無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~
After a wasted, reclusive life ends under the wheels of a truck, a 34-year-old shut-in wakes up as a newborn in a world of swords and sorcery, keeping every memory of who he was. Reborn as Rudeus Greyrat, he resolves to live this second chance without regret and proves a natural at magic. He trains under the wandering mage Roxy Migurdia, befriends the elf girl Sylphiette, and later tutors the hot-tempered young noble Eris Boreas Greyrat.
ダンジョン飯
When a red dragon devours his sister Falin during a failed dungeon raid, knight Laios Touden resolves to descend again and reach her before she is fully digested. His party has lost its money and supplies, so the only way to keep moving is to hunt and cook the dungeon's monsters for every meal. The dwarf Senshi, who has lived off dungeon cuisine for years, joins Laios alongside the elf mage Marcille and the halfling Chilchuck. Each floor becomes both a fight and a recipe as the group eats its way toward the dragon.
All You Need Is Kill
Keiji Kiriya dies in his first battle against the alien Mimics, then wakes up the morning before, alive and uninjured, trapped in a loop that resets every time he is killed. Forced to relive the same losing engagement over and over, he uses each death to sharpen his combat skills. He crosses paths with Rita Vrataski, the celebrated soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch, who may understand what is happening to him. This two-volume manga adapts Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel, drawn by Takeshi Obata.
いぬやしき
Ichirou Inuyashiki is a worn-out 58-year-old salaryman, ignored by his family and newly diagnosed with terminal cancer, when a blinding crash in a park leaves him rebuilt as a weapon-laden machine in a human shell. He turns his new body toward healing the sick and protecting strangers. But a teenager caught in the same blast, Hiro Shishigami, wakes with identical powers and a coldly different idea of what to do with them.
賭ケグルイ
At Hyakkaou Private Academy, social rank is decided not by grades but by gambling, and the students who lose big are reduced to servants of the winners. Into this rigged hierarchy transfers Yumeko Jabami, a poised, beautiful newcomer who gambles purely for the rush of the risk. As she calmly exposes and dismantles the cheats that keep the academy's elite on top, classmates like Ryota Suzui and Mary Saotome are pulled into her wake.
リ・モンスター
Kanata Tomokui is murdered in his old life and wakes up reborn as a lowly goblin, keeping both his human memories and a power called Absorption that lets him take on the traits of anything he eats. Named Gob-Rou by his tribe, he eats his way up the food chain, growing far stronger than a goblin has any right to be. This manga adapts Kanekiru Kogitsune's web novel as Rou claws toward the top of a brutal monster world and builds the mercenary band Parabellum.
風夏
Yuu Haruna, a loner who lives more on Twitter than around people, runs into a barefoot transfer student named Fuuka Akitsuki when she smashes his phone, convinced he was trying to photograph her. Fuuka has no cellphone and still plays music on a CD player, and her blunt enthusiasm pulls Yuu out of his screen and toward an old promise to start a band. As the two and their classmates form the group and aim for the stage, music becomes the thread tying them together. Kouji Seo's manga is a follow-up to his earlier series Suzuka.
結婚指輪物語
Haruto Satou has been quietly in love with his neighbor and best friend Hime for years when she suddenly announces she's leaving for good. Chasing after her, he finds a glowing portal in her place and crashes through it into another world, arriving in the middle of her wedding ceremony. There Hime is revealed as a princess, and her kiss makes Satou the prophesied Ring King, bound to gather elemental rings and the brides who carry them to protect both realms.
リアルアカウント
Ataru Kashiwagi, a teenager raising himself and his sister Yuri in poverty after their parents' death, is hooked on the social network Real Account. One day he and roughly ten thousand other users are pulled inside the app into the Real Account Zone, where they are forced to play deadly games. The rules are brutal: lose all your followers and you die, and when a player dies, every one of their followers dies with them.
春待つ僕ら
Mitsuki Haruno is a shy first-year at Seiryou High who has never managed to make a real friend. Her routine cracks open when four boys from the school's basketball team, nicknamed the "four heavenly kings," become regulars at the café where she works part-time. Drawn slowly into their circle, she grows closest to the quiet Towa Asakura, even as the team's no-dating rule and the return of her childhood friend Aya complicate where she stands.
