Manga

Farewell, My Dear Cramer

Sumire Suou is a fifteen-year-old winger with a passion for soccer, but she has known little success. Throughout her junior high school years she has no accomplishments to speak of, and victory remains out of reach. Then her main rival, Midori Soshizaki, makes an unexpected offer: join the same high school team. Midori promises she will never let Suou play alone. The offer is earnest, but Suou hesitates. Does she accept her rival's invitation, or choose another path? Around her gathers a large cast of girls with individual soccer-playing personalities, each bringing her own style and ambition to the team. As they play together, the story follows their struggles and growth on and off the pit

Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

At ten years old, Adele von Ascham, eldest daughter of Viscount Ascham's house, is hit by a splitting headache that brings back the memories of her previous life. She was Kurihara Misato, an eighteen-year-old Japanese girl who died while trying to help a small child and met god moments later. Misato had spent that first life burdened by the expectations of everyone around her, so she made one request before being reborn: average abilities. Now, in her new life, she means to keep a low profile and to avoid ever becoming something like an S-rank hunter. Wishes, however, rarely turn out the way they are made, and the world she has been reborn into judges such things by its own rules.

Lend Me 100 Yen so I Can Play a Game!

Sugita is a handsome and capable newcomer at his company who gets along with everyone except Yumihara, the petite assistant manager who is unusually strict with him. During a lunch break he stumbles upon Dead Copy, a small, secluded coffee shop whose tables are set up for playing retro games. Inside, he finds Yumihara completely absorbed in a game, as enthusiastic as a child and nothing like the severe boss he knows from the office. Both of them now share a secret they would rather keep from their coworkers, and their paths keep crossing at the cafe. Between rounds of old arcade titles and the ordinary routines of the office, the two begin to see each other differently, and the distance Yu

Kalli the Champion

Park Kang-tae once dreamed of becoming a boxer, but he gave that dream up and joined a gang instead. He made a name for himself among its members, and when his life came to an end, the only regret he carried with him was the career he had abandoned. That regret does not go unanswered. Kang-tae is given another chance in a world where boxing exists in the form of pugilist games, a place where fighters step into the ring for a living. The man who once walked away from the ring now has to build a career there, one fight at a time. There, far from the gang he used to belong to, he is free at last to chase the dream he had given up on, and he has no intention of letting it go a second time.

An Hour of Romance

Cha Ju-An is the star of JK Electronics: a perpetually single career woman who takes everything too seriously and rules her office with an iron fist. Yoo Do-Jin is her opposite, a kind-hearted klutz with model looks who lucked into an entry-level marketing job. A company trip to a mysterious temple triggers an inexplicable soul swap between them. From then on, the two switch bodies for one hour every day, and neither has any idea why it happens or how to stop it. Keeping up appearances means cooperating: Ju-An has to survive in Do-Jin's clumsy body, and Do-Jin has to face her subordinates wearing his boss's spiky persona. Between office deadlines, misunderstandings and secrets they cannot

Surviving as the Devil's Child

Bliss has been reborn again and again, and every life ends the same way: she watches the world burn at the hands of Lucas Brandt, king of the demon world. This time, however, she wakes up as a newborn baby abandoned right outside Lucas' manor. What is worse, she resembles Lucas so closely that she could only be his daughter. That leaves her surrounded by the very minions who have slaughtered her in countless past lives, with no strength to fight back and no way to escape. Unable to run and unwilling to give up, Bliss can only bide her time, playing the part of the devil's child while she waits for the moment when she can take her revenge and save the world.

Your Color on Lip

In a world full of color, a girl has lost every shade of her own. Once vivid and bright, her days have faded into something flat and gray, and she no longer sees herself reflected in the colors around her. Then a boy who shines in gold crosses her path. He is bright in a way she thought she had forgotten, and his presence begins to stir something she had buried: the possibility that her world might take on color again. As the two grow closer, she must decide how much of herself she is willing to let him see, and whether the colors he brings are steady enough to keep the gray from settling back in.

Even So, I Will Love You Tenderly

Onoda is a straight man three years younger than Harumi Deguchi. The two have almost nothing in common, and for three years they have been simply friends. Deguchi, the older of the pair, is the one who wants more. He has fallen in love with Onoda, yet he cannot bring himself to say it. Fear of rejection keeps him silent, and he would rather stay friends than risk ruining what they have. He tries to stay close, patient and gentle, while the feeling he hides grows heavier. Then Onoda admits he is drawn to another man. Deguchi, who has spent three years keeping his feelings to himself, is left with a question he can barely face: if Onoda can love someone else, could he ever love him too?

