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Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound
2011-01-14
Eighteen-year-old Nami is a magic user with a keen interest in helping everyone...but herself. Ryutaro is the new boy in school--he's rough around the edges and has a mysterious past, but beneath his rough exterior is a gentle soul. When these two meet, t
10 Dance
2012-05-22
[From Nakama]Sugiki, a standard ballroom dancer, offers to teach Suzuki, a latin american dancer, ballroom in exchange for Suzuki to teach him in return.Their names are similar, but their personalities are totally opposite, just like their dance. When the two meet, something's bound to happen!Â
Blind of Mind
2024-04-29
Collection of oneshots:6) Hibi Kira Kira (From Echochi Scans)It’s summer holidays for Tomoaki and he is helping out at the daily morning exercise for kids. But recently, he notices that a young man living beside the park has been looking at the exercise group every morning. Is the young man a Lolicon that is targeting his kids, or is it entirely something else?
Hi Score Girl
2014-02-07
The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who's popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he canâ??t beat her at any game. Haruo canâ??t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd couple begins a strange bond and friendship.Third runner-up for the 2013 Manga Taisho Awards.
Oboreru Knife
2011-01-14
Plot: A beautiful and mature sixth grade girl from Tokyo suddenly has to move out to the country side of Japan with her family. The girl, Natsumi, then meets a boy and from then on she begins to feel 'something' in her body, like a surging wave....
Yuricam - Yurika no Campus Life
2012-05-28
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Yurika attends a girls-only college with a long tradition of lesbian love, and according to rumors, she's been with over half of the 10,000 girls who attend the school! This rumor is mortifying to Yurika, and seriously damages her chances of ever getting a boyfriend. The truth is, for some reason, she's just completely irresistible to women, even women who claim to be straight. One day, Yurika gets a call from her Dad, letting her know that his company is bankrupt. He suggests that she get by on her charms, since he can no longer help her with money. Is it time for Yurika to actually start taking advantage of her unwanted persona as a masterful lesbian lover?Â
To aru Ossan no VRMMO katsudouki
2014-06-28
Typical company employee Tanaka Daichi(38 years old, single) loves games and plays a new type of VRMMO called "One More Free Life Online" under the username "Earth". Inside this free world he chose several skills that are generally regarded as useless. Be it wasting time crafting potions, cooking up pointlessly tasty food, or hunting monsters with some absurd weapon he crafted, he simply enjoys playing the game.
Lucky Star
2011-01-24
Lucky Star's story portrays the lives of several school girls attending a Japanese high school with a very loose humor tone.The setting is based on the town Kasukabe in Saitama Prefecture. The female lead is Konata Izumi, an athletic and intelligent girl who, despite these attributes, is not in a sports club, and has low grades. Her laziness at school is due to her love for anime and video games and lack of interest in anything else. In other words: she's an otaku.The serialization began with the four main characters in their first year of high school: Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, Tsukasa Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara. As the story progresses, they move onto their second and third year.
American Ghost Jack
2014-02-04
Young Ma Go-eun and her father are about to be evicted from the haunted house they've run throughout the years. But Go-eun is not about to let the park owner demolish their haunted house and her memories of her childhood and her mother. She resolves to go to the United States to surpass trials and get a million dollar cash prize awarded to those who can survive a stay in Ghost Jack's House.Original Webcomic
Amatsuki
2011-01-14
History isn't Tokidoki's strong subject - actually, he's forced to do make-up work at a high-tech history museum to bring up his failing grades. After losing an eye to a virtual reality monster in an Edo-period simulation, he finds himself unable to leave the game. Could it be real?
Ping Pong
2011-01-14
From Shogakukan:Ping pong. Table tennis. Fast, furious. You might have seen it, even played it, but you've never seen it like this! The action centers around "Smile" Tsukimoto and "Peco" Hoshino, two high school students in the midst of adolescence and
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Vivid Life
2014-10-28
In the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Vivid Life series:V.1 - Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Vivid LifeV.2 - Advance---- IntervalNote: Formerly known as Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Vivid Colors
Moon Phase
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. When you come from a family of exorcists and mediums, you're expected to have certain powers. But despite having a psychic lineage, Kouhei Midou can't predict the future, nor can he see dead people. He's powerless in every sense of the word. However, he does think fast on his feet--and with a little help from his psychic cousin Seiji, he's an amazing crime solver. The mystery he wants to solve more than anything is his mother's tragic disappearance. But it isn't easy ... especially in this world, where nothing is as it seems. Cats talk, blood-sucking vampires roam the earth, and monsters eat guys like Kouhei for breakfast. Can Kouhei survive this chaos long enough to find the mother that he's lost?!
