Top Manga of 2010

PTSD Radio

後遺症ラジオ

Ogushi-sama is a god of hair, and the short, jagged chapters of this horror anthology follow the people it takes an interest in. Hair carries the curse: a strand left behind, a lock kept as a keepsake, a head shaved in penance. Victims surface in scenes of modern Japan that look unrelated, in apartments, offices and classrooms, and the fragments slowly reveal how they connect and what the deity wants from the living.

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ONGOING

Tower of God

신의 탑

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Bam has spent his whole life shut away beneath an immense Tower, with only a girl named Rachel for company. When Rachel slips through the Tower's door and climbs without him, Bam forces it open himself and becomes an Irregular, someone who enters uninvited by its guardians. On the floors above, Headon sets the first of countless tests, and Bam falls in with fellow climbers Khun and Rak as he chases Rachel upward through a structure where each floor demands everything to ascend.

FINISHED

Noragami: Stray God

ノラガミ

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Yato is a minor god with no shrine and no worshippers, scraping by on five-yen jobs as he dreams of building a name for himself. When high schooler Hiyori Iki shoves him out of the path of a bus, she is hit instead, and her soul starts slipping loose from her body. To set things right, Yato takes on a new sacred weapon in the form of Yukine, a sharp-tongued young spirit, and the three become tangled in the quiet, dangerous business of gods and the dead.

FINISHED

Akame ga Kill!

アカメが斬る!

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Tatsumi leaves his poor village for the Capital hoping to earn money to send home, only to find the city rotten with corruption under a child emperor and his scheming minister. After a wealthy family that takes him in is exposed as a den of torturers, Tatsumi joins Night Raid, a band of assassins working for the Revolutionary Army. Each member wields a Teigu, a relic weapon with a unique power, including the swordswoman Akame, whose blade kills with a single cut.

FINISHED

House of the Sun

たいようのいえ

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Mao Motomiya is a shy high schooler who feels unwanted at home, where her mother left and her father has remarried. When she reconnects with childhood friend Hiro Nakamura, a young programmer living alone after his parents died and his siblings scattered, he invites her to move into the half-empty Nakamura house. The two grow close again as they keep the household running and hold out hope that Hiro's brother and sister will one day come home.

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FINISHED

The Breaker: New Waves

브레이커 N.W.

Action

Drama

After his master Chun-Woo Han destroyed his ki center to keep him out of the martial world, the once-bullied Shi-Woon Yi tries to return to an ordinary high school life. But he still carries the Sun-Woo Clan's Black Heaven and Earth medallion and stands as the sole heir to Han's techniques, which keeps the hidden society of Murim circling him. Aided by the resourceful Sera Kang, Shi-Woon sets out to rebuild his shattered ki center and is pulled back into the clans' power struggles.

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The Sound of Magic: Annarasumanara

안나라수마나라

Fantasy

Drama

Supernatural

Yoon Ah-yi is an impoverished high-schooler who has stopped believing in magic and wishes only to grow up quickly and escape her hardships. She meets Ri Eul, a mysterious magician who lives in an abandoned amusement park and refuses to grow up, and who asks her a single question: do you believe in magic? As Ah-yi keeps returning to the park, her cold, well-off classmate Na Il-deung begins watching her lessons, and the three are drawn together around the magician's strange world.

FINISHED

Another

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

In spring 1998, Koichi Sakakibara transfers into Class 3-3 at Yomiyama North Middle School and is drawn to Mei Misaki, a quiet girl who wears an eyepatch and whom the rest of the class seems to ignore entirely. As he ignores their warnings and gets closer to her, a chain of gruesome deaths begins among the students and their families. Koichi and Mei try to uncover the curse tied to Class 3-3 and a student who died decades earlier.

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FINISHED

Alice in Borderland

今際の国のアリス

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Ryohei Arisu, an aimless high schooler who would rather game than face exams, is out one night with his friends Karube and Chota when a blinding flash empties the streets of Tokyo around them. They wake in the Borderland, a deserted mirror of the city where survival depends on clearing deadly games, each rated by playing-card suit and number. Every game carries a time limit and a lethal penalty for losing, and the visas the players win only buy them a few more days before the next round.

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FINISHED

Hideout

HIDEOUT

Horror

Seinen

Seiichi Kirishima, a failed novelist whose career and marriage have collapsed, lures his wife Miki to a remote island intending to kill her there. When his attempt unravels and Miki flees, he chases her into a pitch-black cave and finds himself trapped underground, stalked by a flesh-eating thing that lives in the dark. This single-volume horror keeps Seiichi pinned between the murder he came to commit and the predator now hunting him.

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale: The Silver Sugar Master and the Obsidian Fairy

シュガーアップル・フェアリーテイル銀砂糖師と黒の妖精

Fantasy

Adventure

Anne Halford wants to become a Silver Sugar Master like her late mother, a title earned only by winning the Royal Candy Fair. To survive the dangerous road to the capital, she buys herself a bodyguard: Challe, a foul-mouthed but skilled fairy who wants nothing to do with humans. In a kingdom where fairies are bought and sold as property, Anne's attempts to treat Challe as a friend keep running into what he actually is under this world's laws.

Star Driver

STAR DRIVER 輝きのタクト

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Takuto Tsunashi washes ashore on the remote Southern Cross Isle and enrolls at the local high school, quickly befriending Wako Agemaki and her fiance Sugata Shindo. The island also hides giant mechanical Cybodies buried underground and a secretive order called the Glittering Crux Brigade, whose plans turn on Wako's role as a shrine maiden, and Takuto is soon pulled into their rituals and conflicts. This manga adapts the same story as the Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto TV anime.

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FINISHED

To Love Ru Darkness

To LOVEる -とらぶる- ダークネス

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Ecchi

Lala's younger twin sisters, Momo and Nana Deviluke, have settled into Rito Yuuki's school and his home, and Momo has quietly fallen for him. Unwilling to take him from her sister, she sets out to gather a harem around Rito instead, betting that if he marries Lala and becomes king of Deviluke he can marry every girl who loves him, herself included. This sequel to To Love Ru also pushes the alien assassin Golden Darkness, known as Yami, toward the center of the story.

#14

ONGOING

Trinity Seven: The Seven Magicians

トリニティセブン 7人の魔書使い

Action

Shounen

Ecchi

Arata Kasuga lives an ordinary life with his cousin Hijiri until a black sun rises and a Breakdown Phenomenon swallows his hometown. He survives inside an illusion sustained by the Astil Manuscript, a grimoire Hijiri left behind, and the mage Lilith Asami gives him a choice: dispel the world or be executed. Learning that Hijiri may still be alive, Arata keeps the grimoire and enrolls at Royal Biblia Academy, a school for mages where Lilith is one of the Trinity Seven, its seven strongest students.

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FINISHED

Judge

JUDGE

Thriller

Shounen

Drama

Hiro Sakurai wakes in a derelict courthouse with his hands cuffed and a heavy rabbit mask fixed over his face, among eight other masked teenagers, one of them already dead. Each mask assigns its wearer one of the seven deadly sins, and a recorded voice lays out the rules of a game called Judge: every twelve hours the survivors vote to sacrifice one of their own, and only four will walk out. Marked by the rabbit for envy, Hiro starts working out who the others are and what brought each of them here.

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FINISHED

The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

僕らはみんな河合荘

Romance

Seinen

Slice of Life

High schooler Kazunari Usa finally moves out on his own into Kawai Complex, a boarding house that serves meals to its tenants, only to find his dream of independence overrun by oddballs. He shares a room with Shirosaki, a masochistic aspiring writer, eats at a table with the rest of the tenants, and discovers that Ritsu Kawai, the quiet, book-loving upperclassman he admires, lives there too. Day by day, Usa tries to close the distance with the reserved Ritsu while navigating life under the same crowded roof.

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FINISHED

Love Stage!!

LOVE STAGE!!

Drama

Romance

Comedy

Izumi Sena was born into a family of entertainment stars and wants nothing to do with the business; the college student would rather draw manga. Then a commercial he filmed as a child gets a sequel ten years on, and he is pushed back in front of the camera beside Ryoma Ichijo. The actor has carried a crush since that first shoot, never realizing the girl he met back then was Izumi in a dress. Rei Sagara, the Sena family's manager, keeps the chaos around Izumi in check.

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FINISHED

Schwarzesmarken

シュヴァルツェスマーケン

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Oberleutnant Theodor Eberbach flies MiG-21s for the East German Army's 666th TSF Squadron, callsign Schwarzesmarken, hunting down the alien BETA before they can bring their firepower to bear. Serving under squadron commander Irisdina Bernhard alongside pilots Lise Hohenstein and Katia Waldheim, Theodor guards a secret tied to his failed escape across the Berlin Wall and the Stasi torture that followed it. Set in a 1983 divided further by an alien invasion, this light novel is a spin-off of the Muv-Luv Alternative series.

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FINISHED

Kase-san and...

あさがおと加瀬さん。

Romance

Slice of Life

Yui Yamada is a shy member of her high school's gardening committee, happiest weeding flower beds and tending the morning glories outside the classroom windows. She falls for Tomoka Kase, the school's bright, athletic track star, and to her surprise the feeling is returned. The two begin dating and work through the everyday awkwardness of a first relationship, from nerves over physical closeness to questions about the future that wait past graduation.

5 Centimeters per Second

秒速5センチメートル

Drama

Romance

Seinen

As children in Tokyo, Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara are inseparable, until Akari's family moves away and the two can only stay close through letters. Takaki crosses the country by train to see her once more before his own family relocates even farther, and the distance between them keeps widening with the years. This manga adapts Makoto Shinkai's film of the same name, whose title comes from the speed at which a cherry blossom petal falls.

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FINISHED

Golden Time

ゴールデンタイム

Drama

Romance

Comedy

A childhood marriage promise catches up with law student Yanagisawa Mitsuo the moment Kaga Kouko strikes him with a bouquet of roses outside his university's opening ceremony. Mitsuo's new friend Tada Banri, also freshly lost on his first day, gets pulled into the fallout as Kouko refuses to let Mitsuo's attempt to escape her go unanswered. This light novel is the original source for Golden Time's manga and TV anime adaptations.

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FINISHED

Fate/Zero

Thriller

Action

Fantasy

Ten years before the events of Fate/stay night, seven mages summon legendary Heroic Spirits as Servants and set them fighting to the death for the Holy Grail. Among them is Kiritsugu Emiya, a magus who works as a freelance assassin and enters the fourth Holy Grail War determined to make it the last one ever fought. Drawn by Shinjirou from Gen Urobuchi's novels, the manga follows Kiritsugu through that war alongside Kirei Kotomine, the conflicted priest whose path keeps crossing his.

