Manga

Does a Hot Elf Live Next Door to You?

Japan has entered an age of exchange with other worlds, and mythical beings now cross into its cities. Keita Inudou is a high school student living alone while chasing his dream of becoming a professional mangaka, dividing his days between school, deadlines and a quiet apartment. That quiet ends when Surt, a beautiful high elf with knightly manners and a distinctly nerdy streak, moves in next door. She is not the only one: a secretive landlady named Lilith and the gyaru goddess Ameno Uzume also force their way into his daily life. Between his manga, his studies and neighbors who treat ordinary things as battles, Keita has to hold on to his home, his career and his sanity.

Ressentiment

Takuro Sakamoto is a thirty-year-old man with low self-esteem, stuck in a dead-end job and still living with his parents. He has let himself go, and the only comfort in his life is the occasional visit to a brothel, paid for with what little he manages to save. When a friend introduces him to the virtual reality world of The Unreal, Takuro spends over six thousand dollars on equipment and a virtual girlfriend designed to think only of him. The girl he chooses, Tsukiko, is meant to be the perfect companion. But Tsukiko comes with defects nobody warned him about, and the relationship he hoped would fix his life turns out to be far more complicated than expected.

Touhou Bougetsushou ~ Silent Sinner in Blue.

More than a thousand years ago, Yukari Yakumo led the youkai of Gensokyo in a war against the Lunar Capital and suffered a crushing, one-sided defeat. Ever since, she has been quietly preparing a second attempt, waiting for the right moment to strike at the moon once more. When that moment finally arrives, Yukari recruits Remilia Scarlet, the vampire mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, along with Yuyuko Saigyouji and Reimu Hakurei, and begins training Reimu for the threat she expects to come from the moon above Gensokyo. At the same time, a rabbit from the Lunar Capital descends to Gensokyo carrying a warning for Eirin Yagokoro and Kaguya Houraisan about the current state of their homel

The Civil Servant of the Sword Returns

Ahn Su-Ho is a newly awakened player, and the whole country is talking about him: instead of chasing riches, he has chosen to become a civil servant. What nobody knows is that he has held that post before, in a previous life, one that ended when his own teammates betrayed him as the last of the gates was about to fall. Back then, he had devoted himself to closing the gates. The betrayal came from the people who stood beside him, and it left him with nothing as his consciousness faded. Then his player system reboots. It grants him a second chance: to return to the past and set right what went wrong. Su-Ho resolves to grow strong enough to stop the country's worst criminals before they act,

Oniichan Control

Goushi Hirose has a sister complex so large that he leaves his hometown for Tokyo, hoping that distance and a place at Myouzen University will cure him of feelings he knows he should not have for his little sister, Noa. Three years later, Noa calls with news of her own: she is sitting the entrance exam for Myouzen, and if she passes, she will move into his one-room apartment. Goushi braces himself for a life of careful self-control around her. What he does not suspect is that Noa's brother complex is every bit as enormous as his own. She has her own plans for the brother she has come to claim, and she is happy to arrange the situations that make him slip. As she works to keep rivals and ot

Lee Gwak, the Warrior

Lee Gwak is an ordinary military officer and martial artist, unremarkable in a world where strength is everything. A chance encounter with the celestial demon troupe changes his life in an instant: he is brutally beaten and loses the use of his arms and legs. Stripped of everything he once took for granted, he has nothing left to lose. In the depths of that despair he turns to a somatic martial art he once knew, putting everything on the line to train in it. Mastery of the technique brings something close to a miracle, and his crippled body begins to recover. Recovery, however, is only the beginning. Lee Gwak refuses to return to the ordinary life he led before, and he devotes himself to t

