Manga

Tokyo Ghoul: Joker

Hanbee Abara works in Tokyo's 20th ward, and it is through his eyes that this story is told. He is the narrator and the protagonist, and the person he spends his days beside is his partner, Juuzou Suzuya. The two of them work the 20th ward together, and Hanbee's account stays with what that work looks like from where he stands. His partner is the figure the story keeps returning to, while Hanbee is the one who watches, records and stays close. What the volume turns on is that arrangement: what Hanbee notices about his partner, how much of it he is able to put into words, and the 20th ward itself, which looks different depending on who is doing the looking.

A Toxic 20-Year-Old Game Streamer Accidentally Reveals His Nice Personality Because He Forgot to End the Stream

Haruto Nakayama streams provocative gaming content under the name "Oni-chan," and his toxicity is exactly what draws viewers in. None of them know that behind the insults and the scripts he prepares to provoke them, he is a devoted older brother streaming to pay for his younger sister's tuition and living expenses. One night, after finishing his usual session, Haruto forgets to end the stream. His real personality spills out live, and the secret behind his on-screen persona is exposed to everyone watching. During a broadcast by the popular VTuber and professional gamer Ayaya, also known as Aya Shirayuki, Haruto lets his true self slip out once more. The accidental moment brings the two clo

Ceres: Celestial Legend

Aya and her twin brother Aki arrive at their grandfather's home expecting to celebrate their sixteenth birthday. The funeral-like atmosphere that greets them, however, makes clear that nothing about the occasion is festive. Their birthday present turns out to be a mummified hand, and its power forces an awakening inside Aya while leaving painful wounds all over Aki's body. Grandfather Mikage then announces that Aki will be the heir to the Mikage fortune and that Aya must die. On the run from her own family, she finds allies in Yuhi, an athletic cook and martial artist, and in the attractive, mysterious Toya. What none of them can easily contain is the force stirring within Aya herself, a p

School Mermaid

School Mermaid gathers short stories built on a single premise: two girls go hunting for mermaids, convinced that catching one will win them the love they are after. Each story follows a different pair, with their own feelings and their own reasons for chasing the same creature. The mermaids they chase are not the familiar ones of legend. They are very untraditional, and the hunt turns into something far more dangerous than the girls expect, testing how far they are willing to go for the person they want. Love, obsession and the horror that waits beneath the surface run through the collection, told in short arcs that can be read one by one.

Dorobou-chan

Yonaga-kun, a second-year high school student, has someone on his mind: Nemukata-san, his seat neighbor. She is quiet and tidy, and he loves watching her read, the way her eyes glimmer behind her glasses during class. Then one day he finds that same girl trespassing in his room, disguised as Dorobou-chan, a cute burglar. The quiet classmate he watches from across the aisle is leading a second life as a thief. For Yonaga, sitting next to Nemukata-san at school is no longer simple: the girl whose reading he liked to watch is also the burglar who let herself into his room. He is left with a secret he cannot share and a classmate he cannot read, and neither of them seems sure what to do with t

Overwriting

Terui Chiaki is certain of two things: her classmate Ajikawa Yoshio has a crush on her, and he is not boyfriend material. Even if he were, she already has a boyfriend. Their mysterious teacher, Mr. Yamada, takes an interest in the situation and offers an experiment. He can create copies of people, and he makes one of Chiaki: a duplicate named Koaki who knows nothing about the boyfriend. Yoshio is set loose on her, tasked with making her fall in love with him. When the set time is up, the copy and the original are merged back together, and whichever love is stronger, the boyfriend's or Yoshio's, will overwrite all the rest. Chiaki and Koaki, being the same person, are sure Yoshio stands no