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FINISHED

Kokoro Connect

ココロコネクト

Drama

Supernatural

Slice of Life

The five members of Yamaboshi Academy's Cultural Research Club, Taichi Yaegashi, Himeko Inaba, Iori Nagase, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki, start swapping bodies with each other for no reason any of them can explain. An entity calling itself Heartseed is behind the phenomenon, using it to expose secrets, crushes, and fears the five would rather keep buried, testing whether their friendship can survive knowing this much about each other. This manga adapts the Kokoro Connect light novel series.

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FINISHED

Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There!

ゲート -自衛隊彼の地にて、斯く戦えり-

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

JSDF officer and self-described otaku Youji Itami is on hand in Ginza when medieval warriors and monsters pour out of a mysterious portal called the Gate, cutting down civilians before Japan's military drives them back. Assigned to lead a reconnaissance team sent through the Gate into the fantastical Special Region beyond, Itami earns the loyalty of Rory Mercury, a demigoddess who serves as apostle to the god of death, and starts building diplomatic ties with the region's elves and sorceresses. As foreign powers eye the Special Region's resources, his team's low-key negotiations become Japan's best hope for keeping the peace.

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FINISHED

Accel World

アクセル・ワールド

Action

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Bullied for his weight at Umesato Junior High, Haruyuki Arita spends his lunch breaks playing virtual squash until his skill catches the eye of Kuroyukihime, the school's poised vice president. She hands him Brain Burst, a hidden program that turns the world into an accelerated battlefield where Burst Linkers duel for points that buy them more time to think and move. Haruyuki joins her Black Legion as Silver Crow, the only avatar in the game that can fly, chasing the strength to face down his real life. This manga adapts the Accel World light novels.

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FINISHED

Tokyo Ravens

東京レイヴンズ

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Harutora Tsuchimikado was born into a famous onmyoji family but has no spirit sight, so he drifts through a rural branch school with his friend Touji Ato and expects nothing more of himself. That ends when Natsume Tsuchimikado, the clan heir and his childhood friend, comes back and holds him to an old promise to serve as her shikigami. The Onmyo Agency still polices what the Great Spiritual Disaster loosed, and the promise pulls Harutora straight into it.

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FINISHED

Infinite Stratos

IS〈インフィニット・ストラトス〉

Action

Sci-Fi

Romance

Ichika Orimura is the only male ever found able to pilot an Infinite Stratos, a powered combat exosuit that only women were thought to control. Enrolled at the all-female IS Academy under his own sister Chifuyu as an instructor, he trains alongside pilots Houki Shinonono, Cecilia Alcott, Charlotte Dunois, and Lingyin Huang, whose rivalry over him complicates every lesson. This manga is the first of two separate adaptations of the original light novel.

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FINISHED

Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends

僕は友達が少ない

Ecchi

Romance

Slice of Life

Transfer student Kodaka Hasegawa cannot shake the delinquent reputation that the blond hair he inherited from his late English mother earns him at St. Chronica's Academy, and a month in he still has no friends. Then he catches the equally isolated Yozora Mikazuki chatting with an imaginary friend, and the two start the Neighbors Club, a group devoted to the impossible task of teaching its members how to make real friends. The proudly self-absorbed beauty Sena Kashiwazaki soon joins, turning every meeting into a clash of misfits.

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FINISHED

Occult Academy

世紀末オカルト学院

Sci-Fi

Supernatural

Seinen

Maya Kumashiro despises the occult, but her father's death forces her to return to Waldstein Academy, famous for its supernatural incidents, to take over as principal and shut the place down for good. Her plans collapse when a stranger calling himself Minoru Abe falls from the sky claiming to be a time agent from 2012, sent back to 1999 to keep the Nostradamus prophecies from coming true. Maya reluctantly teams up with him to investigate the academy's bizarre phenomena and find out why he was really sent back.

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FINISHED

The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat.

変態王子と笑わない猫。

Romance

Comedy

Youto Yokodera makes no secret of his one-track mind, and his wish at the neighborhood's cat-shaped good luck charm is to be able to voice his lustful thoughts however and whenever he pleases. The charm works by stripping away what one person doesn't need and handing it to someone who does, which ties him to Tsukiko Tsutsukakushi, a classmate who wished for the opposite: to keep her feelings off her face. The two get exactly what they asked for, and immediately regret it.

Aria the Scarlet Ammo Double A

緋弾のアリアAA

Action

Supernatural

Seinen

Akari Mamiya, a first-year at Tokyo Butei High, idolizes the legendary S-Rank Butei Aria H. Kanzaki, a fourth-generation descendant of Sherlock Holmes, and dreams of becoming an armed detective just like her. There is just one problem: Akari tests at E-Rank, the lowest in her class. When she talks her way into a trial set by Aria herself and passes it, Akari gets her shot at becoming Aria's Amica, the junior an upperclassman takes on to train, and at closing the gap between her rank and her hero's.

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FINISHED

So, I Can't Play H!

だから僕は、Ｈができない。

Ecchi

Romance

Supernatural

Lisara Restall, a first-class Grim Reaper, sneaks into the human world hunting a target she keeps to herself, and comes up empty after an exhausting search. When Ryousuke Kaga, an ordinary high school student, offers her food and a place to stay, Lisara responds by embracing him without warning: the first move in a strange, forced-together relationship neither saw coming. Word of the arrangement spreads fast, drawing in other women like Quele Sellier and Mina Okura and turning Ryousuke's quiet life into a crowded, chaotic household.

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FINISHED

So, I Can't Play H!

だから僕は、Ｈができない。

Ecchi

Romance

Supernatural

Ryousuke Kaga is a hopelessly romantic teenager who takes in a girl he finds standing alone in the rain, and gets a sword through the chest for his trouble. The girl is Lisara Restall, a Grim Reaper working undercover in the human world, and the contract she forces on him gives Ryousuke three months to live unless he helps her find the man she was sent to locate. Worse, her powers run on the lecherous energy she siphons out of him, which turns his ordinary school life into a daily obligation.

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FINISHED

Laughing Under the Clouds

曇天に笑う

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Tenka Kumo and his younger brothers Soramaru and Chutaro run a shrine on the shore of Lake Biwa and ferry convicts to Gokumonjo, a prison built on an island in the middle of the water. Swords have been banned in public under the new Meiji government and crime has climbed, so the brothers escort the worst offenders across the lake themselves. Beneath the routine lies an older threat: the serpent-god Orochi, said to revive every three centuries, and the human vessel meant to hold it.

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FINISHED

Digimon Xros Wars

デジモンクロスウォーズ

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Taiki Kudou hears a Digimon called Shoutmon on the verge of dying and decides to help, which is how he, Akari Hinomoto and Zenjiro Tsurugi end up in the Digital World holding a Xros Loader. The device lets Taiki run DigiXros, fusing Ballistamon, Starmon and the Pickmons into new shapes against the Bagra Empire, while the rival teams Blue Flare and Twilight press claims of their own. This manga runs alongside the television series and takes a noticeably different route through the same setup.

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FINISHED

Blade Dance of Elementalers

精霊使いの剣舞

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Every three years, the Blade Dance tournament lets the world's elemental spirit contractors compete for a wish and glory for their homeland. Kamito Kazehaya, the only known male elementaler, enrolls at Areishia Spirit Academy, where a chance run-in with the noblewoman Claire Rouge leaves him bonded to Terminus Est, the sword spirit she had been trying to claim. As he trains for the tournament, Kamito also searches for Restia Ashdoll, the mysterious spirit he once considered his true partner. This light novel is the source material behind the Blade Dance of Elementalers anime and manga adaptations.

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FINISHED

Amagami: Love goes on!

アマガミ Love goes on！

Drama

Romance

Seinen

Junichi Tachibana is a second-year in class 2-A who has still not put down a Christmas Eve two years earlier, when the girl he was waiting for never arrived. Built from the Amagami dating game, the three volumes each give him one classmate to follow: Ai Nanasaki first, then Haruka Morishima, then Rihoko Sakurai. A glimpse he wrongly takes for a girl's underwear starts the first arc off, and the game's branching routes come out as three separate romances instead of one.

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FINISHED

Penguin Highway

ペンギン・ハイウェイ

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Slice of Life

Aoyama, a methodical fourth-grader who keeps notebooks on everything he studies, starts investigating after penguins begin appearing without explanation in his landlocked town. He suspects the woman he nicknames Onee-san, a dental assistant at the clinic he visits, knows more than she admits. This original novel follows Aoyama's summer of hypotheses, obstacles, and slowly encroaching mystery, told in the boy's own matter-of-fact voice.

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Love at Fourteen

14歳の恋

Shoujo

Romance

Slice of Life

Kanata Tanaka and Kazuki Yoshikawa are model second-year junior-high students, calm and admired by teachers and classmates alike. Off the clock, the two childhood friends drop the act and behave like the ordinary fourteen-year-olds they are, working out feelings for each other that have shifted past friendship. Keeping that private side hidden from everyone else becomes its own quiet balancing act.

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FINISHED

Feng Shen Ji

封神紀

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Wu Geng is the son of Zhou, the Shang king who refuses to kneel before a messenger of the Heavens. From the capital Zhao Ge, Zhou declares that humanity will no longer serve the gods, and the gods answer with a war of extermination. As the capital falls, Wu Geng's mother draws out her son's spirit to fake his death and hides it in the body of Ah Gou, a slave the prince had once blinded. Waking at the bottom of the world he was born to rule, Wu Geng turns this stolen second life toward bringing down the gods.

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FINISHED

High School DxD

ハイスクールD×D

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Issei Hyoudou is a lecherous Kuoh Academy student whose first-ever date ends when the girl, Yuma, reveals herself as a fallen angel named Raynare and kills him. Rias Gremory, the red-haired heir of a devil clan who runs the school's Occult Research Club, brings Issei back as a reincarnated devil bound to serve her. Now part of her peerage alongside Akeno and Koneko, Issei trains to survive a world of angels, fallen angels, and devils while a power sleeping inside him begins to stir.

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FINISHED

Monogatari Series: Second Season

〈物語〉シリーズセカンドシーズン

Drama

Supernatural

Apparitions keep gathering around Koyomi Araragi and the girls tied to him, but these six volumes hand the spotlight to his friends. Tsubasa Hanekawa crosses paths with a white tiger apparition, and soon after her house burns down, leaving her to face the creature largely on her own. From there Second Season turns to Mayoi Hachikuji, Suruga Kanbaru, Nadeko Sengoku, the vampire Shinobu, and Hitagi Senjougahara, each confronting an oddity that forces a long-avoided truth into the open.

Is This a Zombie? Yes, I'm Your Wife

これはゾンビですか？はい、あなたの嫁です

Ecchi

Supernatural

Comedy

Zombie Ayumu Aikawa, the silent necromancer Eucliwood Hellscythe, and Haruna, the magical girl whose powers Ayumu absorbed, headline this spin-off from the Is This a Zombie? cast. It runs alongside the primary story rather than continuing past it, leaning into the same household comedy and Megalo hunting with a lighter, more comedic slant. The title riffs on a running gag about Ayumu's living arrangement with the women around him.

