Top Manga of 2016

Fire Punch

ファイアパンチ

Agni and his younger sister Luna survive in a world frozen barren by the Ice Witch, both carrying the Blessing of regeneration that marks the rare people called the Blessed. Their village lives off Agni's endlessly regrowing flesh. When a Blessed soldier named Doma sets Agni alight with a fire that cannot be extinguished, Agni's regeneration keeps him burning alive without dying. Left aflame and consumed by what the fire took from him, he sets out across the ice after Doma.

Great

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FINISHED

Plus-Sized Elf

エルフさんは痩せられない。

Ecchi

Fantasy

Slice of Life

Tomoatsu Naoe works as a massage therapist at the Smiley Boar clinic, where his nights are ordinary until an elf named Elfuda turns up as a client. Elfuda crossed over from another world and wants to return home, but she has grown hooked on human-world food and put on so much weight that the portal back no longer accepts her. Naoe ends up coaching her through diet and exercise so she can slim down, while more visitors from her world arrive at his clinic with the same problem.

FINISHED

Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!

この素晴らしい世界に爆焔を！

Action

Fantasy

Seinen

A year before Kazuma ever reaches Axel, Crimson Demon Clan prodigy Megumin is already obsessed with a single, impractical spell: Explosion. While her rival Yunyun climbs steadily through conventional magic, Megumin refuses every sensible alternative, certain that mastering the one-hit, mana-draining blast will make her a legendary and suitably voluptuous wizard. This manga follows their competitive friendship and Megumin's stubborn path toward her signature magic.

FINISHED

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

治癒魔法の間違った使い方

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Usato is dragged along by accident when two classmates are summoned to another world as its heroes, and while they are trained as front-line fighters, he turns out to have rare healing magic instead. That should make him support staff, but it lands him under Rose, the fearsome captain of the kingdom's Rescue Team, whose training for healers has nothing gentle about it. Between Rose's regimen and teammates like Amako, Usato becomes a very different kind of healer than anyone expected. This light novel is the source material for the anime adaptation.

FINISHED

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

BORUTO -ボルト- NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Boruto Uzumaki, son of Seventh Hokage Naruto, grows up resenting a father whose duties keep him away from home, even as he chases his own path as a Konohagakure ninja. During the Chunin Exams, the Otsutsuki clan attacks the village and abducts Naruto for the Nine-Tailed Fox sealed inside him, pushing Boruto to fight alongside Sasuke Uchiha and his teammate Sarada. The manga opens on a flash-forward: an older Boruto in a ruined Konoha, facing an enemy the story has yet to introduce.

ONGOING

Witch Hat Atelier

とんがり帽子のアトリエ

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

Coco is a village girl who dreams of becoming a witch in a world where magic is believed to be something you are born with, not learned. When she secretly watches a traveling witch named Qifrey draw a spell, she realizes magic is made by inscribing glyphs. Her own attempt, using a magic book she received years earlier, turns her mother to stone. Qifrey takes Coco on as an apprentice at his atelier, where she trains beside other students and enters a hidden society of witches bound by strict laws.

FINISHED

Beastars

BEASTARS

Shounen

Drama

Romance

Legoshi, a large gray wolf who keeps his instincts in check, lives at Cherryton Academy, where carnivores and herbivores share dorms under an uneasy truce until an alpaca student named Tem is murdered and eaten. Those instincts get harder to manage after a charged encounter with Haru, a dwarf rabbit shunned by her classmates. This manga sets his pull toward Haru against his rivalry with the red deer Louis, the school's star actor.

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FINISHED

To Your Eternity

不滅のあなたへ

Shounen

Fantasy

Drama

Fushi begins as a featureless orb dropped onto Earth, able to take the shape of anything that dies near it. It becomes a rock, then a dying wolf, then a lonely boy whose form it keeps after the boy's death, learning by degrees what being alive means. Under that borrowed shape it wanders from one human life to the next, among them a girl named March who is set to be sacrificed, gathering forms, names, and grief as it slowly becomes a person.

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FINISHED

The Horizon

수평선

Drama

Adventure

An unnamed boy walks a ruined road alone after the war kills his mother, past tanks, wreckage, and bodies. Sheltering one night in an abandoned bus, he meets a girl his own age, just as orphaned by the fighting. Minutes later the area turns into a battlefield; the two strangers escape down the same abandoned lane and agree to walk it to the end together. Drawn in near-monochrome pencil, their trip brings them up against soldiers and other survivors, with no adult left to take them in.

Undead Girl Murder Farce

アンデッドガール・マーダーファルス

Thriller

Action

Shounen

At the end of the 19th century, the immortal detective Aya Rindo, now only a talking head after her body was stolen, is carried everywhere by her maid Shizuku Hasei. She takes on the half-oni oni-slayer Tsugaru Shinuchi, who has his own score to settle with whoever made him what he is, and the three travel across Europe, solving one supernatural case after another as leads toward Aya's body turn up. This manga adapts the original mystery novel and covers the same investigation the anime later dramatized.

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FINISHED

Your Name.

君の名は。

Shounen

Drama

Romance

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high schooler bored with life in the rural town of Itomori, wishes she could wake up as a boy in Tokyo. Soon she starts intermittently switching bodies with Taki Tachibana, a Tokyo high schooler and part-time waiter, each living the other's days without ever meeting. Leaving notes and rules behind to manage the swaps, the two grow closer and begin searching for the reason behind the strange link between them. This manga retells Makoto Shinkai's film.

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ONGOING

Goblin Slayer

ゴブリンスレイヤー

Action

Fantasy

Horror

A young Priestess joins her first adventuring party at the Guild and is nearly killed on her opening contract when the goblins she was sent to clear out turn out to be far deadlier than the low-ranked job implied. She is saved by Goblin Slayer, a silver-ranked adventurer in battered armor who takes no other work and hunts goblins exclusively, treating even the weakest of them as a threat to be exterminated with cold method. The Priestess takes up with him, learning how brutal the bottom rung of the adventuring world really is.

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FINISHED

Killing Stalking

킬링 스토킹

Thriller

Drama

Horror

Yoon Bum, a withdrawn young man with a history of abuse, has fixated on Oh Sangwoo, a former military acquaintance who once stepped in to help him. Convinced Sangwoo could ease his loneliness, Bum breaks into his house while he is out, only to find a captive woman bound in the basement before Sangwoo returns and catches him. What begins as a fixation collapses into captivity as Sangwoo keeps Bum and reveals the violence behind his friendly facade.

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FINISHED

I Sold My Life for Ten Thousand Yen per Year

寿命を買い取ってもらった。一年につき、一万円で。

Sci-Fi

Drama

Romance

Broke and out of options, twenty-year-old Kusunoki visits a strange shop where he can sell years of his own lifespan for cash. Told his remaining life is nearly worthless, he sells thirty years for ten thousand yen each and is left with only three months to live. The clerk who appraised him, a watchful young woman named Miyagi, is assigned to observe him until the end, and the two begin spending his final months together. This manga adapts Sugaru Miaki's novel Three Days of Happiness.

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FINISHED

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

さびしすぎてレズ風俗に行きましたレポ

Drama

Slice of Life

In this autobiographical manga, Kabi Nagata recounts her late twenties spent unemployed, living with her parents, and worn down by depression, self-harm, and an eating disorder. Isolated and untouched by physical intimacy, she books a session with a female escort. That decision becomes the frame for an unflinching account of her mental illness, her relationship with her family, and her dawning understanding of her own sexuality.

One Room of Happiness

幸色のワンルーム

Thriller

Drama

Romance

A 14-year-old girl beaten at home and bullied at school is about to end her life when a stranger in a mask stops her. Rather than let her die, he takes her home with him, gives her the name Sachi, meaning happiness, and the two begin living together in his apartment. Sachi treats their escape as a pact: if they stay ahead of the police and her parents she will marry him, and if they are caught they die together, while a kidnapping search closes in around them.

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FINISHED

Trickster

TRICKSTER

Thriller

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Set in the 2030s, the Boy Detectives Club takes its cases under master detective Kogorou Akechi. When member Kensuke Hanasaki crosses paths with Yoshio Kobayashi, a boy shielded by an unidentifiable fog that leaves him unable to die and wanting nothing else, Hanasaki promises to help him and brings him into the club. Their uneasy friendship pulls both of them into the long history between Akechi and the criminal known as the Fiend with Twenty Faces. This manga adapts the Trickster anime, itself drawn from Edogawa Ranpo's Boy Detectives stories.

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FINISHED

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

ヴィジランテ -僕のヒーローアカデミアILLEGALS-

Action

Shounen

Drama

Koichi Haimawari dreams of being a hero, but writes off his sliding Quirk as too weak for a license. Instead he patrols the streets doing small good deeds, picking up trash and helping lost kids. After thugs jump him and the street idol Kazuho Haneyama, the brutal masked vigilante Knuckleduster steps in and pulls them both into unlicensed crime-fighting. Set five years before the main series, their work on the city's underside keeps them dodging the police and the pro heroes who treat their help as a crime.

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FINISHED

Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs

ゆらぎ荘の幽奈さん

Shounen

Ecchi

Fantasy

Kogarashi Fuyuzora, a homeless high schooler with enough spirit power to attract ghosts wherever he goes, finally finds rent he can afford at Yuragi-sou, a former hot-springs inn turned boarding house. The catch is the resident ghost: Yuuna Yunohana, a girl who remembers her name and little else. Kogarashi could exorcise her and live there free, but takes pity instead and agrees to help find the regret keeping her here, while the inn's other tenants turn out to carry supernatural quirks of their own.

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FINISHED

World's End Harem

終末のハーレム

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Ecchi

Reito Mizuhara goes into cryostasis to wait out a cure for a degenerative illness. He wakes five years later to a world ravaged by the MK virus, a pathogen that killed 99.9 percent of the male population while leaving women untouched. Reito turns out to be one of five men in Japan found immune, and the women now running society expect him to enter a state breeding program to help rebuild the human race.

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ONGOING

The Faraway Paladin

最果てのパラディン

Action

Fantasy

Supernatural

Will grows up the only living child in a ruined, long-dead city, raised by three undead guardians: the skeletal warrior Blood, the mummified priestess Mary, and the cantankerous ghost sorcerer Gus. They train him in swordplay, healing, and magic in equal measure, but as Will gets older he starts asking who he really is and why his three guardians ended up here. Piecing together the city's buried history, and the gods both good and corrupt tied to it, becomes the first step on Will's path to becoming a paladin.

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FINISHED

Tokidoki

刻どキ

Shounen

Drama

Romance

Hatsu Takagi lives with Kokuhaku disease, a rare condition that weakens the heart and leaves a person with a countable number of beats, measured by a device she keeps hidden. She has resigned herself to a still, isolated life to keep her pulse down. When classmate Hato Iijima finds out, he swears to help her spend what she has left on the things that make a heart race, and this one-shot by Naoshi Komi follows the short stretch of that bond.

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FINISHED

Gal Gohan

ギャルごはん

Shounen

Romance

Slice of Life

Flunking every class she takes, the flashiest gal at the school, Miku Okazaki, asks home economics teacher Shinji Yabe to help her bake a batch of cookies she can use to win her teachers over. When it works, Yabe starts a cooking club to reach students like her, and Miku is first in line to join and first to start flirting in earnest. The two trade kitchen lessons while Yabe keeps trying to draw a line he isn't sure he can hold.

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ONGOING

Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudoubu

ツルネ ―風舞高校弓道部―

Sports

Drama

Minato Narumiya walked away from competitive archery after a tournament went wrong, and he has no plans to pick the bow back up when he starts high school. His childhood friends Seiya Takehaya and Ryouhei Yamanouchi keep pushing anyway, and a chance encounter with an archer in the forest near Kazemai High School reignites something Minato thought he'd buried. He joins the school's archery club alongside new members Nanao Kisaragi and Kaito Onogi, aiming for the prefectural tournament. This light novel is the source material for the Tsurune anime.

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ

Fantasy

Isekai

Slice of Life

Mukouda Tsuyoshi is an ordinary office worker swept into a fantasy-world summoning ritual he wasn't invited to, and the kingdom that wanted a hero has no use for the one skill he actually gets: an Online Supermarket that lets him order groceries from Japan. Useless in a fight, the skill turns out to have a different kind of pull, because his companions Sui, Fel, and Dora-chan keep showing up for whatever he's cooking, and so does everyone else who catches the smell. This light novel is the source material for the Campfire Cooking in Another World anime.

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ONGOING

Reincarnated as a Sword

転生したら剣でした

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

A man dies and wakes up with no body, no name, and no memory of how he got here, only the fact that he's now a sentient sword lying in a monster-filled forest. He's found by Fran, an enslaved girl of the catfolk who kills the beast attacking her with his blade, and once she's free she claims him as her partner and calls him Teacher. Fran wants to grow stronger and see the world beyond her cage; the sword wants to understand why he was reincarnated at all. Together they set out from the forest to find both answers.

#27

ONGOING

Pumpkin Night

パンプキンナイト

Thriller

Horror

Years after a school-festival prank rigged her pumpkin mask with firecrackers and acid and left her face ruined, Naoko Kirino escapes the mental hospital she was locked in and comes back for the classmates who tormented her. Wearing a new pumpkin mask, she hunts the bullies down one by one and kills anyone who gets in her way. The list she is working through is long, and she is in no hurry.

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

自動販売機に生まれ変わった俺は迷宮を彷徨う

Fantasy

Isekai

Adventure

A man crushed to death by a vending machine wakes up reincarnated as one, dropped into a dungeon with no way to move and no words beyond a handful of canned phrases. Everything changes when the hunter Lammis finds him, names him Boxxo, and starts hauling him around on her back: his added weight helps her rein in the raw strength of her Blessing of Might. Boxxo repays her with drinks and gear pulled from his old-world memory, and their odd partnership starts drawing attention across the dungeon. This is the original web novel the manga adapts.

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ONGOING

Moriarty the Patriot

憂国のモリアーティ

Thriller

Shounen

Drama

William James Moriarty and his younger brother Louis are orphans taken into the noble Moriarty house by its heir, Albert, in a late-Victorian Britain ruled by a rigid class system. Behind refined manners and a mathematician's mind, William orchestrates crimes meant to topple that class order from within, with Albert backing him. When one of his elaborate schemes draws the attention of Sherlock Holmes, the two begin circling each other, each testing how far the other will go. The manga reimagines Conan Doyle's Holmes from his nemesis's side.

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ONGOING

Sasaki and Miyano

佐々木と宮野

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

Yoshikazu Miyano is a first-year at an all-boys high school who quietly devours Boys' Love manga in his spare time. He watches upperclassman Shumei Sasaki wade into a schoolyard scuffle to break it up, and after that chance meeting the two keep running into each other, with Sasaki taking a genuine interest in Miyano's hobby. As Sasaki starts borrowing BL volumes and asking questions, the easy friendship between them slowly tips toward something Miyano isn't sure how to name.

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FINISHED

City

CITY

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Midori Nagumo is a broke college sophomore at Mont Blanc University, perpetually behind on rent and dodging her landlady's demands for payment. She survives on schemes, side jobs, and the patience of her friends Ayumu Niikura and Wako Izumi, who've mostly stopped lending her money after catching on to her tricks. The neighborhood around her is packed with its own oddballs: shopkeepers, teachers, and eccentrics who each get pulled into Midori's latest attempt to scrape together cash. It's an absurdist slice-of-life comedy built from one financial disaster at a time.

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FINISHED

your name.

小説君の名は。

Drama

Romance

Supernatural

Mitsuha Miyamizu, tired of small-town life in the mountain village of Itomori, wakes up one morning in the body of a Tokyo boy named Taki Tachibana, while he wakes up in hers. At first they treat it as a strange dream, but the swaps keep happening, forcing them to leave notes and adjust to living each other's days. Written by Makoto Shinkai himself, this novel tells the same story as the film in prose.