落第騎士の英雄譚
At Hagun Academy, students called Mage-Knights manifest their souls as weapons, and Ikki Kurogane is written off as the worst of them — branded the "Failed Knight" for his feeble magic. Everything shifts when he is paired as a roommate with transfer student Stella Vermillion, a princess hailed as a once-in-a-generation prodigy. After a clash over their living arrangement, the two agree to a duel that binds their futures together and start training side by side. This manga adapts Riku Misora's light-novel series.
強くてニューサーガ
Kyle Lenard fought to the end of a losing war, striking down the Demon Lord at the cost of his home, his friends, and everyone he loved. As he dies, he grasps the Divine Dragon's Heart and wakes four years in the past, before the invasion ever began. Armed with the memory of how everything fell, Kyle leaves his village with his childhood friend Lise and swordsman Theron to grow strong, recruit allies like the elf Urza, and brace humanity for the Great Invasion he knows is coming.
パーフェクトワールド
At a work dinner, 26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana runs into Itsuki Ayukawa, the boy she had a crush on in high school. He is now an architect — and uses a wheelchair after a spinal cord injury. Tsugumi's old feelings resurface, but she hesitates, unsure she can handle a relationship with a disabled man. This josei series follows the two of them, and the people around them, through the practical and emotional realities of dating, family, and daily life with disability.
Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活
On his way home from a convenience store, shut-in Subaru Natsuki is suddenly dropped into a fantasy kingdom with no idea how he got there. After a silver-haired half-elf named Emilia helps him out of trouble, Subaru is killed, only to wake up alive at an earlier moment with his memories intact. This power, which he calls Return by Death, sends him back to a fixed point each time he dies, and he leans on it to protect Emilia and the people he meets in Lugunica.
妖怪少女 -モンスガ-
Yakki Nishizuru thinks of himself as ordinary apart from one quirk: he can see yokai spirits, which he gets by mostly by ignoring them. That changes when he meets Rokka, a mysterious young woman tied to the supernatural, and Yakki ends up the lone protector of a household of yokai women. The ecchi action-comedy by Kazuki Funatsu runs his everyday life off the rails through a string of spirit encounters.
バキ道
With the duel against his father behind him, Baki Hanma keeps fighting in the underground arena but can no longer find anything that excites him. The boredom breaks when the government, backed by Tokugawa, revives the legendary 17th-century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi through a cloning project. Pulled into the modern world, Musashi takes on the strongest fighters of the age, and Baki sets his sights on a match against the resurrected samurai. This fourth Baki series continues directly from Baki Hanma.
大きい女の子は好きですか?
Souta Tachibana is a short, capable freeter whose older sister ropes him into helping out his college's women's volleyball team. Every player towers over him at well past six feet, and the squad takes an immediate interest in the diminutive newcomer. Living in their all-girls dorm, Souta has to hold his own among a circle of very tall women who refuse to leave him alone.
カーストヘヴン
At one high school, every student's social rank is decided by a game: hidden trump cards scattered across the campus assign roles from King and Queen down to the lowest tiers. Azusa has been class King until a new round of the game, when his classmate Karino claims the King card and casts Azusa as the Target, the bottom of the order. Forced to submit to Karino to avoid the class's abuse, Azusa refuses to break and keeps fighting to reclaim his place.
少女終末旅行
Chito and Yuuri are two girls drifting through the upper layers of a vast, abandoned city long after war emptied the world. They travel on a Kettenkrad halftrack, scavenging fuel, rations, and scraps of a vanished civilization as snow falls over the ruins. Chito reads, navigates, and keeps the machine running, while Yuuri handles the rifle and takes things as they come. Quiet days of climbing higher and finding small comforts make up their slow journey across a dying landscape.
黒崎くんの言いなりになんてならない
Determined to reinvent her plain image, Yu Akabane enters high school and ends up living in a dorm split between two boys who run the place: the gentle "White Prince" Shirakawa and the harsh "Black Devil" Kurosaki. After Yu gets on his bad side, Kurosaki orders her to do whatever he says, pulling her into a tense back-and-forth with him even as she nurses feelings for Shirakawa. Navigating the dorm's pecking order, she tries to stand her ground against Kurosaki's demands.
