Manga

Atsumori-kun’s Bride-to-be

Nishiki lives in the countryside, where she devotes herself to studying. Her parents have already arranged a marriage for her, and the small town she grew up in begins to feel too cramped for the future she wants. Then she meets Atsumori, a high school student visiting from Tokyo. His way of looking at things is unlike anything she has come across before, and he makes her an unexpected suggestion: that she run away with him and marry him. Fond of him and drawn to the life he represents, Nishiki sets her sights on Tokyo. To follow him there, she decides to earn a place at a high school in the city.

Takara's Treasure

Taishin has left his hometown of Fukuoka for a university in Tokyo, and not for the sake of his studies. He is looking for Takara, the stranger who consoled him while he cried during the summer of his third year of high school. Now, at last, he has the chance to tell him how much that moment meant. The reunion, however, does not go as he imagined. Takara keeps him at a distance and greets his gratitude with a cold question: what does Taishin plan to do now that he has found him? Taishin refuses to be discouraged and keeps seeking him out, determined to stay close. Takara, for his part, is slowly unsettled by the honesty of Taishin's gaze and by a persistence he cannot easily shake off.

Strawberry Marshmallow

Chika Ito lives with her older sister Nobue, and she spends most of her free time with her friends Miu, Matsuri and Ana. Together the girls move through ordinary days of school, afternoons at home and whatever small plan occurs to them next. Nobue, the eldest, watches over the group while wrestling with habits of her own. Miu supplies most of the ideas, Matsuri follows along without much protest, and Ana drifts in and out of the household as if it were her own. Nothing dramatic is needed to keep them occupied. A sleepover, a holiday, a part-time job or an empty afternoon is enough to set off schemes that rarely survive contact with the others.

Yumi's Cells

Yumi's life is anything but simple inside her head. A community of cells resides in her brain, each one representing a different emotion or aspect of her personality. Together, they influence her actions, thoughts, and feelings, often with conflicting agendas. As Yumi goes about her daily life, her cells work behind the scenes, sometimes helping her and sometimes making things worse. Their efforts to guide her lead to a series of comedic and touching situations that reveal the complexity of human nature. The story follows both Yumi's external experiences and the internal chaos of her cells, offering a unique look at the everyday struggles and joys of life and love.

Manly Appetites: Minegishi Loves Otsu

Minegishi is a handsome, friendly salaryman rising through the ranks at work, and he has one insatiable habit at the office: feeding his grumpy coworker Otsu. Otsu, a low-level employee whose main joy in life is sweets, snacks and other treats, keeps accepting the food. He refuses to be charmed, however. To Otsu, Minegishi's effortless coolness is a challenge, and he will not melt the way everyone else in the office does, not even for the social butterfly colleague who may one day become his boss and who insists on hovering around him with something delicious. Still, the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Minegishi's attention may be hinting at a hunger for something mor

Nappeun Saram

A kind young man has spent ten years trying to become the ideal type of the girl he has a crush on. Every effort he makes is aimed at that single goal, and he shapes himself around what he believes she wants. Then, one day, she tells him that what she actually likes is bad boys. The confession overturns everything he has built. Rather than give up, he makes a decision on the spot: from today onwards, he is going to be reborn as a bad boy. The problem is that being bad does not come naturally to someone whose whole nature is kindness. As he tries to act tough, rude and dangerous, his old self keeps getting in the way, and the gap between the person he is and the person he pretends to be tur

The Asterisk War

In the academy city on the water known as Asterisk, young people of the Starpulse Generation gather to compete in the Seibusai, the star battle festival. Representing six academies, they wield Shining Armaments and fight for glory on the world's greatest combat entertainment stage. Ayato Amagiri arrives at one of these academies at the invitation of its student council president, ready to begin his new life. But his career gets off to a rough start when he immediately makes a dangerous enemy. He incurs the wrath of Julis, the Petalblaze Witch, and ends up having to duel her. As he navigates the rivalries and challenges of Asterisk, Ayato must prove himself in a city where every battle is a

I Can't Be a Princess

Shindou Rei comes from a very poor family. Her only clothes are hand-me-downs from her brother, even her school uniform, so everyone mistakes her for a boy. Among them is her close friend Hakuba Ouji, who starts developing confusing feelings toward her while still believing she is a boy. Tsukumo Yuki, the leader of a delinquent gang, falls in love with Rei at first sight, and also believes she is a boy. Neither of them suspects the truth, and the misunderstanding follows Rei wherever she goes. Out of this grows a tangle of one-sided feelings and mistaken identities: a friend who cannot name what he feels, a gang leader in love at first sight, and a girl everyone takes for someone she is no

