Seinen
Abandon the Old in Tokyo
2011-01-24
Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tastsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary short stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists, but, until now, the majority of his works has remained unavailable outside of Japan. By turns poetic, comical, and deeply unsettling, Abandon the Old in Tokyo is a collection of unforgettable short stories from the modern master.
Battle Royale 2: Blitz Royale
2011-01-24
This manga was released straight to tankobon (graphic novel) format, therefore there was no serialization. However, a thirty page preview ran in Akita Shoten's Young Champion Magazine. The problem with straight to tankobon manga is that there is no indication whatsoever of when the next volume might be released.Though the author is the same, the artist has changed from the original manga. The realistic grit of Masayuki Taguchi has been replaced by the lighthearted cartooniness of Hitoshi Tomizawa. Also, though it is still written by Koushun Takami, the original story is based on the universe of the films rather than that of the original novel.
Candy Boy
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Based on the popular yuri OVA series, which is about the relationship between two fraternal twins and their daily life.Yukino and Kanade continue their schooling, and Kanade takes a late night art class in preparation for her future.As before, she usually ends up fooling around and drawing her sister in strange poses before finally getting her work done.Kanade begins to question the feelings she has for Yukino... does she feel a pure sisterly love for her, or are her feelings more perverted?
Cat Eyed Boy
2011-01-24
Cat-Eyed Boy is a half-human, half-monster child who mostly resembles a human, and therefore cannot live in the demon world. He lives hidden in the shadows of the human world, hated by both demons and humans. But wherever he goes, awful events occur. Humans interact with demons, but for the most part the humans that appear to act more evil than the monsters. Cat-Eyed Boy acts like Trickster, saving the innocent and helping the wicked receive the punishment that fate metes out. The stories are mostly tales of revenge and retribution for the evil acts people do. The series is broken into 11 individual stories, full of extremely grotesque and disturbing images.
Chobits
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Hideki's just like every other guy in the 22nd century. He just wants a good job, a good car, and a sexy robot girlfriend to call his own. Until he lands a job, he'll never be able to afford his own 'Persocom' companion. Hideki's luck changes when he discovers Chi--an adorable but seemingly stupid Persocom--tied up in a pile of trash. His first robot companion turns out to be a lot more responsibility than he expected, and she gets him into quite a few embarrassing situations. It's 'boy-meets-girl' for the cyber age. (Source: Tokyopop)
Devilman Mokushiroku - Strange Days
2011-01-24
Some more stuff to add to the Devilman mythos. This is Kinutani Yuu's second story about Nagai Gou's work.
Doll Star
2011-01-24
Everyone knows that Yugi Nonoka is crazy. Her classmates have ostracized her and her teachers have given up on her. Yet, while Yugi may seem messed to the world, she has a disturbing knack for knowing the messed up crap that other people are hiding. And she has the power to do something about it...
DRUG-ON
2011-01-24
It is said that on a prohibited island called Dragon`s Beak the power of the gods resides. Anyone who obtains the power will have all their wishes fulfilled. (Source: M-U)
Eliminate Dangerous Doctors
2011-01-24
Like gods, doctors hold the lives of their patients in the palms of their hand. When doctors go bad who will stand up to them when the law is powerless? E.D.D is the fabled agency that works to rid society of these crooked men. When Dr. Kasahara meets his untimely termination from his hospital he is recruited to the ranks of this mysterious agency. Join Kasahara and Kojima as they Eliminate Dangerous Doctors.[MU]
Fist of the North Star Rei Gaiden
2011-01-24
Side story of Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), telling the story of Rei of Nanto Suich?ken.
Fist of the North Star Yuria Gaiden
2011-01-24
A Hokuto no Ken sidestory telling the story of Yuria.
Gantz
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal--few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots, and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name... Gantz.
Garouden
2011-01-24
The central plot revolves around a man named Bunshichi Tanba, a dojo-crasher who seeks stronger fighters to prove his strength to himself. While traveling to several schools and challenging the best each had to offer, Tanba came to the FAW (a gym that trains pro-wrestlers) and is pitted against T. Kajiwara. Tanba is defeated and humiliated after realizing that he is not strong enough and disappears for 3 years. Upon his return, he has become nearly unbeatable.
Godeath - Megane no Ketsumyaku
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. It is the 18th century in Naples, Italy. There is a girl named Maria living peacefully in the city, but she is more than she appears. She is like a goddess of death, with a sword that cuts through everything. But what exactly is she? Where has she come from and what cruel destiny awaits her?