Matcha Made in Heaven

Chako Hananoki believes she has found happiness in a handsome fiancé, until she realizes that marrying him would mean the complete erasure of who she is. She breaks off the engagement and returns to her childhood home in the countryside, hoping for a quiet life away from it all. What she finds there, however, is a strange man and a young woman already living in the house. Chako manages to work out an arrangement to coexist with them, and the three settle into an uneasy routine. That routine falls apart when her former fiancé, unwilling to let her go, follows her to the village. Cornered and desperate, Chako declares to him that the man she now shares a home with is her husband, a claim the

Don't Dress Up My Sweet Sweet Love

Emi Amano is a girl who loves wearing cute clothes. One day, while arguing with a man who is hitting on her, she nearly has a drink thrown over her, until a boy she has never met steps in and saves her. That encounter is the beginning of her regular meetings with Yuusei, the stranger who came to her rescue. Emi has never felt anything like this before, and she cannot hide how bewildered she is by the feelings that are growing in her. Between the clothes she loves to wear and the boy who keeps appearing at her side, she finds herself facing something she has no idea how to handle. Each new encounter with Yuusei leaves her a little more flustered, and Emi has to work out what these unfamilia

Fullmetal Alchemist

The mining town of Xenotime has seen better days. Once renowned for its skilled goldsmiths, it now lies forgotten in a sea of sand, its mines empty and its fields barren. The townsfolk's only hope lies with the talented state alchemist Edward Elric and his brother, Alphonse. But who is the real Edward Elric? When the Fullmetal Alchemist and his brother arrive in Xenotime searching for the Philosopher's Stone, they discover that two strangers have stolen their names and their reputations. The real Elric brothers must decide whether to set things right or risk a battle between the true and false brothers that could shatter Xenotime's only chance for survival. This volume also includes the bo

Ponko of the Stars and Reiko of the Tofu Shop

Reiko lives with her family above the tofu shop, looking after her little brother as the days pass in quiet routine. One evening the two of them come across a strange, starving creature that looks like a cat with wings, and they sneak it home without telling anyone. The creature turns out to be an alien salesman, and it has come to Earth to trade advanced technology for something called hahise, a substance the planet happens to be full of. Among its wares is a machine that can duplicate anything, money included. Reiko and her brother, understanding only half of what they are agreeing to, strike a deal with it. What starts as a curious encounter slowly pulls Reiko away from the ordinary lif

Isekai Meikyuu de Harem wo

A man who has decided to end his life sits down at his computer to search for a way to die. What he finds instead is an unusual website: a long questionnaire with a point-based system that lets him build a character, choosing skills and abilities one by one. Intrigued despite himself, he answers every question and completes the build. When the character is finished, the site asks him one last thing: he will be sent to a world created from the settings he has chosen, and there is no coming back. Does he still accept? He presses yes without thinking about it much. He then finds himself in another world, carrying exactly the skills and abilities he picked and with no way home. The life ahead

Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens

Jin Mikuriya, a high school student, carves a statue out of the wood of a recently felled sacred tree for a school art project. When he takes it outside, the statue absorbs the surrounding earth and transforms into a girl: Nagi, the guardian deity who had slept inside the tree until now, unaware that it had been cut down for urban development. Nagi is furious to learn that her sacred tree is gone, and grieving too, since she believes she can no longer protect the land and the people she watched over. Because the tree can no longer keep impurities at bay, she takes on that duty herself, dragging Jin along with her whether he likes it or not.

A-bout!

Mitsumine High School has a reputation as the school with the most juvenile delinquents in the country. The students are so violent that even the teachers fear for their lives. Among them, Sunahara stands out as the leader of the first years and the strongest student in his class. Everything changes when a transfer student named Asagiri Shinnosuke arrives. He immediately begins taking down names and kicking up dust like a tornado. The students may have thought Mitsumine was already violent and unpredictable, but Asagiri is determined to become the champion of the school. They have not seen anything yet.

