Seinen
Filament
2011-01-27
Plot: Includes:She Got Off the Bus at the Peninsula:Mitsuko Kunizaki has inherited a small grocery store from her grandmother. Being a single mother to a little boy, she intends to close it down and move on with life. However, in the solitary store that sits next to the last bus stop at the tip of a peninsula lie some long-buried memories that slowly reemerge as Mitsuko arrives at what used to be her home
Fire Candy
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Fire Candy's about a future where most of humanity has lost the ability to reproduce normally. This has brought about the existance of 'halfs', people born from the genetic material of both humans and animals.WARNING: Lots of sex and violence in this series.
Forget (ASAHI Yuki)
2011-01-27
Plot: Fukano-kun, a middle school student, has trouble remembering things; however, there is one thing that he can really remember...
Golden Boy
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Oe Kintarou is a Tokyo University Law School dropout. However, he had completed all the course work needed to graduate before leaving school. Since then, he has wandered through many jobs all over Japan as a student of life with little more than a journal, a pen, and his trusty mountain bike (the Mikazuki 5). On his journeys, he runs into various compromising situations with beautiful women, and he must use his unique talents as a jack-of-all-trades to survive, let alone have a chance to find his true calling in life. But he is far more skilled than he appears, and he is determined to succeed no matter what he does. He could be the man who will save Japan--no, the world... or maybe not. Packed with hilarious hi-jinks, lots of ecchi, ramen noodles, gracious kindness, and even some toilet hugging, Golden Boy is full of non-stop fun.
Greed Packet Unlimited
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Casio and his little sister Nokia both work as bounty hunters who use magic packets that they download through their mobile phones and cast with the built-in camera to defeat mysterious apparitions called phantasms. The bounties for these phantasms are quite high, but the enormous fees for the magic packets they download and the property damage they create has reduced them to a homeless status living off cup ramen. This all changes when they meet a foolish albeit wealthy, young woman called Sony who didn't bother to properly research Casio and Nokia's true nature before becoming their sponso
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Yoigoshi-hen
2011-01-27
Plot: Summer 1983...Hinamizawa is a tranquil village, but its inhabitants have been plagued by strange deaths and unexplained disappearances seemingly every year. Some say it's the terrifying curse of Hinamizawa's legendary deity, Oyashiro-sama, causing victims to be spirited away by monsters, but is this town harboring dark, horrying secrets even more sinister than any supersition or myth?This chapter is an epilogue of one of the "possible outcomes" of Tsumihoroboshi-hen, in which Rena burned the school and killed Mion and her friends. Many years later, in 2006, the lock has been lifted and a group of five meet by coincidence, one of them claiming to be Mion, and get dragged into the supernatural aspects of the "Village of the Dead".The story is divided into a total of eight chapters: four "Question" arcs and four "Answer" arcs. Each chapter keeps the same main characters, but ends in a different way. However, each chapter gives valuable answers, hints, and clues to the previous one, while at the same time bringing forth even more mysteries.The question arcs are: Onikakushi-hen, Watanagashi-hen, Tatarigoroshi-hen and Himatsubushi-hen.The answer arcs are: Meakashi-hen, Tsumihoroboshi-hen, Minagoroshi-hen and Matsuribayashi-hen.The side story arcs are: Onisarashi-hen, Yoigoshi-hen, and Utsutsukowashi-hen
Shiroi Kumo
2011-01-27
Includes the following short stories:1. Once Upon a TimeA lost little girl wants to find her way home...2. See You Next TimeA girl calmly reminisces about her dead friend.3. Imp in the NightA little imp wonders why he's afraid of the night.4. Sakura Antique StoreThe story of an old watch sitting in the window display of the Sakura Antique Store.5. Shiroi KumoA beautiful and touching story about life, death, and the heartening belief that we will all arrive at the same place when our time has come.6. MolehillThe story of a young mole who decides to become human so that he can see his girlfriend's face...7. The Lands of DreamsA girl is trapped in an endless dream...8. Grape PickingTwo teachers discuss the godliness of children.9. Let's Go Home10. The Story of the Flower11. The Road Where Flowers Bloom12. Egg Water13. Hoppie's BearOne day, office worker Kurata encounters a strange girl in the city. The girl, who wears a bear “head mask” all the time, moonlights at her dad’s restaurant. Thus begins an unusual friendship between the lovelorn man and the mature girl…14. "To a Certain Place"
Ikkitousen
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Sealed in ancient jewels are the spirits of the heroes who tried and failed to unite China in the Three Kingdoms era. These jewels have been scattered throughout Japan, and have the power to draw out the full potential of those who inherit them. However, those owners, known as Toushi, are possessed with an insatiable appetite for battle. Hakufu Sonsaku is one such Toushi. Living in the country, Hakufu's desire to beat something to a pulp goes unfulfilled until her mother tells her to go to Tokyo, where she starts training with other Toushi and sets foot on the path to her destiny
Imperial Guards
2011-01-27
Plot: An elite military unit conducts its duties alongside sabertooth tigers trained to assist their human masters.The Imperial Guards manga was a runner-up in the 9th Japanese Media Arts Awards, the 11th Tezuka Cultural Prize, and the 1st Manga Taisho Awards.
