Wergelder: in Germanic law, the money paid by a murderer or his family to the victim’s family in atonement. A mysterious deal goes down on a remote island known as a red-light pleasure district. An insane fight between a blonde sniper and an assassin in a Chinese dress brings up questions about who the players are in this deal. A group of misfit yakuza gets caught in the crossfire while trying to get in on the deal, or at least find out what’s being dealt. At the center of it all is a woman who has been wronged in the worst imaginable ways. She will have her revenge. Eisner award-winning creator of Blade of the Immortal Hiroaki Samura presents a new badass thriller with some very bad ladies!
**"Tokyo swallows and digests tens of millions of human beings, then expels them. And here is some of the excrement: her name is Barbara."** (from ebookjapan): Yosuke Mikura, a popular and indulgent novelist, meets a shabby girl named Barbara at a train station. Ever since she's been staying at his house, MIKURA's inspiration has been brilliant and he finds himself on top of the world. ...Is she a demon or a goddess? A mysterious tale of an artist's glory and pain! [Official English](https://emanga.com/products/barbara?variant=32122317702) --- Link to the Live Action Film Adaptation's Trailer on **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2vKPj8gxkA)** --- **Volumes 145 and 146 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
What do you do when a team of evil, alien wrestlers threaten the Earth? Organise a team of GOOD super-powered wrestlers, of course! Kinniku Mantaro, the son of legendary wrestler Kinnikuman, rockets to Earth and finds an evil wrestling gang called the DMP tearing the place apart. The punks on the DMP are the weirdest, nastiest, and most outlandishly powerful musclebound freaks the galaxy has ever known. Mantaro's only hope: form a team that's even wilder. Lazy and cowardly, Mantaro sure doesn't look like the universe's last great hope, but when something upsets him - like, say, EVIL - he busts out in muscles just like his old man! The only possible result is earthshaking, body-slamming, ultimate-powered action that sends our entire planet sailing over the top rope!
Akira Inugami just transfered into his new school. The principal and teachers fear what may happen because Inugami was placed in the same homeroom as the school's biggest problem and gang leader. His homeroom teacher Aoshika is going out of her mind trying to figure out what happened the night before, where she could have sworn she saw this same Inugami beaten alive and then hit by a car by a large group of thugs in a park. But somehow, Inugami, who denys everything, of course, is alive and without a scratch attending his first day at his new school. What the teacher Aoshika did not witness was a crazy werewolf-like beast destroy the thugs that attacked Inugami in the park.
Fushimi and Toume were just a normal boy and girl going to high school until one day they stumble upon a phantasmal mountain known to legend as "Mount Hagure" . Before either of them knew it, Toume was possessed by a Yoko named Dakini, a goddess who grants wishes. When asking what Fushimi's wish is, it is only this: Give Toume back. Dakini says she can grant the wish but in return he must become her servant. The deal is struck. Fushimi has now become Dakini's servant and Toume has been returned. Darkness, however, is afoot and now Fushimi must take on a more active role as Dakini's servant. Is he up for the task?! (From: MU) --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/sigama) - [Author's Pixiv](https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/94520)
Sanctuary is a political thriller and crime story that featured two childhood friends, Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami, who are ruthlessly struggling to set a new paradigm of living in Japan. However, the two friends took radically different paths (playing Rock Paper Scissors to decide who does what): Akira chose the dark path and joined a Yakuza gang, while Chiaki strived to become the youngest member of the Japanese Diet. Being survivors of the Cambodian killing fields, the two characters developed an unmatched aggression and survival instincts, helping them to achieve their common ultimate goal: making Japan their own sanctuary.
This early work from Kago is an alternative history of World War 2, in which the fighting nations discover a way to turn women into giant-sized biomechanical weapons (tanks, submarines, etc.) and use them as the primary method of warfare. -Paraphrased from Gurochan.
The prince of horror manga, Junji Itou, has released a new horror collection after 8 years of writing. It includes 7 stand-alone stories that are featured in「Nemuki+」and an additional story, Whispering Woman that was published in「シンカン」. This is one book that cannot be missed! Collection includes: Futon Haunted Wood Mansion Tomio: Red Turtleneck Lingering Farewell Dissection Girl Black Bird Nanakuse Kyokumi Whispering Woman
Three centuries ago, a vampire by the name of Migiri was running a reign of terror across Japan when a hero named Naonosuke Kobayashi cut off his head and sent him to eternal rest… until now.
The story of Shin Devilman is supposed to take place between the second and third volume of the original Devilman series. Here we have Akira and Ryo who mysteriously manage to travel in time. Where they discover the have been sent back to dispatch demons that are invading history to end humanity. They visit several time periods including pre-World War Vienna, ancient Greece, France during the Hundred Years' War, Rococo period France, and wild west America. The end of this series also includes a new epilogue for the Devilman series. * *NOTE: The US official release of Devilman is based on a version that has both the main Devilman manga and Shin Devilman.*
The world has been brought to a near-apocalyptic state by a mysterious virus that turns people into zombies. But thankfully we've found the only method to keep the zombies at bay, and that is... Having sex...
