Ai Saotome is a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was kid, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. Although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Makoto Taiga ' a young man with a scar between his eyes, has had a rough life, but has emerged as a bancho, rough and tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. Is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully? NOTE: Volume count based on the bunkoban. - **Won the 6th Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for Children's Manga in 1975**
After millennia in hiding, Mina Ţepeş, the princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants change. Using the vast wealth of the Ţepeş 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 Ţepeş before she has a chance to make her world-changing announcement.
Satou has been in love with his childhood friend and neighbour, Hime, ever since she and her grandfather appeared out of nowhere 10 years ago. Now a dazzling, yet mysterious high-school beauty, she makes it more and more difficult for him to confess his feelings. As the anniversary of their first meeting is nearing, will he muster up his courage to transform their friendship into something more? Or will an entirely different fate await this tightly bonded pair?
With the development of highly-advanced XR technology, which allows users to feel a realistic sense of the sharpness and weight of weapons, new frontiers of entertainment have arisen! KOG (King of Gladiators), an XR gladiatorial extravaganza, has become the greatest show on Earth! Himemiya Ace, the world's top fighter, vanishes from the public eye after a serious accident. Two years later, her twin sister Zeta - a game streamer known for her toxicity - must take the stage under Ace's name, in order to save Ace's life!
The year is 1787, Tenmei Era, a time of plague and famine in Japan, When ordinary swordsman only add to the piles of corpses on the street. But Nakoruru, a nature-worshipping Ainu priestess; Haohmaru, a bold samurai with a death wish; Hanzo, a ninja loyal to the Shogun, are samurai spirits with a common destiny. With Nakoruru's guidance, the trio battle the supernatural forces of the Dark Kingdom, led by the half-human wizard Madou Shiranui. If Shiranui's troops succeed in fomenting a war between Japan's warlords, the resulting devastation will clear the way for Dark Kingdom invasion of earth. Can the the brave samurai stave off an all-out attack by an entire legion of demons?
It was the Sengoku Era, a time when warring daimyous usurped each other constantly. There was a man whose soul was overtaken by the ways of tea and material greed as he strenuously worked his way up towards greater power and status. His name was Furuta Sasuke, a vassal of Oda Nobunaga in the Yamashiro province. With his world broadened by Oda's genius and Tea Master Sen no Soueki's spiritual insight, Sasuke travelled the road of the jocular fellow. To live or not to live. For power or the arts. That is the question! **Awards:** - 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize - 14th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Grand Prize (2010)
17th-century Japan. A rebellion in the Aizu teritory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty-one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent slaughtered. Now the surviving nuns have sworn to seek revenge. They turn to the greatest swordsman of the land to train them to be able to kill the fiends who slew the men and the other nuns.
In the silent and lonely darkness, two moons shown in the sky of a world with limitless possibilities. a mysterious, weird, delighted clown, several federal unions of cities formed three powerful empires, where interracial unrest and disturbance of monsters are a norm, this, is the time when heroes are made. Humans struggle to regain the control of planet earth while armed with the highest level of ambition. At this time of importance, second year high schooler Senior, Student Wang, he uses the Fate Roulette to upheave the world, watch out people, here comes the Senior!
Living in this new age of society, certain people are treated with high regard due to past events that occurred, so most crimes they commit are brushed aside without any consequences. Meanwhile, lurking in the shadows, the new founding fathers, known as “The Criminal Justice System,” are slowly taking control of every single country in the world.
In a world where wealth disparity has been increased by the Alpha virus pandemic, Isamu Kouyama learns Vovinam, a Vietnamese martial art, from his coworker, Le Anh Cong. Isamu signs up for a volunteer cruise hoping to profit, little does he know what this ship has in store.
After the war, there are many "Extends" in the city, people whose bodies were modified to make them into dangerous weapons. Inui Juuzou is one of them, and he has no memories of his life and body before his head was transformed into a gun. Strangely enough, his head-gun is designed so that only someone behind him can pull the trigger. Juuzou makes a living by taking on cases involving Extends in the city, and he is assisted by Mary, an intelligent young woman that he has taken under his protection.
Kamen Rider, the righteous warrior who shouts out "Henshin!" and continues to fight evil. The heroes created by the genius Shotaro Ishinomori are brought back to life by the hard-working Muraeda Kenichi! In this epic hero battle story, the 10th rider "ZX" fights alongside the previous riders against the mysterious organization "BADAN" that is invading the world!
There exists a martial arts contest in Japan that is of no concern to boys. Girls who possess the Dragon Queen's spirit gather at a special academy. The goal - fighting each other to make the soul of the Dragon Queen one once more. How? Why, by fondling their defeated opponent's breasts, of course!
People have been created that are human-animal hybrids, and powerful businesses bet on the outcome of their duels. College student Nomoto Yuuya's casual acquaintances ask him to drive them around to pick up girls one day, which he soon finds out means by force. The girl they kidnap is an animal-human hybrid named Hitomi, who slaughters all of them except Yuuya. Hitomi is a honey badger, which has been called the most fearless of all animals. Now Hitomi is assigned to stay with Yuuya, for his protection! Killing Bites are underworld duels between human-animal hybrids. One beast who knows no fear will fight in this animalistic world full of fear and insanity.