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ONGOING

The Elder Sister-Like One

姉なるもの

Drama

Romance

Supernatural

Yuu Hasunuma has been passed between reluctant relatives since his parents died in a car accident, and the uncle who finally takes him in sets one condition: stay out of the storehouse. When that uncle ends up in the hospital, Yuu goes in anyway and finds a horned, hooved woman who offers to grant a wish in exchange for what he holds dearest. Never having had a family, he asks for an older sister, and she takes human form and the name Chiyo to live beside him.

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ONGOING

Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception

うたわれるもの偽りの仮面

Fantasy

Drama

A man wakes in a snow-covered wilderness with no memory of who he is. After a monster attack, a girl with animal ears and a tail named Kuon rescues him and leads him toward a village, where he takes the name Haku. This manga adapts the Mask of Deception arc of the Utawarerumono visual novel, following Haku and Kuon as they piece together his forgotten past amid a fractured empire.

Mazemonogatari

混物語

Supernatural

Comedy

Koyomi Araragi spends this light novel walking out of his own series and into fifteen others. Each short piece drops him opposite a character from a different Nisio Isin book, one conversation at a time, with the aberration business he knows from Bakemonogatari mostly left at the door. Four of the stories were handed out at screenings of the Kizumonogatari films before the collection gathered them with eleven more, so the book reads as a set of crossovers rather than a continuation of Araragi's story.

Origin

オリジン

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

In a 2048 Tokyo linked to the rest of the northern hemisphere by the Eurasian Railroad, Origin is an artificial human built by a creator he calls Father. When Father dies, Origin discovers that the eight other androids made alongside him are killing people by night, and he holds instead to Father's last instruction: live properly. Passing as a human named Jin Tanaka, he takes a post in the robotics lab of the AEE conglomerate while his fellow machines hunt him.

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ONGOING

Reincarnated as a Sword

転生したら剣でした

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

A man dies in a car accident and wakes reincarnated as a sentient sword, embedded in an altar on a plain crowded with monsters, his memories intact but his name gone. Following an instinct to find a wielder, he saves a cat-eared slave girl named Fran from a beast and becomes her weapon. She names him Teacher and sets out to grow stronger, while the sword tries to understand how he ended up where he is. Tomowo Maruyama's manga adapts Yuu Tanaka's light novel.

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ONGOING

Wise Man's Grandchild

賢者の孫

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Shin Wolford, a Japanese man reborn into a magical world after dying in his old life, is raised in the woods by the legendary sage Merlin Wolford, who teaches him spell theory but forgets to give him any common sense. Applying physics and science from his past life to magic, Shin grows absurdly powerful. When King Diseum enrolls him at the magic academy in the capital of Earlshide, the sheltered teen finally meets people his own age and a wider world he barely understands.

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FINISHED

Black Torch

BLACK TORCH

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Jiro Azuma, a seventeen-year-old descended from a shinobi clan, keeps to himself a strange gift: he can talk to animals. When he nurses an injured black cat back to health, the cat reveals itself as Rago, a mononoke, a demon spirit at war with humankind. A stronger mononoke soon kills Jiro, and the dying Rago fuses with him to revive him, sharing his power. Recruited by the Bureau of Espionage, the two hunt the mononoke threatening the city.

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FINISHED

Senryu Girl

川柳少女

Shounen

Romance

Slice of Life

Nanako Yukishiro is a cheerful high schooler who never speaks aloud: she answers everything by writing senryu, short seventeen-syllable poems, on strips of tanzaku paper. Her classmate Eiji Busujima, a former delinquent now in the Literature Club, falls for her and starts composing his own clumsy senryu to reach her. Most chapters run as four-panel strips that string together the pair's quiet exchanges over everyday school moments.

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FINISHED

Welcome to Ethics Class

ここは今から倫理です。

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

Takayanagi teaches ethics, an elective most of his students treat as an afterthought, at a high school where the quiet kids carry heavy problems beneath calm surfaces. As bullying, self-harm, and other crises surface among them, he responds not with lectures on right and wrong but with the ideas of philosophers, offered as something a struggling teenager can think with. Each chapter follows one student and the question of how ethics might apply to a life in trouble.

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FINISHED

A Silent Voice: The Movie Novelization

小説映画聲の形

Drama

This novelization retells Kyoto Animation's 2016 film version of the same story: Shoya Ishida, who bullied deaf transfer student Shoko Nishimiya throughout elementary school before his classmates turned on him instead. Isolated through middle and high school and carrying his guilt, Shoya seeks Shoko out again to apologize and see whether they can start over as friends. Written from the film's screenplay, this book follows the movie's condensed continuity rather than the original manga's, which has its own separate novelization.

Sword Art Online: Project Alicization

ソードアート・オンラインプロジェクト・アリシゼーション

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Isekai

Kirito wakes inside a vast unfamiliar forest and meets Eugeo, a boy who looks like an NPC but reacts with startlingly human emotion. As they search the woods together, fragments of Kirito's own childhood resurface, memories tangled up with Eugeo and a golden-haired girl named Alice that Kirito thought he'd long forgotten. This manga adapts the first half of Sword Art Online's Alicization arc from the light novels.

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ONGOING

Yarichin Bitch Club

ヤリチン☆ビッチ部

Romance

Comedy

Takashi Tono transfers from Tokyo to Morimori Academy, a remote all-boys boarding school in the mountains, where his classmate Kyosuke Yaguchi tells him every student has to pick a club. With no taste for sports, Tono lands in the photography club, then learns too late that its members are expected to sleep with other students and teachers and to meet a monthly quota. Fellow first-year Yu Kashima proposes a way out: the two of them will claim to be dating.

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

甲鉄城のカバネリ

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

On the island of Hinomoto, where a plague of undead creatures called Kabane can only be killed by piercing the iron-armored heart no ordinary weapon can reach, steamsmith Ikoma builds a piercing weapon of his own at Aragane Station. When the station falls to a Kabane swarm, Ikoma is bitten and survives as a Kabaneri, a human-Kabane hybrid, and finds an ally in Mumei, another Kabaneri fighting to keep the station's survivors alive aboard the armored train Koutetsujou. This manga adapts the Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress anime.

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FINISHED

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Akatsuki

小説甲鉄城のカバネリ暁

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Two years before the events of the main story, Ikoma is a steamsmith at Aragane Station, stubbornly working on a weapon that can kill the Kabane for good while everyone around him writes him off. One winter he happens to be on the spot when a woman suspected of infection disappears, and the three days that follow are ones he never forgets. Kurusu, Ayame Yomogawa, Takumi, and Kibito are pulled in alongside him, facing an earlier, far less understood form of the threat that will one day drive the station's survivors onto the armored train Koutetsujou.

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FINISHED

To Me, The One Who Loved You

君を愛した一人の僕へ

Sci-Fi

Drama

Romance

Koyomi Hidaka falls for Shiori Satou while spending time at his father's new workplace after his parents' divorce, and then his father and Shiori's mother decide to remarry each other, which would make the two of them stepsiblings. In a world where hopping between slightly different parallel universes is an everyday possibility, the pair set out to reach a version of reality where they never became family, just to see whether they could still be together. This science-fiction romance novel is the direct companion to To Every You I've Loved Before, telling the same premise from Koyomi's side.

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FINISHED

Angels of Death

殺戮の天使

Thriller

Drama

Horror

Thirteen-year-old Rachel Gardner wakes with no memory on floor B7 of a derelict building, where every floor between her and the exit is built around the twisted obsession of whoever owns it. One flight up, on B6, she meets Zack, a bandaged killer with a scythe who refuses to end a life unless its owner truly wants to die. Rachel, convinced she deserves death, strikes a pact with him: she will help him escape the building, and in return he will be the one to kill her once they reach the top. This light novel expands the original horror game's story.

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FINISHED

Pretty Boy Detective Club

美少年探偵団

Thriller

Drama

Comedy

Mayumi Dojima, a middle school student at Yubiwa Academy, has spent ten years chasing the memory of a single star she glimpsed as a child and never explained. Her search leads her to the Pretty Boy Detective Club, an unofficial group of five striking boys, Sousaku Yubiwa and Manabu Soutouin among them, who take on school mysteries not for money but for their own sense of beauty and curiosity. Helping Mayumi track down her star pulls the club into a case stranger than any of their usual work.

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ONGOING

The Saga of Tanya the Evil

幼女戦記

Thriller

Action

Fantasy

A cold-blooded Japanese salaryman is killed and reborn as Tanya Degurechaff, an orphaned girl in an empire resembling pre-war Germany where magic is wielded on the battlefield. The being who reincarnated her, a god-like entity she mockingly calls Being X, threatens her with eternal damnation unless she finds faith. To survive and climb far from the front lines, Tanya enlists in the Empire's mage corps, where her ruthless talent with the experimental Type-95 orb quickly makes her a feared aerial combatant.

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FINISHED

Oresuki: Are You the Only One Who Loves Me?

俺を好きなのはお前だけかよ

Romance

Comedy

Amatsuyu "Joro" Kisaragi keeps a spotless reputation as everyone's favorite nice guy, and he thinks it is finally paying off when student council president Sakura Akino and his childhood friend Aoi Hinata each ask to meet him alone. Both turn out to want his best friend Taiyou Ooga instead, and Joro ends up playing matchmaker while hiding how much it stings. Then Sumireko Sanshokuin, the blunt library girl he had written off entirely, tells him she is the one who actually likes him.

Deaimon

であいもん

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

Nagomu Irino comes home to Kyoto after a decade chasing a music career in Tokyo, expecting to take over his family's wagashi shop, Ryokushou, once his hospitalized father steps back. Instead he finds ten-year-old Itsuka Yukihira already living there and being groomed to inherit the business in his place. His father makes Nagomu start over as an ordinary shop assistant to prove himself, while his mother quietly asks him to become something like a father figure to Itsuka.

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FINISHED

Girlish Number

Gi(a)rlish Number

Drama

Slice of Life

Comedy

Chitose Karasuma has spent a year in the voice-acting industry without landing a real role, until her older brother and manager, Gojou, casts her in a starring part for an upcoming light novel adaptation. Getting the job turns out to be the easy part, because Chitose then has to navigate industry politics and rivalries with fellow cast members like Kazuha Shibasaki and Koto Katakura while the production runs into trouble behind the scenes. This light novel plays the anime industry's ambitions and compromises for both comedy and cynicism.

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FINISHED

Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu

早乙女選手、ひたかくす

Sports

Romance

Comedy

Boxing-obsessed high schooler Satoru Tsukishima is confessed to by clubmate Yae Saotome, the Kanto region's girls' featherweight champion and the pride of their town of Umesaki. He turns her down so she won't be distracted from the ring, but her coach Shioya instead appoints him as Saotome's trainer, which lets the two date in secret. Between practice sessions and matches, Saotome has to keep both the relationship and her softer side hidden from a school, a town, and an Olympic dream everyone else is counting on.

#55

FINISHED

Kagerou Daze Official Anthology Comic -FUTURE-

カゲロウデイズ公式アンソロジーコミック-FUTURE-

Drama

Supernatural

Shintaro Kisaragi and Kido close the anthology line out on what comes afterwards: KADOKAWA frames this final volume as the Mekakushi Dan's future, the one they reach once everything has been got through. Guest artists take a short comic each with Jin's Kagerou Project cast and write forward rather than sideways. Readers who have not finished the main storyline will find the premise here assumes they have.

Delusion Telepathy

妄想テレパシー

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

Ayako Nakano has involuntary telepathy that picks up the thoughts of everyone around her, which has left her isolated and reluctant to make friends. The boy seated in front of her, Hayato Toda, is the soccer club's quiet ace striker to the rest of the class, but Ayako hears the daydreams he keeps to himself, many of them about her. Short four-panel chapters follow her trying to keep her secret while the gap between what people say and what they think keeps closing in.

#57

ONGOING

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

映像研には手を出すな！

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

World-building obsessive Midori Asakusa recruits gifted animator Tsubame Mizusaki and hard-nosed producer Sayaka Kanamori to found the Eizouken, an anime club built out of a leaky, condemned warehouse at Shibahama High School. With no budget, no official backing, and constant threats of the club being shut down, the three set out to turn Asakusa's sprawling sketchbook worlds into an actual science-fiction anime, each pulling the project forward through her own specialty.

#58

FINISHED

She and Her Cat

彼女と彼女の猫

Drama

Seinen

Slice of Life

Chobi, a kitten Miyu rescues from a rainy alley, narrates her days from a cat's-eye view he only half understands. Miyu works to build an independent adult life on her own, and Chobi senses the loneliness she hides behind an easy smile without being able to name it himself. This manga expands Makoto Shinkai's original short film into a longer story of the pair's quiet daily routine.

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#59

FINISHED

Talentless Nana

無能なナナ

Thriller

Action

Shounen

In a near future where humanity is menaced by monsters called the Enemies of Humanity, gifted teenagers with powers known as Talents are gathered on a remote island to train against them. Nana Hiiragi arrives among them, warm and quick to make friends, claiming a Talent for reading minds. In truth she has no power at all: she is a government assassin sent to kill the Talented students one by one, because they, not the monsters, are the real threat she has been told to remove. Transfer student Kyouya Onodera starts looking into the deaths.

#60

FINISHED

The Promised Neverland

約束のネバーランド

Thriller

Shounen

Drama

Emma, Norman, and Ray are among the brightest children at Grace Field House, an isolated orphanage where life is comfortable under the care of the woman they call Mom, Isabella. The only rule is that no one may leave or cross the gate at the forest's edge. When the three discover what truly waits beyond that gate, they begin plotting how to get every child out before their time runs out.

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#61

ONGOING

Isekai Cheat Magician

異世界チート魔術師〈マジシャン〉

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Taichi Nishimura and Rin Azuma, ordinary high schoolers, are swallowed by a magic circle on their way to class and dropped into the world of Altianutz. After surviving a monster attack and reaching the shelter of an adventurers' guild, they register as adventurers and discover that both of them wield magic far beyond anything the guild has seen, upending what should have been a simple new start.

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#62

FINISHED

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

鬼滅の刃

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Tanjiro Kamado sells charcoal to support his family until a demon slaughters them while he is away, leaving only his sister Nezuko alive but turned into a demon herself. Determined to find a cure and protect what is left of her, Tanjiro joins the Demon Slayer Corps and trains under the retired swordsman Sakonji Urokodaki to hunt the demons who destroyed his home.

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#63

ONGOING

I'm Standing on a Million Lives

100万の命の上に俺は立っている

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Yuusuke Yotsuya wants nothing more than to be left alone, so being summoned into a game-like fantasy world alongside two classmates by a faceless, mask-wearing entity is his worst-case scenario. The three must clear assigned quests to earn the right to respawn after death, and each cleared round conscripts another player into the group, with the lives of a million inhabitants of that world riding on how they perform. Alongside teammates Iu Shindou and Kusue Hakozaki, Yuusuke turns pragmatic and calculating to keep the group alive through missions with no safety net.

#64

FINISHED

Record of Grancrest War

グランクレスト戦記

Action

Fantasy

Drama

On a continent overrun by Chaos-born monsters, the lords who are supposed to fight it back instead war among themselves over the holy Crests that grant power. Siluca Meletes, a gifted young mage disgusted by the lords' greed, allies with Theo Cornaro, a knight who earns a Crest by killing a monster himself rather than inheriting one. This manga follows their attempt to unite the continent's warring factions under a rule that actually holds back the Chaos.

#65

ONGOING

Black Summoner

黒の召喚士

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Kelvin wakes up in an unfamiliar world having traded away his old memories for the power to summon spirits, with Melfina, the goddess who sent him there and his first summon, at his side. What starts as an ordinary adventurer's life quickly reveals Kelvin's real passion: hunting down the strongest, strangest enemies he can find, from a Black Knight guarding an ancient castle to a demon sealed inside a hidden cave. The half-elf Efil joins the party soon after. This light novel series is ongoing.

