Chainsaw Man
チェンソーマン
Denji is a teenager drowning in his dead father's debt, scraping by as a devil hunter alongside Pochita, a small chainsaw devil he treats as a pet. When the people he works for betray and kill him, Pochita merges with his body and revives him as a hybrid who can pull a cord in his chest to turn his head and arms into roaring chainsaw blades. Recruited into the government's Public Safety devil-hunting division under Makima, Denji is paired with the disciplined Aki Hayakawa and the reckless fiend Power. Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga keeps Denji's wants brutally simple even as the work around him turns lethal.
Witch Hat Atelier
とんがり帽子のアトリエ
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 — and an accident with a magic book she once received turns her own 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.
Berserk
ベルセルク
Guts, a lone mercenary who fights with an enormous slab of a sword, wanders a war-torn medieval world hunting demonic creatures while marked by a brand that draws them to him each night. The manga moves between his solitary present and the years he spent as a soldier in the Band of the Hawk, the mercenary company led by the charismatic Griffith whose ambition reshaped Guts's life. Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy alternates brutal combat with the slow unraveling of how Guts came to walk alone.
Boruto: Two Blue Vortex
BORUTO-ボルト-: Two Blue Vortex
Three years after Naruto Uzumaki's disappearance and a falsification of memories that turns the Hidden Leaf Village against him, Boruto Uzumaki operates as a fugitive shinobi. Branded a criminal by his own home, he fights from the shadows against Code, the surviving leader of the Kara organization, and a new threat in the form of Shinju clones, while working to recover what was lost.
Ichi the Witch
魔男のイチ
Ichi is a reclusive hunter on Druid Mountain with a predator's instinct — anything that radiates bloodlust draws him like a target. When that instinct pulls him into a battle between the great Witch Desscaras and the King Majik Uroro, he kills Uroro against all odds, absorbing its destructive magic and becoming the first male Witch in a world where only women were thought capable of holding a Witch's power.
Centuria
Centuria
Julian has known only cruelty — sold by his own mother to a blacksmith, he flees as a stowaway on a slave ship, where the pregnant Mira becomes the first person to show him genuine kindness. When the ship's indebted captain slaughters the hundred slaves aboard, an eldritch sea entity strikes a bargain: in exchange for their blood, Julian receives the combined strength of all one hundred dead. Now free and bound by the weight of a hundred lives, he sets out to raise Mira's newborn daughter Diana.
Solo Leveling: Ragnarok
나 혼자만 레벨업: 라그나로크
Twenty-one years after Sung Jin-woo ended the shadow war, his son Sung Suho has grown up with his powers sealed and no memory of who his father really was. When the Itarim — gods from other universes seeking to fill the void left by the Absolute Being — turn their attention to Earth, Jin-woo leaves to fight them and sends the Shadow Ant King Beru to find Suho and awaken the abilities locked inside him.
The Academy's Genius Swordsman
아카데미의 천재칼잡이
Ronan is the only soldier left standing after the imperial army's defeat at the hands of the giants — a battle that took every man around him. His dying commander, Grand Marshal Adeshan, uses her final time-slip to send him back to the past with one directive: enroll at Phileon Academy, the empire's most prestigious military school, and grow strong enough that the war doesn't end the same way twice.
The Stellar Swordmaster
별을 품은 소드마스터
Vlad is a street orphan working at a brothel in Schoarra, a trading city locals call the Lighthouse of the North, when a disgraced knight tears the place apart and sets him on the path of the blade. A bolt of black lightning unlocks a voice inside his sword, and Vlad pledges himself to the powerful House Vayezid, training as a swordsman while the sentient weapon begins to reveal the scope of the power he may have inherited.
Hope You're Happy, Lemon
クソ女に幸あれ
Sunao Akiyoshi never recovered from being cheated on by his middle school girlfriend Lemon Nishikawa, but he has finally developed feelings for Natsumi Kogahara in his college film club. Then Lemon reappears. The next morning, Sunao wakes up inside Lemon's body — and she finds herself inside his — caught in an involuntary body-swap that forces both of them back into each other's daily lives.
The 100th Regression of the Max-Level Player
만렙 플레이어의 100번째 회귀
Ryu Min has survived ninety-nine deadly regressions through a forced supernatural death game targeting everyone aged fifteen to twenty-nine, each time returning to the start with all memories intact after death. Failed on the final round by a rule requiring four surviving allies, he enters his hundredth regression as the max-level player — alias Black Scythe — with complete foreknowledge of every threat and every betrayal, determined this time to build the party that finishes the game.
Beat & Motion
BEAT&MOTION
Tatsuhiko Hirayama abandoned his childhood animation dream after relentless mockery from classmates, and when his band later collapsed, he swore off passion entirely. One night he runs into Nico Kashiwagi — the indie singer he once idolized in high school — who overhears him belittling a friend's ambitions and confronts him directly on the spot. The encounter cracks through his cynicism: Tatsuhiko starts animating again, uploads a short clip that goes viral, and Nico contacts him to collaborate on her first music video.
The Reborn Young Lord Is an Assassin
회귀한 공작가의 막내도련님은 암살자
Cyan Vert, the empire's greatest assassin and illegitimate son of a Duke, is betrayed and killed by the brother he spent his life protecting. He wakes in the body of his younger self, long before the kills and the loyalty that got him murdered. Armed with the memory of a lifetime of lethal service, Cyan refuses to live in anyone's shadow again — least of all the righteous brother who put a blade in his throat.
Surviving the Game as a Barbarian
게임 속 바바리안으로 살아남기
Hansu Lee spent nine years mastering every corner of the RPG Dungeon and Stone — and the moment he reaches the final boss gate, a system message welcomes him to the tutorial: he has been transported into the body of Bjorn Yandel, a low-tier barbarian at the bottom of the game's brutal hierarchy. Completely expendable, required to raid deadly labyrinths for tax money, Hansu survives by concealing the analytical mind of a veteran gamer behind Bjorn's expected brutishness.
Rainbow Days
虹色デイズ
Natsuki Hashiba is a hopeless romantic who falls hard for Anna Kobayakawa after she hands him tissues while he's crying over a breakup one Christmas Eve. Back at school, his three closest friends pile in to help and heckle: the self-absorbed flirt Tomoya Matsunaga, the mild-looking Keiichi Katakura with a mean streak, and the anime-obsessed Tsuyoshi Naoe. The four club-less boys spend their days trading jabs and chasing crushes as Natsuki works up the nerve to get closer to Anna.
Maid-sama!
会長はメイド様!
Misaki Ayuzawa rules Seika High as its first female student council president, cracking down on its rowdy boys at a school only recently turned co-ed. To support her mother and sister, she secretly works shifts at the Maid Latte café—a secret that popular, unflappable Takumi Usui discovers and quietly keeps. Instead of exposing her, Usui starts turning up at the café and shadowing her, leaving Misaki to guard her double life while figuring out what he actually wants.
Solo Leveling
나 혼자만 레벨업
Sung Jinwoo is the weakest of the hunters who enter monster-filled gates that have opened across a world where ordinary people awaken combat powers. After a low-rank dungeon turns into a death trap that nearly kills his whole party, he wakes attached to a System only he can see, one that issues quests and lets him grow stronger with every kill instead of staying stuck at his fixed rank. This manhwa, adapted from Chugong's Korean web novel, follows Jinwoo as he hunts alone and climbs from the bottom of the hunter ladder.
Attack on Titan
進撃の巨人
Eren Yeager grows up inside a ring of towering walls that shield the last of humanity from the Titans, giant humanoids that devour people without apparent reason. Alongside his adoptive sister Mikasa Ackerman and his bookish friend Armin Arlert, he dreams of the world beyond the walls until a Colossal Titan tall enough to peer over the outermost wall kicks it open and lets the creatures pour in. The attack costs Eren his home and his mother, and he enlists in the military's Survey Corps vowing to wipe the Titans out. Hajime Isayama's manga opens on the day that peace ends.
The Extra's Academy Survival Guide
아카데미에서 살아남기
A man transmigrates into Ed Rothstaylor — a disowned minor villain from the fantasy game 'Silvenia's Failed Swordmaster' who has been expelled from the dormitory and cut off from his family's money. To survive at Sylvania Academy, Ed must earn a scholarship through his own efforts while avoiding the main cast and the narrative threads he knows will lead to his downfall. He has no interest in being a hero — he just wants to graduate.
Killing Stalking
킬링 스토킹
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. Koogi wrote and drew the Korean manhwa, originally published on Lezhin Comics.
Goodnight Punpun
おやすみプンプン
Punpun Onodera is an ordinary Japanese boy drawn as a simple cartoon bird while everyone around him appears fully human. The story follows him from elementary school onward, beginning with a crush on a new transfer student named Aiko Tanaka and the unstable home he grows up in between a distant mother and an uncle who steps in to raise him. Inio Asano's manga tracks Punpun's quiet inner life across the years as childhood drifts toward a harder adolescence, told in a grounded slice-of-life register set against everyday family strain.
One-Punch Man
ワンパンマン
Saitama is a bald, blank-faced hero who trained so relentlessly that he can end any fight with a single punch, which has left him bored by the lack of an opponent who can survive him. Living as an unknown amateur in a city plagued by monsters, he picks up a cyborg disciple named Genos and eventually registers with the official Hero Association, where his power goes unrecognized and he lands at the bottom rank. One-Punch Man, drawn by Yusuke Murata from ONE's original webcomic, follows Saitama's deadpan search for a real challenge among the world's flashier heroes.
Fly Me to the Moon
トニカクカワイイ
Nasa Yuzaki, a top-of-his-class teenager, is struck by a truck on a snowy night after stopping to stare at a girl across the road, and the same girl pulls him to safety. When he chases after her to confess, she agrees to date him on one condition: that they marry first. She vanishes before he can learn more, only to reappear at his door on his eighteenth birthday with a marriage registration in hand. Her name is Tsukasa, and the story follows the two newlyweds building an ordinary married life around a wife whose past Nasa knows almost nothing about.
Mashle: Magic and Muscles
マッシュル-MASHLE-
In a society where status is decided entirely by magical talent, Mash Burnedead is born with none. Raised in secret by his adoptive father Regro, he survives by training his body to absurd extremes instead. When the authorities discover him, his only path to a quiet life is to be admitted to Easton Magic Academy and earn the title of Divine Visionary, granted to its most exceptional students. Mash enrolls among classmates who command real spells and bluffs his way through magical trials using pure brute strength.
xxxHOLiC
×××HOLiC
Kimihiro Watanuki is a high schooler cursed with the ability to see spirits, which swarm toward him and try to devour him wherever he goes. Fleeing one such attack, he stumbles into a shop that grants wishes, run by Yuuko Ichihara, a witch who offers to free him of his sight for a price of equal value. The price is his labor: Watanuki becomes Yuuko's part-time cook and housekeeper, and between chores she sends him on errands into the supernatural, each request from her clients carrying its own bargain and cost.
Tomodachi Game
トモダチゲーム
Yuichi Katagiri values his four closest friends above money, even though he has grown up with almost none of it, and he saves carefully so the group can take their school trip together. When the class's pooled trip funds are stolen, Yuichi and his friends are abducted and forced into the Tomodachi Game, a series of rigged contests where winning money means proving you trust your friends and losing it means someone among them is lying. Each round is designed to set the friends against one another, and Yuichi has to work out who staked them into the game and which of his companions can still be believed.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
無職転生 ～異世界行ったら本気だす～
After a wasted, reclusive life ends under the wheels of a truck, a 34-year-old shut-in wakes up as a newborn in a world of swords and sorcery, keeping every memory of who he was. Reborn as Rudeus Greyrat, he resolves to live this second chance without regret and proves a natural at magic. He trains under the wandering mage Roxy Migurdia, befriends the elf girl Sylphiette, and later tutors the hot-tempered young noble Eris Boreas Greyrat.
Boy's Abyss
少年のアビス
Reiji Kurose is a high schooler stuck in a dead-end rural town, tied down by a nursing mother, a shut-in brother, an ailing grandmother, and a future he can't see leaving. His routine cracks when he meets Nagi Aoe, an idol from the group Acrylic now working at a local convenience store, who tells him about a spot called the Lover's Abyss where couples go to die. As his ties to childhood friend Sakuko Akiyama and others tighten around him, Reiji is drawn deeper into a town he was sure he'd never escape.
Delicious in Dungeon
ダンジョン飯
When a red dragon devours his sister Falin during a failed dungeon raid, knight Laios Touden resolves to descend again and reach her before she is fully digested. His party has lost its money and supplies, so the only way to keep moving is to hunt and cook the dungeon's monsters for every meal. The dwarf Senshi, who has lived off dungeon cuisine for years, joins Laios alongside the elf mage Marcille and the halfling Chilchuck. Each floor becomes both a fight and a recipe as the group eats its way toward the dragon.
Our Happy Time
私たちの幸せな時間
Juri Mutou is the daughter of a once-celebrated pianist and carries the scars of a trauma that has left her estranged from her mother and surviving past suicide attempts. Her aunt Monica, a nun, brings her along on visits to a prison, where she meets Yuu, a man on death row for murder who has tried to take his own life behind bars. Across their meetings, the two strangers, each at odds with the world, slowly find reason to keep living. This manga adapts Korean author Gong Ji-young's novel.
Noragami: Stray God
ノラガミ
Yato is a minor god with no shrine and no worshippers, scraping by on five-yen jobs as he dreams of building a name for himself. When high schooler Hiyori Iki shoves him out of the path of a bus, she is hit instead, and her soul starts slipping loose from her body. To set things right, Yato takes on a new sacred weapon in the form of Yukine, a sharp-tongued young spirit, and the three become tangled in the quiet, dangerous business of gods and the dead.