Ikioku - The Cooler Half
2011-01-27
Plot: This beautifully drawn short story by Yôko Nihonbashi, creator of G senjô Heaven's Door, introduces the silent, beautiful Yaeko Shimura, a woman who brings new meaning to the words dutiful wife and good friend.
Is Infinite Stratos
2011-01-27
Plot: Students are trained in the Infinite Stratos academy to pilot the weapon system (Infinite Stratos). Although it is believed that only females have the ability to operate the IS, there is one man who can. His name is Ichika Orimura.
Kimen Douji
2011-01-27
Plot: Shien is a horned person known as Onikirimaru, who hunts ogres. Yura is a horned child who just lost his parents to an ogre. In an era where ogres eat people and horned people are feared as much as ogres, Yura and Shien meet...
Kikinosuke Gomen Giyaman No Sho
2011-01-27
Plot: During the middle of the Edo period, there was a long reign of peace in which no one died in a conflict. But being born into a samurai family, there could be only one successor to the house, hence, the second and third sons of the family were busy looking for work. This is the story of Kikinosuke Fujimi, second son to the Fujimi family.
Little House with the Orange Roof
2011-01-27
Plot: A man comes home one day to have his wife give him divorce papers. A woman comes home to her apartment one day to find a woman she doesn't know wrapped in a towel coming out of the shower. They both get conned by the same real estate conman on the same house, a 4LDK. So now the man, his two sons, the woman, and her two daughters live in the same house.
Love Letter (ASADA Jiro)
2011-01-27
Plot: Goro just got out from jail, but a police officer wants to talk to him right away. He announces to him that Goro's wife is dead and that he has to go to Chiba and take her body. Goro has no recollection of having a wife, but then he remembers he married a Chinese woman a long time ago. He married her for her money, and had she married him because she needed a Japanese visa to work. In fact, she's a prostitute who came to Japan hoping to find better life.At first, Goro can't be bothered by this situation, but he goes to Chiba just because he can earn a lot of money. Later on, during his trip, Goro finds a letter she wrote him and through it he discovers the pure person that lies beneath this common prostitute. She is a woman of such kindness and love that Goro is moved to learn something about the woman he married. With those few words of love and tenderness, he understands her fears, her goals, and her hopes for the future -- a future that he knows will never come.
Love Comedy Style
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Mimori Hibiki's goal was to find love, after leaving her backwater town for schooling in Tokyo. However, her grandmother's demand that she use her feminine wiles to lure a groom back to her hometown, combined with a fateful meeting with a young man, has complicated matters. Now she must attempt to juggle emotion and obligation as she attempts to carry out both of these tasks.
M (KATSURA Masakazu)
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Eiji Mastuda finally managed to go out with Emi and promised to agree on the condition that they can't have sex. After 6 months he decides to break this promise.