#66

FINISHED

Re:Zero Prequel Tales

Re:ゼロから始める前日談

Fantasy

Bundled as limited-edition extras with the Re:Zero anime's Blu-ray volumes, these prequel novellas fill in what the main series never stops to show, all of it set before Subaru Natsuki falls into the fantasy world. Bonds of Ice follows Emilia in the great forest of Elior, from her meeting with the spirit Puck to the summons that takes her to Roswaal's mansion. Another goes back to the hidden village where the oni sisters Rem and Ram grew up, and a third traces how the rival royal-selection candidates found the knights and companions who now stand beside them.

Komi Can't Communicate

古見さんは、コミュ症です。

Shounen

Romance

Slice of Life

Shoko Komi is admired at Itan Private High School for her elegant, aloof beauty, but the truth is that a crippling communication disorder leaves her unable to speak to anyone. Her classmate Hitohito Tadano figures out her secret and learns her real goal: to make a hundred friends. He volunteers to help, starting by teaching her to talk through written notes on the chalkboard. Each chapter follows Komi inching toward another classmate, from the free-spirited Najimi Osana onward, as she works toward that count one nervous conversation at a time.

#68

FINISHED

High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World!

超人高校生たちは異世界でも余裕で生き抜くようです！

Fantasy

Isekai

Adventure

Prime Minister Tsukasa Mikogami and six other world-renowned Japanese teenagers survive a plane crash and wake up in the Freyjagard Empire, a medieval realm of magic and beastfolk. Rather than panic, inventor Ringo Ohoshi and the rest of the group start applying their real-world expertise, treating the crisis as one more problem to solve. This manga adapts the light novel series, following the prodigies as they build, argue, and negotiate their way through a world that has no idea what it's dealing with.

#69

FINISHED

Tales of Berseria

テイルズオブベルセリア

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Velvet Crowe loses her brother Laphicet on the night of the Advent, when Artorius Collbrande takes him for a rite, and she comes out of it with a daemon's arm that devours other daemons. Three years of imprisonment later she gets out and goes after Artorius, who by then has founded the Abbey, put its exorcists across the Midgand Empire, and is being called the man who held back the daemonblight. This manga adapts the Tales of Berseria game.

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#70

FINISHED

Knight's & Magic

ナイツ＆マジック

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Isekai

Programmer and self-described mecha otaku Tsubasa Kurata dies in an accident and wakes up reborn as Ernesti Echevalier, a boy in a world of swords, sorcery, and towering piloted mechs called Silhouette Knights. Determined to build and fly one himself, Ernesti studies engineering alongside his childhood friends Adeltrud and Archid Olter, chasing a boyhood dream that this new world can actually deliver on. This manga adapts the Knight's & Magic light novels' opening arc.

#71

FINISHED

Restaurant to Another World

異世界食堂

Fantasy

Seinen

Slice of Life

Nekoya looks like any other Western-style restaurant on a quiet Tokyo street, except every Saturday its door opens onto another world instead of the usual crowd. Aletta, a demon girl waiting tables, and Kuro, a black dragon who took the same job to work off her curry tab, watch the unnamed owner serve his usual, unremarkable menu to elves, dragons, and other visitors who have never tasted an omelet or a curry rice in their lives. This manga is one of two adaptations of the Isekai Shokudou light novels, running from 2016 to 2019.

#72

ONGOING

The Dungeon of Black Company

迷宮ブラックカンパニー

Fantasy

Isekai

Comedy

Kinji Ninomiya has built a life of doing absolutely nothing, living off real-estate investments, when a portal drags him into a fantasy world and dumps him straight into indentured labor at a mining company that harvests crystals from a dungeon. Broke and desperate to claw back the comfortable life he lost, Kinji starts assembling a crew of his own: fellow miner Wanibe, a crocodilian demi-human, and Rimu, a dragon in the form of a girl. Together they bend the dungeon's rules to get ahead.

#73

FINISHED

Little Witch Academia

リトルウィッチアカデミア

Shounen

Fantasy

Adventure

Atsuko Kagari watched Shiny Chariot perform as a child and decided she would be a witch, which is how she arrives at Luna Nova Magical Academy as the only student there from a family with no magic in it. Her roommates Lotte and Sucy have ability she does not, and Akko's broom will not leave the ground. This manga retells the Little Witch Academia story and adds two chapters beyond it.

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#74

ONGOING

Persona 5

ペルソナ5

Thriller

Action

Supernatural

Akira Kurusu picks up a criminal record for stepping in to stop an assault, and arrives at Shujin Academy in Tokyo under strict orders to stay out of trouble. That resolve doesn't last: a strange app appears on his phone, and when it activates alongside delinquent classmate Ryuji Sakamoto, both of them are pulled into a warped realm crawling with shadow creatures. Fighting back there awakens Akira's Persona, and the two set out to figure out exactly what this alternate world is and how deep it runs.

#75

FINISHED

Parallel World Pharmacy

異世界薬局

Fantasy

Isekai

Falma de Médicis carries the memories of Kanji Yakutani, a Japanese pharmacologist who worked himself to death, reborn as the ten-year-old son of the imperial court pharmacist in a medieval fantasy Europe where medicine still means guesswork and quack cures. Armed with real diagnostic knowledge and an unusual gift for magic, Falma opens a pharmacy of his own, staffed by his tutor Eléonore Bonnefoi and his young maid Charlotte Soller, to put treatments that actually work within reach of ordinary people. Light novel behind the manga and 2022 anime.

Chastity Reverse World

貞操逆転世界

Comedy

Momona Ichikawa, a high school girl, wakes in a hospital bed and finds herself in a Japan where the sexual double standard has been flipped. Her classmates trade dirty jokes in the open, the red-light district is stocked with shops for female customers, beer billboards sell themselves on men in high-cut swimsuits, and late-night TV books topless comediennes. Momona is the only person who finds any of it strange, and she still has to get through ordinary school days.

Kemono Jihen

怪物事変

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

When livestock keep turning up dead in a remote mountain village, Tokyo detective Kohachi Inugami arrives to investigate the supernatural cases he specializes in. There he meets Kabane, an ostracized boy forced to labor in the fields, and realizes the child is a half-ghoul. Inugami brings Kabane to his Tokyo agency, where he works alongside other inhuman youths like the spider-powered Shiki, while searching for clues about the parents who abandoned him.

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#78

FINISHED

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

君の膵臓をたべたい

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Sakura Yamauchi, a cheerful high schooler, keeps a handwritten journal titled "Living with Dying", and she leaves it in a hospital waiting room where a withdrawn classmate who would rather read than talk picks it up. What he read is true: a terminal pancreatic illness has left her little time, and nobody else knows. Sworn to secrecy, he becomes the one person she can be honest with, and she pulls him into the things she still wants to do, from a trip to Fukuoka to small dares. Izumi Kirihara's manga adapts Yoru Sumino's novel.

#79

FINISHED

Koikimo

恋と呼ぶには気持ち悪い

Romance

Comedy

Ryou Amakusa is a successful, easygoing businessman who treats dating casually, until a chance meeting with Ichika Arima, his younger sister Rio's best friend, turns into an obsession. Ryou pursues her with blunt, over-the-top gestures, and Ichika responds with open disgust and insults, which he reads as her own awkward way of flirting. Rio ends up stuck in the middle, trying to referee a mismatched pairing between a grown man and a high schooler.

The Lost Village: Crime and Punishment

マヨイガ罪と罰

Thriller

Drama

Supernatural

Mitsumune Sakai boards a mysterious bus tour bound for Nanakimura, a village rumored among troubled young people to be a utopian escape from their old lives. Alongside fellow passenger Hayato and the eccentric traveler nicknamed Love-pon, he finds only an abandoned, decaying settlement waiting at the end of the road. The group is left to dig into what actually happened to the village and the people who once lived there. This manga starts from the same setup as The Lost Village anime and takes the story in its own direction.

#81

FINISHED

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi

魔道祖师

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Thirteen years after his death, the once-feared cultivator Wei Wuxian wakes up in someone else's body, dropped back into a cultivation world that still fears the name he made for himself commanding the dead. Investigating a cursed artifact pulls him back into contact with Lan Wangji, a disciplined cultivator from the Lan Sect who knew him before his fall, and the two end up retracing what actually happened to Wei Wuxian all those years ago.

#82

FINISHED

Prison Lab

監獄実験―プリズンラボ―

Thriller

Drama

Horror

Aito Eyama, a high schooler ground down by daily bullying, receives a strange invitation to a 'captivity game': pick one person to hold prisoner for a month, and walk away with a large cash prize. The only rules are that he can't kill them and can't be unmasked as the captor. He chooses Aya Kirishima, the ringleader of his tormentors, and turns the tables, while the question of who is really running the game lurks underneath.

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#83

FINISHED

Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me!

私に天使が舞い降りた！

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

College student Miyako Hoshino falls instantly for Hana Shirosaki, the shy classmate her younger sister Hinata brings home one afternoon. Miyako's nerves and clumsy attempts to bond with kids make her an easy target for teasing, and Hana keeps her guard up at first, wary of the awkward adult fawning over her. As the two spend more time together, Hana warms to Miyako's earnest, if fumbling, affection. This 4-koma manga is the source material behind the Wataten! anime and its Precious Friends film.

#84

FINISHED

Monster Girl Doctor

モンスター娘のお医者さん

Fantasy

Slice of Life

In the coexistence town of Lindworm, Dr. Glenn Litbeit treats monster-girl patients human doctors wouldn't know how to handle: centaurs with skeletal injuries, mermaids needing surgery below the waterline, harpies with wing fractures. His lamia assistant Sapphee keeps the clinic organized and occasionally has to translate anatomy that no medical textbook covers. The original light novel follows their casework case by case, building out Lindworm's rules for monster and human medicine together.

Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

私、能力は平均値でって言ったよね！

Fantasy

Isekai

Comedy

A gifted but friendless student named Misato Kurihara dies protecting a child and is offered a second life by the god she meets afterward. She asks for nothing but average stats, then gets reborn as Adele von Ascham, whose memories of her old life resurface at age ten alongside power and magic far beyond what she'd requested. The original light novel follows Adele's attempts to live quietly with friends Reina and Pauline while her 'average' abilities keep drawing attention.

#86

ONGOING

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

ありふれた職業で世界最強

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Hajime Nagumo and his whole class are summoned to a fantasy world, where his classmates gain combat-ready powers while he is stuck with Synergy, a humble crafting magic dismissed as worthless. Betrayed during a dungeon raid, he plunges into the depths and survives only by devouring monsters to grow stronger and forge his own weapons. This manga adapts Ryo Shirakome's light novels, following Hajime's brutal climb out of the abyss and his alliance with the freed vampire Yue.

#87

FINISHED

Brave Witches Prequel

ブレイブウィッチーズPrequel

Action

Sci-Fi

Ecchi

Before Hikari Karibuchi ever reaches Petersburg, the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing has to exist at all. This light novel covers the founding of the unit that later calls itself the Brave Witches, set over Orussia in the years the anime treats as settled history, with the Neuroi already pressing the front. Its three volumes each carry an Orussia subtitle, and the line closes at the point where the television series opens.

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#88

FINISHED

Little Busters!: Last of Refrain

リトルバスターズ！ Last of Refrain

Fantasy

Drama

Seinen

Riki Naoe has narcolepsy and a circle of friends who call themselves the Little Busters, put together years earlier by Kyousuke Natsume. In high school they set about filling out a baseball team, largely around Kyousuke's sister Rin, and the closer Riki and Rin get to each other the closer they get to what the group calls the secret of this world. Zen's manga picks that thread up where Little Busters!: End of Refrain left it.

#89

ONGOING

Infinite Dendrogram

インフィニット・デンドログラム

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Reiji Mukudori, about to start college, finally buys into the 2043 VRMMO everyone else is already playing and creates Ray Starling under the guidance of his brother Shu. The story turns on Ray's Embryo: after a first fight against overwhelming odds, his refusal to give up gives rise to Nemesis, a Maiden with Arms specialized in countering stronger foes. These novels are the source for the manga and anime adaptations, and they trace Ray's growth through the Paladin class in a game built for infinite possibilities.

#90

FINISHED

Rewrite: Side-Terra

Rewrite:Side-Terra

Action

Supernatural

Kotarou Tennouji drifts through his days in Kazamatsuri, a city where nature and civilization coexist, until an interest in the occult lands him in his school's Occult Research Club alongside Kotori Kanbe. What starts as chasing rumors of unidentified creatures at the edge of the woods during the town's Harvest Festival turns into a war over whether the planet or humanity gets to survive, with Kotarou's own body changing in ways he cannot explain. Following the Rewrite anime's telling, the manga runs from the Kotori route into the MOON and Terra arcs.

Joker Game: The Animation

ジョーカー・ゲーム THE ANIMATION

Thriller

Shounen

Drama

Army lieutenant Sakuma is assigned to observe D Agency, a black-ops spy unit that Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki has assembled from young men stripped of their old names and histories. Sakuma, a soldier who considers espionage dishonorable, watches the agents apply their training in deception and information-gathering on missions against Imperial Japan's rival powers, all bound by Yuuki's rule: don't kill, don't get killed, don't get captured. This manga adapts the Joker Game anime, itself based on the original spy novels.

#92

FINISHED

Seton Academy: Join the Pack!

群れなせ！シートン学園

Ecchi

Fantasy

Comedy

Jin Mazama despises animals, which is a problem at Seton Academy, a school where beast and human students share every classroom and animal instinct rules the halls. He falls for Hitomi Hino, the only other human in his year, but his path to her runs through Ranka Okami, a lone wolf who drags him into her pack the moment he refuses to back down from her challenge. Balancing prejudice, survival instincts, and an awkward crush, Jin has to learn to live among the animals he can't stand.

#93

ONGOING

The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil

愚かな天使は悪魔と踊る

Fantasy

Romance

Supernatural

Masatora Akutsu is a demon working undercover at a human high school, sent to scout recruits who can help Hell push back against the angels of Heaven. His new seatmate, transfer student Lily Amane, looks like an ideal catch until he discovers she is an angel herself. He falls for her anyway. The two go on sitting side by side, each keeping up a cover story and each refusing to concede anything to the other side of the war.

#94

FINISHED

Granblue Fantasy

グランブルーファンタジー

Fantasy

Adventure

A letter from Gran's missing father tells him to cross the skies to Estalucia, the Island of the Astrals, where the man says he will be waiting. Not long after, Gran runs into Lyria and her protector Katalina, both fleeing the Erste Empire; defending them costs him his life, until Lyria binds her soul to his to pull him back. Sworn to protect her, Gran leaves his home island with Lyria, Katalina and the small winged lizard Vyrn, gathering more crewmates as they chase the edge of the sky.

Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

私、能力は平均値でって言ったよね！

Fantasy

Isekai

Comedy

Misato Kurihara dies saving a little girl and asks the god she meets afterward for one favor in her next life: purely average abilities. Reborn as the noble Adele von Ascham, she regains her old memories at age ten and realizes her wish landed far from average, since her strength and magic dwarf everyone around her. This manga adapts FUNA's light novel, following Adele as she leaves the Ascham territory behind and enrolls at a hunters' prep school under the name Mile, where Reina, Mavis, and Pauline become her closest friends despite her constant trouble blending in.

#96

FINISHED

Adachi and Shimamura

安達としまむら

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Sakura Adachi spends her skipped classes alone on the disused second floor of her school's gym, until fellow truant Hougetsu Shimamura wanders up looking for somewhere quiet and finds her there. Their shared habit of ditching class turns into an offhand friendship, and this manga, the first of two adaptations of Hitoma Iruma's light novels, follows Adachi as her feelings for Shimamura start tipping past ordinary friendship while Shimamura keeps hers carefully unreadable.

#97

ONGOING

Doudemo Ii Sekai Nante: Qualidea Code

どうでもいい世界なんて－クオリディア・コード－

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Set before the events of the Qualidea Code anime, this light novel is the Chiba leg of the franchise's three-author project. Kasumi Chigusa and his sister Asuha stand for the defence city of Chiba, and the volume turns on the scheming and strategy over who holds its top seat while the war with the invading Unknown grinds on around them. Like the rest of the project, it is set in a world where children put into cryogenic sleep during that war woke with individual powers called Worlds.