Death Note Short Stories
DEATH NOTE短編集
This collection gathers the Death Note one-shots and side stories that Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata produced outside the main series. It includes the C-Kira chapter, in which a new Death Note user starts killing the elderly and draws the attention of Near, and the a-Kira chapter, where a found notebook becomes the center of a global auction. Also collected are early-life vignettes of L, the Taro Kagami pilot chapter, and a run of four-panel gag strips.
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity
薫る花は凛と咲く
Rintaro Tsumugi attends Chidori High, a school with a delinquent reputation, and his stern face keeps most people at a distance even though he is kind and helps at his family's cake shop. When he serves Kaoruko Waguri, a small, polite customer who treats him warmly, he later steps in to protect her from harassment and learns she attends the elite all-girls Kikyo Academy next door. The two schools are supposed to despise each other, but Rintaro and Kaoruko keep seeking each other out as their friendship grows.
Deep Love: The Story of Ayu
Deep Love〜アユの物語〜
Ayu is a Tokyo high schooler who sells herself through enjo kosai, convinced that money is all that matters in a world she sees as filthy and hypocritical. Her bleak outlook begins to crack when she meets a kind old woman who treats her with unexpected warmth, and when she takes in Pao, a badly abused dog that trails after her. Adapted from Yoshi's pioneering cell-phone novel, the manga follows Ayu as these encounters force her to reconsider the life she has resigned herself to.
Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare
しまなみ誰そ彼
Tasuku Kaname, a closeted high schooler in the seaside town of Onomichi, is at his lowest after classmates find gay images on his phone and out him. On the verge of giving up, he spots a woman seem to leap from a window of an old building, then finds her unharmed inside a drop-in lounge she runs, known only as Someone-san. There he meets queer people of different ages and identities for the first time, and the lounge becomes the place where Tasuku begins to face who he is.
Parasyte
寄生獣
High schooler Shinichi Izumi wakes one night as a worm-like alien tries to burrow into his brain through his ear. He blocks it, and the creature instead takes over his right hand, becoming a separate intelligence he names Migi. Other parasites have already replaced human hosts entirely and hunt people for food, leaving Shinichi and Migi an uneasy pair who must cover for each other to survive. As Migi learns about humanity and Shinichi confronts what is now living in his body, the two work out how to coexist while staying hidden from their own kind.
20th Century Boys
20世紀少年
Kenji Endo manages a convenience store and raises his missing sister's baby, a quiet life far from the hero he once dreamed of becoming as a boy. When a childhood friend dies and a cult led by a masked man called 'Friend' begins spreading, Kenji recognizes its symbol: the same mark he and his friends invented in their secret hideout in 1969. The Book of Prophecy they wrote as children, full of made-up disasters, starts coming true, and Kenji must gather his old gang to stop a plan they may have set in motion themselves.
The Way of the Househusband
極主夫道
Tatsu, a feared ex-yakuza once nicknamed "the Immortal Dragon," has traded the underworld for an apron, keeping house for his career-driven wife Miku. Each chapter pits his menacing stare and gangster reflexes against thoroughly ordinary chores — bargain hunting, scrubbing floors, wrangling a Roomba — and the former associates and rivals who keep mistaking his domestic errands for criminal business. The comedy runs on the gap between Tatsu's terrifying reputation and his devotion to grocery sales.
Nana
NANA
Two women named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo and end up sharing an apartment. Nana Osaki is a sharp-edged punk vocalist chasing a record deal with her band, Black Stones, after a hard breakup with its former bassist. Nana Komatsu, nicknamed Hachi, follows a boyfriend to the city and falls for people fast and often. From their cramped shared flat, the two build a friendship that runs alongside Osaki's ambitions and the rival band Trapnest.
One Piece
ONE PIECE
Monkey D. Luffy is a boy who ate a Devil Fruit that turned his body to rubber and set him on a single goal: to find the legendary treasure called One Piece and become King of the Pirates. Sailing out from the East Blue, he gathers a crew one member at a time, starting with the swordsman Roronoa Zoro, and aims his small ship toward the Grand Line where the treasure is said to wait. Eiichiro Oda's manga follows the Straw Hat Pirates as their numbers and their reputation grow across a world of islands and rival crews.
Tokyo Ghoul
東京喰種トーキョーグール
Ken Kaneki is a quiet college student and bookworm whose first date with a woman named Rize ends with her revealing herself as a ghoul, one of the flesh-eating predators who pass for human in an alternate Tokyo. The attack leaves him gravely wounded, and an emergency transplant of Rize's organs turns him into a half-ghoul caught between two species. Taken in by the staff of the coffee shop Anteiku, Kaneki has to learn to control a hunger he never asked for while the ghoul investigators of the CCG hunt his kind. Sui Ishida's manga opens on his slow, reluctant entry into the ghoul world.
Jujutsu Kaisen
呪術廻戦
Yuji Itadori is a high-schooler with freakish physical strength who swallows a cursed finger belonging to Ryomen Sukuna to save his friends from the Curses it attracts, making his own body the prison for the long-dead sorcerer's spirit. Sentenced to eventual execution, he is granted a stay by the powerful sorcerer Satoru Gojo and enrolled at Tokyo Jujutsu High to consume the rest of Sukuna's scattered fingers before he is put to death. Gege Akutami's manga drops Yuji into a hidden world where sorcerers fight the Curses born from human negativity.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
鬼滅の刃
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.
My Hero Academia
僕のヒーローアカデミア
In a world where most people are born with superpowers called Quirks, Izuku Midoriya is one of the few without one, yet he still dreams of becoming a hero. After the top hero All Might recognizes his courage, he passes on his own power, One For All, to Izuku and points him toward U.A. High School. There Izuku trains alongside classmates like Katsuki Bakugo to master a strength his body can barely contain.
Vagabond
Vagabond
In the aftermath of the Battle of Sekigahara, the headstrong Shinmen Takezo and his friend Matahachi Hon'iden survive the slaughter and return home as outlaws. Hunted for his violence, Takezo is captured by the monk Takuan Soho and Matahachi's betrothed, Otsu, who set him on a new path. Renamed Musashi Miyamoto after his village, he sets out across feudal Japan to test himself against the land's strongest swordsmen.
Naruto
Naruto
Naruto Uzumaki is a loud, attention-starved orphan in the Hidden Leaf Village, shunned because the Nine-Tailed Fox that once attacked the village is sealed inside him. Despite his clumsy ninja skills, he sets his sights on becoming Hokage, the village's leader. Assigned to Team 7 under the instructor Kakashi alongside the rival prodigy Sasuke Uchiha and his crush Sakura Haruno, Naruto begins the missions that will test how far his stubbornness can take him.
Death Note
Death Note
Light Yagami, a brilliant and bored high school student, finds a black notebook dropped by the shinigami Ryuk: anyone whose name is written in it dies. Convinced he can purge the world of criminals and rule it as a god, Light begins a secret killing spree. His campaign draws out a reclusive detective known only as L, who matches wits with him while neither knows the other's true identity.
Bleach
Bleach
Ichigo Kurosaki, a teenager who can see ghosts, meets Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper who hunts the corrupted spirits called Hollows. When a Hollow attacks his family and wounds Rukia, she transfers her powers to Ichigo so he can fight in her place. Now a substitute Soul Reaper, he takes on the duty of guiding lost souls and battling Hollows while keeping his double life hidden from those around him.
Horimiya
ホリミヤ
Kyoko Hori is a popular, put-together student who spends her afternoons running the household and caring for her younger brother, hiding her plain home life from classmates. Izumi Miyamura is a quiet, withdrawn boy at school whose hidden piercings and tattoos make him unrecognizable outside it. When the two run into each other away from school and discover each other's secret sides, an easy friendship grows between them.
Vinland Saga
Vinland Saga
Thorfinn grows up in a quiet Icelandic village as the son of Thors, a renowned warrior who has forsworn battle. When a mercenary captain named Askeladd kills his father, Thorfinn attaches himself to the same band, serving as one of its fighters only to earn the right to challenge Askeladd to a duel. Among raiding Vikings in the wars of eleventh-century Europe, he lives for the day he can take his revenge.
The Promised Neverland
約束のネバーランド
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.
Spy x Family
SPY×FAMILY
The master spy codenamed Twilight is ordered to build a fake family to get close to a reclusive politician, so he adopts a daughter, Anya, and marries a city hall clerk, Yor, under the cover identity Loid Forger. What he does not know is that Anya is a telepath who can read his thoughts, and Yor is a contract assassin. Each hides their real work from the others while playing house and trying to pass as ordinary.
Tokyo Ghoul:re
東京喰種トーキョーグール:re
Set two years after the original series, Tokyo Ghoul:re follows Haise Sasaki, a young investigator with no memory of his past who leads the Quinx Squad for the CCG, the agency that hunts ghouls. Like Haise, the Quinx members have been surgically given ghoul organs so they can wield kagune in combat while living as humans. As they pursue ghouls across Tokyo, Haise struggles to keep his own ghoul half in check while fragments of a forgotten identity press against the life he now knows.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part7 スティール・ボール・ラン
In 1890s America, a transcontinental horse race called the Steel Ball Run offers a fortune to whoever crosses from coast to coast first. Johnny Joestar, a paralyzed former jockey, enters after watching Gyro Zeppeli use spinning steel balls to make his legs twitch for the first time in years. Riding alongside the racers, Johnny chases the secret of Gyro's Spin while the contest hides a deeper purpose tied to relics scattered across the route and the ambitions of President Funny Valentine.
Hunter x Hunter
HUNTER×HUNTER
Gon Freecss grew up believing his father was dead, until he learns that Ging is alive and one of the world's elite Hunters. To find him, Gon sets out to pass the brutal Hunter Exam and earn the same license. Along the way he falls in with Killua, a boy from a family of assassins; Kurapika, the last of a clan wiped out by the Phantom Troupe; and Leorio, who needs the license to fund his medical studies, each chasing the rank for reasons of their own.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
かぐや様は告らせたい～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～
At the elite Shuchiin Academy, vice-president Kaguya Shinomiya and president Miyuki Shirogane sit at the top of the student council and have quietly fallen for each other. Too proud to confess and risk looking like the weaker party, each treats romance as a battle of wits, scheming to trick the other into admitting their feelings first. Their daily standoffs play out around the council room alongside the bubbly Chika Fujiwara and the deadpan treasurer Yu Ishigami, who keep stumbling into the crossfire.
Monster
MONSTER
Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a gifted Japanese neurosurgeon building a career in 1980s Germany when he defies hospital politics to operate on a critically wounded boy instead of the town's mayor. The boy, Johan Liebert, survives. Years later, a string of murders points back to Johan, now grown into a calculating killer, and Tenma is framed for the deaths. Stripped of his position and hunted by police, Tenma sets out across Germany to find the man whose life he once saved and stop what he has become.
Tokyo Revengers
東京卍リベンジャーズ
Takemichi Hanagaki, a 26-year-old going nowhere, learns that his middle-school girlfriend Hinata Tachibana has been killed by the Tokyo Manji Gang. Shoved in front of a train, he wakes twelve years in the past as his teenage self, and discovers that shaking hands with Hinata's brother Naoto lets him jump between past and present. To save her, Takemichi works his way into the Tokyo Manji Gang to change the events that set its violent future in motion.
Blue Lock
ブルーロック
After Japan's national team flames out of the World Cup, the football association hands its future to Jinpachi Ego, a coach who believes the country lacks one thing: a striker ruthless enough to win alone. His answer is Blue Lock, a walled facility that locks in three hundred of the nation's best high-school strikers and pits them against each other, cutting anyone who loses. Yoichi Isagi, a forward Ego picked himself, enters knowing that only the last striker standing earns a place on the national team.
Deadman Wonderland
デッドマン・ワンダーランド
Middle schooler Ganta Igarashi survives a quake that sank much of Tokyo, until a figure in blood-red armor he comes to call the Red Man slaughters his whole class and lodges a red crystal in his chest. Convicted of the killings he did not commit, Ganta is sent to Deadman Wonderland, a private prison run as a tourist theme park where inmates perform in deadly games. A collar feeds him poison he must keep at bay with candy earned inside, and a strange white-haired girl named Shiro attaches herself to him as he swears to find the Red Man.
Tower of God
신의 탑
Bam has spent his whole life shut away beneath an immense Tower, with only a girl named Rachel for company. When Rachel slips through the Tower's door and climbs without him, Bam forces it open himself and becomes an Irregular, someone who enters uninvited by its guardians. On the floors above, Headon sets the first of countless tests, and Bam falls in with fellow climbers Khun and Rak as he chases Rachel upward through a structure where each floor demands everything to ascend.
Nisekoi: False Love
ニセコイ
Raku Ichijo, son of a yakuza boss, keeps a locket tied to a childhood promise with a girl he can barely remember. After a rough first encounter with Chitoge Kirisaki, the daughter of a rival gang's leader, the two are ordered to fake a relationship so their families won't go to war. Raku has to play the doting boyfriend to a girl he can't stand, all while quietly pining for his classmate Kosaki Onodera and wondering which of them holds the key to his locket.
Masamune-kun's Revenge
政宗くんのリベンジ
Bullied as a chubby kid and nicknamed Pig's Foot by the wealthy Aki Adagaki, Masamune Makabe spends years dieting and training into a handsome, vain teenager. Transferring into Aki's school, where she's known as the Cruel Princess for shooting down every boy who confesses, he hides his old identity and plots to make her fall for him so he can reject her in turn. Her servant Yoshino Koiwai, who seems to recognize his nickname, becomes his uneasy ally.
