In the future, random Jr. High School classes are chosen to compete in a game called Battle Royale. The rules: only one student can survive after 3 days on an island or else they all perish. Weapons are handed out and each student is sent out into the field alone and unprepared for the horror that awaits them. The classmates turn upon themselves in a battle for survival, treaties are made and broken, and former friends become foes as the relentless countdown continues. Amid the betrayals and rising body count, two classmates confess their love for each other and swear to survive this deadly game together. Links: [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2971) (live-action movie)
Three years ago, a gateway between Earth and the "Beyond" opened over the city of New York. In one terrible night, New York was destroyed and rebuilt, trapping New Yorkers and extra-dimensional creatures alike in an unassailable island, a world all its own hidden in the mist of its physics-defying waterfalls. New York has been rechristened Hellsalem's Lot, a paranormal melting pot where magic and madness dwell alongside the mundane, where every form of human vermin gathers to exploit otherworldly assets for earthly profit. Now someone is threatening to breach the controlled flow of harmless, average humans and items in and (much more rarely) out of the city and thereby release Hellsalem's Lot's deluge of horrors on the outside world. The mysterious super-agents of "Libra" fight the impossible to prevent the unthinkable.
After seeing a picture of Naotora Kusunoki as a kid, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Urunei in Southeast Asia fell in love at first sight. The only problem is that Naotora is the son of a bureaucrat in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Eager to please the prince, Naotora's father forces him to cross-dress and fly to Urunei to get married to the prince as "Nao". Once in Urunei, he unintentionally captures the hearts of the populace who see Nao as the return of Putri Harimau, the Tiger Girl of legend who had a hand in the founding of Urunei with the Dragon Prince long ago. However, there are some in Urunei who are not so happy about Nao's arrival.
The world is in mortal peril. Sir Noi Crezant, the Lizard Knight, has been sent to gain the aid of the great warrior Amamiya Yuuhi in hopes of finding the Princess Samidare and protecting the planet from the incredible 'Biscuit Hammer' poised to crack the Earth in two. Unfortunately Yuuhi wants no part of it, and the Princess doesn't prove to be the shining 'hero of justice' role model that Noi had hoped for.
Mystery writer Mikazuki Subaru, who isn't good at dealing with people, finds them to be a disturbance when it comes to building his imaginary world. One day, he chances upon a stray cat and feels inspiration strike so he brings the cat home as his muse. Can watching the inexplicable behaviors of a cat form material for a novel? Featuring perspectives from the human's point of view as well as the cat's! --- A socially awkward man X a cat he found Mystery writer Mikazuki Subaru, who isn’t good at dealing with people, finds them to be a disturbance when it comes to building his imaginary world. One day, he chances upon a stray cat and feels inspiration strike so he brings the cat home as his muse. Can watching the inexplicable behaviors of a cat form material for a novel? Featuring perspectives from the human’s point of view as well as the cat’s! --- [See AnimeNewsNetwork for the anime.](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=21270)
Armed with his new weapon, the Dashinben, Taikobo seeks revenge on the demon Dakki and her sinister sisters. He finds out much more about the godlike Sennins--and what may have really happened to his clan. But looking for survivors only means falling further into Dakki's darkness.
Ostracized and attacked by his home village after the death of his mother, the half-human half-demon Elliot establishes himself as a dungeon lord with the help of his father's succubus.
Seventeen years after the Battle of Belhalla, the people on the continent of Jugdral suffer under the oppressive rule of the Grannvale Empire. On the Isaachian frontier, prince Shannan of Isaach has raised a liberation army to fight back against the empire and among its young soldiers was a boy whom the people revered as the "Scion of Light" and the true prince to Grannvale. His name was... Seliph. Based on the Super Famicom strategy game, Fire Emblem 4: Genealogy of the Holy War. This book exclusively covers the events of the game's 6th chapter.
Tarou was an ordinary university student until a strange old magician summoned him to another world, upon learning that his magical power is 8 million, he uses that abnormally powerful magic to revive the old man that caused all this... In the form of a frog.