Qualidea Code

クオリディア・コード

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

A gate opens in Tokyo Bay and lets something called the Unknown pour into the world, and the only defense humanity has left are teenagers who spent the war in cryogenic sleep and woke up with strange new abilities. This manga adaptation follows those young fighters across Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Chiba as they're pulled into combat against a threat none of them fully understand yet.

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#99

FINISHED

Qualidea Code

クオリディア・コード

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Children put into cryogenic sleep during the war with the Unknown wake with supernatural powers called "World" and are set to defend Kanagawa, Tokyo and Chiba, the cities standing between the gate in Tokyo Bay and the rest of Japan. When the Unknown push through the gate again, the young defenders of the three regions have to fight alongside rivals they would rather compete with. This light novel retells the story of the Qualidea Code TV anime.

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#100

FINISHED

Heavy Object: Dengeki Comic Anthology

ヘヴィーオブジェクト電撃コミックアンソロジー

Sci-Fi

Comedy

Qwenthur Barbotage and Havia Winchell fight in a century where Objects, spherical war machines the size of buildings, have made every other weapon look pointless, and the two of them keep finding ways to kill one anyway. This anthology hands their unit to a rotating cast of artists, each contributing a short comic around Qwenthur, Havia and Milinda Brantini, the Elite who pilots the Baby Magnum. The pieces are one-offs; none of them advances the novels' plot.

Pokemon the Movie XY&Z: Volcanion to Karakuri no Magiana

ポケモン・ザ・ムービーXY&Z ボルケニオンと機巧のマギアナ

Kids & Family

Shounen

Fantasy

Volcanion comes down in front of Ash and Pikachu in the Azoth Kingdom, shouting for Magearna, the artificial Pokémon it came to bring home. Magearna was built there centuries earlier, and its Soul-Heart now sits in the hands of the royal councillor Alva, who has his own use for that power. The search drags Ash and Pikachu into the kingdom's business. This manga retells the nineteenth Pokémon film across six chapters.

#102

FINISHED

Second Life in Another World

二度目の人生を異世界で

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Renya Kunugi dies peacefully at the end of a long and full life, and is met by a girl who introduces herself as God and offers him a second life in another world. He wakes there as a young man with a whole lifetime of memories and composure still intact, and puts both to work against bandits and monsters in a land of swords and magic. This manga adapts Mine's light novel about an old soul starting over from scratch.

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#103

ONGOING

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle

魔王城でおやすみ

Shounen

Fantasy

Comedy

Princess Syalis is carried off by the Demon King and locked in his castle as leverage against the human kingdom, but captivity bores her far more than it frightens her. Worn out by the demands of royal life, she decides her one goal is a perfect night's sleep, and she raids the castle for bedding materials, picks fights with its monsters and turns the dungeon upside down to get it. Her jailers can only watch their prisoner take the place apart.

#104

ONGOING

Goblin Slayer

ゴブリンスレイヤー

Action

Fantasy

Horror

A young Priestess signs on with her first adventuring party at the Guild and watches goblins tear it apart on its very first job. The man who pulls her out is known only as Goblin Slayer, an armored adventurer who accepts no other contracts and kills goblins by any method available, however small the bounty. She stays at his side through nest after nest, joined in time by allies like High Elf Archer, while Guild Girl logs the jobs nobody else wants.

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#105

FINISHED

Living-Room Matsunaga-san

リビングの松永さん

Shoujo

Romance

Slice of Life

When her parents move away to care for a sick grandmother, high schooler Miko "Meeko" Sonoda goes to live in her uncle's boarding house, sharing the place with a handful of older tenants. Among them is Jun Matsunaga, a blunt, easily irritated man who ends up keeping an eye on her like a reluctant guardian. As Meeko settles into the household routine, she finds herself falling for Matsunaga-san and tries to manage feelings she's sure he won't return.

#106

FINISHED

Astra Lost in Space

彼方のアストラ

Thriller

Sci-Fi

Shounen

In 2063, nine students from Caird High School set out for a routine Planetary Camp on the planet McPa. Moments after arriving, a sphere of light swallows the group and flings them 5,012 light-years from home. Stranded, they find a derelict ship they name the Astra and elect athletic, loud Kanata Hoshijima as captain. With a chain of habitable planets between them and Earth, the nine must planet-hop their way back while figuring out why the accident happened at all.

#107

FINISHED

The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: U149

アイドルマスターシンデレラガールズ U149

Drama

Slice of Life

Comedy

Arisu Tachibana is twelve, sharp and standoffish, and she lands in a Third Entertainment Division that her agency's president creates specifically for its elementary-school-age idols. The producer assigned to the division is short enough to be mistaken for one of the children himself, and he starts out unconvinced the group can be booked anywhere at all. Around Arisu sit Momoka Sakurai, a wealthy and practiced actress, Miria Akagi, loud and friendly, and Kaoru Ryuuzaki, nine years old and happiest in a kitchen.

#108

FINISHED

The Summer of You

君は夏のなか

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

High schoolers Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda bond over a shared love of movies and spend their break visiting the real places where Chiharu's favorite film was shot. One day Chiharu confesses, and Wataru insists the confession changes nothing, so the two keep hanging out as before. Over the slow summer days, Wataru starts to suspect he is not as unmoved as he claimed. This single-volume BL manga opens the two-part My Summer of You story.

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#109

ONGOING

If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord

うちの娘の為ならば、俺はもしかしたら魔王も倒せるかもしれない。

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

Dale Reki, a seasoned adventurer heading home from a job, finds a small demon girl named Latina beside her dead guardian in the woods one night. Unable to leave her there, he brings her back to the Dancing Ocelot, the inn run by Kenneth and Rita where he lodges, and soon makes the only choice that feels right to him: to raise Latina as his own daughter. With help from the innkeepers and Latina's new schoolmates, the wary girl slowly settles into a gentler life.

#110

HIATUS

The Witch and the Beast

魔女と野獣

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Ashaf, a soft-spoken agent of the Order of Magical Resonance, travels with a coffin strapped to his back, a flock of black crows, and a foul-tempered partner named Guideau. Guideau looks like a young woman but is a beast in a borrowed body, cursed by a witch and driven by hatred of every witch alive. Sent by the Order to investigate magic-related crimes, the pair work their way through town after town, hunting Angela, the witch behind Guideau's curse.

#111

ONGOING

Infinite Dendrogram

インフィニット・デンドログラム

Action

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

In 2043, college freshman Reiji Mukudori finally saves up enough to buy into Infinite Dendrogram, a full-dive VRMMO so advanced it perfectly simulates all five senses. Guided by his veteran older brother Shu, Reiji creates his character Ray Starling and, after a brutal first fight against impossible odds, awakens Nemesis, his Embryo: a living weapon-companion built around countering stronger enemies. This manga follows Ray's early days learning the Paladin class and navigating a game world built with more depth and consequence than anyone expected.

#112

HIATUS

Classroom of the Elite

ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ

Thriller

Drama

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji enrolls at the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, where students enjoy unusual freedom but are sorted into ranked classes A through D, with privileges and points hanging on constant competition. Placed in the bottom Class D among the students the school deems defective, Kiyotaka keeps his real intelligence hidden and his distance from others. His careful detachment starts to slip once he gets entangled with classmates Suzune Horikita and Kikyou Kushida and the schemes that decide which class rises.

Love Live! Sunshine!!

Drama

Slice of Life

Second-year student Chika Takami wants to save her school, Uranohoshi Girls' High School, from closing, and decides the fix is to turn it into the kind of place students travel from across Japan to attend, by starting a school idol group. In the seaside town of Uchiura, she gathers eight other Uranohoshi students from all three years to form Aqours, chasing the example set by the idol group µ's before them. This manga adapts the same story as the Love Live! Sunshine!! anime and light novels, following the group's earliest steps toward their first stage.

Love Live! Sunshine!! School Idol Diary

Slice of Life

This four-volume light novel, bundled with limited-edition Blu-rays of the Love Live! Sunshine!! anime, steps away from Aqours' stage performances to catch the group in quieter moments around Uchiura. Each volume follows a different set of members, starting with the second-years around Chika Takami, then the first-years and third-years, before the finale catches the full nine-member group prepping for a summer concert. The chapters favor everyday scenes over idol drama, filling in what Aqours does between practices and shows.

You Got Me, Sempai!

まいりました、先輩

Shoujo

Romance

Slice of Life

Serina Koshino arrives at school to find the lyrics of a love song carved into her desk, and the culprit turns out to be Mizukawa, a standoffish boy a year above her. Put off at first by his frosty manner, she works out that he is awkward rather than cold, especially as he keeps quietly going out of his way to help her. Won over, Serina takes the lead and confesses, and the two start dating from there.

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#116

FINISHED

Cheerful Amnesia

明るい記憶喪失

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

Amnesia has taken the past three years of Arisa's life, and with them every memory of Mari, the girlfriend sitting across from her. Mari frets over what the gap means for them, but Arisa treats it as a gift and sets out to experience every first between girlfriends all over again. Tamamushi Oku's yuri 4-koma plays the amnesiac-lover premise for warm comedy rather than drama.

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#117

FINISHED

My Solo Exchange Diary

一人交換日記

Drama

Slice of Life

Nagata Kabi writes letters to a future and a past version of herself, picking up the autobiographical account she began in My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. She works through the fallout of that book's sudden success, the strain of moving out and living alone for the first time, and a worsening relationship with her parents. Drawn as candid diary comics, it follows her ongoing struggle with mental health, identity, and the wish to be accepted.

Real no Heroine wa Irimasen!

現実（リアル）の彼女（ヒロイン）はいりません！

Romance

Comedy

Seiichi Aramiya is a high school eroge otaku who has written off real girls and devotes himself to 2D heroines. After he rescues a delinquent-looking girl from an assault on the street, she turns out to be his classmate Kotoko Ayame, a feared troublemaker trailed by rumors that she is "used goods". Set on winning him over, Kotoko decides to remake herself into Seiichi's ideal heroine, while he keeps insisting that no real-world girl could ever match the ones on his screen.

Parallel World Pharmacy

異世界薬局

Fantasy

Drama

Isekai

Kanji Yakutani, a Japanese pharmacologist worked to death, wakes as Farma de Médicis, the ten-year-old son of a noble house in the San Fleuve Empire, a medieval world where reliable medicine is a luxury of the rich. Divine arts let him create and break down matter at will and see illness inside a body at a glance, and he still carries everything he knew about modern pharmacology. With the imperial pharmacist guild gouging the poor, Farma opens his own pharmacy to put real treatment within reach of commoners.

#120

ONGOING

How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?

ダンベル何キロ持てる？

Sports

Slice of Life

Comedy

Hibiki Sakura, a high schooler with a bottomless appetite, panics about her weight and decides to check out the new Silverman Gym. On the tour she runs into her elegant classmate Akemi Soryuin, the student council president and a closet muscle enthusiast, and meets the hulking trainer Machio. This comedy mixes gym life with genuine workout instruction as Hibiki trains alongside Akemi and the gym's coaches.

#121

FINISHED

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card

カードキャプターさくらクリアカード編

Shoujo

Fantasy

Romance

Sakura Kinomoto starts junior high with Syaoran back from Hong Kong, then dreams of transparent cards shattering in front of her. She wakes to find every Sakura Card drained of power and an unfamiliar key in her hand. Transparent cards begin surfacing around Tomoeda, and Sakura sets out to catch them with Tomoyo and Kero beside her. This sequel picks up directly from the original Cardcaptor Sakura.

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#122

FINISHED

The Demon Mother's Son Is So Cute I Can't Help It

息子がかわいくて仕方がない魔族の母親

Fantasy

Slice of Life

Comedy

Lorem belongs to a demon race on the brink of extinction, and the wild, terrible reputation she built in her youth still makes neighbors flinch when she passes. She has folded her wings, hidden her claws and poured everything she has into a role she never expected: doting mother to her infant son, Gospel. Feeding him, minding him and getting through ordinary days among people who remember exactly what she used to be is the whole of her life now.

#123

ONGOING

The Beautiful Lady Boss Takizawa-san

美人女上司滝沢さん

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

Kouta Takeda, a nervous entry-level employee at XOX Corporation, is placed directly under Kyouko Takizawa, a striking supervisor the rest of the office whispers about as a cold, merciless boss. Working beside her, Takeda discovers a warmer, more considerate side that her fearsome reputation hides. Told as a four-panel comedy, the strips follow their everyday workplace exchanges and slowly shifting rapport across the changing seasons.

#124

FINISHED

Beauty and the Feast

八雲さんは餌づけがしたい。

Drama

Romance

Seinen

Shuko Yakumo is a twenty-eight-year-old widow who has lost her appetite for cooking and for much else since her husband died. Next door lives Shohei Yamato, a high-school baseball player who lives alone and eats like he can never get full. Shuko starts cooking for him, and feeding someone with such an enormous appetite slowly brings her kitchen and her days back to life as the two ease each other's loneliness over shared meals.

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#125

ONGOING

Interspecies Reviewers

異種族レビュアーズ

Ecchi

Fantasy

Adventure

In a world crowded with humanoid species, the human adventurer Stunk and the elf Zel make it their business to visit the succu-girl establishments of every race they can find and write up their experiences for fellow patrons. The angel Crimvael ends up tagging along, and each chapter sets the trio's clashing tastes against a new species, turning their reviews into running arguments over which kind of beauty is worth the money.

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#126

FINISHED

Rokudo's Bad Girls

六道の悪女たち

Shounen

Ecchi

Romance

Tousuke Rokudou is a meek first-year at Amori High, a school overrun by delinquents, and he only wants a quiet life with his two friends. After his late grandfather's package leaves him an old priest's scroll meant to ward off demons, Tousuke discovers it has a stranger effect: it makes the school's toughest bad girls fall for him. Starting with the delinquent Ranna Himawari, he finds himself surrounded by dangerous classmates whose attention drags him into the trouble he was trying to avoid.

#127

FINISHED

The Reincarnated Evil Dragon

邪竜転生

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Ja, once a worn-out Japanese salaryman, wakes from a fatal car accident in another world as a colossal evil dragon, beyond anything a demon king or a hero could match. He settles into a lazy, peaceful life deep in a forest alongside a clan of devoted slimes, until the demon king's subordinates hear of his strength and turn on his home. With the slimes he had come to care for killed, the dragon leaves his quiet retreat and sets out across the world in a human form.

#128

ONGOING

Record of Wortenia War

ウォルテニア戦記

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

High school martial artist Ryoma Mikoshiba is summoned to another world by the O'ltormea Empire, which enslaves the people it calls forth and discards the weak. After he learns how the empire exploits its summons, Ryoma cuts down a high-ranking O'ltormean official and flees into the wilderness. Saving the twin sisters Sara and Laura wins him his first loyal followers, and with them he sets out to carve a place for himself in this hostile new world. This is the manga adaptation of Ryouta Hori's light novel.

#129

FINISHED

If I Could Reach You

たとえとどかぬ糸だとしても

Drama

Romance

At her older brother's wedding, high schooler Uta finally admits to herself that she is in love with the bride, Kaoru, her childhood friend and now her sister-in-law. Living under the same roof as the newlyweds, Uta tries to bury feelings she believes can never be returned. But as strains in the marriage surface and Kaoru starts confiding in her, the distance Uta needs to move on only keeps shrinking.

The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind!

異世界魔法は遅れてる！

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Suimei Yakagi is a modern magician from a world where magic hides beneath everyday life, accidentally summoned to another world alongside his friend Reiji, who is hailed as the hero meant to defeat the demons. Suimei refuses the calling and instead searches for a way home, his contemporary spellcraft so advanced that it confounds Felmenia Stingray, the kingdom's celebrated court mage who comes to investigate him.

#131

FINISHED

Magical Sempai

手品先輩

Ecchi

Seinen

Comedy

An unmotivated first-year high schooler stumbles on a girl rehearsing a magic trick on her own. She is Sempai, the lone surviving member of the school's Magic Club, genuinely skilled when nobody is watching but undone by stage fright the moment a single person looks her way, so her tricks collapse into pratfalls and wardrobe mishaps. Over his objections she drafts him as her assistant, and neither of them is ever given a name beyond Sempai and her assistant.

