Top Manga of 2007

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. In elementary school he falls for Aiko Tanaka, a girl newly transferred into his class, and builds his plans for the future around her. At home his parents' marriage is falling apart, and an uncle moves in to look after him. The years that follow carry Punpun from that first crush into a harder adolescence, his inner life running far ahead of anything he says out loud.

Peak

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The Breaker

브레이커

Action

Drama

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.

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The Climber

孤高の人

Sports

Drama

Seinen

Buntarou Mori is a withdrawn transfer student who keeps everyone at arm's length until a classmate dares him to climb the outside of the school building.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. This manga adapts Jirou Nitta's 1973 novel, whose climber was partly modeled on the real Buntarou Katou.

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Dengeki Daisy

電撃デイジー

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

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. The mystery of who Daisy is runs back to the hacking work that tied him to her brother.

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Psyren

PSYREN―サイレン―

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

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.

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Petit Eva: Evangelion@School

ぷちえゔぁ〜EVANGELION@SCHOOL〜

Shounen

Comedy

Shinji Ikari and his classmates attend Nerv School in Tokyo-3, where Gendou Ikari is the principal and Misato is a teacher. Three different Rei Ayanami sisters share the roll call, Eva Unit-01 has been redrawn as a school bully called Evanchou, and the scrapped Jet Alone robot turns up as JA-ko, a shy android girl who mostly hides. This super-deformed spin-off recasts the Evangelion cast as students rather than pilots, and no Angel ever shows up to be fought.

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Doubt

ダウト

Thriller

Shounen

Horror

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. Yuu 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, they must play Rabbit Doubt for real and find the liar among them, working from bar codes tattooed on their bodies that each open a single door.

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Petit Eva Bokura Tanken Doukoukai

ぷちえヴぁぼくら探検同好会

Shounen

Comedy

Shinji Ikari and the super-deformed Nerv School students of Petit Eva take up exploring here, in a companion series whose title names them an exploration club. Gendou Ikari still runs the school, Rei Ayanami still comes in multiples, and the gags still trade on Evangelion's cast being children in uniforms rather than pilots. Rather than continuing Petit Eva: Evangelion@School, this is an alternative version of it by the same artist, so the two runs restate one premise side by side.

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March Comes in Like a Lion

3月のライオン

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

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.

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Rosario+Vampire: Season II

ロザリオとバンパイア season II

Action

Shounen

Ecchi

Tsukune Aono, the only human student at the monster-only Yokai Academy, returns to the school after it was nearly destroyed, now carrying vampire blood from Moka Akashiya that a limiter keeps in check. He reunites with Moka and the rest of his classmates as a new year begins. Moka's younger half-sister Koko Shuzen enrolls, and a human organization called Fairy Tale starts to threaten the monster world the academy was built to protect. This second manga series picks up directly from the first.

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Strobe Edge

ストロボ・エッジ

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

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.

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Seven Days: Monday-Sunday

セブンデイズ

Drama

Romance

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.

Chihayafuru

ちはやふる

Sports

Drama

Romance

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.

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Shunki Gentei Ichigo Tart Jiken

春期限定いちごタルト事件

Slice of Life

Kobato Jougorou cannot stop over-analyzing every small mystery that crosses his path, and Osanai Yuki looks harmless, lives for sweets, and is nothing of the sort. The two keep a strictly mutual-benefit arrangement and one shared goal: to get through their first year at Funado High as unremarkable 'ordinary citizens.' Minor incidents keep finding them anyway, from a classmate's stolen pouch to the theft of Osanai's own bicycle. This manga adapts the first novel in the Shoshimin mystery series, covering the pair's spring term.

Hana to Akuma

花と悪魔

Shoujo

Fantasy

Romance

On a winter day in early-twentieth-century Japan, the demon Vivi comes home to find an abandoned infant crying on his doorstep. The baby meets his eyes and breaks into a smile his butler Toni compares to a flower, so Vivi takes her in on a whim and names her Hana. Years later Hana is a cheerful teenager who brings him flowers every day, unaware that a demon's touch makes them wilt, and Vivi finds himself caught between the role of guardian and an attachment he keeps refusing to name.

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Spice & Wolf

狼と香辛料

Fantasy

Romance

Adventure

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 through markets where a good contract matters more than a sword.

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ONGOING

Freezing

フリージング

Action

Sci-Fi

Ecchi

Kazuya Aoi enrolls at West Genetics, an academy that trains the genetically enhanced young women called Pandoras and the Limiters who fight beside them against the Nova, interdimensional invaders. He crosses paths with Satellizer el Bridget, a feared second-year nicknamed the Untouchable Queen for her undefeated 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.

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Space Brothers

宇宙兄弟

Sci-Fi

Drama

Seinen

As boys, Mutta and Hibito Nanba see a light streak toward the Moon and swear to become astronauts, Hibito aiming for the Moon and 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.

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Faster than a Kiss

キスよりも早く

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

After her parents' death, sixteen-year-old Fumino Kaji has bounced between relatives' homes with her little brother Teppei and decides to quit school and support him herself. Her homeroom teacher, Kazuma Ojiro, finds her on a park bench and, when she blurts out that someone should just marry her and take them both in, agrees to do exactly that. Now secretly a teacher's wife, Fumino has to keep the marriage hidden from school, where exposure would cost Kazuma his job.

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Hiiro no Kakera: Mezame no Toki

緋色の欠片目覚めの刻

Shoujo

Fantasy

Romance

Tamaki Kasuga returns to her family's ancestral village and is soon confronted by supernatural danger, only to learn from her grandmother that she is the newest Tamayorihime, the role that leaves her to seal a powerful sword called Onikirimaru with the help of five sworn male guardians, including Takuma Onizaki and Yuuichi Komura. This manga adapts the Hiiro no Kakera otome game that the later TV anime is based on, and it predates that adaptation by several years. The story follows Tamaki's first steps into her new duty and the guardians assembling around her.

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Heroic Age

ヒロイックエイジ

Action

Sci-Fi

Adventure

When a princess of the Iron Tribe crosses a ruined planet searching for a messianic figure raised by an advanced alien civilization, she finds a boy named Age, who may hold what her people need to survive. Told from the perspective of Age's companion Iolaous, the manga follows their journey as competing alien races converge on a struggle that puts humanity's future at stake. Loosely modeled on the myth of Heracles and his labors, it reframes that structure inside a space-opera setting of warring civilizations.

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Bloody Monday

ブラッディ・マンデイ

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Fujimaru Takagi looks like an ordinary high schooler and works on the side 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 killed thousands in a Russian village, 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 keep the same outbreak out of Japan.

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ONGOING

Toradora!

とらドラ！

Drama

Romance

Seinen

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.

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Oresama Teacher

俺様ティーチャー

Shoujo

Romance

Comedy

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.

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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド・パール物語

Kids & Family

Action

Shounen

Hareta grew up in the wild among Pokémon and can climb like an Aipom and swim like a Magikarp. Professor Rowan recruits him as a Trainer, hands him a Piplup and sends him out with Mitsumi to find Dialga, the legendary Pokémon at the center of Sinnoh's folklore. Team Galactic wants Dialga too, and its recruits start turning up wherever Hareta goes. The manga follows the Diamond and Pearl games rather than the anime.

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K-On!

けいおん!

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Yui Hirasawa joins the Light Music Club at all-girls Sakuragaoka High School on a whim, with no idea how to play an instrument, and her signature saves the club from being shut down for lack of members. 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, the four form the band Houkago Tea Time.

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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

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

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. A typhoon then seals the eighteen family members and servants on the island, and a letter signed by Beatrice arrives. People begin to vanish in a chain of impossible murders, and the survivors argue whether a human killer or the witch herself is at work.

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SKET Dance

SKET DANCE

Shounen

Slice of Life

Comedy

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.

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I Am Here!

ココにいるよ！

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

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.

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Kids on the Slope

坂道のアポロン

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

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.

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Black Paradox

ブラックパラドクス

Drama

Supernatural

Horror

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.

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5 Centimeters per Second

秒速５センチメートル

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Takaki Toono and Akari Shinohara grow close as children, staying in touch by letter after her family relocates, until distance and time quietly wear the connection down. Years later, high schooler Kanae Sumida falls for Takaki without ever quite reaching him, caught behind the space he still keeps for a promise made when they were young. Written by Makoto Shinkai, this is the official novelization of the 5 Centimeters per Second film, expanding scenes only sketched in the movie.

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FINISHED

½ Prince

二分之一王子

Fantasy

Isekai

Romance

Feng Lan's twin brother, Feng Yang Ming, dares her to try the full-immersion VR game Second Life. As the first player to log in, the nineteen-year-old is allowed to give her avatar a face unlike her own, and she builds a handsome male elf she names Prince. She swears to climb the ranks without ever letting on that Prince is a girl, and an odd party gathers around her, including the hidden game moderator Lolidragon and the bouncy necromancer Doll.