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FINISHED

Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl

電波女と青春男

Slice of Life

Comedy

Makoto Niwa moves in with his aunt's family and meets his cousin Erio Touwa, who wraps herself in a futon mattress, refuses to attend school, and insists she's an alien stranded on Earth. She vanished for six months before turning up floating in the ocean with no memory of what happened, and now wanders the neighborhood on a diet of pizza while chasing signs of the extraterrestrials she says once contacted her. This manga follows Makoto as he's slowly pulled into Erio's conviction instead of correcting it.

Hanasaku Iroha

花咲くいろは

Drama

Slice of Life

Ohana Matsumae is packed off to a grandmother she barely knows when her mother skips town with a boyfriend to dodge debt collectors, and she arrives to find Sui Shijima running Kissuiso, a hot-spring inn in the town of Yunosagi, where she is put straight to work. Determined to become a proper innkeeper and earn her place among the staff, Ohana throws herself into the job, only to keep colliding with just how far she still has to go. This manga adapts the original TV anime's story of one reluctant apprentice learning an entire trade from scratch.

A Centaur's Life

セントールの悩み

Fantasy

Seinen

Slice of Life

Himeno Kimihara is a shy, easygoing centaur navigating high school in a world where centaurs, satyrs, demons, and mermaids replaced humanity as the dominant species. Alongside her close friends Nozomi Gokuraku and Kyouko Naraku, she moves through ordinary routines: gym class, exams, part-time jobs, and friendship mishaps, while the story folds in the society's uneasy history of discrimination between species and how their coexistence came to be.

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OniAi

お兄ちゃんだけど愛さえあれば関係ないよねっ！

Ecchi

Romance

Comedy

After their parents' deaths force Akiko and Akito Himenokouji apart for six years, the siblings finally move back in together, and Akiko wastes no time confessing she's in love with her brother. Akito insists on keeping things strictly fraternal, even as rivals Anastasia Nasuhara, Arashi Nikaidou, and Ginbei Haruomi Sawatari crowd into the same household to compete for him. This light novel series is the source for the OniAi anime. A later spin-off, Sakigake!! Oniichan dakedo Ai sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne, continues the cast in a separate story.

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FINISHED

Hinamatsuri

ヒナまつり

Supernatural

Seinen

Comedy

Yoshifumi Nitta is a young yakuza of the Ashikawa-gumi enjoying his neat bachelor life when a strange pod crashes into his apartment and out steps Hina, an expressionless girl with overwhelming psychokinetic powers. She bluntly informs him she will be living there, and Nitta, wary of what she could wreck, has little choice but to take her in. As Hina settles into school and ordinary life, more children with powers arrive from the same future, including the telekinetic Anzu, who was sent to eliminate Hina but ends up adrift on the streets instead.

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Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!

真剣で私に恋しなさい！

Action

Shounen

Ecchi

At Kawakami Academy, where devotion to samurai tradition doubles as a measure of social standing, master fighter Kawakami Momoyo settles disputes with her fists as often as her wit. New transfer students from Germany, led by Christiane Friedrich, throw the school's routine into chaos as they try to find their footing among Momoyo's tight-knit circle of friends, including Yamato Naoe and Miyako Shiina. Manga chapters follow the fallout from the new arrivals through Momoyo's exploits and rivalries at school.

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Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

昭和元禄落語心中

Drama

Fresh out of prison, an unnamed ex-convict tracks down Yakumo Yuurakutei, a rakugo master revered for his comic storytelling, and begs to become his student, something Yakumo has never once agreed to before. Nicknamed Yotarou, he moves into Yakumo's household alongside Konatsu, the daughter of Yakumo's late rival and closest friend, and starts training as the art form's popularity fades through the Showa era. As Yotarou grows into the household, old wounds tied to Yakumo and Konatsu's shared past start surfacing around him.

Okami-san and Her Seven Companions

オオカミさんと七人の仲間たち

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Ryouko Ookami looks like a delinquent, all sharp eyes and sharp teeth, but she runs favors through Otogi Ginkou, a school club that trades help now for repayment later. Alongside her small, deceptively sweet-looking partner Ringo Akai, she takes on odd requests from classmates nobody else will help, one strange case at a time. This manga adapts part of the wider Ookami-san light novel series, keeping the same Otogi Ginkou premise.

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Naruto Shippuden: The Lost Tower (Novelization)

劇場版NARUTO -ナルト- 疾風伝ザ・ロストタワー

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Naruto Uzumaki and his team chase the rogue ninja Mukade to the thousand-year-old desert ruins of Loran, where a dormant leyline erupts and hurls Naruto twenty years into the past. Stranded before the events of the main series even began, he meets a young Minato Namikaze and Sara, queen of Loran, while Mukade's scheme to seize the ruins' power follows him into the past as well. This light novel is the official novelization of the fourth Naruto Shippuden film.

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FINISHED

King's Game

王様ゲーム

Thriller

Drama

Horror

Nobuaki Kanazawa and his whole class receive a text message signed only by "the King," carrying a command that has to be obeyed within twenty-four hours. Nobody can opt out, and the orders grow crueler with each round until failing to obey means death. As the class thins and the messages keep coming, Nobuaki tries to work out who the King is before the game runs through everyone he knows. This manga adapts Nobuaki Kanazawa's cell-phone horror novel.

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#54

FINISHED

Love, Election and Chocolate

恋と選挙とチョコレート

Romance

Comedy

Yuuki Oojima spends his days doing as little as possible in the Food Research Club alongside childhood friend Chisato Sumiyoshi, until student council candidate Satsuki Shinonome campaigns on a promise to shut down clubs she considers useless. Pushed into an election he never wanted, Yuuki runs against Satsuki to save the club, dragging fellow members Michiru Morishita, Isara Aomi, and Mifuyu Kiba into a campaign none of them know how to win.

Log Horizon

ログ・ホライズン

Action

Fantasy

Drama

A major update to the MMORPG Elder Tale leaves thirty thousand Japanese players living inside the game world, in bodies that can fight but cannot truly die. Rather than run off to farm monsters, the reclusive strategist Shiroe gathers the guardian Naotsugu and the assassin Akatsuki. He then takes on the harder problem: turning the stranded players crowding the game's Akihabara into something like a working society. This is the original light novel series.

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#56

FINISHED

Canaan Sfill

CANAAN スフィル

Thriller

Action

Drama

Canaan, the gunwoman who reads the world through synesthesia, arrives in Japan on a job guarding a Chinese dignitary and finds Maria Oosawa, the photographer she worked beside in Shanghai. At the same time Alphard sends a man after Liang Qi, who is running her own Ua virus experiments in an abandoned hospital. Two volumes of this manga sit between the Canaan anime and the game 428: Shibuya Scramble, tying the two together.

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#57

FINISHED

Nakaimo: My Little Sister Is Among Them!

この中に1人、妹がいる！

Romance

Comedy

On his birthday, Shougo Mikadono gets a message from someone claiming to be the sister he was separated from at birth, now secretly enrolled at the academy he has just transferred into. His late father's will sets a second, more awkward task on the same campus: find a girl to marry before he graduates, or forfeit the family business. Unable to tell which of his classmates is really his sister, Shougo has to work out her identity without wrecking the rest. This is the original light novel behind the Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! manga and anime.

Witchcraft Works

ウィッチクラフトワークス

Action

Fantasy

Supernatural

Honoka Takamiya can't explain why trouble keeps finding him until his beautiful classmate Ayaka Kagari, the school's untouchable 'Princess,' steps in front of an attack and reveals herself as a Workshop Witch sworn to protect him. A faction called the Tower Witches wants Honoka for the entity sleeping inside him, Evermillion. Ayaka takes him on as her apprentice while forbidding him from drawing on that power, since any harm he takes is instantly passed to her.

#59

FINISHED

Heaven's Memo Pad

神様のメモ帳

Thriller

Drama

Seinen

Narumi Fujishima keeps to himself at school, barely bothering to learn his classmates' names, until he's roped into the Gardening Committee with Ayaka Shinozaki and then talked into joining NEET, a scrappy detective agency of unemployed slackers. Its de facto leader, a reclusive shut-in who goes by Alice, never leaves her room but runs cases through sheer hacking skill and deduction, pulling Narumi into investigations that go well beyond anything he expected from high school.

#60

FINISHED

Canaan

カナン

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

Maria Oosawa, a Japanese photographer sent to Shanghai with her colleague Minoru Minorikawa, is caught between masked attackers and a mysterious white-haired woman while the city prepares for an international anti-terrorism summit. Canaan, an old friend with uncanny reflexes, steps in to pull her out, but the rescue drags Maria into a conspiracy built around a deadly virus that forces Canaan to face her own past. This light novel retells the story of the Canaan TV anime, which a manga also adapted.

#61

FINISHED

Mayo Chiki!

まよチキ！

Romance

Seinen

Comedy

Kinjiro Sakamachi, a high schooler whose gynophobia gives him nosebleeds at the slightest contact with a girl, accidentally discovers that the school's admired butler, Subaru Konoe, is actually a woman in disguise. To keep the secret safe, Subaru's mistress, the sadistic ojou-sama Kanade Suzutsuki, strikes a bargain: she will help cure Kinjiro's phobia in exchange for his silence. Caught between the two, Kinjiro is dragged into the daily upkeep of Subaru's masquerade.

#62

ONGOING

Shin Crayon Shin-chan

新クレヨンしんちゃん

Slice of Life

Comedy

Shinnosuke Nohara is still five years old, still incorrigible, and still causing chaos at his Kasukabe kindergarten and everywhere else he turns up. This continuation took over from the original Crayon Shin-chan manga in 2010, running under a new title while keeping the same gags and the same household, parents Hiroshi and Misae included, with no fixed ending in sight.

Strike Witches: 1937 Fuso Sea Incident

ストライクウィッチーズ零 1937 扶桑海事変

Action

Sci-Fi

Seinen

Mio Sakamoto enters the Imperial Fuso Navy in 1937 as a cadet, twenty years after the last great war and well before she ever commands a Strike Witch unit. Training under Fumika Kitagou, she has to stand out among the other cadets to qualify at all, and the Neuroi choose that stretch to open a new attack. This manga runs the Fuso Sea Incident from inside Mio's training, filling in years the main Strike Witches story assumes.

#64

FINISHED

Sunny

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

At the Star Kids group home, a rusted-out Nissan Sunny sits abandoned in the yard, and the children who live there climb inside to imagine it as a spaceship, a getaway car, or a road to anywhere but here. Kids of different ages handle the ordinary growing pains of childhood alongside the ache of being left behind, drifting between hopes of adoption and the families they still long for. The car gives the work its name and the children their escape.

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#65

FINISHED

Sunday Without God

神さまのいない日曜日

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

Fifteen years after God abandoned the world, no one is born and the dead cannot fully die, only decay into a restless half-life until a Gravekeeper lays them to rest. Ai has served as her remote village's Gravekeeper her whole life, until a silver-haired man named Hampnie Hambart arrives claiming to be her father and kills everyone she knows, leaving her to follow him in search of answers. This manga adapts the same story as the original light novel with its own art.

