Seinen
Dance Macabre - A Brief History of the Darker Side
2012-07-03
Short histories of some of the darkest chapters in western history, including: the trial of Joan of Arc, crucifiction of Jesus Christ, the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory, Spanish Inquisition, and the Emperor Caligula.(Source: MangaHelpers)
Blood Lines
2012-07-02
The Blood race is a secret and powerful race of humans who have lived in the dark side of society for centuries. Based on the 12 Zodiac animals, each group has an animal representing their bloodline. The blood that these people possess allows them to heal incredibly quickly and the only way to kill them is by cutting off their head. Even more, by consuming the blood of other Blood races, they become stronger. These Blood races have been secretly responsible for significant historical events such as wars. Yabuki Tatsuro of the snake has killed and feasted on over 1,000 Blood races which makes him one of the most dangerous and powerful assassins in society. As Tatsuro kills his enemies with his gun and sword, he learns about the legendary Dragon Bloodline thought to be extinct. By consuming it, Tatsuro could be stronger beyond his imagination.
In Bura!
2012-07-02
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. High school freshman, Amagami Kouichi, had a peaceful school life until his morning encounter with freshman female idol Itanami-san. With another incident in home economics class, it seems that Itanami-san was all too eager to help stop Kouichi's bleeding cut on his finger. To elude the class's attention, Kouichi took themselves to the infirmary where Itanami-san reveals that she is a vampire and that Kouichi's blood was so delicious it made her lose her control.
Rakuda Ga Warau
2012-06-30
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. The series includes:- Rakuda Laughs (Manga Action Lab, 1994)- Dance with Rakuda (Comic Gekiman Vol.5, 1996)- Rakuda Sings (Comic Gekiman Vol.6, 1998)Rakuda to Warae:- Laugh with Rakuda (Comic Ryu Vol.44, 2010)- Laugh with Rakuda THE LAST (Comic Ryu Vol.45, 2010)
Tora Kiss - A School Odyssey
2012-06-27
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Vermillion
2012-06-26
From Fallen Syndicate: By using the Dark Gate, humans can entrust their hopes and needs to the darkness. The darkness they call upon is a great and evil power, known as "Demon." WIth the help of his partner Miroku, the Demon Slayer Kisaki Senju will slaughter every last "Demon" that is called into existence.
Ascribe To Heaven
2012-06-25
From Ryuusei no Mafia:Minnie’s the only human living on an alien planet and because of that she’s rejected by almost all the other inhabitants. Then one day something falls outside of her house and it happens to be... a human prince?!Â
Change! (taira Hajime)
2012-06-21
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Usagi-chan De Cue!!
2012-06-21
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Desupai
2012-06-20
Gambling. Mahjong. Death. These are the themes of this fast-paced, undercover-agent-style manga where outrageous life-or-death gambles are made daily occurences and insurmountable odds are overcome. The most hardcore, action-packed mahjong manga you will ever see.Â
Mado No Mukougawa
2012-06-18
Kei Sonofuji is trying to get a new start by changing her image before getting into high school. But just as it seems everything is going to go well, she gets sick and has to miss the first week. Just as she thinks she's missed out on everything, she gets a surprise from one of her classmates!Â
Hito Hitori Futari
2012-06-16
From MangaHelpers: After the body dies, the soul lives on. Many spirits progress toward the world of light, through the levels of the spirit world where they study how to improve their souls. These spirits are sometimes reincarnated into the physical world, and sometimes they are sent back as guardian spirits for other living people. Guardian spirits must protect their charges souls from the blackness that oozes up from the world of darkness below. Riyon is a very laid-back spirit, who often skips her spirit classes to fool around. To train her further, she is sent back to the physical world as a guardian spirit. Instead of following a human from birth, she is helping a beleaguered man, the Japanese Prime Minister Kasuga Soichiro, in the last year and a half of his life. After an unexpected close call with death, Kasuga gains some unusual talents, including the ability to see Riyon. Will Riyon and Kasuga together be able to protect his battered soul? [tethysdust]
Jigokudou Reikai Tsuushin
2012-06-16
Tetsushi (a 5th grader delinquent who rules over the students of Jouin elementary), Ryuuchin (Tetsushi's right hand man) and Tsuda (their sometimes-ally), are known to everyone in town as the "three evil prankster kings."In a creepy pharmacy located out-of-town, the boys meet an old man who bestows a strange and other-worldly power upon them. Soon after, our 3 young pranksters find themselves battling a variety of ghosts and demons...!?