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Paprika: The Dream-Child

パプリカ～The dream-child～

Thriller

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Some time after the events of the 2006 Paprika film, Atsuko Chiba's dream-detective alter ego Paprika takes on new investigations inside other people's dreams, still working through the DC Mini. This single volume was put together as an authorized 'what if' continuation of the film, with the original novel's author supplying the story, rather than as another adaptation of that novel.

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Gosick

GOSICK

Thriller

Shounen

Victorique de Blois rarely leaves the library tower of Saint Marguerite Academy, preferring to solve mysteries the town's police can't crack from behind a stack of books. Kazuya Kujo, a Japanese student who transferred to the fictional European country of Sauville in 1924, becomes her reluctant legman, fetching case details and dragging her out to see crime scenes firsthand. This manga adapts Kazuki Sakuraba's original light novels, opening with the pair's investigation of the ghost ship Queen Berry.

Tsugumomo

つぐもも

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

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.

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Queen's Blade: Hide & Seek

クイーンズブレイドハイド・アンド・シーク

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Elina Vance sets out from home to find her missing older sister, Leina Vance, the wandering warrior who left to compete in the Queen's Blade tournament. Elina's search brings her together with Florelle, who joins her on the road, and the two travel through the same kingdom Leina passed through, crossing paths with fighters drawn into the tournament's world. This spinoff manga runs parallel to the main Queen's Blade story, following Elina's side of the search.

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Black Blood Brothers ver.C

Action

Shounen

Supernatural

This one-volume official comic anthology collects short side stories set after the Black Blood Brothers anime, following vampire swordsman Jirou Mochizuki and his younger brother Kotarou once they are living inside the Special Zone, the offshore city where vampires and humans share the same streets. Rather than a new crisis, the chapters linger on smaller moments between the brothers and the people around them in the Zone, filling in gaps the main story skipped past.

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FINISHED

Darker than Black

DARKER THAN BLACK -黒の契約者-

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

Ten years after a zone called Hell's Gate appeared in Tokyo, false stars fill the night sky and Contractors walk among ordinary people. Each of them traded away a piece of their humanity for a supernatural power, and each pays an odd, fixed price whenever they use it. Hei, code-named BK-201 and known on the street as the Black Reaper, runs covert jobs for a shadowy syndicate while posing as a student. This manga adaptation follows him through assignments carried out under the watch of the agents policing the Gate.

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Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun

ご愁傷さま二ノ宮くん

Ecchi

Romance

Comedy

Shungo Ninomiya's home life stops being quiet when his mercenary sister Ryouko installs the Tsukimura siblings in his house: Mayu, a young succubus with a paralyzing fear of men, and her older brother Mikihiro, an incubus who enjoys stirring up trouble. Ryouko's unconventional fix has Mayu sharing close quarters with Shungo so she can work through the phobia with someone she trusts. Reika Houjou, the student council president at Shungo's school, adds to the chaos as the household settles into an unlikely arrangement under one roof.

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A Certain Scientific Railgun

とある科学の超電磁砲

Action

Sci-Fi

Supernatural

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.

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Wolf Guy: Wolfen Crest

ウルフガイ狼の紋章

Action

Drama

Supernatural

Akira Inugami is a werewolf and a transfer student who wants nothing more than to be left alone. His new homeroom teacher, Akiko Aoshika, cannot square what she saw the night before, a gang beating this same boy half to death in a park, with the unmarked student now sitting in her class. Placed alongside the school's worst delinquent, Inugami keeps his nature hidden while bullies and street gangs start circling, and the violence around him escalates.

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FINISHED

Baby Steps

ベイビーステップ

Shounen

Sports

Drama

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.

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Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu

伊藤潤二の猫日記よん＆むー

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

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.

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FINISHED

Noblesse

노블레스

Action

Supernatural

Adventure

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.

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FINISHED

Run with the Wind

風が強く吹いている

Sports

Drama

Seinen

Haiji Kiyose is determined to field a team for the Hakone Ekiden, Japan's most prestigious university relay race, using nothing but the ten residents of his run-down dormitory, Chikusei-sou. Most of them have never trained seriously, and first-year Kakeru Kurahara, a gifted runner Haiji recruits on the spot after catching him mid-theft, wants nothing to do with the plan at first. Pulled in anyway, Kakeru finds his troubled running past colliding with Haiji's stubborn optimism. This manga adapts the original novel.

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Sword of the Stranger

ストレンヂア無皇刃譚

Action

Adventure

A masterless ronin known as Nanashi takes on a young runaway named Kotaro as an unlikely bodyguard job, sheltering him and his dog Tobimaru from a Ming Chinese militia hunting him across Sengoku-era Japan. Among the pursuers is Rarou, a blond, blue-eyed swordsman who fights only for the thrill of facing a worthy opponent, not for any emperor. Sworn never to draw his blade again, Nanashi finds that vow tested with every step of the journey. This single-volume manga adapts the 2007 animated film of the same story.

Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya

Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Illyasviel von Einzbern is an ordinary elementary schooler with an extraordinary love of magical girl shows, which makes it worse when a talking wand named Ruby crashes through her window and forces a contract on her. Ruby was meant for Rin Tosaka, a mage from London's Clock Tower, but the mix-up sticks Illya with the job instead: hunting down seven scattered Class Cards across Fuyuki City before their magic causes real damage. Living out her favorite genre firsthand turns out to be far more work than the shows made it look.

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Tomoyo After ~Dear Shining Memories~

CLANNAD -智代アフター-

Shounen

Drama

Romance

Tomoya Okazaki and Tomoyo Sakagami have already found each other by the time this story opens, reunited under the sakura trees where Clannad's Tomoyo route ends, and are building an ordinary life together now that Tomoya has left school and started working. Tomoyo's brother Takafumi Sakagami and her small half-sister Tomo Mishima move in with them, turning the apartment into a makeshift household. This manga adapts the Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life visual novel, itself a continuation of Clannad's own story.

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Naruto Shippuden the Movie (Novelization)

劇場版NARUTO-ナルト-疾風伝

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Shion, a shrine maiden gifted with the power to seal demons and foresee death, predicts that Naruto Uzumaki will die protecting her, and Naruto refuses to believe it. Assigned as her bodyguard as ancient demons stir back to life, he has to choose between staying close, which puts him in the demons' path, and pulling back, which leaves Shion undefended and the world at risk. This novelization adapts the story of Naruto: Shippuden the Movie, the first Naruto feature film set after the Shippuden timeskip.

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HIATUS

Nyan Koi!

にゃんこい!

Romance

Supernatural

Comedy

Junpei Kousaka is allergic to cats and can't stand them, which makes it especially cruel when he accidentally destroys a shrine's cat-deity statue and gets cursed for it: he can suddenly understand what cats say, but he'll turn into one himself, a fatal outcome given his allergy, unless he grants a hundred of their wishes first. Complicating matters, his crush Kaede Mizuno adores cats, while childhood friend Kanako Sumiyoshi has feelings for him that go unnoticed. The manga has been on hiatus since 2015 after six collected volumes.

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FINISHED

Today, I Will Fall in Love

今日、恋をはじめます

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

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. She loses the top spot in class to Kyouta Tsubaki, a boy whose surname is her own given name, and when he needles her about it she snaps and cuts his hair on the spot. Intrigued rather than angry, the popular Kyouta sets his sights on her, pulling the awkward Tsubaki into his orbit as the two slowly grow closer.

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Servant x Service

サーバント×サービス

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

Lucy Yamagami joined the health and welfare section of a small ward office for one reason: to track down the bureaucrat who saddled her with an absurdly long name at birth and give him a piece of her mind. Instead she finds herself working alongside laid-back slacker Yutaka Hasebe and earnest new hire Saya Miyoshi under their overly friendly supervisor Taishi Ichimiya, as office comedy slowly gives way to real workplace bonds. This four-panel manga runs on the small daily friction of civil-service life.

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FINISHED

Karneval

カーニヴァル

Action

Fantasy

Supernatural

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.

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No Longer Human

人間失格

Drama

Ooba Youzou grows up in a well-off northern household convinced he cannot tell what other people want from him, so he builds a clown act in childhood and never puts it down. Sent to school in Tokyo, he falls in with Horiki and drifts away from the future his family arranged for him. This volume condenses Osamu Dazai's 1948 novel into manga for the Manga de Dokuha classics line, keeping Youzou's three notebooks as its frame.

Seitokai Yakuindomo

生徒会役員共

Shounen

Slice of Life

Comedy

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.

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Heaven's Memo Pad

神様のメモ帳

Thriller

Drama

Comedy

Narumi Fujishima has nobody to talk to at his new school until classmate Ayaka Shinozaki pulls him into the gardening club and introduces him to Alice, a shut-in who calls herself a NEET detective and works her cases from a cluttered room above a ramen shop, backed by little more than her computers and a circle of unemployed friends. Alice hires Narumi as her legs, sending him after everything she cannot reach online, and the errands drag him into investigations far heavier than he bargained for.

