Manga

Delusional Love

Kazuma Kadomae begins a new semester as a homeroom teacher at a local high school. He makes an effort to learn about all his students, and one of them stands out: Kanade Noeda, the principal's quiet daughter. At first she seems merely shy, but the attention he gives her stirs something else inside her. Kanade develops a delusional one-sided love for Kazuma. What starts as a schoolgirl crush soon becomes erratic behavior directed at him. Kazuma grows disturbed and tries to distance himself, yet every attempt to stop her only deepens her affection. When a student ends up in an accident after being too close to him, and Kanade begins stalking Kazuma and his family, he realizes that her obsess

The Beloved Fake Saint

Ariel Celestin has been appointed as the crown prince's saint, a role meant only to secure his political power. She knows the truth: she is a fraud, and once a real saint appears, her death is all but certain. With five years ahead of her, she sets a quiet plan in motion: live on the allowance the temple pays her, save everything she can, and slip away before her role is finished. The gods, however, have their own ideas. They dote on her, and when she asks for their help in escaping, her dealings begin to draw the attention of people she never meant to notice her, among them the crown prince, the pope, and a powerful merchant. Their interest keeps growing, and none of it is the kind she can

DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR

Sooha has spent her life hiding her superhuman abilities, warned that she would be mistaken for a vampire. After being accused of being one and blamed for the death of her childhood friend, she enrolls at Decelis Academy, a night school where supernatural beings are said to be unable to set foot. There she meets Heli, who offers her friendship even after learning her secret, and his close friends Jaan, Jino, Shion, Jakah, Noa and Solon. The seven boys are drawn to her with a pull none of them can explain, as if they would do anything she asked. When a murder is blamed on a vampire, the calm of the town breaks and the boys' forgotten past begins to surface. Sooha finds herself caught betwee

Sister and Giant: A Young Lady Is Reborn in Another World

Hinako is reincarnated in another world, where a goddess offers her extraordinary abilities. She refuses them, and instead swears a vow of sisterhood with Eiris, a giant. The two become known as the smallest giant: creatures of different species, born in different worlds, bound to the same purpose. Hinako is searching for her older sister, who was also brought to this world, and Eiris for the kin she was separated from. Taking on requests together, their strength and their bond soon win them fame. That fame comes at a price. Their deeds draw the attention of the knights of the church, and the two sisters find themselves watched by forces they would rather avoid while they keep looking for

The Return of the Corpse King: I, a Former Hero, Have Been Summoned Back to Isekai to Stop the CHUUNI Secret Society Organized by Me

In his third year of middle school, Shiou Hizaki is summoned to another world to save it. He defeats the Demon King and is forcibly sent back home, where he tries to leave his embarrassing past behind. Three years later, he is summoned to that world once more, this time to stop the rampage of the secret society Helheim. That organization is the one he founded himself during his chuunibyou phase, when he called himself the Corpse King. Someone is now using its name and tarnishing its reputation. To uncover the truth and clear the organization's name, the Corpse King seeks out his former subordinates, the Hakkai, who once made Helheim the strongest it had ever been. While he agonizes over me

Tomie: Again

Tomie Kawakami is a beautiful young woman with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, drawing him into obsessive love, and that love often turns into jealousy, rage, and murder. The victim of that violence is frequently Tomie herself. One lover wants to keep Tomie for himself, while another becomes terrified of her. Men who fall under her spell are driven to kill, but killing Tomie does not bring an end to her presence. She returns, and the cycle of desire and destruction begins again, leaving the people around her trapped in madness. The story follows those who encounter Tomie and the ruin she leaves behind. No matter how many times she i

The Invincible Little Lady

On her deathbed, a sickly young girl wishes to be reborn with a strong body that will never succumb to anyone or anything. Her wish is granted. She reincarnates into another world as Mary Regalia and discovers her new body has maxed-out attributes, from physical strength to defense and even magic. But this is not what she really wanted. All she longed for was a normal life. That proves a tall order when she is absolutely invincible. As the daughter of a duke, Mary tries to navigate her new life, makes friends of all stripes, including her devoted maid, an irreverent trainee knight, a proud magician girl, and even the prince of the kingdom, and fights off terrifying monsters. Yet her overwhe

Suicide Parabellum

Chihaya is searching for a girl named Ouka. His search takes him to a mafia facility where a fancy dress party is in full swing. The facility is large, with various levels, and Chihaya must navigate through the crowds of costumed guests and the dangerous criminals who run the place. The party provides a chaotic backdrop, but it also offers a strange kind of cover. As Chihaya moves from level to level, he finds himself drawn deeper into a world of danger and deception. The mafia don't take kindly to intruders, and every step brings him closer to Ouka—and to the risk of being discovered. But why is Ouka in such a place? And what does Chihaya want with her? The answers lie hidden within the f