Inherit the Stars
2012-06-15
In 205X, armed forces and conflicts are a thing of the past and people live safe, peaceful lives, all thanks to a cheap, inexhaustible source of energy. One day, something strange is discovered on the moon: an ancient corpse in a spacesuit. The corpse is undeniably human, but it appears to be about 50,000 years old! What does this mean about the history of our species and what effect will this discovery have on current human society?
Papa Ga Mo Ichido Koi O Shita
2012-06-13
From Stiletto Heels:Yamashita Tomo is just an average junior high school girl...but her father is a "NEET" (Not in Employment, Education or Training) and her mother is an "old man"?Â
Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi
2012-06-11
A strange phenomenon where one is transferred back to the moment right before something life-threatening occurs. This continues to happen until the cause of the threat is erased. It is as if somebody is forcing Satoru to stop it from happening. Then one day, everything is changed. What truths are revealed when Satoru comes face to face with his own past? How will they affect his future? Note: Was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Reader Award in 2014 and for the 7th, 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award between 2014 and 2016.
Dracu-riot!
2012-06-09
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Nejimakiboshi To Aoi Sora
2012-06-08
From NatsuyumeThis is the tale of a boy whose mother was killed in a meteor strike on their island home 6 months ago – something everyone knows was the crashing of an alien ship but no one will confirm – who one day quite literally has a girl drop out of the sky on him. She at first takes him hostage from people hunting her but it eventually comes out that she’s from outer space and if there’s one thing that this boy’s mother taught him, it is to NOT leave a damsel in distress…Â
Heba! Hello-chan
2012-06-06
She's cute. She's a barrel of fun. She's irrepressible. And... a bit of a klutz. She's Haruo Hattori, and now she's leaving her little country farm town, her boyfriend, and her loony family for college in the big city. Before she leaves, she makes a pledge that she'll remain true to her boyfriend, despite all the temptations a big city can throw at her, and the temptations pile up like cordwood when the need for a few yen to rub together nets her a job at Club 9, a hot hostess bar. The charming country girl lights a lot of fires in the hearts of the club patrons, and her short skirt is fanning the flames! How ya gonna keep `em down on the farm once they've been to Club 9?
Sabu To Ichi Torimonohikae
2012-06-05
The series follows the adventures of Sabu, a young Edo bakufu investigator traveling with the blind master swordsman Ichi. In their travels, they assist the common people in solving mysteries and righting wrongs (usually committed by bandits or corrupt officials). Sabu is engaged to Midori, the daughter of his boss, who works as a police officer for the Tokugawa shogunate.This series won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award.Â
Baketeriya
2012-06-05
Naoya Kamitani is on top of the world. He's a fighter who's managed against all odds to get into a top university in Kyoto. And he fights to get to the top of the university... literally. At the top of the school clock tower, he meets a strange man names Tsukui who seems to have all the answers. But the answers come with a higher price than he expected.
Shounen Note
2012-06-05
Oneshot description:A short story about a boy whose name is Yutaka and sucessfully sings as a soloist in a choir with his soprano voice, but then gets into the trouble of his puberty vocal change.
Anorexia - Shikabane Hanako Wa Kyoshokushou
2012-05-31
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Momoiro Meloik
2012-05-30
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Duction Man
2012-05-30
Ogi Juugo has forsaken the entertainment industry ever since it caused the death of his family. However, fate had different plans. After proposing to his girlfriend and being shot down, he realizes that his girlfriend is actually a model. Acting on his love for her he decides that it is time to return to the industry.
Odyssey
2012-05-28
Similar to Sanctuary, Odyssey is another story on thought-provoking political revolution. This time the theater is international, as a group of young government elites execute their secret plan to raise Japan as the economic and military superpower in the Far East. How will they carry out their objectives? Is it through a new military presence, or through Japan's economic know-how? How will the U.S. respond to Japan's new "independence," and will the political and economic figures in control of Japan now let these young elites re-shape their world?