Nick & Lever

Nick and Lever are two foreign men living in Japan. Nick is instantly recognizable by his stylish hair, while Lever hides his dazzling eyes behind a pair of dark sunglasses. Together they make up a duo that never goes unnoticed, wherever they happen to be. Daily life in Japan is full of obstacles for two outsiders who are still learning how everything works. Between the small misunderstandings of the language and the customs they do not quite grasp, their own eccentricities push even the most ordinary situation toward the absurd. Rather than backing down, the pair keeps going, facing whatever comes their way one misadventure at a time. What they lack in common sense they make up for in ent

Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess

Tsukishiro Kotone has never thought of herself as much of a gamer, but when her younger sister introduces her to the virtual reality game Free Life Fantasy Online, she decides to give it a try. Inside the game she takes on the role of a zombie, one of FLFO's inhuman races and one that is said to be difficult to master even for experienced players. Her first quest sends her into the darkness of the catacombs, where she has to learn how to move in a body that is no longer alive. What begins as curiosity soon grows into something bigger, as the online world and its rules start to take up more and more of her real life. With a race that offers no easy path, Kotone has to find her own way throu

Noblesse: Rai's Adventure

Rai, the noblest of all vampires, receives a request from The Lord: he must set out in search of the "Tears of God." The task takes him away from his usual surroundings and into the human world, where the object he seeks remains a mystery. His journey becomes an adventure that unfolds among people and places he does not know. The Tears of God are elusive, and Rai's path is not a simple one. As he travels through the human world, he must gather what information he can and solve the mystery surrounding the Tears of God. The search demands patience and care, and Rai must rely on his own abilities and judgment to continue. Every step brings new questions, and the truth behind the Tears of God s

When I Was Reincarnated in Another World, I Was a Heroine and He Was a Hero

Keito Azumi is an ordinary high school student until an accident cuts his life short. He wakes up in another world, reincarnated not as a hero or a villager, but as its heroine. If that were not strange enough, his best friend Taiga has been reborn alongside him as the world's hero, and their old friendship has to survive the change. The two must come to terms with new bodies, unfamiliar roles and a bond that no longer works the way it used to. Their only way home is tied to defeating the Demon King, so the pair sets out across a land of magic and monsters, learning to fight, to rely on each other and to live as the people they have become.

My Three Thousand Years To The Sky

At seventeen, Bai Qiuran reaches the tenth level of the Qi Refining stage and stands on the verge of a breakthrough. He is a genius, and greater power seems only a step away. Three thousand years later, Bai is still in Qi Refining. His level has risen to absurd heights, yet the breakthrough he seeks never comes. Once a Grandmaster, he becomes known as a Grand-Monster, a figure who remains stuck on the newbie stage but can still fight like a powerhouse. Now he continues to cultivate, seeking a way past the barrier that has held him for millennia. The question is whether he will ever ascend to greater power or remain trapped in Qi Refining forever.

Daughter of the Spirit King

Haein is an ordinary South Korean high school student who spends a day at a public swimming pool with her family. A mysterious whirlpool drags her under and she loses consciousness, only to wake deep beneath the ocean. There she meets Ellime, a powerful water spirit king who declares that he is her real father and that she was born from his love for a half-elf mage, a union that should have been impossible, since elemental spirits are not supposed to have descendants. Caught between the family that raised her and the magical world she came from, Haein must find her footing among spirits and elementals who see her birth as an anomaly. Both sides pull at her at once, and surviving the world s

The Tiger Won't Eat the Dragon Yet

Somewhere in the mountains, a tiger catches rare prey: a lone dragon, the kind almost never seen. Dragon meat is said to hold the ultimate flavor, its blood to heal any wound, and its heart to grant immortality to whoever devours it. Yet when the tiger looks at the dragon, she finds him far too small and undeveloped to make a meal, and she refuses to eat him. Instead, she takes the young dragon under her care and raises him. Predator and prey stay together, and as the two travel on, the question of what binds them grows harder to answer: is it only the natural instinct of hunter and hunted, or something else? The two animals have very different lifespans, and both must search for a way for