The Limitless Apostle and the Twelve Battle Maidens

The strongest being in the world has no interest in wealth, fame or power. Tired of standing at the top, the apostle leaves his place behind and crosses into the human continent, where his arrival throws the land into an uproar: the mightiest of apostles has fled, and nobody understands why. His reason turns out to be simple. He is not there to conquer anything or to answer the challenges that come with his reputation. He has come looking for the woman he intends to marry, and he announces it without a shred of shame, leaving everyone around him stunned. What follows is the search of the most powerful bachelor alive, a man whose strength turns every encounter into chaos. The human continen

Here and There

Tsumiki Miniwa and Io Otonashi are classmates and close friends, and everyone around them can see what the two of them cannot. Tsumiki is in love with Io, but she cannot bring herself to say it out loud. Cute and petite, she hides behind a prickly, stubborn attitude whenever her feelings come too close to the surface. Io, for his part, treats her more warmly than he treats anyone else, yet he never seems to notice the hints. Their friends watch the pair with delight and take every chance to tease them about the distance neither of them will close, turning ordinary school days into a quiet game of missed signals. Between classes, breaks and the time they spend together, Tsumiki keeps waitin

The Family Circumstances of the Unreliable Witch

Alyssa is a witch who lives alone in the forest. One day she finds a human baby and, though bewildered by the event, decides to raise the child. She names her Viola. Sixteen years later, Viola has grown far beyond anything Alyssa imagined. The daughter now towers over her mother, and their appearances seem completely reversed: the witch looks like a child while her daughter looks like an adult. Their quirky life together is full of unique magic and odd characters, making their home a place worth visiting. A heartwarming comedy about a mother and daughter whose circumstances are anything but ordinary.

The Status Window to the Soul

Princess Chervianne Aerveldote has spent her life alone, and it ends on the scaffold: she is put to death for a crime she never committed. Instead of dying, she opens her eyes in her own five-year-old body, back at the beginning of everything. Along with her second chance comes an unexpected gift: status windows that reveal the thoughts and feelings of the people around her. Reading them, Chervianne discovers how badly she misjudged those she trusted and how much affection she overlooked in places she never expected, alongside betrayals she never suspected. Now a child once more, she has a second life ahead of her and a window into every heart. Changing her story means facing the people wh

Train_Man: Densha Otoko

A shy, hopelessly nerdy otaku has almost no idea how to talk to women, so he never expects anything to come of the day a beautiful young woman speaks to him on a train. Before long they are arranging to meet again, and he finds himself facing a date he is completely unprepared for. Out of options, he turns to an internet forum and posts a desperate question: how do you talk to a girl? What should you wear? Where should you take her? Strangers from all over the country answer with advice, and their suggestions begin to shape his every step. As the thread keeps growing, so does the relationship it follows, and the anonymous posters who set out to help a stranger find themselves caught up in

Lady Devil

Giovinetta is a young woman trapped in a forced marriage she wants no part of. Desperate, she makes a wish to the devil and begs him to save her from the union. She does not know what her plea will set in motion or what the devil will ask in return. The devil answers, binding himself to Giovinetta and pulling her into a dangerous connection. She finds herself drawn to the one man she is forbidden to love, even as the consequences of her wish begin to unfold. Her unwanted marriage still looms, and the devil's presence grows more intimate and more difficult to resist. Caught between duty and desire, Giovinetta must confront the bond she has created and the true cost of the salvation she soug

No, Miyahara, Not You!

Arima is a junior high school boy who has his eyes set on Yukihira, the girl he likes. Every time he gathers the courage to get closer to her, though, the same person turns up in the middle of the scene: Miyahara, his friend, who somehow always arrives at the worst possible moment. What makes things worse is what Miyahara understands from what she sees. Convinced that Arima's clumsy attempts are aimed at her, she reacts to each one as if it were a declaration, and Arima finds himself trapped between the girl he is trying to talk to and the friend who keeps answering for him. The result is a tangle of misunderstandings in which nobody says what they mean, and the distance between Arima and

Panorama of Hell

A Hell painter was born in the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima. From there he looks back and sets down his confessions, tracing the journey that carried him into the depths of a postnuclear Hell, a place he knows intimately and has spent his life committing to paper. His testimony is a nightmarish one, and it does not look away. The painter describes what he has seen and what he has made, holding to an imagery that is unflinching and to a black humor that runs through the horror instead of softening it. What the confessions uncover is a Hell that belongs to one man and to the age that produced him, set out without consolation and without relief.