Now Manhwa
2011-01-14
From Anime News NetworkIn Korea in 668 AD North Star, using the martial arts discipline of Sashinmu, went into a beserker rage and massacred 100 of the most skilled martial artists of his time. After the massacre North Star and the lethal art of Sashinmu disappeared. Now it is 20 years later and a text of Shashinmu has surfaced again and a mysterious cadre will do anything to gets its hand on it and learn the deadly art. Meanwhile it is up to the books protectors, Rin Yhun and Bi-ryu, to destroy it before the forces of evil get their hands on it. But should the secrets of Sashinmu be destroyed forever or should rather the art be mastered and used by the books protectors? [Sequel to ChunRangYulJun]
Nozomi to Kimio
2011-02-26
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Suga Kimio finds himself hiding in the girls locker room, unable to move or escape the situation as the girls in his school crowd in. Although he originally had no ulterior motives, he found himself panicking as he heard the girls coming in and hid in a locker. Komine Nozomi, one of the shy girls in his class finds him, but surprisingly covers for him. Perplexed but glad, Kimio goes home.Later that night, he gets a text from Nozomi who happens to live across the way on the same floor of the complex they both live in. She blackmails him into agreeing to show each otherâ??s bodies when she texts him. Kimio has to abide by Nozomiâ??s insane demands or risk ruining his school life so they both start their little peep show through each otherâ??s windowsâ?¦
Baccano!
2020-12-13
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Baccano is Italian for noise, but Narita translates it as "stupid commotion". Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies.(Wiki)
Ten Count (Yaoi)
2013-09-17
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. From Canis Major Scanlations:When the President got into an accident, Shirotani Tadaomi met Kurose. On their very first meeting, Kurose could tell right away that Shirotani is Mysophobic and said that it’s pretty bad while suggesting it would be better to consult a doctor about it. Shirotani was left perturbed by the encounter. Who is Kurose? And how was he able to tell Shirotani’s condition?
A Wolf Warning Manhwa
2011-01-14
From [ RC-SCANS ]:Han Summer (Yeuh-Reum) and Hyun Moo-Heum are very different from one another. While Moo-Heum is a brilliant, yet stunning son of a CEO of one of the most influential and extensive companies in the world, Summer, on the other hand, is a mediocre-looking girl - a plain Jane, who is just under an inescapable debt of 70 million! And to whom? It is none other than Hyun Moo-Heum! In the midst of this dilemma, a mysterious figure enters and intervenes with their lives. Could he be of any help to Summer or is he destined to make her life more complicated than it already is?
Chocolat
2011-01-14
Chocolat is a mature comedy series about half-orphan Tatsumi Chiyoko whose father was caught in huge debt. Now living with Omugi Matsukichi, an ex-underground king who opened a pastry shop, she gets to know people like Katou Ichigo, an ex-inmate. With people after her father`s whereabouts, what will happen to her?
Gold (fujita Kazuko)
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. From JShoujo Scans:Mars knows that nothing will stop him from tracking down his wife, Chantal, who'd betrayed him and sent him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Chantal had died--or so everyone said--but Mars knew she'd merely transformed herself and reemerged into the spotlight as supermodel Mischief Jones.Mars was a hard man, a bitter one, who'd survived by shutting off his emotions. But when he finally captured the woman he'd been hunting, the bewitching seductress with the luminous eyes denied everything. He was falling under her spell. Who was she really --an angel... or a cunningly brilliant counterfeit with an agenda of her own?Based on Ann Major's novel, "Secret Child".
Love at First Sight Season 2
2011-01-24
From JanimeS:Kang Han-Se and Ban Ha-Da have known each other ever since childhood. They are close enough to sleep in the same room together at their current age."Three men for you," Kang Han-Se's mother tells Ban Ha-Da, on the day of graduation. As soon as Ban Ha-Da's life as a high-school student starts, her love life begins as well.
Date Masamune (YOKOYAMA Mitsuteru)
2012-04-05
A seminal history of Date Masamune (Not as awesome as he was in Sengoku Basara, admittedly). Yokoyama has a plain and matter of fact style for history without really trying to dramatize it.
Bokurano
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. During summer vacation a group of fifteen children discover a mysterious man living in a cave Surrounded by high tech gadgets, the man claims to be a game developer, creating a video game with a giant robot defending Earth from fifteen alien invaders. He asked the children to test the game for him and they happily agreed. The fun soon turned to horror, the first child to play died shortly after winning. Worse still they had no idea how to end the game.