#66

FINISHED

Cheese in the Trap Season 1

치즈인더트랩 시즌1

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Hong Seol, a diligent scholarship student juggling part-time jobs to stay in college, returns from a year's leave of absence and finds herself entangled with Yoo Jung, a wealthy, universally admired senior and heir to the Taerang Group. Behind his polished charm, Jung quietly manipulates and undermines anyone who crosses him, and Seol can't tell whether his sudden attention is kindness or a setup. This first season of the WEBTOON manhwa cuts between the present and the events that drove Seol to take the year off.

#67

FINISHED

No Longer Heroine

ヒロイン失格

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Hatori Matsuzaki has spent years certain that she is the heroine of her own love story, with her childhood friend Rita Terasaka, a notorious playboy, cast as the hero she will end up with. The certainty cracks when Rita starts dating the shy, bespectacled Miho Adachi and Hatori has to scramble to stay in the picture. Along the way she keeps running into Kosuke Hiromitsu, a smooth-talking classmate who sees straight through her schemes.

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#68

FINISHED

Nineteen, Twenty-One

열아홉스물하나

Romance

Slice of Life

Lee Yun-lee lost the stretch of her life between nineteen and twenty-one to an accident, and she now sits in a cram school trying to make the missing years up. On her way to feed a colony of stray cats near her neighborhood she keeps crossing paths with a loud, unbothered nineteen-year-old boy who is living exactly the age she was robbed of. The cats, and the neighbors who want them gone, keep bringing the two back to the same corner.

Angel Beats!: Heaven's Door

Angel Beats! -Heaven's Door-

Action

Drama

Supernatural

Hideki Hinata comes to in an afterlife shaped like a high school, among students who insist the place is real and that no one here stays dead. There he meets Yuri Nakamura, takes to calling her Yurippe, and the two begin planning a rebellion against God. Set before Otonashi ever arrives, this manga follows the Track Zero side of the story, tracing the early days that end with the founding of the Shinda Sekai Sensen.

#70

FINISHED

Mr. Mini Mart

コンビニくん。

Drama

Romance

Nakaba Endou, who dropped out of school and has spent a year shut away at home, takes his first job at a convenience store to break out of his NEET life. There he is paired with Kouhei Yamai, a loud, abrasive coworker he cannot stand at first. Watching Yamai quietly rescue a stray cat changes how Nakaba sees him, and as the two grow closer, Nakaba starts to fear that what he feels for his coworker will collide with the reason he shut himself away.

Himegoto: Uniforms at Nineteen

ヒメゴト～十九歳の制服～

Drama

Romance

Kaito Aiba is a good-looking young man who dresses as a girl, modeling his style on Mikako Nagao, a nineteen-year-old who sells her body while passing herself off as fifteen. Their friend Yuki is a girl so used to being taken for a boy that femininity has become something she has to perform. The three keep crossing paths as each works out how their gender and desire fit the bodies and roles they were handed, in intimate, messy episodes that refuse tidy answers.

Tokyo ESP

東京ＥＳＰ

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Walking home one night, high schooler Rinka Urushiba is struck by a glowing fish swimming through the air, and she comes to after falling straight through the floor of her own apartment. She is far from alone: across Tokyo, those luminous fish have handed psychic powers to ordinary people, seemingly at random. Another esper, Kyoutarou Azuma, convinces her that what she should do with the ability is become a hero of justice, right as others start turning their new powers on the city.

#73

FINISHED

A Method to Make the Gentle World

やさしいセカイのつくりかた

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Yuu Tomonaga was admitted to an American university at thirteen and went on into its graduate program, until his research funding dried up and he left. Broke, back in Japan and still looking for a way to continue the work on his own, he takes a teaching post an old friend arranges for him at an all-girls high school. He is barely older than the students he now stands in front of, and the classroom treats the young genius as anything but an authority.

#74

ONGOING

Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls

百花繚乱サムライガールズ

Action

Fantasy

In an alternate Japan where the Tokugawa shogunate never fell, Muneakira Yagyu enrolls at Buou Academic School at the foot of Mount Fuji, where a student council rules with near-total authority over the students training there as samurai. He's pulled into a growing standoff between that council and a resistance led by Yukimura Sanada and Matabei Goto, fighters who carry the names of famous historical samurai along with their awakened abilities. This manga adapts the same story as the Hyakka Ryouran light novels, tracking Muneakira's early entanglement in the school's power struggle.

My Neighbor Seki

となりの関くん

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Rumi Yokoi sits beside Toshinari Seki and can never keep her eyes on the lesson, because Seki spends every class building elaborate desktop pastimes instead of paying attention. He stacks dominoes, stages full shogi dramas, and runs a tiny robot family across his desk, always finishing without the teacher ever noticing. Rumi narrates each silent spectacle in her head, fighting the urge to react and getting dragged into his games against her will.

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#76

FINISHED

Hi Score Girl

ハイスコアガール

Drama

Romance

Seinen

Sixth-grader Haruo Yaguchi lives for arcades and 1990s fighting games until Akira Ono, the silent rich girl from his class, turns up at his downtown game center and crushes him at Street Fighter II. Stunned that she plays at all, he swears to beat her one day, and the rivalry pulls the two opposites into a friendship that follows them from grade school into high school. Rensuke Oshikiri grounds the romance in the exact machines and games of the era's arcade scene.

#77

FINISHED

See, Hear, Love

보지 못하고 듣지 못하고 사랑해

Drama

Romance

Min Geun-soo loses his sight in his twenties, and with it the manhwa career he was building and any way to care for his mother, whose dementia sends her into a nursing home. At his lowest point he is pulled back by Jeon So-ri, a deaf woman who grew up in an orphanage reading his work. The two build a life together, writing letters on each other's skin, finding their footing across the gaps that blindness, deafness, and other people's assumptions open between them.

Aphorism

アホリズム

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Momiji Rokudou is an ordinary first-year at Naraka High School, which admits only students who can see the island floating in the sky and promises its graduates wealth and a secure government post. On the first day the class is told to write one kanji they will need for the future. Momiji writes "change," and the word becomes his power, letting him take the form of people he knows, just as monsters start erupting from the ground. Each time the island crosses in front of the sun another wave arrives, and only those who last a year graduate.

#79

FINISHED

Prism

プリズム

Romance

Comedy

Megumi spent all of middle school turning over a single day of grade-school romance with a boy named Hikaru, hoping high school would finally bring her something new. On the way to the entrance ceremony a strikingly pretty girl calls her name and hugs her: Hikaru, back in her life as a girl and, from that day, as a classmate. Megumi has no idea what to do with feelings she never put away, now attached to someone who looks nothing like the boy she remembers.

Inari Konkon

いなり、こんこん、恋いろは。

Fantasy

Romance

Supernatural

Shy middle-schooler Inari Fushimi pulls a fox pup out of a river near the Inari shrine in Kyoto, not knowing it serves the goddess Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami. Uka offers her a wish, and Inari blurts out that she wants to be Akemi Sumizome, the classmate her crush Kouji Tanbabashi seems to like. Regretting it at once, she is given a fragment of Uka's divine power instead: the words "Inari, konkon" now let her take any shape she wants, at a cost to the goddess who bent the rules to grant it.

#81

FINISHED

Future Diary: Paradox

未来日記・パラドックス

Thriller

Action

Drama

In this Future Diary side story, Muru Muru accidentally erases Yuno Gasai from the timeline, pulling the Second diary holder out of Deus Ex Machina's survival game. To keep the contest from collapsing, Muru Muru steps into Yuno's role herself, while Aru Akise, the detective who never held a diary, stands in for an injured Yukiteru Amano. The same lethal game runs again with substitutes whose methods and tempers have little in common with the players they replace.

#82

FINISHED

Sword Art Online: Aincrad

ソードアート・オンラインアインクラッド

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Ten thousand players log into the virtual reality game Sword Art Online and find they cannot log out. Creator Akihiko Kayaba tells them the only way out is to clear all hundred floors of the floating castle Aincrad, and that dying in the game kills them for real. Solo player Kirito throws himself at the front lines and crosses paths with the skilled fencer Asuna, and the two slowly begin working together against the death game. This manga adapts the first Sword Art Online light novel.

#83

FINISHED

Creature!

ハカイジュウ

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Akira Takashiro is an ordinary high schooler in Tachikawa, Tokyo, wrapped up in basketball, his rival Eiji and his feelings for Miku at another school, until a massive earthquake levels the city around him. Pulling himself out of the rubble of his school, he finds a heap of corpses and a monstrous creature feeding on them. As more of the things surface from the broken ground across Japan, Akira has to survive a collapsing world overrun by predators that exist to wipe out humanity.

#84

FINISHED

Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 5: End of the Golden Witch

うみねこのなく頃に散 Episode5: End of the Golden Witch

Thriller

Fantasy

Drama

Natsuhi Ushiromiya sits at the center of this fifth arc, the first of the answer-half 'Chiru' episodes of Umineko When They Cry. With the witch Beatrice no longer able to play, Lambdadelta and Bernkastel take over the game board of Rokkenjima, the Ushiromiya island where the epitaph murders keep repeating. Battler argues on, still hunting a human explanation for the killings, while this manga retells the island's events from Natsuhi's side.

#85

FINISHED

The Pet Girl of Sakurasou

さくら荘のペットな彼女

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Sorata Kanda gets exiled to Sakurasou, the dorm where his arts school parks its oddest students, after he refuses to give up a stray cat. The second-year plans to earn his way back to a normal dorm until Mashiro Shiina moves in: a world-renowned painter so helpless at daily life that she cannot dress or feed herself. This light novel follows Sorata as he is saddled with looking after Mashiro among Sakurasou's restless residents.

#86

FINISHED

Mairunovich

マイルノビッチ

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Mairu Kinoshita's classmates call her a "poison mushroom" behind her back, and even her own brother treats her as an embarrassment, until her neighbor Fuwari takes her makeup and styling in hand. The made-over Mairu starts drawing attention at school, including from Tenyuu Kumada, the boy everyone calls the school king and the one she has fallen for. Newly visible and still unsure of herself, she chases a first love while trying to stay recognizable to herself.

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#87

FINISHED

Nana & Kaoru: Black Label

ナナとカオル Black Label

Ecchi

Drama

Romance

During the summer vacation of their final year of high school, childhood friends Nana Chigusa and Kaoru Sugimura keep up the secret S&M sessions that bind them. Honor student Nana lets Kaoru take the master's role during the stolen hours they call a "breather," and a stay in the countryside pushes the arrangement further than either has taken it. This spin-off runs alongside the main Nana & Kaoru series, with a heavier focus on the pair's bondage play and the trust it demands.