Mebius Gear
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. From Manga UpdatesThere is a strange breed of mechanical creatures, aptly called “Machines,” who will, on the condition that their Host never love another person for as long as they live (else the debt will be paid in blood), grant their wielders fortune and prosperity. And where a Host has betrayed his Machine, you are sure to find a member of the mysterious Gari family, wielders and hunters of Machines, in the ensuing carnage…So it was justifiable when the Gari family was dispatched to Shakunage High School to covertly investigate a brutal murder perpetrated by the spindly hands of a Machine… But it wasn’t so justifiable when Hanare Shizuma, a youth with an agenda of his own, enrolls at the High School soon thereafter, hell-bent on conducting his own investigation – and soon meets the head of the family of hunters, shockingly enough, a girl his own age. But little do either of them know that their encounter will set the cogs of fate spinning rapidly into motion…
Megane no Hito
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Why is that when ever I touch her, my hands seem to be cold? Or is that she doesn't want me to touch her?
Maken X
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: A research laboratory in the international city Kanazawa. Kei Sagami, daughter of the chief of laboratory, Professor Hiromitsu Sagami, becomes a witness of an experiment - the awakening of a sword, the Maken. It's able to heal mental disorders, at least according to her father. But as strange foreigners forcibly break into the laboratory, kidnap her father and put the actual carrier of the sword out of action, she experiences the true meaning of the Maken first hand.
Maku no Uchi
2011-01-27
Plot: Makunouchi: Kubonouchi Eisaku Kessakushu is a collection of short stories that seinen author Kubonouchi Eisaku, known for notable titles such as Chocolat, Cherry and Watanabe, has written in his early days. The contents of this book include:LaplaceYocchore! Tosamaru-kunBellRobot High School Girl Kaoruko's "Heartbreak"Bizzare -- The Terror of the Salmon-ManRobot High School Boy Kawarazaki Ayumu's "Seishun-I-N-G"Help!Viva Eros AcademyOkappiki EijiDream of Pumping UpPresent"Makunouchi" is a kind of bentou, served during Kabuki in the olden days. It either got its name from the lunch the audience would eat during intermission, or perhaps from the lunch actors would eat during this time (seems plausible since the actors are also "behind the curtain", which is actually the literal translation of that phrase).
MPD Psycho
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Police detective Kobayashi Yousuke's life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something "special" about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi's wife and kick-starts a "multiple personality battle" within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and evil forces.
Nae ga Yuru
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: The Tokyo area has been hit by a gigantic earthquake. In the midst of this chaos, Akito and Yumi meet and together they start traveling through the city in order to survive.
Paranoia Street
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Paranoia Street
Pariya-san wa Otoshigoro
2011-01-27
Plot: A 4-koma about the life of Pariya, a girl who is about the right age to be married off. Her parents are trying to decide on a suitable match for her, but Pariya's non-ladylike behaviour tends to accidentally ruin their plans!
Nothing Will Be As It Was
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Short stories collection from 1976-1979:• Uchuu Patrol Sigma (Space Patrolman Shigema)• Round about midnight• School-boy on good• Cinema club• Tai....kyoo• Wisky go go• Nothing will be as it was• Yume no...• Okasu
O/A
2011-01-27
Horiuchi Yutaka-san is a popular idol, who isn't as glamorous and happy as her fans may think. Naturally, her next steps include a radio show, but one she isn't all too keen on doing. Although she tries her best to keep up her image, things quickly turn problematic. As she soon finds out, her voice is not hers alone.
Old Boy
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed...transformed himself into something else...something hard...something lethal.Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life...and what's left is revenge.
Parasite
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?
Penguin Musume Max
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Continuation of the adventures of Nankyoku Sakura, who is also known as penguin by her friends. She is obsessed with anime and manga, for example she goes to school wearing a school swimsuit, cat ears, and a maid tiara and calls it her "casual clothes"! She's also insanely rich.
Sasameki Koto
2011-01-27
Sasameki Koto is the story of Murasame Sumika, an intelligent and athletically gifted girl who just happens to be in love with her best friend, Kazama Ushio. Unable to confess her feelings, Sumika can only stay by her side and watch over her. After all, the biggest obstacle to her love is something that she can't change. It has nothing to do with the fact they're both girls; Sumika just isn't Kazama's type!Kazama is only into cute girls and Sumika's cool personality just doesn't fit the bill. Much to her friend's dismay, Kazama is always eager to share news about her latest crush. With the duo's knack for attracting trouble, it looks like Sumika's trials have only just begun.