Straight Girl Trap

Zhan Ying is an ordinary office worker with a flair for drama, and lately one question keeps her flustered and tongue-tied: her boss, the cool and composed Ms. Zhou, will not stop going out of her way to look after her. Kindness, or something more? No one at the office can say for certain whether Ms. Zhou is straight or genuinely interested in her. Unable to let the question rest, Zhan Ying sets out to find the answer herself, and soon finds herself stumbling through the minefield of courting her own superior, weighing every gesture and every shared moment for a sign. The question follows her out of the office too, and the closer she comes to an answer, the harder it becomes to tell what s

Devoted to Diamond

Devota, the great hero who saved the world from evil, is betrayed and killed by the man who raised her. She is granted another life as a young orphan named Diamond, and a twist of fate places her in the care of an old comrade, now a powerful duchess whose whole family welcomes the girl as one of their own. Diamond has no intention of settling in. She plans to cause a moderate amount of trouble, keep her distance for three years and then leave, free to finish the revenge she never completed. Her new relatives, however, have other ideas. The family refuses to let her go, and their affection turns into something closer to obsession. Haunted by a past she cannot avenge, Dia must decide whether

Emperor Hunt

Mysterious glowing orbs appear in Earth's skies and drain the life from the planet and its people, who regress to infancy and vanish. One woman, Seul Yun, remains untouched: immortal, and a lifelong experimental subject because of it. As the world ends around her, the person she cares about most slips away. Seul Yun finds herself in Hetra, a parallel dimension, where Emperor Horson, the one who destroyed the Earth, seems to know a great deal about her. Rescued from Horson's hands by Kasar Einante, former commander of Hetra's Royal Knights, she learns of the force akin to magic that drives that world. Two people with nothing left to lose join forces against Horson. Seul Yun must learn to ha

Even If I Can't Use Magic.

Kishi works at an anime company, though he has little love for the job and no clear idea of what he wants. He is frustrated with his life, and above all with Chiyo, the colleague he is drawn to: a talented animation director who treats him coldly in the office and keeps her distance. At home, Chiyo is someone else entirely. She lives with Tamaki Ookawa, a flamboyant, tomboyish bassist in a band that has only just formed, who gave up on becoming a visual artist because of her family and chose music instead. Elsewhere in Tokyo, two middle school girls from Hokkaido, Kiki and Mayu, slip away from their school trip and wander Harajuku, where one of them finds a goal of her own. The lives of th

Kengan Ashura Zero

I'm Still Thinking About You.

Shuu Matsumoto has dropped out of college and lives as a NEET, convinced his life is no longer worth living. When his old friend Tomi invites him to revisit their hometown and their former high school, he reluctantly agrees to the trip. There he runs into Kiriyama Sayane, a childhood friend who has become a celebrity. Their reunion sets Shuu's fate in motion once more, bringing together two people who could hardly be more different: a gifted girl who feels utterly alone, and a young man who only wants to be ordinary. As they spend time together, the ups and downs of youth keep pulling them toward each other.

Magic Kaito

Kaito Kuroba is an ordinary teenage student who dreams of becoming a magician like his father. But after his father dies under mysterious circumstances, Kaito discovers a hidden truth: his father led a double life as a notorious phantom thief known as Kid. Years later, Kaito learns that his father was murdered by a secret organization. They wanted his help to find the Pandora Gem, a mystical stone said to grant immortality. When he refused, they killed him. To stop them, Kaito takes up his father's mantle and becomes the phantom thief Kid. His only clues are that the gem glows red under a full moon and is hidden inside a larger stone. So he begins stealing famous jewels from heavily guarde

Adekan

Shirou is a laid-back umbrella craftsman whose absent-minded charm tends to seduce the people around him. His unlikely close friend is Koujirou, a hot-blooded young police officer who cannot stand anything undisciplined. The two share a knack for attracting trouble, and the town they live in is full of equally off-kilter people. Between Shirou's easygoing ways and Koujirou's short temper, quiet days rarely last. Whenever a case turns strange or violent, the pair is drawn into it, and what begins as an ordinary matter often slides into something bloody and erotic. Shirou's carefree attitude and Koujirou's sense of duty clash again and again as they move through the darker corners of their t