#88

FINISHED

Recently, My Sister Is Unusual

最近、妹の様子がちょっとおかしいんだが。

Shounen

Ecchi

Romance

When her mother remarries, high schooler Mitsuki Kanzaki gains a stepbrother, Yuuya, and ends up living alone with him once both parents move overseas. A ghost named Hiyori, unable to pass on, possesses Mitsuki's body and steers her toward Yuuya, using a special belt that fills up whenever Mitsuki's feelings for him tip into romantic territory. Hiyori needs the belt full to finally reach the afterlife.

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#89

FINISHED

Hajimari no Niina

はじまりのにいな

Shoujo

Drama

Romance

Ten-year-old Niina Aoyagi carries the intact memories of her past life as Chitose Amamiya. Chasing a ball into the neighboring garden, she comes face to face with Atsurou Itami, now twenty-five, the man Chitose loved and the person those memories keep circling back to. Caught between a dead girl's unfinished feelings and her own growing crush, Niina sets out to keep a promise Chitose left behind.

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#90

FINISHED

Moonlight

月光

Thriller

Drama

Romance

Nonomiya is a cynical boy who passes his dull days lost in daydreams until he picks up a notebook dropped by Youko Tsukimori, the school's rumored beauty. Inside is a page headed "Murder Recipe," laying out scenarios that could pass as fatal accidents. When Tsukimori's father soon dies in just such an accident, the two are drawn into a mystery that grows far stranger than a simple killing.

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#91

FINISHED

HajiOtsu.

はじおつ。

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

Himari Ashihara has been through all-girls schools her whole life and freezes up around men. On a dare from her friends Shuuko Tokiwa and Yae Kashino, the second-year works up the nerve to confess to Satoru Kai, a tall first-year she passes every morning on her way in, certain he will turn her down. He says yes instead, and Himari lands in her first relationship carrying a confession she never meant sincerely.

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#92

FINISHED

Starlike Words

スターライクワーズ

Drama

Romance

Subaru, a high schooler who will take a casual hookup but refuses to date anyone he is not in love with, stops cold when he finds a painting at school and decides he has fallen for whoever made it. He tracks down the artist behind the canvas and sets out to win over someone he has never spoken to, while the reputation he has built for sleeping around keeps anyone from taking him seriously.

Survival Game Club!

さばげぶっ！

Shoujo

Action

Comedy

Momoka Sonokawa transfers into Aogiri Academy and is dragged into its strangest club the moment president Miou Ootori sets her sights on her, with no talking her way out of it. The Survival Game Club runs its members through paramilitary drills with airsoft guns under Miou's alarmingly enthusiastic leadership, and Momoka's new clubmates Urara Kasugano and Maya Kyoudou treat every mission like it's life or death. What starts as an ordinary school day spirals into training exercises Momoka never signed up for.

#94

FINISHED

Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden Witch

うみねこのなく頃に散 Episode6:Dawn of the golden witch

Thriller

Fantasy

Drama

This manga adapts the sixth game of the Umineko WHEN THEY CRY mystery, in which Battler Ushiromiya takes over as Game Master and has to build his own board to show he understands Beatrice's puzzle of the Rokkenjima murders. A Beatrice reborn without her old memories stands at his side, timid where she was once fierce. Facing him again is the detective and witch Erika Furudo, who takes apart every claim he makes with cold logic.

#95

ONGOING

Kubera

쿠베라

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Kubera Leez loses her whole village on her sixteenth birthday, and the magician Asha Rahiro pulls her out of the ruins. The two set off across the planet Willarv, where humans, gods and the immortal suras hold an uneasy balance, Asha chasing answers of her own and Leez chasing the sura that burned her home. Her given name belongs to the god Kubera, a coincidence her village never talked about.

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#96

HIATUS

Unbreakable Machine-Doll

機巧少女は傷つかない

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Raishin Akabane travels from Japan to enroll at the Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart, an institution where puppeteers control automatons built from spell-circuits. At his side is Yaya, a machine doll who fights as his weapon and competes for his attention. Raishin enters the academy's four-yearly Night Party tournament, where puppeteers battle for the rank of Wiseman, while pursuing the figure behind the slaughter of his family.

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#97

FINISHED

Hyperdimension Neptunia: Goddess Correspondence

超次元ゲイムネプテューヌ女神通信

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Seinen

In Gamindustri, four goddesses govern nations that rise and fall with their share of public faith. After years of fighting, they sign a friendship treaty that bans taking shares by force, and the competition moves to other ground. Planeptune's easily distracted Neptune now has to train up into a full-fledged goddess, with hardworking Noire, stoic Blanc, and composed Vert as rivals on the other side of the border, while the scheming Magiquone works against all of them. The manga plays the whole console business as affectionate parody.

#98

FINISHED

Miyata Shoten e Youkoso!

宮田書店へようこそ!

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

Another six-story volume from Mizu Asato, built out of one-shots with no running plot between them. Kaerenai Futari, Family Restaurant no Juunin, Seifuku no Shita ni Aru Mahou and Taberu-bu run to comedy, romance and everyday-life material, mostly around students. The title piece, Miyata Shoten ni Youkoso!, centres on a bookshop, and the closing Mikan BOOKS no Baai is a side story to Denki-gai no Honya-san, Asato's series about the staff of an Akihabara comic shop.

#99

FINISHED

Valkyria Chronicles 2

戦場のヴァルキュリア2

Action

Drama

Seinen

Avan Hardins is seventeen when word comes that his older brother Leon is dead, and he enrols at Lanseal Military Academy in Gallia to find out what actually happened to him. Classmates, a squad and a war get in the way of the question. This two-volume manga is one of three adaptations Sega put out around the Valkyria Chronicles II game, and it follows the game's story rather than the television anime's.

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#100

FINISHED

Persona 3 Portable: 4-koma Maximum Boy Character-hen

ペルソナ３ポータブル４コママキシマムボーイズキャラクター編

Supernatural

Comedy

Junpei Iori, Akihiko Sanada, Ken Amada and Shinjiro Aragaki carry this one: fifteen four-panel strips by four artists that keep to the male half of S.E.E.S. Persona 3 Portable moved the same Dark Hour, Evoker and Tartarus onto a handheld and added the option of running the year as a female student, and the volume works from that release. Its companion collection, on sale the same day, does the same job for the women of the Tatsumi Port Island dormitory.

Persona 3 Portable: 4-koma Maximum Girl Character-hen

ペルソナ3ポータブル4コマMAXIMUM ガールズキャラクター編

Supernatural

Comedy

Yukari Takeba, Mitsuru Kirijo, Fuuka Yamagishi and the android Aigis take up the whole of this volume: fourteen four-panel strips by four artists built around the women of S.E.E.S. The handheld version behind it, Persona 3 Portable, kept the Dark Hour and the climb through Tartarus and let players run the year as a female student at Gekkoukan High School. A companion volume released the same day covers the dormitory's male members instead.

Persona 3 Portable: 4-koma Gag Battle

ペルソナ3 ポータブル 4コマギャグバトル

Supernatural

Comedy

Makoto Yuki puts an Evoker to his own temple to call up a Persona, which is the kind of image twenty four-panel strips here turn into punchlines. Eight artists take Persona 3 Portable as their source and move between the S.E.E.S. dormitory on Tatsumi Port Island, Gekkoukan High School and the Dark Hour floors of Tartarus. Gag Battle is the broad-comedy entry among the several 4-koma lines that followed the handheld release.

Persona 3 Portable: Velvet Blue

ペルソナ3ポータブルベルベットブルー

Supernatural

Slice of Life

Elizabeth attends the guests of the Velvet Room, the blue space between mind and matter where Personas are fused and stored, and this light novel hands her the lead. Six chapters follow her dealings with the female student Persona 3 Portable lets players take through the year at Gekkoukan High School, and with the room's other residents, Margaret and Theodore. Shigenori Soejima, who designed the Persona 3 cast, provides the illustrations. The book sits beside the game rather than retelling it.

Persona 3 Portable: Dengeki Comic Anthology

ペルソナ3ポータブル電撃コミックアンソロジー

Supernatural

Comedy

Fuuka Yamagishi reads Tartarus from behind the front line while the rest of S.E.E.S. climbs it, one of the roles fifteen short comics play with here. Five artists build on Persona 3 Portable, keeping Makoto Yuki, the Dark Hour and the Tatsumi Port Island dormitory in frame. This is the Dengeki line's handheld-era volume; the same line had run a Persona 3 anthology three years earlier with an entirely different set of contributors.

Persona 3 Portable: Comic Anthology - Dear Girl's

ペルソナ3 ポータブルコミックアンソロジー〜Dear Girl's〜

Romance

Supernatural

Comedy

Junpei Iori, Akihiko Sanada and Shinjiro Aragaki share the Tatsumi Port Island dormitory with the second lead Persona 3 Portable introduced, a Gekkoukan High School girl who runs the same year of Dark Hour fighting and Tartarus climbs. Twelve short comics by four artists belong to her route, leaning on the bonds she forms rather than on the Shadows she puts down. Dear Girl's is the anthology built specifically around the handheld version's female protagonist.

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FINISHED

Shimaichigai

姉妹ちがい米田和佐短編集

Slice of Life

Comedy

Mutsuki opens Kazusa Yoneda's one volume collection with the case of his older sister turning out to be a magic user, a story that runs across the first two chapters. Yayoi takes the third, a pair of twins split between a nurse's ward and the student council take the next two, and the last chapter backs up to Mutsuki and Haruki on their first day of high school. Six short comedies, no shared continuity.

Top wo Nerae! GunBuster

トップをねらえ! GunBuster

Action

Sci-Fi

Seinen

Noriko Takaya enters a pilot training school in 2023 as the daughter of a captain killed in the opening battles against the space monsters, and without the ability her classmates expect to come with that name. Kazumi Amano, the school's standout pilot, ends up beside her. Humanity is answering the alien advance with battleships and giant robots crewed by the best young pilots it can find, and Noriko has to earn her seat in one. This manga version carries the Gunbuster story into print.

#108

FINISHED

Sakurada Reset: Cat, Ghost and Revolution Sunday

サクラダリセット CAT, GHOST and REVOLUTION SUNDAY

Thriller

Shounen

Fantasy

Kei Asai's photographic memory sets him apart in Sakurada, a coastal town where nearly half the residents carry a supernatural ability of their own. His partner Misora Haruki can reset the town up to three days into the past, and Kei is the only one who remembers what happens before she does. Together they take on cases for their school's Service Club under orders from the Kanrikyoku, the bureau that oversees ability use. This manga adapts the opening arc of the original Sakurada Reset light novels.