Rozen Maiden II
2011-01-27
Plot: After a traumatic incident, Jun Sakurada refuses to interact with the outside world and return to school--he even shuts out his sister, his closest friend. Jun spends most of his time online buying spiritual items that are obvious rip-offs. One day he finds a website that curiously enough asks him to put his order in his desk drawer. Thinking it's a joke, Jun plays along. The following day a suitcase arrives containing a doll named Shinku... that comes to life before his very eyes! Welcome to the world of Rozen Maiden, where Jun must enter an all-new reality to protect and serve a living doll...In its continuation, the story starts with an older Jun, who is now a university student. While working at a bookstore as his part time job, he finds an unaddressed copy of the first issue of a weekly magazine "How to Make a Girl" containing a spring. He brings it home, and soon starts receiving further issues of the magazine by post, each issue having one part of a doll's body as a gift. One day, after putting much effort into assembling the fifth Rozen Maiden doll Shinku, he receives a notification that the publication has been cancelled, leaving him with an incomplete doll. Suddenly, he receives a mysterious text message from his old number, claiming to be the Jun Sakurada asking for help against the seventh Rozen Maiden doll Kirakisho...
Run
2011-01-27
Plot: Collection of short stories, from 1979-1995, including;- SOS! TAITOKYOO TANKENTAI- RUN- SPEED- NEKO HA YOKU CHOPO NI KAETERUKU- ABUNAI! SEITO KAICHOO- HOOMONSHA- SUN BURG HILL NO OMOIDE- EIYOO MANTEN episode I- EIYOO MANTEN episode II- MADOROS KUN- SUKIYAKI- NIGHT FLAMES- VISITORS
Sakuranbo Syndrome
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. "Progressive Rejuvenation Syndrome." This is an extremely rare disease causing the inflicted person to gradually become younger. The main character of this story, Munenori Agawa, is the only person that could save Rena Amami from this odd disease. Agawa's saliva is the only thing that can halt the disease from making Rena younger, so they must kiss everyday in order for her to survive. This causes an immense amount of conflict and drama between Agawa and his new girlfriend, Sayako Asou. This triangle relationship story tests the capabilities and limitations of human love.
Saturn Apartments
2011-01-27
Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the Earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the Earth, thirty-five kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the various living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments.
Sekai no Owari to Yoakemae
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Collection of short stories including:
Sumire no Hana
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Two girls whose characters are as different as day and night enter their school’s art club at the same time. Thus begins an awkward “love-hate” relationship whose emotional climax shall leave none of them unchanged.
Suzuro's Logfile
2011-01-27
Plot: On January 3rd, 2097, a collision with a celestial object basically destroyed human civilization. Seventy years later, human survivors are still living in space, unable to return to their home planet. Some humans, called "Divers" are able to project an avatar to the earth in order to salvage information from earth-based computer networks.Suzuro is a 14-year-old freelance diver of incredible skill, but only a C-rank due to age restrictions. She works in a salvage ship with her pilot Ginga, who keeps the ship out of flying debris while she's connected to earth, and her assistant Shimugi. It's not only space debris colliding with the ship that could kill Suzuro while diving, there are also dangers waiting on earth that could kill her, just by interacting with her avatar. Suzuro must be certain that the cases she takes are worth the danger!
The Ghost Blowing Lamp of Dragon Ridge Maze
2011-01-27
Plot: Set in China, a raging storm has hit Shanxi Providence, which has flooded the Yellow River. On this river, two men meet a mysterious archeology student that seems to know a lot about the area's mythology... and maybe even what the two men are up to on this trip.
The Hour of Mice
2011-01-27
Plot: Maki Takano and his three best friends Ryo, Natsume and Mei are students at a private academy for highly gifted children. Like all the other students of this isolated and heavily guarded school, they have never seen the outside world since they were brought to the school at the young age of three.When a new female student named Kiriko Hinatsu arrives, Maki has the strange feeling that he has met her before. However, he seems to be the only person who can remember the girl. When he confronts her with his discovery, Kiriko reveals the unbelievable truth about their existence: The school they have been living at all this time is actually an experimental facility and all the students are but guinea pigs who are being used for sophisticated neurological experiments.Maki now has to decide: Will he continue his false but sheltered life or will he help Kiriko escape even if that means putting himself and his mental health at risk?
