A collection of mermaid themed horror stories 1- 人魚の首 (The Mermaid's Head): Maki is shy and quiet, and after having her secret crush stolen by her friend, Rumi, Maki started holding a grudge and in her dreams, a mermaid constantly whispers to her, "Maki, eat me... And you'll become beautiful…"! 2- セイレーン ~人魚の歌声~ (Siren ~The Mermaid's Singing Voice~) 3- 人魚のいる海 (The Sea where Mermaids Live) 4- 花の名前 (The Flower's Name) 5- 夢のつづき (The Dream Continues)
Bleach? Perm? Traditional? A man should wear an Afro. This is a bible for high school boys. (from ebookjapan): Bleach? Perms? Dreads? Why're ya talkin' crazy for?! If you're a guy, you gotta have an Afro! The bible for high school boys all over Japan makes its grand entrance! One morning, Okamoto is on his way to school when he comes across a guy in school uniform with an Afro trying to break the lock on his bicycle. After breaking the lock, Afro steals the bicycle, but stops at the top of a hill because of broken gear. Okamoto catches up with him and defeats Afro after a fierce battle. However, Afro turns out to be Tanaka, who transferred to Okamoto's class that day!
Beautiful appearance, beautiful food, beautiful legs, beautiful voice, beautiful skills… Which beautiful boy is your type…?! The trouble that arises at Private Yubiwa Academy is rumored to be resolved informally, secretively and for free, by the mysterious "Pretty Boy Detectives." In order to search for "a star she saw 10 years ago", second year Mayumi Doujima opens the door of mystery to the 5 beautiful boys!
Kei Sakai, a high school boy, had a problem. One thing led to another, and he was deeply uninterested in everything and had no sexual desire. Then one day, he learns of a mysterious, beautiful girl named Yami, who is the gaining popularity on SNS, from a fellow part-timer. Yami is an unidentified internet idol who uploads naughty videos and pictures of herself in outrageous outfits, and has a huge following among men. No one knows her real face, but Sakai recognizes a woman who resembles Yami. That person was Saki Miyashita, a classmate who sits next to him, and although she is far more plain than Yami, she shares Yami's figure and the position of her teardrop mole. Sakai, who had lost interest and sexual desire, decides to investigate Miyashita out of curiosity, in order to find Yami's true identity. However, unaware that it's Miyashita's trap, he ends up with a lewd, dangerous secret...!!?
It's the Meiji Era in a slightly alternate Japan, and the Gregorian calendar has just come into effect. The fox-eared girls living in the youkai part of town are about to be put to work together with a delegation of young human soldiers, to promote interracial understanding. So what will happen when Zakuro's strong personality collides with human sensibilities? --- *(Series has been on Hiatus since January 2024)*
Iwano Hiroyuki is a high school teacher living in Tokyo with his loving wife and newborn daughter. Trusted by his students, he believes he’s living an ordinary, everyday life… Until he wakes up naked and imprisoned. Standing over him is a stranger who calls herself Kako, a woman who claims to know Iwano. Slowly but surely, Kako causes Iwano’s life to come crashing down around him. Believing her actions are rooted in his past, Iwano heads to Osaka, where he spent his university years, to trace the long-forgotten truth…
Yumi Katagiri (a pseudonym) is a high school girl who does a bit of compensated dating on the side. But her "customer service," is a little bit different from other girls'... She would continue this behavior night after night until one day she is discovered by her high school teacher. A unique romantic suspense between a lonely girl and a passionate teacher!
"Now, at this place, I punish the last royal daughter of the dynasty and declare a republic.” Princess Lumina died from the revolution. She is reincarnated in Korea with the memories of her previous life and becomes an ordinary office worker. Now that she has done everything she wants in her past life, she wants to live comfortably, but the ties from her previous life appear and interfere with her company life!
"From now on, I'll protect you". Yui, a high school sophomore, returns to her hometown for the first time in eight years due to the reunion of her divorced parents. Reunited with her popular older brother, Hayato, and her handsome grown-up childhood friend, Ritsu, a fascinating new life is unavoidable! ...Until she realizes she may be in love with her brother. "Date me? You can use me as a disguise to hide your feelings for him." A heartbreaking love triangle!