Gun Frontier
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. It is a harsh and barren wasteland, where the weak are not allowed to dream. It is also a sacred land for true men, for there is no place a man can feel more alive. This is the Gun Frontier. Sea Pirate Captain Harlock and the errant samurai, Tochiro arrive in the United States on the Western Frontier. Along with a mysterious woman they meet along the way, the two friends challenge sex rings, bandits, and corrupt sheriff. They are searching for a lost clan of Japanese immigrants, and they will tear Gun Frontier from end to end until they find it.
Hoozuki-san Chi No Aneki
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Gorou has a crush on his older step sister Haru. Unfortunately for Gorou, Haru happens to love teasing him sadistically in every way possible.This is a 4-koma crack comedy about their wacky day to day life and interactions.
Jyuushin Gura
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. not found...
K-on!
2011-01-24
It's Yui Hirasawa's first year in high school, and she's eagerly searching for a club to join. At the same time, Ritsu Tainaka, a drummer, and her friend Mio Akiyama, a bass player, are desperately trying to save the school's light music club, which is about to be disbanded due to lack of members. They manage to recruit Tsumugi Kotobuki to play the keyboard, meaning they only need one more member to get the club running again. Yui joins, thinking it will be an easy experience for her to play the castanets, the only instrument she knows. However, the other members think their new addition is actually a guitar prodigy...Â
Machigatta Ranobe no Tsukurikata
2011-01-24
How to create a light novel #1: Character. This is how Kirino begins her project of writing a light novel. She finds Suzuha standing outside and finds her attractive and asks her if she could be her model for her light novel. Kirino claims that she wishes to receive the rookie award, and top the popularity of the Haruhi light novel series. Suzuha declines, but Kirino refuses to give up and constantly stalks her to obtain as much information as possible about Suzuha. A hilarious comedy of unexpected events and sexual jokes begins here!
March Story
2011-01-24
“Things that should not be touched by humans somehow find their way into this world. That’s why you should never, ever touch anything that is foreign.”Follow the adventures of March, a Syste Behard, who hunts ils– evil creatures that lurk in fascinating objects.(Source: Etc)
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
2011-01-24
The novel begins in UC 0001, at the very beginning of human space colonization, and is said to cover an as yet unspecified major event that influences the course of human history forever. The main story takes place in UC 0096, three years after the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char`s Counterattack.
My Girl Sahara Mizu
2011-01-24
Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man...has a kid? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.
Mysterious Girlfriend X
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Was originally a one-shot in Afternoon in 2004 before it became a series in 2006.One day, a strange transfer student appears before Tsubaki. Urabe Mikoto is an antisocial girl, whose hobby is just sleeping during class-breaks. One day, Tsubaki goes to wake her up and accidentally tastes her drool... And gets hooked on that!After that, he starts going out with her and gets to know her better. Her second hobby, as it turns out, is carrying around scissors in her panties and cutting paper into flowers...
Otoyomegatari
2011-01-24
Set on the Silk Road that connected Asia with Europe before the modern times. The story of Amira, a woman skilled in archery and horsemanship, sent to marry Karluk, a boy from another village who is 8 years younger than her. But all is not well, as her village decides to take her back...
Rabuyan
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. A great, ecchi comedy about an angel of love that has 100% success rate at hooking people up. However, her next client is reaching for forbidden love, and I mean forbidden. Will Rabu-yan (the Angel of Love) keep her 100% success record, and in the process initiate something that should not happen? You will just have to find out.
Ran to Haiiro no Sekai
2011-01-24
Meet the Urumas, a slightly dysfunctional family of four sorcerers. Mom, being the most powerful sorceress around, works away from home keeping the world safe. Dad picks up the slack and takes care of the family. Except when he's out, which is when the older brother Jin finds himself in the unenviable position of keeping tabs on his sister Ran. And Ran, the youngest, is a willful girl with too much power and too little wisdom. Let's take a look at Ran's everyday misadventures, shall we?
ReBirth The Lunatic Taker
2011-01-24
Reiji is your typical high-school student living with his big sister Ayaka. One day he stumbles upon a pair of bracelets on the sidewalk. He picks them up and tries to find the owner but gets sidetracked as a bag snatcher runs his direction. He tries to stop him but is stabbed and killed. On the brink of death he hears a voice from the bracelets "If thou wishes to live form a contract." What has Reiji gotten himself into? And what exactly does the contract entail?
