Manga

Boku ni Hana no Melancholy

As a child, Hana visits her mother's grave and meets a young boy named Yuzuru. Their meeting leaves a deep impression on her, and Yuzuru becomes her first love. The encounter stays with her, even as she carries the quiet sadness of losing her mother. When Hana learns that Yuzuru has moved away, she believes she will never see him again. The distance between them seems to close the door on the bond they formed. Yet the memory of Yuzuru remains, and the question of what happened to him lingers. Hana's everyday life continues, but the feelings from that childhood meeting do not fade. She must face the possibility that first love does not simply disappear and that the past may return in unexpe

Nisekoi

Ichijou Raku is an honor student with top grades, and his childhood friend Kirisaki Chitoge has slightly better marks—or so he claims. They have not gotten along since a Christmas gift exchange, and their tastes are opposites. Their families are at war: Raku's are yakuza, Chitoge's are gangsters. The leaders want peace to avoid casualties, but their underlings refuse to cooperate. So they decide Raku and Chitoge must become lovers to unite the families. Knowing the two don't get along, followers from both sides tail them on a date—movies, karaoke, shopping, and an amusement park. Will they become a real couple and end the feud, or will the fighting continue?

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes: Ultramarine

Kaoru Tono has heard the rumor: the laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. Find it, walk through, and your heart's desire waits on the other side, paid for with years of your own life. One night he comes across a tunnel that looks suspiciously like the one from the rumor, and his thoughts turn to Karen, the sister he lost in an accident five years ago. He is not alone. Anzu Hanaki, a new transfer student, has followed him, and she offers to help him experiment with the mysterious tunnel. Kaoru accepts, though he cannot say what she wants from him in return, or how much of himself the tunnel will demand before it is done with him.

Zero

Goshima is a boxer who has held the world championship for years without ever losing a match, a record that has earned him the nickname Zero. His coach, Araki, describes him as a flower that blooms only inside the ring, a fighter whose true self exists nowhere else. As his thirtieth birthday approaches, however, the people around him begin to question his worth. The years of dominance no longer silence the doubts, and Goshima finds himself facing a question he cannot answer with his fists alone. Rather than wait for decline to decide his fate, he sets out to find the ultimate opponent, the one rival capable of giving him the final match he is looking for.

The Unruly Immortals

Li Huowang is a high schooler who only has to close his eyes to wake somewhere else: a strange, menacing world where he serves as a medicine primer and where his Master may at any moment turn him into pills. When he opens his eyes again, he is back in the real world, living in a mental hospital and unable to continue his schooling. The doctors insist the other world is nothing but a hallucination, and they treat him for it. Li Huowang cannot tell which of the two lives is the real one, or whether the danger that stalks him in one of them can follow him into the other. As both worlds press in on him, his grip on what is true and what is false keeps slipping.

The Blue Star on That Day

Koumoto Umi is an unremarkable high school girl whose days pass without much incident, until the moment she falls in love with Segawa Shou, a beautiful girl from the class next door. The feeling arrives without warning, and Umi has no idea what to do with it. What draws her to Segawa is not only her looks but the mysterious atmosphere that surrounds her, something Umi cannot quite name. Overwhelmed by feelings she never expected to have, she still wants nothing more than to get along with the girl who fascinates her. Closing the distance between them, however, is not simple. Every step closer leaves Umi more confused about her own feelings, and about the mysterious air Segawa carries with

The Tyrant's Tranquilizer

Amelie Bourbon is a witch fated to die at the hands of her lover, the ruthless tyrant Serwin Hennessia. When ordinary office worker Lee Suyeon is reborn as Amelie, she remembers that fate and vows to change the story. She does not want to become the trauma and trigger for the heroine, so she decides to flee before the plot can catch up with her. Her attempt to escape fails when Serwin arrives as she visits her family to say goodbye. To hide, Amelie uses magic to turn into a bird, but the emperor takes her with him anyway. She soon learns that the calamity sealed inside Serwin threatens to ruin him and the world, and his violent impulses can only be calmed when he is near her. As Amelie gro