Samurai Executioner

Asa is the Shogun's executioner, a master samurai whose blade is the last thing many condemned prisoners see. He lives inside a prison world where few good stories are told, a place thick with vengeance, greed and violence, into which depravity and sin flow long before they reach his block. The men and women brought before him are undone by their own crimes, and those crimes lead them to a world where blood, bondage and agony are ordinary. Asa keeps his wits about him, and that may be enough to set certain things straight, though the world he serves leaves him little room to do it. It is a life of sword study, steeped in tradition and grim purpose, and of a man who holds his ground while t

Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance

Miroku Tachi once looked like a promise: a young writer recognized as the best new talent in a major literary competition. The weight of his family's expectation that he become a powerful man broke him before he could deliver on any of it. He dropped out of college and, after moving to Tokyo, has spent four months without work, shut away from the world. Alone and without direction, Miroku fights a daily battle against his past and his own moral fiber. He cannot sleep without dreams filled with abuse, taunting and the strong smell of blood, and the city around him only sharpens the split he feels inside. Out of that isolation comes a plan: to help his sister, himself and the whole world, he

Attack on Titan: Lost Girls

Attack on Titan: Lost Girls is a spin-off light novel consisting of three stories centered on Mikasa and Annie. The collection includes "Lost in the Cruel World", "Wall Sina, Goodbye", and "Lost Girls". Each story offers a unique window into the lives of these two characters. The narratives explore different moments and facets of Mikasa and Annie, delving into their personalities, their pasts, and their inner thoughts. Through these tales, the novel provides a deeper look at what drives them and how they navigate their world. The stories present personal conflicts and choices that reveal the complexities of both characters. As they confront their circumstances, the novel examines themes of

The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms

Deep in the forest, far from prying eyes, stands Wizdoms, a school of magic where beastmen of every kind gather to live and learn. Its students range from ordinary animals to fantastical creatures, and all of them carry human hearts beneath their fur, feathers and scales. Classes, dormitories and the quiet corners of the grounds become the setting for the bonds that grow between them: friendships that turn into something more, rivalries that soften, and feelings none of them quite know how to name. Each has to decide what to do with an affection that rarely follows the rules. Everyday encounters, told with humor and a light touch, show beasts who think and feel much like anyone else.

Spider-Man: Fake Red

Yu is starting at a new high school, and it is not going well. His grades are slipping, he has made no friends, and the days pass without much to look forward to. Then, in an alleyway, he finds one of Spider-Man's costumes, abandoned and apparently forgotten. Putting it on is fun at first. Yu plays at being a hero, enjoying a life that finally feels like something more than failure and loneliness. That changes when genuinely powerful enemies appear and he realizes how far out of his depth he really is. With the real Spider-Man nowhere to be found, the city is left without its protector. Someone has to step in, and the only person wearing the mask is a boy who never asked for any of it.

Yamada and the Boy

On Christmas night, Yamada, a 26-year-old worker, is heading home when he finds a drunk, crying high school boy on the street. He takes the teenager in for the night, and learns his name is Chihiro: a polite boy who lives close by and, as thanks for the rescue, soon starts coming over to cook for him. Yamada is straight. Chihiro is a high schooler quietly tormented by his feelings for someone of the same sex, which is why he was so miserable the night they met. Neither of them knows what to make of the closeness that grows between them as the visits become routine. As shared meals and ordinary evenings pile up, the distance between a working adult and a teenager starts to blur, and both ha

Disobey the Duke if You Dare

After the death of her second husband, Lily is forced by her father into a third marriage. Her new husband is rumored to be a monstrous warmonger, a man feared by everyone around him, and she enters the marriage expecting the worst. To her surprise, the Duke turns out to be kind, both as a man and as a husband. There is only one condition attached to their life together: she must never see his face. Bound to a man whose face she is forbidden to look upon, Lily must live with the rumors that surround him and with the rule that keeps part of him hidden from her. As the two grow closer, the secret standing between them demands an answer.

The Nito Exorcists

Gotsuji and Uruka are exorcists who spend their days cleansing evil spirits on request. They take on jobs that pit them against supernatural forces, but their work is not merely a profession. The two share a deeper goal: to cut down a specific spirit as a means of mourning the woman it killed. Every exorcism brings them closer to that target. Uruka, however, is mystified by Gotsuji's actions. Even so, Uruka accompanies him on his quest for revenge, unsure of what drives him or where their path will ultimately lead. As they face spirit after spirit, the weight of their shared objective and the uncertainty of their journey hang over them.

