Ririko lost her parents and siblings in a mysterious incident where details remain in the shadows. Before Ririko moves to her new home in Kaminoshiro, a detective gives her a letter that her father wrote before his death, which contained a card with a black and white checkered pattern on it. At her new school, Ririko becomes friends with Maya and has some interest in a male student named Shirou. She questions about the black clock tower that stands in the center of the town, but no one bothers to answer the question. Her new life in her new home seemed all as well until one day Maya calls Ririko out and takes out the same checkered card that Ririko was given to her and she summons some unknown creature! As Ririko is in confusion as to what's going on, Shirou appears and says "Not another one…" What's going on around here?
Mai Shintani, who works at the Kitakabane Police Station was suddenly assigned in the "Organized Crime Countermeasures Division", commonly known as the "Sotai". Immediately after that, she gained influence within her jurisdiction. The leader of expanding yakuza faction "Tatsygamigumi" Shogo Mikuro mysteriously disappeared. There's a tension in the conflict between cases of opposing Yakuza groups. And for some reason, Shintani is looking composed at the northern police station. Behind it is an absurd shocking truth?!
Welcome to the classes of horror! I will be your guide to a world that lurks under everyday life. For these lessons, you don't need text books or notebooks. If you're prepared for the worst…
The World at the Brink of Self-Annihilation (from ebookjapan): Joe, a young boy, was kidnapped by mysterious men and turned into a cyborg through surgery at a secret base. He was called 009 (zero zero nine). At the base, there are fellow cyborgs with amazing abilities from 001 to 008. They were all created as prototypes for a revolutionary new product of the "Black Ghosts," merchants of death! From the war-mongering gang, the nine cyborgs and their developer, Dr. Gilmore, escape to X Island, but...? A milestone in the history of Japanese SF manga begins! --- - **Won the 7th Kodansha Children's Manga Award in 1966, which it shared with Ishinomori's other work, Mutant Sabu**
Inspired by the constant and violent confrontation between BOPE and crime in the "favelas" (shanty towns) of Rio de Janeiro. The story focuses on a recent member of BOPE who began to question the methods used by his leader.
For generations the Torqye Pashalu and the Balt-Rhein Empire have stood in stern opposition of each other. Then one night, when an Imperial minister is found assassinated, the two nations are plunged into a potentially explosive situation. As the generals of Torqye's council cry for war, Mahmut comes to discover the devious truth behind the assassination. Thus the young pasha's battle for his country and peace and trust in his fellow man begins… --- **Links:** - Alternative Official English - [K MANGA](https://kmanga.kodansha.com/title/10291/episode/324757) (U.S. Only), [Kodansha](https://kodansha.us/series/altair-a-record-of-battles/) **Notes:** - Won the 41st Kodansha Manga Awards in the shounen category.
In the fifteenth century, when the French and English were at war, there appeared a woman claiming to be a visionary of God. She was Joan of Arc.
A tale of obsessive love and constant pursuit, told over a 1000 years. Escaping from a brother who had just ascended the throne, Yoshitsune, along with his servant, comes across a house in the middle of a desolate mountain. Oddly enough, only a young woman lives there, who seems to possess a very dark and ominous past. This long journey of more than a thousand years focuses on our main protagonist Kurou. It can be somewhat confusing at the beginning, but once you understand the plot this story can be quite entertaining. The main thrust of the story goes like this: Kurou meets a beautiful woman by the name of Kuromitsu, and begins a relationship which transcends life and memory. Kurozuka tells the tale of a journey undertaken by immortals, and those who chase after immortality. The majority of this story takes place many centuries in the future, after Kurou has been separated from Kuromitsu. Having lost almost all of his memories, Kurou seeks to understand why he cannot die, to rediscover his identity, and to find the woman that haunts his dreams.
A noisy little family, a cheerful group of classmates, and a boy, born on the first year of the lunar calendar living a never changing life. Then one day he notices a girl in his class shrouded in mystery. Her name is Makina. However, the boy just can't seem to bring himself to talk to Makina. Then one day, before the first lunar calendar month, another mysterious beauty appears. Her name is Lucia, and as she leans in as if she is going to kiss him, she tells him about a mysterious power hidden inside him called "Snake Eyes"… Adaptation of the light novel series written by Sakaki Kasa with illustrations by Amagai Yukino.
Shishio Academy is a prestigious, the best school in Japan, in which only the elite of such fields as study, sports, pedigree can study. But in reality it is a school of principles of “devouring the weak by the strong”, where everything is measured by the results of the games. This is a massacre in which only a definite winner can survive. Guren is a legend of the shadow world, conquering and invincible, and at the same time he wants to start a normal, carefree life. He fails the entrance exams to the academy on purpose, therefore, following his results, he qualifies as the lowest grade F. However, after reuniting with his younger sister Karen, the situation changes dramatically. And when his sister is in danger, he shows his true abilities!