The Great Ruler

In the Great Thousand World, numerous planes intersect and many clans live alongside a gathering of lords. Heavenly Sovereigns emerge from the Lower Planes, each pursuing the road to become a Great Ruler. Mighty figures shape this boundless realm: the Flame Emperor rules the Endless Fire Territory, the Martial Ancestor's power fills the Martial Realm, the Emperor of a Hundred Battles commands the West Heaven Temple, and the Immortal Owner governs the Northern Desolate Hill. A boy from the Northern Spiritual Realm steps out, riding a Nine Netherworld Bird, and charges into this brilliant and diverse world. As he journeys, he must confront the ambitions of those who seek to rule destiny itsel

Non-Otaku She is Curious About the Eroge I Have Somehow...

Kazuma is a high school student who loves eroge, the erotic dating games he keeps hidden from everyone around him. He has long assumed that finding a girl who shares that interest is impossible, so he says nothing and lets school life pass him by. Then the school's star honour student and beauty, Honoka Misaki, discovers his secret. Rather than telling anyone, she stuns him with a confession: she wants to be his girlfriend, and she asks him to train her so she can become the kind of heroine he likes. Kazuma is left bewildered by the arrangement. Honoka is curious about eroge and eager to learn, and he has to work out how much of her request is serious, what she expects from him, and how to

Kinki no Tensei Daimadoushi

One day, dungeons appear across the world, and people begin to awaken skills that let them explore them in search of treasure. Saeki, who awakens nothing, is dismissed as useless by everyone around him. He nevertheless decides to become an adventurer, driven by the need to pay for the treatment of his little sister, who suffers from an incurable disease. What nobody knows is that Saeki keeps a secret: in his previous life he was the most powerful mage in the world. Since his reincarnation, that former strength is out of reach, and the only way to recover it is to level up again from the bottom, dungeon by dungeon, like any other novice. So the boy everyone dismisses must delve deeper into

Ri-chan

Tatsu returns to his parents' house because of work, and soon after moving back he runs into a young woman in the neighbourhood. She turns out to be Ri-chan, the girl he used to play with during his childhood. The Ri-chan he remembers loved playing the piano and laughed all the time. The woman standing before him now, with her blonde hair and piercings, looks like someone else entirely, and she has become shy around other people. Tatsu treats her with the same kindness he always had, and little by little the two grow closer as he tries to understand what became of the cheerful childhood friend he once knew.

The Emperor Reverses Time

Emperor Leon rules a vast empire at the side of his wife, Empress Lizzie. Only after her death does he understand how badly he treated her, and how much she endured in silence. His regret comes too late, until the Witch of the Clock Tower grants his wish and turns time back to the day he first met her. Returning to his own youth, Leon is determined to do things differently and to make Lizzie happy this time. But the past does not bend so easily: the same court, the same plots and the same pressures wait for them both, and Lizzie's own family carries secrets and expectations heavy enough to break her. Time has been reversed, but its influence reaches further than Leon imagined, and every ch

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World

Kino travels the world astride Hermes, a talking motorrad who supplies the speed while Kino supplies the balance. The two are inseparable, moving from one country to the next along a road that keeps stretching ahead of them. By their own rule, they never stay anywhere longer than three days — just enough time to learn a place's customs and meet its people before moving on. Some of what they find is gentle and some of it is cruel: happiness and grief, violence and decay, beauty and hard-won wisdom, all of it waiting behind the next border. Because the world is imperfect, Kino and Hermes keep going, unwilling to trade the freedom of the road for a place to settle, and curious about whatever

The Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface

Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg and counter-terrorist net security expert heading the investigative department of Poseidon Industrial, a giant multinational. Partly transcending the physical world, she exists in a virtual network as a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic surrogates around the globe. When a bizarre incident at an organ factory leaves consequences in its wake, Motoko takes charge of the investigation and ends up on the run, trying to clean up the mess and save herself in the process. Meanwhile, the former members of Section 9 look into Motoko, determined to find out who she really is. Elsewhere, Tamaki Tamai, a psychi

A Battle of Wits

Some 2,300 years ago in China, the town of Ryo learns that a great army is closing in and sends for help to the Bokk, a clan of men trained to aid and defend threatened cities with their lives. Kakuri, one of those men, answers the call. He arrives in Ryo as a stranger, and the welcome is far from warm: the townspeople distrust him, and some openly hate him. Across the river, the army of the Tcho empire makes camp and prepares its assault. To save the town, Kakuri must organize its defense and hold the walls against an overwhelming army, while struggling to earn the trust of the very people he has come to protect. The doubts within Ryo may prove as dangerous as the enemy beyond the river.

Vampire Heart

On the night of a full moon, Do-Gyeong runs into a vampire with blood dripping from the corners of his mouth. He tries to write the encounter off as a bad dream, but the stranger turns out to attend his school, and before long he is following Do-Gyeong everywhere. What unsettles Do-Gyeong even more is how ordinary the vampire seems. He likes his meat well done, flinches at the sight of cats, and loves to be held close. None of it fits the monster Do-Gyeong expected to fear, and none of it explains why the vampire is so fixated on him. Then his dormitory roommate is changed without warning, and he finds himself sharing a room with the very person he has been avoiding. He wants answers, but

Asami Kuroki's on A(nother) Bender!

Hajime Goto leaves the countryside for Tokyo to start university on his own. In the apartment next door lives Asami Kuroki, a beautiful, stylish office worker who is very good at her job, and having a neighbor like her makes the move to the big city feel like a stroke of luck. It does not take him long to learn that Kuroki-san has one fatal weakness. Once she starts drinking, the composed and capable woman vanishes, and Hajime keeps being dragged into the chaos of her nights out. Between his lectures, her work and the thin wall that separates their rooms, the two of them keep running into each other. Neither of them expects much more than that from a neighbor, yet the closer they get, the

The Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor

Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between human and machine has blurred beyond repair. Mechanical implants are ordinary, robots are grown with human tissue, and the covert agents of Section 9 are tasked with hunting down the most dangerous terrorists, cybercriminals and ghost hackers the digital age can produce. When people who are supposed to be dead begin walking and talking, the unit opens an investigation into corpses that appear to be puppeted from a remote location, and the trail points toward powerful hands pulling the strings. Other cases bring the agents up against lethally malfunctioning micromachines and cyborgs built to kill police officers. The cases unfold as a pol

The Story of an Exploration Hero Who has Worked His Way up From Common People

Kaito Takagi is a low-status high schooler, the kind of background mob character who goes unnoticed. Every day he hunts slimes in the dungeons that appeared all around Japan, earning pocket money while admiring his childhood friend, the class queen, from a distance. Then one day a golden slime he has never seen before appears. Defeating it leaves behind an extremely rare drop: a servant card able to summon mythical beings, worth hundreds of millions. When Kaito decides to activate the card, a warrior maiden of unparalleled beauty answers the call. With a treasure worth hundreds of millions and a summoned warrior maiden at his side, Kaito is no longer just another face in the crowd, and the

ID:Invaded #Brake-Broken

A man opens his eyes behind the wheel of a car he does not recognize, parked in a town he has never seen, facing the on-ramp of an unfamiliar highway. Before he can make sense of any of it, explosions bloom in the distance: a chain of car crashes tearing the road apart. Without thinking, he slams the accelerator and races toward the wreckage. He arrives to find that he has driven into hell at full speed and without brakes, surrounded by the same madness as everyone else on the highway. Amid the fire and the chaos, he comes across the body of a girl, and in that instant something else surfaces in him: the certainty that he is a brilliant detective, and that her death is a mystery he has to s