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#132

FINISHED

Ordinary Soldier Dreams of the Past

平兵士は過去を夢見る

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

John Celias is a rank-and-file soldier, no hero, who lives long enough to see the Demon King fall at the end of the war against the demon armies and is cut down by the remnants minutes after the victory. He wakes in his childhood body in his home village, decades before any of it, every memory of the war and everything it taught him intact. This time he means to build his strength early and steer the coming years away from the disaster he already lived through.

#133

FINISHED

The Two Faces of Misaki Hoshino.

星野、目をつぶって。

Shounen

Romance

Comedy

Kobayakawa is the boy nobody notices: the class outcast who pretends to nap through breaks and works off his frustration in portrait sketches. One evening he stumbles on what no classmate has ever seen, the face Misaki Hoshino has under the makeup her childhood friend applies for her every morning. Keeping the school's prettiest, most popular girl looking the part becomes his job, and his flat, invisible days turn hectic.

#134

FINISHED

Ne Ne Ne

ねねね

Romance

Supernatural

Slice of Life

Koyuki, sixteen, is married off to a masked man more than twenty years her senior for the good of both families, and she has never even seen his face. Her husband, Shin, works with spirits, fairies and dragons that most people cannot perceive, and keeps a half-mask on so the things he attracts cannot possess him. At her father's request he loves her only platonically until she comes of age, and the two of them, equally inexperienced, fumble their way toward being a married couple.

#135

ONGOING

Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart

魔法少女育成計画 restart

Thriller

Action

Fantasy

Kanoe Hitokouji and fifteen other magical girls wake up trapped inside a game world they can only leave by clearing it, and dying inside it kills them for real. Alongside her is Mamori Totoyama, her family's butler and her partner since childhood, while Chika Tatehara and Shinobu Hioka are among the others feeling out who can actually be trusted. This manga adapts the Restart arc of the Magical Girl Raising Project light novels, the sequel storyline to the original series.

#136

FINISHED

Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut

月とライカと吸血姫〈ノスフェラトゥ〉

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Drama

Irina Luminesk, a vampire chosen for the Zirnitra Union's secret cosmonaut program, is treated as disposable, a member of a feared and cursed species rather than a person, until she is placed under the watch of the human soldier Lev Leps. As their mission toward the stars puts Irina through trials no human could endure, Lev starts to see her as someone worth protecting rather than a tool for the space race. This light novel series is the source material behind the Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu manga.

#137

FINISHED

Uratarou

うらたろう

Action

Fantasy

Supernatural

In the Rokuhara era, an invented age in which the Heike crushed the Genji and Japan's nights crawl with demons, the Taira princess Chiyo is fifteen and under a curse that will kill her at sixteen. She travels the country after a rumor of an undying man called Kijin-sama, and finds him: Uratarou, eight hundred years old, unable to die however hard he tries, wanting only an end. The two set off together toward the Yomi Pass, each chasing the opposite of what the other already has.

#138

FINISHED

Seven Mortal Sins

sin 七つの大罪

Action

Ecchi

Fantasy

Cast out of Heaven for defying its will, Lucifer falls to the depths of Hell, where the ruling Demon Lords seal her angelic power away. She takes up with Leviathan, a minor Demon Lord of Envy with ambitions of her own, and with Maria Totsuka, a human high school girl caught up in the fall, and sets out to win her power back one Demon Lord at a time. The manga plays its demon-versus-angel premise for ecchi comedy as the mismatched trio clash their way through Hell's ranks.

#139

FINISHED

Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

博多豚骨ラーメンズ

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Beneath Hakata's ordinary streets runs a criminal underworld thick with hitmen, informants, and professional torturers, and detective Zenji Banba works its edges for a living. When the mafia sends Lin Xianming, a cross-dressing killer, to eliminate him, Lin's employers refuse to pay, so he switches sides and hires himself out to Banba as a bodyguard instead. Rumors of a mysterious 'killer of killers' stalking the city soon draw both men deeper into Hakata's underworld. This manga adapts the light novel series of the same name.

#140

FINISHED

Death Note: Light Up the New World (Novelization)

映画ノベライズ DEATH NOTE Light up the NEW world

Thriller

Shounen

Supernatural

Years after Kira's reign of terror ended, six new Death Notes fall into the human world at once, and a task force scrambles to stop whoever picks them up before the killings start again. This novel adapts the screenplay of the live-action sequel film, following the investigators who track each notebook's new owner, among them a young detective who has taken on the mantle of L. Published days before the film opened in Japan, it expands scenes the movie had no room for and puts names to Shinigami tied to several of the new owners who never appear on screen.

#141

FINISHED

Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

名探偵コナン迷宮の十字路〈クロスロード〉

Thriller

Action

Shounen

Conan Edogawa travels to Kyoto with Kogoro Mouri after a monk asks the detective to read a drawing said to mark where a Medicine Buddha statue went once it was taken from Sannoji Temple eight years earlier. Five men are already dead across Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, killed with traditional weapons by someone in an old man's Noh mask, and every victim belonged to the antique theft ring Genji Hotaru. Heiji Hattori joins the case in Kyoto. This manga adapts the seventh Detective Conan film.

#142

FINISHED

Space Patrol Luluco

宇宙パトロールルル子

Action

Sci-Fi

Seinen

Luluco, an ordinary middle schooler in the space colonization zone of Ogikubo, watches her father freeze solid at the breakfast table, and the only way to thaw him out is to cover the cost by joining the Space Patrol he works for. Her new partner, transfer student Alpha Omega Nova, pulls her into the district's stranger side of alien crime and cosmic bureaucracy. This manga adapts the original TV anime, condensing Luluco's chaotic recruitment into three chapters.

#143

FINISHED

Himouto! Umaru-chanSS

ひもうと！うまるちゃんSS

Seinen

Comedy

Umaru Doma, a model student in public and a hoodie-wrapped gremlin the moment she gets home, shows up here in chibi form with her classmates Nana Ebina and Kirie Motoba. The girls sit around a tatami room talking, and the talk keeps tipping over into whatever Umaru has decided to imagine, from a role-playing game to a television drama to an anime send-up. This one-volume manga continues the Umaru-chanS self-parody line under a new artist.

Anne Happy♪ Anthology Comic: Kichi

あんハピ♪アンソロジーコミック吉

Slice of Life

Comedy

Class 1-7 at Tennomifune Academy is the Happiness Class, where the school files the students it has judged unfortunate: Anne Hanakoizumi, whose luck drops her down manholes, Ruri Hibarigaoka, Botan Kumegawa, who breaks bones shaking hands, Hibiki Hagyu and Ren Ekoda. This anthology hands that classroom to more than a dozen manga artists for one volume of short comics. It is a companion to the Anne Happy♪ manga rather than a continuation of it.

Kuma Miko Official Anthology

くまみこ公式アンソロジー

Slice of Life

Comedy

Machi Amayadori has been the shrine maiden of the mountain village of Kumade all her life, with the talking bear Natsu as her guardian, and at fourteen she wants to try high school in the city. Nineteen mangaka take that setup in their own directions across this single-volume official anthology, each contributing a short comic about Machi, Natsu and the village around them. The pieces do not connect, and the book expects readers to arrive already knowing Kumade.

IDOLiSH7: TRIGGER - before The Radiant Glory

アイドリッシュセブン TRIGGER-before The Radiant Glory-

Shoujo

Drama

Slice of Life

Gaku Yaotome, Tenn Kujou and Ryuunosuke Tsunashi do not get along when they first meet. This three-chapter manga covers the stretch before TRIGGER became the act IDOLiSH7 measures itself against: three very different people pushed into one group, working out whether they can share a stage. It runs earlier than the main IDOLiSH7 story, filling in a formation the games and the anime treat as settled history.

#147

FINISHED

Sansha Sanyou Anthology Comic

三者三葉アンソロジーコミック

Slice of Life

Comedy

Thirteen artists take one turn each with Youko Nishikawa, Futaba Odagiri and Teru Hayama, the three classmates whose names all carry the character for leaf: the heiress who lost the money, the bottomless appetite, and the class representative with two faces. Afro, Nekoume, Mijinkouka and ten others contribute a chapter apiece, so the book is thirteen short takes on the same trio rather than a continuous story, and it assumes the reader already knows them from the four-panel series it spins off from.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission!

スーパードラゴンボールヒーローズ暗黒魔界ミッション！

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Time Patroller Xeno Trunks answers a summons from Chronoa, the Kaioshin of Time, after the Dark Empire's forces from the Demon Realm begin reviving their fallen leader, Mechikabura. The enemy hunts scattered Dark Dragon Balls that have fused with defeated villains from across history, handing them new power. Xeno Trunks recruits alternate-timeline versions of Goku and Vegeta to track down the Dragon Balls first and keep Mechikabura from returning to full strength.

#149

FINISHED

Bungo Stray Dogs: Another Story: Yukito Ayatsuji vs. Natsuhiko Kyougoku

文豪ストレイドッグス外伝綾辻行人VS.京極夏彦

Thriller

Supernatural

Yukito Ayatsuji, the investigator known as the man-slaughtering detective, has an ability so deadly that the Special Division for Unusual Powers never lets him out of sight, and rookie agent Mizuki Tsujimura is assigned as his minder. When Ayatsuji is handed a murder case, the one pulling the strings behind it turns out to be his archnemesis, Natsuhiko Kyougoku, and the investigation becomes a contest of tricks between a detective and a sorcerer. This novel is a self-contained spin-off of Bungo Stray Dogs written by the series' creator, Kafka Asagiri.

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#150

FINISHED

I Hear the Sunspot: Limit

ひだまりが聴こえる-リミット-

Drama

Romance

Slice of Life

Kouhei Sugihara, a university student with a hearing impairment, kept everyone at arm's length until the relentlessly cheerful Taichi Sagawa came into his life, and after Kouhei confessed, the feeling turned out to be mutual. In this installment of the I Hear the Sunspot series, Kouhei stays on as a student while Taichi steps out into the working world to pursue his own calling, and the two start building a life together. Taichi's first job and Kouhei's classes pull their days in different directions, and the couple has to find a way to make both fit.

#151

ONGOING

Dies Irae: Amantes Amentes

Dies irae -Amantes amentes-

Action

Drama

Supernatural

In May 1945, as Soviet troops close in on Berlin, a group of sorcerers completes a ritual fueled by the war's mass casualties and vanishes without a trace. Decades later in present-day Japan, high schooler Ren Fujii is still recovering from a fight with his best friend when that same group, the Longinus Dreizehn Orden, resurfaces with apocalyptic plans. Forced to wield abilities like the ones his enemies have, Ren has to protect the people around him from a threat rooted in the war's final days.

#152

ONGOING

Soul Land III: Legend of the Dragon King

斗罗大陆3龙王传说

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Soul technology has let the humans of the Douluo Continent conquer the oceans and find two new continents, and soul masters have hunted soul beasts almost to extinction. Deep in the Great Star Dou Forest, the king of the soul beasts wakes after countless years of dormancy, set on leading its surviving kin in revenge against humanity. Tang Wulin wants to become a powerful soul master, but when his martial soul awakens it turns out to be Blue Silver Grass, a spirit nobody expects much from.

#153

ONGOING

Maougun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen datta

魔王軍最強の魔術師は人間だった

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Ike is the Demon Lord army's strongest magician, a spellcaster who can take a fortress on his own and whose power unsettles allies as much as enemies. The rank is real; the demon is not. Ike is a human passing among monsters, and he leans on knowledge carried over from another life to hold the disguise together while climbing to the position of commander. Every victory he wins raises his profile, and a higher profile makes the secret harder to keep.

#154

ONGOING

Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! After

パパのいうことを聞きなさい！after

Drama

Slice of Life

Four years on from where the main light novel line ended, Yuuta Segawa still keeps house with the three Takanashi sisters he took in when their parents' plane went missing. Sora is years past the middle schooler who first moved into his apartment, Miu and Hina have grown as much, and the arrangement that began as an emergency is now simply how the four of them live. This continuation is set after the eighteenth book rather than restarting the series.

Please Take My Brother Away!

快把我哥带走

Slice of Life

Comedy

To Shi Miao, her older brother Shi Fen is a walking disaster who can make her lose her temper a hundred times in a single day, until real trouble shows up and he turns fiercely protective. This ongoing Chinese manhua follows the two siblings and Shi Fen's best friend Zhen Kaixin through an escalating string of pranks, misunderstandings, and reluctant rescues that never quite break their bond.

One-Day Outing Foreman

1日外出録ハンチョウ

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Ootsuki, foreman of Squad E in Teiai's underground labor camp for debtors, has banked enough perica to buy a one-day pass to the surface. Black suits escort him the whole time to make sure he does not run, and end up watching him budget every hour of it around a bowl of ramen, a cold beer or a hotel breakfast. Each outing in this manga is its own small logistics problem, planned with the seriousness of an escape.

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#157

ONGOING

Bakuten Shoot Beyblade: Rising

爆転シュートベイブレードライジング

Action

Sports

Seinen

Kai Hiwatari has locked his launcher away to run his grandfather's corporation, and Tyson Granger turns up to tell him he traded the only thing he ever cared about for a desk. Takao Aoki takes the two rivals back toward the stadium years after the original Beyblade manga ended, with their bit beasts and the old circuit still waiting. Talking Kai into an arena again is where the sequel starts.

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#158

FINISHED

Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru

刀剣乱舞-花丸-

Fantasy

Slice of Life

Comedy

In the year 2205, revisionists are attacking the past to rewrite history, and the Saniwa, caretakers who can breathe life into objects, awaken swords as human warriors called Touken Danshi to defend it. This manga adaptation follows the sword spirits Kashuu Kiyomitsu and Yamatonokami Yasusada and their fellow blades, Shokudaikiri Mitsutada among them, through the lighter side of their duty: daily chores, training, and squabbles around the citadel between missions.

#159

ONGOING

Bibliophile Princess

虫かぶり姫

Fantasy

Drama

Romance

Elianna Bernstein, a marquis's daughter, would rather stay home with a book than mingle at court, so she turns down every suitor her family's name attracts. Then Crown Prince Christopher proposes an engagement he tells her is a fake, a way to keep political matches away from him, and offers her free run of the royal archives in return. Elianna takes the deal on those terms alone. Four years on she has read nearly the whole collection, and the arrangement she thought she understood no longer sits where she left it.

#160

FINISHED

Mahoutsukai Precure!

魔法つかいプリキュア！

Shoujo

Kids & Family

Action

Mirai Asahina, a 13-year-old with a love of mysterious things, sees something fall from the sky into the park and rushes out with her teddy bear Mofurun to find it. There she meets Liko, a girl her own age from the magic world who flies on a broom and is searching for a powerful jewel called the Linkle Stone Emerald. Batti, a dark magic user serving Dokurokushi, appears demanding the jewel and conjures a Yokubaru monster, so Mirai and Liko join hands, say the words Cure Up RaPaPa, and become the legendary Pretty Cure. This manga adapts the anime series of the same name.

#161

FINISHED

Dragon Goes House-Hunting

ドラゴン、家を買う。

Fantasy

Seinen

Comedy

Letty, a dragon too weak and cowardly to meet his family's fearsome standards, is thrown out of the family lair and sets off to find a home of his own, despite being unable to fly well, breathe fire properly, or defend himself. Dearia, an elf who works as an architect and estate agent and moonlights as a demon lord, saves him from a pack of heroes and takes him house-hunting across a range of increasingly strange properties. The search plays out as gentle comedy against a fantasy backdrop of undead infestations and disastrous architecture.

#162

FINISHED

Detective Conan: Countdown to Heaven

名探偵コナン天国へのカウントダウン

Thriller

Shounen

Conan Edogawa is dragged along to the opening ceremony of a pair of ultramodern twin towers, the tallest buildings in Japan, together with his friends from the Junior Detective League. When bombs turn up planted inside one of the towers and people connected to the project start dying, Conan begins to suspect the case runs back to the Black Organization. This manga is the adaptation of the fifth Detective Conan film.