Kazuya Kagami, an ordinary boy, finds his life turned upside down when his late mother's obi transforms into a girl wearing a kimono named Kiriha. She happens to be a Tsukumogami called a "tsugumomo," objects that have gained a soul through long years of harmony with their owners. Kazuya has no recollection of meeting Kiriha when she exclaims "Long time no see" to him. He nearly loses his life from an attacking "amasogi" that are premature spirits born only to fulfill impure wishes of certain people, and Kiriha defends him. With Kiriha's arrival, Kazuya enters a reality with gods and other Tsukumogami and slowly discovers his dark past.
Maruo, a boy starved for battle, meets Urara, a girl trying to escape from underworld thugs... A supernatural yakuza story by Yuji Kaku, the creator of Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku!
Samurai Spirits: Haohmaru Jigokuyuki is a 1993 manga written by Shiro Ohno. The story takes place before the events of the first Samurai Shodown game and leads to second series by the same author where it adapts the first two games. It follows Haohmaru, Charlotte, Nakoruru, Hanzo and Ukyo as they get face to face for the first time, with the resurrected Amakusa. The series is notable for introducing, for the first time, a demon samurai who looks exactly like Haohmaru, a concept that will later be used by SNK for the story of Rasetsumaru in Samurai Shodown V.
Once upon a time a thousand years back from now, there was a legendary man that trembled Japan, in the era of peace. The man was Musashibou Benkei. Spending his time as a priest soldier under control of Honen of Mount Hiei, he started to feel the emptiness of his own overwhelming power somewhere down the line. One day, Honen descended the mountain with his armed priests including Benkei. And Benkei happened to see...... Why he was born, how he should live. Only heaven knows the meaning of his life. It is an unprecedented saga of a man with passion for Japanese people.
The manga is based on the classic Japanese novel Nansou Satomi Hakkenden, which begins with Fusehime and her dog husband's deaths at the hands of Fusehime's former fiancée. Years later, eight young warriors — all bearing the word "dog" in their surnames — gather together to fight for justice.
The story centers on first-year high school student Tatsuya Yoigoshi, a former ace soccer player who dislikes sports. He gets invited to join the team for an Indian contact sport called Kabaddi. He scoffs at the idea at first but becomes interested after watching a kabaddi practice. Won the 70th Shougakukan Manga Award.
His father is a sage and his mother is a martial artist... Yuan is a boy whose parents are the strongest humans in this world and they raised him making him believe he's "weak". However, he can pulverize giant rocks with a flick of his finger and he hunts and eats dragons, believing they're just "lizards". His daily life isn't normal at all!! If you're raised by the strongest, it's only natural that you're going to be the strongest too. This is the story of a peerless boy who knows nothing of the world but he's about to shake it!! (Source: Manga UP! Global) ___ **Links:** * Web Novel (JP): [syosetu](https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0774fa/)
Jian Chen, the publicly recognized number one expert of the Jianghu. His skill with the sword went beyond perfection and was undefeatable in battle, After a battle with the exceptional expert Dugu Qiubai who had gone missing over a hundred years ago, Jian Chen succumbed to his injuries and died. After death, Jian Chen’s spirit was transmigrated into a completely foreign world. Following an extremely fast growth, his enemies piled up one after another before becoming gravely injured once more. On the gates of death, his spirit had mutated, and from that moment henceforth, he would tread on a completely different path of the art of the sword to become the sword god of his generation. Strength System, from low to high — Saint, Great Saint, Saint Master, Great Saint Master, Earth Saint Master, Heaven Saint Master, Saint Ruler, Saint King, Saint Emperor Résumé VF: Jian Chen, l’expert numéro un du Jianghu, reconnu publiquement. Après une bataille avec l’exceptionnel expert Dugu Qiubai qui avait disparu il y a plus de cent ans, Jian Chen a succombé à ses blessures et est décédé. Après la mort, l’esprit de Jian Chen a été transmigré dans un monde complètement étranger. Après une croissance extrêmement rapide, ses ennemis s’empilent les uns après les autres avant d’être gravement blessés. Aux portes de la mort, son esprit avait muté, et à partir de ce moment-là, il marcherait sur un chemin complètement différent de l’art de l’épée pour devenir le dieu de l’épée de sa génération. Système de force, de bas en haut – Saint, Grand Saint, Saint Maître, Grand Saint Maître, Maître de la Terre, Saint Maître des Cieux, Saint souverain, Saint Roi, Saint Empereur
She was destroying people... in her mind. Kiho Ishiguro is a high school girl who's an honor student at school, and devotes herself to her disabled mother at home. She is quiet and gentle, but deep down inside she has always had the urge to "hit someone". As her feelings gets stronger day by day, Kiho encounters a street criminal. She snaps and unleashes her rage on the bad guy without restraint...? Here comes the JK who will revolutionize the world of women's MMA!
The story of the "Three Jinnai from Edo" (Kosaka, Tobisawa, Shoji) Eight year of the Keicho era, 3 years after the Battle of Sekigahara (1603 AD) Okubo Nagayasu calls on Kosaka Jinnai, who is known as the best thief in Japan, to eliminate the bandit gang led by Fuma Kotaro. A fierce battle between the Jinnais and the Fuma clan opens its curtain !!