Blue Spring Ride
アオハライド
In junior high, Futaba Yoshioka liked a quiet boy named Kou Tanaka until he moved away without a word. Years later she meets him again in high school, now going by Kou Mabuchi and far colder than the boy she remembered. As Futaba reinvents herself, volunteers as class representative, and gathers friends like Yuri Makita and Shuko Murao around her, she finds herself drawn back to Kou and to the grief he is carrying beneath his distant manner.
Black Clover
ブラッククローバー
Asta, an orphan born without a drop of magic in a world where it defines everyone's worth, vows to become the Wizard King anyway. His foster brother Yuno was born with rare talent, and the two grow up in the village of Hage as rivals chasing the same title. When Asta finally receives a grimoire, it is a rare five-leaf clover housing an anti-magic devil, and he joins the Clover Kingdom's roughest squad of Magic Knights, the Black Bulls.
Pandora Hearts
パンドラハーツ
Oz Vessalius, heir to a noble house, is cast into the Abyss during his coming-of-age ceremony, condemned for a sin he does not understand. In that otherworldly prison he strikes a contract with Alice, a Chain known as the Bloody Black Rabbit, and escapes back to the surface. Taken in by the secret organization Pandora alongside Break and Sharon, Oz joins their investigation into the Abyss and the Tragedy of Sablier as he searches for the truth behind his sentence.
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
グレート・ティーチャー・オニヅカ
Eikichi Onizuka is a twenty-two-year-old former biker gang member who decides to become a teacher, partly for the wrong reasons. He lands a job at the private Holy Forest Academy and is handed a homeroom class notorious for breaking every teacher before him. Using street smarts, brute nerve, and unorthodox stunts rather than textbooks, Onizuka sets out to win over the students who are determined to drive him off, aiming to become the greatest teacher Japan has ever seen.
The Seven Deadly Sins
七つの大罪
In a Britannia ruled by Holy Knights who have seized power, Princess Elizabeth flees in search of the Seven Deadly Sins, a band of knights branded traitors and scattered across the land years earlier. Her search leads her to a remote tavern run by Meliodas, the Sin of Wrath, who carries a broken sword and a talking pig named Hawk. Meliodas takes up Elizabeth's cause and sets out to gather the rest of the Sins and challenge the Holy Knights for control of the kingdom.
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma
食戟のソーマ
Soma Yukihira grew up cooking at his father Joichiro's family diner and dreams of taking it over. When Joichiro closes the shop to travel and enrolls him at the elite Totsuki Culinary Academy, Soma lands among Japan's most gifted teenage chefs, where students settle disputes through shokugeki — high-stakes cooking duels with expulsion often on the line. Alongside dorm-mate Megumi Tadokoro, he sets out to climb a school that fails the vast majority of its students.
Made in Abyss
Made in Abyss
In the town of Orth, a vast pit called the Abyss plunges into the earth, and the Cave Raiders who descend it recover relics from its depths. Twelve-year-old orphan Riko dreams of following her mother Lyza, a legendary White Whistle who vanished below. When she discovers Reg, a boy with a robotic body and no memory, in the upper layers, the two resolve to descend together toward the bottom — knowing the Abyss inflicts a worsening curse on anyone who tries to climb back up.
The Flowers of Evil
惡の華
Takao Kasuga is a bookish middle-schooler in a dull Gunma town whose prized possession is Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. One afternoon he impulsively steals the gym clothes of Nanako Saeki, the classmate he idolizes — and Sawa Nakamura, a sullen girl who saw everything, blackmails him into a binding contract rather than expose him. Bound to her whims, Kasuga finds his quiet life pulled apart between the girl he worships and the one who holds his secret.
The Quintessential Quintuplets
五等分の花嫁
Futaro Uesugi is a top-ranked but friendless high-schooler whose family is buried in debt. He takes a lucrative tutoring job only to find his five students are the Nakano quintuplets — Ichika, Nino, Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki — identical sisters who are all failing and most of whom want nothing to do with a tutor. To keep the job and his pay, Futaro has to win over five very different girls one at a time and somehow drag them to graduation.
BLAME!
BLAME!
Killy is a near-silent wanderer crossing the City, a vast, ever-expanding megastructure of dead corridors and hostile machines that has swallowed much of the solar system. He carries a Gravitational Beam Emitter powerful enough to bore through entire levels, and he is searching for a human still carrying the Net Terminal Gene — the lost genetic key to the Netsphere that controls the structure. Along the way he allies with Cibo, a scientist whose work may hold a path forward.
Yotsuba&!
よつばと！
Yotsuba Koiwai is a bright, green-haired five-year-old who moves to a new town with her easygoing adoptive father. Knowing almost nothing about ordinary life, she meets everything — air conditioners, doorbells, cicadas, a rope swing — with wide-eyed wonder. The three Ayase sisters next door, especially good-natured Fuka, fold her into the neighborhood as each self-contained chapter follows Yotsuba discovering some small piece of the everyday world for the first time.
D.Gray-man
D.Gray-man
In an alternate 19th century, Allen Walker carries a cursed left arm that channels Innocence, a substance forged to destroy demons called Akuma. After his foster father Mana dies and the Millennium Earl tricks him into a grief he can never undo, Allen joins the Black Order, a religious body of Exorcists who wield Innocence against the Earl's plan to wipe out humanity. With his arm able to take weapon forms, Allen sets out to free the human souls trapped inside every Akuma.
Black Butler
黒執事
Ciel Phantomhive, the boy Earl who serves as the Queen's Watchdog over Victorian London's underworld, is bound to Sebastian Michaelis, a demon posing as his flawless butler. The pact is simple: Sebastian solves the cases and protects the Phantomhive name, and when Ciel's revenge against those who murdered his family is complete, the demon may claim his soul. Between manor duties and royal errands, Ciel hunts the figures behind the night that left him an orphan.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part8 ジョジョリオン
After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the town of Morioh is scarred by strange fault lines locals call the Wall Eyes. Near them, university student Yasuho Hirose digs an amnesiac young man out of the ground, and the two set out to recover his identity. Taken in by the eccentric Higashikata family and named Josuke, he wields the Stand Soft & Wet and begins untangling who he was. This eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure returns the saga to a reimagined Morioh.
orange
orange
Naho Takamiya, a second-year student in Matsumoto, opens a letter that claims to come from herself ten years in the future. It asks her to watch over Kakeru Naruse, a transfer student from Tokyo joining her class, and to change the choices that became her deepest regrets. As Naho and her friends Suwa, Azusa, Takako and Hagita welcome Kakeru, she has to weigh each prediction in the letter against the ordinary days unfolding around her.
Kuroko's Basketball
黒子のバスケ
Teiko Junior High's basketball team produced five prodigies famed as the Generation of Miracles, but almost no one remembers the quiet sixth member who made them work. That player, Tetsuya Kuroko, enrolls at the upstart Seirin High and teams up with Taiga Kagami, a powerhouse raised in the United States. Nearly invisible on the court, Kuroko uses misdirection and passing to set Kagami up, and the pair aim Seirin straight at the former teammates now scattered across rival schools.
Blue Exorcist
青の祓魔師
Rin Okumura grows up an ordinary, hot-tempered teen until he learns he is the son of Satan and that blue flames answer to his blood. After his guardian, the priest Shiro Fujimoto, dies confronting that heritage, Rin draws the demon-slaying sword Kurikara and resolves to become an exorcist strong enough to defeat his own father. He enrolls at True Cross Academy, where his composed twin Yukio already teaches, and trains beside other apprentices while hiding what he really is.
Land of the Lustrous
宝石の国
In a far future where the Earth has been ground down to a single shore, twenty-eight immortal gem-people defend themselves against the Lunarians, beings who descend from the Moon to harvest their bodies for ornament. Phosphophyllite, the youngest and most brittle, is too soft to fight, so their teacher Kongo assigns Phos to compile a natural-history encyclopedia. The task pushes Phos toward the reclusive Cinnabar and the first real steps out of uselessness.
Homunculus
ホムンクルス
Susumu Nakoshi, a thirty-four-year-old who has walked away from his life to live in his car between a homeless park and a luxury hotel, agrees to let medical student Manabu Ito drill a hole in his skull. After the trepanation, Nakoshi's left eye starts showing him a warped figure inside each person he meets—what Ito calls their homunculus. Drawn into the strangers behind these visions, Nakoshi is forced back toward the past he was hiding from.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
葬送のフリーレン
Frieren, an elf mage who once helped Hero Himmel and his party slay the Demon King, lives on for centuries while her human companions age and pass away. After Himmel's death forces her to confront how little she understood the friends she outlived, she sets out on a slow journey across the land. Along the way she takes in Fern, an orphan girl Heiter raised, and later Stark, a young warrior trained by Eisen, teaching them magic as she goes.
Goodbye, Eri
さよなら絵梨
Yuta Ito gets a smartphone for his birthday, and his terminally ill mother asks him to film her daily life and turn it into a movie before she dies. When he screens the finished film at school, his classmates mock his ending, and a devastated Yuta heads to the hospital roof. There a girl named Eri stops him, telling him she loved the movie, and the two begin meeting to watch films and plan a new one together.
Ajin: Demi-Human
亜人
Ajin are rare humans who cannot die: any fatal injury heals in seconds, and they can summon shadowy combat creatures called Black Ghosts that only other Ajin can see. High-schooler Kei Nagai discovers he is one when he is killed in a traffic accident and revives unharmed in front of a crowd. Branded inhuman and hunted by a government that captures Ajin for endless experimentation, Kei goes on the run and crosses paths with other demi-humans who have their own designs on his kind.
Sakamoto Days
SAKAMOTO DAYS
Taro Sakamoto was the underworld's most feared hitman until he fell for a convenience-store clerk named Aoi, who made him swear off killing. Now plump and bespectacled, he runs a small neighborhood store with Aoi and their daughter Hana, keeping his past buried. When old enemies and a bounty drag the criminal world back to his doorstep, Sakamoto fights to protect his family without breaking his vow, helped by the mind-reading young hitman Shin Asakura.
The Breaker
브레이커
Shi-Woon Yi is a meek high-schooler worn down by relentless bullying, until a new substitute teacher, Chun-Woo Han, casually displays terrifying martial-arts skill. Shi-Woon begs Chun-Woo to train him, not knowing the man is the Nine Arts Dragon, an outcast warrior at war with the hidden society of martial-arts clans known as the Murim. As Shi-Woon learns the basics of inner energy, he is unknowingly pulled into Chun-Woo's feud with the Murim's ruling Martial Arts Alliance.
Bastard
후레자식
Jin Seon is a sickly, withdrawn high schooler whom everyone overlooks except the bullies who corner him. The reason for his silence lives at home: his polished, respected father Dongsoo is a serial killer, and Jin has spent years forced to help lure and dispose of victims. When a transfer student named Kyun takes an unexpected interest in him, Jin has to weigh his terror of his father against the first person who treats him as worth saving. This Korean manhwa runs as a full-color vertical-scroll thriller.
Record of Ragnarok
終末のワルキューレ
Once every millennium the gods of every pantheon convene to vote on humanity's fate, and this time they decide to wipe the species out. The valkyrie Brunhilde forces a reprieve by invoking Ragnarök: thirteen one-on-one duels pitting humanity's greatest champions against the gods, with the survival of the human race riding on seven wins. Each human fighter bonds with a valkyrie who transforms into a divine weapon for the bout, and the opening match sends the warrior Lü Bu against the thunder god Thor before a packed arena of onlookers.
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
ヲタクに恋は難しい
Narumi Momose is a fujoshi office worker who has hidden her hobbies through a string of failed relationships, determined to keep her fandom life secret at her new job. There she runs into Hirotaka Nifuji, a childhood friend and dedicated game otaku, who suggests they date on the logic that another otaku would never be bothered by her interests. Their romance unfolds in low-key adult moments shared with coworkers Hanako Koyanagi and Tarou Kabakura, between overtime shifts, game sessions, and conventions.
All You Need Is Kill
All You Need Is Kill
Keiji Kiriya dies in his first battle against the alien Mimics, then wakes up the morning before, alive and uninjured, trapped in a loop that resets every time he is killed. Forced to relive the same losing engagement over and over, he uses each death to sharpen his combat skills. He crosses paths with Rita Vrataski, the celebrated soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch, who may understand what is happening to him. This two-volume manga adapts Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel, drawn by Takeshi Obata.
Akira
AKIRA
In Neo-Tokyo, rebuilt over the crater of a city destroyed by a mysterious blast, biker-gang teenager Shotaro Kaneda leads a pack through the decaying megacity. After his friend Tetsuo Shima is injured in a crash and seized by the military, secret experiments awaken in Tetsuo a vast, unstable psychic power. As Tetsuo's abilities spiral beyond anyone's control, his path circles back toward Akira, the dormant force behind the original catastrophe, while resistance fighters and government forces close in.
The Climber
孤高の人
Buntarou Mori is a withdrawn transfer student who keeps everyone at arm's length until a classmate dares him to climb the outside of the school building. The ascent leaves him hooked, and he throws himself into mountaineering with the same solitary intensity he brings to everything else. Pushing from the climbing club toward ever more dangerous peaks, Buntarou sets his sights on K2, one of the deadliest mountains on earth. The manga draws loosely on the life of real Japanese climber Buntarou Katou.
Blue Period
ブルーピリオド
Yatora Yaguchi is a popular, high-scoring high schooler who coasts through life feeling nothing matters, until an early-morning painting stops him cold and he realizes he wants to make art. He joins the school art club under teacher Saeki and sets his sights on the brutally competitive entrance exam for Tokyo University of the Arts, the only national art school he can afford. Surrounded by talented peers like Ryuuji 'Yuka' Ayukawa, Yatora confronts how little he knows about an art world he has just chosen to chase.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part1 ファントムブラッド
In late-1880s England, Jonathan Joestar is the kind-hearted heir to a wealthy family whose father takes in an orphaned boy named Dio Brando. Dio repays the gesture by setting out to ruin Jonathan and seize the Joestar fortune, tormenting him for years. When Dio turns an ancient stone mask on himself and becomes a vampire, Jonathan must learn the sunlight-based martial art of the Ripple to stop him. This first arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure opens the multi-generational saga of the Joestar bloodline.