Joe Yabuki is a young man living in the slums of Tokyo. But, one day he meets Danpei Tange, a former boxer, who discovers his potential in boxing and tries to make him into a champion. Due to petty crimes, Joe is sent to a juvenile prison. There Joe mets Toru Rikiishi, a promising boxer, who knocked him out with one blow when he attempted to escape prison. Slowly but surely, Joe realizes his own potential. Joe begins his boxing life, step by step, with only one goal in mind… To Defeat Toru Rikiishi !! Licensed in English by Kodansha USA under the title Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.
Kanon is the story of Yuuichi Aizawa and his return to his always snowy hometown after eight years. The problem is that Yuuichi doesn't remember his time there and all the people he met, so he has to gradually begin to remember everything. Of course this being a love story Yuuichi meets several girls including his cousin Naiyuki, the taiyaki obsessed Ayu, the silent Mai, the cute yet aggressive Makoto, and the terminally ill Shiori. (Source: Otakuism)
In exchange for clearing off the royal family’s huge debt, Princess Violet was sent to marry Winter, the duke’s illegitimate son. “I’ve never seen such a wonderful man before in my life.” Although Violet fell in love with her husband at first sight, their arranged marriage was destined to fail from the beginning. “If it were easy, I wouldn’t have come here. Just this once together…” “Do you realize how much money has been moved while you’ve stood here, wasting my time?” Three years later, Violet wasn’t sure such a busy man would even bother to attend her funeral. When she decided to end it all… “What’s going on…” Violet blankly stared at herself in the bedroom’s full-body mirror. The person staring back at her was her husband, Winter Blooming. Why did they switch bodies? “I guess I’ve really gone crazy now.” ---
A high school 3rd year student, Miyamoto Dai, whose heart was touched by Jazz, continued to play the Saxophone alone in Kawahara, rain or shine, day or night, for many years. "I want to become the world's best Saxophone player…!!" Effort, talent, faith, environment, luck…which are necessary? A tale of reaching towards his goal recklessly and sincerely begins in Hirosegawa, Sendai. [Official Site](https://bluegiant.jp/) --- - English release by [Seven Seas Entertainment](https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/blue-giant/) - Indonesian release by m&c! Comics (2018) --- - **Won the 62nd Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga** - **Won the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga**
Nishimura Hideki is a young man who once confessed to a person he thought was a girl online, only to find out that this person was actually a boy. He keeps this story secret and swears he'll never trust a girl online again. However, one day a girl online confesses to him, and it turns out she is actually a beautiful girl named Tamaki Ako. But Ako unfortunately cannot tell the difference between the online world and reality, and she is also a loner who has trouble communicating with others. Hideki and his friends from the guild then decide to work together in order to help her understand the difference between real life and online gaming.
Gran is a young man who works as a lowly delivery guy in a world where magic is commonplace. However, hidden among the cargo he’s tasked with transporting is... a princess?! An escape story filled with intrigue and romance begins!
Famed author Kasumigaoka Utaha had always struggled with her novel series, 'Koisuru Metronome' until she met Tomoya Aki; her biggest fan who inspires her to give it a proper conclusion and later becomes her personal editor. Now with Tomoya's passion and Kasumigaoka's determination combined, the two work together on their latest series while also discovering their true feelings and finding parallels between themselves and the characters within Kasumigaoka's novels. This is an alternate Story with Kasumigaoka Utaha as the Main Heroine.