10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40

Suzume Tojou is three months away from his fortieth birthday when he realizes how much he has left undone. So he writes a private list of the things he has always wanted to do before he turns forty: simple, small goals like hosting a takoyaki party, enjoying a parfait at a café, and spending his birthday with a lover. There is only one problem with that last entry. Tojou has not had a lover in ten years. When Keishi Tanaka, his handsome junior at the office, catches sight of the secret list, he offers to help Tojou check off every item, starting with the lover. Keishi also lets him know that he already knows Tojou is gay, and volunteers for the role himself. As the two gradually work throu

Trapped in a Soap Opera

Ji-A Han has spent her life scraping by as an orphan, and at last she holds the keys to a home of her own. Her celebration is cut short when a sudden, piercing pain in her chest strikes while she is indulging in her favorite soap opera, and she dies on the spot. She wakes not in the afterlife but inside the drama itself, as none other than its villainess. In this world, a glance sparks a scandal and a step triggers a landmine of emotions, and everyone around her burns with the passions she once watched from her couch. Ji-A must now live inside a plot that was never hers, in the role everyone else has already cast as the villain, and every choice she makes risks pulling her deeper into the

The J.K. of the Vampire Lady

Irie Yuunagi is an ordinary high school girl until the night a stranger bites her neck. She wakes up changed: sunlight and blood now affect her in ways they never did, and she is no longer human. The man responsible, Rin, tells her the bite has bound her to his family, whether she agrees or not. She must keep attending class while hiding what she has become, and Rin takes it upon himself to teach her the rules of the vampire world. Daily life becomes a negotiation about what she is allowed to do, what she must drink, and how much of her old life she can keep. The more she learns about Rin and his household, the less simple her new family seems.

Until the Tall Junior ♀ & Short Senior ♂ Progress to Love

A tall, self-assured junior has taken to doing as she pleases with the senior who sits above her — a short boy his classmates tease about his height and treat as though he were much younger than he is. She needles him, leans into his space and enjoys the way he squirms, and he takes it with the patience of someone long used to being the butt of the joke. Every so often, though, the teasing cracks something open, and he answers in a way nobody expects: steady, direct and unmistakably like a grown man. Neither of them quite knows what to do with that. She keeps pushing, he keeps holding his ground, and the easy rhythm of their days starts to turn into something that looks less like a game an

The Flowers of Evil

Se-Jun and Se-Wa are siblings bound by a dark and complex relationship. Se-Wa is seen by others as psychotic, and her attachment to her brother runs far deeper than ordinary affection. In her eyes, Se-Jun is the only person who exists; everyone else fades from her attention. Se-Jun is left to navigate a bond that isolates them both. As Se-Wa's fixation shapes every part of their lives, the question of what Se-Jun himself feels—and how far he is willing to let their connection go—hangs over them. Their shared world is intimate, suffocating, and impossible to explain to anyone outside it. What Se-Jun feels in return remains uncertain, even as Se-Wa's devotion continues to define their days.

Nukozuke!

On his way home from his part-time job, Yuuya Amane finds a box by the side of the road with two small creatures inside, abandoned and waiting for someone to take them in. They are nukos: cats that evolved with qualities closer to humans, able to speak and feel human emotions while never quite losing their feline instincts. Drawn to them, Yuuya brings them home out of the rain. His new housemates could hardly be more different. Kei, a calico, tries to act mature, though he is often mistaken for a girl. Sasame, a black nuko and the younger of the two, charms everyone she meets. Yuuya has the cooking and sewing skills to look after them, but he is also the one who falls asleep in any warm pa

Yuri Life

Living together can make or break a relationship, and the women in these stories know it. Some couples are made of opposites whose personalities clash over everything, from how to spend a quiet Sunday to how to apologize. Others are divided by age, by work, or by feelings that never quite line up. There are business trips that stretch days into weeks, small jealousies, conversations postponed until morning, and, more than once, something that cannot be explained. Between the shared kitchen and the shared bed, each couple has to work out what they are to one another, and how much of themselves they are ready to show. With a little luck and a great deal of patience, a home for two can bring