A girl with a gas mask fights back against a strange world.
This manga presents different stories settled in a future world in which biomechanoids of any kind are created for every purpose. All the stories, through different angles and in a somewhat bizzare fashion, explore the same theme:are they mere machines or do they dream of electric sheeps?
On the surface, Yukitou Youji is a young part-time rider who aims to cycle around Japan, but behind the scenes, he is a "Black Angel," an executioner of the dark who punishes the criminally insane with a single spoke of his bicycle. As Yukitou gets caught up in various cases, he finds allies in former detective and immortal monster Matsuda Kyouji and beautiful assassin Leila, who double-crossed the enemy, and challenges the giant evil organization Dragon Fang Society to a fight. A fierce action-romance that you won't be able to stop reading!
Since the last eruption of Mount Fuji, the nights of Japan, and this city, have completely changed... Some of the humans who were covered in volcanic ash became like vampires with incredible powers, and then began an era of killing and blood washing blood! Among those who have reached the height and dictate the rules of the World, Domino, the young woman who came to ruins, climbs her way to the top!
In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa - to survive. --- - Winner of the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016. - Nominated for the 20th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and 40th Kodansha Manga Awards that same year. - Winner of the 22th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018.
(from ebookjapan): The series has sold over 8.3 million copies! The gold standard of zombie manga, "I Am a Hero," is now available in a "complete edition" with a new cover design, reprinted color pages from the serialization, and over 80 pages of new artwork in the final 22 volumes! Witness the new ending of the story. He is 35 year old who spends his time as an assistant to a mangaka, sometimes escaping into delusion in order to win over the agonizing reality. One day, however, a mysterious infection begins to spread without him noticing...and the real world begins to break down...⁉ He wanders into a world where the ordinary and the extraordinary, the mundane and the insane intersect. A personal survival panic horror story! [Official English](https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/25-142/I-Am-a-Hero-Omnibus-Volume-1-TPB) --- - **Won the 58th Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 2013** --- - Adapted into a Live Action film in 2016. Link to the [ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=24660) Page
Sakamoto Ryouta is an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there may be nothing really special about him, but online, he's one of the world's top players of the combat game "BTOOOM"! One day, he awakes in what appears to be a tropical island, though he has no memory of how or why he has come to be there. While wandering around, Ryouta sees someone and calls out for help. The stranger responds by throwing a bomb at him! Now Ryouta realizes both that his life is in danger, and that he has somehow been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game! Will Ryouta be able to survive long enough to figure out how and why he ended up here? ---
Tetsuya Takahashi was suddenly summoned to another world. However, his invocation was a mistake and after participating in the level review…he has the weakest [level limit], lv.1, the king seeing his limit calls him "defective" and condemns him to death! Despite being summoned against his will. Tetsuya is thrown into the valley of the monsters. There he was attacked and brought to the brink of death, and when he used his unique skill [Absorb Corpse], he gained the skills that the corpse possessed! "…Let's do it! Survive in this world, become strong and take revenge on those who were summoned. The "level 1" man who was called "defective" and "weak"… now begins the ascent to be the strongest!
Partake in the horror, the terror, the bloodcurdling madness of the serial killer mind, and the one who dares exterminate them! Except it's a comedy horror. Anyway, contains explict blood and gore, so you have been warned. [Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC)
Japanese teen Yamato Hino is sucked through a time warp into the past, where the dinosaur army of the Dragonia Empire threatens the world, and Queen Aira of Mu needs Yamato to help her fight back with the aid of the stone-made guardian God Mazinger. Original title was Legend of Deamon God but it was retitled as God Mazinger.
Mary, a failure princess, cannot use magic. A political marriage has been arranged for her.. Finally, she's useful as a member of the royal family――Mary thinks positively. However, she's arrested at the fiancé's unveiling party for ridiculous crimes and sentenced to execution. Betrayed by her parents and even her brother, Mary flees with her older sister, the only ally she has. However, she's unable to escape and has been killed along with her sister by the most powerful magician, the "Arcana User". However, at the edge of death, Mary's power awakens. The power she gained was the Arcana of "The Death", which allows her to eat corpses and strengthen herself. With this ability in hand, Mary decides to take revenge on all those who killed her sister. Based on a web novel by Kiki.
Great Mazinger starts after the defeat of Mazinger Z. Tetsuya Tsurugi is the new protagonist, piloting the powerful Great Mazinger, a creation of the once thought dead Kenzo Kabuto, the father of Koji Kabuto. This time the enemy is the Mycene Empire and its powerful robots.