The Knight in the Area

Kakeru Aizawa has given up on playing football. Convinced he has no talent for the sport, he settles for managing his school team while his older brother Suguru leads it as its ace, good enough to represent Japan on the international stage. Suguru, however, refuses to accept that verdict. He is certain his brother hides a gift that only he can see, and the two argue often over Kakeru's stubborn denial of it. The return of Nana, a childhood friend Kakeru has long had feelings for, adds another knot to a household already tense around the game they both love. Then something happens that leaves Kakeru with no choice but to step onto the pitch himself, forcing him to confront the incident that

The Wedding Eve

A collection of six short stories about people who meet again, or share a last day, and the quiet distance that time has left between them. In the title story, two people who have been living together spend their final day under the same roof before the woman marries someone else. Elsewhere, a father calls on his daughter while her mother is away from home, and twin brothers sit down for a drink for the first time in ten years. A man who left for the city a decade ago comes back to his hometown for his younger sister's wedding and finds himself recalling the countryside where they grew up. A high school girl who is a stranger to him moves in with a struggling writer, and a cat watches the

Tales of the Unusual

Every episode of this collection opens on ordinary ground — a city street, a family home, an old story told too many times — and then lets something wrong slip in. Urban legends and ancient myths stop being stories and start taking shape, and the instincts people keep buried come back wearing unfamiliar faces. A cast that changes with each tale faces what it cannot explain: a rumour that proves true, a fear that arrives from inside the house, a desire that will not stay hidden. The characters are rarely chosen heroes; they are neighbours, students, parents and strangers who happen to stand where the strange thing happens. What unites the stories is the question they keep returning to. In a

Apocalypse Zero

In the aftermath of a series of natural disasters that have reduced the world to rubble, the survivors do whatever they must to stay alive. Kakugo is a young boy trained in martial arts and gifted with a powerful suit of armor by his late father, and he is charged with making the world around him, or at least his school, a safer place. The armor, called Zero, was built from the souls of dead warriors, and Kakugo is not the only one who wears it. His brother Harara received a matching set of skills and equipment, and he has turned against humanity: his own plan for peace is to wipe people out entirely. Demons and monsters roam what is left of the cities, and Kakugo is the one person alive w

New Authentic Magical Girl Risuka

Kugi Kizutaka is an elementary schooler unlike any other: a genius who sees everyone he meets as a potential pawn. He is searching for useful pieces to serve his ambitions, and his hunt leads him to Mizukura Risuka, a ten-year-old magician known as the Red Witch of Time. Risuka has left the Kingdom of Magic through the Gate, chasing her father, a great mage spoken of as both a god and a demon. Her blood carries spells that govern time, letting her speed her own life forward; her strongest technique awakens only when she dies bloodily, her blood reforming into her grown self for a single minute. Kizutaka becomes her guide among ordinary humans and adds her to his collection of pieces. Betwe

Maison and the Man-Eating Apartment

The clock strikes at the single second before the end of the world, and then time stops. Humanity escapes extinction and carries on with its daily life inside a strange and terrible apartment where nothing ever moves forward. Maison is a young girl who holds the title of Landlord by birth. She lives among the tenants of that frozen building, and she stands on the brink of uncovering the secrets it has kept. Between the ordinary routines of its residents and the impossible truth of a world held one second short of its end, Maison's search for answers draws her deeper into the apartment's mysteries.