After 2050, Tokyo. The sixteen-year-old gifted police detective Kyouko Karasuma works for a special devision in the Asakusa Police Department. Her rather abnormal cases involve: fighting oni, tengu, and other monsters from Asian myths and legends. The modern art by the character designer of Speed Grapher works very well with the action-heavy story line and the overall art improves with each volume.
The legendary horror manga returns with treasured stories to add to the collection! This spin-off series follows Nube, Hiroshi, Kyoko, and the others as they experience untold stories in Domori.
Oneshot about a unique magical girl. *(The raw link leads to a partially redrawn version by the artist.)*
This manga focuses on Date Omito's journeys and trials following his expulsion from Otokojuku, his first meeting with the Three Fists, Raiden, Hien, and Gekkou, and more.
Spike, Jet, Faye, and Ed - cowboys on the new frontier. Together this band of interplanetary bounty hunters takes on the jobs that anyone in their right mind would turn down. --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by m&c! Comics (2003)
In a world where magic reigns, someone with such limited power is absolutely nothing! Asta is a young man who dreams of becoming the Magic Emperor/Wizard King, the greatest of all magicians. With effort and hard work, will Asta be able to achieve his dream and match the expectations of his childhood friend, Yuno? Published in Shounen Jump NEXT!! 2014 Vol. 2.
Nozomu Itoshiki is a high school teacher so pessimistic that even the smallest of misfortunes can send him into a pit of raging despair; some of these "catastrophes" even lead to suicide attempts. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is a satirical slice-of-life comedy set in the modern day, covering various aspects of Japanese life and culture through Nozomu and his interactions with his students: Kiri Komori, a recluse who refuses to leave the school; Abiru Kobushi, an enigma who frequently arrives to class with severe and mysterious injuries; the hyper-optimistic Kafuuka Fuura, Nozomu's polar opposite; and several other unusual girls, all of whom are just as eccentric as their teacher.
September 11, 197x, In the whole Kanto region a magnitude 8-9 violent earthquake occurred. Scholars called it the great destruction of the Showa Era, but the people called it the earthquake from hell! Volcanoes erupted, buildings crumbled, Tokyo became decimated in a single day. The government, after failing to recover the city, abandons Tokyo and moves the capital. The survivors form a society with no laws. In this harsh lawless world emerges Jack, a 10 foot giant who annihilates anyone and anything in his path. The manga details his journey. The numbering is from the Complete Edition, with around 20 Chapters per volume.
Rain Jewlitt, known as the Methuselah, is a spaced-out, immortal, 624-year-old man dressed in priest's clothes. He's got eternal youth and a large price on his head… put there by those questing after the secret of his immortality. Machika Balfaltin is a tomboyish, energetic 14-year-old girl who, upon the death of her grandfather, sets out to kill Methuselah, the one bounty her assassin grandfather, Zol the Grim Reaper, couldn't kill. Instead, however, Machika ends up being saved by Rain again and again from other aspiring bounty hunters attacking them both. Sound like the beginnings of an odd relationship? You won't believe where their journey takes them… Note: Some sites say this manga ends on chapter 66 but there's a difference between the magazine and tank chapter numbers. The manga is complete with no chapters missing.
A group of very different people wake up together in the sealed environment of an abandoned school building. They include the college students Yumi and Reiji, a cabaret girl named Akane, an occult-obsessed salaryman named Yukitoshi, a punk factory worker named Toshio, an unemployed pedophile named Taichi, and a 9-year-old girl named Michika. The building in which they find themselves has running water, no food, and a timer set for seven days. When they find a cleaver and a hot pot in an upstairs classroom, they begin to guess the intention behind their imprisonment; they're meant to kill and eat one another to survive. In principle, they should be able to survive just by waiting out the seven days in hunger, but nothing is ever that simple.
Naota is a normal Japanese sixth grader (although a little cynical), but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball he leaves his homeless 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity. [Official English](https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/18-934/FLCL-Omnibus-TPB)
In a world where everyone has a monster crest from birth, a select few rise to become Monster Trainers. Reyn Erhardt, a slime trainer, the lowest of the low, cares nothing for status and just continues his daily regimen of training for his personal slime, Pem-Pem. Yet in school dominated by monsters as grand as dragons, those who cannot hope to rise to the top take out their frustrations on the lowest ones, and Reyn and Pem-Pem make for easy marks. Or do they?
Makoto is a recluse (hikikomori) who gets summoned to another world. After being discarded by the original goddess, another goddess grants him the "Truth Eye" aka "God's Eye". Makoto is now able to see various things, including the past and future. He then finds a town overrun by zombies, picks up a log, kills the entire town of zombies and rescues three naked girls trapped in a well. After looting the town of valuable he goes to register at an adventurer's guild and is powerful enough to kill a veteran adventurer in one hit.
Arsène Lupin III is the grandson of the master thief Arsène Lupin. With his cohorts Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII and his love interest Fujiko Mine, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Zenigata.