Manga

Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning

Ayumu Narumi has spent his life in the shadow of his older brother Kiyotaka, a world-class detective who vanished two years ago after leaving behind a cryptic message about the Blade Children. When a girl at Ayumu's school dies, what at first seems a suicide turns out to be murder, and Ayumu is named the prime suspect. To clear his name he starts investigating, aided by his sister-in-law Madoka, Kiyotaka's wife and a detective herself. The trail leads him to the Blade Children, a group somehow connected to his brother's disappearance. The more Ayumu learns about them, the more questions he has about who they are, what they want and how dangerous they can be.

I Want to Write Your Heart into Kanji

Yomi Hashiba, a high school student, has a problem he cannot solve: he has been dating Mizuki Hanai for a month, and he still has no idea what goes on behind her cool, unreadable face. Every attempt to guess her feelings ends in doubt, and the distance between them only seems to grow. Then, one day, while he is agonizing over the relationship, something strange happens: kanji start floating above Mizuki's face, spelling out her true feelings in characters he can barely read. Now Yomi has access to what he always wanted to know, but the writing is complex and often illegible, and understanding Mizuki turns out to be much harder than simply reading the words.

The Strange Tale of Panorama Island

In 1920s Japan, Hitomi is a failed novelist who bears an uncanny resemblance to the heir of a wealthy industrialist family. When he learns that the young man has died suddenly, he conceives a desperate plan: he fakes his own death, hides the real body, and washes up starving on a beach near the dead man's home, where the family takes him in as their lost son. Installed in the household, Hitomi assumes every part of the dead man's life: his company, his fortune and eventually his wife. The position is only a means to an end, and he begins to channel the family's wealth into a private obsession: an island of his own design, built to satisfy his desires. Rising from the sea are waterfalls, pa

The Innkeeper Who Can Save and Load ~A Max-Level Reincarnated Hero Seems to Have Started Training Newbies at His Inn~

Among adventurers, one inn has turned into an urban legend: it is said that those who stay there do not die. Loretta arrives at its door while following her own quest, with little strength and a great deal to prove, hoping the rumor is more than a tavern story. The inn is run by Alexander, an adventurer summoned from another world who reached the maximum level and can create Save Points. He retired from the road to keep an inn and train newcomers, and Loretta becomes one of his pupils. Between training sessions and dangerous requests, she learns to fight under a master who has already reached the end of the game, in a place where a bad death is never final.

Our Not-So-Lonely Planet Travel Guide

Asahi Suzumura is serious and exacting, while Mitsuki Sayama is laidback and easygoing. The two may look like an odd couple, but they have struck a deal: they will travel around the world together, and once they are back in Japan, they will get married. From country to country, the people they meet, the cultures they pass through and the meals they share slowly bring them closer. Yet the journey also tests the promise they made: long distances, unfamiliar customs and their opposite temperaments make the trip harder than either of them expected. Along the way, the two learn that the trip is teaching them as much about themselves as it is about the world they are crossing.

Spy Classroom

In a world torn apart by war and ruled by intelligence, Lily, code name Flower Garden, is determined to become a master spy and help bring peace to her nation. When she is offered a place in an elite squad that takes on Impossible Missions, she is ecstatic. Then she learns the truth: the squad is made up entirely of spy academy washouts like her, and the missions it accepts carry a ninety percent chance of failure and death. Their instructor is Klaus, a spy with a perfect success record who is as brilliant as he is difficult to deal with. Under his tutelage, these eight inexperienced girls are expected to do what no one else can. Each of them may have the potential to change the world, if

Listening to the stars

After repeated setbacks in her attempts to become a voice actor, Chi Yu has stopped bringing up dubbing with anyone. She keeps the hobby to herself and listens in secret to the yuri audio dramas broadcast on Lily Radio, where the voices she admires still reach her. During a lecture at her university, she notices Yu Chen, a student from a neighbouring college, whose voice sounds strikingly like one of the performers on Lily Radio. Chi Yu is caught between the secrecy she has built around her hobby and her curiosity about the girl sitting nearby, and she has to decide how close she is willing to get to someone who reminds her of the career she could not have.