The Journey to the End of the World
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: A man sets out on a journey to go away from his repetitive and boring life. He finds unbelievable things, terrible things...
The Ninety Nine Fox
2011-01-27
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: A girl in a deep slumber. A boy watching over her. An unusual fantasy spun from their innocent dreaming. This is their story…
Vampire Hunter D
2011-01-27
Plot: This is the manga adaptation of the Vampire Hunter D novel series released by Digital Manga Publishing in collaboration with Hideyuki Kikuchi.Kikuchi personally selected Saiko Takaki, a doujinshi and graphic designer illustrator who has worked on numerous projects for the manga and game industries in Japan, to be the mangaka responsible for the adaptation of his successful novel series into manga form.
Wa ga Na wa Umishi
2011-01-27
Plot: Salvors are men responsible for towing wrecked ships and handling the cargo. They are different from rescue teams as they usually ask for money before offering help. Nanba Rintarou's father was the owner of such a company, but Rintarou really hated the way they operated and decided to join the Coast Guard.However, Rintarou's father died right after Rintarou completed his training. In his will he asked Rintarou to take over his company. What's worse is he left his son a debt of 1.5 billion yen...
Yoake Shiro
2011-01-27
Plot: Midorimaru, an uncouth prince, becomes involved in his father's secret plans, and soon after encounters a peasant school teacher, Tae. As war approaches, circumstances even come to affect the beautiful noble Yayoi and enemy ninja in ways no one would have anticipated.
Yasashii Watashi
2011-01-27
Plot: Seriu meets Yae, an older woman in the photography club, who's also a celebrity at her university known for her free-spirited speech and mannerisms
Baka to Gogh
2011-01-25
From Mangascreener:Sakai and Shoji are two idiots. Their band, Moozmuz, is eccentric, flamboyant and silly. Gogh, their classmate, is a quiet but intense clothes designer. Watch the friendship between these three artists blossom and suffer, rendered in Shinkichi Kato's vibrant, lively art. The two volumes also contain a pair of one-shots each.
Mitsurin Shounen
2011-01-25
Plot: This story is set in Cambodia. War has ravaged the country year after year, leaving behind it large minefields. To this day, many people still suffer because of them. Aki Ra keeps clearing the fields. But what was his childhood like? This is the story of a real child soldier, a historical account of a tragedy humanity should never forget.Mitsurin Shounen is also the story of a meeting. The one between Aki Ra, who grew up during the war, and Akira Fukaya, politically-involved mangaka and in love with south-east Asia.
Gantz Origins: Oku Hiroya And Sf Movie Stories
2011-01-25
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. No one want to write summary for it...
Kidou Ryodan Hachifukujin
2011-01-25
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Follows new recruits in the army of Japan, in a war torn future. An eccentric girl, a pacifistic guy, an advanced suit of armor impervious to all weapons figure in a story about war, violence, and militaristic subservience.
Yamikagishi
2011-01-25
The shogunate installed by the Tokugawa is abiding order, the people live in peace and in a relative prosperity.However, the dark part of the human heart does not cease to arouse their cupidity : it is the ideal doorway for all demons that, by possessing humans, seek to pass into their world.Exorcising these demons is Jonosuke's mission, the master of keys. Known for being the best locksmith of Edo, Jonosuke uses particular locks to put the wicked spirits under lock and key. With the help of the bewitching O-kin, a divine who uses unorthodox methods, Jonosuke is going to meet during his demon hunt some notables of his time which will prove to be precious allies when he'll have to face a plot aimed at the upper spheres of the state.
Ah My Goddess
2011-01-24
Keiichi, a student at Nekomi Institute of Technology, calls a wrong number and ends up invoking Belldandy, goddess of the present. Belldandy grants him one wish, and he says: "I want you to stay forever". The wish is approved, and Keiichi is shortly thrown out of his all-male dorm. He settled in an old temple and is eventually joined by Belldandy's sisters Urd, troublemaking goddess of the past, and Skuld, mecha freak and goddess of the future.