みずたまハニーボーイ
Mei Sengoku captains the girls' kendo team and is known around school as its resident samurai, single-mindedly chasing strength. When Shiro Fuji, the soft-spoken boy nicknamed the school's 'girly guy,' confesses to her, she brushes it off as a distraction. After Shiro steps in to protect her from danger, Mei starts wanting to understand him better, hoping he can show her where her own weaknesses lie, and an odd friendship grows between them.
盾の勇者の成り上がり
Naofumi Iwatani is summoned to a parallel world as one of four Cardinal Heroes meant to fight off the Waves of monsters, but he draws the Legendary Shield, the only purely defensive weapon, and is quickly shunned and falsely accused. Cast out and broke, he buys a young demi-human girl named Raphtalia as his first companion and later raises a filolial chick called Filo, building a party from the bottom up while the kingdom that mocked him still expects him to defend it.
僕のヒーローアカデミア
In a world where most people are born with superpowers called Quirks, Izuku Midoriya is one of the few without one, yet he still dreams of becoming a hero. After the top hero All Might recognizes his courage, he passes on his own power, One For All, to Izuku and points him toward U.A. High School. There Izuku trains alongside classmates like Katsuki Bakugo to master a strength his body can barely contain.
후레자식
Jin Seon is a sickly, withdrawn high schooler whom everyone overlooks except the bullies who corner him. The reason for his silence lives at home: his polished, respected father Dongsoo is a serial killer, and Jin has spent years forced to help lure and dispose of victims. When a transfer student named Kyun takes an unexpected interest in him, Jin has to weigh his terror of his father against the first person who treats him as worth saving. This Korean manhwa runs as a full-color vertical-scroll thriller.
ゴールデンカムイ
Saichi Sugimoto, a Russo-Japanese War veteran nicknamed 'Immortal Sugimoto,' pans for gold in Hokkaido to support a fallen comrade's widow. A drunk's tale of a hidden Ainu gold cache turns real when Sugimoto learns its map was tattooed in pieces across the bodies of escaped Abashiri Prison convicts. Saved from a bear by Asirpa, a young Ainu girl hunting the men who murdered her father, he proposes they track down the tattooed prisoners together. Their search pits them against army soldiers and other treasure hunters across the frozen north.
徒然チルドレン
Across one high school, a sprawling cast of students keeps tripping over the same problem: actually saying 'I like you'. In short four-panel installments, couples and would-be couples — the blunt Kana and the teasing Chiaki, the delinquent Kyouya and the prim Ayane, and many more — stumble through confessions, misread signals, and small embarrassments. Their separate stories interlock through shared classmates and friendships into one tangled web of first crushes.
恋と嘘
To fight a falling birth rate, a near-future Japan enacts the Yukari Law: at sixteen, every citizen is assigned a state-chosen marriage partner by genetic compatibility. Yukari Nejima finally confesses to his longtime crush Misaki Takasaki, only to receive his government notice pairing him with classmate Lilina Sanada days later. Caught between the feelings he just admitted and the partner the law has handed him, Nejima has to navigate both relationships under a system that punishes anyone who refuses.
FAIRY TAIL ZERØ
This prequel to Fairy Tail follows a young Mavis Vermillion, an orphaned servant girl on Sirius Island whose home guild, Red Lizard, is wiped out in a raid by the rival Blue Skull. Surviving alongside her friend Zera, Mavis crosses paths with a band of treasure hunters and uses her sharp mind and budding magic to take on Blue Skull. The story traces the events that lead Mavis to found the guild that becomes Fairy Tail.
狼少年は今日も嘘を重ねる
Keitarou Itsuki, a high schooler self-conscious about his sharp, intimidating eyes, confesses to his crush Aoi Tokujira and is turned down flat. When his older sister gives him a full makeover, she disguises him as a girl, and on his way home he runs into Aoi being harassed by classmates and steps in to help. Aoi fails to recognize him and admits a secret she has long hidden — a deep fear of men — then asks the "girl" who rescued her to help her overcome it.