Levius/est

Levius has fought his way into the top grade of Mechanical Martial Arts, the arena sport that has made him one of its leading fighters. Around him, the world grows more threatening by the day. Behind the bouts stands Amethyst, a shadowy megacorporation that wields military might across the globe. Its advances in the arena are never only about the sport, and the same competition that draws the crowds keeps feeding a larger design. Levius has to keep his place among the top grade while that power tightens its grip on the world. Whether one fighter can change the course of the world's fate is the question he now has to answer in the ring.

Once Again in Slow Motion

Hiro Ootaki is a handsome, popular first-year high school student, and nobody at school suspects that he spends his free time listening to 80s Japanese pop songs and idol records. He keeps that side of himself carefully hidden, until he discovers that the gloomy, shy girl who sits next to him, Tomoyo Yakushimaru, loves the same music he does. The two begin meeting away from prying eyes to share their passion for that era: trading favorite tracks, dressing up in retro styles, trying out old hairstyles and talking about idols nobody else their age remembers. For Tomoyo it is the first real friendship she has had, and for Hiro a place where he does not have to pretend. What starts as a secret

Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Kyousuke Kousaka is a seventeen-year-old high school student whose relationship with his younger sister, Kirino, has been frozen for years. She ignores him, avoids him and looks at him with open contempt, and nothing suggests the distance between them will ever close. Then one day Kyousuke finds a DVD case for a magical girl anime lying in the entrance of the family home, and inside it a hidden adult game titled Love with Little Sister!. Hoping to identify its owner, he brings up the subject of magical girl anime at dinner, only to be met with angry disapproval from his parents, especially his anti-otaku policeman father. That night Kirino storms into his room, speaks to him for the first

The Woman Who Messes With My Emotions (Pre-Serialization)

Yuuta is a gloomy, introverted young man with little confidence. When someone he met online invites him to an offline meetup, he agrees but worries about who might show up. The person waiting for him is a beautiful woman far beyond his expectations, and her presence leaves him thrilled, guilty, and flustered. The woman notices how nervous Yuuta is and tries to draw him out of his shell. She speaks and acts with a directness that seems to see right through him, and her teasing questions only make him more confused. As the meeting goes on, Yuuta cannot tell whether she is genuinely interested in him or simply enjoying his reactions, and he struggles to understand what she wants from him.

Kakkou no Iinazuke (Oneshot)

Nagi Umino is a 16-year-old super-studier and a second-year student at Meguro River Academy high school. He was switched at birth, and one day he heads to a dinner to meet his birth parents for the first time. On his way, he accidentally meets Erika Amano, a brash and outspoken girl. Erika is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend because she never wants to actually marry. When Nagi finally arrives at the dinner, he finds that his parents have decided to resolve the hospital switch by conveniently having him marry the daughter his birth parents raised. Nagi is now caught between Erika's scheme and his parents' arrangement.

After Chopping Wood for 10 Years, All the Immortals Want to Become My Disciple

For ten years, a man has done the same work: chopping firewood. It is dull, relentless labor, and by now he is thoroughly tired of it; nothing about his daily routine suggests anything out of the ordinary. Then the female immortals begin to arrive. One after another they kneel down before him and beg to be accepted as his disciples, showing a reverence that a woodpile alone could never explain. He is not looking for disciples, and the stream of kneeling women shows no sign of stopping. What follows is a standoff between a man who would rather be left alone with his axe and a line of immortals who refuse to take no for an answer.

Black God

Keita Ibuki is a game programmer with no money and no shame about mooching off others. On his way home after a night of drinking, he stops at a noodle stand for ramen, but gives the meal away to a frantic girl who appears out of nowhere. She is a Mototsumitama, a guardian who protects the equilibrium of coexistence. When the girl is attacked, Keita is caught in the crossfire and loses an arm. He wakes up back in his apartment to find the arm intact, with no explanation for it. The only person who might know whose arm he now carries is the strange girl raiding his refrigerator, and her presence only makes his life more complicated. Between his ordinary life and the hidden world of the Motot

False Memories

Wan has a face that scares people away before he ever gets the chance to become friends with them. Years of that treatment have taught him to expect nothing else, so when Ha-woon walks up and befriends him on his first day at a new school, Wan is elated. To him, Ha-woon can only be an angel. The illusion does not survive long. Ha-woon betrays him in a terrible way, and Wan learns that the boy he idolized may be more devil than angel. The friendship he had thought was finally his is gone, and with it the only hope he had of not being alone. Then an accident changes everything and gives Wan a second chance at the friendship he mourned. It all begins with one big, fat lie, and Wan clings to i

Omae o Otaku ni Shiteyaru kara, Ore o Riajuu ni Shitekure!