Green Blood
2012-05-28
From MangaHelpers:The end of the civil war signaled the start of the industrial revolution in the United States and immigrants from all over the world traveled to find their American dream. But what awaited the majority of them was poverty, discrimination and hopelessness. Manhattan, New York was full of immigrants flooding through the ports and the 6th district, Five Points, was considered at the time, the world’s worst slum. The mobsters corrupted the entire area, including the police by paying them off; Five Points was the mob’s territory and they were the law.But even in Five Points, where there seemed to be nothing but robbery, prostitution and murder, showed some signs of hope. Luke Burns was a honest and righteous teenager who realized that the mob was the cause of the harsh lifestyle and that joining the mobsters would not bring him the American dream. But his older brother, Brad Burns, had become the assassin to the biggest mob group of Five Points, the Grave Diggers, a secret he kept from Luke for his own protection. Brad was known as the Grim Reaper and his reputation preceded him as a ruthless and skilled killer. [vyc]
Oniwakamaru the Visitor
2012-05-26
28 years earlier, there was a plane crash in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture. The barrier that the Kobo Daishi, Kukai had created to seal away the demons was destroyed in crimson flames... Present day, Oniwakamaru, King of the Yokai, appears inside the body of pure and innocent Tachibana Hitori!!
Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt
2012-05-18
The Universal Century began with mankind moving its burgeoning population into outer space. The year is UC0079. The cluster of colonies furthest from the Earth, Side 3, proclaim themselves the Principality of Zeon and launch a war of independence against the Earth Federation. Now, it is nearly one year since the war broke out. In the “Thunderbolt sectorâ€, a reef section of space where a large quantity of wreckage from battleships and destroyed space colonies from the war lies, a violent battle plays out as the Earth Federation Forces set their sights on recapturing the Zeon-controled sector.Â
Futatsu No Spica
2012-05-16
This is a story about the teenage fantasies of Asumi, a girl who wishes to become an astronaut, and of her friends.One day, Lion's space vehicle fell from the sky and crashed, unfortunately killing Asumi's mother. Asumi then met the spirit of Lion, who told Asumi many stories of space. By listening to these stories, Asumi was inspired to realize her dream of becoming an astronaut.Embracing her dreams in her heart, Asumi is now in third grade of junior high school. It is time to decide her path for the future...Â
Ai De Asobu
2012-05-11
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. A collection of one-shots, published 2003-2010.• Gomennasai (Young Animal, 2003/3)• Bousou Kiss (Rakuen web, 2010/3)• ...Gokko (Rakuen #1, 2009/10)• Otoshigoro (Big Comic Spirits, 2005 #19)• One Step (Rakuen web, 2010/4)• Ferris Wheel (Silky, 2009/8)• Yume musubi to (Rakuen web, 2009/12)• Hakuchu yamu (Rakuen #3, 2010/6)• Yoshi × Yoshi (new)• Only One (Rakuen #2, 2010/2)• Reset (new)
Master Keaton Remaster
2012-05-08
From Baka-Updates Manga:The main character is the son of an English woman of noble birth and a Japanese zoologist. Keaton went to England at the age of five with his mother after his parents' divorce. There he learned archeology at Oxford University, where he met his wife with whom he has a daughter, Yuriko. They divorced after five years. He works as an operative/detective for Lloyds of London where he's known for his abilities he acquired as a master sergeant in the SAS and as a veteran of the Falklands War, and was one of the members of the Iran Embassy incident. This helps him carry out his dangerous work of insurance investigator.
Discommunication
2012-04-30
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. "Why do people fall in love?" Arika Togawa doesn't understand why she has fallen in love with her classmate, Takaomi Matsubue, as she hardly knows him. Together they decide to find out how two strangers can fall in love, encountering other wonderful but strange love stories along the way. Religious, occult, and popular iconography figure prominently in this "Truly Mysterious Love Manga."