School Zone
2011-01-24
From Dark Horse:The Queen of Horror Manga, Kanako Inuki, brings you School Zone, a series about ordinary children who encounter the strange and terrifying at their very own school, and discover that many ghost stories, urban legends, and superstitions are truly and horribly real.
Solanin
2011-01-24
After graduating from college, Meiko went straight to work as an office lady, but she can't help feeling there should be something more to life. Determined to find a worthier goal, she quits work, but can she actually make her neubulous dreams come true- and how will her sudden decision affect her relationship with her boyfriend Taneda?
Spirit of Wonder
2011-01-24
Volume one consists of mostly unrelated short stories of mad scientists and quiet sci-fi drama. Volume 2 and on (?): Miss China is a nice woman who rents a place to the ingenious Professor Breckenridge and his assistant Jim Floyd. While Jim can't pay the rent for his room, he's spending his money to all kinds of crazy inventions, be it to please miss China, and to win her heart.Note: there appears to be a lot of conflicting information about this series (number of volumes , synopsis, and so on). I've only found one website, a Spanish publisher, that acknowledges that there are three volumes as opposed to one or two. English websites only seem to acknowledge the Miss China story arc, which is, admittedly, the most well known due to being adapted into an anime OVA.Volume 1 stories:*The Universe is so Vast and Wonderful!*Leaving One Night by the Light of the Full Moon*To Invoke the Stars*Little Melancholy*The Young Scientists' Club*See You Later, God Willing*Marsy in the Land of Time*Natsuko*The Young Scientist Club on Mars
Iryuu - Team Medical Dragon
2011-01-24
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Dr. Katou is an ambitious woman who seeks to revolutionize the corrupt and inefficient Japanese medical system from within by becoming a professor in a teaching hospital. She enlists a maverick surgeon, Dr. Asada Ryuutarou, to help her with research that would catapult her to a professorship should they succeed and publish. However, Asada's refusal to conform to the system soon threatens to destroy not only her plans but her entire career. Katou is prepared to do anything, including going along with the system, in order to achieve her end goal, but she begins to question whether she has gone too far as Asada's actions bring many of the system's shortcomings to light.
The Chronicles of the Clueless Age
2011-01-24
From Hox:Similar to Happiness, this is a collection of oneshots, but I think it has a tighter central focus, as each chapter deals with common problems that teenagers go undergo.
Tom Sawyer
2011-01-24
From the creator of Saikano comes this manga take on the Mark Twain classic. (Source: Entropy)
Valkyria Chronicles
2011-01-24
In an alternate Earth, the armies of the Imperial Alliance have ravaged the entire Europan continent in 1935 EC during the Second Europan War. In the middle of the war, the army invades Gallian territory to acquire a mineral known as ragnite. Standing in their way is a recently drafted militia officer named Welkin Gunther, son of known Europan War hero, Belgen Gunther.
Vampir
2011-01-24
He died, only for a minute. Minakawa Ryo was an ordinary high school student until the day a girl jumped off a building, killing him with her. He miraculously comes back to life but with a new ability to see and hear what ordinary people cannot. Then one day a mysterious girl, Hokuto Shou, appears and tells him that his half has become a resident of the world of the dead. His previous ordinary life has dissipated, and a new life between the living and the dead begins.
Waters
2011-01-24
In the midst of a blazing hot summer beset by water shortages, middle-school girl Chinami faints from heat exhaustion. Upon waking up, she finds herself in a mysterious town by a beautifully pristine river whose waters hide many secrets...
Adamas
2011-01-24
Reika Ryuzaki, daughter of the late diamond collector Yoshio Ryuzaki, is a jewel specialist who fights with knuckles branded as "Krishna" in cases involving bad guys who rob or misuse jewels for their own gains. She has an advantage in fighting as she can
Aoki Ookami: Chihate Umi Tsukiru Made
2011-01-24
Adapted from the same source material as the Japanese â?? Mongolian film, "Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea" This manga tells the story of the legendary leader's journey from boyhood to becoming one of the greatest conquerors in history.
Near Equal
2011-01-24
Tsubaki is her school's most proficient student, being polite and is absolutely good at everything and little by little people are hailing her to be the school's queen.... And she absolutely despises that. She quietly admits to herself that being a "perfect student" is not her real personality, but a clever ruse to become a more likable person.She is, however, still not able to interact normally with students and thus is dissatisfied; fact that prompts her to follow the advice of a magazine on finding happiness; the magazine states that by meeting your doppelganger, you will achieve long-lasting happiness. Determined, Tsubaki follows the instructions in the magazine and opens up a door that will allow her to meet her doppelganger....... And who she meets at the other side of the world is not who she was expecting.... well, it is someone who is strangely identical to her when it comes down to it, but it is also essentially different.