Cyber Blue
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. We are in year 2035 on the Tinos planet, colonized 300 years before by some earthlings. With only half of Earth's oxygen concentration and with cold arctic conditions over most of Tinos, the human beings are forced to wear a life support apparatus that supplies the oxygen necessary for survival. The black market in such apparatuses is a flourishing business in the criminal world of Junk City.Blue, the protagonist, is in desperate need of a life suport system after being mugged, but an unscrupulous bunch of criminals cheat him of his money and leave him with an outdated model with an old AI. He is tricked by the head of the police, Weiser, into a committing murder, and is then killed himself. The AI, called Fatso, decides to save his life, and gives him a new artificial body filled with extraordinary strength and the cumulative knowledge of their combined three hundred and seventeen years. The resurrected Blue decides to get revenge and protect all those suffering under the tyranny of Weiser.
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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. Eto Kai may look like a squeaky clean kid, but the Greater Kanto Narcotics Control Division's new investigator hides a violent alter ego and a dangerous past. With his stoic partner Hal Kurabayashi, Kai is assigned to track down and stop the distribution of Dragon Speed, a dangerous new drug. But Ryugen, the syndicate trafficking the drug, is almost impossible to infiltrate. Add street violence and a jurisdiction war with the Meguro Police, and poor Kai is in for some very long days at the office.Note-This manga does not contain any noticeable shounen-ai content.
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.
Chiro Star Project
2011-01-14
From Shoujo Manga Maniac:Eun-Yo is a girl spoiled by her brothers. Sure of her beauty and her charm, she neglects all the boys who confess to her. Because there's only one in her eyes: Chan-Kyung, the top student in her school. While she has an audition
Doujin Work
2011-01-14
Doujin Market. It is a place where individuals sell their self-published books. Each participant works daily to achieve their personal goals.While their are some who obtain their dreams, there are also those who get pounded by reality. This is the story of those who live in the world of Doujin.
Guyver
2011-01-14
Sho and his friend, Tetsuro, stumble upon a strange orb-like mechanism, the Guyver Unit, in the woods. It physically bonds with Sho and turns him into the alien soldier, Guyver. His mission is to protect the Guyver Unit from the Japanese corporation known as Chronos. They are after it and two other units just like it. To retrieve the object, they send out vicious monsters known as Zoanoids. So no one is safe in Sho s life; not even himself.
Alfheim no Kishi
2012-05-02
From Friendship ScansPrincess Rosely’s fate was sealed when she first picked up a sword trying to kill an evil wizard. Little did she know the legendary Lucilys, Sword of Light, had chosen her to be its heiress. That also meant her peaceful life in the castle of Altodias would no longer be the same. Soon, the young princess encounters the pain of losing all the people that she loved, and being separated from her twin brother Rolant, the heir of Silvan, the Sword of the Moon. Rosely would have been even dead floating in a cold river if she had not been saved by a handsome green-eyed king of the Alf. Growing up as his foster daughter in Alfheim, Rosely learns magic and martial arts from the Alf, only waiting for the day she can avenge for her lost country. Will she be able to fulfill her will? What does the fatal sword Lucilys have in store for her? Will resentment drive her into insanity? Who was the one behind all her misfortunes? And who could have been the chosen owner of Soles - Sword of Sunshine, the third one in three ancient magic swords? This fantastic tale will make you want to believe in fairies again!
Shinobi Life
2011-01-14
From Konnichiwa:Many, many years ago, a ninja named Kagetora devoted his life to protecting Princess Beni (â€Beni-Himeâ€). Unfortunately, they were attacked and Kagetora was flung into a lake, and sank to the bottom… And is somehow warped to the future where he sees the princess Beni being kidnapped.Little does Kagetora know that Beni is not the real princess, but rather her descendant. Beni, on the other hand, thought that Kagetora was just a cosplayer. Beni, the daughter of a rich man has already been kidnapped a hundred times already... But fear not because Kagetora is here. Will Kagetora be able to go back to the past, or will he remain by Beni’s side forever?
Hentai Ouji To Warawanai Neko
2011-05-18
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Yokodera is a high-schooler who has no issues with following his earthly desires. His only problem is that when he does something to satisfy them, his actions are misunderstood and he receives some reward as a result. His biggest desire is to be able to get rid of his good student “public face” and be able to tell his real feelings. One day, his equally perverted friend completely transforms and gets rid of his “impure thoughts”; a feat he attributes to the power of the statue of “the cat that won’t laugh”. According to the rumors, if you give it an offering you can force something you don’t need onto someone else. As he’s making his offering to the statue (a dakimakura) in exchange for getting rid of his instinct to preserve his “public face”, a girl arrives at the same place. The girl’s tired of always expressing the things she feels because it makes her look childish. In order to be more of an adult, she desires to be able to hide her true feelings. Together they pray for their wishes… “for my public face and habit of hiding my true feelings with lies to disappear”… “for my real feelings to stop showing ”… Will their wishes come true? or perhaps more importantly, will they be happy with the results? Read to find out!
