Manga

Mermaid Prince

Mugi moves to an island in southern Japan after his sister marries a local man. He has a fascination with mermaids but struggles to fit in. His classmate, a girl dealing with her own family changes, refuses to leave him alone. One night, Mugi stays at her house, where her grandmother tells a story about mermaids who can grant any wish. As he navigates his new life, he must confront feelings of loneliness and the search for belonging. The volume also includes other stories, such as one about a homeless father and son taking refuge in a library, and another about a girl named Akari. Together, these tales explore themes of connection and finding your place in the world.

Kimagure Orange Road

Kyousuke Kasuga and his family are espers, gifted with psychic powers they must keep hidden from everyone around them. Whenever their abilities draw the public's suspicion, the Kasugas pack up and start over somewhere new. Tired of the constant moves, Kyousuke transfers to yet another school, determined to make it his last and to live an ordinary life there. Soon after arriving, he meets Madoka Ayukawa, an enigmatic girl in a red straw hat who is feared by the other students, and her lively friend Hikaru Hiyama. Hikaru openly declares her crush on Kyousuke, and Madoka, loyal to her, agrees to help her win him. Kyousuke finds himself drawn to Madoka, yet he cannot bring himself to hurt Hikar

Joujuu Senjin!! Mushibugyo

In feudal Japan, the people of Edo live under siege by giant insects that ravage the land. The government answers their pleas by founding the Insect Magistrate Office, a corps of strong warriors sworn to hold back the pests. Jinbee Tsukishima is a young man who believes a weak warrior is no warrior at all, and he trains to become a master swordsman like his father. Hoping to atone for a horrific incident he was responsible for, he sets out to take his father's place in the Insect Magistrate Office. On the road he meets Haru, a young woman who helps run her family's tea house, and he draws his sword to save her from a grisly fate. That act of bravery wins him a place among the exterminators

Over Limit Skill Holder: Only the Reincarnated can Conquer the "Over Limited Skill Orb"

In a world where everyone has eight skill slots, people fill them with abilities taken from skill orbs, rated in stars and vital for survival. The total number of stars a person carries can never exceed the number of slots, so everyone lives within a fixed limit. Reiji spends his childhood as a slave in the mines, digging up skill orbs alongside Lark, his beloved older sister. When a rebellion breaks out, he gets his hands on a ten-star orb, a so-called overlimit skill called World Ruler, and rises from powerless slave to wielder of an ability beyond human limits. In the chaos of the revolt, however, he is separated from Lark, the only person dear to him. Wanting to regain their bond and t

Her Relationship with Him

Kaho has never had a boyfriend. What she wants is not a grand romance but simply a relationship between a man and a woman, something ordinary and real. Takumi, for his part, has never had a girlfriend either, and one day he says out loud, to no one in particular, that he would take anyone at this point. Kaho overhears him. Before she can think it through, she asks whether he would consider her. He says yes. Neither of them expects much from it. They simply agree to try. Neither of them knows how these things are supposed to go. They start from zero, with no experience and no script, learning what it means to be a couple while the people around them watch, tease and interfere.

Martial Evolution: The Beast King Awakens

Heath Yale wakes in a world overrun by beasts, where warriors evolve by absorbing the genes of the monsters they kill. He has been reborn into the body of a weakling, with no talent, no status and no way to keep up with the fighters around him. His only advantage is a gift nobody else possesses: limitless monster templates. Cosmic horrors, towering legends, and beasts beyond reckoning. Every one of them can be unlocked and turned into strength of his own. Surrounded by rivals who would crush an ordinary recruit, Heath has to stay alive long enough to make use of what he carries, and to keep the scale of what is growing inside him hidden. The world has never seen the powers he is about to u

The SSS-Rank Paladin Who Breaks All Rules

The game has become reality. Monsters run wild, magical disasters spread without control, and every human gets one chance to awaken a class and grow stronger by leveling up. On the day of the awakening, a young man who has never stood out receives an S+ rank talent: the Blessing of the Holy Angel. That talent unlocks a hidden class dismissed as worthless: the Paladin. Weapon blessing, angel blessing, honor blessing — the buffs pile up one after another, and his power climbs until even the air around him trembles. In a world where class and level decide who survives, the people who called his path mundane start to watch him closely. Every blessing he gains draws attention, and the monsters