Hungry Marie

Taiga is the heir of a Buddhist temple, and Anna is the daughter of the priest at the Catholic church next door. Their families have feuded for as long as anyone can remember, but that has never stopped Taiga from being in love with Anna since they were children. When he finally works up the courage to approach her, he stumbles onto a secret he was never meant to find: the Sagimiya are preparing a ritual to resurrect Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, the daughter of Marie Antoinette, a girl with a seemingly endless appetite. Taiga is meant to serve as the human sacrifice that makes the ceremony work. Just before the ritual, he confesses his feelings to Anna, and in that same instant lightning strik

The Mutant Wants to Kiss His Human Girlfriend

After a nuclear war wipes out most of humanity, the world lies in ruins and mutants roam what remains of it. Among them lives a lonely mutant whose greatest wish is to find a girlfriend, though it seems no humans are left alive. Then he meets a human girl, and falls for her at once. She is the first of her kind he has seen, and in a land where little survives, the two of them are drawn to each other. What grows between them is a love unlike any other: fierce, sad and earnest. It is born between a creature shaped by the war and the girl he longs to kiss, and it asks whether such a bond can hold in a world that has already ended once.

X & Ash

X is a genius thief. Ash is a boy with a mysterious past. When a chance encounter brings them face to face with Ryu, the prime swordmaster, both decide to aim for a place in the Azure Knights, an order that accepts only the most capable. Getting in is a different matter. The entry exam gathers the finest candidates, most of them elite aristocrats who arrive with training, titles and connections behind them. X and Ash must prove their might in a contest where skill alone may not be enough to earn a place. With the odds against them, the two fight for a place among the order, and what follows the exam is something neither of them can foresee.

The Hachioji Specialty: Tengu's Love

Kotarou is a lonely young man who has returned to his hometown of Hachioji, near Mt. Takao. He has few memories of his early childhood, only his grandparents' old house and a vague recollection of Hime, a winged tengu girl he met on the mountain as a boy, a memory he long dismissed as a childish fancy. When he visits Mt. Takao with a friend, he meets Hime again. She has not forgotten him, and she announces that the two of them are to be married. Kotarou has little say in the matter: the tengu bride simply moves in with him. Now the two share a house, and life with a tengu turns out to be full of surprises. Hime is determined to make the marriage work, while Kotarou struggles to accept that

One Morning I Woke Up

A boy wakes up one morning to discover that he is no longer himself: his body now belongs to Hatsuko Fukatsu, a second-year high school girl he has never met. He has no idea who she is, and no memory of how the two of them might have ended up in each other's place. Determined to find his own body, he decides to pass as Hatsuko for the day. It does not go well. Her classmates and teachers notice every slip, and the habits and quirks that make Hatsuko herself are hard to imitate, so each attempt to look for answers only makes the people around him more suspicious. Trapped in someone else's routine and with the day slipping away, the boy keeps asking himself where his body has gone and whethe

The Red Fruit Burst

Falling in love rarely announces itself. In these short stories, it arrives quietly: a girl falls for the older novelist everyone calls her uncle, a boxer recovers his will to win for the sake of a love he wants back, and a high-school girl keeps crossing paths with an elementary school boy at the calligraphy class they both attend. Elsewhere, a mysteriously tall woman steps out of a poster, a man who has given up on living meets someone anyway, and a girl rehearses her graduation speech with a little more courage thanks to the person she loves. A boy pauses under a golden sweet olive tree on his way home and remembers; a girl wishes she could stand closer to the boyfriend she is not allowe

Nekomonogatari: Cat Tale (Black)

Koyomi Araragi and his younger sister Tsukihi are locked in a perpetual sibling rivalry, their conversations endlessly circling around the topic of love. Their bickering is fierce and unabashed, a battle of wills that seems to have no end. This domestic squabble, however, is merely the backdrop to a far more serious event. The story unfolds during Golden Week, a string of holidays starting at the end of April. It is then that Araragi, a model student, goes on a rampage—a catastrophe that will plunge him into a mysterious and chaotic ordeal. As the holidays progress, the nature of this disaster comes to light, and Araragi finds himself at the center of a supernatural mystery.

Legal Drug

Kazahaya Kudo has a gift: a single touch is enough for him to see visions of the people and objects around him. Penniless and with nowhere to stay, he is taken in at the Green Drug pharmacy, where he earns room and board by working behind the counter. The job, however, is not limited to shelves and customers. Kakei, the owner, hands him special assignments that only someone with Kazahaya's ability can carry out, and pairs him with Rikuo, his roommate and co-worker, who hides unusual powers of his own. Together they take on cases whose ailments no ordinary medicine can cure, while the past they would rather leave behind keeps closing in on them.