#58

FINISHED

Kure-nai

紅

Action

Shounen

Drama

Sixteen-year-old Shinkurou Kurenai specializes in settling disputes that never reach the police, and his newest client is Murasaki Kuhouin, the seven-year-old daughter of a powerful family who needs a live-in bodyguard. Taking the job puts a sheltered heiress in his cramped apartment and turns his working life into a daily balancing act between fieldwork and unexpected childcare. Action and household comedy carry roughly equal weight across the manga's ten volumes.

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MM!

Ecchi

Drama

Romance

Tarou Sado has been a masochist since middle school, ever since a punch from his classmate Arashiko Yuno left him strangely pleased rather than hurt. His friend Tatsukichi Hayama, who doesn't judge him for it, points him toward the Second Voluntary Club and its president, the self-proclaimed goddess Mio Isurugi, hoping she can cure him. Instead, Mio's rough treatment of Tarou only makes his condition worse, tangling the two of them together as she keeps trying anyway.

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FINISHED

Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D

吸血鬼ハンターD

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Vampire hunter D arrives in an isolated village to protect Doris Lang, bitten by the Nobility lord Count Magnus Lee and fighting to stay human before the transformation completes in the ruined world of 12,090 A.D. Magnus's daughter Larmica wants Doris dead rather than tolerate human interference, while the mercenary Rei-Ginsei stalks D for a rival bounty. This manga adapts Hideyuki Kikuchi's original 1983 novel.

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FINISHED

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

精霊の守り人

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Spear-wielding bodyguard Balsa is hired to protect young Prince Chagum after a water spirit's egg is implanted in him, a burden that marks him for death by his own father's order and draws pursuit from creatures of the parallel realm of Nayugu. Balsa is bound by a private vow to save eight lives, one for each of the eight taken years earlier to keep her alive as a child, and she smuggles Chagum out of the palace and into hiding. This manga adapts the first Moribito novel.

#62

FINISHED

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

新機動戦記ガンダムＷ〈ウイング〉 Endless Waltz

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Peace has held for a year and the five Gundams are gone into the sun when Relena Darlian is taken. Behind the abduction stands Mariemaia Khushrenada, named as Treize Khushrenada's daughter and heir to the Barton Foundation, with Chang Wufei already among her forces. Heero Yuy and the rest go back out to recover the machines they gave up. This prose telling of Endless Waltz runs across two volumes.

#63

FINISHED

Sengoku Basara Series Official Anthology Comic: Gakuen Basara

戦国BASARAシリーズオフィシャルアンソロジーコミック学園BASARA

Action

Comedy

Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura trade their armies for a class roster. This official anthology moves the Sengoku Basara warlords into a single school, where the feuds the games draw out of the Sengoku period carry on between clubs, classrooms and corridors. Several artists contribute the short comics, and the line ran long enough to fill eight volumes. An animated Gakuen Basara series followed later from the same premise.

In This Corner of the World

この世界の片隅に

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

Suzu Urano moves to the port city of Kure to marry into her husband's family, and the manga follows her adjusting to a new household while wartime shortages and American air raids close in around 1940s Hiroshima. Easily distracted and in love with drawing, Suzu keeps finding small things to sketch and laugh about even as daily life gets harder, and the book stays with her ordinary routines rather than the front lines of the war itself.

#65

FINISHED

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri: Hajisarashi-hen

ひぐらしのなく頃に祭～羞晒し編～

Comedy

On a July afternoon Keiichi Maebara races to the Okinomiya pool for a club outing, realizes he has forgotten his swim trunks, and accepts a pair from a toy-shop owner who swears they make the wearer irresistible. The trunks work, though not in any way he expected, and the rest of the club is left trying to get them off him. This stand-alone comedy side story shipped as a bonus novel with a PlayStation 2 release before becoming the first episode of the Rei OVA series, and it sits entirely apart from the village's central mystery.

Whispered Words

ささめきこと

Drama

Romance

Seinen

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.

#67

FINISHED

Idolmaster Xenoglossia

アイドルマスター XENOGLOSSIA

Action

Sci-Fi

Seinen

Haruka Amami passes an audition she believes is for idol work, and the agency behind it turns out to be a front for Mondenkind. The outfit trains girls to pilot the iDOLs, giant machines that shoot down the lunar fragments still falling since the disaster called Lost Artemis. Yukiho Hagiwara and Iori Minase come in through the same door. This manga tells its own version of the Xenoglossia story rather than retracing the anime, and the iDOLs choose their pilots themselves.

#68

FINISHED

Humanity Has Declined

人類は衰退しました

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Comedy

Centuries into a slow collapse of the human population, a UN-appointed mediator known only as 'I' returns to her rural hometown to help her tinkering grandfather and finds herself dealing with the planet's new dominant species: fairies, ten-centimeter creatures obsessed with sweets who wield advanced, barely-controlled technology. Her first attempt at diplomatic contact goes sideways fast, and the fallout makes plain how far the remaining humans have fallen behind their candy-loving successors.

#69

FINISHED

Death Note: L Change the WorLd

L change the WorLd

Thriller

Drama

A Death Note spin-off set apart from the manga's continuity, this novel follows the detective L through the final twenty-three days left to him after he wrote his own name in the notebook. With the clock running, he takes on Blue Ship, a bioterrorist outfit whose population-reduction plan would release an engineered virus on most of humanity. L spends what time he has left dismantling the scheme, and the story keeps its attention on the man behind the detective rather than on another duel of wits with Kira.

Dreamin' Sun

夢みる太陽

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

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 on three conditions: that she explain why she ran away, that she recover his lost key, and that she have a dream. Shimana takes the deal and moves in, sharing the place with two other young men, her classmate Zen Nakajou and the older Asahi Tatsugae.

#71

FINISHED

The Sacred Blacksmith

聖剣の刀鍛冶

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Cecily Campbell, a third-generation knight of the trade city of Housman, loses her family's sword defending the market from a rampaging war veteran and is saved by Luke Ainsworth, a blacksmith carrying a katana, a weapon nobody in her city has seen before. She talks him into forging one for her, and the partnership pulls her into the demon swords, old pacts and buried war history behind his craft, with the demon sword Aria at her side. The novels are the original source for the manga and anime adaptations.

#72

FINISHED

Umi no Misaki

海の御先

Ecchi

Romance

Comedy

Nagi Goto moves to the southern island of Okitsushima while his father works abroad, drawn there by the cape his mother used to talk about. On the island he meets Shizuku Narumi, Soyogi Mitsurigi and Karin Nagumo, three girls his age who serve as the cape's shrine maidens for the dragon god the islanders worship. Because Nagi was born on the day the previous dragon god died, the islanders take him for the deity's new incarnation, and the maidens' duties suddenly point at him.

#73

FINISHED

Sengoku Youko

戦国妖狐

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

As Japan slides into the chaos of the Sengoku era, Tama and her younger brother Jinka travel the land punishing katawara, the supernatural beings who live alongside humans in uneasy tension. Tama is a youko fox spirit who loves humankind despite being katawara herself; Jinka, human by birth, borrows her power and wants nothing more than to shed his humanity. A cowardly swordsman named Shinsuke attaches himself to them hoping to learn strength, and the group frees a girl called Shakugan from monks experimenting on human beings.

#74

FINISHED

Hori-san to Miyamura-kun

堀さんと宮村くん

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

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 is HERO's original webcomic, the one the later Horimiya manga is based on.

#75

FINISHED

Myself ; Yourself: Sorezore no Overture

Myself；Yourself それぞれのオーヴァーチュア

Drama

Romance

Written as a prologue to the Myself ; Yourself visual novel, this light novel splits into six chapters, each one built around a different heroine: Nanaka, Aoi, Syuri, Yuzuki, Hinako, and Asami. Rather than one continuous story, it works through each girl's circumstances before the events of the main visual novel begin, letting each chapter stand as its own short introduction to her situation.

Romeo x Juliet

ロミオ×ジュリエット

Action

Drama

Romance

Juliet Capulet was the only Capulet to survive the bloody coup that put House Montague over Neo Verona fourteen years ago, hidden and raised since by her family's loyal retainers. By night she rides through the city as the masked vigilante Red Whirlwind, striking back on behalf of its poor. Everything shifts when she meets Romeo, the Montague heir, at the Rose Ball and finds he's just as troubled by his father's rule as she is. This manga retells the same star-crossed story as the Romeo x Juliet anime, reimagining Shakespeare's tragedy in Neo Verona.

#77

FINISHED

Bride of the Water God

하백의 신부

Fantasy

Drama

Romance

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.

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#78

FINISHED

Venus in the Blind Spot

伊藤潤二短編集 BEST OF BEST

Supernatural

Horror

Seinen

Venus in the Blind Spot collects short horror stories by Junji Ito, among them an adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's "The Human Chair" and the much-cited "The Enigma of Amigara Fault," where hikers find human-shaped holes opening in a mountainside after an earthquake. Stand-alone tales such as "The Licking Woman," "Billions Alone" and "Keepsake" round out the selection. An autobiographical piece about Ito's admiration for horror artist Kazuo Umezu closes the book.