Bloody Monday 2

Two years have passed since the crisis that nearly brought Japan to its knees. The hacker known as Falcon has vanished, and the networks that once answered to him have gone quiet. Just as the country begins to believe the worst is behind it, a new threat surfaces with the same goal: to bring Japan down from the inside. No one knows who is behind the attacks. The only lead points to a figure called the Shooter of the Magic Bullet, an assassin whose marksmanship leaves no trace and no survivors. With Falcon gone, the people who once stood between the country and disaster must find another way to respond. As the conspiracy widens, the question is no longer whether the attacks can be stopped,

Shaman King: Zero

Yoh Asakura and the shamans around him are still finding their footing before the Shaman Fight. In a series of standalone stories, the young mediums face everyday troubles, old regrets, and quiet moments that reveal what drives them to keep training. Each tale focuses on a different character, showing the fears and hopes they carry as the tournament draws nearer. The coming competition casts a long shadow. To stand a chance, Yoh must sharpen his shaman skills, but the obstacles in these stories are often personal: unresolved grief, strained bonds, and the weight of expectations. Friends and rivals alike struggle with doubts and past mistakes, unsure whether they are ready for what awaits. T

Yuutai Nova

A young man discovers he has the ability to leave his body at will, an experience he initially treats as a game and a chance to spy on the world from outside himself. What begins as harmless amusement soon forces him to look at his own life and the people around him in a different light. The more he explores this out-of-body state, the more he realises that his everyday existence is not what he believed it to be, and that those closest to him lead secret lives he never suspected. His curiosity turns into something far more unsettling than he bargained for. Then he meets a girl who shares the same power and controls it with an ease he cannot match. Her presence pushes him to confront what h

"X" Method In The Dead Of Night

Hiroki Kamiya is convinced that women have it easy. His older sister Yui does nothing but laze around and play games while he takes care of her, and his resentment keeps growing until he starts venting about her on his blog. A mysterious reader then leaves a comment explaining that there is a way to swap bodies with a stranger: someone enters your body while you enter theirs. He follows the instructions and wakes up in the body of Mikuni Mikuriya, a famous idol. For a couple of hours he tastes the carefree life he envied, and while wearing Mikuni's face he stumbles onto a secret about her that he would rather not know. But when he returns to his own body, he finds his sister's bloody corps

Kimi wa Mada Torikago no Naka

Nitogi Amane and Utsuya Madoka first meet in middle school, and from that encounter grows a friendship that carries them through the years that follow. To everyone around them the bond looks simple and innocent, the kind of closeness classmates take for granted. What no one else sees is what Amane keeps to herself: feelings for Madoka that she has never put into words. Then one small, fatal mistake changes everything. It is not the kind of error that can be explained away or quietly forgiven, and its consequences reach far beyond the friendship itself. Amane finds that she stands to lose far more than her best friend, as the life she had and the person she was inside it begin to slip away

Sharing Life on a Deserted Island with Elves

Kento, a thirty-year-old man, wins one billion yen in a lottery and decides to spend the rest of his days in comfort. He buys a small uninhabited island off the coast of southern Japan and settles there, expecting a quiet, unhurried life with nobody around. Then one day he finds a woman lying unconscious on his beach, someone who should not be on an island he owns. When he rushes over to check on her, he notices something rather sharp about her appearance. The stranger is Elize, an elf who has come from another world. Her habits and manners, brought from that other world, prove a little exciting for an ordinary man like Kento. Between a naive middle-aged guy and a wandering elf, a shared l

Zero Game

After her parents' death, Hanna Yoo's life spirals out of control until she is ready to give up on it entirely. Then a mysterious email arrives with an invitation to the Zero Game, and she accepts. The rules are simple: finish every level and meet the Operator, and she will be allowed to rebuild her life exactly as she wants it, free of the suffering she has known. Lose, and she dies for good. Inside the game danger waits at every turn, and Hanna has to learn new skills quickly while enemies hunt her down. Her only support is an uneasy new partnership, and she does not know how far she can trust it. Complicating everything is the question of what her late father has to do with the Zero Gam