Violence Jack

The eleventh of September, 197x. A magnitude 8-9 earthquake tears through the entire Kantou region, volcanoes erupt and buildings crumble, and Tokyo is decimated in a single day. Scholars call it the great destruction of the Showa Era, but the people who live through it call it the earthquake from hell. Unable to recover the city, the government abandons Tokyo and moves the capital elsewhere, leaving the survivors to fend for themselves. What grows out of the ruins is a society with no laws. In that desolate world, different people try to survive, and their paths cross with Jack, a ten-foot giant who annihilates anyone and anything in his way. Against him stands the Slum King, a villain loc

The Decagon House Murders

The members of a university mystery club travel to a remote island, where a ten-sided house stands as the scene of a grisly and unsolved mass murder from the previous year. Armed with details of the case and keys to the property, they intend to investigate the crime and uncover the truth behind the killings. But the island is isolated, and soon the group realizes they are not alone. One by one, they are targeted by an unseen murderer, mirroring the earlier tragedy. As paranoia grows, they must question whether the facts they know are reliable and whether they can trust one another, while a hidden killer stalks them.

Maid-san in My House

Takaomi Kamikiza is a fifteen-year-old boy who lives in a mansion with Ami, his seven-year-old sister, Hirofumi, his carefree twenty-nine-year-old brother, and Akira, the family's nineteen-year-old butler. His routine is unremarkable until the day he comes home and finds Sara Kimishima, a classmate, waiting for him dressed in a maid uniform. Sara has been hired as a live-in maid. Hirofumi arranged it both to keep the housework under control and to indulge his own fondness for maids, a detail neither Takaomi nor Sara finds easy to ignore. Sharing a roof with a classmate turns ordinary school days awkward, and Takaomi ends up flustered far more often than he would like to admit. Little by li

Asmodeus Will Not Give Up

A second-year high school student is left looking after his family's church while his Catholic priest father is away, standing in for him to keep the parish running and the building protected. One day he helps a troubled young girl he finds lingering outside the church, only to discover that she is not what she seems: she is the demon Asmodeus. The demon takes an interest in him, and the boy who is supposed to be guarding the church now has to deal with her at his doorstep. Between school, his stand-in duties and a guest who will not leave him alone, his daily life turns into a strange and comedic struggle. He has no idea how to handle a demon, and Asmodeus shows no sign of losing interest

The Healing Solaris Cleric

Han Jungwoo, known in the game as Kai, has spent his life being mocked for being too kind. In MID, the most realistic online fantasy game ever made, he would rather help other players than chase quests, which leaves him far behind the ruthless competitors who populate the servers. Then the game offers him something no one expected: the chance to become a Solaris Cleric, a hidden class so rare that most players do not know it exists. Stranger still, it rewards him for the good deeds he was already doing, turning his greatest weakness into a source of power. Kindness, however, wins him no allies among players who kill, betray and climb over anyone in their way. Hunted by those who covet his

MeruPuri

Airi Hoshina, a high school freshman, dreams of a cozy home, a loving husband and a quiet life full of small joys. A school legend claims that the longer a student's streak of arriving on time, the better the boyfriend she will find, so Airi turns punctuality into a daily mission. Then a young boy climbs out of her hand mirror. He is Aram, prince of Astale, fleeing a spell cast in his kingdom. The magic was meant to turn him into an old man, but it only ages his body to that of a seventeen-year-old whenever darkness falls. The remedy is a kiss from his beloved maiden, and Aram is convinced that maiden is Airi. Airi wants nothing to do with him while she searches for her own true love, but

Captain Tsubasa

Tsubasa Ozora is a boy who grows up treating his soccer ball as a friend, and his dream is to be part of a Japan team that wins the World Cup. When he transfers to Nankatsu Elementary School, he quickly becomes the star of the school's soccer team and challenges Genzo Wakabayashi, the genius goalkeeper of Shutetsu Elementary, to a match. There he meets Roberto Hongo, a Brazilian coach who notices the boy's potential and offers him the chance to go with him to Brazil. Tsubasa trains harder with every game and grows more confident in his abilities, while the rivals he faces on the pitch slowly turn into friends and the World Cup seems to come closer.

