Four years have passed since the Demon King's defeat. To honor the deceased Hero, the now-at-peace Kingdom launches a project to compile his many achievements. The Hero's former companions, the Sword Saint Leon, the Saintess Maria, and the Great Sage Solon, are interviewed. All of them are unclear about the truth behind the Hero's death. Why did the Hero die? Was it the Demon King who killed him, or his companions? **Award:** Won Google Play's Best Fantasy Manga Of 2025. ___ **Character Designer:** [toi8](https://mangadex.org/author/eef8ef8e-a7f5-48a0-83cb-608a09790a37) **Additional Links:** - [Official X](https://x.com/daregayu)

The slime he created transformed into a girl!? Kotarou, a young boy, is constantly pushed around by Puniru's freewheeling behavior. It's a fun and exciting daily life! Won the 70th Shougakukan Manga Award.

In Teirin High School, you are either part of a gang or an elite sports player. Sousuke Youki, called 'the predator,' is an undefeated master at fighting. One morning, as he finishes up a fight, Kazumi, a prodigy amateur golf player, took a look at Sousuke, ignored him, and walked right by. Infuriated, Sousuke sets out to get revenge on Kazumi for dissing him but Sousuke's revenge takes a detour as he gets himself involved in playing golf by the thuggish golf coach. Will this delinquent break legends and become "the King of Golf"? King Golf also won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in January 2010 in the boys category.

A hikikomori boy who was supposed to die on a traffic accident suddenly turned into a really beautiful high school girl, her grades are top position and she's also good at sports. Although his life has changed completely before her/him a man who has a deep connection with him appeared.

It turns out the young lady is just really tall! **Award:** Won the December 2020 Bronze Rookie Award, earning publication on [Shounen Jump+](https://shonenjumpplus.com/episode/13933686331801888312).

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. **Award:** Won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 2005. ___ **Medical Supervisor:** Yoshinuma Mie

Reiji Kikukawa is a young, hot-headed police officer who plays by his own set of rules. When his personal views on how to do his job, no one is shocked when he is finally fired. However, in reality, he is secretly tasked with going undercover to infiltrate a dangerous yakuza group, the Sukiya organization and find evidence to arrest its leader, Shuho Todoroki.

A murderer who can't stop the urge to kill people, even though he wants to stop, is happy when his desired death sentence is carried out - only to be reincarnated into another world. The mission entrusted to him by the goddess was to kill 12 reincarnated people using his murderous impulses! Not all reincarnated people are saints! ___ **Notes:** - With the debut of the spinoff series, it was revealed that “Hitotsubu Ichigo” (the credited author) was actually an alias of Kawamoto Homura. Starting with Volume 5, the credited author is “Kawamoto Homura”. - Won the Rakuten Kobo Ebook Award 2024 Special Award. ___ **Official English:** [emaqi](https://emaqi.com/manga/isekai-executioner-the-serial-killer-in-another-world) - United States & Canada only.

Some children live in a comfortably numb world, surrounded by walls. However, one day, a kid named Tokio receives a message asking "Do you want to go outside of the outside?" Now, from the Heaven that is starting to crumble, the children begin their dangerous adventure!

Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art, and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg... and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is a agent of the government, a slave of the military-alchemical complex, using his unique powers to obey orders... even to kill. Except his powers aren't unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. And in the pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure, the Philosopher's Stone, their enemies are even more ruthless than they are.. --- - English release by [Viz Media](https://www.viz.com/fullmetal-alchemist) - Indonesian release by Elex Media --- - **Won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen** - **Won the 15th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award New Artist Prize** - **Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2011**

These student council members are all over the place! Each one of them is eccentric in their own way—one’s an airhead, one’s just plain frightening, one’s a closet pervert, but all in all, they’re really just weird! And yet it’s everyone’s oddities that makes them endearing and what allows them to create their new normal. Get ready for a slice-of-life manga that’s irresistibly charming, quirky, and a little bit naughty!

Yuuji bir atletizm dehasıdır ama koşuya hiç ilgisi yoktur. Bilinmezleri Araştırma Kulübünde çok mutludur. Her ne kadar kulüpte eğlencesine bulunsa bile, okulda gerçek bir ruh ortaya çıkınca işler ciddiye biner! Hayat, Sugisawa Şehrindeki 3 Numaralı Lisedeki çocuklar için tuhaflaşmaya başlamak üzere!

The master spy codenamed <Twilight> has spent most of his life on undercover missions, all for the dream of a better world. Yet one day he receives a particularly difficult order from command. For his mission, he must form a temporary family and start a new life?!