Fleeting Gradient

A little over a month has passed since Shinobu started her first year of high school. She comes across her classmate Okachimachi in the art room and tries to strike up a conversation, only to be met with a cold, emotionless reply. The next day she runs into him again, this time in the infirmary, and learns a surprising secret he has been keeping. The discovery leaves the two of them sharing something Shinobu never expected from a boy who barely speaks to anyone. As the semester goes on, she keeps crossing paths with Okachimachi, and the distance between them slowly begins to change. But the secret she stumbled upon is not an easy one to hold, and getting closer to him means facing what he

Usami-san wa Kamawaretai!

Nagisa Usami is a yankee whose aggressive looks and blunt manner keep most of her classmates at a distance. She also suffers from a rare illness that makes her health decline whenever she feels lonely, so her isolation is more than a matter of pride. Natsuhito Sewa, the boy who sits next to her in class, notices what is happening and starts keeping her company. Usami is convinced that the only real cure for her illness is to make plenty of friends, and she sets out to do exactly that. The problem is that her intimidating appearance and rough personality make every attempt at friendship an uphill battle, even with Sewa's help. Comic and romantic complications follow as the two of them navig

Fluttering Feelings

Two people meet, and something begins between them that neither of them can name. It is not a grand gesture or a clear confession, only a quiet fluttering that arrives without warning and stays, unsettling and unfamiliar. Neither knows what to do with these feelings or where they came from. The story follows the two of them through ordinary days, small encounters and the slow closeness that grows out of them, as each tries to understand what the other has come to mean. Their uncertainty does not stop the feelings from deepening; it only makes them harder to hold. Around them, everyday life goes on, with its routines and quiet moments. What is new is the way those moments are shared, and th

The Lady Knight and the Beast-Eared Child

In a world where monsters are rampant and murderous, Olivia works alone as a monster subjugator, refusing to take on an apprentice. That changes the day she rescues a young beastkin named Noah, and the two begin traveling together. Now master and apprentice look out for one another in a world that offers little mercy. Olivia trains Noah in the art of battle, while the boy, gentle by nature, shows her how to savor life's quieter moments between fights. Their shared journey is a brutal one, and danger is never far away. Yet the question lingers whether a child with such a tender heart can endure the terrifying foes that stand in his path.

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 2

After her baptism ceremony, Myne begins working in the temple as an apprentice shrine maiden. She looks forward to what awaits her there: a room full of books, the one thing she has always wanted. Her heart soars at the thought of being surrounded by books, and she is eager to start her new life. However, her new life is far from the dream she imagined. She finds herself surrounded by nobles who scorn her commoner origins, and even her own servants cause her trouble. On top of that, she must constantly battle the weakness of her own body. Despite these hardships, Myne's love for books burns brightly in her heart, and she gives her all to her new duties as an apprentice shrine maiden.

I Can't Keep Up With My Stallion Duke

Olivia Florence has spent her life surrounded by people who offer her no warmth, her own husband included, and she has grown strong in that solitude. When she wakes up two decades in the past, back at the moment right after her regretful arranged marriage to Lord James Parnell, she decides to live differently this time. Her plan is simple: annul the marriage and remarry Duke Ian Tyrone, a man infamous for his complete lack of interest in women. A husband who ignores her would mean a quiet life, free of childbirth and of the other pressures that weighed on her before. What she does not expect is that the duke rumored to be incapable turns out to be anything but indifferent in private. Olivi

I Got Kicked Out of the Hero's Party, So I Went Back to My Hometown, and Then the Whole Party Followed Me!?