Shonen Note: Boy Soprano

Yutaka Aoi is a gentle, perceptive boy who takes in the world through sound, turning the noise of the city into melodies and crying whenever he hears music beautiful enough to move him. He also has a gift few boys his age share: a clear soprano voice. When he starts middle school and hears the choir perform, he cannot resist joining in, and the other members welcome him eagerly once they hear him sing. Around Yutaka, the choir gathers classmates, families and teachers, whose joys and conflicts fill the school days. But adolescence brings changes no one can hold back, and Yutaka's voice begins to break. As the sound that defines him shifts, he and those close to him must face what it means

Villain Initialization

Ling Chen is a villain, and Ye Zimu is the hero who has stood against him for years. Their conflict has become a vicious cycle of hate and violence, one that neither of them seems able to escape. Then, without warning, a reset throws Ling Chen back in time to when he was only seventeen years old. He is young again, and so is Ye Zimu, who has not yet grown into the enemy Ling Chen knows. Ling Chen sees the chance he never had: to find the hero first and remove him from the equation before their long war can begin. But going back means living his own past again, and the people and choices around him are not as simple as his plan requires.

Strongest Fighter

A man wakes up from a date and finds himself somewhere that looks like a movie set. Before he can make sense of it, he realizes the truth: he has been reborn as a baby in a world of martial arts. He is given the name Gunchung and raised in the Jongnam Clan, a family that once stood among the nine strongest clans but no longer holds that standing. As he grows, he draws on the knowledge of his past life to study the martial arts of his new world, searching for the meaning behind their techniques rather than simply repeating them. Because his perspective differs from that of everyone around him, his training takes a different shape and the way he approaches martial arts begins to change. Arme

Darling, Why Can't We Divorce?

A woman falls asleep brooding over the ending of a romance novel about a countess and a lost prince, ruined by two villains: the power-hungry Duke Sylvester Lizen and his unwilling wife, Ophelia. She wakes inside the story, in Ophelia's body, before the worst of the villainess's deeds has been done. Ophelia wants only one thing now: a divorce. But Sylvester, who seems genuinely fond of her and lets her do as she pleases, refuses to let her go. His single condition is cruel: seduce the crown prince, who despises her, and he will set her free. Determined to shed her wicked ways and escape the fate the novel has in store for her, Ophelia agrees, chasing a man who wants nothing to do with her

Red Blood Red Legacy

Itsuki and Hayato are two brothers who live in a village nestled deep in the mountains. When a wolf begins attacking the village's livestock, the brothers set out to hunt it down and kill it. Itsuki is about to go in for the kill when a gigantic beast appears out of nowhere. It snatches up the wolf in its jaws and sucks the life out of it. The creature that stares Itsuki down is a gargantuan, blood-sucking vampire deer. Its power is overwhelming, and the brothers' simple hunt turns into a fight for survival. Now Itsuki and Hayato must find a way to escape the monstrous deer and return to their village alive. Their simple hunt has become a desperate struggle against a supernatural predator.

Homeless Reincarnation: Suddenly I Reincarnated, and Lived Happily Ever After in Another World

Shinichi Tanaka used to run a large company as its representative director. At 56 he is homeless, with no money and no family, living off whatever he can find. He scrapes by on what others throw away. On a rainy day he is struck by lightning and wakes in a strange land, inside the body of his 25-year-old self. Monsters roam, dungeons wait to be explored, and nothing works the way he remembers. With nothing to his name, Shinichi takes shelter in a hidden room deep in a dungeon and starts over, building a self-sufficient life in a world that answers to none of the rules he knew. What begins as a struggle to get by grows into a turbulent adventure.