渡くんの××が崩壊寸前
After his parents' death, Naoto Watari lives with his aunt alongside his younger sister Suzushiro. Years earlier he was close to his neighbor Satsuki Tachibana, but an incident left him resentful when she suddenly moved away. His settled life cracks open when Satsuki transfers into his school and reappears at his doorstep, forcing the two former friends back into daily contact under one strained household.
亜人ちゃんは語りたい
Tetsuo Takahashi is a biology teacher who has long wanted to study demi-humans — "demis" — up close, but never met one. That changes when four enter his life at Shibasaki High School: vampire student Hikari Takanashi, dullahan Kyouko Machi, yuki-onna Yuki Kusakabe, and his new colleague Sakie Satou, a math teacher and succubus. Treating each as a person rather than a curiosity, Takahashi interviews them about their bodies, their feelings and the small frictions of living as demis among humans.
この素晴らしい世界に祝福を!
After dying in an embarrassing accident, shut-in Kazuma Satou is offered reincarnation in a fantasy world and, out of spite, drags along the goddess Aqua who taunted him instead of taking a useful power. Stranded in the town of Axel, the pair recruit the explosion-obsessed mage Megumin and the masochistic crusader Darkness, forming a party too dysfunctional to seriously chase the Devil King and just trying to scrape together a living.
私のオオカミくん
After a rough run at her old high school, Komugi Kusunoki moves to Hokkaido with her father for a fresh start. On her first day she draws the attention of classmate Yuu Ogami, and when she tries to wake him as he naps under a tree, he turns into a wolf. Komugi soon learns that Yuu and several of the boys in her year share the same secret, and she becomes the only human who knows it.
春風のエトランゼ
Shun, a gay novelist who left Hokkaido after his parents rejected him, has built a quiet life on a small island near Okinawa with Mio, the younger man who became his partner. When word arrives that Shun's father has fallen ill, Shun decides to return home to face the family that disowned him — this time with Mio at his side. Mio, who lost his own parents, wrestles with what the trip means and whether Shun's family will accept him. This BL series continues the story begun in Umibe no Étranger.
ドリィキルキル
Iruma Ikaruga is an ordinary high school student until mascot-like aliens invade Earth, descending in giant hives and loosing flesh-melting wasps and towering, razor-toothed "dolls" that slaughter everyone in their path. The attack costs Iruma his everyday life, his best friend, and his crush. Six months into the ruined world, he glimpses that girl again, alive, and is pulled into the fight against the doll-wielding invaders.
かわいいひと
Moriya Hanazono is a 27-year-old florist whose naturally fierce eyes have scared people off his whole life, even as he finds quiet contentment running the family flower shop. Everything shifts when college student Hiyori Suzuki stumbles into his delivery van and keeps coming back to the shop, seeing past his glare to the gentle, almost adorable person underneath. Their unhurried first romance unfolds across the shop counter and Hiyori's repeat visits.
ノー・ガンズ・ライフ
In a city run by the megacorp Berühren after a war that filled the streets with cybernetically Extended humans, Juzo Inui works as a Resolver, cleaning up problems other Extended cause. His own head is a giant working revolver he cannot fire himself. When a rogue Extended bursts into his office carrying an unconscious boy named Tetsuro and begging for protection, Juzo takes the job and is pulled into a conflict reaching back to Berühren itself.
薬屋のひとりごと
Maomao, an apothecary raised in the pleasure district, is kidnapped and sold into the imperial rear palace as a lowly servant, where she keeps her head down and waits out her contract. When she hears that the infant children of the emperor's favored consorts Gyokuyou and Lihua keep falling ill and dying, she traces the cause to poisonous face powder and slips an anonymous warning to the Jade Pavilion. The clue draws the attention of Jinshi, a striking eunuch official, who installs her as a lady-in-waiting and sets her solving the court's medical mysteries.
東京喰種トーキョーグール:re
Set two years after the original series, Tokyo Ghoul:re follows Haise Sasaki, a young investigator with no memory of his past who leads the Quinx Squad for the CCG, the agency that hunts ghouls. Like Haise, the Quinx members have been surgically given ghoul organs so they can wield kagune in combat while living as humans. As they pursue ghouls across Tokyo, Haise struggles to keep his own ghoul half in check while fragments of a forgotten identity press against the life he now knows.