#79

FINISHED

Totally Captivated

완전무결하게 사로잡히다

Drama

Romance

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.

Maken-Ki!

マケン姫っ！

Action

Shounen

Ecchi

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 fiancee, and Kodama Himegami, who declares she wants to kill him, while his own latent ability stays a mystery.

#81

FINISHED

A Lollypop or A Bullet

砂糖菓子の弾丸は撃ちぬけない

Drama

Nagisa Yamada is a guarded, plainspoken middle schooler in a rural town with one plan: graduate, enlist in the Self-Defense Force, and get clear of the poverty that followed her father's death and her brother Tomohiko's withdrawal from the world. That plan 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.

Koi no Kamisama: Naoshi Komi Short Story Collection

恋の神様

Romance

Comedy

Naoshi Komi's first short-story collection gathers six standalone tales, among them the title piece and the original one-shot pilot of Nisekoi. They range across genres: "Island" follows Aira and Marue, who dream of getting past the walls that have sealed their island off from the world for four hundred years, and lighter romantic comedies sit alongside it. Each piece is self-contained rather than part of a continuing series.

Operation Absolute Peace

絶対平和大作戦

Drama

Romance

Comedy

Prince Johane of Meteora and Princess Euda of Canaan 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 act grows harder to hold as Euda's feelings shift against her will and as factions on both sides scheme to keep the fighting going.

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ONGOING

A Certain Magical Index

とある魔術の禁書目録

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

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.

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FINISHED

The 7th Period Is a Secret.

7限目はヒミツ。

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

After her family moves to a new town, Shun, a shy and 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 Shun performs and the truth her teacher keeps catching glimpses of.

#86

FINISHED

Fairy Tail S: Tales from Fairy Tail

FAIRY TAIL S

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

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.

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FINISHED

Liverleaf

ミスミソウ

Thriller

Drama

Horror

Haruka Nozaki transfers into a small rural middle school that is due to close within months, and the other students single her out for bullying the teacher will not stop. When the harassment escalates to arson, her parents die in the fire and her younger sister Shoko is left badly burned. Haruka stops enduring at that point and turns on the classmates she holds responsible, and what began as a story about a friendless newcomer becomes a cold account of one girl's revenge.

#88

FINISHED

Kiss/Hug

キス／はぐ

Shoujo

Romance

Comedy

On the night of the Tanabata festival, Yukino crosses paths with Ryuu, a blunt transfer student newly arrived from England, and the two are drawn to each other on sight. Ryuu announces that Yukino will be his, which throws a girl who has never been in love completely off balance. Once he turns up at her school, Yukino has to make sense of his sudden, forceful affection and of feelings she has no experience reading.

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#89

FINISHED

Chocolate Cosmos

チョコレートコスモス

Shoujo

Romance

Comedy

Fifteen-year-old Sayuki Sakurai wants a sweet romance, but her hard stare and sharper tongue read as hostility and send boys off before anything starts. On a summer beach trip a friendly stranger steps in when she is being hassled, and she goes back to school hopeful, until he turns up there as Katsuya Hagiwara, her new home economics teacher. Her childhood friend Yuushi Muto has feelings of his own, and Sayuki's search for love lands on the one person she is not allowed to want.

#90

FINISHED

Hetakoi

ヘタコイ

Ecchi

Romance

Comedy

For his twentieth birthday Shizuka Komai decides to visit a hot spring alone, and there he sees the first naked woman of his life: 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 Shinohara, is a member. Now Shizuka has to act normal around her while pretending he isn't picturing that night every time they meet.

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#91

FINISHED

Hen Koi!

ヘンコイ！

Ecchi

Romance

Comedy

Watase Yuuto is an ordinary high schooler who keeps finding his belongings tampered with after class. Set on catching whoever is behind it, he stakes out his desk and discovers the culprit is his classmate Aoki Honoka. The find upends the quiet routine he thought he understood, and what began as a petty school mystery turns into an awkward, ecchi-tinged first romance between the two.

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#92

FINISHED

Onihime VS

鬼姫VS

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Setsuna Kashiwagi, a Japanese high schooler born with a failing heart and worn down by bullying, takes a mediator's offer: ten million yen now, his life within the year. The buyers turn out to be two oni princesses, the loud and volatile Kanna and her younger sister Rena, who speaks by writing and fights with spirit swords. The pair move in as his bodyguards, keeping him alive for exactly as long as the contract runs.

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#93

FINISHED

Gamble Fish

ギャンブルフィッシュ

Thriller

Drama

Seinen

Tomu Shirasagi transfers into the elite Shishidou Academy at fourteen and announces he will turn a hundred yen into ten billion in a month, betting his way up through a student body that looks down on his public-school background. His first clash is with Mika Shishidou, granddaughter of the school's founder, and behind the games stands Reiji Abidani, the scarred dormitory supervisor who keeps sending challengers his way. His roommate Kazuki Mizuhara backs him through every hand.

#94

FINISHED

Slayers Smash.

スレイヤーズすまっしゅ。

Fantasy

Adventure

Comedy

Lina Inverse goes on travelling the way she always has, drifting town to town and taking whatever work pays for the next meal. The jobs never turn out simple, the clients are rarely what they claim, and Naga the Serpent keeps reappearing to turn an ordinary errand into a spectacle. These comic short stories continue the Slayers Special gag line under a new name, and they sit before the events of the main novel series.

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#95

FINISHED

Hanatsukihime

花月姫

Shoujo

Fantasy

Romance

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.

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#96

ONGOING

Bokura no Kiseki

ボクラノキセキ

Fantasy

Drama

Romance

Since childhood, Harusumi Minami has carried vivid memories of Veronica, princess of Zerestria, a kingdom that fell in ancient times, and believes himself to be her reincarnation. Saying so out loud pushes everyone around him away, until in middle school he finds that the magic Veronica once studied answers to him as well. He is not the only one reborn: others who died with her at Reinsberg Castle are back too, sitting in his classroom and slowly recalling who they were.

#97

FINISHED

Altair: A Record of Battles

将国のアルタイル

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

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.

#98

FINISHED

Kon no Ki Konoha

コンノキコノハ

Fantasy

Romance

As a child, Akino wanders into a mountain forest and finds a strange deep blue tree, and out of it comes Konoha, a boy with blue hair. He is a spirit who lives inside the tree and can step outside only in autumn. Akino goes back every year when the leaves start to fall, and what grows between them has just that one season to live in. The whole story runs to a single chapter.

First Love Limited

初恋限定。

Shounen

Romance

Comedy

Ayumi Arihara, a second-year middle schooler, gets a note from Misao Zaitsu, a large and intimidating high schooler who wants to date her, and has no idea what to do about it. Hers is one of eight girls' stories, told as interlocking vignettes about first love across a middle school and a high school, each chapter centering on a different one of them. Kei Enomoto, who draws constant confessions and dismisses most of them, keeps clashing with the crude, pun-happy Etsu Kusuda, and the separate threads gradually braid into one connected story.

#100

FINISHED

Gurren Lagann

天元突破グレンラガン

Action

Sci-Fi

Adventure

In a future where humanity lives in cramped underground villages, the hotheaded Kamina of Giha village 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 the gunslinger Yoko arrives from above, the two boys break through to a world ruled by Beastmen and the war machines they pilot. This manga adaptation reorders events from the anime and restores character backstories the anime cut.

#101

FINISHED

Persona 3 FES: Comic Anthology - Brand New Days

ペルソナ3 フェスコミックアンソロジー Brand New Days

Supernatural

Comedy

Aigis, the anti-Shadow android the Kirijo Group built, stands with Makoto Yuki and S.E.E.S. through the Dark Hour, and Persona 3 FES extends that year with a playable epilogue set after the original game ends. Sixteen artists take the expanded release as their starting point here, running the dormitory cast, Tartarus and Gekkoukan High School through short comics. Brand New Days is the first of the FES anthology volumes, keyed to the 2007 re-release rather than to the 2006 game.

Persona 3 FES: 4-koma Kingdom - Commu-hen

ペルソナ3フェス 4コマKINGDOM COMMU編

Supernatural

Comedy

Away from the Dark Hour, Makoto Yuki spends his afternoons around Tatsumi Port Island building the bonds the Japanese release files under Community. Twenty-three four-panel strips by three artists stay with those residents rather than with the S.E.E.S. fighters, running gags through Gekkoukan High School and the island's streets. This Commu volume of 4-koma Kingdom is keyed to Persona 3 FES, the 2007 re-release, and shares its publication day with a companion volume about the squad itself.

Persona 3 FES: 4-koma Kingdom - S.E.E.S.-hen

ペルソナ3フェス 4コマKINGDOM S.E.E.S.編

Supernatural

Comedy

Mitsuru Kirijo runs S.E.E.S. out of the Tatsumi Port Island dorm, with Makoto Yuki, Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori, Akihiko Sanada, Fuuka Yamagishi, Aigis, Ken Amada and the dog Koromaru under her. Fifteen four-panel strips by three artists keep strictly to that squad: shared meals, the Evoker, the climb through Tartarus once the Dark Hour falls. The S.E.E.S. volume of 4-koma Kingdom went on sale the same day as its Commu counterpart, which follows the island's other residents instead.