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Shiro Kakei is a straitlaced lawyer who spends his evenings preparing elaborate, made-from-scratch meals for himself and his boyfriend, Kenji Yabuki. Kenji, an outgoing and carefree hairdresser, serves as the enthusiastic taste-tester for Shiro's wide variety of dishes. The two men share a home and a quiet domestic life in modern Japan. As a gay couple, they navigate the personal and professional minefields that come with their relationship. Shiro's meticulous approach to cooking and life contrasts with Kenji's relaxed personality, and together they face the everyday realities of work, family, and society. Their meals become a central point of connection and a way to cope with the pressures

Saturn Return

Ritsuko Kaji is an author of short stories, and lately she finds that she cannot write. Then Aoi, a man she once trusted with everything, appears in a dream and asks her one question: is this really her life? The next morning, a phone call wakes her. Aoi has killed himself. Around her, the ordinary days of a modern couple go on, and the death of someone irreplaceable slowly settles into the space it leaves behind. For years Ritsuko has looked away from a life marked by loss. Now that loss has begun to move, and she must face the forgotten dream she abandoned along with everything she never managed to say to him.

Adopted by a Murderous Duke Family

Agnes spent ten years exploited by Duke Gerwehr for her healing powers, and she dies in a dungeon. When she opens her eyes again, she is back in her uncle's house, before the day he sold her at the slave market. Determined not to repeat her past life, she accepts adoption by Duke Rodwick and begins again under a new name, Tuariche Rodwick. Her new family, however, is notorious for its assassins, a household where a single misstep can be fatal. To survive among them, Tuariche must keep her healing abilities hidden from everyone around her while she searches for the happiness and love that were denied to her the first time.

Belladonna's Lover

Bella lives under a curse: the poison in her body kills anyone she touches. The only way to break it is to receive true love, something no one has ever offered her. Known in town as the Poisonous Witch, she spends her days alone in the forest, far from the people who fear her. Everything changes when she meets Anna, a painter who cannot sell her art. The two begin to spend time together, and for the first time Bella is not treated as a monster. Yet the curse remains, and it turns every moment of closeness into danger. Bella has to face the question at the heart of her solitude: how can she be loved when a single touch takes a life?

Karen Ichijou Tempts Him

Karen Ichijou has made no secret of her feelings for Mii-kun, her childhood friend. Brusque and fierce-looking, he hardly seems the type to be courted, but that does not stop her from making advances on him day after day, determined to make him her future husband. Around everyone else, Karen is a headstrong queen who gives as good as she gets. Alone with the boy she likes, however, she turns back into a blushing schoolgirl, nervous and unable to keep up her usual front. The two of them are approaching seventeen, the age at which they once said they would share their first time, and that promise pulls Karen between bold pursuit and shy hesitation. She keeps pushing forward, yet the closer s

Observing Elena Evoy

Johann has everything a student of the Academy could wish for: a face blessed by God, a friendly personality and talent in both sports and academics. Everyone takes for granted that he will graduate as the top student of his year, and he has grown used to the admiration that follows him everywhere. Then Elena Evoy appears and takes the first place that was supposed to be his. Worse still, she seems completely unfazed by his charms and does not even know his name, a slight that shatters his self-esteem. Unable to understand why she treats him like a stranger, Johann begins to observe Elena, and the more he watches her, the harder it becomes to tell rivalry from something else.

Restart After Growing Hungry

Mitsuomi Kozuka, twenty-five, comes back to the countryside town where he was born and raised after a disastrous stint in Tokyo leaves him unemployed. There he meets Yamato Kumai, a foundling who has made the same small town his home, and the two men fall for each other beneath the endless, unchanging country sky. Now a couple, they live quietly in that town, seemingly content. Yet while they can show their feelings through gentle caresses and warm glances, putting love into words is another matter entirely. When Mitsuomi proposes a partnership, a non-legally binding form of marriage, Yamato hesitates to take the next step. Between misunderstandings and worries, the two search for the shap

Library Wars: Love & War

In a country where the Media Betterment Act authorizes the confiscation of any book deemed offensive, the libraries have organized their own armed force to defend freedom of expression. Iku Kasahara, a tomboyish and devoted reader, joins the Kanto branch of the Library Defense Force, driven by the memory of an unknown soldier who once saved her favorite book from being seized. Training turns out to be harder than she expected. Her instructor, Atsushi Doujou, is strict and seems determined to make her life miserable, and the two clash constantly. Then she learns that her superiors have other plans for her: she is recommended for the Library Task Force, an elite unit sent to the front lines o

The Strongest Hero: Envoy of Darkness -Betrayed by His Comrades, the Strongest Hero Joins Forces with the Strongest Monster-