Rent-A-Girlfriend
彼女、お借りします
After his girlfriend Mami Nanami dumps him a month into dating, college student Kazuya Kinoshita hires Chizuru Mizuhara through a rental-girlfriend app to soothe his ego. Their arrangement stops being a one-off when his hospitalized grandmother takes a liking to Chizuru, and Kazuya keeps paying for her company to maintain the fiction. The tangle tightens once he discovers Chizuru lives next door and attends his university, with other rental girlfriends and Mami herself circling the fragile lie.
Pluto
PLUTO
In a near-future where humans and advanced robots coexist, Europol detective Gesicht investigates a string of killings in which both robots and human rights advocates are found with horn-like objects driven into their heads. The trail points to a culprit targeting the world's seven most powerful robots — Gesicht among them. Reworking Osamu Tezuka's "The Greatest Robot on Earth" arc from Astro Boy, the case forces Gesicht to weigh memory, grief, and what separates machine from man.
Ouran High School Host Club
桜蘭高校ホスト部
Scholarship student Haruhi Fujioka stumbles into the Third Music Room at the elite Ouran Academy and accidentally shatters an eight-million-yen vase belonging to the school's Host Club. To work off the debt, Haruhi — mistaken for a boy thanks to short hair and a plain uniform — is drafted as a host alongside flamboyant club president Tamaki Suoh and the calculating Kyoya Ootori. The club entertains wealthy classmates while Haruhi navigates a world of privilege from the outside.
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
BORUTO -ボルト- NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS
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. Framed by a flash-forward of a ruined Konoha, the series follows the village's next generation inheriting the conflicts of the last.
Reborn!
家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!
Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada is a clumsy, timid middle schooler until a gun-toting infant named Reborn arrives claiming to be his home tutor. Reborn reveals that Tsuna is the next heir to the Vongola, a powerful Italian mafia family, and sets about training him with the Dying Will Bullet — a shot that drives its target to act on their final regret with reckless resolve. As Tsuna reluctantly grows into the role, schoolmates and rivals are drawn into the Vongola succession around him.
Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
トモちゃんは女の子！
Tomboy Tomo Aizawa is a gifted athlete who has been close to her childhood friend Junichiro Kubota since they were small — so close that Jun has always treated her like one of the guys. When Tomo finally confesses her feelings at the start of high school, Jun fails to register it as a confession at all, still unable to see her as a girl. The four-panel comedy follows Tomo's blunt attempts to be noticed romantically, with her sharp friend Misuzu Gundo scheming on the sidelines.
Mob Psycho 100
モブサイコ100
Shigeo Kageyama, an unremarkable middle-schooler nicknamed Mob, holds psychic power strong enough to level a building, so he keeps his emotions tightly bottled to stop it from breaking loose. He works as an assistant to Arataka Reigen, a self-styled spirit medium who is really a con man, exorcising spirits for clients while Mob just wants the ordinary teenage life everyone else seems to have. As his suppressed feelings climb toward 100 percent, holding back gets harder.
Domestic Girlfriend
ドメスティックな彼女
Natsuo Fujii is quietly in love with his teacher, Hina Tachibana. Trying to move past it, he attends a mixer and meets Rui Tachibana, a blunt classmate who asks him for a no-strings encounter just to know what it feels like. Soon after, Natsuo's widowed father announces he is remarrying — and his new wife's two daughters turn out to be Hina and Rui, who move in under the same roof. Natsuo now lives with both the teacher he pines for and the girl he slept with.
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
山田くんと7人の魔女
Ryu Yamada, a bored delinquent at Suzaku High, tumbles down a staircase onto top student Urara Shiraishi and wakes up swapped into her body. The pair discover that kissing triggers the swap, and that Urara is one of seven 'witches' at the school, each with a power unlocked by a kiss. With student council figure Toranosuke Miyamura, they revive the Supernatural Studies Club to track down the other witches and unravel what their abilities are for.
Liar Game
LIAR GAME
Nao Kanzaki, an honest and trusting college student, opens a package holding 100 million yen and a notice that she is now a player in the Liar Game Tournament, where contestants are pushed to deceive one another out of their money and losers take on matching debt. Out of her depth against a swindler in the first round, she turns to Shinichi Akiyama, a brilliant ex-convict con artist, to help her survive. Together they advance through rounds of higher stakes while trying to expose the organization running the game.
Kagurabachi
カグラバチ
After his father, renowned swordsmith Kunishige Rokuhira, is murdered by sorcerers who steal six of the seven Enchanted Blades he forged, eighteen-year-old Chihiro Rokuhira takes up the one remaining blade — Enten — and goes after those responsible. Armed with the craft his father taught him, Chihiro works through the criminal underworld one target at a time.
The Fable
ザ・ファブル
A soft-spoken assassin known in the underworld only as "the Fable" is so lethal that his own crime boss orders him to disappear for a year. Handed the fake identity of Akira Sato and paired with a partner posing as his sister Yoko, he relocates to Osaka with one rule hanging over him: kill no one during the layoff, or both of them die. The hardened killer's attempt at an ordinary life keeps brushing up against the city's local gangs.
Beastars
BEASTARS
At Cherryton Academy, where carnivores and herbivores share dorms under an uneasy truce, the murder and devouring of an alpaca student named Tem sharpens the line between predator and prey. Legoshi, a large gray wolf who keeps his instincts in check, finds those instincts 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.
ReLIFE
ReLIFE
Arata Kaizaki is twenty-seven, unemployed after quitting a toxic company, and stuck working a convenience-store shift. A stranger named Ryo Yoake offers him a way out: swallow an experimental pill that makes him look ten years younger and spend one year posing as a third-year high-schooler in the ReLIFE program. Back in a classroom, Arata has to relearn how to study and how to belong, crossing paths with the brilliant but socially clumsy Chizuru Hishiro.
Haikyu!!
ハイキュー!!
Shoyo Hinata falls for volleyball after seeing Karasuno High's tiny ace, nicknamed the Little Giant, on television, and resolves to play despite his own short stature. In his only middle-school match he is crushed by Tobio Kageyama, a setter prodigy called the King of the Court — then finds himself on the same Karasuno team as Kageyama in high school. Forced to turn a bitter rivalry into a partnership, Hinata's speed and jump pair with Kageyama's precise setting as Karasuno works back toward the Nationals.
Beelzebub
べるぜバブ
Tatsumi Oga, the most feared delinquent at Ishiyama High, pulls an infant from a man he finds split open by a river — and the baby turns out to be Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, son of the Demon King. With the demon maid Hilda insisting Oga raise the child, Baby Beel latches onto him and unleashes electric shocks whenever the two are separated. This shōnen manga sets Oga's brawls with rival toughs against the chore of fathering a future world-destroyer.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
無職転生 〜異世界行ったら本気だす〜
A jobless, shut-in man dies and wakes as Rudeus Greyrat, a newborn in a world of swords and magic, keeping every memory of his wasted past life. Determined not to waste this one, he starts training magic as a toddler under the blue-haired tutor Roxy Migurdia and later mentors the timid noble girl Eris. This isekai manga, adapted from the light novels, follows Rudeus from childhood as he builds the talents his first life never had.
Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign
終わりのセラフ
A man-made virus wipes out everyone over the age of thirteen, and vampires surface to rule the survivors as livestock. Yuichiro Hyakuya escapes the underground vampire city alone, believing his orphanage family — including his closest friend Mikaela — slaughtered in the attempt. Four years later he joins the Japanese Imperial Demon Army and Shinoa Hiragi's squad to fight back. This manga frames his vengeance against the vampires around the cursed weapons soldiers wield against them.
My Little Monster
となりの怪物くん
Shizuku Mizutani cares about nothing but grades until she is sent to deliver class handouts to Haru Yoshida, a classmate who decked another student on the first day and has not shown up since. Haru latches onto her as his first real friend and bluntly declares his feelings, dragging the coldly practical Shizuku into a relationship she never planned for. Around them, a small circle of equally awkward classmates forms as both learn how to deal with other people for the first time.
I Am a Hero
アイアムアヒーロー
Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old manga assistant whose career has stalled and whose grip on reality is already shaky when a disease nicknamed ZQN sweeps Japan, turning the infected into deformed, frenzied attackers. Armed with a legally registered shotgun that suddenly makes him dangerous, Hideo flees the collapsing city and falls in with other survivors. The grounded, anxious self-image of a man who has always seen himself as a background character collides with a world where he might actually have to be the hero.
Noblesse
노블레스
Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, a noble of immense power known as Rai, wakes in modern South Korea after 820 years of sleep, with no grasp of the world that grew up while he was gone. He enrolls in Ye Ran High School, where he reunites with his devoted servant Frankenstein, now the school's principal, and falls in with ordinary teenagers like Shinwoo and Ikhan. As Rai adjusts to convenience stores and cell phones, the shadowy organization known as the Union begins to move against him.
To Your Eternity
不滅のあなたへ
An immortal entity is cast onto Earth as a featureless orb that can take the shape of anything that dies near it. It first becomes a rock, then a dying wolf, then a lonely boy whose form it keeps after his death, gradually learning what it means to be alive. Named Fushi, it wanders from one human life to the next — among them a girl named March set to be sacrificed — collecting forms, names, and grief as it slowly becomes a person.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part4 ダイヤモンドは砕けない
In the quiet town of Morioh in 1999, high-schooler Josuke Higashikata — the illegitimate son of Joseph Joestar — meets Jotaro Kujo, who has come looking for him over a supernatural Arrow that grants people Stands. As Josuke and friends like Koichi and Okuyasu trace where the Arrow has spread, they realize a Stand-using serial killer is living quietly among Morioh's residents. This fourth arc shrinks the saga down from globe-spanning quests to the strange daily life of one small Japanese town.
21st Century Boys
21世紀少年
21st Century Boys is the two-volume sequel that closes out Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys. Kenji Endo and his childhood friends are left in the fragile aftermath of the catastrophe engineered by the masked cult leader known only as Friend. A movement claiming Friend has been reborn keeps the danger alive, and the survivors finally chase down the questions the main series left open: the meaning of the old prophecy and who Friend truly was. It reads as a direct continuation, not a standalone entry point.
Golden Kamuy
ゴールデンカムイ
Saichi Sugimoto, a Russo-Japanese War veteran nicknamed 'Immortal Sugimoto,' pans for gold in Hokkaido to support a fallen comrade's widow. A drunk's tale of a hidden Ainu gold cache turns real when Sugimoto learns its map was tattooed in pieces across the bodies of escaped Abashiri Prison convicts. Saved from a bear by Asirpa, a young Ainu girl hunting the men who murdered her father, he proposes they track down the tattooed prisoners together. Their search pits them against army soldiers and other treasure hunters across the frozen north.
Real
リアル
Tomomi Nomiya is a high-school dropout weighed down by the motorcycle accident that left a girl paralyzed. Once a passionate but sidelined basketball player, he crosses paths with Kiyoharu Togawa, a former sprinter who lost a leg to cancer and now plays wheelchair basketball. Their meeting reconnects Nomiya to the game and opens a window onto a sport he never knew. Alongside them is Hisanobu Takahashi, a star high-school captain newly paralyzed after his own accident, each man circling the same court from a different kind of loss.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part3 スターダストクルセイダース
Delinquent high schooler Jotaro Kujo manifests Star Platinum, a powerful guardian spirit called a Stand, and at first believes himself possessed. The Stands have awakened because DIO, the Joestar family's vampiric enemy, has resurfaced after decades on the ocean floor in Jonathan Joestar's stolen body. DIO's revival is killing Jotaro's mother through a Stand of her own, leaving him roughly fifty days to act. Joined by his grandfather Joseph Joestar and allies Avdol and Kakyoin, Jotaro sets out from Japan toward DIO in Egypt. This is Part 3 of the larger JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga.
Hellsing
ヘルシング
The secret Hellsing Organization defends England from vampires and ghouls under the command of Sir Integra Hellsing, the family's young head. Its ultimate weapon is Alucard, an ancient and nearly unkillable vampire bound in service to the Hellsing line. On a mission against a priest-turned-vampire, Alucard offers a fatally wounded policewoman, Seras Victoria, the choice to become a vampire and survive; she accepts and joins his side. As supernatural attacks across the country grow more organized, Integra traces them to the remnants of a Nazi project bent on building an army of the undead.
Last Game
ラストゲーム
Naoto Yanagi has coasted through school rich, handsome, and undefeated until plain, blunt transfer student Mikoto Kujō outscores him on her first day. Stung by his first loss, he sets out to make her fall for him and then reject her, only to keep failing because Mikoto barely registers his attempts. Their lopsided rivalry trails them from grade school into their college Astronomy Club, where Yanagi's scheme slowly turns into something he can't admit.
Rurouni Kenshin
るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-
Once the assassin known as Hitokiri Battōsai during the war that ended the shogunate, Kenshin Himura now wanders Meiji-era Japan with a reverse-bladed sakabatō he has sworn never to kill with again. In Tokyo he meets Kaoru Kamiya, whose Kamiya Kasshin-ryū dojo is being slandered by a killer using the Battōsai name. Kenshin takes up residence at the dojo, and Yahiko and Sanosuke gather around him as his past keeps catching up.