Girls & Panzer
2012-08-19
The story takes place in a universe where girls participate in Sensha-dou (lit. "Way of the Tank"), the art of operating tanks, as a traditional martial art. Miho Nishizumi, a girl who has had a bad experience with Sensha-dou, transfers to Ouarai Girl's High School to get away from it. However, soon after joining, the school revives Sensha-dou and Miho, being the only student with any experience in operating a tank, is ordered to take part. Despite being initially reluctant, Miho soon comes to enjoy Sensha-dou again and, joined by her new friends; Saori, Hana, Yukari and Mako, enters a national Sensha-dou championship and faces off against various other schools.
Dear
2011-01-14
After living alone deep in the mountains with only a television for company most her life, Chiruha gathers up the courage to venture out and explore the local village. There she runs into trouble and is saved by the beautiful and deadly Kisara, who harbors a grudge for the one who cursed him with immortality. Has he finally found her…?
Dragon Drive
2011-01-14
Reiji Oozora is a total loser! Not good at anything especially schoolwork! One day his friend Maiko Yukino offers to share her class notes with him to help him out on the condition that he takes her wherever she wants to go. She takes him to a secret plac
MuvLuv Alternative
2011-01-26
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Based on the game by Age, sequel to MuvLuv Unlimited, taking place in an alternate universe where the Earth is invaded by aliens.In Alternative, Takeru wakes up three years after the end of Unlimited to find himself back in his room. Although he first thinks that everything that had happened to him was a dream, he soon feels that something is wrong, and leaves the house to find that he has been sent back in time to the beginning of the events in Unlimited. Unwilling to accept something like Alternative V, he decides to help professor Kouduki to complete Alternative IV and save mankind.
Aruitou
2014-09-22
Plot: On a hill overlooking the sea, in a town that retains its old-world beauty, a new and gentle love story begins!
Artist Acro
2011-01-14
Once upon a time, artists were able to use their special skills freely, until seven years ago with a group of artists began using souls as raw materials for their work. Now society lives in fear of artists as a young man named Acro Hamburger travels to the capital city to ply his trade as a sculptor and to realize his dream of becoming a great artist.
Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki ja Nai n da kara ne!!
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. Plot: Junior High student Nao's brother complex is so strong, it's almost at the point of incest. She's determined to make her brother, High School student Shuusuke, see her as a woman. So determined, that she goes as far as going into his room to throw away all his non-incest related porn. But as she's looking for his porno stash, she finds a photo album... and she's not in any of his childhood pictures. What is going on?
Dance in the Vampire Bund
2011-01-24
From Seven Seas:After millennia in hiding, Mina Tepes, the Princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants change. Using the vast wealth of the Tepes line, she has paid off the entire gross national debt of Japan and in so doing, gained the authority to create a "special district" off the coast of Japan that is to become the future haven to vampires the world over!Now, on the eve of the landmark press conference announcing the existence of vampires to the world, terrorists and rival factions are plotting to assassinate Mina Tepes before she has a chance to make her world-changing announcement.
Girls Saurus DX
2013-03-01
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Shingo Chiryuu isn't much different than any other guy except for one thing... He's afraid of girls. Now he finds himself surrounded by girls, including the one whose attack originally instilled the fear in him, as he attempts to cure himself of his gynophobia.
mekakushi no kuni
2011-02-11
Mekakushi no Kuni is the story of high school student Outsuka Kanade who can sometimes see a person's future with a touch, and transfer student Naitou Arou, whose ESP is limited to past events. When Kanade glimpses an unfortunate incident coming, can she change it? She soon befriends Arou, who's no novice. While Kanade’s power is limited to the near future and is somewhat incontrollable, Arou’s is permanent and he can even use it to see an object’s “memoriesâ€. Are these teenaged seers of the past and future made for each other? And who's right: Arou with his "hands off" policy about meddling in people's lives, or Kanade whose more proactive stance has already had unhappy consequences?