Shadow Student Council Vice President Gives Her All

副会長ガンバル。

Ecchi

Seinen

Comedy

Meiko Shiraki, the iron-fisted vice president of Hachimitsu Academy's Underground Student Council, spends her senior year throwing her considerable strength at whatever the day puts in front of her. This spin-off leaves the Prison Block's scheming behind and follows her ordinary school routine through visual gags and physical comedy, with almost no dialogue at all. It stays inside Prison School's continuity as a side story rather than pushing its plot forward.

#164

FINISHED

Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf

新説狼と香辛料狼と羊皮紙

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

Myuri, the wolf-eared daughter of Spice and Wolf's Lawrence and Holo, cannot stand the thought of Tote Col leaving Nyohhira without her. Col, the young man raised in her parents' bathhouse, has finally set out to pursue the priesthood he has dreamed of for years, so Myuri runs away from home and stows away on his riverboat, and by the time he finds her they are much too far downstream to turn back. This light novel picks up a generation after Spice and Wolf, trading the original's merchant trade routes for Col's road toward the clergy.

#165

FINISHED

Trace: The Man from Forensics Solves the Truth!

トレース科捜研法医研究員の追想

Thriller

Drama

Seinen

Reiji Mano works as a forensic researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police crime lab, where he reads the traces left at murder scenes and refuses to sign off on anything short of the truth. Twenty-three years earlier he came home to find his own family slaughtered, and that case was never closed. When the detective who was first on the scene that night turns up with a new investigation, Mano's past pushes back into his work, pulling in Nonna Sawaguchi, the lab's newly assigned rookie researcher, alongside him.

#166

FINISHED

Yu-Gi-Oh! Transcend Game

遊☆戯☆王 TRANSCEND GAME

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Set after the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and just before the film Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, this two-chapter story has Seto and Mokuba Kaiba running tests on Duel Links, an experimental virtual-reality dueling system Kaiba built for one purpose: to reach across dimensions and find Atem again. One test player keeps winning on sheer force of consciousness, and when Kaiba goes looking for her, the girl calling herself Prana offers him a duel with his life on the table. The story was written to bridge the manga's ending to the film that follows it.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of the Monster Nation

転生したらスライムだった件～魔物の国の歩き方～

Fantasy

Adventure

Framea, daughter of the rabbitfolk chief, has an unusual talent for picking apart exactly what makes a place work. Rimuru, the demon lord who founded the monster nation of Tempest, puts that skill to use by asking her to write a travel guide covering everything Tempest has to offer. Framea sets out with her notepad to rate the nation's attractions one by one, turning what starts as an assignment into a tour through Tempest as its ordinary residents actually experience it.

I Had That Same Dream Again

また、同じ夢を見ていた

Drama

Slice of Life

Nanoka Koyanagi gets a school assignment to define what happiness means and decides real answers will not come from a textbook. She tracks down three strangers who each see life differently, a solitary young woman living alone, a withdrawn teenage girl who self-harms, and an elderly woman, and starts piecing together her own answer from their conflicting outlooks. Along the way it becomes clear that something larger is drawing her toward these three in particular. This novel is the source material for a separate manga adaptation.

Please Fall in Love with Useless Me R

ダメな私に恋してください R

Romance

Comedy

Michiko Shibata, out of an office job and working at the cafe run by her former supervisor Ayumu Kurosawa, is still convinced she's hopeless at basically everything and leans on him as much as ever now that the two are a couple, though dating brings its own string of misunderstandings and growing pains. This direct sequel picks up after the original manga's central couple gets together, following Michiko's continued attempts to grow into someone who deserves Ayumu's steady support.

Doctor Elise

외과의사 엘리제

Drama

Isekai

Romance

Jihyun Song is Korea's top surgeon, carrying memories of her past life as Elise, a selfish and reviled empress executed after the people of Britia rebelled against her. A plane crash sends her back into that same world and that same body, still a teenager and with her modern medical training intact. Determined not to repeat the empress's mistakes, Elise throws herself into surgery and public health reform, while an unwanted engagement to the crown prince, the man who was her husband and her executioner the first time around, keeps pulling her back toward court politics.

#171

FINISHED

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

ゼルダの伝説トワイライトプリンセス

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Ordon Village shepherd Link chases down monsters who kidnapped the village's children, including his friend Ilia, and the search pulls him into a realm swallowed by twilight. There he's transformed into a wolf and meets Midna, an imp-like guide with her own stake in restoring the light. This manga adapts the Wii game of the same name, following Link and Midna's alliance from the opening chase to the fight to push back the twilight.

#172

FINISHED

Life 2: Giver/Taker

ライフ2 ギバーテイカー

Thriller

Drama

Seinen

Itsuki becomes a hardened police officer after her charming next-door neighbor, still a boy at the time, murders her little sister, and she spends the next six years blaming herself for not seeing what he was. The day he's finally released from prison, a threatening letter arrives in her mailbox, and Itsuki has to decide how far she'll go for revenge without losing the badge she's built her second life around. This manga is a sequel to Life.

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#173

FINISHED

A Wild Last Boss Appeared!

野生のラストボスが現れた!

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

A top Exgate Online player deliberately throws his last battle as Lufas Maphaahl, the Black-Winged Conqueror who once subjugated the game's world, and accepts an offer from the Goddess of Creation. He wakes two hundred years later inside Lufas's own body, in a world that still remembers her as its greatest villain. Word reaches him that the Twelve Heavenly Stars, the NPC subordinates he once commanded, are running wild, and with his adviser Dina at his side he sets out to stop them.

#174

FINISHED

The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time

二度目の勇者は復讐の道を嗤い歩む

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Kaito Ukei helped defeat the demon lord as a summoned hero, only to be betrayed and murdered by the very companions he fought beside. Handed a second run at that life with his memories intact, he sets out to make every one of his former allies pay, starting with the princess who orchestrated it. A former slave with her own score to settle takes up the same cause, and the two begin working through the party that destroyed him, one target at a time.

#175

FINISHED

Peach Girl NEXT

ピーチガールNEXT

Drama

Romance

Momo Adachi and Kairi have been together since high school but still aren't married a decade later, and the pressure from friends and family keeps building. The sequel to Peach Girl reopens old wounds when Sae and Toji move in next door, dragging Momo back into the rivalry and misunderstandings that once defined her teenage years. Now twenty-seven, the cast navigates adult relationships with the same tangled miscommunication that drove the original series.

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom

現実主義勇者の王国再建記

Fantasy

Drama

Isekai

Summoned to the kingdom of Elfrieden with the usual "Oh Hero!" fanfare, humanities student Kazuya Souma stuns the court by skipping the sword and pitching an economic recovery plan instead. Impressed, the king abdicates on the spot, hands Souma the throne, and betroths him to his daughter, Liscia. With advisor Hakuya Kwonmin at his side, Souma starts recruiting engineers, farmers, and any other "gifted person" willing to help rebuild a kingdom on the edge of collapse, one budget line at a time.

#177

FINISHED

The Villager of Level 999

LV999の村人

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

In a world where everyone is born into a fixed class, Villagers sit at the bottom: no combat power, no business hunting monsters, and an average level of ten. Koji Kagami worked out as a small child that killing monsters was the fastest way to a better life, and spent twenty years quietly doing exactly that until he hit level 999. This light novel follows him from that impossible grind to a chance meeting with Alice, the Demon King's daughter, and the dream they turn out to share: humans and demons living side by side.

#178

ONGOING

The Death Mage

四度目は嫌な死属性魔術師

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Hiroto Amamiya has already died twice: once on a school trip cut short by terrorists, and again after a first reincarnation left him powerless and hunted for over a decade. When the god Rodcorte sends him into a third life, Hiroto returns as a dhampir calling himself Vandal, armed with rare death-attribute magic and the accumulated power of two failed lifetimes. Determined never to see a fourth death, he sets out to build a life, and a following, strong enough that nothing in this new world can end him again.

#179

FINISHED

Dungeon Seeker

ダンジョンシーカー

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Junpei Takeda is summoned to another world alongside his classmates by a capricious god, but where the others receive hero-grade powers his stats come back lower than a common villager's. Betrayed by the people he trusted and shoved into a labyrinth meant to kill him, he survives by clawing through its monsters and turning their deaths into strength. What begins as bare survival becomes a campaign of revenge against those who threw him away. This isekai manga adapts Sakamoto 666's web novel.

#180

FINISHED

Suki x Suki

好き×透き

Romance

Supernatural

Slice of Life

Touka Aizuki freezes up and snaps whenever she tries to talk to Ryoutarou Mimori, the childhood friend she once drifted away from. After another day of failed attempts she goes to sleep wishing she could vanish, and wakes up invisible and inaudible to everyone in town. The one exception is Ryoutarou, who can still see and hear her perfectly but keeps quiet, knowing how mortified she would be to learn he has been watching the unguarded girl behind her brusque front.

#181

CANCELLED

Seirei Gensouki

精霊幻想記

Fantasy

Drama

Isekai

Rio, an orphan surviving alone in the slums of the Beltrum kingdom, wakes one day with the memories and personality of Haruto Amakawa, a Japanese university student who died before he could see his childhood friend again. The two identities settle into one body, and the powers that come with them give Rio a chance at the revenge he has wanted since his mother was murdered. This manga adaptation ran only a few months before ending unfinished, covering just the story's earliest chapters.

#182

ONGOING

Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki

弱キャラ友崎くん

Drama

Slice of Life

Comedy

Yuuki Yaku's light novel opens the story of Fumiya Tomozaki, self-declared bottom-tier at real life but ranked first in the fighting game Attack Families, until he meets the game's second-best player face-to-face. She turns out to be Aoi Hinami, his blunt, wildly popular classmate, who is convinced life runs on learnable rules just like any other game and recruits Tomozaki as proof. This is the original novel behind the manga and anime adaptations.

#183

ONGOING

Classroom for Heroes

英雄教室

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

Blade transfers into Rosewood Academy, a school built to train heroes for a demon war that technically ended generations ago, and immediately draws the attention of Arnest Flaming, the school's undefeated top student. Blade matches her strength move for move despite acting like he's not trying, and the King's personal request that Arnest look after him only makes her more suspicious of what he's hiding about the era of the original Demon Lord's defeat. This manga adapts the original light novel series.

#184

ONGOING

The Great Cleric

聖者無双～サラリーマン、異世界で生き残るために歩む道～

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

A Japanese salaryman is killed by a gunshot and wakes up reincarnated as Luciel, a fifteen-year-old blessed with healing magic in the world of Galdardia. Aiming for a quiet, stable career as a healer, Luciel instead finds himself pulled into monster battles and guild politics that his business instincts from his old life aren't quite built for. He leans on both his healing magic and his salaryman's negotiating skills to keep himself alive.

#185

FINISHED

My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me!

即死チートが最強すぎて、異世界のやつらがまるで相手にならないんですが。

Action

Fantasy

Isekai

Yogiri Takatou sleeps through the ceremony that grants his entire class superhuman gifts after they're swept into another world, and wakes to find himself and classmate Tomochika Dannoura abandoned as bait for a dragon. What his classmates don't know is that Yogiri already has a power of his own: the ability to kill instantly with a single thought, no gift required. Content to shrug off most threats rather than chase glory, he keeps Tomochika alive through danger after danger that barely register as a challenge to him.

#186

ONGOING

In Another World with My Smartphone

異世界はスマートフォンとともに。

Fantasy

Isekai

Adventure

Fifteen-year-old Touya Mochizuki dies in a freak lightning strike and wakes up face-to-face with God, who offers him a second life in a fantasy world along with a boosted body, magical aptitude, and, as an apology for the accidental death, his smartphone, now working across dimensions. Armed with instant information at his fingertips in an otherwise medieval world, Touya drifts from town to town chasing whatever catches his interest rather than any grand quest. This manga adapts the light novel series of the same name.

#187

FINISHED

The Irregular at Magic High School: Double Seven Arc

魔法科高校の劣等生ダブルセブン編

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Now second-years at First High, Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba settle into a hard-won peace: Tatsuya has a new Magic Engineering Course built around his talents and a seat as acting student council vice president. That calm breaks fast when three incoming first-years from elite Numbered families start throwing their weight around campus, each with their own agenda for the school's power structure. This manga adapts the twelfth light novel volume of the series.

#188

FINISHED

Ameku Takao's Detective Karte

天久鷹央の推理カルテ

Thriller

Drama

Seinen

At Tenikai General Hospital's general diagnostic department, Dr. Takao Ameku takes on the cases nobody else can solve, from patients whose symptoms don't add up to any known diagnosis to the handful that turn out to hide a crime instead of an illness. A newly assigned doctor works alongside her as her assistant, learning her methods case by case as the department's real purpose becomes clear: catching what surgery and specialists both miss. This manga adapts the first two volumes of the original novel series.

#189

FINISHED

Sound! Euphonium: The Hottest Summer of the Kitauji High School Concert Band

響け！ユーフォニアム北宇治高校吹奏楽部のいちばん熱い夏

Drama

Slice of Life

Fresh off qualifying for the Kansai competition, Kumiko Oumae and the Kitauji High School concert band grind through a summer of practice with the national finals as the goal. Then Nozomi Kasaki, who walked out of the band the year before, asks to come back, and vice-president Asuka Tanaka refuses flatly. As the truth about that mass walkout surfaces, Kumiko finds herself caught between Nozomi and Mizore Yoroizuka with the qualifying rounds closing in. This manga adapts the second volume of the original novel series.

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#190

ONGOING

Fluffy Paradise

異世界でもふもふなでなでするためにがんばってます。

Fantasy

Isekai

Slice of Life

Midori Akitsu worked herself to death at twenty-seven, and the goddess who meets her afterward offers a trade: a new life in another world in exchange for one unusual gift. She is reborn as Nefertima Osphe, third daughter of a ducal house, with every creature except humans adoring her on sight, so wild animals and dragons alike treat her like family from the day she arrives. This light novel is the original source for the Fluffy Paradise franchise, later adapted into a manga and anime.

#191

FINISHED

Plastic Memories: Heartfelt Thanks

プラスティック・メモリーズ ―Heartfelt Thanks―

Sci-Fi

Drama

Romance

Eighteen-year-old Tsukasa Mizugaki joins SAI Corp's Terminal Service One and is partnered with Isla, a Giftia android and the station's most experienced hand at retrieving others of her own kind before their roughly nine-year lifespan runs out. Working alongside her day after day, Tsukasa has to reckon with his growing feelings for Isla knowing exactly how little time she has left. This light novel is a sibling story to the Say to Good-bye manga.

#192

FINISHED

Naruto Shinden Series

NARUTO―ナルト― 新伝シリーズ

Action

Shounen

Drama

The Shinden novels are four standalone stories set in the years after the Fourth Great Ninja War, when Konoha's veteran shinobi have families of their own and the next generation is already on missions. Konoha Shinden sends Mirai Sarutobi to guard the retired Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy on a hot-spring trip; Naruto Shinden has the Hokage trying to give his own children a day of his time; Sasuke Shinden puts Sasuke in charge of Boruto's team; and Shikamaru Shinden has Shikamaru defusing a rift at a Kage summit while his household frays.

#193

FINISHED

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

甲鉄城のカバネリ

Action

Fantasy

Drama

As an industrial revolution spreads across Hinomoto, a plague of undead Kabane emerges that only dies when its iron-armored heart is pierced. At Aragane Station, Ikoma builds a weapon called the Tsuranukizutsu to fight them, and when the steam-powered Hayajiro comes under attack by an infected crew, he finally gets to use it and meets a girl named Mumei in the chaos. This novelization retells the story of the Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress anime, the franchise's original work.

#194

FINISHED

Kiznaiver

キズナイーバー

Sci-Fi

Drama

Seinen

Katsuhira Agata can't feel pain anymore, and that makes him the perfect subject for an experiment he never agreed to. In Sugomori, a city built on reclaimed land, the mysterious Noriko Sonozaki links Katsuhira and six classmates, strangers from different social circles, into the Kizna System, which shares any wound one of them takes across the whole group. This manga adapts the anime's story of forced connection between people who'd otherwise never speak.