외모지상주의
Bullied for his weight and looks, high schooler Park Hyung-seok transfers to a new school in Seoul to start over. The night before he begins, he wakes inside a second body that is tall, handsome, and strong, while his original body lies asleep beside him. He learns he can switch between the two whenever one sleeps, and lives a double life that exposes how differently the world treats him depending on which body people see.
地縛少年花子くん
Nene Yashiro, a first-year at Kamome Academy who loves occult rumors and badly wants a boyfriend, summons Hanako-san, the school's famous seventh wonder said to grant wishes from a bathroom stall. The spirit turns out to be a boy, Hanako, not the girl the legends describe. After a wish goes wrong, Nene ends up bound to him as his assistant, helping him keep order among the academy's supernatural rumors and the spirits tied to them.
ザ・ファブル
A soft-spoken assassin known in the underworld only as "the Fable" is so lethal that his own crime boss orders him to disappear for a year. Handed the fake identity of Akira Sato and paired with a partner posing as his sister Yoko, he relocates to Osaka with one rule hanging over him: kill no one during the layoff, or both of them die. The hardened killer's attempt at an ordinary life keeps brushing up against the city's local gangs.
THE NEW GATE
Shin is the strongest player of THE NEW GATE, a VRMMORPG that turned into a death game trapping its players inside. After he defeats the final boss and frees everyone, a strange light strikes him before he can log out. He wakes to find the game has become a real world, and five hundred years have passed since his victory, leaving him to navigate a transformed land as a living legend among its people.
オーバーロード
On the night the servers of the VRMMO Yggdrasil shut down for good, Momonga, the skeletal lich who leads the once-mighty guild Ainz Ooal Gown, stays logged in to the end inside the Great Tomb of Nazarick. Instead of disappearing, he finds himself trapped in his undead avatar in a strange new world, where Nazarick's NPCs have become living, loyal beings. Taking the name Ainz Ooal Gown, he sets out to learn where he is and to secure the tomb against whatever this world holds.
おはよう、いばら姫
Tetsu Misato, a frugal and easily frightened high schooler, takes a part-time job at a mansion rumored to be haunted on the hill above town. There he meets Shizu Karasawa, a girl kept apart from the world in a building of her own, whose lonely smile draws him in until spirits of the dead begin appearing in her place and speaking through her body. Working at the estate, Tetsu tries to understand Shizu's condition and reach the real girl beneath the voices she carries.
ガンバレ! 中村くん!!
Okuto Nakamura is a shy sixteen-year-old who cares about two things: octopuses and Aiki Hirose, the classmate he fell for at first sight on his first day of high school. Closeted and prone to overthinking, Nakamura keeps scheming up ways to get closer to Hirose, only for his nerves and bad luck to derail each attempt. The chapters run as short, low-stakes comedy strips that follow his stumbling efforts to befriend the boy he likes.
勇者が死んだ!村人の俺が掘った落とし穴に勇者が落ちた結果。
Touka Scott is a perverted farmer who digs a pit trap to keep demons off his land, and the hero Sion Bladen, summoned back to seal away the resurgent Demon King, falls in and dies in it. To cover the loss, the necromancer Anri Haysworth shoves Touka's soul into Sion's corpse and orders him to pose as the legendary hero. Stuck in a dead man's body, the farmer has to play the part while the demon army stirs.
우리 사이 느은
Han Woo-jin and Do Ga-young have been close friends since high school, the kind who finish each other's sentences and assume nothing will change. After Woo-jin returns from his military service and the two settle into university life, Ga-young is the first to sense that the easy rhythm between them has shifted. This Korean webtoon stays at the small scale of a slow-burn romance: lingering glances on the walk home, the fear of naming a feeling that could break a friendship neither wants to lose.
プランダラ
In the world of Alcia, every person carries a visible Count tattooed on their body, tied to some measure of their life — and anyone whose Count hits zero is dragged into the Abyss. Hina's Count tracks the hundreds of kilometers she has walked; she travels searching for the Legendary Red Baron, the last wish her mother left her along with a mysterious Ballot. Her road crosses that of Licht Bach, a masked man with an impossible -999 Count who turns out to be a true Ace, in this manga by Suu Minazuki.