Secret Playlist

Hanju is an ordinary university student with one secret: online, she is PLII, an up-and-coming cover artist on Metube whose videos are steadily gaining attention. Keeping those two lives apart is already difficult, and it becomes nearly impossible when Levi, a member of a popular boy group, notices her channel and asks PLII to collaborate with him. What Hanju does not expect is that Levi is also her classmate, and that a suspicious direct message is only the beginning. Determined to protect her anonymity, she dodges his requests and guards every detail of her daily life, even as the two are thrown together on a class project. The more time they spend working side by side, the harder it bec

A Drunk Thief Bought a Slave Girl

Harris is an adventurer who makes his living as a thief and scout, a trade widely shunned for its poor reputation. After a night of heavy drinking, he wakes with a hangover and the vague memory of having bought a slave girl named Tiana. Tiana had been badly treated and barely fed until then, so she comes to adore Harris as her master for the simple kindness he shows her. Harris, who had hoped she would grow up to be a beautiful woman, finds himself gradually drawn to her innocence. Life together changes him more than he expects: warm meals, freshly washed clothes, and townspeople who had never come near him before. At the same time, he keeps stumbling into troublesome situations, and getti

Fox-Colored Jealousy

Akiha Konno moves from his rural home to Tokyo to start college, excited but nervous about one thing: the fox spirit that possesses him and takes over his body at the worst possible moments. On his first day, a stranger gropes him on a crowded train. A young man steps in to help, and before Akiha can stop himself, the spirit makes him throw his arms around his rescuer. Akiha hopes he will never see the man again, but the stranger turns out to be Yukuri Takahashi, the son of the distant relative he is staying with. Worse, the fox spirit has taken a liking to Yukuri and wants to get far more intimate with him. Torn between the fear of losing control of his own body and his wish for a normal l

Hunter Academy's Invincible Martial God

When monsters poured out of a portal in the sky, humanity's peaceful world collapsed. Those who rose to fight them wielded extraordinary powers known as attributes, and came to be called Hunters. To survive, humanity built academies to forge the best of them. Yusung Shin is born with an F-rank attribute, the lowest of the low. Cast out by a family famed for producing Hunters, he is taken in by the Fist King, a man who reached the top not through traits but through sheer physical training. Where others see a worthless child, the Fist King sees nine blocked yin pathways and an overflow of yang energy, a constitution that grants him a sharp mind while threatening to kill him young. Now a stud

Granny Girl Hinata-chan

Hinata is not an ordinary kindergartener. She speaks in an old-fashioned dialect, savors pickled vegetables and a cup of green tea on the veranda, and settles disputes among her classmates with the authority of someone who has lived far longer than they have. That is because she is not a child at all: she is an eighty-eight-year-old grandmother, reborn in the body of a little girl with every memory of her previous life intact. Her worldly knowledge and old-fashioned manners set her apart from the children around her, and her second childhood fills up with small everyday pleasures and the occasional lesson in manners for her peers. Yet the question of why she was reborn never quite leaves he

Record of Grancrest War

The continent lives under the constant threat of Chaos, and the Lords who rule it hold holy seals capable of calming that force and protecting the people. Over time, however, they set aside that duty and turned their seals against one another, fighting endless wars for dominion. Siluca Meletes is a young mage who scorns the Lords for abandoning their creed and dreams of restoring justice to the land. When tragedy strikes at a wedding meant to unite the Fantasia Union and the Factory Alliance, she is left with no choice but to build a different future. She finds an ally in Theo, a wandering knight of great potential who travels to train and one day free his homeland. Bound by an oath, the t

Tokyo These Days

Shiozawa has spent his career as a manga editor at a major publisher, and now, after going into early retirement, he finds himself adrift in a Tokyo that keeps pulling him back. On his final day at the job, he rides a train he has taken hundreds of times to give some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Not long after, a junior editor asks for his help with an incorrigible artist who once worked with Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. The request draws him to a bookshop and back into a world he thought he had left behind. As he moves between creators, editors and old memories, Shiozawa begins to ask what manga has meant to him: a job, a form of express