Tokyo Kaido

At the Kristiania Clinic, young people with brain conditions are taken in. Hashi, nineteen and a half, carries a small fragment of a car lodged in his brain since an accident, and ever since he cannot keep himself from saying out loud everything he thinks and feels. Hana, twenty-one, has unexpected orgasms at any moment and in any place, even in public. Mari, six, cannot perceive the people around her and lives in a world where no other human being exists. Hideo, ten, insists he has superpowers and can contact aliens and God. Into this place comes Dr. Tamaki, a psychiatrist devoted to brain research whose wife has gone missing. Around him the youths' lives take shape: Hashi, unable to grasp

Dear Nemesis

Countess Calmia Phlox has everything she ever wanted: her title, her political power and victory over her nemesis, Rudbeckia Matari. But the moment her rival draws his last breath, she wakes as her ten-year-old self, shortly before the accident that would kill her twin brother Ellua and clear her path to the succession. This time Ellua survives, saved by Rudbeckia himself, who then makes an unexpected proposal: a pretend engagement. He will help her become countess, and they will call it off when she turns twenty. Calmia accepts, though she detests him, and her second life begins to drift away from the first. Determined to win back what was hers, she must weigh her ambition against her lov

Omega Heroine Wants Her Alpha Villainess

After an accident, a young woman finds herself inside an Omegaverse novel, reborn as the Alpha villainess who shares her name and whose fate in the story is a violent one. Knowing how the plot ends for that character, she decides to keep her distance from the heroine, an Omega idolized by everyone, and win her over with kindness instead of rivalry. The heroine, wary at first of the sudden change in her supposed enemy, slowly lowers her guard and begins to seek her out, drawn to her in ways the original story never allowed. The line between protagonist and villain blurs, and the two women grow closer while the villainess remains convinced she is only buying herself a safer ending. What she

Ludwig Revolution

Prince Ludwig has an unusual pastime: he collects the corpses of beautiful women and brings them back to the castle. His father, the king, has had enough, and orders him to find a bride more suitable than the dead girls he keeps around. Accompanied by his servant Wilhelm, Ludwig sets out across the land to meet the fair maidens of the classic fairy tales, hoping that one of them will do. But the stories he wanders into are not the gentle ones told to children: they are grim, bloody and far more realistic, and every candidate brings her own complications. As the prince moves from one tale to the next, the search for a wife turns into a journey through a world where fairy-tale endings are no

The Scent of You

Ga-Min gives in to impulse one day and steals a kiss from his sleeping classmate, Kang-Go, confident that no one will ever find out. He has no way of knowing that Kang-Go was born with an unusually sensitive nose, one that lets him smell the emotions people carry with them. That single kiss leaves a scent Kang-Go cannot ignore, and he becomes determined to track down the person behind it. His search turns him into a hunter of his own secret admirer, sniffing out every clue in the classroom around him. For Ga-Min, the problem is simple and impossible at once: the boy he likes can read his feelings on the air itself. Keeping a secret from someone like that means guarding every glance, every

Flower in a Storm

Riko Kunimi is a high school girl who wants nothing more than an ordinary life, but her body possesses an unusual ability that makes normalcy difficult. Her world is turned upside down when Ran Tachibana, the heir to a world-leading super-millionaire family, suddenly appears and declares that he wants her as his wife. Ran is rich, powerful, and accustomed to getting his way, and he refuses to accept Riko's rejection. Ran's proposal throws Riko's days into chaos. He pursues her with every resource his wealth can buy, while she tries to keep her secret and her everyday life intact. Even as she turns him down, Ran remains determined to win her over. Riko has a hidden advantage, however: the un

The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies

Byakuya Mimori is the alter ego of the magical girl Glass Happiness, sworn to fight for peace, love and justice. Standing against her is Mira, lieutenant to the Evil King and the cunning right hand of an organization bent on conquering everything in its path. When the two finally face each other, Mira is ready to eliminate his wand-wielding nemesis once and for all. What he never expected is to fall in love with her at first sight. Instead of devising schemes to defeat her, he starts inventing excuses to see her again, and Byakuya does not seem to mind. What follows is the day-to-day life of two sworn enemies who cannot bring themselves to fight each other, caught between the war they are

