A tale of mystery and magic. Naito and Yuta Fuuga are twin brothers with very different personalities. While Naito is elegant and good in school, Yuta is athletic and often winds up in fights. Despite this, they maintain a close relationship. When their father turns up missing, both must travel to Dubai in search of him. A mysterious peddler has other plans though, as the twins soon find themselves in the world of One Thousand and One Nights.

Whilst searching for porn on the internet Sudo Kansuke, a 20-year-old university student, gets sucked into an RPG world called Munberdia. He is the chosen hero who carries the sword of light. Only the sword of light is not what you would expect.

Mounted warriors line up and rush to the assault. Brandishing swords on horseback, the warriors slash at each other... This kind of image of feudal combat is all a lie. Well, then, how did Samurai really fight? A declaration of war has now been made against the lie of combat that was forged during the Edo period, and continued uncontested to this very day.

From Antisense Scanslations:

Mimori is the princess of the frog kingdom, a fantastical place populated by the human frog tribe and, well... frogs. One day a young boy named Aoi shows up on the borders of the kingdom, claiming that Mimori's elder brother Makaeru cast a spell on him that causes him to transform into a frog when splashed with water. Together, Mimori and Aoi set out on a journey to find a spell to cure him. (And things only get weirder from here on out.)

From Fateful Encounters:

Power, body, charisma all together it shakes the mind. Provoked the gym teacher to seduce his nervous mind. The first kiss then, second kiss to seduce. Who is really the person that makes Chunja's heart thump? That person is...!!


As the school outcast, Chun ja has resigned herself to be being bullied, ostracized and just generally ignored. All this changes one day, however, when she becomes involved with the new gym teacher and the school rebel, Seo Lu, and eventually finds herself drawn to both of them.

Growing up in the late 16th century Sengoku era Japan, Shinmen Takezō is shunned by the local villagers as a devil child due to his wild and violent nature. Running away from home with a fellow boy at age 17, Takezo joins the Toyotomi army to fight the Tokugawa clan at the Battle of Sekigahara. However, the Tokugawa win a crushing victory, leading to nearly three hundred years of Shogunate rule. Takezo and his friend manage to survive the battle and afterwards swear to do great things with their lives. However, after their paths separate, Takezo becomes a wanted criminal and must change his name and his nature in order to escape an ignoble death.

Note: Won the 24th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2000. Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002 and was nominated for the 2003 Eisner Award in the Best Writer/Artist category.

A hilarious and touching story with a touch of horror, Donyatsu—meaning doughnuts in Japanese, but with the words nyaa (meow) and yatsu (a sort of rude word for guy) shoehorned in—is about a cat with a doughnut body in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, along with his food-based buddies, terrestrial enemies, shiritori-winning wreck of a robot/mecha, enigmatic food-based pig, and of course, the invading aliens...?

If a manga that has sweet, sweet animals playing soccer with a human skull doesn't bother you, chances are you will crave Donyatsu.

As a continuation of Rozen Maiden, the story starts with an older Jun, who is now a university student. While working at a bookstore as his part time job, he finds an unaddressed copy of the first issue of a weekly magazine "How to Make a Girl" containing a spring. He brings it home, and soon starts receiving further issues of the magazine by post, each issue having one part of a doll's body as a gift. One day, after putting much effort into assembling the fifth Rozen Maiden doll Shinku, he receives a notification that the publication has been cancelled, leaving him with an incomplete doll. Suddenly, he receives a mysterious text message from his old number, claiming to be the Jun Sakurada asking for help against the seventh Rozen Maiden doll Kirakisho...

Note: The official title of this Shueisha edition in Japanese is ローゼンメイデン in katakana, in order to set it apart from the title of the "original" Gentosha edition, which was "Rozen Maiden" in Latin letters while katakana only served as a pronunciation aid (furigana).

Zeo, a mysterious young wizard with a giant sword, finds himself in the city of Monea. He has no interest in getting involved with other adventurers, but circumstances leave him no choice but to find himself a party. He is therefore dragged into a group of misfit adventurers led by the pretty priest Tia. Tia seems very interested in making him their ally, and he soon learns why. Tia is determined to hunt down the wizard and summoned demon that destroyed her town and family, and she intends to do this by first summoning the demon. However, demon summoning magic is forbidden, punishable by death. Tia needs to learn about the art of demon summoning, and she needs a wizard for the summoning itself. Little does she know, Zeo actually has his very own illegal summoned demon, which is why he was so insistent that he wanted to adventure alone. Will he be willing to help Tia with her quest, or will his secret lead to his execution?

An anthology comic of Infinite Stratos by various mangaka.

Prequel leading to the events of 009 Re: Cyborg, after the end of the Cold War each of the zero zero number cyborgs go their separate ways.

From Sound of Jewels:

At a time when the world was still at peace, to the east of the capital, a beautiful dancer of Noh named Hakubi appeared. She was keeping a terrible secret that she couldn't tell anybody...

Xiao Zhe and his two other friends come across several pieces of paper and a book showing ways to fold them into different shapes. The material turns out to be an ancient hi-tech gadget that, when folded properly, turns into a Genie. By further contract with the Genie, the folders could transform them self into super human known as "Origami Fighters". An evil organisation called "Black Union" tries to dominate the world by reviving origami fighters and ancient technology. It's up to Xiao Zhe and his friends to fight them as origami fighters

From Mangascreener:

The main character is Leonora, the daughter of an impoverished noble of Padua. She is a beautiful silver-haired, emerald-green-eyed girl and very good at fighting with the sword.

One day, she is forced to marry an arrogant young noble, but she discovers on the day of their wedding that this man intends to use her to become king of Italy because she is involved in an ancient Italian legend: Leonara is the girl shown on "Kakan no Madonna" (Madonna of the Flower Crown), a famous painting drawn by Leonardo DaVinci. There exists a legend that tells whoever gets the legendary sword "Emerald Lion" will unite and rule over Italy. And the secret hiding-place of the sword can be found with "Kakan no Madonna"--that is, Leonara.

In order to find out the truth of the portrait's secret related her and to hide her identity as Kakan no Madonna, Leonara disguises herself as a black-haired boy, Leo, and sets out to find DaVinci. On the way she meets Falco, the blond-haired handsome king of Naples, who is unaware that she is a girl, and becomes his servant.

When she finally finds DaVinci, she hears with surprise that she - the girl portrayed in Kakan no Madonna - is destined to possess the legendary Emerald Lion and therefore to become queen of Italy.

From Aerandria Scans:

Venice, the latter half of the 16th century. Young Legare works as an apprentice to his father, an apothecary, but his real passion is the forbidden art of Alchemy. One day, a fortune teller predicts that he will meet four people with the power to change destiny and shortly after, his father is incarcerated on suspicion of alchemy. Legare, the real alchemist, is forced to produce gold for the person who arrested his father. Follow him through the mysteries of Venice, through his struggles, his encounters with powerful friends and enemies, and his search for the Philosopher's Stone.

Igarashi sensei (Candy Candy, Lady Georgie, Akage no An) delights us now with this wonderful tale.

A collection of illogical plot lines.

An elite military unit conducts its duties alongside sabertooth tigers trained to assist their human masters. The Royal Kingdom invades the Empire in their desire for world dominion...after the disastrous opening battle of the war, the unit fights to save not only itself but their comrades from the enemy.

Nominated for the 1st Manga Taisho in 2008.

The story takes place after the failed Shimabara Rebellion, led by Shiro Amakusa as a Christian uprising against the Shogunate. It ended...brutally, and Amakusa himself was executed. However, dark forces are at work, and Amakusa returns from the grave...