#109

FINISHED

My Big Sister Arrived

お姉ちゃんが来た

Slice of Life

Comedy

Fourteen-year-old Tomoya Mizuhara's quiet life changes when his father remarries and seventeen-year-old Ichika moves in as his new stepsister. Ichika's affection for her little brother runs well past ordinary sibling warmth, and her friend Ruri delights in making things worse. Marina, another of Ichika's classmates and striking for her quarter-Japanese looks, adds one more layer to Tomoya's suddenly crowded life.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn: Bande Dessinée

機動戦士ガンダムユニコーンバンドデシネ

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Three years after Char's Counterattack, ordinary student Banagher Links crosses paths with Audrey Burne, a girl trying to head off a war over the Vist Foundation's best-kept secret, Laplace's Box. His encounter with the mysterious Unicorn Gundam, the key to that box, pulls him into open fighting between the Earth Federation and the Neo Zeon remnant faction the Sleeves, led by the masked Full Frontal. This manga retells the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn story, adapting the original novels.

#111

ONGOING

Gal Japon

ギャルジャポン

Shoujo

Slice of Life

Comedy

Ayu and Juria are gals: loud, self-assured and rarely out of each other's company. Ayu's boyfriend Hide-kun cheats and is good for nothing else, and much of this manga is the two friends working through that at full volume between shopping trips, gossip and ordinary days. The strips run as gags rather than a continuing plot, and the third volume carries a one-shot crossover with the Matsuno brothers of Osomatsu-san.

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FINISHED

R-15

Shounen

Ecchi

Romance

Teen erotica novelist Taketo Akutagawa enrolls at Hirameki Academy, a school that only admits students with singular, often absurd talents. He turns his explicit writing skill into a weapon for the school's interclass competitions, rallying classmates whose own gifts are just as unconventional as his. The manga condenses the story into four volumes centered on Taketo's contests and his growing circle of talented rivals-turned-allies.

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#113

FINISHED

Ro-Kyu-Bu!

ロウきゅーぶ！

Sports

Drama

Comedy

Subaru Hasegawa's high school basketball career stalls when his club is suspended for a year after its captain runs off with the coach's grade-school daughter, leaving him with nothing to play for until his aunt Mihoshi Takamura hands him an unlikely job: coaching an elementary school girls' basketball club on the verge of folding. Reluctant at first, Subaru takes on players like ace Tomoka Minato and settles into coaching a team he never expected to care about. This manga adapts the original light novel series.

#114

FINISHED

Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal

遊☆戯☆王 ZEXAL

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Yuma Tsukumo, an amateur duelist determined to become Duel Champion despite his reckless style, challenges Ryouga, the biggest troublemaker at his school, to a match. The duel unexpectedly awakens Astral, a memoryless spirit whose past has been scattered across the world as mysterious "Number" cards. Bound to help each other, Yuma and Astral start hunting down the Numbers one duel at a time, using Xyz Summoning, a new method that stacks monsters of the same level, to turn ordinary card games into a search for Astral's lost identity.

#115

FINISHED

Battle Through the Heavens

斗破苍穹

Action

Fantasy

Romance

Once the brightest talent his clan had produced in Dou Qi cultivation, Xiao Yan watches his power drain away for three straight years, until the Xiao family's prodigy is its laughing stock. When his fiancée, Nalan Yanran, arrives to break off their engagement rather than marry someone who lost his talent, the humiliated Xiao Yan ends it himself and swears that in three years he will come back and answer the insult in front of her entire sect. This Chinese web novel follows that climb through a world where combat strength, Dou Qi, decides everything.

#116

FINISHED

Golden Boy II

ゴールデンボーイ2 〜さすらいのお勉強野郎芸能界大暴れ編〜

Ecchi

Seinen

Comedy

Kintarō Ōe, the eternal itinerant student who rides his bicycle from town to town chasing odd jobs and life lessons, sets his sights on Japan's entertainment industry in this direct sequel to Golden Boy. Still broke, still shameless, and still convinced every new job is a shortcut to enlightenment, Kintarō talks his way onto film sets and into talent agencies, turning each disaster into another crash course in how the industry really works. The showbiz world gives him plenty of new eccentrics to clash with and just as many reasons to keep pedaling.

#117

FINISHED

Persona 3 Portable: 4-koma Kings

ペルソナ3ポータブル4コマKINGS

Supernatural

Comedy

Mitsuru Kirijo, Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori and Makoto Yuki hold the Tatsumi Port Island dorm together through the Dark Hour, and seven artists mine that arrangement for eighteen four-panel strips. The jokes come off the fixtures of Persona 3 Portable: the Evoker to the temple, the Shadows waiting in Tartarus, a school day at Gekkoukan that follows a night of fighting. The 4-koma Kings line had already run a Persona 3 special before reaching this handheld edition.

Kyoukotsu no Yume

狂骨の夢

Thriller

Supernatural

Horror

Akihiko Chuuzenji, the Tokyo bookseller and reluctant exorcist known as Kyogokudo, is handed a woman who cannot sleep for dreams of bones and who insists she murdered her ex-husband three times. Down the coast a seaside town starts burying people who died strangely, four deaths linked by nothing except those same dreams. The novelist Tatsumi Sekiguchi, inspector Kiba, the psychic detective Enokizu and the reporter Atsuko work the case with him. This manga adapts the third Kyougokudou novel, after Ubume no Natsu and Mouryou no Hako.

#119

FINISHED

Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Futari no Elder

乙女はお姉さまに恋してる 2人のエルダー

Romance

Seinen

Comedy

Chihaya Mikado stopped going to school after the bullying there left him unable to trust men, so his mother enrolls him at Seio Girls' School, where she once studied. He arrives in a uniform and under a new surname, Kisaraginomiya, moves into the dormitory, and finds that his face and his grades make him the most talked-about student on campus. Kaoruko Nanahara, who once pulled him away from a man harassing him, is there too. This manga adapts Caramel Box's second Otoboku game, set two years after Mizuho left the school.

#120

FINISHED

Angel Heart 2nd Season

エンジェル・ハート 2ndシーズン

Action

Drama

Seinen

In this alternate take on City Hunter, Xiang-Ying, the former Taiwanese assassin once called Glass Heart, lives in Shinjuku with Kaori Makimura's transplanted heart beating in her chest and Ryo Saeba as her adoptive father. Now working beside Ryo as City Hunter, she takes on cases from people in trouble, while the part of Kaori that lingers inside her still reaches out to him, and Umibozu, also known as Falcon, keeps watch from his Cat's Eye café. This second season continues the story directly after the manga moved to a new magazine, which is all the 2nd Season label marks.

#121

FINISHED

Heartcatch Precure!

ハートキャッチプリキュア！

Shoujo

Kids & Family

Action

Tsubomi Hanasaki, a second-year middle schooler who loves flowers and plants, dreams of a great tree wilting and its fairies vanishing. After she transfers to Myoudou Academy, the fairies from that dream appear before her and beg her to become Pretty Cure and protect the Great Tree, but Tsubomi turns them down. Then a sudden enemy attack steals the Heart Seed of her new classmate Erika Kurumi, and to save Erika's heart, Tsubomi has no choice but to transform and fight. This manga adapts the anime series of the same name.

#122

FINISHED

Inazuma Eleven: Special

イナズマイレブンスペシャル

Kids & Family

Sports

Goalkeeper Endou Mamoru, grandson of one of Japan's strongest keepers, carries the family talent but has almost no team to use it on: his school's soccer club is short on committed players. The arrival of a sharp-shooting forward named Gouenji gives Endou the push to start actively recruiting, rebuilding the roster around a core the club had been missing. This manga runs the same premise as the main Inazuma Eleven manga, as a separately illustrated, parallel adaptation of the same Level-5 game series.

Kaki Gentei Tropical Parfait Jiken

夏期限定トロピカルパフェ事件

Slice of Life

Now in their second year, Kobato Jougorou and Osanai Yuki are still trying to pass as ordinary, hiding the sharp, predatory instincts they call their inner 'fox' and 'wolf.' Summer break brings a new mystery neither can resist looking into, chipping away at the quiet, unremarkable front they've worked so hard to keep up. This manga adapts the Shoshimin series' second novel, following the pair a season after the strawberry tart incident.

Kokoro Connect

ココロコネクト

Drama

Supernatural

Slice of Life

At Yamaboshi Academy, the Cultural Research Club is just five students with nothing else to join, until Taichi Yaegashi, Himeko Inaba, Iori Nagase, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki start involuntarily swapping bodies with each other. At first it plays out as awkward comedy: they stumble through each other's routines and pick up each other's habits. It turns heavier once the entity responsible starts forcing the five to face secrets they'd never have shared on their own. This is the original Kokoro Connect light novel series.

#125

FINISHED

Zero's Familiar: Chevalier

ゼロの使い魔シュヴァリエ

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Louise and her reluctant familiar Saito Hiraga return as the kingdom of Albion, backed by the mysterious organization Reconquista, declares war on Tristain. Louise's long-dormant Void magic finally awakens in the chaos, letting her turn the tide of battle almost single-handedly, while Saito is drawn deeper into the political fallout among Tristain's nobility. This manga sequel to Zero's Familiar adapts volumes five through seven of the original light novels, carrying Louise and Saito from academy life into full wartime conflict.

#126

FINISHED

Is This a Zombie?

これはゾンビですか？

Ecchi

Romance

Supernatural

Ayumu Aikawa is murdered by a serial killer and revived as a zombie by the necromancer Eucliwood Hellscythe, who then moves into his house. When he accidentally absorbs the powers of a magical girl named Haruna during a fight, he inherits her job of battling monstrous Megalo, chainsaw and frilly costume included. This manga adapts the original light novel, following Ayumu's increasingly crowded household as more supernatural housemates complicate his new double life.

#127

FINISHED

Archenemy & Hero

魔王勇者

Fantasy

Drama

When the Hero of the human armies finally reaches the demon stronghold to end a fifteen-year war, he expects a final battle. Instead, the Demon King disarms him with an argument: killing her now would only trigger a human civil war deadlier than the war itself. They strike a pact and put out word that their duel left him missing and her gravely wounded, buying a ceasefire while she crosses into the human realm as the Crimson Scholar to rebuild trade and farmland behind the front lines. This light novel is the original source for the manga and the 2013 TV anime.

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

Action

Ecchi

Supernatural

Exiled from Heaven for bad behavior, sisters Panty and Stocking Anarchy hunt Ghosts in Daten City under the watch of the reverend Garterbelt, collecting the Heaven Coins that could buy their way back. Panty turns her lingerie into a pistol called Backlace and Stocking turns her striped stockings into a pair of katanas, and neither sister lets their holy mission get in the way of sex, sugar, or petty rivalry with each other. This manga adapts the original anime's Ghost-hunting formula into short standalone gag chapters.

#129

FINISHED

Chaika: The Coffin Princess

棺姫のチャイカ

Action

Fantasy

Romance

Chaika Trabant, a coffin-carrying young sorceress, tracks down the scattered remains of her late father, the deposed emperor Arthur Gaz. She recruits Tooru Acura, an idle ex-saboteur with nothing left to fight for since the war's end, and his sister Akari to protect her on the road, where rival factions and old soldiers have their own reasons to intercept her. This is the original light novel behind the manga and both Hitsugi no Chaika anime seasons.