Jin has spent years adventuring alongside his childhood friend Reki, the hero, on a quest to defeat the Demon Lord. A saint and a sage join them along the way, and after a long journey the party finally reaches the Demon Lord's castle. There, on the eve of the final battle, Reki tells Jin that he is expelled from the party. With nothing left to fight for, Jin returns to the quiet hometown he once left behind, hoping to settle back into an ordinary life away from heroes and demon lords. He does not get far. One by one, the other members of the party turn up at his door, and each of them arrives with a marriage proposal. Jin wanted a peaceful life, but his former companions seem to have othe

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Kaoru Aoki is twenty-six and has never had a boyfriend. She moves through her days unattached and unmotivated, working as a medical clerk and keeping the world at a certain distance. Looking for something of her own, she opens a small nail salon as a side business, a project that asks her to touch other people's hands. That is not easy. Kaoru has a severe aversion to physical contact, and the salon forces her to confront it every day. Then she meets a man who cannot help touching others, someone whose easy, constant physicality stands directly against everything she avoids. Between her two jobs and this new presence, Kaoru begins to reexamine the distance she keeps from other people and fr

Caramel Honey

Ayato transfers into a new school hoping for a fresh start, but the place turns out to be overrun by delinquents. Worse still, the most feared student of them all fixates on him from the very first day. As if that were not enough, Ayato carries a strange burden: whenever his glasses come off by accident, everyone around him falls hopelessly in love with him. His new school proves no exception, and the attention his curse draws only brings him more trouble. Yet the most notorious delinquent, Yuusei, seems completely unaffected by the effect that overwhelms everyone else, a detail that catches Ayato's interest as much as it unsettles him. Intrigued in turn, Yuusei declares that Ayato belongs

I'll Marry Him!

Lilian is the illegitimate daughter of Duke McKellion, a girl her father and noble society have never fully accepted. When the chance comes to take her sister's place in an arranged marriage to Emperor Kael Lu Kaldorf, she accepts it without hesitation, trading a life on the margins for a place at the imperial court. Her prospective partner is not an easy man. Cursed by a witch, the emperor has not slept a single night since, and his temper grows shorter with every waking hour. Lilian, however, carries a gift of her own: when her lips touch another person, she can send them to sleep. Bound by a simple contract, she must kiss the emperor each night so that he can rest and the court can brea

Kon no Ki Konoha

Only during autumn, when the dead leaves flutter down, can Akino meet the mysterious boy who lives inside a deep blue tree on a small mountain. The tall young man, with dark blue hair and a calming presence, is a tree spirit named Konoha. His body is intangible, and he remains bound to the tree he dwells within. As luck would have it, Akino, a little girl, stumbles upon him one autumn day. The two form a pure and unique bond. Every year when autumn returns, Akino climbs the mountain and stands before the tree, reuniting with Konoha after what feels like an endless wait. Yet their love, however unshakable, must contend with the limits of his nature. Konoha is bound to the tree and can only

Peach Love

Love is the new kid at Mae High School, a gentle, unassuming boy who keeps to himself and nurses a quiet interest in sex toys. He is not looking for trouble, but trouble finds him when he crosses paths with the Peach Club, the local gang, and with its leader, Peach. Peach stands at the top of a bloody world where only the fittest survive, and he has fallen for the innocent boy who spends his days carving wooden dolls. Convinced that his position can only shield Love for so long, he begins plotting a reckless move to settle things at the summit. Caught between a gang that has plans for him and a leader who wants to keep him, Love has to make it through a school life surrounded by wacky and

The Reborn Super Player

Wan Jia is a master of King of Gamers, the virtual reality game he has played since it launched. During a decisive match, one of his own teammates stabs him in the back and he loses his qualification. The moment he is removed from the game, Wan Jia opens his eyes one year in the past, on the very day King of Gamers began. He still carries all his skill and every piece of knowledge about the game's content, and he knows perfectly well who betrayed him. Back at the start, he sets out to climb again, this time without trusting anyone easily. Punishing the traitor is one of his goals; winning the game is the other.

Why Are You Obsessed With Your Fake Wife?