Dante's Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri, a poet halfway through his life, wakes to find himself lost in a dark forest with no clear path. His way is blocked until Virgil, the ancient Roman poet, appears and offers to guide him through the realms of the afterlife so that he can find his way back to the world of the living. Their journey begins with a descent into Hell, the nine circles where the damned endure punishments shaped by their sins, down to the bottom of the abyss. Then the road turns upward, climbing the terraces of Mount Purgatory, where souls are purged of their faults before they are allowed to rise. At the summit Virgil can go no further, and Beatrice, the woman Dante loved, takes over as his guide

Champignon Witch

Deep in the Black Forest, a witch named Luna lives alone in a house built from poisonous mushrooms. Her skin is toxic to the touch and her breath can kill anyone who comes too close, so she stays away from the nearby city. Even so, she visits it to deliver the highly effective medicines she makes and to buy new books, watching from a distance as people take her remedies and talk among themselves. In a kingdom ruled by white witches, Luna is a black witch, and the rumors about her are enough to keep the residents afraid of her. She has never harmed anyone, yet nobody dares to come near. What she longs for is the warmth of other people, even if getting closer to them sometimes puts her in dan

KAIJIN FUGEKI: Kindled Spirits

Night is the name given to phenomena once dismissed as natural disasters. They bring inexplicable destruction, and humanity's only answer to them is prayer: children dance to borrow the power of the gods, quelling the Night's fury and delivering the world from ruin. In a rural town in Japan, a boy named Jin meets Gao, a British soldier driven from his homeland by the Night. Both are holy warriors on the frontlines of the battle against the catastrophe, able to call on the gods through dance, yet together with their friends they pass quiet days in a town surrounded by nature. Then the Night falls on them once again, and the peaceful days come to an end.

Night Shift in Another World

Chan Lee thought his life had hit rock bottom when he lost his office job. While hunting for part-time work, he stumbles on a convenience store offering an unusually high hourly wage, and takes the job on the spot. What he does not expect is the clientele. The shop is connected to another world, and his shifts are spent serving dog men, kobolds, goblins, vampires, succubi and dragon girls, each with their own demands and their own disasters. Between late-night chaos and supernatural mishaps, Chan slowly gets to know the regulars who keep coming back, and the strange store starts to feel less like a dead-end job.

Kokoro Connect

Yamaboshi Academy's Student Cultural Society is home to five students who don't quite fit in anywhere else: Himeko, Iori, Yui, Aoki and Taichi. They pass their days together as an odd but close-knit group, until something impossible happens to them. One day the five begin swapping bodies at random, waking up in one another's lives without warning or explanation. Every secret, fear and hidden crush they have kept from their friends is suddenly within reach of someone else, and the easy closeness they shared starts to crack. While they search for a reason behind the phenomenon, the group has to decide how much they are willing to let each other see, and whether their friendship can survive k

Yuri Espoir

Kokoro is in her final year of high school when she learns that her father has decided she will enter a marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates. With her future settled for her, she looks for something of her own to hold on to. She chooses to indulge her love of other women and starts filling a sketchbook with stories of lesbian romance, a work she intends to leave behind as her legacy. Watching the young women of her town, Kokoro learns about their desires, their struggles and the unpredictable whims of love, even as the marriage waiting for her draws closer.

The Journey of a Dark Elf with Fading Powers

Amira has spent her life as one of the world's most formidable magic users, celebrated as the omnipotent caster whose spells lit up entire battlefields. Then her power runs dry. Her magic force is completely exhausted, and what remains is an ordinary dark elf with no spells left to cast. Rather than sink into despair, Amira steps into a life she never had time for. She listens to the wind instead of commanding it, coaxes a flame from kindling, learns her way around a kitchen and hunts for a new purpose. Small miracles and quiet pleasures fill the space where almighty magic used to be. Yet the habits of an adventurer do not fade with her powers. Between the calm days and the gentle discover

Natsuyuki Rendezvous

Hazuki has poor eyesight and works part-time at a flower shop, where he falls for Rokka, the woman who runs it. Wanting to be near her, he keeps showing up for his shifts, and the quiet routine of the shop slowly draws the two of them closer. A going-away party gives him the chance to walk Rokka home, and he arrives at her door elated. There he learns that the apartment is not really hers alone: the spirit of the man she can never forget still lives in it, watching over her and unwilling to let go. Caught between a woman bound to her past and a dead man who refuses to leave her side, Hazuki tries to find a place for himself in a home that was never meant to have room for anyone else.