With a passion for richly textured Japanese rock, first-year high school student Chihiro Hatono steps into the world of the light music club, new guitar in tow. But what awaits her behind those doors...? ___ **Award:** Won the 10th Next Manga Awards Web Category (2024). **Official English Volumes:** [Seven Seas](https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/girl-meets-rock/)

In the American Old West, the world's greatest race is about to begin. Thousands line up in San Diego to travel over six thousand kilometers for a chance to win the grand prize of fifty million dollars. With the era of the horse reaching its end, contestants are allowed to use any kind of vehicle they wish. Competitors will have to endure grueling conditions, traveling up to a hundred kilometers a day through uncharted wastelands. The Steel Ball Run is truly a one-of-a-kind event. The youthful Johnny Joestar, a crippled former horse racer, has come to San Diego to watch the start of the race. There he encounters Gyro Zeppeli, a racer with two steel balls at his waist instead of a gun. Johnny witnesses Gyro using one of his steel balls to unleash a fantastical power, compelling a man to fire his gun at himself during a duel. In the midst of the action, Johnny happens to touch the steel ball and feels a power surging through his legs, allowing him to stand up for the first time in two years. Vowing to find the secret of the steel balls, Johnny decides to compete in the race, and so begins his bizarre adventure across America on the Steel Ball Run.

Makino failed her college entrance exam. Her only comfort is in her 2D game characters... until she found an ad for a call-girl who looked exactly like her favorite in-game waifu! The yuri love comedy between a gullible young woman and a street-wise call-girl begins now!

Recently dumped, Akane is just about to quit the game she used to play with her boyfriend when she meets Yamada in the same RPG. Yamada in real life turns out to be somewhat of a legend. The only problem is - he is ONLY interested in the game. As Akane's feelings grow, will Yamada's focus stay on the game? ___ The manga won the Tsutaya Comic Award in 2022.

Arata Natsume works at a child guidance center, is in his thirties and single with no plans for marriage. But one day, he receives a request from the child he was in charge of, Takuto, to “meet the criminal who killed his father”. That serial killer is Shinagawa Shinju, also known as the “Shinagawa Pierrot”. **Awards:** - U-NEXT Award in the Next Manga Awards 2020 Print Division - 70th Shougakukan Manga Award (2025) ___ **Additional Links:** - Buy Individual Chapters: [BookLive](https://booklive.jp/product/index/title_id/664682/vol_no/001), [BOOK☆WALKER](https://bookwalker.jp/series/224199/list/), [ebookjapan](https://ebookjapan.yahoo.co.jp/books/563939/) - [Official X](https://x.com/ARATA_superior)

Taiki Inomata is on the boys' badminton team at sports powerhouse Eimei Junior and Senior High. He's in love with basketball player Chinatsu Kano, the older girl he trains alongside every morning in the gym. One Spring day, their relationship takes a sharp turn. ___ Official Release: - Indonesian release by Elex Media (2023)

Garyou Hanagami is a veteran mangaka. Best known for the behemoth of a series that is Dragon Land, Hanagami-sensei has years of experience under his belt and is always thinking up new manga ideas. Shinobu Miyama is not. An amateur working for Hanagami-sensei as an assistant, Miyama is nicknamed "The Chameleon" for his ability to copy the artstyles of those he works under. However, his true dream is to escape the faceless crowds and become someone. So what happens when a work accident causes them to swap bodies? ___ **Award:** Won the U-NEXT Prize in the 2023 Next Manga Awards. **Official English Volumes:** [SQUARE ENIX Manga & Books](https://squareenixmangaandbooks.square-enix-games.com/en-us/series/dragon-and-chameleon)

In another world, there was a single human who made their living doing alchemy. Alchemy × Sorcery × Slave × Elf × Reincarnation × God × Cheat × Battle… A work full of fantasy has started serialization with overwhelming brushwork! ___ **Awards:** - Renta! Manga Awards 2024 Otherworld Elements Complete Award - KADOCOMI AWARD 2025 Overall Ranking 1st Place

Following Ichikawa Kyoutarou, a teenage boy belonging to the very bottom caste of his school, this work details his troubled interactions with a certain classmate, and his attempt to hide murderous impulses that find themselves in the darkest recesses of his soul. In reality, though, it's a sweet youth rom-com between a messed up boy and a bright, if somewhat strange, beautiful girl. ___ **Awards:** - Won the 2020 Next Manga Award in the Web category. - Was nominated for the 2020 and 2021 Manga Taishou Award. - Won the top prize of the 2021 Tsutaya Comic Awards. **Additional Links:** - [Official X](https://x.com/boku__yaba)

Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn’t long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a “curse” afflicting the imperial heirs, Maomao attracts the attentions of the handsome eunuch Jinshi and is promoted to attendant food taster. But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary, and soon Maomao is back to brewing potions and…solving mysteries?! ___ Winner of the [Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Award 2019](https://manba.co.jp/awards/813)