Kingdom Hearts II

In the quiet hamlet of Twilight Town, Roxas spends the final days of summer vacation with his best friends Hayner, Pence and Olette. Strange things begin to happen around him: the group is falsely accused of stealing photographs from all over town, and they are attacked by bizarre white creatures. At the same time, Roxas is troubled by recurring dreams of a boy named Sora, whom he has never met, and by a girl named Naminé who seems to have a secret to share with him. Elsewhere, Sora, Donald and Goofy continue their search for King Mickey and Riku. But a new enemy has risen from the darkness: the Nobodies, creatures with no heart who cannot feel emotion. Beside the Heartless he already knows

Virgin Extinction Island

One day, every male virgin over the age of 18 suddenly begins dying rapidly. This triggers a massive panic across Japan. The sex industry's prices skyrocket overnight, terrified virgins form angry mobs, and the government struggles to handle the unprecedented crisis. Seventeen-year-old Kurumi Eiri is still a virgin. As his eighteenth birthday approaches, he realizes that he will die unless he loses his virginity before then. He frantically confesses to girls, but every attempt ends in rejection. With time running out, he must find a way to survive in a world where being a virgin is a death sentence.

Sekitou Elegy

Satoshi Yanagawa earns his living with part-time work, directing traffic around construction sites. It is demanding, repetitive work, but the job comes with one compensation: a beautiful coworker he falls for the moment he sees her. The trouble is her character. She is sharp-tempered, blunt and far from the gentle figure he imagined, and the two of them spend their shifts bickering as much as working. Satoshi keeps hoping for something more, unsure whether her barbs hide any warmer feeling or whether he is simply wasting his time. Between long days on the road, odd coworkers and the small routines of a job nobody dreams about, the two edge closer and pull apart again, and Satoshi has to wo

Ascendance of a Bookworm ~I'll do anything to become a librarian!~ Part 3 Let's spread books through the duchy!

Myne is a girl who loves books above all else. To keep the people she cares about out of danger, she says goodbye to her family and friends in the lower city, takes the name Rozemyne, and becomes the adopted daughter of Ehrenfest's archduke, a child rich in mana. Her new life as an archnoble is harsh: etiquette lessons, magic training and her duties as High Bishop and forewoman pile up on a small, frail seven-year-old. What keeps her going is the same hunger for books, and the High Priest offers her a reward she cannot refuse: the keys to the temple's book room, and with them the precious volumes kept inside. Her name has changed, but Rozemyne's passion for books has not, and the printing

Pokémon Adventures: Gold, Silver & Crystal

Gold travels through the Johto region, initially searching for the person who stole his backpack. His pursuit leads him to discover that the thief is involved in a larger, mysterious plot. As he investigates, he crosses paths with two other Trainers: Silver, whose life is tied to the villains, and Crystal, an average Trainer with an extraordinary talent for catching Pokémon. Crystal also helps Professor Oak complete his Pokédex. The three young Trainers join forces, aided by veteran Trainers, to confront the reformed Team Rocket and the Masked Man's nefarious schemes. Their journey is filled with action, adventure, and mystery as they strive to stop a threat that could affect the entire reg

The Exiled Hero

After seven grueling years as a support hero, Jihan Yu is cast out of his guild with nothing but a meager severance pay and the words that he was useless. The world he leaves behind is one overrun by monsters and invaders from other realms, where guilds rise and fall on the strength of their fighters. What his former comrades overlook is his rare ability to read probabilities, a gift that lets him weigh the odds others can only guess at. When a contract with an elemental grants him the ultra-rare power of a Wind Elementalist, Jihan puts that gift to use and joins an underdog guild dismissed by everyone around him. Now he has to master a power no one else wields, survive bitter rivalries, a