Naoki Kashiwada starts high school determined that no one will learn he is an otaku. His plan collapses when Momo Koigasaki, a pretty and popular classmate rumored among the girls to be promiscuous, discovers his secret. Instead of exposing him, she surprises him with a request: she wants him to turn her into an otaku. Momo has her own reasons: she wants to learn about anime and visual novels to find common ground with the boy she likes, Souta Suzuki, while Naoki hopes to get closer to the quiet, popular Midori Hasegawa. The two make a deal. Momo will help Naoki pass as an ordinary student, and he will teach her about otaku culture. Neither fits comfortably in the other's world, and keepin

Smiling at Yoarashi

Ogino is the homeroom teacher of Class 2-C, a group of students who have turned tormenting her into their favorite pastime. Isolated and worn down, she clings to a routine: writing letters to the students who no longer attend school. In those letters she describes a wonderful class full of hope, and only there can she be the ideal teacher she wanted to be. She fills them with lies to protect that image of herself. Then one day an answer arrives. Yoarashi, one of the absent students, returns to school and tells Ogino that the visit is meant to help her. Ogino panics, certain that her lies have been seen through and that the humiliation she dreads is about to be exposed. What Yoarashi offers

The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow

Yoko Nakajima is an ordinary, obedient high-school student in Japan, notable only for her red hair. Her routine life ends when Keiki, a unicorn in the form of a blond boy, appears and declares that she is his master and must return with him to their kingdom. When he vanishes without explanation, Yoko is left alone in a foreign land with nothing but a magic sword and a magic stone. Beyond her world lie the Twelve Kingdoms, where mythical creatures roam and children are born from eggs on trees. Unfamiliar with its customs and hunted by men and beasts alike, Yoko must rely on herself for the first time as she searches for Keiki and for the truth about the role she is meant to play.

Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen

Guren Ichinose has entered a sorcery training school in Shibuya, an academy filled with the heirs of the great families that dominate the world of magic. He comes from a modest background, so his classmates treat him as trash, and he endures it: his true strength has to stay hidden, and he has reasons of his own for wanting power. Then a girl introduces herself to him as the fiancée he traded vows with a long time ago, and she is chasing power as well. Beyond the school, the world is already sliding toward ruin. A mysterious virus is killing every human it infects past the age of thirteen, and vampires are taking the surface for themselves. In a world that seems condemned, Guren pursues th

Magic Artisan Dahlia Wilts No More

Dahlia is reincarnated in a fantasy world, and she chooses to spend her second life doing what she loves: making magical tools. She draws on the manufacturing knowledge she carried over from her previous life and on the craft her new father taught her, applying both to everyday problems. Blow dryers and other specialized implements come out of her hands, and she takes genuine pleasure in the small routines of work and invention. That cheerfulness is a decision. In her former life Dahlia knew what it was to hang her head in misery, and she refuses to live that way again. Making a place for herself as an artisan is not simple, but each new project is a chance to do things differently this tim

You and I

Shun, Kaname and the twins Yuuki and Yuuta have known each other since kindergarten. Whether they actually get along is hard to say, but they still spend their days together now that they are in high school, sharing classes, breaks and the small routines of a friendship that needs no explanations. Then Chizuru, a half-Japanese transfer student, joins the group and changes its rhythm. His arrival brings noise, new habits and a fresh perspective to a circle that had long since settled into its own quiet ways. Their daily lives are not especially passionate or exciting, but they hold a tranquility of their own, in which ordinary days, light comedy and the bonds between friends matter more tha

A Former Child Soldier Who Uses a Magic Sword Wants to Live With a Lady of Former Enemy Executive

Seto is a former child soldier who is expelled from the party of heroes during their journey. His ruthless, incomparable fighting style unsettles his companions, and they leave him behind. Satis, once the leader of the Demon King's army, is cast out as well after a string of failures. With no place left in the world they helped shape, the two former enemies decide to travel together in search of a second life. They soak in hot springs, share a bed, and fend off demons on the road. Yet neither the heroes' party nor the demon king's army has room for them now, and the road offers no easy answer about what comes next. As they travel, Seto and Satis must decide what kind of life they can build