藤本タツキ短編集「22-26」
This is the second collection of short stories Tatsuki Fujimoto drew before Chainsaw Man, gathering work made between roughly ages 22 and 26. It runs four pieces: 'Mermaid Rhapsody,' about a boy and a mermaid linked by an underwater piano; 'Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome'; 'Nayuta of the Prophecy,' on siblings bound by a foretelling; and 'Sisters,' on two artist sisters caught between love and rivalry. The English edition is published as 'Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 22-26.'
金色の文字使い ―勇者四人に巻き込まれたユニークチート―
Hiiro Okamura, a book-loving loner, is dragged into a summoning meant for four heroes called to fight a demon lord, ending up as an unwanted fifth arrival. Refusing to serve the kingdom that didn't ask for him, he walks away on his own terms, relying on his unique skill Word Magic: by writing a character he can manifest its meaning as a real effect. Hiiro sets off across the world as a free agent while the four chosen heroes pursue their own quest.
終末なにしてますか? 忙しいですか? 救ってもらっていいですか?
Five hundred years after monstrous Beasts wiped humanity from the surface, the survivors live on floating islands called Regul Aire. Willem Kmetsch, the last true human, wakes from a long sleep into this world and takes a quiet job minding a warehouse. The warehouse turns out to hold the military's secret weapons: a group of fairy girls called Leprechauns, led by blue-haired Chtholly Nota Seniorious, who are sent to fight the Beasts. Willem becomes their caretaker as they prepare for battle.
捏造トラップ -NTR-
Childhood friends Yuma and Hotaru have each just started dating a boyfriend, but when Yuma frets over her new relationship, Hotaru offers to be her 'practice' partner. The rehearsals quickly stir feelings neither girl expected, and Yuma can't make sense of how she feels whenever Hotaru is near. This Naoko Kodama yuri manga follows the two as their secret closeness pulls against the boyfriends they're supposed to want.
黒子のバスケ EXTRA GAME
A year after the Winter Cup, Kagetora Aida assembles the Generation of Miracles alongside Tetsuya Kuroko and Taiga Kagami into Team Vorpal Swords. Their target is Jabberwock, an American street-basketball team whose captain Nash Gold Jr. has dismissed Japanese players as monkeys after crushing a local college squad. This two-volume sequel pulls the former rivals onto one court to answer the insult in a single revenge match.
デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲
Ichirou Suzuki, a 29-year-old game programmer worn out from a debugging crunch, falls asleep and wakes inside a fantasy world as a 15-year-old named Satou, with a game-style menu floating before him. A burst from his Meteor Shower items wipes out an army of lizardmen and rockets his level to 310 in an instant. Hiding his true strength behind a young merchant's papers, Satou sets out to sightsee the world and gathers a growing band of companions along the way.
Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 第二章 屋敷の一週間編
His power to rewind time at the moment of death has let Subaru Natsuki pull the half-elf Emilia back from a grim end, and now he wakes in Roswaal's mansion as its newest resident. The twin maids Ram and Rem needle him at every turn, and he sets out to earn his place in this new life. Then he goes to sleep on the fourth night and wakes again on his first morning at the mansion, forcing him to work out how and why he died.
ドメスティックな彼女
Natsuo Fujii is quietly in love with his teacher, Hina Tachibana. Trying to move past it, he attends a mixer and meets Rui Tachibana, a blunt classmate who asks him for a no-strings encounter just to know what it feels like. Soon after, Natsuo's widowed father announces he is remarrying — and his new wife's two daughters turn out to be Hina and Rui, who move in under the same roof. Natsuo now lives with both the teacher he pines for and the girl he slept with.
無職転生 〜異世界行ったら本気だす〜
A jobless, shut-in man dies and wakes as Rudeus Greyrat, a newborn in a world of swords and magic, keeping every memory of his wasted past life. Determined not to waste this one, he starts training magic as a toddler under the blue-haired tutor Roxy Migurdia and later mentors the timid noble girl Eris. This isekai manga, adapted from the light novels, follows Rudeus from childhood as he builds the talents his first life never had.