#130

FINISHED

Kotoura-San

琴浦さん

Drama

Romance

Supernatural

Haruka Kotoura can hear everyone's thoughts, and years of blurting out what she overhears have left her branded a liar and shunned by family and classmates alike. Transferring to a new school for a fresh start, she meets Yoshihisa Manabe, one of the only people who accepts her ability instead of fearing it, and slowly begins rebuilding a life around him and the misfit ESP Society club he's tied to.

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#131

FINISHED

Dragonar Academy

星刻の竜騎士

Ecchi

Fantasy

Comedy

At Ansarivan Dragonar Academy, every student is expected to bond with a dragon partner, everyone except Ash Blake, whose star-shaped brand has stayed dormant since enrollment. When his dragon finally hatches, it takes the form of a girl named Eco, who promptly informs him that she is the master and he the servant. The original light novel series follows Ash's chaotic reordering of academy life around a partner nobody expected, and a separate manga adaptation runs alongside it.

#132

FINISHED

Sunday Without God

神さまのいない日曜日

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

Fifteen years after God abandoned the world, births have stopped and the dead linger in a decaying half-life until a Gravekeeper grants them peace. Ai has spent her whole life as her village's Gravekeeper, but everything changes when a silver-haired stranger named Hampnie Hambart arrives calling himself her father and slaughters everyone she has ever known. Alone, Ai sets out to follow Hambart and learn the truth behind the massacre in this original light novel, the source for the manga and TV anime adaptations.

#133

FINISHED

Time of Eve

イヴの時間

Sci-Fi

Drama

Seinen

Rikuo Sakisaka has spent his whole life treating androids like appliances, so when he notices odd gaps in his family android Sammy's activity logs, he and his friend Masaki follow the trail to a café with an unusual house rule: inside it, humans and androids are treated exactly the same. Between visits, Rikuo starts questioning everything he assumed about the androids around him, from Sammy's growing independence to what the people dismissed as "android-holics" see in machines everyone else calls furniture. This manga adapts the original Time of Eve anime.

#134

FINISHED

Brothers Conflict

Drama

Romance

After her father remarries, Ema Hinata takes the surname Asahina and moves into the Sunrise Residence, where she suddenly gains thirteen stepbrothers under one roof. She hopes for an ordinary, peaceful family life, but living as the only woman among the brothers upends that plan fast, and several of them start developing real feelings for her. The light novels that launched the franchise track how those thirteen relationships pull at Ema from every direction at once.

Kiniro Mosaic

きんいろモザイク

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Shinobu Oomiya spent a childhood homestay with the Cartelet family in England, and five years later Alice Cartelet follows her to Japan, moving in with the Oomiyas and transferring into Shinobu's high school. Reunited, the two share classes with Aya Komichi and Youko Inokuma, filling their days with club activities, festivals, and study sessions. Karen Kujou, Alice's half-British, half-Japanese friend from England, comes over as well and rounds out the group with her broken Japanese and her own culture-clash energy. The four-panel manga stays anchored in these everyday school moments rather than any larger plot.

#136

FINISHED

GJ Club

GJ部

Slice of Life

Comedy

Kyouya Shinomiya is dragged into joining the GJ Club, a mysteriously named group that meets in an unused room of his school's old building. There he meets its short-tempered president Mao Amatsuka, her gentle younger sister Megumi, the brilliant but scatterbrained Shion Sumeragi, and the perpetually hungry, hard-to-read Kirara Bernstein. This light novel follows their everyday antics as Kyouya settles into a club whose actual purpose is never quite explained.

Hitorijime Boyfriend

ひとりじめボーイフレンド

Drama

Romance

In sixth grade, Kensuke Ooshiba told his best friend Asaya Hasekura that he hated him, right before Hasekura transferred to another school, a rupture that still stings three years later. When Hasekura suddenly reappears in Kensuke's life, unbothered as if nothing happened, Kensuke has to face what he actually felt back then, while Hasekura pushes for something more than the friendship they used to have. This one-volume manga became the prequel to the longer-running Hitorijime My Hero.

Eden of the East: The King of Eden / Paradise Lost

小説東のエデン劇場版

Thriller

Drama

Six months after Japan narrowly avoids a nationwide missile strike, Saki Morimi travels to New York to track down Akira Takizawa, who vanished right after the crisis ended. She's not the only one looking for him: the surviving Seleção, each holding a phone loaded with ten billion yen and a mysterious mission, are pursuing their own agendas as Japanese authorities close in on the group over suspected terrorism. This novel collects the story told across the two Eden of the East films, The King of Eden and Paradise Lost.

Hakuouki

薄桜鬼

Shoujo

Action

Drama

A wave of unexplained killings in Kyoto has left the Shinsengumi hunting Rasetsu, warriors turned demonic by an elixir called ochimizu. Yukimura Chizuru, freshly arrived from Edo to find her missing father, stumbles onto the unit cutting one of the creatures down, and Vice Commander Hijikata Toshizo decides to keep her close rather than have her silenced. This four-volume manga adapts the Hakuouki otome game.

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#140

FINISHED

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Glory of the Losers

新機動戦記ガンダムW ENDLESS WALTZ: 敗者たちの栄光

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Five young pilots, Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Winner, and Chang Wufei, take up Gundams to wage guerrilla war against the United Earth Sphere Alliance's grip on the orbiting space colonies of AC 195. This manga retells the original Gundam Wing story from scratch, folding in material from the Episode Zero prequel and the Frozen Teardrop novels to give the fullest version of the war. Relena Darlian, daughter of a pacifist politician, becomes entangled with Heero as the conflict spreads across Earth and space.

#141

FINISHED

The Mystic Archives of Dantalian

ダンタリアンの書架

Thriller

Action

Shounen

In post-WWI England, former Royal Air Force pilot Hugh Anthony Disward inherits his late grandfather's mansion and, with it, custodianship of Dantalian's Bookshelf, an archive holding 900,666 forbidden Phantom Books. Its guardian is Dalian, the young 'Black Biblioprincess' who can unlock the books' power, and together they investigate incidents where lost tomes wreak havoc on ordinary people. This manga adapts the original light novel series.

#142

FINISHED

Mayoi Neko Overrun!

迷い猫オーバーラン!

Shounen

Ecchi

Romance

Takumi Tsuzuki keeps the struggling confectionery shop Stray Cats running alongside his non-blood-related older sister Otome, who owns it but can barely manage the books. Their routine changes when Otome brings home a mysterious, striking girl she found on the street, and the shop's small household grows to include childhood friend Fumino Serizawa and newcomer Chise Umenomori.

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#143

FINISHED

Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth

ロック・リーの青春フルパワー忍伝

Shounen

Comedy

Rock Lee can throw a punch but can't cast a single ninjutsu or genjutsu, and that gap defines every chaotic day of training under his equally over-the-top sensei, Might Guy. This gag-manga spin-off of Naruto follows Team Guy (Lee, Neji Hyuuga, and Tenten) through parody missions and slapstick misadventures that usually end with someone rescuing Lee from his own enthusiasm. Here the ninja world's most earnest taijutsu specialist is played for laughs rather than battle stakes.

Fractale

フラクタル

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Adventure

Clain lives an aimless life on an island version of future Ireland, tinkering with antique 20th-century electronics under a society run entirely by the Fractale System. Everything changes when he meets Phryne, a fugitive priestess of the System who leaves behind a pendant that awakens Nessa, a doppel avatar built in her image. Clain sets out with Nessa to track Phryne down, a search that starts pulling back the curtain on what keeps Fractale running. This manga tells the same story as the Fractale television anime.

#145

FINISHED

Pokémon: Zoroark - Master of Illusions

劇場版ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド&パール幻影の覇者ゾロアーク

Kids & Family

Fantasy

Adventure

Ash and Pikachu arrive in Crown City for the Pokémon Baccer World Cup, but the celebration turns dangerous when the illusion-casting Pokémon Zoroark starts attacking the city. With friends Brock and Dawn, and her Piplup, Ash has to unravel an old mystery behind Zoroark's rage, tangled up with the fox Pokémon Zorua, before Team Rocket's Jessie, James, and Meowth can make things worse. This manga adapts the story of the animated film Pokémon: Zoroark - Master of Illusions rather than telling a new one.

#146

FINISHED

Nana Maru San Batsu

ナナマルサンバツ

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

High school freshman Shiki Koshiyama is pulled into his school's Quiz Study Group by his classmate Mari Fukami, who already knows her way around competitive quiz bowl. Guided by the club's leader, second-year Gakuto Sasajima, Shiki discovers a knack for split-second recall and buzzer speed, training with teammate Daisuke Inoue for inter-school tournaments against opponents like Miyaura High's Chisato Mikuriya. The manga follows their climb through Japan's competitive quiz-bowl circuit.

#147

FINISHED

Ookamikakushi

おおかみかくし

Thriller

Supernatural

Hiroshi Kuzumi settles into Jogamachi, a mountain town so quiet it seems untouched by the outside world, and finds the whole place oddly eager to make him feel at home. Class president Nemuru Kushinada is the exception, warning him away from the old quarter across the river, while Isuzu Tsumuhana, Kaname Asagiri and Kannon Hakuorou become the first people he actually trusts. This light novel retells the story of the Ookamikakushi adventure game, which also received two manga versions, Kokihi no Shou and Keshimurasaki no Shou.

Mobile Fighter G Gundam

超級！機動武闘伝Gガンダム

Action

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Domon Kasshu pilots the Shining Gundam as Neo Japan's fighter in the 13th Gundam Fight, competing to win the tournament and to find his missing brother, believed responsible for stealing the Devil Gundam. Rain Mikamura, the partner who keeps his mobile suit running, travels with him, and his old teacher, the legendary Master Asia, crosses his path early on. This manga retells Mobile Fighter G Gundam decades after the original 1994 anime, a separate version from both the 1994 manga and the light novel.

#149

FINISHED

Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

文学少女と飢え渇く幽霊

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

Konoha Inoue gets pulled into another investigation when scraps of paper reading "Hate" and "Ghost is," scrawled alongside cryptic numbers, start showing up in the literature club's Love Consultation Post Box. Club president Touko Amano treats it as a direct challenge and drags Konoha into tracking down whoever is leaving them; when they finally corner the culprit, a girl they don't recognize tells them, smiling, "I'm already dead." This manga adapts the second Book Girl light novel, continuing Konoha and Touko's after-school investigations.

#150

FINISHED

Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer

機動戦士ガンダム00 -A wakening of the Trailblazer-

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Two years after Celestial Being's war against the A-Laws, Setsuna F. Seiei is finally piloting the Gundam he always wanted when a long-lost ship returns from Jupiter carrying a threat no one anticipated: the ELS, a living alien race that starts assimilating Earth's technology on contact. This manga adapts the 2010 Gundam 00 film, following Setsuna and the Ptolemaios crew as they scramble to understand an enemy that isn't human at all, and condenses the movie's story into a single collected volume.

#151

FINISHED

Cheer Boys!!

チア男子!!