Ultraman

Decades ago, the Giant of Light joined forces with Shin Hayata of the Science Special Search Party to drive back the Kaiju, the monstrous beings that threatened Earth. With that battle long over, the world has settled into peace and those dark days are fading from memory. Shinjirou leads the ordinary life of a teenager, unaware of what his family carries. His father is Shin Hayata, the legendary man from that distant struggle, and when Shinjirou learns that the Ultraman Factor was passed down to him, he discovers powers far beyond anything a normal person could possess. At the same time, a new danger is growing in the shadows, one that only a new kind of hero can face. Shinjirou must decid

Risouteki Boyfriend

Yusa Tachikawa is a first-year high school student who spends her afternoons watching the basketball team practise, hoping for a chance to talk to the tall, athletic senior she has fallen for. Her best friend, Nanami Sugio, keeps her company at every practice. When Yusa realises that Nanami has feelings for the same upperclassman, she decides to step aside and claims she likes someone else. The classmate who overhears the lie is Kaede Haruta, a quiet boy who sees through the act at once and agrees to play the part of her boyfriend. Haruta is cool and indifferent, far from the bold, pushy type Yusa has always preferred, yet he occasionally shows a gentler side. As the two keep up the preten

The Strongest Sage: The Story of a Talentless Man Who Mastered Magic and Became the Best

Gaius is born with the crest least suited for battle, but he devotes his life to the study of magic and rises to become the world's strongest mage. Even so, he longs for more formidable enemies, knowing all too well how powerless he would be against them. Since he cannot face such foes alone, he goes in search of allies fit to stand beside the strongest battle mage. Among them are Iris, the Dragon of Darkness in a young girl's body; Yuril, the Sorceress of Annihilation, said to be the strongest in the kingdom; and Reuter, the Demigod of the Blade, whose skill is worthy of legend. Together, the four of them face battles that transcend imagination.

Cooking Sorcerer

Yu-Jeong Seo is a hardworking tattooist whose favorite pastime is eating good food while reading her favorite novel. One day, a strange voice outside her apartment draws her to the door, and a fall down the stairs ends with her waking in an unfamiliar world, inside the body of someone else. The accident was caused by a fairy traveling between dimensions, who revives her as a botanical sorcerer out of guilt. Adapting quickly, Yu-Jeong takes the name Sylvia Arbor to avoid suspicion, only to discover that this is the world of the novel she was reading when she died. Its protagonist, Felix, has lost his sense of taste after years of abuse at his stepmother's hands. To make cooking easier in a

Tight Rope

Ryuu is the teenage son of a sick yakuza boss, and everyone around him expects him to take over the family as the next fifth. He wants none of it. What he really wants is a future with his childhood friend Naoki, a quiet life together and a family of his own. The problem is that his father's failing health makes the succession harder to ignore. Ryuu is caught between the duty pressed on him and the feelings he has carried for Naoki since their school days. Their relationship has been changing slowly, but the weight of the yakuza world threatens to pull them apart before it can fully take shape. As Ryuu struggles to choose his own path, he must face the expectations of those around him and

Akatsuki no Yona: Tsuki no Shita de

When a nostalgic voice reaches him through a crowd, Soo-Won turns around without thinking. The girl he expects to find is not the one standing there, and the moment lingers with him afterward. The novel is divided into three segments: Jae-Ha's Counseling Room, in two parts, and Under the Same Moon, in five. Together they move between the characters' everyday conversations and the quieter hours, where memories, old bonds and things left unsaid come back to the surface. The segments share the same tone, moving between comedy and drama as the characters revisit old bonds, remembered voices and the distance that has grown between them.