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#195

FINISHED

91 Days (Novel)

小説91Days

Thriller

Action

Drama

Angelo Lagusa's family is murdered by the Vanetti crime family, and seven years later an anonymous letter pulls him back to the Prohibition-era town of Lawless to finish what they started. Adopting the alias Avilio Bruno, he works his way close to Nero, the don's son, as the first step toward revenge. This novel tells the same 91-day countdown as the TV series, following how retribution keeps circling back on itself.

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#196

FINISHED

Gamers!

ゲーマーズ！

Romance

Slice of Life

Comedy

Keita Amano just wants to play games in peace, so he turns down school idol Karen Tendou when she invites him to join the Gaming Club, a club built around competitive esports rather than the casual gaming he actually enjoys. That single rejection spirals through the school's rumor mill, tangling Keita with his classmate Chiaki Hoshinomori, who turns out to be the online friend he's played with for years without knowing her identity. Miscommunication compounds with every new character drawn into the fallout, and what should be a simple friendship keeps getting reread as something else entirely. This manga adapts Sekina Aoi's light novel series.

#197

FINISHED

Fate/Apocrypha

Thriller

Action

Fantasy

Decades after the original Holy Grail War, the mage clan Yggdmillennia steals the Greater Grail and declares independence from the Mage's Association, so the Association sends fifty of its own to take it back. All but one are wiped out by a single Servant, and that survivor triggers the Greater Grail's reserve system, calling fourteen Servants into a new war. Seven fight for the Black Faction, loyal to Yggdmillennia; seven for the Red Faction, backing the Association. The Grail itself summons a Ruler-class Servant, Jeanne d'Arc, to referee. This manga adapts the light novel of the same name.

#198

FINISHED

WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?

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？

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Five hundred years after monstrous Beasts wiped out humanity, the last surviving races cling to life on floating sky-islands, defended by young Leprechaun soldiers who wield ancient relic weapons. Willem Kmetsch, the final living human, wakes from centuries of suspended animation and can no longer fight, so he takes a caretaker role at the Leprechauns' warehouse instead. Among them is Chtholly Nota Seniorious, wielder of the sword Seniorious, who warms to him despite having been trained to treat her own death as routine. This manga adapts the original light novel's post-apocalyptic setup.

#199

FINISHED

O Maidens in Your Savage Season

荒ぶる季節の乙女どもよ。

Shounen

Drama

Romance

Club president Rika Sonezaki opens the literature club's year with an icebreaker: what's one thing you want to do before you die? The blunt answer that follows sends Kazusa Onodera, Niina Sugawara, Hitoha Hongou, Momoko Sudou, and Sonezaki herself spiraling into every awkward feeling about sex and romance they'd rather not examine. Each girl carries her own tangle of crushes and curiosity, and the five end up confronting what they actually want long before they're ready to say it out loud.

#200

FINISHED

Mononoke: Nue

モノノ怪 -鵺-

Supernatural

Horror

Seinen

Four suitors gather at a snowbound estate for a contest of kōdō, the refined art of incense appreciation, staged to choose a husband for Princess Ruri, only daughter of the Misono house of incense masters. What most of them are really after is the legendary incense Tōdaiji that comes with her. The wandering medicine seller Kusuriuri slips in among them and senses a Nue, the chimeric spirit stitched from a monkey's head, a tiger's limbs and a snake's tail, stalking the gathering, and sets out to uncover its Shape, Truth and Reason before the contest turns fatal.

#201

FINISHED

Psycho-Pass: The Movie

劇場版 PSYCHO-PASS

Thriller

Action

Sci-Fi

Japan has begun exporting the Sibyl System abroad, and the war-torn Southeast Asian Union has installed it on Shambala Float, a purpose-built floating city that finally has a spell of order and safety. Then terrorists trained to slip past Sibyl's screening strike targets inside Japan, and the trail points back to a man moving in the shadows of SEAUn. Inspector Akane Tsunemori takes a team to Shambala Float to trace the connection, on a case that carries Sibyl's authority beyond Japan's borders for the first time. This novel retells the story of the first Psycho-Pass film.

#202

FINISHED

Rage of Bahamut: Twin Heads

神撃のバハムート TWIN HEADS

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

With Bahamut's rebirth already stopped, bounty hunter Favaro Leone and disgraced knight Kaisar Lidfard go looking for their next job and reach the city of Anatae. There a blond boy bumps into Favaro in the market and turns out to be Jail Marginal, son of Cyrano, the lord of Marginal, travelling with his maid Petra. Jail's power makes him worth taking, and the two end up standing between him and the people circling his family, Violet among them. Set between the Rage of Bahamut anime and its sequel Virgin Soul, this is an original story rather than an adaptation of either.

#203

FINISHED

Kemono Michi

けものみち

Shounen

Fantasy

Isekai

Genzou Shibata, a professional wrestler known in the ring as Animal Mask, gets summoned mid-match into a fantasy kingdom by a princess who wants him to slaughter the magical beasts terrorizing her land. He responds with a German suplex to her request and walks away to open a pet shop instead, determined to find good homes for the creatures rather than kill them. Running the shop with a staff of demi-humans, Genzou keeps hemorrhaging money because he can't bear to sell off animals he's grown attached to.

#204

FINISHED

Novelize Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni

ノベライズこの世界の片隅に

Drama

Slice of Life

This novelization retells the same story as the manga and the animated film in prose: Suzu Urano, married at eighteen into a household in the naval city of Kure in 1944, keeping a sketchbook of the small things in front of her while rationing tightens and the air raids come closer. Nothing about the story changes, only the way it is told.

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits

かくりよの宿飯あやかしお宿に嫁入りします。

Fantasy

Isekai

Romance

Aoi Tsubaki has grown up seeing ayakashi, so when an ogre carries her off to the Hidden Realm and announces she is the collateral her late grandfather left against a hundred-million-yen debt, she believes him. Refusing to marry Oodanna, master of the prestigious Tenjin'ya inn, she sets out to work the debt off herself, and since no ayakashi will employ a human she falls back on the one skill she has: cooking, using human-world recipes to win over guests and staff alike. This manga adapts Midori Yuuma's light novels, with art by Waco Ioka.

#206

FINISHED

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

機動戦士ガンダム鉄血のオルフェンズ弐

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Tekkadan becomes a direct affiliate of the Teiwaz syndicate under a new trade agreement, gaining resources and influence along with a fresh set of enemies, while Kudelia Aina Bernstein founds the Admoss Company to push Martian independence forward. This manga adapts the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, with Mikazuki Augus fighting at the front and Orga Itsuka holding the group together. McGillis Fareed pursues designs of his own inside Gjallarhorn, and Gaelio Bauduin returns to the conflict behind a new identity.

#207

FINISHED

Gyakuten Saiban: Sono "Shinjitsu", Igi Ari!

逆転裁判〜その「真実」、異議あり!〜

Thriller

Shounen

Drama

Rookie defense attorney Ryuuichi Naruhodou takes on his first cases under the guidance of his mentor Chihiro Ayasato, determined to clear clients the police have already written off. Standing against him is prosecutor Reiji Mitsurugi, a former friend turned ruthless rival who never settles for anything less than a guilty verdict, forcing Ryuuichi to pick apart evidence and testimony to reach the truth.

#208

FINISHED

Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja Nai

俺が好きなのは妹だけど妹じゃない

Ecchi

Romance

Slice of Life

The source light novel behind the manga and anime: middle-school student council president Suzuka Nagami wins a debut award for a novel about a little sister who adores her older brother, then hands the byline to her actual brother Yuu, who publishes it under the pen name Chikai Towano. Living under one roof with the secret between them, the two navigate a growing circle of classmates who start reading into the arrangement.

#209

ONGOING

Island

ISLAND

Thriller

Sci-Fi

Drama

Setsuna Sanzenkai washes up with no memory of how he got there on Urashima, an island where three founding families have been in decline since a shared misfortune struck them five years earlier. Taken in as a servant by Rinne Ohara, and later drawn into the orbit of the shrine maiden Sara, Setsuna claims to be a time traveler trying to change the island's fate, a claim the wary islanders aren't ready to believe. This manga adapts Frontwing's mystery visual novel of the same name, following Setsuna as he tries to prove himself to a community that doesn't trust outsiders.

#210

FINISHED

Rage of Bahamut: Manaria Friends

神撃のバハムートマナリアフレンズ

Fantasy

Slice of Life

Grea, half-dragon and self-conscious about it, enrolls at the Mysteria Academy of Magic hoping to learn what living among humans is actually like. There she becomes close friends with Anne, a princess and star student who can already command guardian spirits, and the two make their way through a school where humans, gods and demons train side by side despite the three races' history of open war. This manga adapts the same Rage of Bahamut spin-off material as the Manaria Friends TV series.

The Great Passage

舟を編む

Drama

Genbu Shobo transfers taciturn salesman Majime Mitsuya into its long-neglected dictionary department, where veteran editor Araki is racing to find a successor before retirement. Paired with the more sociable Nishioka, Majime turns his obsessive attention to words toward compiling a new mid-sized Japanese dictionary the team calls The Great Passage. This manga adapts the novel The Great Passage, which had already been made into a live-action film and an anime series.

Shoujotachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu: Tori Naku Uta

少女たちは荒野を目指すとりなくうた

Drama

Slice of Life

Comedy

Houjou Buntarou has no particular ambitions until his classmate Kuroda Sayuki, who has quietly sized him up as the writer she needs, asks him to script the bishoujo game she means to build from nothing. The two recruit his childhood friend Kobayakawa Yuuka to direct and voice the cast, Andou Teruha to handle programming and web design, first-year Yuuki Uguisu to draw the characters, and another childhood friend, Kai Atomu, as assistant director. This manga adapts the Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu visual novel.

#213

FINISHED

To Every You I've Loved Before

僕が愛したすべての君へ

Sci-Fi

Drama

Romance

Koyomi Takasaki is adjusting to a quieter life after his parents' divorce when a new classmate, Kazune Takigawa, walks up and calls him her boyfriend, insisting they were a couple in a version of this world Koyomi has never lived in. In this setting, people occasionally cross over between countless parallel Earths, each shaped by small, different choices, and Kazune claims to be one such traveler from the world's 85th iteration. As Koyomi tries to reconcile the stranger's certainty with his own memory of never meeting her, the two are drawn together across a divide neither can fully explain.

#214

FINISHED

BanG Dream!

Slice of Life

Kasumi Toyama has chased the thrill of hearing 'the beat of the stars' since childhood, and a trail of star-shaped stickers finally leads her to a Random Star guitar sitting in a classmate's house. Picking it up pulls her toward forming a band with Tae Hanazono, Rimi Ushigome, Saaya Yamabuki, and Arisa Ichigaya, the future members of Poppin'Party. This manga runs the same basic story as the BanG Dream! anime but fills in extra scenes and character beats the show skips.

Scrapped Princess

スクラップド・プリンセス

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Pacifica Casull, doomed by prophecy to end the world on her sixteenth birthday, is fifteen and fleeing with her adoptive siblings Shannon and Raquel when this manga picks up her story. It retells the same chase across the countryside that Scrapped Princess's original light novels and earlier manga cover, more than a decade after that first adaptation. Shannon's swordsmanship and Raquel's magic remain the pair's main defense against the church knights sent after her.

#216

FINISHED

Macross Delta

マクロスΔ

Action

Sci-Fi

Shounen

Eight years after the events of Macross Frontier, the Var Syndrome is spreading through the galaxy, turning anyone it touches violently aggressive. The idol unit Walküre holds it back with their songs while the Valkyrie pilots of Delta Flight fly escort. Hayate Immelmann signs on as one of those pilots and Freyja Wion joins Walküre as a singer, just as the Aerial Knights, an elite fighter team from the Windermere Kingdom, move to oppose them. This manga adapts the Macross Δ TV series.

#217

FINISHED

Macross Delta: The Diva Who Guides the Galaxy

マクロスΔ 銀河を導く歌姫

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Freyja Wion leaves her home world for Ragna to audition for Walküre, the idol unit whose songs suppress the Var Syndrome spreading through the galaxy, a condition that turns anyone it touches violently aggressive. Her path crosses with Hayate Immelmann and the rest of Delta Flight, the squadron tasked with escorting Walküre into warzones, just as the Aerial Knights of the Kingdom of Windermere step up their campaign against them. This manga is a separate retelling of the Macross Δ TV series.

#218

FINISHED

Macross Delta: White Knight of the Black Wing

マクロスΔ 黒き翼の白騎士

Action

Sci-Fi

Drama

Keith Aero Windermere, an illegitimate son of the royal house, gives up his claim to the throne when his half-brother Heinz is born and enrolls at Windermere's aerial knight academy nine years before Macross Δ opens. The kingdom's War of Independence breaks out while he is still a cadet, sending him and his friend Roid Brehm to the front, and the fighting shapes him into the pilot the war will come to call the White Knight. This manga is an official side story to the Macross Δ anime.

#219

FINISHED

Macross Δ Gaiden: Macross E

マクロスΔ外伝マクロスE

Action

Sci-Fi

Romance

In 2062, the unexplained Var Syndrome is sending creatures berserk across the galaxy, and on the colonized planet Pipre it has turned the large animals of the frozen regions violent. Chaos, the interstellar conglomerate contracted to police the planet, draws up an experiment to calm them with song. Kaito Kinjou, a rookie Chaos pilot and unabashed idol otaku, throws himself into the mission alongside Pirika Polywanov, a member of the up-and-coming idol group he already worships. Set five years before Macross Δ, it runs on the franchise's usual mix of mecha combat and idol music.

#220

FINISHED

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Heed My Call, Beast!

魔術士オーフェンはぐれ旅我が呼び声に応えよ獣

Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

Orphen was Krylancelo, a star pupil at the Tower of Fangs, until his foster sister Azalie was turned into a monster by her own failed experiment with an ancient relic and the Tower's sorcerers set out to destroy her. He walked away from the school, the name and the future it promised, and now travels as a rogue sorcerer hunting the dragon she became in the hope of changing her back. This manga adapts the first Sorcerous Stabber Orphen novel, the volume that sets him wandering.

#221

ONGOING

The Last Summoner

最后的召唤师

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Ah Jie, a young cook set on becoming the greatest ramen chef alive, accidentally summons the goddess Duola and finds himself a summoner, a calling the world believed extinct. Pulled out of his kitchen, he falls in with Hana, who summons plants, and Miaowu, who summons beasts, and the three sign on with the Guardians. Ranged against them is the rogue summoner Huanxin, and Ah Jie has to learn the rules of a craft he never wanted one fight at a time.

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#222

ONGOING

Sanrio Danshi

サンリオ男子

Shoujo

Romance

Slice of Life

Rio Oosaki transfers to a new high school and quickly falls in with a group of boys who love Sanrio characters as unabashedly as she does. One of them in particular catches her attention, and as she gets pulled deeper into the group's collections, hangouts, and character debates, she starts figuring out where friendship ends and her feelings for him begin. The manga follows the same cast as the Sanrio Boys franchise, told from Rio's point of view.

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#223

FINISHED

Cheer Boys!! Go Breakers

チア男子!! Go Breakers

Shounen

Sports

Comedy

BREAKERS is Japan's first competitive men's cheerleading squad, built at a university by former judoka Haruki Bando and his childhood friend Kazuma Hashimoto after Haruki quits judo without a new goal in sight. The roster fills out with recruits as mismatched as they are enthusiastic: hot-tempered Mizoguchi, bottomless-appetite Ton, two laid-back guys from Kansai, and Shou, the one member who already knows how to cheer. This manga adapts the original Cheer Danshi!! novel, tracking the squad's routines, rivalries, and growing pains on the way up.

#224

FINISHED

Solo Leveling

나 혼자만 레벨업

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Sung Jin-Woo is the weakest hunter in Seoul, an E-rank fighter who barely survives the monster-plagued dungeons other hunters treat as routine work. Cornered by certain death in a hidden double dungeon, he receives a strange system message granting him something no other hunter on Earth has: the ability to grow stronger with every monster he kills. Originally serialized as a Korean web novel before collection into print volumes, the story follows Jin-Woo's transformation from the field's biggest disappointment into someone the hunter associations can no longer ignore.