Elfen Lied
エルフェンリート
Lucy is a Diclonius, a horned mutant who can lash out with invisible telekinetic arms called vectors. After a violent escape from the seaside research facility that held her for experiments, a head wound splits her into a second, childlike personality called Nyu. Two cousins, Kouta and Yuka, take the helpless girl in near Kamakura, unaware that a Special Assault Team and rival Diclonius are hunting her down.
Komi Can't Communicate
古見さんは、コミュ症です。
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.
The World God Only Knows
神のみぞ知るセカイ
Keima Katsuragi is a legendary dating-sim player known online as the Capturing God, with zero interest in real girls. When he answers a stray contract email, he is bound to Elsie, a cheerful demon from hell, and forced to hunt runaway spirits that hide inside girls' hearts. The only way to drive each spirit out is to make its host genuinely fall in love — so a boy who only understands fictional romance has to win over one real girl after another using the logic of his games.
Rosario+Vampire
ロザリオとバンパイア
With grades too poor for any normal high school, Tsukune Aono is enrolled by his parents at Yokai Academy — which turns out to be a boarding school for monsters, where any human caught on campus is to be killed. He survives by befriending Moka Akashiya, a vampire who likes his company and his blood, and discovers that pulling the rosario from her neck unleashes a far more powerful version of her. Other monster students like the succubus Kurumu and the young witch Yukari drift into his circle.
Vampire Knight
ヴァンパイア騎士
At Cross Academy, the Day Class of humans never learns that the elite Night Class is made up of vampires. Yuki Cross, adopted daughter of the headmaster, works as a school guardian to keep that secret and protect the students, alongside her childhood friend Zero Kiryu, who hates vampires after they destroyed his family. Yuki's own past begins on a snowy night ten years earlier, when the Pureblood Kaname Kuran saved her from a vampire attack.
Hajime no Ippo: Fighting Spirit!
はじめの一歩
Ippo Makunouchi is a withdrawn high schooler who spends his afternoons helping his mother run the family fishing-boat charter and gets nothing but beatings from a group of bullies. After pro boxer Mamoru Takamura steps in and brings the battered Ippo to the Kamogawa Gym, Ippo discovers a knack for the sport and asks to train under gym owner Genji Kamogawa. His early rivalry with the technical prodigy Ichiro Miyata sets him on the road toward the Japanese featherweight title.
The Breaker: New Waves
브레이커 N.W.
After his master Chun-Woo Han destroyed his ki center to keep him out of the martial world, the once-bullied Shi-Woon Yi tries to return to an ordinary high school life. But he still carries the Sun-Woo Clan's Black Heaven and Earth medallion and stands as the sole heir to Han's techniques, which keeps the hidden society of Murim circling him. Aided by the resourceful Sera Kang, Shi-Woon sets out to rebuild his shattered ki center and is pulled back into the clans' power struggles.
The Ancient Magus' Bride
魔法使いの嫁
Chise Hatori is a fifteen-year-old orphan who can see creatures others can't, a gift that has left her ostracized and so hopeless she puts herself up for sale at a London auction. The winning bid comes from Elias Ainsworth, a towering mage with an animal skull for a head, who pays five million pounds and announces that Chise will be both his apprentice and his bride. He begins teaching her to use her rare power as a Sleigh Beggy in a world where fae and magic press in on every side.
Holyland
ホーリーランド
Yuu Kamishiro, a withdrawn high schooler worn down by relentless bullying, teaches himself a single boxing punch from a manual and starts walking Tokyo's night streets looking for a place he belongs. As he picks fights with delinquents and survives them, rumors spread of a lone teen taking down thugs, and he earns the street name "Thug Hunter." Each encounter pulls Yuu deeper into the city's after-dark territory of brawlers and gangs, where the techniques and limits of real martial arts decide who walks away.
Kamisama Kiss
神様はじめました
Nanami Momozono loses her apartment when her father skips town on his gambling debts, and she is left with nowhere to go until she helps a stranger named Mikage out of a tree. In thanks, Mikage hands her the keys to his home, which turns out to be a run-down shrine, and quietly passes his title as its Land God to her before vanishing. Now marked as a deity, Nanami must win over Tomoe, the sharp-tongued fox yokai who served the shrine and refuses to take orders from a human girl.
Nozoki Ana
のぞきアナ
Tatsuhiko Kido moves from a small town to Tokyo to attend art school, and on his first night in the new apartment he finds a small hole in the wall that looks straight into the room next door. Through it he gets a full view of his neighbor, Emiru Ikuno, who confronts him the next day but, instead of reporting him, proposes they take turns spying on each other through the hole on a fixed schedule. The arrangement binds the two college students together as Emiru's blunt games and shifting demands keep pulling Kido off balance.
Mushishi
蟲師
Ginko is a mushishi, a wandering expert who studies and treats the mushi: primordial lifeforms that sit somewhere between plant, animal, and spirit, invisible to most people yet capable of altering human lives in strange ways. Because Ginko's presence draws mushi to him, he can never settle, drifting through a Japan frozen somewhere between the Edo and Meiji eras and smoking a special tobacco to keep them at bay. Each chapter is self-contained, following Ginko into a new village or household where a mushi has tangled itself into someone's body, memory, or surroundings.
Erased
僕だけがいない街
Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling 29-year-old manga artist who lives with an involuntary power he calls "Revival," which snaps him back a few minutes in time whenever a death is about to happen nearby, letting him intervene. When he is framed for a murder close to home, Revival hurls him eighteen years into the past, into his own grade-school body in 1988. There Satoru recognizes the killing as the start of a string of child abductions and sets out to save the first victim, his withdrawn classmate Kayo Hinazuki, before the past repeats.
Highschool of the Dead
学園黙示録 HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD
Takashi Komuro is a chronically truant second-year at Fujimi High School when a stranger appears at the front gate and bites a teacher, and within minutes the dead are rising and tearing through the campus. Takashi grabs his childhood friend Rei Miyamoto and her boyfriend Hisashi Igou and breaks for the roof as the school collapses into slaughter. He falls in with a small band of survivors, among them the composed kendo ace Saeko Busujima and the sharp-tongued genius Saya Takagi, who arm themselves and fight their way off the grounds into a Japan overrun in a single day.
Alice in Borderland
今際の国のアリス
Ryohei Arisu, an aimless high schooler who would rather game than face exams, is out one night with his friends Karube and Chota when a blinding flash empties the streets of Tokyo around them. They wake in the Borderland, a deserted mirror of the city where survival depends on clearing deadly games, each rated by playing-card suit and number. Every game carries a time limit and a lethal penalty for losing, and the visas the players win only buy them a few more days before the next round.
Goblin Slayer
ゴブリンスレイヤー
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.
Battle Angel Alita
銃夢
In the Scrapyard, a grimy city built from the refuse that rains down from the floating utopia of Zalem, cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido finds the discarded head and torso of a female cyborg still alive in the trash. He rebuilds her and names her Gally after his dead cat, but she wakes with no memory of who she was. As her body relearns the lost martial art Panzer Kunst, Gally takes up Ido's secret trade as a Hunter-Warrior, claiming bounties on the criminals who prey on the Scrapyard while she searches for the truth of her past.
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
BECK
Fourteen-year-old Yukio Tanaka, nicknamed Koyuki, drifts through a dull middle-school life until he rescues a patched-together dog named Beck from some neighborhood kids. The dog belongs to Ryusuke Minami, a sixteen-year-old guitarist back from America, whose playing pulls Koyuki toward music and a guitar of his own. As Ryusuke assembles a band, an ordinary boy with no background in performing starts learning to play and sing, drawn into the group's struggle to be heard and into his feelings for Ryusuke's half-sister Maho.
Blade of the Immortal
無限の住人
Manji is a swordsman cursed with immortality by sacred bloodworms that knit shut any wound, and the only way he can die again is to slay a thousand evil men. In Tokugawa-era Japan he takes up with Rin Asano, a girl hunting Anotsu Kagehisa, the swordsman who slaughtered her family to build the Ittō-ryū, a school that wins by any technique and devours rival dojos. Rin hires Manji as her bodyguard, and his road to mortality runs through her revenge.
Doubt
ダウト
A group of fans of the cell-phone game Rabbit Doubt — where players must root out the hidden wolf among the rabbits before it picks them off — agree to meet in person. Yū Aikawa and the others are knocked out and wake in an abandoned psychiatric hospital wired with security cameras, one of their number already dead. To survive, the survivors must play Rabbit Doubt for real, hunting the liar among them while a barcode tattooed on each of them hints at who controls the building.
The Apothecary Diaries
薬屋のひとりごと
Maomao grew up mixing medicines in a pleasure district until she was kidnapped and sold into the emperor's rear palace as a lowly servant. When newborn imperial children and their mothers start falling ill, she quietly traces the cause to a poison and solves it, meaning to stay anonymous through her two years of indenture. The fix draws the eye of Jinshi, a strikingly handsome eunuch who starts feeding her court mysteries to unravel in exchange for rare medicines.
Air Gear
Air Gear
Itsuki "Ikki" Minami runs the streets as a brawling gang leader until he gets his hands on Air Treck, motorized skates that let riders climb walls and tear through the air. Hooked on the rush, Ikki forms a Storm Rider team called Kogarasumaru and dives into the rooftop world of A-T turf battles. He soon learns the girls he lives with belong to the legendary team Sleeping Forest, and that every Storm Rider is chasing the summit known as the Trophaeum Tower.
Gachiakuta
ガチアクタ
Rudo lives among the "tribesfolk" in the slums of the Sphere, a floating city where the wealthy live above and the descendants of criminals are penned below. Framed for a murder, he is hurled through a hole into the Pit — an endless wasteland of garbage roamed by monsters made of trash. There he is saved by Enjin, a Cleaner who wields a Vital Instrument, a weapon forged from a cherished object, and who awakens Rudo's own power as a Giver.
Your Lie in April
四月は君の嘘
Kousei Arima was a celebrated child pianist until his mother's death broke something in him — now he can no longer hear his own playing and has stayed away from the piano for two years, seeing the world in gray. His friends Tsubaki Sawabe and Ryouta Watari pull him along until Tsubaki introduces him to Kaori Miyazono, a violinist whose wild, free playing ignores every rule Kousei was raised on and starts pulling color back into his life.
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Three years after an enormous alien mothership settled over Tokyo, teenagers Kadode Koyama and Ouran Nakagawa go about high school as if the threat had become part of the scenery. Classes, part-time worries, and gossip fill their days while the government quietly fails to bring the ship down and the country lives under a tense standoff. Through Kadode and Ouran's friendship, everyday life carries on beneath a sky that could fall at any moment, with the looming invasion treated as background to ordinary growing up.
Btooom!
BTOOOM!
Ryouta Sakamoto is an unemployed twenty-something whose one claim to fame is ranking among the world's top players of the online combat game Btooom! He wakes up on a tropical island with no memory of getting there, a transmitter embedded in his hand, and a bag of the game's signature throwable bombs, the BIM. To leave, players must hunt down and kill seven others and collect the chips embedded in their bodies. Ryouta's only edge is the game knowledge that, until now, never left the screen.
Chained Soldier
魔都精兵のスレイブ
In a near-future Japan, portals to a hostile dimension called Mato have opened across the country, and only women who eat the fruit called Peaches gain the powers to fight the demonic Shuuki inside. High schooler Yuuki Wakura, who lost his sister to a Mato accident, stumbles through a portal and is saved by Kyouka Uzen, commander of the Anti-Demon Corps' Seventh Unit. Kyouka takes Yuuki on as her contracted servant, granting him temporary strength in exchange for his obedience as they push deeper into Mato.
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-
When Princess Sakura's memories scatter across countless worlds as feathers, her childhood friend Syaoran, a young archaeologist, sets out to recover them and save her. A bargain with the Dimensional Witch Yuuko sends him traveling between dimensions alongside the stern warrior Kurogane and the mysterious mage Fai D. Flowright. Each world they reach holds a fragment of Sakura's heart, and Syaoran races to gather every feather before her self fades away entirely. The journey weaves together characters drawn from across CLAMP's earlier works.
Happiness
ハピネス
Makoto Okazaki is a withdrawn high schooler used to being pushed around by his classmates. One night he is attacked by a girl named Nora, who bites his neck and drinks his blood, then offers him a choice: bleed out, or become like her. Makoto survives but wakes changed, struggling with a thirst and sensitivity to light he never had before. As he tries to hide what he is becoming from people like his classmate Yukiko Gosho, he learns Nora is bound to him and that others are aware of his transformation.
Teasing Master Takagi-san
からかい上手の高木さん
Nishikata sits next to Takagi in their middle school class, and she never misses a chance to tease him. Every day he schemes to finally make her blush first, and every day Takagi reads his plan, turns it around, and leaves him red-faced instead. Their running game plays out in classrooms, on walks home, and in small everyday challenges, with Takagi always a step ahead. Beneath the teasing runs a quiet affection that colors each of their daily exchanges.
Say I Love You.
好きっていいなよ。
Mei Tachibana has kept everyone at arm's length since a childhood betrayal convinced her that friends only bring trouble. That changes when Yamato Kurosawa, one of the most popular boys at her high school, takes a sudden interest in her after she accidentally kicks him down the stairs. When he steps in to protect her from a stalker, the two are pulled into a relationship, and Mei slowly learns to let other people in.
Cheeky Brat
生意気ざかり。
Yuki Machida manages her high school's basketball team and keeps her feelings tightly in check, a habit built over years as the eldest of five siblings. Her composure cracks when Sho Naruse, a brash first-year who joins the team, starts openly pursuing her with teasing, lecherous remarks. A year her junior and relentlessly forward, Sho needles Yuki day after day even as he makes his interest impossible to ignore.