Two People's Time

Ayato Sanada is a serious first-year high school student who is fond of photography. When he joins his school's photography club, he meets Kazuki Shindou, a carefree second-year who knows no boundaries. The club has taken part in no activities since the previous year, so Kazuki begins bringing Ayato along to photograph everyday life in and around their school. Her ideas and situations embarrass him constantly, and he has no idea how to deal with such an uninhibited person. As Ayato keeps going along with Kazuki's plans, the two of them grow closer to each other as time passes, and his days at school begin to look different.

Strobe in the Dark

Arata has always loved his childhood friend Shotaro. Shotaro is handsome, popular, and a star of the basketball club. When classmates confess to him, Arata hides around the corner and listens as Shotaro turns them down one by one, saying he already likes someone. A member of the photography club, Arata keeps his own feelings hidden, safe behind the camera lens as he photographs Shotaro from a distance. Then Shotaro catches Arata eavesdropping and asks whether he wants to know who that person is. The question disrupts the careful distance Arata has maintained between them. As the two spend more time together, Arata must face the feelings he has kept out of frame and consider what it would me

A Chef of Nobunaga

Ken is a chef living in the present day when he wakes up in 16th-century Japan, in the middle of the Warring States Period. He has no memory of who he is or how he arrived there, and the only thing he can rely on is his knowledge of cooking. Taken in by a kind metalsmith named Natsu, he begins preparing meals for the people around him. Word of his food soon spreads through Kyoto and reaches the ears of Oda Nobunaga, the ruthless warlord whose name is feared across the country. Nobunaga orders Ken to become his personal chef, and the young man has no way to refuse. Ken's dishes win over allies and enemies alike, earning him a place close to a man who tolerates no dissent. As he cooks his wa

K-ON! Shuffle

After watching a band perform at her school's festival, Yukari Sakuma is inspired to start one of her own. She turns to her best friend, Kaede Shimizu, and together the two begin searching for a place where they can play. Their school, however, has no Light Music Club to join. With help from Maho Sawabe, the pair track down the Light Music Appreciation Society, an obscure group whose only member is Riko Satou. From that small beginning the girls try to build something louder. None of them has everything figured out yet, and between practice, school life and their own uneven enthusiasm, getting a band off the ground proves harder than any of them expected.

After-School Bitchcraft

Ririka Kirise is a style-savvy high school girl who cannot keep up in chemistry class. Looking for extra help, she opens the door to her teacher's office and, without meaning to, breaks the magic barrier placed over it. That teacher, Renji, is secretly a sorcerer who practices witchcraft at an ordinary school, and Ririka's arrival interrupts his spellcasting. No ordinary student should have been able to walk through his barriers, and the incident reveals that Ririka has the makings of a sorceress herself. Before she fully understands what has happened, Ririka is wrapped up in the world of witchcraft as Renji's apprentice, and her new double life keeps landing her in sticky situations.

Thigh High: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy

Hanamaru Academy looks like any other all-girls school, but every student who walks its halls is a boy. These handsome students wear the uniforms with total commitment, and their days revolve around far more than lessons. Between classes the boys fuss over the length of their skirts, compare the size of their chests and treat every school event as a chance to look as cute as possible. The whole campus has become a cheerful paradise built on that single shared obsession. Staying adorable, however, is serious competition. Rivalries over who is cutest flare up in clubs and festivals, and ordinary afternoons rarely stay ordinary for long as the students of Hanamaru Academy pour their youth int

Limit

Mizuki Konno is a high school junior at Yanno Prefectural High School who studies hard for college and fusses over fashion and make-up in her spare time. She is not one of the class idols, but she stands close enough to them, and she knows the difference that position makes for someone like her. Then the bus carrying her class to an exchange camp goes off a cliff. Most of the students die in the accident. Mizuki is among the few survivors, injured and stranded in the wilderness, waiting for a rescue that may never arrive. The girls who are left have little in common beyond the classroom hierarchies they brought with them, and those hierarchies no longer mean anything. Thrown together with