Golden Time (novel)
2012-04-26
From Baka-Tsuki: Tada Banri, a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo, found himself completely lost after the opening ceremony, trying to find his way to the freshman orientation. At that moment, he ran into another lost freshman from the same school, Yanagisawa Mitsuo, and they hit it off at once. Somehow arriving at their intended goal just on time, there appeared in front of the two a beautiful girl holding a bouquet of roses. The girl then whacked Mitsuo across the face with the bouquet and handed the flowers over to him. “Freshman, congratulationsâ€Â, was all she said, and then she left. The stylish, well dressed, perfect woman that had swung at Mitsuo was his childhood friend, Kaga Kouko. As children they had promised to marry each other one day, fulfilling their dreams. In order to escape from her, Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the examination for this well known private college, but now she showed up in the freshman orientation hall. She too had taken the law school entrance examination, catching up with him there.
Omoni Naitemasu
2012-04-24
Konno Izumi, a beautiful life drawing model tormented with the unrelenting curse of her excessive beauty.Â
Tsuburara
2012-04-24
Tsubura is an ordinary high-school girl who has an obsession with the girl idol group Caramel Angel. She's a little embarrassed of the extent of her fascination, particularly because she doesn't seem like the kind of girl who would fawn over idols. In the privacy of her own home, though, she blissfully hangs out in her C☆A-postered room and never misses their music performance on TV. Then, on one unlucky day, she accidentally breaks her family's TV. Her mother is in no rush to replace it, and Tsubura doesn't have the money to do it herself. How will she overcome this terrible crisis and get her fix of Caramel Angel?!
81 Diver
2012-04-14
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. KentarÅ's former shogi teacher taught him to (metaphorically) dive into the 81 squares of the shogi board. Thus, his nickname is "81diver". He has failed to enter the professional league of shogi competition. However, he continues to play the game for a living by gambling at amateur shogi clubs.
Sakasama No Patema: Another Side
2012-04-10
A floating ring has been passed down through Mikko's family for generations. Her grampa told her that the ring bears a promise of reuniting with lost ones who departed to the "other world." Mikko explores her world -- an endless network of tunnels -- in hopes of finding the "other world" one day...This is the side story to the film Inverted Patema.Â
Gokukoku No Brynhildr
2012-04-10
When he was a child, Murakami was infatuated with a girl he called Kuroneko. She insisted on knowing about aliens and having met them, but no one believed her, even young Murakami was skeptical. One day, she decides to show him the aliens, but an accident occurs and Kuroneko dies while Murakami is left seriously wounded in the hospital.Years go by and Murakami obsesses on finding proof of the existence of aliens because of a promise he had made with Kuroneko. Then, one day, a new transfer student comes to his class, who not only looks a lot like Kuroneko, but is named Kuroha Neko!And even though she insists on never having met Murakami before, the girl has superhuman strength and seems to even be able to predict the future!How will Murakami's life change now that he has been saved by this mysterious girl that claims to be a magician?
G
2012-04-09
G takes place at these points we call boundaries. Boundaries between times, dimensions, destinies, life and death, … It tells the story of young Tomak through his initiatic journey. The Death Grass Spirit is never far... This story is related to the short story "Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour" published in Heaven's Door.
Midnight Eye Goku
2012-04-09
Furinji Goku is an ordinary private eye for hire. While working on a case involving an illegal weapons dealer, he notices a lot of the detectives working on the case committing suicide for no apparent reason. After Goku gets a little too close to the truth, he is then put in a situation where he must stab out his left eye to avoid certain death. Goku then awakens in a mysterious lab where an unknown scientist replaces his eye with a cybernetic one that allows him to control any computer system in the world.
Haruwaka
2012-04-09
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Ono Matori is a high-school student who is secretly a successful erotic manga author. He has recently found new inspiration for his work from his neighbors and classmates, the Hikasayama twins, Haruna and Wakana. Both Haruna, the cheerful and active half, and Wakana, the cool and collect one, both fall in love with Matori. He unwittingly agrees to date both of them both for research purposes and personal interest. Their love triangle will help Matori with his erotic manga storyline but how will his life change back in the real world?
Moon Edge
2012-04-08
From MangaHelpers: In a ruined city, Takeru comes across a suicidal young girl named Konoha. She's deathless, and she's being used as a guinea pig by a cruel organization. Seeing no meaning to her life, she fled her captors to seek a way to end it. Takeru has a lot in common with Konoha-- he's also deathless. He's made a life for himself, though, locating people by contract. After he rescues her from her pursuers, he convinces her to continue living. Maybe she'll be able to find a purpose, as she and Takeru face the future together. [tethysdust]