Persona 3 FES: 4-gatsu 1-nichi-hen - 4-koma Gag Battle

ペルソナ3 フェス 4月1日編 4コマギャグバトル

Supernatural

Comedy

Makoto Yuki's school year at Gekkoukan High School opens in April, with the S.E.E.S. dormitory, the Evoker and the Dark Hour all still new to him. Eighteen four-panel gag strips by eight artists work off that Persona 3 FES setup, cycling through Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori, Mitsuru Kirijo and Akihiko Sanada for punchlines rather than plot. The volume is one of several competing 4-koma lines built on the 2007 re-release, each running its own set of contributors.

Persona 3 FES: Anthology Comic - Love Commu!

ペルソナ3フェスアンソロジーコミックラブコミュ!

Romance

Supernatural

Yukari Takeba, Mitsuru Kirijo, Fuuka Yamagishi and Aigis all live under the same Tatsumi Port Island roof as Makoto Yuki, and seventeen short comics take that proximity as their whole subject. Three artists work the romantic side of the Community bonds Persona 3 FES tracks, staying in the dormitory, at Gekkoukan High School and around the island instead of going up Tartarus. Love Commu! is the romance-focused entry in the FES anthology line.

Ghost Hound: Another Side

神霊狩/GHOST HOUND -アナザーサイド-

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

Taro Komori and his two friends grew up in a small town in northern Kyushu carrying childhood trauma that gave them an unusual ability: they can split their souls and cross into the Unseen World, a realm layered over the everyday one. When something in that hidden world starts shifting, the changes bleed back into the boys' ordinary lives in ways they can't ignore. This manga tells an alternate side story to the Ghost Hound TV anime.

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The Great Legend of the Legendary Heroes

大伝説の勇者の伝説

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Ryner Lute still carries the Alpha Stigma, eyes that read any magic put in front of them and get their bearer killed in most of the continent, and Ferris Eris still travels with him as his escort and his swordsman. Sion Astal rules the Roland Empire from a throne he took in order to change it, and no longer stands where Ryner stands. This light novel series continues Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu straight on from where that run stopped.

#108

ONGOING

Hidamari Sketch Anthology Comic

ひだまりスケッチアンソロジーコミック

Slice of Life

Comedy

Guest mangaka take turns with Yuno, Miyako, Hiro and Sae, filling short comics with the Hidamari Apartments and Yamabuki High School's art course while leaving Ume Aoki's own four-panel strips alone. Kashmir, Mera Hakamada and Ayami Kazama are among the contributors across five collected volumes. Yoshinoya's costumes, room-to-room visits and whatever Miyako is eating carry most of it, and no chapter needs any other to make sense.

Amaenaide yo!! MS

あまえないでよっ!! MS

Ecchi

Romance

Supernatural

Ikkou Satonaka has left Saienji for the main temple to continue his ascetic training. Six months on, the women he trained with are running the place without him: Sakura has taken over as head priest, while Haruka, Hinami, Yuko, Yo and Chitose divide their days between manual work and exorcism practice. Then, around cherry blossom season, a request arrives to exorcise an old sakura tree. This manga continues the Amaenaide yo!! story rather than adapting the television seasons.

#110

FINISHED

Legend of Regios

レジェンド・オブ・レギオス

Action

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Ailen comes back alone from the expedition sent past the aurora walls, and his body does not come back the way it left. Generations earlier a research group called Alchemist built the Subspace Creator System that raised those walls, after Earth's wars over food and fuel made the surface unlivable. Now the same group is pulling at what holds the sheltered world together, and Ailen turns on it. This light novel series is set centuries before Chrome Shelled Regios and its mobile cities.

#111

FINISHED

Dennou Coil

電脳コイル

Thriller

Sci-Fi

Drama

Eleven years after augmented-reality eyewear reshapes daily life, Yuuko Okonogi moves to Daikoku City and inherits her late grandfather's old-model glasses along with Densuke, a virtual pet dog only visible through them. She soon meets another Yuuko, nicknamed Isako, a gifted hacker chasing rogue programs called illegals through the city's hidden layers of augmented reality. This novelization retells the original TV anime's story of two girls investigating Daikoku's overlapping virtual and physical worlds.

#112

FINISHED

Mononoke

モノノ怪

Thriller

Supernatural

Horror

The Medicine Seller wanders old Japan hunting mononoke, vengeful spirits formed when a human grudge fuses with a wandering ayakashi. Before he can draw his blade against one, he must uncover three things: its Form, the Truth behind the tragedy that created it, and the Reason it turned monstrous. Each encounter drags him into a fresh haunting, where he questions the living and the dead until the mononoke's true nature is exposed enough to be cut down.

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#113

FINISHED

Yes! Precure 5

Yes! プリキュア5

Shoujo

Kids & Family

Action

Nozomi Yumehara, an ordinary student, finds a magical book called the Dream Collet in the library and, with it, Coco and Nuts, two creatures from the Palmier Kingdom. Their home was destroyed by the organization Nightmare, and restoring it means completing the Dream Collet with all 55 Pinkies, whose combined power can grant any wish. Nozomi agrees to help and becomes Cure Dream, and four fellow students, Rin, Urara, Komachi and Karen, join her Pretty Cure team as Nightmare moves into the human world. This manga adapts the anime series of the same name.

#114

FINISHED

Psychic Detective Yakumo: The Red Eyes Know

心霊探偵八雲赤い瞳は知っている

Thriller

Shoujo

Supernatural

College student Yakumo Saitou was born with a red left eye that lets him see the dead, a trait that marks him as an outcast but also makes him a reluctant investigator of the supernatural. Alongside classmate Haruka Ozawa, he takes on cases where spirits linger because of some unresolved cause, working from the belief that freeing a ghost means first understanding why it stayed. This manga is one of two adaptations of Manabu Kaminaga's novel series, illustrated by Ritsu Miyako.

#115

FINISHED

Muv-Luv Alternative

マブラヴオルタネイティヴ

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Takeru Shirogane wakes three years after the fighting he remembers and works out that he has been sent backward through his own timeline rather than forward. The BETA still hold Eurasia, humanity still answers with Tactical Surface Fighters, and Takeru now carries something nobody around him has: memory of how this went the first time. He falls in behind Professor Kouzuki and the Alternative IV plan, the programme meant to carry humanity through. This manga carries the Alternative arc of the Muv-Luv games across seventeen volumes.

#116

FINISHED

Persona 3

ペルソナ3

Action

Drama

Supernatural

Transfer student Minato Arisato enrolls at Gekkoukan High School and is drawn into S.E.E.S., a group of students investigating the Dark Hour, a hidden hour each night when supernatural creatures called Shadows appear. Minato discovers he can summon an inner force known as a Persona, and joins S.E.E.S. to fight the Shadows and uncover the truth behind the Dark Hour.

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#117

FINISHED

They Are My Noble Masters

君が主で執事が俺で

Shounen

Ecchi

Romance

Ren Uesugi and his older sister Mihato flee their abusive father and arrive in the seaside town of Nanami with nothing, until a chance favor to the youngest Kuonji daughter lands them jobs as butler and maid at the family's sprawling mansion. The house is run by the eldest of three sisters, Shinra, a celebrated orchestra conductor helpless at the smallest daily task; the middle sister, Miyu, is a grade-skipping inventor, and the youngest, Yume, an ordinary high schooler. Grateful for steady work and a roof, the siblings settle into a chaotic routine of chores, misunderstandings, and clashing tempers.

#118

FINISHED

The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya

涼宮ハルヒちゃんの憂鬱

Shounen

Comedy

The SOS Brigade is shrunk into chibi form for standalone gag sketches: Yuki Nagato turns out to be a closet otaku, Mikuru Asahina is so cute she keeps turning into a sheep, and Ryoko Asakura ends up a pint-sized live-in captive doing the housework in Nagato's apartment. Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon, and Itsuki Koizumi drift through the same absurdist bits between the brigade's usual clubroom antics. Each chapter is a self-contained joke rather than a continuation of the original series' plot.

H2O: Footprints in the Sand

H₂O -FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND-

Drama

Romance

Seinen

After his mother's death leaves him withdrawn, blind junior-high student Takuma Hirose moves in with his uncle in a small rural town and starts over at a new school. He finds himself drawn to three very different girls: the sharp-tongued Hayami Kohinata, the gentle Hinata Kagura, and a cheerful newcomer named Otoha who guards a secret of her own. Each of them pulls him a little further out of his isolation. This manga adapts the visual novel of the same name, condensing its branching story into a single arc.

#120

ONGOING

Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse

マブラヴオルタネイティヴトータル・イクリプス

Action

Sci-Fi

Yuuya Bridges, a half-Japanese, half-American test pilot, is posted to the UN's Yukon Base in Alaska for Project Prominence, a multinational program where each country's experimental Tactical Surface Fighters are flown against one another before being turned on the alien BETA. Assigned to Argos Test Flight alongside Tarisa Manandal, Yuuya has to earn his squadmates' trust while the Soviet Scarlet Twins, Cryska Barchenowa and Inia Sestina, beat every rival unit they meet. This light novel is the original source for the Total Eclipse manga and anime.