Naoto Date is a feared heel wrestler in America known as Tiger Mask who is extremely vicious in the ring. However, he decides to change after returning to Japan when a young boy tells him he wants to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grows up. The boy resides in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he does not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger is inspired to be a heroic wrestler. The main antagonists are Tiger's Cave, a mysterious organization that trains young people to be villainous heel wrestlers on the condition that they give half of their earnings to the organization. Tiger Mask was once a member of Tiger's Cave but no longer wants anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriates the leader of the organization and he sends numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, after Tiger Mask to punish him. Most of the environment and characters are fictitious, but real-life pro wrestlers Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba are included in the story as well.
The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends? How can she find fulfillment in her own life, and can she learn to understand what life means to the humans around her? Frieren begins a new journey to find the answer.
This is a four-panel comedy manga about Kobeni Yonomori, who on her 16th birthday suddenly has a young man with little presence named Hakuya Mitsumine and his little sister Mashiro appear in front of her. It turns out that Hakuya is her fiancé, and Mashiro is her future sister-in-law. The three (and Kobeni's overprotective big sister Benio) start living together under the same roof, and hilarious happenings occur.
Around the offices of Tozai News, Shiro Yamaoka has a reputation for being over-blunt, under-ambitious, and generally an all-around slacker. So why has he been given the important job of coming up with the "Ultimate Menu" to celebrate the newspaper's 100th anniversary? Because he possesses qualities his other colleagues don't: an exquisitely discerning palate, an encyclopedic knowledge of food and drink, and a masterful touch in the kitchen. --- - **Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Seinen/General in 1987**
Kansai COMITIA69 '4 Hour Speed Manga Award' Grand Prize. A girl returns home to see an old friend.
Somehow, before the appearance of the female lead, I became the male lead’s temporary wife. Since things had already turned out this way, I decided to try my very best. However… “It’s so fortunate that someone like you became Cedric’s partner.” “…I’ll admit it. It’s a fortune that you were the one to become his wife, Dylan.” “It’s such a fortunate chance that you were the one to become the Lady of the Brighton House.” …I think I did too much of a good job. When Cedric’s destined partner arrives, I will have to leave. What should I do? To someone like that, Cedric had said this. “Would you have ever thought that the one I would fall in love with would be you?” …Would you still say the same to me after the real female lead, Adeline, makes her appearance? --- The spunky Lady Dillon didn't realize she was the villain of a romance novel until she encounters Marquess Cedric. Seeing him jogs a dormant memory of the novel's plot, in which her beloved younger sister dies in childbirth after marrying Cedric. Determined to prevent this, Dillon marries him herself, but what fate awaits her when she knows he's meant to fall in love with the real female lead later? In this marriage of convenience, it seems nothing turns out quite how either of them expects...
After quitting baseball because of a certain incident, Tetsuji has been spending his high school days listlessly until one day, his married elder sister suddenly returned home. She's 188cm tall and he's too scared to ask of her weight. Her name's Mao and her nickname is Maou a.k.a Demon King. Tetsu is also big-sized but he is timid unlike his sister who is huge in many ways, and they are about to spend an unexpectedly sad yet fiery summer holiday together.