Cyborg 009

Joe Shimamura, a half-Japanese juvenile delinquent, is kidnapped by Black Ghost, a secret organization that promotes global warfare. Along with eight other unwanted people from around the world, he is surgically transformed into a cyborg and given the designation 009. The group is meant to become a line of super-powered weapons, but Joe and his companions refuse that fate. With help from an old scientist, Dr. Gilmore, the nine cyborgs escape Black Ghost's base and go on the run. Black Ghost sends other cyborgs and giant robots after them, forcing the fugitives to rely on their new abilities to survive. As they evade pursuit, they try to stop the organization's plans and protect the world fr

Pochamani

A chubby high school girl is comfortable with her own body, but not with the way the people around her treat it. She is extremely shy, and the slimmer girls around her never let her forget how she looks. Because of that, she has long assumed that love is something that happens to other people. Then she meets Tagami, a boy who is a pochama: someone who genuinely loves soft, squishy things and chubby girls. His interest is sincere, and being wanted for exactly what she is slowly changes the way she sees herself. The story follows the two of them as they figure out how to be a couple: awkward first steps, small misunderstandings, and the everyday effort of believing that she can be loved as s

Reiri

In 1579, during the Sengoku period, Reiri lives a happy life with her family in a village until a group of soldiers arrives after a battle and begins a senseless slaughter. She is the only survivor. Her father, mother, and brother sacrifice themselves to save her. She survives only through the intervention of Okabe Tanpa no Kami, a warrior who had been sheltering in the village. Reiri enters his service, grows up, and learns to fight excellently, dedicating herself to seeking strength and a death on the battlefield. However, her path to that death may not be as short and straight as she hopes.

Keepsake Heartache

Mone Tsukimori is a slightly cheeky high schooler carrying a memory she cannot let go of. She began humming melodies at five, found her treasure at ten, and at fourteen watched the spark go out of her world. At seventeen, the music starts to come back to her. There is someone Mone has never been able to forget, and the only person who knows that part of her past is Anji, an upperclassman at her school. He remembers the girl she was before the music stopped, and as the two of them spend time together, the memories she has kept locked away begin to surface again. Mone has to decide what to do with what she lost and with what she is still holding on to.

Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle

Lux is a former prince of the Arcadia Empire, which was overthrown in a rebellion five years earlier. One day he accidentally enters a female dormitory's bathing area and sees Lisesharte, the kingdom's new princess, naked. Furious, she challenges him to a Drag-Ride duel. Drag-Rides are ancient armored mechanical weapons excavated from ruins around the world. Lux was once called the strongest Drag-Knight, but now he is known as the "undefeated weakest" because he absolutely refuses to attack in battle. After his duel with Lisesharte, he ends up attending a female-only academy that trains royals to become Drag-Knights.

The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan

In a world overrun by Fiends, Alus Reigin has spent a decade on the battlefield. Conscripted into the military at six years old, he is now sixteen and stands at the pinnacle of the nation's hundred thousand mages, having reclaimed more of humanity's lost territory than anyone else alive. When Alus asks to retire from service, the country refuses to let its greatest weapon walk away. Instead, he is sent to a special magical institute with orders to live like an ordinary person, hiding his identity and his power while training the successors who will one day take his place. The front lines, however, are not so easily left behind. As he settles into student life, Alus keeps hunting Fiends in

Lilim Kiss

Saiki Takaya is a young man who is easily misunderstood by those around him. One day, he discovers a flask containing a succubus named Lilim. She is captivatingly beautiful, but she has a dangerous tendency to drain the life force from people. When she kisses him, she literally surprises the life out of him, leaving him unconscious. After that, Lilim flies off in search of more "food," but she soon returns, claiming that Takaya's life-energy was the most delicious she has ever tasted. Takaya's parents accept her into their home as a sort of live-in girlfriend, and she begins to live with them. As Lilim stays by his side, Takaya finds his heart wavering toward this voluptuous devil. However

Jocular Fellow

In the Sengoku era, warlords constantly usurp one another, and a man named Furuta Sasuke serves as a vassal of Oda Nobunaga. His spirit, however, is claimed by two passions that have little to do with the battlefield: the way of tea and an insatiable hunger for rare and precious objects. His world widens under Nobunaga's genius, while the tea master Sen no Soueki teaches him to look beyond mere ambition. Sasuke climbs toward greater power and status, chasing rank and coveted utensils alike, and finds himself walking the road of the hyouge mono, the jocular fellow. That road forces a question he cannot escape: to live or not to live, to serve power or to serve art.