#225

FINISHED

My Hero Academia: School Briefs

僕のヒーローアカデミア雄英白書

Action

Shounen

Comedy

Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High classmates get the moments the main story skipped past in this six-volume collection of side stories, from a quiet stretch after the Hero Killer's capture to the run-up to the Paranormal Liberation War. Individual entries slot into specific points in the main timeline, including the Forest Training Camp, the Provisional Hero License Exam, and the Shie Hassaikai and School Festival arcs, filling in what Class 1-A was doing off-page. School Briefs reads best alongside the matching stretch of the main manga.

#226

FINISHED

Bleach: We Do Knot Always Love You

BLEACH WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU

Shounen

Romance

Supernatural

Three years after Yhwach's defeat, Rukia Kuchiki and Renji Abarai finally agree to hold the wedding their friends have been pushing them toward, with the ceremony set to follow Soul Society's Shinto-inspired traditions at the Kuchiki clan shrine. Byakuya Kuchiki quietly handles the details, from paperwork to making sure Renji's wedding kimono fits right, while Ichigo Kurosaki and the rest of the living-world cast are invited to cross over for the occasion. This epilogue novel is Bleach's most direct look at where its characters land after the manga ends.

#227

FINISHED

A Silent Voice: Special Book

映画『聲の形』スペシャルブック

Shounen

Drama

Slice of Life

Yaeko Nishimiya, single mother to deaf daughter Shoko, takes center stage in this short bonus story tied to the Koe no Katachi film. Distributed at the movie's 2016 Japan premiere, it revisits the years Yaeko spent raising Shoko and her younger sister Yuzuru largely alone, from a quiet birthday at home with her own mother, Ito, to the guarded resolve behind the strictness she shows both girls. It fills in the mother's perspective the main story never gives her.

#228

FINISHED

Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha!

ドラゴンボール外伝転生したらヤムチャだった件

Action

Shounen

Fantasy

A modern-day high schooler dies in a freak accident and wakes up inside the Dragon Ball world in the body of Yamcha, the franchise's perennial punchline. Remembering every humiliating death Yamcha ever suffered, he sets out to use his knowledge of the story to turn the joke character into Dragon Ball's strongest fighter. dragongarow LEE's parody spin-off reframes familiar faces like Goku, Vegeta, and Bulma from Yamcha's underdog point of view.

#229

FINISHED

I Am a Hero in Nagasaki

アイアムアヒーロー in NAGASAKI

Action

Horror

Seinen

Yamada, a self-described coward caught in Nagasaki's ZQN outbreak, would already be dead if archer Aya Nirei hadn't stepped in to save him. With the city overrun, the two make for Gunkanjima, the abandoned island fortress off the coast, hoping its isolation means safety. They find it already claimed: a bare-chested survivor named Kagawa stands guard at the dock, and reaching shelter means dealing with him and the group he answers to first.

#230

FINISHED

Your Name. Another Side: Earthbound

君の名は。Another Side:Earthbound

Fantasy

Drama

Romance

Four side stories circle the same months the film Your Name covers, each told by someone the movie kept at its edges. Mitsuha Miyamizu's little sister Yotsuha watches her sibling's behavior turn baffling from across the breakfast table in Itomori. Mitsuha's classmate Katsuhiko Teshigawara weighs what the shrinking mountain town still means to him. Taki Tachibana stumbles through an entire day trapped in Mitsuha's body. And Mitsuha's estranged father Toshiki looks back on how he came to Itomori in the first place, filling in corners of the story the film had no room for.

#231

FINISHED

No Game No Life: Practical War Game

ノーゲーム・ノーライフプラクティカルウォーゲーム

Fantasy

Drama

Comedy

Millennia before Tet's game of Disboard remade the world, the Elf strategist Think Nirvalen watches the Great War grind every race down at once, and starts laying plans for who will still be standing when the fighting ends. Her overworked aide, Nina Clive, is left piecing together how far Think's scheme really reaches, and whether anyone close to her survives it. This light novel volume is a prequel to the main No Game No Life story, filling in the war behind Disboard's creation.

#232

FINISHED

Life So Happy

LIFE SO HAPPY

Shoujo

Drama

Slice of Life

Twins Aoi and Akane are starting fifth grade, still living with their grandparents and their father, and still carrying the lessons they learned years ago from Shiharu, the young woman who once watched over them. This sequel follows the twins through new friends, new questions, and the small, ordinary moments that shape who they're becoming. It continues the story begun in the manga Love So Life, seen now through the twins instead of their former babysitter.

#233

FINISHED

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Nichijou wo!

この素晴らしい世界に日常を!

Fantasy

Isekai

Seinen

Kazuma Satou, Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness spend this spin-off manga on the ordinary days the main story skips: odd jobs around Axel, arguments over chores, and small domestic disasters in place of monster hunts. Several self-contained chapters hand the lead to characters who rarely get it, among them Yunyun and members of the Demon King's army. The result plays the same comedy as the original light novels at a much smaller scale, with nothing riding on the outcome.

#234

FINISHED

The Reason Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion

그녀가 공작저로 가야 했던 사정

Fantasy

Isekai

Romance

Raeliana McMillan is a side character written to die: the novel she once read as Eunha Park has her poisoned by her own fiancé, Francis Brooks. To buy time, she strikes a bargain with Duke Noah Wynknight, the story's cold-eyed male lead: silence about the missing Royal Seal in exchange for six months posing as his betrothed. As the arrangement wears on, Raeliana starts to wonder whether Noah's protection is only ever transactional.

#235

FINISHED

Doukyuusei: Gold Ring & Silver Ring

同級生 Gold Ring & Silver Ring

Romance

Slice of Life

Years after making a private vow on their graduation day, Hikaru Kusakabe and Rihito Sajou are still together, and each independently decides it's time to buy the other a ring. Told in two linked chapters, this extra continues the Doukyuusei story past its main volumes, following the pair as they shop, second-guess themselves, and try to keep the gift a surprise. Originally released as a booklet alongside the Doukyuusei film.

The Irregular at Magic High School: Summer Vacation Arc

魔法科高校の劣等生夏休み編

Fantasy

Seinen

Slice of Life

With the Nine School Competition behind them, the students of First High scatter into summer break, and Tatsuya Shiba and his sister Miyuki join Erika Chiba, Honoka Mitsui and Shizuku Kitayama at the Kitayama family's holiday villa. The rest of the break splits into parallel stories. Shun Morisaki helps a girl named Rin and ends up running from whatever her secret has attracted, Amelia is caught in a family dispute that turns violent, and Masaki Ichijou comes down with a case of lovesickness that not even his friend Kichijouji can solve.

#237

FINISHED

WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? May I Meet You, Once Again?

終末なにしてますか？もう一度だけ、会えますか？

Action

Fantasy

Drama

Fairy soldier Tiat Siba Ignareo helps hold the floating islands of Regul Aire five years after the battle that ended the first WorldEnd story, still fighting the Beasts that outlived the old world. She and squadmates Collon, Pannibal, and Lakhesh are assigned a new fourth-grade officer, Feodor Jessman, who arrives concealing ambitions of his own. This light novel continues the WorldEnd series after its original conclusion, following the soldiers left behind.

#238

FINISHED

Blue Giant Supreme

BLUE GIANT SUPREME

Drama

Seinen

Dai Miyamoto leaves Japan for Munich to keep chasing his dream of becoming the world's best jazz saxophonist, arriving without speaking German and with no band waiting for him. This direct sequel to Blue Giant follows Dai rebuilding from nothing in an unfamiliar city, hunting for musicians willing to play with him and venues willing to book him. It continues the story the original manga started, now on unfamiliar ground.

I'm Just a Villager, So What?

村人ですが何か？

Fantasy

Isekai

Adventure

Ryuuto Maclaine is reincarnated into a fantasy world of goblins and dragons, only to be handed the most unglamorous class in its game-like system: Villager. When his childhood friend Moses betrays and kills him, a hidden skill tied to that class fires once and only once, rewinding his life to an earlier point. Given that single second chance, Ryuuto sets out to climb back from the bottom with his fists and protect the people he cares about without ever swinging a sword.

#240

FINISHED

Hellper 2: Killberos

헬퍼 2 : 킬베로스

Action

Fantasy

Supernatural

Gwangnam grows up an orphan in the earthquake-ravaged ruins of Kana-shi, pulled out of the rubble and named by Jang Dae-Ho, the vice president of the Nine Snake Family gang, who raises him as a weapon for revenge. This manhwa is a prequel to the original Hellper, tracing the street rivalries and gang wars that shaped the boy and produced the crew called Killberos, long before the black-bracelet afterlife system of the first series.

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#241

ONGOING

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

魔女の旅々

Fantasy

Adventure

Slice of Life

At fourteen, Elaina passes her sorcery exam and later becomes the "Ashen Witch" after training under a distant mentor, then sets off on a three-year journey to see the world for herself. Each stop unfolds as its own short story: a magical mystery, an odd custom, a warning ignored. Through all of them Elaina stays an observer more than a participant, writing everything down in her travel diary. Later in her journey she crosses paths with investigators like Sheila, the "Night Witch," who patrols for magical wrongdoing. This is the original light novel behind the manga and anime adaptations.

#242

ONGOING

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It

理系が恋に落ちたので証明してみた。

Romance

Seinen

Comedy

Graduate researchers Ayame Himuro and Shinya Yukimura spend their days running experiments in a university lab. When Himuro suspects she's falling for Yukimura, she insists on treating it like any other hypothesis: something to test, measure, and prove with data before she'll believe it. Fellow lab members Ena Ibarada and Kosuke Inukai get pulled into the resulting parade of heart-rate monitors and control variables. The series has also been adapted into a live-action drama and a film.

#243

ONGOING

Assassin's Pride

アサシンズプライド

Thriller

Action

Fantasy

Flandore's last surviving humans shelter inside glass domes, and only its aristocrats can manifest mana, the sole defense against the monsters outside. Kufa Vampir, an agent of the guild White Night, poses as a private tutor for Melida Angel, the Angel family's teenage heir, whose complete lack of mana has marked her as a possible imposter. Kufa's actual assignment is to confirm that suspicion and act on it, but Melida's stubborn effort to prove herself begins to complicate his resolve.

#244

ONGOING

Akebi's Sailor Uniform

あけびちゃんのセーラー服

Seinen

Slice of Life

Comedy

Komichi Akebi has dreamed of wearing a sailor-style school uniform ever since her idol, singer Miki Fukumoto, wore one, so her mother, Yuwa, sews her a matching one before she starts middle school. Komichi gets into her mother's old school, Roubai Girls' Academy, expecting to wear it every day, only to find the dress code has switched to blazers. Undeterred, she throws herself into her other goal: making a hundred friends, one classmate at a time.

#245

ONGOING

Today's Menu for the Emiya Family

衛宮さんちの今日のごはん

Slice of Life

Comedy

In this Fate/stay night spin-off, the Fifth Holy Grail War has ended with nearly everyone still alive, and Shirou Emiya spends his days cooking for the friends and former rivals who now live nearby as neighbors instead of enemies. His Servant Saber, once King Arthur, learns to make osechi and huddle under the kotatsu alongside mage Rin Tohsaka and Shirou's quiet underclassman Sakura Matou. Each chapter builds around a single home-cooked dish and the person it's made for, trading the original's magical battles for ordinary meals shared at Shirou's table.

She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man

賢者の弟子を名乗る賢者

Fantasy

Isekai

Comedy

Sakimori Kagami has spent years playing the VRMMO Ark Earth Online as Danblf, a veteran sorcerer and one of the game's Nine Sages, so waking up trapped inside that same world, in Danblf's body reshaped into a young girl, is not the retirement he had planned. Determined to protect the reputation he built, Kagami passes herself off as "Mira," Danblf's supposed pupil, in a world that has quietly moved thirty years past where the game left off. This manga adapts the same light novel as the anime, following Kagami's attempt to keep the lie going long enough to figure out what actually happened.

#247

ONGOING

Beast Complex

BEAST COMPLEX

Shounen

Drama

Slice of Life

Gon, a young tiger, refuses to let classmates talk him out of his friendship with the beaver Mogu just because a predator and a prey animal 'shouldn't' be close. His is one of several one-off stories in Beast Complex, set in the same carnivore-and-herbivore society as Beastars. Elsewhere in the anthology, a journalist and a pair of coworkers running a cooking show test that same fault line from different angles. The anthology began before Beastars as a first look at this world, and each chapter stands alone while circling the same tension between instinct and social expectation.

#248

ONGOING

Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc

るろうに剣心―明治剣客浪漫譚・北海道編―

Action

Shounen

Adventure

Five years after Makoto Shishio's failed uprising, Shishio's sword resurfaces in the hands of Ashitarou, an orphan boy who ends up taking shelter at Kaoru Kamiya's dojo along with two other strays, Aran and Asahi. When the clan that raised Asahi comes looking for her, the group turns up a photograph taken in Hokkaido of Kaoru's father, Kamiya Koshijirou, long presumed dead in the Seinan War. Kenshin Himura and the Kamiya household set out north to follow the lead, continuing the story where the original Meiji Kenkaku Romantan left off.

#249

FINISHED

Osomatsu-san

おそ松さん

Comedy

Osomatsu and his five identical brothers, Karamatsu, Choromatsu, Ichimatsu, Juushimatsu, and Todomatsu Matsuno, are still living under their parents' roof decades after their original 1960s incarnation, now navigating an adult, present-day Japan far removed from the Showa-era world their manga history began in. Their mother, Matsuyo, keeps the household running around six grown men who refuse to grow up. This manga adapts the Osomatsu-san anime, itself a modern spin-off of the classic Osomatsu-kun.

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life

小林さんちのメイドラゴンカンナの日常

Fantasy

Seinen

Slice of Life

Kanna Kamui, a young dragon sent to the human world to reflect on her troublemaking back home, settles into elementary school life under the care of office worker Kobayashi and her live-in dragon maid Tooru. Kanna quickly bonds with her human classmate Riko Saikawa, and this spinoff follows the two of them through show-and-tell, playground politics, and the small discoveries of everyday school life from a dragon's point of view. Familiar faces from the main series drop in around the edges of Kanna's world.

Top 250

Top 250

Fire Punch

Plus-Sized Elf

Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

Witch Hat Atelier

Beastars

To Your Eternity

The Horizon

Undead Girl Murder Farce

Your Name.

Goblin Slayer

Killing Stalking

I Sold My Life for Ten Thousand Yen per Year

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

One Room of Happiness

Trickster

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs

World's End Harem

The Faraway Paladin

Tokidoki

Gal Gohan

Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudoubu

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

Reincarnated as a Sword

Pumpkin Night

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

Moriarty the Patriot

Sasaki and Miyano

City

your name.

The Elder Sister-Like One

Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception

Mazemonogatari

Origin

Reincarnated as a Sword

Wise Man's Grandchild

Black Torch

Senryu Girl

Welcome to Ethics Class

A Silent Voice: The Movie Novelization

Sword Art Online: Project Alicization

Yarichin Bitch Club

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Akatsuki

To Me, The One Who Loved You

Angels of Death

Pretty Boy Detective Club

The Saga of Tanya the Evil

Oresuki: Are You the Only One Who Loves Me?

Deaimon

Girlish Number

Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu

Kagerou Daze Official Anthology Comic -FUTURE-

Delusion Telepathy

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

She and Her Cat

Talentless Nana

The Promised Neverland

Isekai Cheat Magician

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

I'm Standing on a Million Lives

Record of Grancrest War

Black Summoner

Re:Zero Prequel Tales

Komi Can't Communicate

High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World!

Tales of Berseria

Knight's & Magic

Restaurant to Another World

The Dungeon of Black Company

Little Witch Academia

Persona 5

Parallel World Pharmacy

Chastity Reverse World

Kemono Jihen

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas