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 him. Picking up directly after the events of 20th Century Boys, it seems like the world is finally out of danger, but the mystery of "Friend" still exists. As the world is threatened again, Kenji must search his memories for any clue about "Friend."
Yataro Araki, a member of the Tojo High School soccer team, has big dreams. Within a decade, he sees himself conquering the soccer world’s loftiest peak: European “football!” Fast forward to what may be his last soccer match before graduation, the match that will make or break his dreams. Having thus far failed to attract the attention of scouts, he is now desperate to do whatever it takes to prove himself. Yataro is prepared to get his hands dirty if it means winning. If it means standing at the top! Welcome to the world of international football! Nothing is sacred, no rule is left unbroken! Not when victory is on the line!
As Rohan, a young Japanese mangaka, is drawing, he meets a mysterious, beautiful woman who tells him of a cursed 200-year-old painting. The painting was created using the blackest ink ever known, which came from a 1,000-year-old tree that the painter had cut down without the approval of the Emperor. The painter was executed for this, but the painting was saved from destruction by a curator of the Louvre. A decade later, Rohan visits Paris and asks the museum to unearth the painting from deep within its archives—but he is completely unprepared for the power of the curse he has unleashed. Live action movie adaptation (2023): [MyDramaList](https://mydramalist.com/746301-rohan-au-louvre)
Yusei Matsui, creator of Assassination Classroom and Neuro: Supernatural Detective, is back! Set in feudal Japan in between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, our hero Hojo Tokiyuki is a boy on the run that history all but forgot! When the Kamakura shogunate is overthrown by Ashikaga Takauji, Tokiyuki's family and standing are visciously taken away from him, and he must flee to the far reaches of the land to survive and seek out his revenge! --- Alt. Official English: [Viz (vol.)](https://www.viz.com/elusive-samurai)
A collection of one-shots by Yokoyari Mengo. - Chapter 1. **Hagane no Kokoro** - Chapter 2. **Neo Dutch Wife** - Chapter 3. **Stand By You** - Chapter 4. **"Kawaii"** Meet Yukiho Amamiya, a 14-year-old girl who becomes a gravure idol to help her sister. She's cute, and she knows it - but she can't seem to be cute around the boy she likes. Will she ever hear him call her "cute"? - Chapter 5. **One Flower (Ipponbana)** - Chapter 6. **Koi wa Zenkei Shisei** - Chapter 7. **Namu Amidaisuki**
Nomiya Tomomi, a high school drop-out who wants to devote his life to helping Natsumi, a girl he sentenced to a life of immobility after a tragic bike ride he invited her on, tries to change his life around, from a trouble making delinquent into a reliable man. The problem is, both Natsumi and her sister dont seem to care at all for Nomiya, rightfuly blaming him for the accident. Plus, the only notable talent Nomiya posseses is the talent for basketball. Everything changes for him when he meets up with Togawa Kiyoharu, a wheelchair basketball player. --- - **Won the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize for Manga in 2001**
When their mother dies, junior high school student Ryota takes care of his toddler brother Chika and their home. Overwhelmed by all the work, he begins neglecting himself. Without any time to himself, Ryota comes to resent his little brother and soon the resentment turns into murderous thoughts. Little by little the pressures of childrearing make Ryota lose his mind. But is Ryota truly the issue? Or...
Distributing thrilling videos in secret! A school game that puts life and death on the line!
"People’s gazes felt like weapons to me, and meeting someone's gaze felt like being stabbed." Avoiding the gazes of others, Hakuto shuts himself in at home instead of going to school. One day, he dives into a lake said to have once been used for rainmaking rituals, where shrine maidens were offered… and finds a girl submerged there with a sword pierced through her. "I can make eye contact as long as it's with her." Believing this, Hakuto begins visiting the lake day after day, until...
Murai Masahiko (16) has a fetish for the smell lingering around a scumbag in his class. One day, a beautiful girl named Mizusawa Haruka transfers into his class, but when they start dating he spills the truth: "Mizusawa Haruka died 5 years ago…." Who the hell is she!? What are her intentions!? The heart pounding suspense horror Scumbag Loser begins!
The greatest labyrinth of the 20th century, a drama for working men and women in a town called Kowloon Walled City. A daily adult romance in a gentle dystopia. (…can a dystopia be gentle?)
You can’t win through only with “friendship” and “youth”. We stake our lives to get to Koshien!! Kanou Shoutarou entered an official baseball club at one of the best powerhouse baseball schools in the country - DL Gakuen. However the discipline in the club, he admired so much, was beyond all imagination! From Nakibokuro - the former member of PL Gakuen’s baseball club who played at the Koshien as the regular!
A beautiful transfer student, Tatejima Hitode, clad in a jet-black sailor suit, arrives in a classroom where one after another, the dead are beheaded by a flying ski, steel doors in the subway, and a crashing traffic light. The only way to save the cursed high school students is to sacrifice one of them. “I told you, didn't I? Is the enigmatic girl friend or foe?” Envy and fear, love and hatred are all mixed up in this horror story of school suspense.
In the world of Alcia' where rank is determined by "counts" a young girl named Hina scours the land for the fabled Ace-the legendary hero of the Waste War. With only the last words of her missing mother to guide her search' she wanders from town to town until she meets Licht' a clownish masked vagrant with a count of –999. Girl-crazy and unpredictable' he's the exact opposite of a hero…or at least' that's how he appears…
This work is a story about a boy, Rwanda, whose mother is a vicious murderer, set in England at the end of the 19th century. Rwanda, who has long been confined in the basement, grew up and left the house after a certain incident. Eventually, he arrived at the town and was picked up by a staff member of the nursing home and decided to live in the facility. But peaceful everyday life is only boring for Rwanda…
Ageha Yoshina is a self-confident high school student who helps others for a fee. On his way back from a job, he finds a strange calling card with the word "Psyren" imprinted left behind in a phone booth and decides to keep it, unaware of its purpose. The very next day, Ageha discovers that his classmate Sakurako Amamiya has the exact same calling card in her possession. When he questions her, Sakurako asks him to save her, signaling the day his troubles begin. Confused by the circumstances of this encounter, Ageha realizes something is wrong when Sakurako goes missing. In an attempt to figure out what is happening, he decides to call the number provided on the calling card and is asked a series of questions by a mysterious voice, ending with a final, cryptic question: "Would you like to go to Psyren?" Thus begins two teenagers' participation in a game of life or death within a strange world inhabited by monsters called "Taboo." Granted the ability to use psychic powers known as "PSI," the duo fight to return to the place they call home.
A father and daughter find themselves lost in a nightmarish gathering—a grotesque banquet where figures draped in animal forms feast. But here, humans are livestock. Human flesh is the main course. The ones who operate this “human farm” are not quite beasts, yet neither are they human. They are something else entirely. The unlucky pair is about to experience the most horrifying “hospitality” imaginable. Meanwhile, Nero, a wildcat laborer at a farm, encounters the village's enigmatic leader, a deer-man named Ernest. Their meeting stirs something deep within Nero—a buried memory long forgotten…
Scary stories tend to hide what's truly within an author's heart. What exactly could this truth be, as it comes to light between author and listener...? Frightening yet gentle, eerie yet warm. A new and exciting therapeutic horror story takes the stage! (Source: MangaPlus)
A new miniseries by the author of Beastars. Mako Higari is an ordinary woman who works in a food container factory. She has a reputation for sleeping with every man she works with. However, she harbors a dirty little secret… [Official English](https://www.viz.com/drip-drip)
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance… The five oneshots at the end are **Banana Fish another story** ([Mangaupdates link](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/ffdpw36/banana-fish-another-story)). A collection of *Banana Fish* side-stories that take place before and after the main story. Contains **spoilers** for the ending of *Banana Fish* itself. 1. ANGEL EYES 2. Hikari no Niwa - THE GARDEN WITH HOLY LIGHT 3. PRIVATE OPINION 4. Ura BANANA 5. Fly boy, in the sky
Momiji Kuramichi has all the passion in the world for the game of shogi. Unfortunately, he has none of the talent. This is especially frustrating because his brother was a legend in the game. How can he be such a flop? He's developed a unique way of dealing with his frustration—head-butting everything! But you can't headbutt your way to victory in shogi. Is he doomed to wither under the shadow of his brother forever?
In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, herbivores and carnivores coexist with each other. For the adolescents of the Cherryton School, school life is filled with hope, romance, distrust, and uneasiness. The main character is Legosi the wolf, a member of the drama club. Despite his menacing appearance, he has a very gentle heart. Throughout most of his life, he has always been an object of fear and hatred by other animals, and he's been quite accustomed to that lifestyle. But soon, he finds himself becoming more involved with his fellow classmates who have their own share of insecurities and finds his life in school changing slowly. --- - **Won the 2018 Manga Taisho Award**
Makio Kodai (35), a novelist, cannot bear to see her niece Asa (15) being passed around by relatives at the funeral of her sister and her husband, and decides to take her in on the spur of the moment. However, although she took her niece home, she came to her senses the next day and her natural shyness kicked in. Makio had forgotten how unsuitable she was to live with someone. Asa, on the other hand, is not shy and agrees to live with Maki, an "adult who is not like an adult," in an unusual but honest way. This is the story of when two polar opposite worlds awkwardly try to interact.
A killer parasite is on the verge of threatening 180 million people… and a race against the clock has begun! What do two Japanese detectives, a naked man on a city street, and a roundworm from Botswana all have in common? In this first volume of Manhole, Ken Mizoguchi and Nao Inoue are a pair of investigators asking themselves this very question as they string together clues to solve a string of bloody and mysterious murders. But as the pieces come together, they begin to uncover the threat of a deadly biological agent which poses a threat of epidemic proportions. An unlikely lead sets them off on the hunt for a mysterious photographer, but as they chase down shadows, the infection keeps spreading. This thrilling detective story with a biological horror hook will keep readers on the edge of their seat. Rising star manga artist Tetsuya Tetsui’s Manhole is a tightly paced fight to prevent a pandemic as perplexing as it is deadly. *Source: Abrams ComicArts, Vol. 1*