There are always sixteen heroes, and among them stands Shion, the Hero of Darkness, said to be the strongest in history. He believes in only one thing: the party of girls who fight at his side, the companions with whom he has sworn to defeat the Demon Lord. That trust is broken when they betray him. Shion barely clings to life, but the wound left behind runs deeper than any blade, and he gives up on living. Wandering through a forest in search of a way to die, he is approached by a single monster. The monster asks him to kill it. Shion, still powerful despite having lost his former strength, wants to die as well. From that encounter between two beings who long for death, something new begi

Alcohol and Ogre-girls

Naori Shida is a college student with a passion for mixing drinks. She has the recipes, the bottles and the patience for it, but no one to share a glass with, so her evenings pass quietly. At a mixer she meets Hinata Ibuki, and before the night is over she has taken the other girl home. There Naori mixes her a drink, and discovers what her guest really is: an ogre-girl descended from Shuten-doji. Hinata needs alcohol to live, she can only drink what a human offers her by hand, and every sip makes horns rise from her head. Since Naori is happy to pour, Hinata declares her the personal bartender she has been looking for. What begins as a practical arrangement slowly turns into something clos

Re-employment Life with an Unsociable Untalkative Magician

Lucille loses her job as a maid after a scandal she had no part in, and with neither references nor savings to fall back on, she leaves the city to start over. Her search for work takes her to a quiet rural town, where she is hired to keep house for Firis, a taciturn, unsociable magician who lives alone in the forest. He says little and explains less, so Lucille fills her days working out his habits and preferences, and finds the arrangement far more pleasant than she expected. That peace turns out to be fragile. Her former employer has not forgotten her, and appears to be searching for her, intent on bringing her back.

Another 0

Ritsuko Sakakibara is close to giving birth, while her sister Reiko Mikami is about to begin her high school days at Yomiyama North Middle School. Reiko is due to enter class 3-3, and the months ahead of her are already taking shape around that classroom and the people in it. The story follows both sisters during this period of their lives, in the days before their paths are unexpectedly severed. It traces their routines at home and at school, the bond between them and the quiet details that surround them. Across two chapters, the narrative stays close to Reiko and Ritsuko as they move toward the moment that will separate them, lingering on the everyday life that precedes it rather than on

Isekai desu ga Mamono Saibai shiteimasu.

One day, Kyouji Himuro hears a knock at his door. When he opens it, he is pulled into another world, where his new life turns out to be anything but a fresh start: he has no fighting skill, no money and no way to get food. While digging through a dumpster for something to eat, he finds a handful of seeds and decides to grow his own food. The plan changes as soon as he realizes what those seeds actually produce: monsters. Left with a crop no one else would plant, Kyouji has to find a way to survive in a world that offers him nothing, and to decide what to do with the creatures that keep growing around him as others begin to take notice.

Bad Ending Maker

Mincheol has spent years building Wings Online, the virtual world whose every corner he knows by heart. When a new General Director takes charge, Mincheol is asked to write his resignation: the game he created is to be reshaped and sold off for profit, and he is left out of it. Mincheol refuses to watch his world be dismantled piece by piece. With Oasis, the AI companion by his side, he sets out to turn the game against its new owners from the inside, leaning on his knowledge of systems, maps and mechanics that no one else understands as well as he does. His aim is not to save Wings Online, but to give its sixth season update the worst ending it can possibly have. The fight starts as a pri

JAKDU: Shaman's Blade

Yongjin is a struggling orphan and a blunt realist with no money or time to spare on superstitious nonsense. He gets by on his own, with both feet planted firmly in the ordinary world, and he has never had much patience for the stories people tell about things they cannot see. On his sixteenth birthday, his life takes a sharp turn. Huisu, a classmate he has never once spoken to, suddenly asks to be his girlfriend, and for the first time Yongjin is not alone. The company he has gained, however, is not the kind he always wished for. Spirits begin to chase him, and he finds himself dragged into a hidden world he never believed existed. There he must learn how to survive among forces that have

Detectives These Days Are Crazy!

Keiichiro Nagumo was once a genius detective who solved impossible cases before anyone else could. That was more than a decade ago. Now 35, with bad hips, he runs a detective agency that gets no clients, struggles to pay the rent and cannot keep up with a world he stopped understanding; he does not even know what a smartphone is. Then Mashiro, a high school girl, walks into his office and asks to become his assistant. She is eager to work; he is old-fashioned and out of step, and neither of them knows quite what to make of the other. The agency has no cases and no money, and Nagumo's former fame is a distant memory. With a partner half his age at his side, the mismatched pair takes on the