Return of the Demonic Instructor

When the Central Plains fall to the invasion of the Demon Realm, the martial artist Bigang Sa is dragged into that infernal world and forced to serve in the demon army for centuries. After a failed human uprising, he awakens in his own body, ten years before the demons ever arrive. The world around him is still whole, and no one believes what is coming. Bigang Sa alone carries the memory of centuries of demon warfare, and he knows that the murim as it stands cannot survive the return of the Demon Realm. To change that, he must restore order among its fighters and build a force strong enough to meet the invasion head-on. He has ten years, the skills of a demon warrior, and a world that does

Kabukimonogatari: Dandy Tale

Araragi, a high school senior in a provincial town, looks after Hachikuji, a lost little girl he keeps running into. When a careless remark of hers about her own fate begins to weigh on him, he cannot leave it alone, and the question of how far he will go to help her finds an answer he never intended. That answer lies across the veil of time. Accompanied by Shinobu, the vampire who dwells in his shadow, he travels into the past, on a journey he cannot find his way home from and one that unfolds less in space than in the years he was never meant to visit. Among a cast that routinely disrespects chronology, Shinobu takes the prize, winding the clock back for a trip less about where the two g

The Demon Lord Who's Seriously in Love

A hero sets out to defeat the Demon Lord for the sake of world peace. When he finally reaches her castle, he finds no army and no trap waiting for him, only the Demon Lord herself, a marriage certificate in hand and a proposal she fully expects him to accept. The hero is suspicious and thoroughly unwilling, and the more earnestly she insists, the more determined he becomes to keep his distance. Yet the Demon Lord's feelings are stubborn and sincere, and she has no intention of letting him leave. Between her relentless courtship and his refusal to give an inch, the mission he came for is no longer simple, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Aridorok

Ju A-Rin is the first love of the person who meets her again after five years. The two parted as one thing and find each other as another, and the gap between those moments is hard to ignore. She is no longer the girl kept in memory. Something in her has shifted, and no amount of catching up immediately accounts for it. The question that hangs over every meeting is a simple one: why has she changed so much? It is not a question either of them can ask outright, so it sits between them instead, shaping what they say, what they avoid, and how much of the past they are willing to bring up. Old feelings do not vanish just because five years have passed, and neither do the reasons behind the cha

Orochi: Blood

Orochi is a woman who never appears to age and who possesses strange, unexplained powers. She drifts through the world drawn to people whose lives catch her attention, watching them from a distance and, at times, quietly intervening in their affairs, whether for their benefit or their ruin. Each of the stories gathered here stands on its own, following ordinary people caught in moments of obsession, cruelty and misfortune: sisters awaiting a family curse, a disfigured boy whose future collapses, a traveler returning to a village that seems never to have changed, a child whose testimony nobody will accept. Orochi herself is the thread that binds them: an observer fascinated by human nature

#DRCL midnight children

At the close of the 19th century, a young man travels to a distant castle to settle a business matter with a reclusive nobleman. The journey is meant to be brief and ordinary; the welcome he receives is anything but. Days pass in a house of locked doors and strange nights, and the guest slowly realizes that his host has no intention of letting him leave. Far away, the people he left behind carry on with their lives, unaware that the danger he has stumbled into is already moving towards them. Drawing on Bram Stoker's Dracula, this one-shot gothic horror story follows a young man's encounter with a predator far older than the world he knows, and the terror that reaches back to everything he