Gyo: The Death-Stench Creeps
ギョ うごめく不気味
While vacationing in Okinawa, Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori are driven from their rental by an overpowering rot they call the death stench. The smell turns out to come from sea creatures that have crawled onto land on skittering metal legs, starting with a fish and soon scaling up to far larger horrors. As the walking dead-fish swarm the mainland, Tadashi tries to keep Kaori safe and trace where the machines and the stench came from.
Tune In to the Midnight Heart
真夜中ハートチューン
Arisu Yamabuki transferred to Furin High School chasing one thing: the voice of 'Apollo,' an anonymous midnight streamer he fell in love with in middle school. When the school merges with an all-girls academy, he joins the Broadcasting Club hoping for a shortcut — only to find that all four members could be Apollo, each voice close enough that he cannot rule any of them out. What starts as a search becomes a four-way mystery tied to each girl's own ambitions and secrets.
Dragon Ball Super
ドラゴンボール超
Son Goku and his friends settle back into peace during the years after Majin Boo's defeat, until Beerus, the God of Destruction of Universe 7, awakens looking for a worthy opponent. The encounter pushes Goku toward the power of a Super Saiyan God and draws him and Vegeta into the affairs of deities, including Beerus's rival twin Champa from Universe 6, who proposes a tournament between their chosen fighters. Toyotarou draws the manga from plot outlines by original author Akira Toriyama.
Sun-Ken Rock
サンケンロック
Ken Kitano, a Japanese delinquent, drops out and follows Yumin, the girl he loves, to South Korea after she leaves to become a police officer there. Broke and adrift, he saves an old man from a beating and is recruited by a small Seoul street gang, which makes him its boss. As the Sun-Ken Rock group grows, Ken hides his criminal life from Yumin, who despises gangs. This seinen manga is the work of Korean-born artist Boichi.
Like a Butterfly
日々蝶々
Suiren Shibazeki is so striking that classmates keep their distance, treating her like a flower on an unreachable peak, and her shyness leaves her unable to speak to anyone. That changes when a quiet first-year named Taichi Kawasumi, the karate club's ace, helps her out of an uncomfortable situation without paying her looks any mind. Drawn to the one boy who won't fawn over her, Suiren resolves to stop being a distant flower and reach toward him. The shoujo manga is the work of the duo Suu Morishita.
March Comes in Like a Lion
3月のライオン
Rei Kiriyama turned professional at shogi while still in middle school and now lives alone as a teenager, carrying the weight of a family he lost in an accident and a foster home he walked away from. His isolation starts to thaw after Akari Kawamoto finds him collapsed on the street one night and brings him back to the home she shares with her sisters Hinata and Momo. Between ranked matches and meals at the Kawamoto house, Rei works through his solitude. Chica Umino draws the seinen manga.
Shaman King
シャーマンキング
Yoh Asakura is a shaman, a medium who channels spirits of the dead, and he partners with Amidamaru, the ghost of a centuries-old samurai. His easygoing goal is to become Shaman King, the one who commands the Great Spirit and can reshape the world, by winning the Shaman Fight held once every 500 years. His friend Manta Oyamada tags along as Yoh trains under the demanding regimen set by his fiancee Anna, while the tournament draws out rivals including his estranged twin brother Hao. Hiroyuki Takei draws the shounen manga.
Yu Yu Hakusho
幽☆遊☆白書
Yusuke Urameshi is a fourteen-year-old delinquent who dies shoving a child out of the path of a car, a selfless act nobody expected of him. With no place ready for him in the afterlife, the ferry-girl Botan delivers an offer from Koenma of the Spirit World: pass a series of trials and return to life. Once revived, Yusuke is named a Spirit Detective and tasked with hunting demons who prey on the human world, soon joined by his rival Kazuma Kuwabara. Yoshihiro Togashi draws the shounen manga.
Negima! Magister Negi Magi
魔法先生ネギま！
Ten-year-old Negi Springfield, a prodigy fresh out of a magic academy in Wales, is sent to Japan as part of his training to become a full Magister Magi. His assignment turns out to be teaching English at Mahora Academy, where he is handed homeroom duties for a class of thirty-one teenage girls. While keeping his magic a secret and searching for clues about his missing father Nagi, Negi grows close to students like Asuna Kagurazaka and runs up against the immortal vampire Evangeline. Ken Akamatsu draws the shounen manga.
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected
やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。
Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynical loner who has decided that youthful camaraderie is a lie, until a teacher forces him into the school's Service Club as penance. There he is paired with Yukino Yukinoshita, an aloof top student just as sharp-tongued as he is, and the two field requests from classmates who need help with their problems. The cheerful Yui Yuigahama rounds out the club, and Hachiman's blunt logic keeps producing solutions that work even when they sting. The manga adapts Wataru Watari's light novel.
Battle Royale
バトル・ロワイアル
In an authoritarian Japan known as the Republic of Greater East Asia, a class of junior-high students on a school trip is gassed and shipped to a deserted island for a government program: each is given a random weapon and ordered to kill one another until a single survivor remains, with explosive collars guaranteeing no one stalls. Shuya Nanahara refuses to play along and tries to keep Noriko Nakagawa alive, aided by transfer student Shogo Kawada, who has survived the program before. Masayuki Taguchi draws the manga from Koushun Takami's novel.
Snow White with the Red Hair
赤髪の白雪姫
Shirayuki is a herbalist in the kingdom of Tanbarun whose striking red hair draws the eye of its idle prince, who orders her to become his concubine. Rather than obey, she cuts off her hair, leaves it behind, and flees across the border into neighboring Clarines, where she is found by Zen Wistaria, the kingdom's second prince. Zen takes an interest in her resolve, and Shirayuki sets out to earn a place at the Clarines court on her own merits as a court herbalist.
Gangsta.
Gangsta.
In the lawless city of Ergastulum, handymen Worick Arcangelo and Nicolas Brown take on the dirty jobs the four ruling mafia families and the police won't touch themselves. Nicolas is a Twilight, one of the superhuman descendants of a wartime drug whose strength comes paired with a shortened, drug-dependent life. After clearing out a local gang, the pair take in Alex Benedetto, a prostitute with no memory, and her presence begins to draw them into the tensions between Ergastulum's syndicates.
The Case Study of Vanitas
ヴァニタスの手記
Noé Archiviste, a young vampire, is sent to nineteenth-century Paris by his teacher to find the Book of Vanitas, a cursed grimoire said to harm vampire-kind. He soon meets the book's current owner: a human doctor calling himself Vanitas, who uses the grimoire to heal vampires afflicted by a corruption called Malnomen. Vanitas declares his goal to be the salvation of all vampires, and Noé chooses to travel with him, wanting to understand both the book and the strange man who wields it.
Annarasumanara
안나라수마나라
Yoon Ah-yi is an impoverished high-schooler who has stopped believing in magic and wishes only to grow up quickly and escape her hardships. She meets Ri Eul, a mysterious magician who lives in an abandoned amusement park and refuses to grow up, and who asks her a single question: do you believe in magic? As Ah-yi keeps returning to the park, her cold, well-off classmate Na Il-deung begins watching her lessons, and the three are drawn together around the magician's strange world.
A Town Where You Live
君のいる町
Haruto Kirishima is a high-schooler in rural Hiroshima whose quiet life shifts when Yuzuki Eba, a girl from Tokyo, comes to stay with his family because her father knows his. Yuzuki is blunt and unpredictable, and the two clash as often as they get along while sharing a roof. As Haruto grows closer to her, the pull of Tokyo and the people Yuzuki left behind there begin to reach into the small town, complicating the bond forming between them.
Chobits
ちょびっツ
Hideki Motosuwa is a country boy in Tokyo studying to pass his college entrance exams when he finds a discarded persocom — a personal computer built in the shape of a human — on the street. He takes it home and switches it on; the only word it can say at first is 'Chi', so that becomes its name. As Hideki teaches Chi to speak and live among people, he begins to wonder where she came from and whether a persocom can truly feel anything for the person who owns it.
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
史上最強の弟子ケンイチ
Kenichi Shirahama is a weak, bullied high-schooler until he befriends transfer student Miu Fūrinji and follows her to Ryōzanpaku, a dojo run by her grandfather where six masters of different fighting styles live and train. Taken on as their disciple, Kenichi commits to a punishing daily regimen under all six teachers to stop being a target. His new strength soon puts him in the path of Ragnarok, a gang of delinquent fighters determined to recruit him or break him.
Lookism
외모지상주의
Bullied for his weight and looks, high schooler Park Hyung-seok transfers to a new school in Seoul to start over. The night before he begins, he wakes inside a second body that is tall, handsome, and strong, while his original body lies asleep beside him. He learns he can switch between the two whenever one sleeps, and lives a double life that exposes how differently the world treats him depending on which body people see.
To Love Ru
To LOVEる -とらぶる-
Shy, clumsy high schooler Rito Yuuki can never confess to his crush Haruna Sairenji. His life upends when Lala Satalin Deviluke, the runaway crown princess of the planet Deviluke, teleports into his bathtub while fleeing an arranged marriage. When her father's retainer Zastin comes to drag her home, Lala declares she will marry Rito to stay on Earth, and a misunderstanding leaves him accidentally engaged to an alien princess hunted by her would-be suitors.
Another
Another
In spring 1998, Koichi Sakakibara transfers into Class 3-3 at Yomiyama North Middle School and is drawn to Mei Misaki, a quiet girl who wears an eyepatch and whom the rest of the class seems to ignore entirely. As he ignores their warnings and gets closer to her, a chain of gruesome deaths begins among the students and their families. Koichi and Mei try to uncover the curse tied to Class 3-3 and a student who died decades earlier.
Dead Tube
DEAD Tube
Tomohiro Machiya, a member of his school's Film Research Club, is asked by popular classmate Mai Mashiro to film her nonstop for two days. The footage turns lethal when Mashiro kills a man on camera, and Machiya learns she has been uploading to Dead Tube, a site that pays creators by view count. Whoever posts the least-watched video must cover everyone else's costs and crimes, and Machiya is pulled steadily deeper into its violent contests.
Emanon: Memories of Emanon
おもいでエマノン
In 1967, a young man heading home by ferry after a long trip meets a striking girl in blue jeans who tells him to call her Emanon. Over the night's crossing she explains that she carries an unbroken genetic memory reaching back through every ancestor in her maternal line, including those that were never human. Their conversation about life and that inheritance lingers with him long after she slips away the next morning, leaving only a note.
Love Hina
ラブひな
Keitaro Urashima has failed the University of Tokyo entrance exam twice, chasing a childhood promise to attend the school with a girl whose name he can no longer remember. Sent to his grandmother's old inn, he finds it converted into the all-female Hinata House and is unexpectedly made its manager. Among the residents is Naru Narusegawa, a top-ranked exam hopeful, and the more they study together the more Keitaro suspects she may be the girl from his promise.
Rosario+Vampire: Season II
ロザリオとバンパイア season II
This second manga series continues the story of Tsukune Aono, a human student attending the monster-only Yokai Academy, picking up after the first series' near-destruction of the school. Tsukune returns to reunite with Moka Akashiya and his other classmates, now carrying Moka's vampire blood held in check by a limiter. Moka's younger half-sister Koko enrolls, and a human organization called Fairy Tale begins to threaten the monster world the academy was built to protect.
Inside Mari
ぼくは麻理のなか
Isao Komori is a college dropout and shut-in whose only routine is buying food at a convenience store, where he secretly follows a high school girl named Mari Yoshizaki home. One morning he wakes inside Mari's body, living her life as her, while his own self still appears to exist in the city. Trying to understand what happened, he is approached by Mari's classmate Yori Kakiguchi, who has noticed that something about Mari is suddenly, deeply wrong.
InuYasha
犬夜叉
On her fifteenth birthday, Tokyo schoolgirl Kagome Higurashi is pulled down the well at her family shrine into Japan's Sengoku period. There she frees Inuyasha, a half-demon pinned to a tree, and accidentally shatters the sacred Shikon Jewel into countless shards scattered across the land. Bound together by a subjugation necklace, Kagome and Inuyasha set out to recover the fragments, gathering allies like the monk Miroku and the demon slayer Sango while the malevolent Naraku hunts the same shards.
Spice & Wolf
狼と香辛料
Kraft Lawrence is a traveling merchant working the roads of a medieval-style countryside, hauling goods between towns in hopes of one day opening his own shop. One night he finds Holo, a centuries-old wolf deity worshipped as a harvest goddess, hiding in his cart in human form with wolf ears and a tail. She bargains for passage north toward her old homeland of Yoitsu, and her sharp instinct for people and prices begins reshaping how Lawrence trades.
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun
魔入りました！入間くん
Fourteen-year-old Iruma Suzuki is sold to a demon by his neglectful parents, only for that demon, the powerful Sullivan, to adopt him as a grandson and dote on him. Sullivan enrolls Iruma at Babyls, the demon school he runs, with one strict rule: never let anyone discover he is human, or he will be eaten. Iruma befriends the ambitious Alice Asmodeus and the boundlessly cheerful Clara Valac while scrambling to pass as a demon among classmates who would happily devour a human in their midst.
Cardcaptor Sakura
カードキャプターさくら
Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto opens a strange book in her basement and accidentally scatters the Clow Cards, a deck of magical cards created by the sorcerer Clow Reed, each able to take a life of its own. Cerberus, the cards' guardian who looks like a small winged plush and goes by Kero, names Sakura the Cardcaptor and tasks her with retrieving every loose card before they cause harm. Her best friend Tomoyo Daidouji sews her costumes and films her hunts as Sakura learns to catch and seal each escaped card.