You're Being Summoned, Azazel

呼んでますよ、アザゼルさん。

Ecchi

Supernatural

Seinen

College student Rinko Sakuma takes a job at what she thinks is an ordinary detective agency, only to learn her boss Akutabe is a demon summoner who settles cases by calling creatures up from hell. Her first assignment introduces her to Azazel, a demon whose power feeds on lust, and a signature mistake binds her to him by contract for eternity. Sakuma is left working alongside Azazel, the dung-loving Beelzebub, and other deranged demons to close out the agency's jobs.

#122

FINISHED

Majimoji Rurumo

まじもじるるも

Shounen

Fantasy

Comedy

Shibaki, a high schooler stuck with a reputation as the school pervert, tries a witch-summoning spell he finds in an old library book and actually gets one: an apprentice witch named Rurumo, who grants him a wish without taking his soul in payment. When he wishes to see her again, she drops back into his life with an assignment: she has to get him to spend 666 magic tickets before she can become a full witch. What Rurumo does not know is that every ticket shortens Shibaki's life, and the last one will end it.

#123

FINISHED

Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!

Yes！プリキュア５GoGo!

Shoujo

Kids & Family

Action

A mysterious woman named Flora calls Nozomi Yumehara and her friends back into action as Pretty Cure and asks them to find her at the Cure Rosegarden. Reaching it takes the Rose Pact and the power of the four kings whose countries surround the Palmier Kingdom, and the dark organization Eternal is out to steal that same Rose Pact. Coco and Nuts return to the girls' side, and new help arrives in Syrup, a delivery boy who can turn into a giant bird and fly them anywhere. This manga follows the TV sequel of the same name.

#124

FINISHED

The World Ends with You

すばらしきこのせかい

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Neku Sakuraba wakes up in the middle of Shibuya's scramble crossing with no memory of how he got there and strangers' thoughts leaking into his head. A stranger named Shiki Misaki explains the rules: they're both trapped in the Reapers' Game, and surviving means completing timed missions and fighting monsters called Noise with psychic powers drawn from the pins players wear. This short manga is a promotional tie-in to the original Nintendo DS game.

#125

ONGOING

Giant Killing

GIANT KILLING

Sports

Drama

Seinen

East Tokyo United has spent years barely avoiding relegation and is bleeding fans. The club's gamble is Takeshi Tatsumi, a former ETU star who vanished from Japanese football to quietly coach an amateur fifth-division English club into the FA Cup's fourth round. His return puts him at odds with holdovers like captain Daisuke Tsubaki, while Luigi Yoshida, Shigeyuki Murakoshi, and the rest of the squad have to relearn a game he wants played on his terms. It approaches football from the manager's chair rather than a player's.

#126

FINISHED

Onanie Master Kurosawa: After the Juvenile

オナニーマスター黒沢：アフター・ザ・ジュブナイル

Drama

Romance

Two years after the events of the original Onanie Master Kurosawa manga, Kakeru Kurosawa reunites with his old middle school friends for a nostalgic day trip to Osaka. What starts as a chance to rekindle old bonds curdles fast: tension flares between Kurosawa and his girlfriend Maiko Sugawa when she is left out of the group, an old rift between two other friends resurfaces, and an uneasy silence hangs over one more member of the group. This short sequel light novel closes out the story across that single day.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA

エヴァンゲリオン ANIMA

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

Three years after Shinji Ikari stops Third Impact, NERV has been rebuilt under Misato Katsuragi's command in this alternate continuation of Evangelion. Shinji, now seventeen, again leads the EVA team alongside Asuka Langley Soryu, while four copies of Rei Ayanami run a worldwide search-and-destroy program against any Angel that resurfaces. When one of those units goes wrong and sets a course for Tokyo-3, Shinji and Asuka are sent to intercept it, and what they meet is a new kind of enemy: Evangelions that Angels have taken over. This light novel continues Evangelion's story past the original ending.

#128

FINISHED

The Book: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4th Another Day

Thriller

Shounen

Supernatural

A blood-soaked cat outside a convenience store leads Koichi Hirose and manga artist Rohan Kishibe to a house in Morioh, where a woman lies dead in a room locked from the inside, injured as though a car had hit her. Takuma Hasumi, a second-year with perfect recall whose Stand, The Book, writes everything he has seen and heard into a small leather volume, is pursuing an agenda of his own, and Chiho Futaba, a first-year friendly with him, ends up caught between them. The novel is set about six months after Diamond is Unbreakable ends.

#129

FINISHED

Persona 3: Dengeki Comic Anthology

ペルソナ3 電撃コミックアンソロジー

Supernatural

Comedy

Akihiko Sanada captains the Gekkoukan High School boxing team by day and fights Shadows with Makoto Yuki and the rest of S.E.E.S. once the Dark Hour arrives. Seventeen short comics here take that roster as raw material, ranging across the Tatsumi Port Island dorm, the climb through Tartarus and the ordinary school days in between, with Shuji Sogabe and Namori among the contributors. This is the Dengeki line's Persona 3 volume, one of the 2007 anthologies that preceded the FES collections.

Soshite - Kozure Ookami: Shikaku no Ko

そして――子連れ狼刺客の子

Action

Drama

Five-year-old Daigoro Ogami, the son of the assassin Itto Ogami, has been arrested for attacking someone with a sword inside Edo Castle. The shogun is sympathetic, since the boy once saved the shogunate from a crisis, but his government is sharply divided over whether to spare Daigoro or sentence him to death. The shogun's answer is to banish him to Danjo, the underground labyrinth beneath Edo Castle. Written by Kazuo Koike and drawn by Hideki Mori, this manga continues Daigoro's story after New Lone Wolf and Cub.

Deadman Wonderland

デッドマン・ワンダーランド

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

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.

#132

FINISHED

Heaven's Lost Property

そらのおとしもの

Action

Shounen

Ecchi

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.

#133

FINISHED

Shiki

屍鬼

Thriller

Shounen

Drama

During a sweltering summer the isolated mountain village of Sotoba is hit by a wave of unexplained deaths, just as a strange family called the Kirishiki moves into the long-abandoned Kanemasa mansion on the hill. The village doctor, Toshio Ozaki, refuses to accept the toll as an epidemic and starts picking apart the pattern in who is dying. What he finds points to the Shiki: risen corpses that feed on the living and are quietly turning Sotoba into a home of their own. This manga adapts Fuyumi Ono's horror novel.

#134

FINISHED

Stepping on Roses

裸足でバラを踏め

Drama

Romance

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.

Bye-Bye, Earth

ばいばい、アース

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

Belle Lablac is the only fully human person in a world where everyone else carries an animal's fangs, fur or scales, and the people around her call her 'Faceless' for it. To earn the right to leave and look for others like her, she serves as a Solist swordfighter and carries a massive blade called Runding through the trials that grant the rank of Nomad. The search pulls her into a widening conflict she never chose to join. This light novel is the source material for the Bye Bye, Earth anime.

#136

FINISHED

Clannad

CLANNAD

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Delinquent third-year student Tomoya Okazaki drags through his days in a small city he can't stand, going through the motions until a strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa stops him on the way to school, muttering to herself before blurting out "anpan." This manga adaptation focuses on Tomoya and Nagisa's effort to revive her school's drama club, covering the visual novel's main school arc along with an original spin on the Fujibayashi sisters' storyline not fully resolved by its end.

#137

FINISHED

Clannad: Official Another Story

CLANNAD ～光見守る坂道で～

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Adapted from the Clannad short-story book of the same name, this manga steps away from Tomoya Okazaki to give the rest of the cast episodes of their own, with characters such as Kotomi Ichinose, Tomoyo Sakagami, and Fuko Ibuki carrying their own stories. Some pieces look back at what happened before the visual novel begins, others pick up after its endings, and the sloped hill path of the title runs through them as the one shared landmark. It fills in the world around the main story instead of continuing it.

#138

FINISHED

Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts

バカとテストと召喚獣

Action

Fantasy

Romance

Akihisa Yoshii is stuck in Class F, the lowest tier at an academy that ranks students by entrance-exam scores down to their classroom furniture. To win back better facilities, Class F challenges higher-ranked classes to Summoning battles, where each student's avatar draws its combat power straight from their grades. Yoshii rallies his underdog classmates, including Mizuki Himeji, who tests poorly only because she was ill on exam day, to prove that class rank doesn't decide who wins. This light novel is the original source for the manga and anime.

#139

FINISHED

Katanagatari

刀語

Action

Fantasy

Romance

Shichika Yasuri, the seventh head of the sword-less Kyotoryu style, has spent his whole life training on the isolated island of Fusho without ever touching a blade, since his family fights bare-handed instead. Togame, an ambitious strategist working for the shogunate, recruits him to travel Japan and collect twelve legendary swords forged by a single swordsmith, each with a deviant power of its own. She also orders him to fall in love with her, certain that nothing outranks love as a temptation.