The Apothecary Is Gonna Make This Ragged Elf Happy

An apothecary lives a quiet life in a country village, selling potions and medicine to the locals, until a pawnbroker he knows approaches him with a devil's bargain. The man claims to have found the perfect ingredient for a legendary medicine, and offers to hand it over. The ingredient turns out to be an elf. Legend holds that the flesh and bones of elves can be ground into a true panacea, and this elven woman is close to death, her body covered in scars from the cruelty of slavers. Filled with rage at what was done to her, the apothecary decides to take her in and nurse her back to health, vowing to make her happy no matter what it takes.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Roxas comes into existence as a Nobody with no memory of the life he left behind. Taken in by the mysterious Organization XIII, he is given a place among its members and sent to carry out its missions, all while knowing nothing about who he truly is or why he was chosen. Little by little, Roxas finds companionship in Axel, a fellow member, and in the fourteenth recruit, a girl who has also lost every trace of her past. With them he begins to fill the emptiness inside him, and to ask what it means to have a heart. But the answers he seeks lie buried in the Organization's own secrets, and the more Roxas learns about the group he serves and about the girl beside him, the harder it becomes to

La Pomme Prisonniere

Imari likes cats. She loves them, and she loves doing nothing, much like a cat does. The feeling is mutual, and she rarely finds a reason to put on clothes, leave her drink behind or do anything that could be called work. Her city is a place of waterfronts and bridges, of ruins standing at the water's edge and tunnels nobody uses anymore. There she drifts, cat in tow, through days that slide one into another without much happening. Each chapter catches one of those moments: a small scene, a quiet encounter, an afternoon that ends the way it began. Idleness, alcohol, stray animals and half-drowned buildings are enough, and every so often the ordinary afternoon opens onto something that is n

Wake up please, Ms. Kusakabe

Kusakabe is a girl with a single ambition for her days off: to stay in bed and sleep as long as she possibly can. Saneomi, her boyfriend, has other plans. He wants her up and out of the house, and he refuses to let a holiday go by without trying. What follows is a weekend-long contest of wills. Saneomi brings out every trick, scheme and distraction at his disposal to coax her from under the covers, while Kusakabe counters each one with everything she has, determined not to move an inch. Their holidays together turn into a small, stubborn battle that neither seems willing to lose, weekend after weekend.

Shinozaki-san Ki wo Ota Shika ni!

Akina Shinozaki has the looks and the outgoing personality that once made her the leader of a group of popular girls at the top of her school's hierarchy. When her high school debut is delayed, she arrives to find herself isolated, with no place among her new classmates. The girl sitting beside her is Kaede Sasamura, an otaku who turns into a beauty the moment she takes off her glasses. Akina decides to pull Kaede out of that life and polish her into a perfect high school girl, a project that requires getting close to her first. The only way in, it turns out, is to pass herself off as a Precure otaku, a role Akina takes on through gritted teeth for Kaede's sake. The act is harder to keep u

Night of Shadows

A-Reum has always dreamed things that later come true. To keep track of them, she writes down every dream and premonition in a notebook, even the ones she would rather forget. One day she finds pages in her own handwriting that she has no memory of writing, describing a nightmare she is certain she dreamed. Soon after, the horror slips out of the notebook and into her school: the monsters she saw in her sleep begin to appear in the waking world, along with people who possess abilities she cannot explain. Now A-Reum has to piece together the fragments of a dream she can barely recall and work out what the pages are trying to tell her, before the terror lurking in the dark finds her first.

Obsidian Bride

Lueri's life has been hard, and her forced marriage to an unkind husband brings no relief. Then a magical invitation arrives: a chance to join the Jewel Box, a secret place where nobles take on new appearances and the names of jewels that suit their personalities, courting one another anonymously. No one may reveal their true identity until they have found a perfect match. The invitation should not have come to a married woman at all. A mysterious man called Moon Owl asks Lueri to take the place of Marianne Farie Sieris, a free-spirited former participant who once captivated the audience and has now vanished, so that the broadcast can continue without the public learning the truth. Under t

Accel World

Haruyuki is an overweight junior high school student who is bullied at school. His only escape is playing a simple squash game on the local network the school has set up, where he can forget his painful daily life. One fall day, he encounters Kuroyukihime, the most beautiful and elegant girl at school. She gives him a mysterious program called Brain Burst and reveals the secret of the Accelerated World, a virtual realm that enhances mental capabilities. This encounter abruptly changes his life. Though he remains at the bottom of the social hierarchy at school, Haruyuki begins to accelerate in the virtual world, aiming for the top.