Blood Lad
ブラッドラッド
Staz Charlie Blood is a vampire who rules a district of the Demon World but cares far more about Japanese anime, games, and manga than about governing. When Fuyumi Yanagi, an ordinary human schoolgirl, stumbles through a portal into his territory, Staz is thrilled to meet someone from the human world he idolizes. His distraction proves costly: while he is off dealing with an intruder, Fuyumi is killed and left as a ghost, and Staz pledges to find a way to resurrect her and return her home.
High School Debut
高校デビュー
Haruna Nagashima spent middle school devoted entirely to softball, and now that high school has started she sets herself a brand-new goal: to fall in love and land a boyfriend. The trouble is she knows nothing about fashion, trends, or flirting. She corners Yoh Komiyama, a popular and good-looking upperclassman, and begs him to coach her into someone attractive, and he reluctantly agrees on one condition: she is forbidden from falling for him. Haruna throws her full athletic intensity into her romantic 'training.'
Overlord
オーバーロード
Momonga is one of the last loyal players of YGGDRASIL, a long-running online game whose servers are finally shutting down. Rather than log off, he stays inside his guild's stronghold, the Great Tomb of Nazarick, to watch the end as his skeletal Overlord avatar. When the shutdown hour passes, the game does not close: Momonga remains in his undead body, the tomb's non-player characters awaken with minds of their own, and Nazarick sits in an unfamiliar world. Taking the name Ainz Ooal Gown, he sets out to learn where he is and what he has become.
Love★Com
ラブ★コン
Risa Koizumi, unusually tall for a girl, and Atsushi Otani, short for a boy, are constantly mocked as their class's mismatched comedy duo and bicker endlessly to match. The two strike a truce to help each other chase their respective crushes, only for both setups to fall apart. As Risa and Otani keep teaming up over shared music and gags, her feelings for the shorter boy she once treated as a rival start to shift into something else.
SQ: Begin W/Your Name!
她们的故事
Sun Jing keeps crossing paths with the same girl from another school at the bus stop each day until she finally works up the nerve to introduce herself. That girl, Qiu Tong, becomes her friend, and as the two high schoolers spend more time together their easy companionship slowly turns into something more. This Chinese GL manhua follows their everyday school life through short, comedic strips.
Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible
久保さんは僕を許さない
Junta Shiraishi is so unremarkable that classmates and teachers overlook him entirely, treating his seat as empty as if he were a background character no one registers. His invisibility breaks when classmate Nagisa Kubo decides to notice him, teasing him daily and nudging him into situations that force him to stand out. As Kubo keeps pulling the reluctant Shiraishi into her games, the ordinary high-school days he assumed were dull start to feel like something else. Nene Yukimori draws the manga.
Eden: It's an Endless World!
EDEN 〜It's an Endless World!〜
After the Closure Virus wipes out a sizable share of humanity, Ennoia and Hannah survive on an isolated island alongside their guardian, the researcher Lane Morris. Two decades later the story turns to Ennoia's son, Elijah Ballard, who travels a ravaged world dominated by the militarized Propater federation. Accompanied by a self-aware combat machine called Cherubim, Elijah searches for his kidnapped sister Mana while war and disease reshape what is left of civilization.
The Greatest Estate Developer
백작가의 망나니가 되었다
Suho Kim, a civil-engineering student, wakes up inside the body of Lloyd Frontera, a lazy, debt-ridden young noble in the fantasy novel he had been reading. Recognizing the world and its coming dangers, Lloyd uses modern engineering know-how to rebuild the Frontera family's finances and fend off the monster threats his book foretold. This Korean manhwa adapts the web novel by BK_Moon, with art by Kim Hyun-soo.
A Silent Voice
聲の形
As an elementary schooler, Shoya Ishida leads the bullying of Shoko Nishimiya, a deaf girl who transfers into his class, until the harassment goes far enough that he becomes the one shunned for it. Years later, isolated and weighed down by guilt, Shoya tracks down Shoko and begins learning sign language to apologize for what he did. Reconnecting with her, and with classmates from those years, forces him to face how much harm was done and whether the two of them can build something different.
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
君のことが大大大大大好きな100人の彼女
After a hundred straight romantic rejections, high schooler Rentaro Aijo prays at a shrine and meets the God of Love, who reveals that a clerical error left him with a hundred destined soulmates — and that any soulmate he turns away will die in an accident. To save them all, Rentaro resolves to date every girl, starting with the bubbly Hakari Hanazono and the deadpan Karane Inda. New girlfriends keep arriving as the growing household tries to share one boyfriend.
Strobe Edge
ストロボ・エッジ
First-year student Ninako Kinoshita has never been in love and barely understands what the feeling means until she gets to know Ren Ichinose, a quiet, popular classmate she keeps meeting on the morning train. As she realizes her growing crush, she also learns that Ren is already dating Mayuka Korenaga, a model and the older sister of Ninako's childhood friend Daiki, who has long held feelings of his own for her.
You Are My Lewd Queen
君は淫らな僕の女王
Akira Saito reunites in high school with Subaru Kawana, the tomboyish childhood friend who drifted away after her wealthy family sent her to a prestigious academy. He follows her in on a scholarship, but the poised, popular Subaru now keeps her distance. Then their dorm rooms turn out to connect — and for one hour each day Subaru loses her composure entirely, unable to hide how much she wants him.
Boarding School Juliet
寄宿学校のジュリエット
At Dahlia Academy, a boarding school split between students of the Nation of Towa and the Principality of West, first-years are sorted into the rival Black Doggy and White Cat dorms. Romio Inuzuka, leader of the Black Doggy first-years, has been quietly in love with his sworn enemy across the divide: Juliet Persia, who heads the White Cat first-years. He finally resolves to confess, knowing a romance between the two factions' leaders would have to stay secret.
[Oshi No Ko]
【推しの子】
Gorou Amamiya, a rural obstetrician and fan of idol Ai Hoshino, is murdered the night he delivers her twins and wakes up reborn as her infant son, Aqua, with his memories intact. His twin sister Ruby carries a past life of her own, and both grow up inside the glittering, cutthroat world of Japanese entertainment that surrounds their mother and her group B-Komachi. Aqua hides what he remembers while the truth behind his old death pulls him toward the industry's darker corners.
Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
地縛少年花子くん
Nene Yashiro, a first-year at Kamome Academy who loves occult rumors and badly wants a boyfriend, summons Hanako-san, the school's famous seventh wonder said to grant wishes from a bathroom stall. The spirit turns out to be a boy, Hanako, not the girl the legends describe. After a wish goes wrong, Nene ends up bound to him as his assistant, helping him keep order among the academy's supernatural rumors and the spirits tied to them.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
風の谷のナウシカ
A thousand years after an apocalypse called the Seven Days of Fire, the surviving kingdoms cling to shrinking patches of land beside the Sea of Corruption, a spreading toxic forest of poisonous spores and giant insects. Nausicaä, princess of the small Valley of the Wind, can read the wind and even commune with the insects, especially the colossal Ohmu. When the empire of Tolmekia drags her homeland into a war over an ancient weapon, she is pulled into the conflict between great powers.
Cage of Eden
エデンの檻
Class clown Akira Sengoku is flying home from a school trip to Guam when the plane hits violent turbulence and crashes on an unknown Pacific island. He pulls together a handful of survivors — flight attendant Rion Akagami, his childhood friend Mariya, and a few classmates — only to find the island overrun by extinct prehistoric beasts that should have died out millions of years ago. As they search for other survivors, Akira realizes the megafauna may not be the deadliest threat on the island.
Monogatari Series: First Season
〈物語〉シリーズ ファーストシーズン
Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high schooler left part vampire after a near-fatal attack, keeps crossing paths with classmates haunted by supernatural oddities. When he catches Hitagi Senjougahara as she falls and finds she weighs almost nothing, he pulls her toward Meme Oshino, the drifter who once helped reverse his own condition. First Season collects the opening Monogatari stories — Kizumonogatari, Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, and Nekomonogatari: Kuro — that introduce Araragi and the cursed girls around him.
So I'm a Spider, So What?
蜘蛛ですが、なにか？
A high-school class is wiped out by a sudden explosion and reincarnated into a sword-and-sorcery world — but while her classmates land as princes and nobles, one ordinary girl wakes up as the weakest monster in the game: a small spider at the bottom of the vast Great Elroe Labyrinth. With nothing but skill points, a leveling system, and her own stubbornness, she eats, evolves, and claws her way up the food chain in a dungeon crawling with creatures far stronger than she is.
Gokurakugai
極楽街
In Gokuraku, a red-light district where supernatural beings live shoulder to shoulder with humans, the cool-headed swordswoman Tao and her cheerful partner Alma run a troubleshooting outfit that takes on any job the district throws at them. Their real employer is the Snake Pit, a hidden group that hunts the demonic Maga preying on the city. Alma, born a half-Maga himself, was pulled back from the brink by Tao — and now the two handle the cases no one else will touch.
Inuyashiki
いぬやしき
Ichirou Inuyashiki is a worn-out 58-year-old salaryman, ignored by his family and newly diagnosed with terminal cancer, when a blinding crash in a park leaves him rebuilt as a weapon-laden machine in a human shell. He turns his new body toward healing the sick and protecting strangers. But a teenager caught in the same blast, Hiro Shishigami, wakes with identical powers and a coldly different idea of what to do with them.
Sword Art Online
ソードアート・オンライン
Kazuto Kirigaya — playing as Kirito — is one of thousands who log into Sword Art Online, the first full-dive virtual-reality MMO, on its launch day. When creator Akihiko Kayaba traps every player inside the game, the rules turn lethal: dying in the floating castle of Aincrad means dying in real life, and the only way out is to clear all hundred floors. Kirito sets out as a solo swordsman, crossing paths with the skilled rapier-fighter Asuna as the trapped players claw upward floor by floor.
The Summer Hikaru Died
光が死んだ夏
In a quiet mountain village, teenager Yoshiki Tsujinaka realizes the friend walking beside him is no longer his friend. Hikaru Indo looks and sounds exactly as he always did, but ever since one summer something else has been wearing his face. When Yoshiki finally says it aloud, the thing calling itself Hikaru partly unravels into something inhuman — and tells him it would rather keep him close than let him go. Around them, the village begins to slip into its own strange unease.
Banana Fish
BANANA FISH
Ash Lynx, born Aslan Jade Callenreese, is a teenage prodigy who runs a street gang in 1980s New York after escaping a mob boss's control. When a dying man hands him a vial and the words "banana fish," Ash starts unraveling what the phrase means and why it ruined his brother's mind. Around the same time he meets Eiji Okumura, a gentle Japanese photographer's assistant visiting the city, and the two form a bond that cuts across Ash's violent world.
Kengan Ashura
ケンガンアシュラ
Ohma Tokita is a fearsome unarmed fighter who turns up in back-alley brawls, where mild-mannered salaryman Kazuo Yamashita first witnesses him crush an opponent. Behind closed doors, Japan's biggest corporations settle disputes through Kengan matches — winner-take-all gladiator bouts fought by hired champions. Scouted by the Nogi Group, Ohma takes Kazuo on as his manager and enters the brutal Kengan arena, where the prize is far more than money.
Who Made Me a Princess
어느 날 공주가 되어버렸다
A modern woman dies and wakes up as Athanasia de Alger Obelia, a side character from a novel she once read — a princess fated to be executed by her own father, Emperor Claude de Alger Obelia. Knowing how the story ends, Athanasia plots to stay out of Claude's sight, build a quiet fortune, and slip away before her death sentence arrives. The trouble is that the cold, beautiful emperor keeps noticing the daughter he was never supposed to love.
Case Closed
名探偵コナン
Shinichi Kudo is a celebrated high-school detective whose body is shrunk to that of a child after a shadowy crime syndicate, the Black Organization, force-feeds him an experimental drug meant to kill him. Hiding his identity under the alias Conan Edogawa, he moves in with his childhood friend Ran Mouri and her bumbling private-eye father Kogoro, secretly solving the cases that come their way while searching for a lead back to the men who poisoned him.
Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound
철혈검가 산양개의 회귀
Vikir Van Baskerville spent forty years as a loyal hound of his clan — an assassin raised from birth to serve without question. When his own father Hugo orders his execution, Vikir is reborn as a child with his memories intact, and turns his obedience into a weapon of revenge. He must survive the brutal training that forged him the first time, now using knowledge of every test and every secret to build toward the day he can bite the hand that raised him.
Dandadan
ダンダダン
Momo Ayase believes in ghosts but scoffs at aliens; her oddball classmate Ken Takakura, whom she nicknames Okarun, believes the exact opposite. To settle the argument, each visits a haunted or alien-linked spot to prove the other wrong, and both turn out to be right. Momo runs into extraterrestrials while Okarun is cursed by a yokai called Turbo Granny, and the two are thrown together into a chaotic life of occult and alien encounters that they have to face side by side.
Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow
あしたのジョー
Joe Yabuki is a rootless, scrappy orphan drifting through Tokyo's San'ya slums, picking fights and running cons until his temper lands him in juvenile detention. There he catches the eye of Danpei Tange, a broken-down former boxer who sees raw promise in the boy's wild swings and resolves to mold him into a fighter. Joe's path from street brawler to the ring runs through hard losses and the rivals who push him forward.
Kakegurui: Compulsive Gambler
賭ケグルイ
At Hyakkaou Private Academy, social rank is decided not by grades but by gambling, and the students who lose big are reduced to servants of the winners. Into this rigged hierarchy transfers Yumeko Jabami, a poised, beautiful newcomer who gambles purely for the rush of the risk. As she calmly exposes and dismantles the cheats that keep the academy's elite on top, classmates like Ryota Suzui and Mary Saotome are pulled into her wake.