This one is just plain bizarre. Funny and ecchi, but bizarre. Hanappe is something of a loser. He’s no good with women, and some have been known to take advantage of him. After one such incident where he winds up helping in a gun robbery after a woman flashes her breast at him, he goes home to (ahem) relieve himself when two demons pop out of his television set. They are Mephisto (the she-devil) and Ofisto Bazooka (the demon) and they’ve come to grant three wishes, but instead the demon assaults his mother, Mephisto piles a ton of money in front of his father and then goes after his sister, and they lose track of things. They decide instead of granting wishes to simply live here. As a result of this unplanned madness, Hanappe winds up with the power to make people spontaneously undress and want to have sex with him. He is also given the power to shut this off, but he doesn’t learn this immediately. It has consequences far beyond what he imagines though… And then Hanappe discovers a side-effect; he has untapped strength and abilities. And then it gets weird…
Neneko is spying on a rival organization's assassin, but her true identity is revealed, and the condition for her safety is "marriage"!? --- Alt. Official English: [Square Enix (vol.)](https://squareenixmangaandbooks.square-enix-games.com/en-us/series/assassin-and-cinderella)
A series of Higurashi When They Cry anthology manga published by Ichijinsha with 10 total volumes. --- **Volume 1** **Cover Illustration**: [Houjou Yutori](https://mangadex.org/author/a2625b28-1340-4516-9e66-45d448625823) **Title Page**: [Yoneda Kazusa](https://mangadex.org/author/905dea3e-e77c-4b12-833a-c5ebcadd5736) 1. **Collecting Happening** by Yoneda Kazusa 2. **White Light** by Sakura Tasuke 3. **The Law of Relative Victory** by Yukiri Aron 4. **Satoshyndrome** by Hano Haruka 5. **After School Crisis+** by Kuriyama Renji 6. **A Sudden Tradigy** by Wakaru Kana 7. **Club Curry** by Shigure Mira 8. **Girlfriend** by Mochizuki Kako 9. **Our Little House** by Taira Kosaka 10. **L'Oiseau bleu** by Itagaki Hako
A story mainly revolving around a tight-knit group of friends in high school and how they cope with several life-changing events that are never too far off from intimate relationships. The main character is a boy named Kei Kusanagi who suffers from a very rare disease that causes a comatose state referred to as a "standstill" whenever he is under severe emotional distress. --- **Note:** - The title was never "- sensei," the Japanese characters "ティーチャー" phonetically spell "teacher"
In the Middle Ages, jousting was a duel between knights who put their prides on the line in an effort to take down their opponent in one sweeping blow. Even with the changing of time, jousting is still being done. In one country it has gone from "duel" to "sport" and everyone, girls as well, is encouraged to become knights and take up the sport. One girl, Celia, is no exception. It was through jousting that she met her first love, a jousting student named Takahiro in her youth. However, before she could talk with him, tragedy struck in the form of a jousting accident and he returned to his country before she could approach him. Years pass and Celia has become a strong young woman. Attending Winford Academy, she studies the art of jousting as well as how to become a knight. It is a new school year and she sees Takahiro among the new students. Will she be able to approach Takahiro this time? Will she become a knight? Only time will tell as the story unfolds. This is based off a visual novel by the same people, Ricotta, who made "Princess Lover!" and is drawn by NO. Gomesu, the same mangaka who did that one-shot, "Boy + Girl Fusion".
A man appears in a world where heroes are detested and must use his skills and body to stay alive! The captivating Princess Alicia has summoned Shinohara Shinta to another world! Sounds like a dream come true, right? Think again! Beneath her enchanting façade, this princess is as cunning as they come, treating heroes like disposable pawns. But Shinta's newly awakened Hero Skills reveal her sinister plans. Now, with his life hanging by a thread, he must outwit the scheming princess and take control of his destiny... with a seductive twist! (Seven Seas)
Androids and bonsai trees have one thing in common: they'll both outlast a human's lifespan. Kanna, an android, receives lessons from the "Sensei" who runs the bonsai shop, Kifu Garden. As "Sensei" regaled her with the wonders of bonsai, Kanna would watch with eyes full of curiosity... A long time has passed since then, and Kanna is the only one remaining at Kifu Garden. Though, a new face seems to have come to visit...
Ars is a fashion model who has gained immense popularity through her blood-soaked efforts. However, a genius named Meiko appears next to her. Her overwhelming natural talent steals the world's attention. "I don't want to lose. Ars is burning with enthusiasm, but Meiko's body has a certain problem." Aiming for the heights, she walks the shining runway. To grab the glory. To leave a living proof. The girls' fiery brilliance pierces the heart, hot and cold!