Doraemon (matsumoto Taiyou)
2011-01-24
A short oneshot about the effects of time travel on Nobita from Doraemon.
Otome Wa Oneesama Ni Koishiteru: Futari No Elder
2011-01-22
Chihaya is a boy that is looked down because he looks like a girl. Due to that reasons, he isolates himself at home. His mom suggests that he should go to Seiou Academy which is an all girls school. Thus, the story started...
13 Club
2011-01-14
If you could find out a little something about the future, what would you do? Get rich off of the stock market? Use the media to become famous as a prophet? Or…
14 Juicy
2011-01-14
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Welcome to Watermelon Junior High where everything is so JUICY!!Short random school life chapters of a girl who wears a cow suit, a soccer fan girl and a Meganekko.
20th Century Boys
2011-01-14
Growing older is pretty rough and Kenji is finding out just how hard it can be as life starts wearing down on him. On top of trying to make ends meet running a convenience store, he has to care for the niece that his missing sister left in his care. Memories of youth make it easier, until those memories come back to haunt you. Kenji and his old friends are slowly being drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that could threaten the world. Who is the mysterious "friend", and how does he tie into Kenji's youth? Why are there disappearances and deaths tied into Ochanomizu University? The friend's memories hold the keys to the puzzle, but years between cloud the clues. The strange occurances and the reach of the "friend" conspiracy grow by the day. It will all culminate on New Year's Eve 2000. Will Kenji and the rest of the group be able to put together the puzzle and save the world?
3x3 Eyes
2011-01-14
Plot: 3x3 Eyes is a story that follows the adventures of Pai, the last remaining Sanjiyan Unkara, and her new Wu (Chinese reading meaning, "immortal companion"), Yakumo, as they desperately try to find a way to make Pai human so that she can forget her troubled past. Yakumo can again become mortal and end his constant need to protect Pai because if Pai dies, then so will he. Along the way, they encounter many followers of the now-dead demon god Kaiyanwang, all of whom wish to kill Pai or siphon off her power in order to resurrect their deity and/or gain immortality.Later, it involves Hindu mythology with creativity which played a huge role in the main plot.
888
2011-01-14
The newly opened Suehiro Detective Agency is comprised of laid-back manager Hisago, dog-loving chief investigator Shimeki and administrator Tsukumo. With very few paying customers, the three protagonists are free to spend their time bickering with and tea
A Channel
2011-01-14
4-koma about the daily lives of Tooru who has just entered the same high school as her best and childhood friend Run-chan, who is now a second year, and her friends Yuuko-chan (whom Tooru bullies cause they meet under bad circumtances) & Nagi-chan (who watches).
A Spirit Of The Sun
2011-01-14
Japan is hit by a series of monumental natural disasters that leave the country fragmented and its people devasted. Follow the lives of its citizens as they deal with massive emigration to refugee camps on the Asian mainland and try to solve the political task of rebuilding their nation.A Spirit of the Sun is also a retelling and melding of two well-known stories in Japan. The setting is directly lifted from the early '70s disaster science-fiction book and movie "Nippon Chinbotsu," (Japan Sinks) while many of the characters are allegorical to the key players in the Eastern classic "Sangokushi" (The Three Kingdoms). Sangokushi aficionados may discover greater entertainment by watching the characters in A Spirit of the Sun closely to spot these resemblances.From Kaiji Kawaguchi, the author of Silent Service, Eagle and Zipang (as well as the artist for Confession).
A Train At The End Of Summer
2011-01-14
If I could describe it in a few words, I’d say “poetic”, “lonely”, and “deliberate”. There’s a touch of the sadness that comes at the end of summer, the transition into cold and quiet. It feels heavy with undertones. Every word seems delib
Abara
2011-01-14
When a creature attacks the city, a man with strange powers reluctantly stands to fight... but a shadowy government organization has unfinished business with him.Abara is set in a dystopian world, filled with large structures. The story revolves around creatures known as Gaunas, Gaunas are people who can shape bone like armor and weaponry around themselves through transformation. The transformation begins around the spine and then shapes layered armor.
Acchi Kocchi
2011-01-14
Acchi Kocchi follows the misadventures, screw ups and idiocy of 5 schoolmates: Io, Tsumiki, Hime, Mayoi and Sakaki.