Under Current

Kanae Sekiguchi, the proprietor of the Tsuki no Yu bathhouse, struggles to reopen her business after the sudden and unexplained disappearance of her husband, Satoru. He vanished four months ago on a business trip, leaving no trace behind. Kanae is left to grapple with the possibilities—a secret affair or a tragic accident—while leaning toward the painful suspicion of his infidelity. To help manage the struggling bathhouse, the Public Baths Union sends an assistant, Mr. Hori. As Kanae navigates her daily duties and a flood of new appointments, each interaction and visitor brings her closer to unsettling truths, pulling her deeper into a mystery that challenges her perception of her marriage

Wish You Were Gone

Guk-Hwa and Jang-Mi have one thing in common: the same man. Their rivalry over him comes to a head, and the confrontation ends with Jang-Mi kissing Guk-Hwa, who storms off in a huff. Days pass. The argument over the boy is settled, and yet neither woman can stop thinking about the other. Guk-Hwa catches sight of Jang-Mi on another train and wonders why she did what she did; Jang-Mi, back at work, gets irritated because Guk-Hwa keeps coming to mind. Neither of them is sure whether what lingers is the fight or the kiss. As their paths keep crossing, the two women have to work out what they want from each other, and whether a bond that began as a fight can become something else.

Kyoufu no Juusou

After an archaeological dig, a family finds itself the victim of a strange curse. Unexplained and terrifying events begin to occur around them, and they are unable to escape the misfortune that has befallen their household. The curse seems to have followed them from the excavation, bringing with it a horror that defies explanation. As the curse grows stronger, the family searches for answers. They must confront the possibility that something from the dig has followed them home, and that the horror they face is far beyond anything they have ever known. Their desperation mounts as the supernatural occurrences intensify, threatening their sanity and their lives. With no clear way to break the

Your Meteor, Hidden in Flowers

Every hundred years, a cursed monster confined within a castle demands a sacrifice: the Monster's Bride. Stella, the adopted eldest daughter of Viscount Quinwitch, has grown up happy among a family that never treated her as an outsider, until the day her younger sister Lilinette is chosen for that role. Refusing to let her sister be delivered to the creature, Stella volunteers to take her place and travels to the castle where the monster is kept. There she meets Lavi, a centuries-old vampire stained with blood and feared as a demon, a being wrapped in a loneliness no one has ever touched. Stella's presence begins to change something in Lavi, and what grows between them is tangled with obse

Kanojo ni Naru Hi Another

Rinichi Sagara is a middle school student whose short stature and feminine looks have made his life difficult. Taunts about his appearance set off his temper, earning him a reputation as a surly, frightening classmate most people avoid. The exceptions are Aya Kurokawa, who is kind to him, and Yuu Narumi, his rival for her attention. When the two boys quarrel once again over the girl they both like, Sagara suddenly collapses. He wakes to find that he has become a girl. In this world, a phenomenon called emergence randomly changes some boys' sex to keep the numbers of men and women equal, and Sagara is its newest case. Unwilling to accept his new body, he tries to behave as masculine as poss

Introverted Us

Seventeen-year-old Jayu Nam has no friends, simply because she is too shy. She keeps to herself, overthinks everything and is so quiet that people barely notice her. Then, during a downpour, the most popular boy in school, Jahyeok Yeo, lends her his umbrella, and she finds herself in a predicament: nothing seems harder than finding the right moment to give it back to someone who is always surrounded by people. Jahyeok looks remarkably social thanks to his good looks and his academic record, but he is in fact an extreme introvert. School feels like a prison to him, a place where people constantly approach him and never give him room to breathe. In the middle of that noise, the calm, quiet pr

Ookiku Furikabutte

Ren Mihashi enrolls at Nishiura High School convinced he is a worthless pitcher. His middle school teammates resented his place on the mound and held him responsible for every loss, so he chooses a school where nobody knows his name, meaning to leave baseball behind. Instead he is pulled into the newly formed team, where the catcher Takaya Abe and the manager Momoe see potential in his pitches that he cannot see himself. Abe offers to make him the ace on one condition: Mihashi must follow his calls without question. The bargain is where the trouble starts. Mihashi has no confidence to lean on, and Abe is blunt and quick to lose patience. A pitcher who flinches at his own catcher and a catc