Sports

Drama

Disheartened after quitting judo, university student Haruki Bandou has no real direction until his childhood friend Kazuma Hashimoto pitches an unheard-of idea: starting Japan's first competitive men's cheerleading team. The two recruit a handful of misfits, among them the hot-tempered Wataru Mizoguchi and the always-hungry Ton, and build the squad BREAKERS from scratch, loosely inspired by Waseda University's real Shockers team. This novel traces BREAKERS' rocky formation, the story later adapted into both a manga and a TV anime.

Naruto Ninden Series

NARUTO -ナルト- 忍伝シリーズ

Shounen

Romance

Adventure

Two novels bear Jiraiya's byline within the Naruto universe itself: The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi, the pulpy adventure story Minato Namikaze loved so much he named his unborn son after its hero, and The Tale of the Utterly Purehearted Shinobi, Jiraiya's later attempt at a straightforward love story. Presented as in-fiction publications rather than framed narration, both books flesh out Jiraiya's identity as a writer years before he becomes Naruto Uzumaki's mentor. The two-volume set is a Naruto tie-in rather than a continuation of the ninja story itself.

#153

FINISHED

Fairy Tail+

FAIRY TAIL+

Shounen

Fantasy

Adventure

Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia headline this trio of bonus stories left out of Fairy Tail's collected volumes: a transformation-magic lesson taught by Mirajane, a trip to the Fairy Fountain, and a short built around Happy. The collection also includes Fairy Megane, a one-shot crossover in which students from Miki Yoshikawa's Yankee-kun to Megane-chan mistake the Fairy Tail guild hall for a regular company and show up looking for part-time jobs.

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#154

FINISHED

Rohan at the Louvre

岸辺露伴ルーヴルへ行く

Thriller

Supernatural

Horror

Mangaka Rohan Kishibe travels to Paris to examine a 300-year-old painting rumored to use the darkest pigment ever created, after learning its maker, Nizaemon Yamamura, was executed for felling a forbidden tree to extract the color. At the Louvre's restricted Warehouse Z-13, Rohan and a small team of museum staff get their first look at the painting itself, and Rohan starts to realize the curse behind it is worse than the story suggested.

#155

FINISHED

Bakemonogatari Short Stories

ひたぎビュッフェ、まよいマイルーム、するがコート、なでこプール、つばさソング

Romance

Supernatural

Comedy

Five short stories, each spotlighting one of the Bakemonogatari heroines, were bundled into the anime's official 2010 guidebook: Hitagi Buffet, Mayoi My Room, Suruga Court, Nadeko Pool, and Tsubasa Song. In "Hitagi Buffet," Senjougahara invites Araragi to an all-you-can-eat cake buffet that turns into a conversation about weight and vulnerability; in "Mayoi My Room," Araragi accidentally brings Hachikuji home after running into her on the street. The stories were later collected again in the 2024 anthology Mijikanamonogatari alongside new material.

#156

FINISHED

Sword Art☆Online.

そーどあーと☆おんらいん。

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Seinen

Kirito, Asuna and the rest of the Sword Art Online cast turn up in four-panel strips that replay the series for laughs, taking the death game's tensest standoffs and the later virtual worlds and collapsing them into punchlines. Floor bosses become setups, Kirito's deadpan becomes a running joke, and the party spends as much time bickering as it does fighting. A gag spin-off of the Sword Art Online light novels.

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#157

FINISHED

Game Over

GAME OVER

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

On her morning bus commute, office worker Akemi Toudou plays a private game: pick a fellow passenger and see if she can make him look at her twice. Middle schooler Shouta Ichinose is the first rider who refuses to bite, and his stubborn indifference turns the game into a running contest between them. Game Over collects this one-volume romance alongside three standalone short stories.

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#158

FINISHED

Steins;Gate: Braunian Motion of Love and Hate

STEINS;GATE恩讐のブラウニアンモーション

Sci-Fi

Drama

Seinen

Years before the Future Gadget Lab exists, Yuugo Tennouji is a high-ranking Rounder working for SERN, sent to Akihabara to track down the IBN 5100 and the woman connected to it, Suzu Hashida, who arrived there from the future. Getting close to Suzu starts as a way to speed the mission along and turns into a bond he cannot square with his orders. This spin-off manga sets out the losses and grudges behind the gruff CRT shop owner the lab later knows only as Mr. Braun.

#159

FINISHED

Haganai+

僕は友達が少ない+

Shounen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Kodaka Hasegawa, a transfer student everyone mistakes for a delinquent because of his hair, catches Sena Kashiwazaki, the most popular girl in school, chatting with Renka, a friend who exists only in her favorite visual novel. When Sena asks him to help her make real friends, the two end up forming a bond neither expected. This alternate-continuity manga reimagines how the Neighbors' Club first comes together, the sharp-tongued Yozora Mikazuki included, diverging from the original light novel's version of events.

#160

FINISHED

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

キングダムハーツ Birth by Sleep

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Terra and Aqua have trained for years under Master Eraqus alongside their younger friend Ventus, and the day comes for the two of them to sit the Mark of Mastery exam. Aqua passes; Terra does not, undone by a darkness he cannot explain. When Master Xehanort disappears soon after, the three are scattered across separate worlds by their own errands and choices, and by a fate their friendship may not survive. This light novel retells the story of the video game Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

#161

FINISHED

Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya

コードギアス漆黒の蓮夜

Action

Shounen

Supernatural

Set a century before the main Code Geass story, this manga follows Renya, a seventeen-year-old fighter with a mechanical left arm and a set of throwing blades, in Edo-era Japan. When the ageless witch Reifū C.C. tries to grant him a new Geass covenant, the ritual goes wrong and curses him instead, right as a mysterious man who looks strikingly like Lelouch Lamperouge appears with his own hidden agenda.

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#162

FINISHED

Corpse Party: Musume

コープスパーティー：娘

Ecchi

Supernatural

Horror

A group of students preparing for their school's culture festival perform "Sachiko Ever After," a charm meant to bind their friendship forever. Instead, an earthquake tears through the building and drops them into a parallel version of their school stuck in 1927: the corpse-strewn ruin of Heavenly Host Elementary, still holding the remains of its past victims. Yoshiki Kishinuma, Ayumi Shinozaki, Satoshi Mochida, and Naomi Nakashima must find a way out before they become the school's newest casualties. This manga adapts the original 1996 Corpse Party game.

#163

FINISHED

Cross Days

クロスデイズ

Drama

Romance

Yuuki Ashikaga, a freshman at Sakakino Academy, falls for Kotonoha Katsura after months of seeing her in the school library, but Kotonoha is already dating his classmate Makoto Itou. Things get more complicated when Yuuki's sister Chie introduces him to her kouhai Roka Kitsuregawa, who plays hard to get by claiming she is just as interested in Makoto. The lie sets off a chain of misunderstandings this manga follows from Yuuki's perspective, adapting a visual novel that runs alongside the events of School Days.

Tokyo Ravens

東京レイヴンズ

Fantasy

Drama

Harutora Tsuchimikado was born into a family of onmyoji but can't see spirit energy at all, so he's given up on magic and settled into a quiet countryside life, until his estranged childhood friend Natsume Tsuchimikado turns up to collect on a promise he made her years ago: to become her shikigami. Natsume, heir to the main Tsuchimikado line and the top student at the Onmyou Academy, drags Harutora to Tokyo, where he's forced back into a world of spellcasting and family politics he thought he'd left behind. This light novel by Kouhei Azano is the original source for the manga and anime.

Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero

はぐれ勇者の鬼畜美学

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Akatsuki Ousawa comes home from the world of Alayzard carrying two things: the magic he picked up defeating its demon king, Garius, and Garius's daughter Miu, whom he'd promised on the man's deathbed to look after. Passed off as his little sister, Miu joins Akatsuki at Babel, the school a nervous world government built to keep watch over anyone who returns from another world with power. This eleven-volume light novel series is the original source for both the TV anime and its manga adaptation, following Akatsuki and Miu's daily balancing act between magical fallout and ordinary school life.

#166

ONGOING

Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners

空の境界

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

Shiki Ryougi wakes from a two-year coma to find the male alter ego she had lived alongside gone, and her eyes changed: her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception now let her see and sever the "death" inherent in any object or person. In late-1990s Japan, she partners with Mikiya Kokutou, an old classmate who tracks her down after her recovery, and takes freelance cases for Touko Aozaki's detective agency Garan no Dou. Told out of chronological order, the manga adapts the original novels chapter by chapter and remains ongoing.

#167

ONGOING

Dragon Ball SD

ドラゴンボールエスディー

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Dragon Ball SD retells Son Goku's adventures with Krillin, Vegeta, and the rest of the original cast in a chibi, super-deformed art style built for younger readers. The retelling compresses the source manga's arcs, from the hunt for the Dragon Balls and training under Muten Roushi to the Saiyan invasion and the fight against Freeza, into faster, gag-heavy chapters that trade detail for jokes. Aimed at kids, it works as a condensed introduction to the original story rather than new canon.

Top 250

Top 250

PTSD Radio

Tower of God

Noragami: Stray God

Akame ga Kill!

House of the Sun

The Breaker: New Waves

The Sound of Magic: Annarasumanara

Another

Alice in Borderland

Hideout

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale: The Silver Sugar Master and the Obsidian Fairy

Star Driver

To Love Ru Darkness

Trinity Seven: The Seven Magicians

Judge

The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

Love Stage!!

Schwarzesmarken

Kase-san and...

5 Centimeters per Second

Golden Time

Fate/Zero

Kokoro Connect

Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There!

Accel World

Tokyo Ravens

Infinite Stratos

Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends

Occult Academy

The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat.

Aria the Scarlet Ammo Double A

So, I Can't Play H!

So, I Can't Play H!

Laughing Under the Clouds

Digimon Xros Wars

Blade Dance of Elementalers

Amagami: Love goes on!

Penguin Highway

Love at Fourteen

Feng Shen Ji

High School DxD

Monogatari Series: Second Season

Is This a Zombie? Yes, I'm Your Wife

Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl

Hanasaku Iroha

A Centaur's Life

OniAi

Hinamatsuri

Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!

Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

Okami-san and Her Seven Companions

Naruto Shippuden: The Lost Tower (Novelization)

King's Game

Love, Election and Chocolate

Log Horizon

Canaan Sfill

Nakaimo: My Little Sister Is Among Them!

Witchcraft Works

Heaven's Memo Pad

Canaan

Mayo Chiki!

Shin Crayon Shin-chan

Strike Witches: 1937 Fuso Sea Incident

Sunny

Sunday Without God

Cheese in the Trap Season 1

No Longer Heroine

Nineteen, Twenty-One

Angel Beats!: Heaven's Door

Mr. Mini Mart

Himegoto: Uniforms at Nineteen

Tokyo ESP

A Method to Make the Gentle World

Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls

My Neighbor Seki

Hi Score Girl

See, Hear, Love

Aphorism