Ostracized and tormented by his peers to the point of breaking, Kazuhisa Kaya set off into the nearby forest atop the mountain with one purpose: to dig a pitfall and bring about the death of the person behind his suffering. However, right when Kazuhisa was about to succeed in his revenge, a sudden earthquake throws his plans out of whack! Caught unaware, all he can do is patiently lie in wait until someone lumbering across the path happens to fall into his trap. Kazuhisa's excitement is short-lived, however, as the corpse at the bottom of his pitfall turns out not to be the bully he was expecting but a grotesque, pig-looking monster, and his confusion only grows as he’s suddenly greeted by a pure-white room and a RPG-like status screen. Strange monsters now wandering the mountain and with newfound powers at his disposal, Kazuhisa is forced to throw all concerns over his tormentor to the wayside as he focuses on a new goal: survival. That's not going to be as easy as it seems, however, as he’s not the only one to have been wrapped up in this mess... (Hanashi Media) ___ [Official English Light Novel](https://hanashi.media/another-world-survival/)
Lee Ji-hyun, was lost in a snowstorm and rescued. But it was not Korea, no matter how you looked at it! The most elite military group, the Nio Mercenaries, led by the strongest warrior Valdemar, saved Ji-hyun?! Ji-hyun decides to sell them her abilities to survive. "Don't you need one management mentor?" Indeed, Ji-hyun can find a way to save the Nio mercenaries and return home safely? --- Jihyeon, a business consultant from Korea, ends up stranded in another world. She is rescued by the members of the Nio Mercenary Corps, only to find out that the unit is on the verge of bankruptcy. A passionate professional, Jihyeon cannot ignore their dismal financial state. To help the corps, and in hopes of returning home, she volunteers to serve as the corps’s financial officer. Turning around a struggling mercenary corps is no easy feat, but Jihyeon and the corps members stick together through thick and thin. Her chance of going back home, however, remains elusive. --- **Original Webtoon:** [Naver Series](https://series.naver.com/comic/detail.series?productNo=6744155), [Naver Webtoon](https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=784823) **Official Translations:** * [English](https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/saving-a-mercenary-unit-from-bankruptcy/list?title_no=4686) * [Chinese (Simplified) / 汉语](https://www.kuaikanmanhua.com/web/topic/15212) * [Japanese / 日本語](https://manga.line.me/product/periodic?id=Z0001748)
"To end his eternal suffering, he must slay one thousand enemies!" Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men! His quest begins when a young girl seeks his help in taking revenge on her parents' killers… and his quest won't end until the blood of a thousand has spilled! [Official English](https://digital.darkhorse.com/series/373/blade-of-the-immortal) --- - **Won the 1st Japan Media Arts Award Division Excellence Prize** --- AnimeNewsNetwork Links: [Anime](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9691) [Live-Action Movie](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=18861)
From a young age, Minami Harusumi has had recurring dreams of Veronica, a princess whose kingdom is on the verge of destruction. He believes them to be recollections of his past life, and that he is her reincarnation. Because of this, he is ridiculed by his classmates. One day, when the mockery escalates into bullying, he rediscovers magic—something Veronica had studied and used. Reassured his past life is not merely a fantasy, Minami tries to learn more about his past memories and the reason behind them…
A Martial Arts Whirlwind with a Spirited Young Girl Who Loves Karate! Natsuki Kisumi is a strong-willed second-year student at Gouju High School and a member of the karate club. Her skills are so impressive that even the club captain, Yanagisawa, recognizes her talent. However, her boyfriend, Osawa, is less enthused about her karate obsession. He wishes she would embrace a more traditionally feminine demeanor. Anime adaptation: [AniDB](https://anidb.net/anime/3352) | [ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5329) | [MAL](https://myanimelist.net/anime/2083/Natsuki_Crisis) | [AL](https://anilist.co/anime/2083/Natsuki-Crisis/) Video game adaptation: [IGDB](https://www.igdb.com/games/natsuki-crisis-battle) | [IMDB](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3788208/) Official Release: - Indonesian release by m&c! Comics (2000)
Winner of the 105th Newcomer Manga Award.
The Edo period has ended, and former samurai Haruyasu is adrift in a strange new world. Not even the promise of rebellion can cure him of his desire for death. But after an assassination gone wrong, Haruyasu finds himself at the mercy of his intended victim's bodyguard, an intriguing young woman with the power to heal–so intriguing, in fact, that he decides he wants to live in order to learn more about her. But what will she ask in return for saving his life?
A world blanketed in an endless and ever-growing ocean of snow. The people eke out a living, either huddled around the roots of enormous trees dotting the surface, or high in the canopy, which spreads over the planet's atmosphere. A chance meeting between Kaina, a youth from the canopy, and Liliha, a young woman from the surface, sets off a chain of events that will change the fate of the world.