Daisy, an anonymous contact her late brother left her on an old cellphone. When she breaks a school window, she is roped into chores for Tasuku Kurosaki, the gruff young janitor, and slowly senses that the man scolding her and the voice on her phone may be the same person. This shōjo manga ties the mystery of Daisy's identity to the hacker work that linked him to her brother.
Liverleaf
ミスミソウ
Haruka Nozaki transfers into a small rural school that is slated to close, and the other students single her out for relentless bullying that her teacher refuses to stop. When the harassment escalates to her family's house being set on fire, killing her parents and gravely injuring her younger sister Shoko, Haruka stops enduring and turns on the classmates she holds responsible. What began as a story about a friendless newcomer becomes a cold account of one girl's revenge.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
天元突破グレンラガン
In a future where humanity lives in cramped underground villages, the hotheaded Kamina dreams of reaching the surface, while the timid digger Simon keeps his head down. When Simon unearths a small face-shaped mecha called a Gunmen and a fiery gunslinger named Yoko bursts in from above, the two boys break through to a world ruled by Beastmen and their war machines. This manga adaptation retells the Gurren Lagann story with reordered events and added character backstory.