#140

FINISHED

A Certain Magical Index SS

とある魔術の禁書目録SS

Action

Sci-Fi

Comedy

This side-story collection catches up with Touma Kamijou and Accelerator in the gap between two Academy City incidents, following each of them individually before their paths finally converge. A second volume of shorts ranges across the story's first year, from a case of Necessarius' Kaori Kanzaki to lighter turns like Touma's father crossing paths with Misaka's mother. Awaki Musujime and future protagonist Shiage Hamazura also get their own spotlight chapters.

#141

FINISHED

Kaze no Stigma: Kouen no Miko

風の聖痕紅焔の巫女

Thriller

Action

Fantasy

Four years after losing a duel to his cousin Ayano Kannagi for the right to wield the family's sacred flame sword, Kazuma Kannagi returns to the Kannagi household as Kazuma Yagami, now a master of wind magic instead of fire. His homecoming coincides with a string of murders inside the family compound, and because the killings were done with wind, his own estranged relatives are quick to suspect him. This manga adapts the opening arc of the Kaze no Stigma light novels, following Kazuma, Ayano, and his younger brother Ren.

#142

FINISHED

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

機動戦士ガンダム00

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

In 2307, with fossil fuels nearly gone, three power blocs control the world's energy through orbital solar collectors and compete openly for dominance: the Union, the Human Reform League, and the AEU. Sixteen-year-old Setsuna F. Seiei pilots a Gundam for Celestial Being, a private armed group that intervenes in wars around the world with the stated goal of ending war itself by force. This manga adapts the first season of the Mobile Suit Gundam 00 anime.

#143

FINISHED

Squid Girl

侵略!イカ娘

Shounen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Ika Musume arrives on the surface intent on invading humanity, furious at what pollution has done to the ocean, but her one-woman invasion ends the moment she puts a hole in the wall of a beachside diner. Forced to work off the damage as a waitress, she settles in at the beach house instead of conquering it, slowly warming up to the family who runs the place and the regulars who won't stop showing up. Squid tentacles and invasion talk aside, her days start looking a lot like everyone else's.

#144

FINISHED

C³ - CubexCursedxCurious

C³ -シーキューブ-

Action

Supernatural

Seinen

This light novel is the source material for C³: high schooler Yachi Haruaki lives in a house so blessed that curses wear off inside it, which is why his globe-trotting father keeps shipping cursed artifacts home to him. When a heavy black cube turns out to be Fear, a Cursed Tool built as a torture device and slowly acquiring human emotions, Haruaki is pulled into fights against other cursed instruments and their owners, alongside Konoha Muramasa, a cursed katana in human form who lives with him, and his classmate Kirika Ueno, the student council president.

#145

FINISHED

Dragon Crisis!

ドラゴンクライシス!

Action

Fantasy

High schooler Ryuuji Kisaragi's ordinary life ends when his cousin Eriko drags him into seizing a sealed relic box from a black-market broker, and the box turns out to hold a girl who can become a dragon. Ryuuji names her Rose for the rose-shaped mark on her left hand, and as a Breaker, one of the hunters who handle magical relics, he takes it on himself to keep her safe from the criminal organization that wants her back. The light novel follows the pair as Ryuuji is pulled into a world of relics and the people who fight over them.

Devil Kings

戦国BASARA 乱世乱舞

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Rival warlords Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura lead the Sengoku Basara franchise's exaggerated take on Japan's Warring States era into manga form, alongside Tokugawa Ieyasu and their retainers Katakura Kojuurou and Sarutobi Sasuke. Factions clash across a fantastical version of feudal Japan as each daimyo pursues conquest with wildly stylized weapons and abilities drawn from the video games. This manga stages the franchise's over-the-top battles as serialized chapters.

#147

FINISHED

Dennou Coil

電脳コイル

Thriller

Shoujo

Sci-Fi

Yuuko Okonogi, newly arrived in the augmented-reality hub of Daikoku City, inherits a pair of old Dennou glasses and a virtual pet named Densuke from her late grandfather. Exploring the city's hidden Coil space, she crosses paths with a sharp-eyed hacker who happens to carry the same given name she does: Yuuko Amasawa, known as Isako. This short manga condenses the original TV anime's premise of two Yuukos navigating Daikoku's overlapping real and virtual layers.

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#148

FINISHED

Macross Frontier

マクロスフロンティア

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

In 2059 the colony fleet Macross Frontier is crossing the galaxy when galactic superstar Sheryl Nome arrives for a concert. Alto Saotome, a pilot-course high school student who walked away from his family's kabuki stage, meets aspiring singer Ranka Lee in the crowd, and then an alien swarm called the Vajra tears into the fleet mid-show. Thrown into a VF-25 to get Ranka out alive, Alto signs on with the private military contractor S.M.S. and finds himself caught between both singers. This manga adapts the Macross Frontier TV anime.

#149

FINISHED

Astarotte's Toy

ロッテのおもちゃ!

Fantasy

Isekai

Romance

Naoya Touhara is a human father tricked by a fortune teller into being pulled from his world, Midgard, into the magical kingdom of Alfheimr, where he's told his new job is joining the harem of ten-year-old succubus princess Astarotte Ygvar. Astarotte needs a harem to stay healthy as she grows, but a childhood incident has left her averse to men, so Naoya ends up navigating palace politics alongside his own daughter Asuha while trying to win the princess's trust instead of her contempt. This manga is the source for the Astarotte no Omocha! anime and its OVA.

#150

FINISHED

The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

夜は短し歩けよ乙女

Shounen

Romance

Comedy

Kurokami no Otome, literally 'the girl with black hair,' spends one long night hopping between bars, festivals, and used bookstores across Kyoto, oblivious to the upperclassman quietly trailing her with a crush he's been sitting on for months. Each new stop turns into its own small adventure as she drinks, argues, and charms her way through the city's nightlife. This manga adapts the 2006 novel of the same name, condensing it into five volumes.

#151

FINISHED

Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai

劇場版ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド&パールディアルガvsパルキアvsダークライ

Kids & Family

Fantasy

Adventure

On their way to a Pokémon contest, Ash, Brock, and Dawn stop in Alamos Town, a garden city built around the mysterious Space-Time Towers. The peaceful town is suddenly struck by inexplicable destruction and a spreading fog as Dialga and Palkia, legendary Pokémon capable of warping time and space, clash somewhere nearby. Caught between the fighting titans is Darkrai, blamed for the chaos but secretly trying to protect the town's people, among them the young Alice and the eccentric Baron Alberto. This manga adapts the film of the same name.

#152

FINISHED

Fortune Arterial

フォーチュン・アテリアル

Drama

Romance

Supernatural

Kouhei Hasekura transfers to Shuchikan Academy, an elite boarding school on the isolated Tamatsu Island reachable only by boat, and soon learns that classmate Erika Sendou is a vampire, as is her older brother Iori, the student council president. Pulled into the student council's orbit, Kouhei is drawn deeper into the island school's secrets while navigating growing feelings for Erika. This manga, illustrated by Miki Kodama, adapts the same visual novel as the Fortune Arterial anime.

#153

FINISHED

Cuticle Detective Inaba

キューティクル探偵因幡

Shounen

Comedy

Hiroshi Inaba runs a detective agency with an unusual method: half-wolf from a genetic experiment, he solves cases by tasting or examining a single strand of hair. His cross-dressing secretary Yuuta and part-time employee Kei round out the agency, which spends most of its energy chasing Don Valentino, a mafia boss who happens to be a goat and who eats the money he collects, always slipping away through increasingly absurd schemes. Former police partner Kuniharu Ogino drops in whenever the cases turn serious enough to need him.

Manyuu Hikenchou

魔乳秘剣帖

Action

Ecchi

Romance

In an alternate Edo-era Japan, breast size determines a woman's wealth and social standing, and the Manyuu Clan controls the secret techniques for enlarging them. Chifusa Manyuu is groomed as the clan's next head, but she rebels against the cruelty her family inflicts to maintain that power, stealing the clan's forbidden scroll and fleeing into hiding. On the run, she sets out to dismantle the twisted hierarchy the Manyuu Clan built its fortune on.

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#155

FINISHED

Dragonaut: The Resonance

Dragonaut -The Resonance-

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Two years after dragon eggs devastated Tokyo and killed people close to him, Jin Kamishina joins the military Dragonaut units formed to fight the alien dragons now nesting across Earth. His partner is Toa, an enigmatic girl bonded to one of the creatures, and together they're sent against dragons whose eggs keep destroying the ecosystems around them. Though it shares its title and cast with the Dragonaut: The Resonance anime, this manga tells its own version of the story, with different characterization and plot turns from the show.