Gunslinger Girl
2011-01-14
"Henrietta" was an innocent little girl when her entire family was massacred and she was left for dead. She was rescued by a privately-owned social welfare organization and given cybernetic components over her battered body. Brainwashed by the organization, she and four other girls now work as cold-blooded assassins, doing the dirty work for the Italian government.-- Anime News Network
Normal City
2011-01-14
Normal City sets its background in a far future where mankind is on other planets and existence of ESPs is accepted.However, ESPs are treated as a tool by the army.The main character is code named Kitty 101 by a scientist, Troll. Kitty 101 was biologically created by combining several strings of DNA with a man-made DNA. She was also given XY chromosome which turns her into a male on a regular basis.However, one of Troll`s scientists, Jason Haven, stole baby Kitty 101 and ran away in order to save her from the experiments. At the same time, Jason Haven named her Mars Haven and brought her as his own daughter, cause she looked like his lost daughter.Time passed. The scientist Troll, Samuel Jones by his real name, proceeded with his experiments on the ESPs under his disposal.
The Moment When a Fox Becomes a Wolf
2011-01-14
Gook Eun-Song is your average high school girl... that is until her attractive younger sister stole the man she had a crush on. Depressed, Eun-Song purchased a bottle of alcohol and crawled into a supposedly cursed closet in her father's furniture store. Yu Ha is your average typical bad boy. He even broke traffic regulations just to end up being chased by a couple of police officers.Oddly enough, he also ended up in the same closet where Eun-Song is asleep from drinking too much. Yu Ha ends up sleeping in the cursed closet with Eun-Song by his side... just to find out the next day, their bodies have been switched!Can anything else possibly go wrong for our poor heroine?
Kyousei Harem Keiyaku
2014-12-22
From DeNA:Our protagonist Haruka has been given the gift of precognition. He’s led an ordinary life so far, without really giving question to his special ability. However, one day, he foresees someone close to him die in an accident while travelling. It’s only after he sees this insufferable vision that he gathers the determination fight against the future, but… in such an unthinkable way. What will the future hold after Haruka rises up against a fate that’s already been decided…?
Musunde Hiraite (MINASE Mayu)
2011-01-14
Plot: On the first day of school, Furuya Hiro sleeps in causing him to miss the opening ceremony. Because of this, he gets to meet Himari Asaki, the top girl in school. He falls in love with her instantaneously; so, he decides to confess his feelings for her.... repeatedly. Unfortunately for him, she rejects him every time without fail. On one of these occasions, he accidentally drops his cell phone (which of course has a candid photo of Himari for his wallpaper). Himari finds it and returns it to Furuya at his house. There we find out that Furuya's sister is actually a friend of Himari along with the fact that Himari is androphobic.
Tasogare Otome x Amnesia
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. A young woman, by some strange occurrence, was left to die alone in the former building of the Academy for Sincere Teachings. Mysteriously, there is one person who can see her in ghost form: Niiya Teiichi, a freshman. Now they both seek to find out the reasoning behind her death, and what could have caused it.
Crows ZERO II - Suzuran x Housen
2013-07-30
Crows ZERO II is the follow-up to the manga adaptation of the first Crows ZERO movie. Crows ZERO II covers the events of the second movie, and will see protagonist Takiya Genji taking on Narumi Taiga and the rest of Housen Academy. (Comes out monthly)
L-dk
2011-01-14
From Which Scanlations:Shuusei Kugayama is the "prince" of his high school, but he always turns down confessions--including one from Aoi Nishimori's best friend. Although she initially hates him for this, when Shuusei moves in next door to Aoi, who lives alone, she starts thinking that he might not be such a bad guy after all...
Lovely Complex
2011-01-14
Plot: Risa Koizumi is the tallest girl in class, and the last thing she wants is the humiliation of standing next to Atsushi Otani, the shortest guy. Fate and the whole school have other ideas, and the two find themselves cast as the unwilling stars of a bizarre romantic comedy duo.Lovely Complex Plus is actually volume 17 with the final chapter called Love Com Final. The first two chapters are about before Koizumi Risa and Otani Atsushi met each other. The third chapter is about their first encounter and a little bit of what happens to them after the ending of Lovely Complex.*Contains a side story called Hoshi ni Nattemo Aishiteru (Even When I Become A Star,I'll Still Love You) in volume 12:Reina wakes up surprisingly in her boyfriend's room. But it seems that she passed away three days ago...Lovely Complex Plus is Volume #17 and the conclusion of this series.
Seimaden
2011-01-14
From CMX:How far will one man go for love? Find out in SEIMADEN, the tale of Laures, who agreed to become a demon in order to free his one true love Erise from a demon king! Laures became the next Demon King, and Alice was freed — with death. Laures,