Nadia Valajit believes she has nothing left to lose until her family and her fiancé betray her, and the betrayal ends her life. She then wakes in the past, before the events that led to her death, with her memories of the future intact. To begin her revenge, she marries Glenn Winterpel, the icy marquess of the north and the Valajit family's favorite punching bag. He makes it clear that he will never acknowledge her as his wife or have an heir with her, and she agrees without complaint: a marriage in name only suits her plans. Armed with what she knows is coming, Nadia sets out to serve her revenge cold. Yet the marquess, who swore he wanted nothing from her, does not behave like a man indi

Hana & Hina After School

Hana and Hina are two high school girls who work at the same character goods shop, though the two could hardly be more different. Hana is petite, uncertain and shy, while Hina is tall, confident and trendy. What draws them together is a shared love of everything cute, from the uniforms at their all-girls' school to the merchandise they sell. Their friendship deepens after hours, but so does the trouble around it: their school has a strict policy against part-time jobs, and neither girl can afford to be found out. On top of that, the feelings growing between them are far from ordinary friendship. Neither of them wants to give up the shop, the hours they spend there or the person beside them

Secret

Six survivors of a tragic bus accident are given a chilling message: three murderers are hiding in their midst. The accusation comes with an ultimatum. Within one week, the murderers must anguish over their crimes and find some way to answer for them. If they do not, evidence of their sins will be handed to the police. None of the survivors knows who the murderers are, and each one carries a secret. As the deadline approaches, suspicion and fear spread through the group. Every word and gesture becomes a possible clue, and every silence a potential confession. With their freedom at stake, the survivors must decide who they can trust and who among them is capable of murder.

Embers

Noboru Haitani is a middle school brawler who has never lost a fight. The bitter taste of a defeat on the soccer pitch, however, begins to change him, and the sport slowly draws him in until he is no longer just a bystander. When Haitani ends up in a match against a team that features Takami, a middle school soccer prodigy, his instincts as a fighter collide with a game built on rules, teamwork and technique. An outlaw who knows nothing but his fists has to find his place on the pitch. For a boy who has always settled everything with his hands, learning to win within the lines proves harder than any street fight, and every match forces him to measure himself against players who have spent

Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!

Megumin, the self-proclaimed "Greatest Genius of the Crimson Magic Clan," dedicates her life to mastering Explosion, the ultimate offensive magic. Ever since a life-changing encounter in her youth, she has pursued this goal with unwavering determination, often hustling food from her rival to get by. Her days are filled with intense training and magical experiments. One day, her little sister Komekko wanders into the woods and finds a strange black kitten. Unbeknownst to her, this feline is the key to unsealing the tomb of a Dark God. As the kitten's presence stirs ancient forces, Megumin finds herself drawn into a conflict far beyond her usual magical pursuits. With her sister inadvertently

A Big Shot Actually

Li Nianfan transmigrates into a world of immortal cultivation, only to find himself trapped in a mortal body with no talent for it. Unable to cultivate, he decides to settle down and live a quiet, ordinary life: writing, painting, playing music and tending the small home around him. What he never realizes is that the world keeps changing because of him. The stray dog he adopts watches him write and paint, and grows into a demon lord who rules half the world. The tree he plants in the backyard listens to him play and sing, and becomes the world tree that holds up the bridge between heaven and earth. A passing traveler who stops for a casual conversation leaves an immortal sage. Around him,

My Farm by the Palace

As a child, Hazel Mayfield is sent to live with the Martins, where she falls in love with rural life and vows to have a farm of her own one day. Eleven years later, her grandfather hands her the deed to a plot of land in the middle of the capital. Overjoyed, Hazel sets out to realize her longtime dream of becoming a farmer. There is only one problem: her new farm is right next to the imperial palace. The emperor himself seems to have his eye on her land, and Hazel must navigate the attention of the crown while trying to make her farm work. As she settles into her new life, she finds that her simple dream is not so simple after all.