Doomsday with My Dog

An apocalyptic event has turned Earth into a desolate wasteland, and a teenage girl wanders its ruined cities as the last human alive. Empty streets and crumbling buildings stretch ahead of her, a concrete jungle that has outlived the people who built it. She is not entirely alone. Haru, her talking Shiba Inu, trots at her side and refuses to leave it, ready to stick with her through thick and thin. Quick-witted and full of tricks, he fills the long stretches of travel with joyful antics, philosophical discussions and the occasional dispute with other dogs over love. Together they cross the remains of civilization, day after day, and the company of such a talkative companion keeps the post

Reporting for Duty, Duchess!

Captain Yun-a has built a career on discipline and command, an icon of success and power in the military. After an accident on the battlefield, she opens her eyes in a world that follows the rules of a romantic fantasy novel, trapped in the body of a supporting character. There she is cast as the best friend of Rosalie, the story's protagonist, a role with no future beyond the pages of someone else's romance. Refusing to accept the ending written for Rosalie, Yun-a sets out to overturn the plot, using the knowledge of a reader and the instincts of a soldier. The more she interferes, the more the story pushes back, and the question of whether she can change Rosalie's fate, find happiness in

An Incurable Case of Love

Five years ago, Nanase Sakura watched a young doctor save a stranger's life and fell for him on the spot. The memory of that day decides her future: she studies hard, enters nursing school and earns a post at the hospital where the man works, convinced that meeting him again will be the start of something wonderful. Her destined prince turns out to be Kairi Tendo, a brilliant doctor with no patience for mistakes and a bedside manner as cold as his hands are skilled. He snaps at her, dismisses her feelings and is nothing like the gentle man she remembers from that night. Nanase refuses to give up on the doctor she has chased for five years, even as the daily grind of hospital work, sleeples

Akashic Records of the Bastard Magical Instructor

Sisti is a magic-user in training at a prestigious magical academy. She hopes to be taught by the best of the best and to solve the mystery of the enigmatic Sky Castle. When her favorite instructor suddenly retires, his replacement is not what she expected. The new teacher, Glen, is idle, incompetent, always late, and a seemingly unbearable bastard of an instructor. Despite his attitude, Sisti still wants to learn magic and uncover the secrets of the Sky Castle. The question remains: how was Glen hand-picked by the best magician in the academy? As Sisti tries to improve her skills under such a terrible teacher, she must also face the mystery of the Sky Castle. The reason for Glen's selecti

Haikyu-bu!!

When the volleyball season pauses, the players from the rival high schools do not simply go home. This series follows those opposing teams during their downtime, away from tournaments and official matches, and finds them just as busy as ever. Their free days fill up quickly: scouting a video game tournament, trying to debunk a ghost myth, arguing over who gets which bunk bed, or dealing with the complications of talking to girls. Competitive instincts do not switch off, so even the smallest disagreement can turn into a contest. The cast is loud and colorful, and nothing about their time off is boring. Even when there is no match to win, their pride and their need to outdo one another keep

Dr. Choi Giseok Levels Up

On the last day of his surgical residency, Dr. Haejin Jung is hit by a truck and dies. He wakes up in the body of Giseok Choi, a soon-to-be surgical intern, and the recipient of Haejin's own transplanted heart. As he tries to make sense of his resurrection, Haejin discovers holographic screens that only he can see, showing the exact statuses of his patients and his medical colleagues. No one else can perceive these screens, and nothing in his medical training explains them. Now living as Choi Giseok, he vows to use this inexplicable power to become the world's best cardiothoracic surgeon. But the second chance comes with a new identity, a hospital hierarchy that does not know him, and a gi

One Piece: Ace's Story

Washed up on the shore of a deserted island at the edge of the East Blue, two men from very different backgrounds meet by chance and discover a shared thirst for adventure. One is Portgaz D. Ace, who means to follow in the footsteps of his infamous father. The other is Masked Deuce, cast ashore just like him. Ace sets out to become the fearless captain of a pirate crew of his own, and Deuce, however reluctantly, becomes the first member of the Spade Pirates. Turning two castaways into a crew takes more than ambition, and the road ahead is longer than either of them expects. Survival alone is not enough for these buccaneers. Together they go after treasure, excitement and a route to the New

Fu-fu

Two women have just moved in together, and their new life as a couple is the focus of this heartwarming comedy. From the moment they wake up to the time they go to sleep, we follow their daily routines: cooking meals, cleaning the apartment, and figuring out how to share a small space. Each day brings a mix of laughter, minor disagreements, and tender moments. Living together is a constant learning experience. They must navigate each other's habits, moods, and expectations, all while trying to keep their romance alive. Whether they are shopping for groceries, watching TV, or just talking about their day, their relationship deepens through the ordinary and the unexpected. This is a refreshi