A Silent Voice
聲の形
In sixth grade, Shoya Ishida leads his classmates in tormenting Shoko Nishimiya, a deaf girl newly transferred into his class, until the bullying is exposed and the blame falls entirely on him. Shunned and isolated for years afterward, a withdrawn Shoya sets out to find Shoko again in high school, having taught himself sign language, hoping to make amends with the girl he once drove away.
Welcome to the N.H.K.
NHKにようこそ！
Tatsuhiro Sato is a twenty-two-year-old hikikomori who has shut himself in his apartment and convinced himself that a shadowy organization called the NHK engineered his withdrawal from society. His isolation cracks when Misaki Nakahara, a girl who claims to know all about him, hands him a contract: nightly meetings in a local park where she will counsel him out of being a hikikomori. Drawn back into contact with his neighbor and former classmate Yamazaki, Sato lurches between half-finished schemes to rejoin the world.
Eyeshield 21
アイシールド21
Sena Kobayakawa is a timid first-year at Deimon Private Senior High whose years of running errands have given him explosive speed. Yoichi Hiruma, the scheming captain of the Deimon Devil Bats, spots that talent and strong-arms Sena into the American football team as a running back. To hide him from rival recruiters, Sena plays behind a tinted visor under the codename Eyeshield 21, while the underdog Devil Bats set their sights on reaching the Christmas Bowl.
No Game, No Life
No Game No Life
Sora and his younger stepsister Shiro are shut-in siblings who, together as the unbeaten online player 'Blank', have never lost a game. After defeating a stranger online, they are summoned by Tet, the god of games, into Disboard, a world where the Ten Covenants forbid violence and settle every dispute through games whose stakes are magically enforced. Landing penniless in the human city of Elkia, the pair set out to win their way upward, aiming to challenge the sixteen ruling races and eventually Tet himself.
Beast Master
ビーストマスター
Yuiko Kubozuka loves animals, but every creature she meets bolts away from her in terror. The transfer student Leo Aoi has the opposite problem: animals flock to him, yet his wild eyes and feral manner make classmates treat him as a monster. When Yuiko looks past his frightening face and becomes his first friend, Leo grows fiercely attached to her — a bond complicated by the bloodlust that surfaces in him at the sight of blood, which only Yuiko seems able to calm.
A Bride's Story
乙嫁語り
In a town near the Caspian Sea during the Russian push into Central Asia in the late nineteenth century, twenty-year-old Amir travels from a distant village to marry into the Eihon household. Her husband, Karluk, is a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior, and the two ease into married life across the gap in their ages. Skilled in archery, riding, and hunting, Amir settles into her new home even as her own family begins pressing to take her back.
Angel Densetsu
エンジェル伝説
Seiichirou Kitano is a gentle, naive boy with the heart of an angel and a face so menacing that everyone he meets assumes he is a hardened delinquent. On his first day at a new school his appearance alone earns him a reputation as the toughest thug around, and his every kind gesture is read as a threat. Misreading the fear he provokes as friendliness, Kitano stumbles into the role of school protector while never grasping how terrifying others find him.
The Gods Lie.
神様がうそをつく。
Natsuru Nanao is an eleven-year-old who would rather play soccer than deal with his new summer-camp coach. After he rescues an abandoned kitten he cannot keep at home, a tall, reserved classmate named Rio Suzumura agrees to take it in for a fee. Visiting her house, Natsuru discovers that Rio and her younger brother Yuta are quietly living on their own, a secret she is desperate to protect — and the two children spend a summer keeping it together.
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
惑星のさみだれ
Yuuhi Amamiya is a withdrawn college student who wakes one morning to find a talking lizard named Noi on his bed. Noi names him a Beast Knight, one of the warriors sworn to protect the princess Samidare Asahina from a mage who means to smash the planet apart with the Biscuit Hammer, a giant mallet suspended in the sky. Samidare quickly reveals an agenda of her own, and Yuuhi finds himself bound to a cause far stranger than saving the world.
Planetes
Planetes
In 2075, orbital debris from decades of spaceflight threatens every ship and station around Earth, and the Debris Section of Technora Corporation crews the small collector DS-12 'Toy Box' to sweep it up. Hachimaki, a debris hauler who dreams of owning his own spacecraft, works the dangerous, low-status job alongside the chain-smoking Fee and the quiet Yuri. The arrival of earnest rookie Ai Tanabe reshapes the crew as she adjusts to life, work, and grief in the vacuum.
Tsuredure Children
徒然チルドレン
Across one high school, a sprawling cast of students keeps tripping over the same problem: actually saying 'I like you'. In short four-panel installments, couples and would-be couples — the blunt Kana and the teasing Chiaki, the delinquent Kyouya and the prim Ayane, and many more — stumble through confessions, misread signals, and small embarrassments. Their separate stories interlock through shared classmates and friendships into one tangled web of first crushes.
Love So Life
Love So Life
Shiharu Nakamura, a high schooler raised in an orphanage, works part-time at a daycare to save for her future. Among the children are the toddler twins Aoi and Akane, who take to her more than to any other worker. When their guardian, TV announcer Seiji Matsunaga, notices how attached they are, he hires Shiharu to babysit them at home, drawing her into the everyday life of a makeshift family raising two small children.
Übel Blatt
Übel Blatt
In the Empire of Szaalenden, fourteen heroes were once sent to seal the path of the dark invaders Wischtech; four of them betrayed the others and were branded the Lances of Betrayal, while the survivors were hailed as saviors and rose to power as lords. Years later, a youth named Köinzell travels the empire hunting down those celebrated nobles one by one, carrying a grudge against the men the world remembers as heroes. His campaign of revenge cuts through a brutal medieval fantasy world.
Devilman
デビルマン
Akira Fudo is a timid teenager living in Miki Makimura's home when his childhood friend Ryo Asuka warns him that an ancient race of demons is set to reclaim the Earth. Ryo's plan is to fight fire with fire: at a chaotic Black Sabbath, Akira fuses with the demon Amon and gains its powers while keeping his own human heart, becoming Devilman. Now able to match the demons on their own terms, Akira hunts the creatures hiding within human society as suspicion and fear begin to spread among people.
Velvet Kiss
ベルベット・キス
Shin Nitta, an ordinary office worker, is blindsided by a massive debt bearing his own signature. His loan agent offers a way out: instead of paying, he must keep a wealthy young woman named Kanoko Kikuchiya company and do whatever she asks. Kanoko is isolated and self-centered, ordering Shin around on errands and whims as a way to fill her loneliness. As he spends more time at her side, Shin begins to glimpse the family circumstances behind her demanding behavior.
Black Lagoon
ブラック・ラグーン
Rokuro Okajima is a mild Tokyo salaryman until a business trip ends with him taken hostage by the Lagoon Company, a crew of mercenary smugglers operating out of the Thai port city of Roanapur. When his employer writes him off and orders him silenced, Rock cuts ties with his old life and signs on as the gang's negotiator. He works alongside Revy, a foul-mouthed gunhand nicknamed Two Hands, and boss Dutch, running guns and contraband through a lawless underworld where survival is the only rule.
A Sign of Affection
ゆびさきと恋々
Yuki Itose is a college student who has been deaf since birth and navigates the world through sign language, texting, and lip reading. A chance encounter on a crowded train brings her face to face with Itsuomi Nagi, a worldly classmate of her friend who speaks several languages but knows no sign language. Curious about Yuki's world rather than put off by it, Itsuomi sets out to learn how to talk with her, and the unfamiliar attention stirs feelings Yuki has never had to put into words.
Summer Time Rendering
サマータイムレンダ
Two years after leaving for Tokyo, Shinpei Ajiro returns to his home island of Hitogashima for the funeral of Ushio Kofune, the childhood friend who drowned saving a girl. When he learns of strangle marks on Ushio's neck, Shinpei suspects her death was no accident. His search soon collides with the Shadows, doppelgängers that copy a person's appearance and memories before killing and replacing them, and Shinpei finds himself thrown back in time to the day of his arrival each time he dies, replaying the days to uncover what is hunting the island.
Hinamatsuri
ヒナまつり
Yoshifumi Nitta is a young yakuza of the Ashikawa-gumi enjoying his neat bachelor life when a strange pod crashes into his apartment and out steps Hina, an expressionless girl with overwhelming psychokinetic powers. She bluntly informs him she will be living there, and Nitta, wary of what she could wreck, has little choice but to take her in. As Hina settles into school and ordinary life, more children from her world arrive, including the telekinetic Anzu, who was sent to eliminate Hina but ends up adrift on the streets instead.
Sailor Moon
美少女戦士セーラームーン
Usagi Tsukino is a clumsy, easily-frightened Tokyo schoolgirl whose life changes when a talking black cat named Luna tells her she is a guardian destined to fight evil. Granted a brooch that lets her transform into Sailor Moon, Usagi is tasked with finding the Legendary Silver Crystal and protecting a hidden princess. As enemies surface, she meets other girls who awaken as Sailor Guardians named for the planets, and the masked Tuxedo Mask, who appears whenever she is in danger.
Paradise Kiss
パラダイス・キス
Yukari Hayasaka is a buttoned-up high schooler whose days revolve around exams until a group of fashion design students recruits her to model their work. Pulled into the Atelier behind the label Paradise Kiss, she meets the magnetic designer George Koizumi, along with Miwako, Arashi, and Isabella, and starts trading her safe future for the runway. As Yukari falls for George and discovers her own ambitions, she has to decide what kind of life she actually wants.
Ten Count
テンカウント
Tadaomi Shirotani is a corporate secretary whose severe mysophobia keeps him from touching anything bare-handed. When he crosses paths with psychotherapist Riku Kurose, Kurose proposes exposure therapy built around a list of ten things Shirotani cannot bring himself to do, promising he will be free of the compulsion once the list is finished. As the two work through each step, the clinical distance between patient and therapist starts to give way to something neither of them planned for.
No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!
私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い！
Tomoko Kuroki racked up fifty years of romance and a hundred suitors inside dating sims, so she walks into high school certain that popularity will follow. The reality is a brutal correction: she is an awkward, isolated otaku with crushing social anxiety and almost no one to talk to. The series follows Tomoko's stubborn, frequently humiliating attempts to claw her way toward a normal teenage life, with old friend Yuu among the few who stick around.
Re:Monster
リ・モンスター
Kanata Tomokui is murdered in his old life and wakes up reborn as a lowly goblin, keeping both his human memories and a power called Absorption that lets him take on the traits of anything he eats. Named Gob-Rou by his tribe, he eats his way up the food chain, growing far stronger than a goblin has any right to be. This manga adapts Kanekiru Kogitsune's web novel as Rou claws toward the top of a brutal monster world and builds the mercenary band Parabellum.
School-Live!
がっこうぐらし！
Yuki Takeya treats every day at Megurigaoka High as a cheerful adventure with the School Living Club, certain that classes go on as normal and her friends are all safe. The truth is far darker: a zombie outbreak has overrun the world, and Yuki, Kurumi, Yuuri, and Miki are barricaded inside the school to survive. Her clubmates quietly play along with her delusion, because her bright spirit is the one thing holding the group together.
Seven Days: Monday–Sunday
セブンデイズ
Toji Seryo is a first-year known for a strange habit: he will date whoever asks him out first on Monday, then end things after seven days. On a whim, jaded upperclassman Yuzuru Shino asks him out half as a joke, and Toji says yes. As the week runs down day by day, what started as an idle dare turns into real feeling, and Yuzuru begins to dread the Sunday when the arrangement is supposed to end.
Insomniacs After School
君は放課後インソムニア
Ganta Nakami, a withdrawn high schooler whose chronic insomnia has soured his reputation, slips into his school's disused astronomical observatory to grab some rest. There he finds Isaki Magari, an outgoing classmate who can't sleep either and has already claimed the spot as her hideaway. The two strike an unlikely friendship and revive the school's defunct astronomy club, turning the observatory in the small city of Nanao into a refuge that is theirs alone.
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
ありふれた職業で世界最強
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.
Hiyokoi
ひよ恋
Hiyori Nishiyama is a timid fifteen-year-old who stands only 140 cm tall after a traffic accident left her hospitalized for a year and stalled her bone growth. Starting high school late alongside her best friend Ritsuka Nakano, she struggles with shyness until Yuushin Hirose, a tall, easygoing classmate, takes an unexpected interest in her. As the two grow closer, Hiyori works to step past her fear of others and keep up with the school year she nearly lost.
Ranma ½
らんま½
Ranma Saotome trains in martial arts with his father Genma until a fall into a cursed spring at Jusenkyo in China leaves Ranma transformed into a girl whenever splashed with cold water, and back into a boy with hot. Back in Japan, Genma promises Ranma in marriage to one of the daughters of his old friend Soun Tendo, landing the prickly Ranma with the equally hot-tempered Akane Tendo. Rival suitors and other Jusenkyo victims keep the engagement in constant chaos.
Love and Lies
恋と嘘
To fight a falling birth rate, a near-future Japan enacts the Yukari Law: at sixteen, every citizen is assigned a state-chosen marriage partner by genetic compatibility. Yukari Nejima finally confesses to his longtime crush Misaki Takasaki, only to receive his government notice pairing him with classmate Lilina Sanada days later. Caught between the feelings he just admitted and the partner the law has handed him, Nejima has to navigate both relationships under a system that punishes anyone who refuses.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 9: The JOJOLands
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 第9部 The JOJOLands
Jodio Joestar is a fifteen-year-old gangster on Oahu, Hawaii, with a single declared goal: to become filthy rich. Alongside his brother Dragona, comrade Paco Labrantes, and Stand user Usagi Aloha'oe, Jodio's crew breaks into the Hawaiian villa of a wealthy Japanese tourist, only to find the house belongs to manga artist Rohan Kishibe — and that a piece of volcanic rock locked in the safe alongside their target diamond may be worth far more.