#156

FINISHED

Library Wars: Love & War

図書館戦争 LOVE&WAR

Shoujo

Action

Sci-Fi

Iku Kasahara, a book-loving twenty-two-year-old, joins the Library Defense Force after a soldier once saved her favorite novel from confiscation, only to find her new commanding officer, Atsushi Doujou, is just as hard on her as the censors he fights. In a Japan where the Media Betterment Committee can seize any book it deems offensive, Kasahara and Doujou are both selected for the elite Library Task Force, thrown together despite their constant clashes. This manga adapts Hiro Arikawa's Library War light novels, following Kasahara's growth over the following years.

#157

FINISHED

Library Wars: Spitfire!

図書館戦争 SPITFIRE!

Action

Drama

Romance

Japan's Media Betterment Act, passed in 1989, hands government agents the power to censor any print material deemed harmful, and the Library Freedom Act answers back by letting local libraries form their own armed defense units. Thirty years on, Iku Kasahara, saved from a censorship raid by a Library Defense Force soldier when she was a girl, enlists to fight on that side of the standoff and has to survive the demanding training of her instructor Doujou. This manga is the shounen-magazine adaptation of the Library War novels, distinct from the shoujo Love & War version.

#158

FINISHED

The Box of Goblins

魍魎の匣

Thriller

Supernatural

Horror

Crime novelist Tatsumi Sekiguchi and magazine editor Morihiko Toriguchi are drawn into a string of gruesome murders around Musashino and Mitaka in the summer of 1952, where dismembered schoolgirls keep turning up stuffed inside wooden boxes. They turn to Akihiko Chuuzenji, an antiquarian bookseller and practicing onmyouji, whose knowledge of old religious rites and local folklore starts pulling the case apart. Adapted from Natsuhiko Kyougoku's novel Mouryou no Hako, the manga follows the three as buried superstition and modern crime start to intersect.

#159

FINISHED

Kimi ni Todoke

君に届け

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Sawako Kuronuma has a reputation she never asked for: classmates call her 'Sadako' after the horror-movie ghost and keep their distance, sure she's cursed. That changes when cheerful classmate Shouta Kazehaya starts talking to her like there's nothing wrong with her at all, and Sawako begins learning how to make friends for the first time. This light novel series is an authorized novelization that retells the Kimi ni Todoke manga in prose.

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#160

FINISHED

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse

新世紀エヴァンゲリオン学園堕天録

Shoujo

Action

Sci-Fi

At NERV Foundation Academy, Shinji Ikari stumbles onto classmates Rei Ayanami and Kaworu Nagisa fighting a winged intruder and, in the panic, triggers a strange power of his own. He learns the pair are already secretly battling Angels, beings that take over human bodies, using EVA weapons summoned by willpower alone. Drawn into their fight alongside new transfer student Asuka Langley Souryuu, Shinji has to catch up fast on a war his classmates have been hiding in plain sight. This manga sets Evangelion's cast in an ordinary-looking high school forced to fight an extraordinary threat.

#161

FINISHED

Helvetica Standard

Slice of Life

Comedy

Helvetica Standard gathers the loose ends left over from Nichijou: full-color 4-koma strips, one-off promotional shorts featuring Nano, Hakase, and the rest of the cast, and stray design and illustration work that never fit anywhere else. Structured more like an artist's scrapbook than a continuous story, each entry stands alone, riffing on the same absurdist rhythm as Nichijou without following its cast through any ongoing plot.

Hana-Kimi: After School

花ざかりの君たちへアフタースクール

Shoujo

Romance

Slice of Life

This collection of Hana-Kimi side stories follows the Osaka Gakuen dorm residents during and after the main series' final chapter, once Mizuki Ashiya and Izumi Sano's story has run its course. Shuuichi Nakatsu, Taiki Kayashima, and the rest of the cast get their own short chapters and an epilogue rounding out where the main series left them. As a collection of extras rather than a new plotline, it reads as a farewell to the dorm rather than a continuation of the central story.

#163

FINISHED

Ga-Rei: Tsuina no Shou

喰霊～追儺の章～

Action

Shounen

Romance

Tsuina Takiguchi carries a curse: misfortune falls on anyone she falls in love with. When she loses her heart at first sight to Souzaemon Mikado, an exorcist a year ahead of her, she refuses to treat the curse as a reason to keep her distance, and the wandering exorcist Noriyuki Izuna takes her on as a trainee in Kyoto. This side story fills in Tsuina's own path into exorcism, ahead of her appearance in the main Ga-Rei manga.

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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

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

This light novel opens before the anime's story begins, tracing how Lelouch first became friends with Suzaku Kururugi after he and his sister Nunnally were sent to Japan as political hostages, in the last days before Britannia's invasion turned the country into Area 11. From there it follows Lelouch into the present, where a mysterious woman named C.C. grants him Geass, a power that forces total obedience, which he uses under the alias Zero to tear down the Holy Britannian Empire that ruined his family.

#165

FINISHED

Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally

コードギアスナイトメア・オブ・ナナリー

Action

Sci-Fi

Supernatural

In this alternate-universe manga, an explosion separates the blind, wheelchair-bound Nunnally vi Britannia from her brother Lelouch just as the Holy Britannian Empire tightens its grip on occupied Japan, renamed Area 11. A mysterious sentient doll named Nemo gives her a personal Knightmare Frame and a Geass power of clairvoyance, thrusting the peace-seeking princess into direct conflict with rival Geass users and the vigilante Zero while she searches for her missing brother.

#166

FINISHED

Gokusen Kanketsu-hen

ごくせん完結編

Action

Drama

Romance

This final volume closes out the Gokusen manga, with Kumiko Yamaguchi, homeroom teacher at Shirokin Academy and secret heir to a yakuza family, still keeping the two halves of her life apart while her Class 3-D students quietly scheme to push her and Shin Sawada together. Alongside the finale it collects the Gokusen 2008 chapters, a set of character odds and ends and four-panel strips, and a side story sending Ucchi and Shiori on a terrifying overnight trip.

#167

FINISHED

Seeds of Anxiety+

不安の種+(プラス)

Shounen

Supernatural

Horror

Short, page-or-two vignettes make up Fuan no Tane+, Masaaki Nakayama's anthology of urban legends, ghost stories, and neighborhood superstitions dressed up as horror. Chapters cluster loosely by theme, from uninvited visitors to warnings passed student to student, and several stories quietly connect if a reader catches the details. This direct sequel moves the series from its original run into Weekly Shounen Champion, adding more continuity between otherwise stand-alone tales.

#168

FINISHED

Onanie Master Kurosawa

オナニーマスター黒沢

Drama

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. The timid Aya Kitahara catches him there and blackmails him into taking revenge on the two popular classmates who torment her. What starts as a crude bargain pulls Kakeru out of his isolation and into the consequences of the punishments he hands out.

Akikan!

アキカン!

Fantasy

Romance

Comedy

High schooler Kakeru Daichi buys what looks like an ordinary can of melon soda, only for it to transform into a beautiful, standoffish girl he starts calling Melon. More of these sentient cans, called Akikan, begin turning up, each needing carbon dioxide from a kiss to hold its human form. Melon is a steel can, and Kakeru lands in the middle of the Akikan Elect, a contest staged to settle whether steel or aluminium makes the better container. This light novel is the original source for the Akikan! manga and anime.

Top 250

Top 250

Goodnight Punpun

The Breaker

The Climber

Dengeki Daisy

Psyren

Petit Eva: Evangelion@School

Doubt

Petit Eva Bokura Tanken Doukoukai

March Comes in Like a Lion

Rosario+Vampire: Season II

Strobe Edge

Seven Days: Monday-Sunday

Chihayafuru

Shunki Gentei Ichigo Tart Jiken

Hana to Akuma

Spice & Wolf

Freezing

Space Brothers

Faster than a Kiss

Hiiro no Kakera: Mezame no Toki

Heroic Age

Bloody Monday

Toradora!

Oresama Teacher

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

K-On!

Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch

SKET Dance

I Am Here!

Kids on the Slope

Black Paradox

5 Centimeters per Second

½ Prince

Paprika: The Dream-Child

Gosick

Tsugumomo

Queen's Blade: Hide & Seek

Black Blood Brothers ver.C

Darker than Black

Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun

A Certain Scientific Railgun

Wolf Guy: Wolfen Crest

Baby Steps

Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu

Noblesse

Run with the Wind

Sword of the Stranger

Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya

Tomoyo After ~Dear Shining Memories~

Naruto Shippuden the Movie (Novelization)

Nyan Koi!

Today, I Will Fall in Love

Servant x Service

Karneval

No Longer Human

Seitokai Yakuindomo

Heaven's Memo Pad

Kure-nai

MM!

Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Sengoku Basara Series Official Anthology Comic: Gakuen Basara

In This Corner of the World

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri: Hajisarashi-hen

Whispered Words

Idolmaster Xenoglossia

Humanity Has Declined

Death Note: L Change the WorLd

Dreamin' Sun

The Sacred Blacksmith

Umi no Misaki

Sengoku Youko

Hori-san to Miyamura-kun

Myself ; Yourself: Sorezore no Overture

Romeo x Juliet

Bride of the Water God

Venus in the Blind Spot