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Three years after an enormous alien mothership settled over Tokyo, teenagers Kadode Koyama and Ouran Nakagawa go about high school as if the threat had become part of the scenery. Classes, part-time worries, and gossip fill their days while the government quietly fails to bring the ship down and the country lives under a tense standoff. Through Kadode and Ouran's friendship, everyday life carries on beneath a sky that could fall at any moment, with the looming invasion treated as background to ordinary growing up.
DEAD Tube
Tomohiro Machiya, a member of his school's Film Research Club, is asked by popular classmate Mai Mashiro to film her nonstop for two days. The footage turns lethal when Mashiro kills a man on camera, and Machiya learns she has been uploading to Dead Tube, a site that pays creators by view count. Whoever posts the least-watched video must cover everyone else's costs and crimes, and Machiya is pulled steadily deeper into its violent contests.
Helck
Three months after a lone human hero slays the Demon Lord, the demon realm holds a tournament to crown the next ruler. The runaway favorite is Helck, a towering human warrior who openly declares he hates his own kind. Vermilio, one of the elite lords overseeing the contest, refuses to trust him and digs into his past, only to learn he is a wanted criminal blamed for killing his brother, the legendary hero Cless. As winged soldiers begin striking the demon realm, she pushes to uncover what Helck is really after.
転生したらスライムだった件
Satoru Mikami, a thirty-seven-year-old office worker, is stabbed to death on a Tokyo street and wakes up in a fantasy world reborn as a weak slime. The body comes with two gifts: Predator, which lets him absorb anything he eats and copy its abilities, and Great Sage, an analytical voice that guides him. After freeing the sealed storm dragon Veldora and taking the name Rimuru Tempest, he sets out to build a place where monsters and other races can live together.
恋は雨上がりのように
Akira Tachibana is a quiet high schooler who gave up the track-and-field club after a leg injury ended her running. Working part-time at a family restaurant, she finds herself falling for its manager, Masami Kondo, a gentle, divorced forty-five-year-old whom his own staff dismiss as a pushover. Akira keeps her feelings to herself and watches him closely, while Kondo, unaware of how she sees him, carries on raising his young son and running a kitchen that barely respects him.
青春ブタ野郎シリーズ
Second-year high schooler Sakuta Azusagawa runs into famous teen actress Mai Sakurajima wandering a public library in a bunny-girl costume, and realizes no one else can see her. Sakuta calls the phenomenon Adolescence Syndrome, a way that teenagers' hidden stress warps reality, and he keeps encountering it in the girls around him. As he helps Mai and the others trace each symptom back to what they are afraid to face, he sorts through his own buried past.
高嶺と花
Sixteen-year-old Hana Nonomura agrees to fill in for her older sister at an arranged-marriage meeting, only to come face to face with Takane Saibara — the arrogant, twenty-six-year-old heir to a corporate empire. Offended by his attitude, she storms out, but Takane is intrigued enough to keep chasing her even after learning her real age. What starts as a sparring match of insults settles into a teasing, off-balance courtship between two people who refuse to back down.
食糧人類 -Starving Anonymous-
Riding the bus home from school, teenager Ie and the other passengers suddenly black out, gassed without warning. He wakes inside a vast facility where humans are penned, fattened, bred, and experimented on like livestock by other people working in service of huge insect-like creatures they believe will save a dying planet. Stripped of his name and freedom, Ie searches for a way out of a place built to process him.
17-21 藤本タツキ短編集
Four early one-shots by Tatsuki Fujimoto, drawn between the ages of 17 and 21, before he created Chainsaw Man. The collection gathers "A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin' in the Schoolyard," "Sasaki Stopped a Bullet," "Love is Blind," and "Shikaku," ranging across schoolyard violence, alien invasion, and vampire combat. "Love is Blind" earned an Honorable Mention at the Shueisha Crown Newcomers' Awards. This is a short-story anthology of Fujimoto's formative work, not a single continuous narrative.