Star x Fanboy

Park Star is a famous television actor, best known for his role as Kang Chan in the "Sweet" series. Although he is a star, he also runs a Twitter character bot, an account that role-plays as the character he portrayed. He sends affectionate messages and greetings in character, making the account feel real to its followers. Kim Fanboy is a theater actor at Cheomji University and a huge fan of Kang Chan. He spends much of his time on Twitter, and when he finds the bot dedicated to his favorite character, he is overjoyed. The account's warm, in-character lines and a surprise unreleased photo of Star make Fanboy's heart race. What Fanboy does not realize is that the person behind the account i

Fiancée of the Wizard

A woman dies in a car accident and wakes as Philomena via Adina, a young noble girl in a world of swords and sorcery. She remembers her life in modern Japan, but her new one grants her no special power: she is an ordinary child in a land where magic decides everything. In that world, the darker a person's hair, the stronger their magic. Egiedilus, called Edi, was born with pitch-black hair, and his parents locked him away in chains until a high-ranking magician took him in. Feared and shunned by everyone around him, he finds in Philomena the only person his age who truly cares for him. The two grow close and promise themselves to each other as fiancés, but an accident with Edi's magic leav

Lady Beast

A quiet princess has spent her life surviving rather than living. To escape a court that has given her nothing but misery, she agrees to an arranged marriage with Duke Ginger, the war tyrant of the Landall Kingdom, and leaves for a husband she barely knows. Her new life brings no affection: the duke pays her no attention, and the two remain strangers under the same roof. Then a curse strikes the couple, and they wake up inside each other's bodies. Now they must attend royal functions, carry out the duke's duties and get used to a body that is not their own, all while searching for a way to break the curse and switch back, with no certainty that they ever will.

The Mimosa Confessions

Sakuma grows up in a dreary suburb with little to brighten his days besides his best friend, Ushio. Bright, talented and popular, Ushio seems to have everything Sakuma lacks, and a past trauma and an inferiority complex slowly drive the two apart until they barely speak to each other in high school. By then he has found a friend in Natsuki, the sweetest girl in class. The two bond over their favorite novels, and Sakuma falls head over heels for her. That same night, walking through a familiar park, he stumbles on a sight he never expected: his old friend Ushio, dressed in a full schoolgirl's uniform and sobbing uncontrollably. The shock forces Sakuma to question everything he assumed about

God's Gambit

Yul Choi's city is suddenly ripped from the world and turned into a piece on a board game played by the gods. Monsters and challenges begin to appear, and survival depends on how well the inhabitants play a game whose rules they do not understand. At first Yul believes the answer is cooperation: people working together, gathering strength, facing each threat as a community. But the board does not reward heroes. To keep the city alive he must become its greatest villain, the one everyone fears and hates, and carry that role to the end. The gods keep rolling, and Yul has to decide how much of himself he is willing to lose to keep his city on the board.

Feng Shen Ji III

Gods, immortals and supernatural beings hold power over mortals, and the order that has kept the world in balance for ages is being challenged. Divine authority is absolute, and those who question it are punished without mercy, and war follows. Fighters and outcasts who refuse to submit to that authority take up arms against far stronger opponents, relying on skill, willpower and whatever allies they can find. The struggle spreads, and old loyalties break as the two sides harden against each other. As the conflict grows, the characters must weigh what they are willing to sacrifice, whom they can still trust, and what kind of world they want to see built once the fighting ends.

I Become A Villain In My Novel

A third-rate author never finishes his novel and gives it a rushed, miserable ending. For that, he is judged in the underworld and sent into the world of his own book, where he is reborn as Li Yuguo, the villain of the story and the live-in son-in-law of a noble house. Trapped in a plot he wrote himself, he knows what usually awaits a villain at the end of the tale, and the original hero of the novel has no intention of letting him change the script. The two begin a running battle of wits and courage while the author-turned-villain searches for any opening that will keep him alive. Along the way he meets several women who grow close to him, and the life of a man set against the protagonist

Subaru

Subaru is a young girl whose twin brother, Kazuma, lies in a hospital bed with little time left. She visits him every day, and when she runs out of words she dances for him, hoping he will remember her. Those visits are how she discovers that she loves to dance, and that she has an unusual gift for it. Encouraged by a friend, she joins ballet classes and enters a world of discipline, ambition and rivalry that demands far more of her than anyone expects of a child. Yet the dance that gives her joy is tied to the reason she began: every step she takes towards becoming a dancer is shadowed by her brother's illness and by a guilt she cannot set down. Becoming a dancer means carrying both the j

The Deep Sea of Madness

Six thousand meters beneath the ocean surface, a submarine facility was abandoned after a series of unexplained accidents killed the workers stationed there. Three years later, the company that owns it sends a team down to reopen the installation and find out what happened. Among them are Kengo Kadokura and his colleague Danzaki. An accident leaves Danzaki gravely injured almost immediately, and Kengo finds himself alone with men he does not trust, inside a structure where nothing behaves as it should. Then the visions begin. Members of the team are haunted by horrifying, elusive apparitions, and the brutal deaths resume. Paranoia, the claustrophobic environment and dysbarism could account