At a party, Mondo, a typical college student, meets Tatsumigahara Aoi, a well-known beauty. But after having a few drinks with her, he passes out and wakes up chained in Aoi's home.

Even though Aoi looks after Mondo in every way (including in explicit ways), Mondo tries to flee from her home. The outcome is uncertain.

If you think this has a happy ending, you read the title.

In his second collection of short stories, Mohiro Kitoh recounts the tragic fates of people living in a half-futuristic, half-fantasy city whose inexorable structural decay seems to be mirrored in its citizens’ hearts.

Rika is a new shy student at her new school. She’s always had troubles making friends because of her personality. Her past best-friend, Mirai, encourages her to change before she moves to the new school. Will Rika be able to gather some courage to change herself and make new friends?

As the middle child who is neither the heir nor the cherished younger twins, Karina has lived her whole life hidden away from others. She, who only had one hobby of painting, found out that she only had one year left to live.

So without a plan, she went to visit her fiancé who she barely knew… To annul the engagement as he always wanted.

"I won’t beat around the bush. I want to spend a year here."

"....My Lady, have you gone crazy?”

"In return, I'll agree to annul the engagement."

But, she didn’t know then. That she would receive the unconditional love that she had never received her whole life from him, and that she would come to have a desire to live her once meaningless life.

Five hundred years have passed since humanity went extinct at the hands of the fearsome “Beasts”. Even up in the sky, where the surviving races dwell on floating islands, these monstrosities constantly threaten to bring death and destruction. Only a small group of young girls, the Leprechauns, can wield the ancient weapons needed to defeat these creatures. Into the girls’ unstable and fleeting lives, where a call to certain death could come at any moment, enters an unlikely character: a young man who lost everything five hundred years ago, the last living human awakened from a long, icy slumber.

D.Gray-man follows the adventures of 15-year-old Allen Walker, whose left arm can transform into a monstrous claw and destroy akuma, evolving machines created by the Millennium Earl to help him destroy humanity. As ordered by his master General Cross Marian, Allen becomes an Exorcist, people who can destroy akuma, for the Black Order, an organization attempting to stop the Earl. He becomes a powerful asset for the Order because he can detect disguised akuma with his left eye. Allen is sent to recover pieces of Innocence, a substance that gives certain people, called Exorcists, the ability to destroy akuma. The Earl decides to call together the Noah Family, superhuman descendants of Noah who can destroy Innocence. Both sides start the search for the Great Heart, the most powerful piece of Innocence that will assure victory to the side that finds it.

New enemies, new bugs and an even bigger island.

Arikawa Ougi, 16 years old, suddenly found himself reincarnated as a zombie?! Embarking on a journey to subjugate the Demon Lord as a zombie hero, but the use of "power" requires a "price"...? A dark fantasy in another world.

"All things are born, and all things die. That is the law of heaven." According to legend, the Bird of Fire, called the Phoenix, is the eternal spirit of life, death, and rebirth. She oversees the cycle of reincarnation and the rising and falling of civilizations and species. Those who can obtain her blood will be granted eternal life, while to others she can grant infinite wisdom or eternal suffering. Throughout history, from the dawn of civilization to the extinction of the human race, those human souls touched by the Phoenix have hunted her over and over in multiple reincarnations, and their actions in one life determine or reflect the sins and sufferings of other lifetimes.

The story revolves around three teenagers: Nomiya Tomomi, a high school dropout, Togawa Kiyoharu, an ex-sprinter who now plays wheelchair basketball and Takahashi Hisanobu, a popular leader of the high school's basketball team who now finds himself a paraplegic after an accident. Real features a cast of characters who find themselves being marginalized by society, but are all united by one common feature: a desire to play basketball, with no place to play it in. Nomiya, being a high school dropout, has no future in his life. Togawa, being a difficult personality, finds himself constantly feuding with his own teammates. Takahashi, once a popular team leader, now finds himself being unable to move from the chest down. Real also deals with the reality of physical disabilities, and the psychological inferiority that the characters struggle against. The characters break through their own psychological barriers bit by bit.

Note: Received the Excellence Award at the 5th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2001.

I'll take back my life. A cruel and beautiful revenge story of a princess who became a prostitute. Princess Evita lived happily in a small country. However, she was attacked by a neighboring country, her land taken away, and her family was brutally killed. The surviving Evita was sold to a brothel and lived as a prostitute. In the middle off all this, a man from the royal family that she hates appears as a customer...

The story revolves around Kaiman, who does not remember who he was before he was transfigured by a Magic user. This transformation left him with a reptile's head, and a desire to find out the truth about who he really is. Accompanied by Nikaido, his female companion, he tracks down Magic Users in "The Hole" and unceremoniously chomps down on their head, hoping to find out who it was that put him in this state. One by one, they witness this "second man" inside the head of Kaiman, and after pulling them back out of his mouth he asks them all a question...

A mysterious syndrome turns schoolgirls into homicidal monsters behind numerous atrocities in Japan. However, nothing is what it seems and when Chika Amagi is arrested for the brutal murder of five people, which starts a journey into uncharted and troubled waters!

Lee Myung-jun, the Vice Chairman of Hyundo Group, lost his daughter to a group of bullies. Seeking revenge, he adopts Yoon Karma, a psychopathic defector girl.

Yoon Karma: A sadistic human weapon created through drug experiments in North Korea. After killing everyone in the research lab, she escaped to South Korea on her own.

Having just been released from a juvenile detention center in South Korea, Yoon Karma sets out to hunt down the bullies at school, driven by the desire to avenge her new father and satisfy her sadistic pleasures.

Alice Fujii still isn't having much fun. She survived an assault of psychotic bug-themed assassins at her school, but all the battles, the truth behind her family, the two betrayals from false friends who ended up dead and the loss of her Kumoito knife-gun took a toll on her mental state. As such, she spends her days alone splitting open the heads of the rapist zombies who overran Japan since the aforementioned incident. The Organization wants to hire her as their new Boss, and elsewhere her allies Gokiburi and Kabutomushi are looking for her. What will become of all this?

There's a new hero in town and he's got a bad attitude and a chainsaw dog demon! A dangerous combo.

Note: In 2021, the manga won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category.

Money. Power. Fame. Everyone has something they want, and Rin the match peddler is here to offer you your wildest dreams on a silver platter. All you have to do to get everything you've ever wanted is light a match, but be careful; play with fire, and you might get burned.

Gotsuji and Uruka, two exorcists, spend their days hunting down and banishing evil spirits. Their mission is to track down and slay a specific evil spirit.

At the heart of this quest lies Gotsuji's deep, unresolved grief and desire for vengeance for a woman who died long ago. While Gotsuji is consumed by a thirst for revenge, Uruka, who struggles to understand this obsession, faithfully stays by his side.

Together, these two exorcists are bound on a journey, but where will it lead?

There my fiancé stood, gazing intently at my charming younger sister. When I saw them fall in love the moment they laid eyes on each other, I was hit with an overwhelming sense of déjà vu.

Aah, again?

My fiancé had been in love with my younger sister even in my previous life.
There was nothing I could do but watch it all unfold.

And for some inexplicable reason, I’m the only one who keeps returning to that exact point in time.

Trapped by fate.

And yet, amidst the turns of the hourglass, I still find myself falling for him…
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