だがしかし
Kokonotsu Shikada is the ninth-generation heir to a rural dagashi shop selling cheap candy, but he wants to draw manga, not run the family store. That changes when Hotaru Shidare, heiress to the Shidare candy conglomerate, arrives to recruit his father Yo. Yo agrees only if she can first convince Kokonotsu to take over the shop, so Hotaru settles into the village and visits daily, dragging him through a relentless stream of trivia and tasting sessions about Japanese penny sweets.
Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 第一章 王都の一日編
On his way home from a convenience store, Natsuki Subaru is suddenly pulled into another world and dropped in the kingdom of Lugunica. He expects to be the hero of his own adventure; instead he is cornered by thugs and rescued by a silver-haired girl searching for a stolen insignia. When Subaru is killed, he wakes up alive at an earlier moment, saddled with a power that resets time to his death. This manga adapts the first arc of the Re:Zero light novel series.
Deathtopia
A car accident wrecks Koh Fujimura's eyes, but the surgery that restores his sight leaves him able to perceive things no one else can. He learns of the Cheaters: ordinary-looking people who have gained supernatural powers and use them to indulge brutal, murderous urges. Because his rebuilt eyes can pick these killers out of a crowd, Koh is drawn in by a group of young women who hunt the Cheaters down, and he joins their effort to stop the carnage spreading through Tokyo.
GTO パラダイス・ロスト
Eikichi Onizuka returns as an assistant homeroom teacher, this time for Class G at Holy Forest Academy, a new class made up of teenage celebrities and would-be idols. Narrated from a prison cell as Onizuka recounts how he ended up there, this sequel to Great Teacher Onizuka throws him against the rivalries, scandals, and adult handlers of the entertainment industry as he tries to look out for his students.
リィンカーネーションの花弁
Touya Senji is a top student crippled by an inferiority complex from a lifetime of being compared to his gifted older brother, and he craves talent above all else. His path crosses that of his rarely-seen classmate Haito Le Buffet, who turns out to wield the Branch of Reincarnation, a power that lets its user reclaim a talent possessed in a past life. Drawn into this world, Touya joins the Forest of the Greats against the Sinners, a faction that revives notorious historical figures.
ぐらんぶる
Iori Kitahara moves to a seaside town on the Izu Peninsula to start college, lodging above his uncle's diving shop, Grand Blue. He expects a calm new life and instead gets dragged into the Peek-a-Boo diving club, a pack of college guys who spend far more time drinking and stripping than actually diving. Caught up alongside his otaku friend Kohei, Iori keeps trying to reach the actual scuba lessons while the club's relentless drinking games derail him at every turn.
裏味恋、恋、裏味恋。
In the Twelve City, a Japanese town ruled by twelve clans named for the Chinese zodiac, Natsuho Nekogazaki arrives as the Hateful Cat, a dangerous youkai bent on killing Kyoichi Nekuni, head of the rat clan that legend says cheated her kind out of the zodiac. Kyoichi instead offers a bargain: he will bear her hatred if she spares the Nekuni family. Anxious around people and unsettled by who Kyoichi turns out to be, Natsuho finds her grudge harder to hold than she expected.
エロマンガ先生
High schooler Masamune Izumi writes light novels but cannot draw, so his books rely on an anonymous illustrator known only as Eromanga, whose work is reliably skilled and reliably lewd. At home he looks after his only family, his shut-in younger stepsister Sagiri, who never leaves her room. The two truths collide when Masamune realizes that the elusive Eromanga he has worked with for years is Sagiri herself.
ハレ婚。
Koharu leaves Tokyo after discovering her boyfriend was secretly married, only to find her parents' café shuttered and the family buried in debt. A man named Ryunosuke Date offers to clear the debt on one condition: that she marry him. Back in her hometown, where polygamy has been legalized to fight a falling birth rate, Koharu becomes Ryunosuke's third wife and has to find her footing among his other spouses in the Date household.
リクドウ
Riku's childhood is a chain of violence: after his father's death, a former boxer turned yakuza teaches him a single punch, and that punch kills a drug dealer who comes after him. Marked as a killer and hunted by criminals who destroy everyone who tries to care for him, Riku returns to that same ex-boxer and asks to be made stronger, walking into a rundown gym and the brutal world of professional boxing.