A Witch's Printing Office

Mika Kamiya is an ordinary young woman heading home from a comic market when she is suddenly whisked away to a fantasy world. There she finds she has no magic of her own, but she can do something almost as valuable: print grimoires and other enchanted books for the witches and wizards around her. All Mika wants is to go home, and the only way back is a spell she has yet to find. Rather than search the world for one, she decides to draw the spells to her by organizing a Magic Market, an event where magicians gather to trade and show off their creations. The plan brings its own problems: an eccentric crowd of guests, out-of-control queues and a catalog of attendees more animated than she bar

The Demon Faction’s Return

Myeong-un belongs to the Heavenly Demon Sect, where the fight over who will sit on the throne never stops. He has no interest in the throne that everyone around him covets and retreats into seclusion, hoping that keeping away from the sect's politics will be enough to keep him alive. It is not. Myeong-gak, the sect leader, is set on killing his own brother, and Myeong-un has to run. He flees the sect, but the hunters catch up with him and he meets his demise. As his consciousness fades away, a voice reaches him and asks whether he regrets it, whether he wants to fight again. Myeong-un, believed to be dead, opens his eyes once more.

Shindere Shoujo to Kodoku na Shinigami

Akira is a second-year middle school student who lives on an island whose only remarkable feature is how calm it is. Her classmates are all childhood friends, and every year passes much as the one before it. That routine breaks when a transfer student joins the class. Matsushiro Nishigami introduces himself with a warning: anyone who gets close to him dies. No one knows what to make of the words, or of the boy who delivers them so plainly. As Akira tries to understand him, the meaning behind that introduction begins to weigh on her and on the quiet island around them, and the ordinary school year she expected turns into something else entirely.

How Many Light-Years to Babylon?

Bub wakes up in outer space with no memory of who he is or how he got there. What he does learn is that Earth has been destroyed, which makes him the only surviving member of the human race, a lonely position for anyone and one he has no intention of accepting quietly. Accompanied by the strange beings he meets along the way, Bub travels from one universe to the next in search of answers about his forgotten past and about what happened to his home planet. Between adventures, his other mission is rather more personal: to charm the hottest alien girls the universe has to offer, since the human race will not repopulate itself. The journey takes him through a cosmos full of odd encounters, com

Taking in a Stray

Ai Morikawa is a career woman in Tokyo who lives for her job. She works overtime, catches the last train home past midnight and has no time for anything else, least of all a husband. One night she comes home to find a handsome sixteen-year-old boy waiting at her door. Nagisa is her sister's stepson, sent to live with her after his parents leave the country for work. Aloof and wary as a cat, he is a stranger to Ai, and she is a stranger to him. Ten years apart in age and both accustomed to being alone, the two must now share a home and build a daily life together. The arrangement unsettles Ai's routine, and the distance between them begins to shift as the two loners learn each other's habit

DearS

Aliens have landed on Earth and have long since become a normal part of society. These beautiful beings are known as DearS, and most humans trust and welcome them. To learn the customs of their new home, DearS are sent to ordinary high schools, where they live with human families. Takeya is a student at one of those schools when he helps a DearS who has ended up there. Grateful and still unfamiliar with how anything works, she starts calling him Master and stays close to him, eager to learn the strange rules of everyday life on Earth. Her attempts to make sense of human habits turn ordinary routines into confusion and comic mishaps, while Takeya has to deal with the attention that comes fr

Stepping on Roses

Sumi Kitamura is the second eldest of six siblings who have no parents, and she keeps the household running while her irresponsible older brother Eisuke keeps bringing home orphans for her to look after. Money is always tight, and the family can barely cover its most basic needs. When Eisuke leaves town and the younger children are taken away, Sumi is left alone and desperate, needing a large sum of money quickly to get them back. That is when the wealthy Soichiro Ashida appears with an unusual proposal: he will give her the money she needs if she agrees to marry him. Sumi accepts, but the arrangement asks more of her than she expected. She has to pass as a proper lady in high society whil

The Strongest Earthbound Spirit and the Guy With No Spiritual Sense

A man lives in a house that everyone considers haunted, and he has never noticed a thing. He cannot see ghosts or sense them in any way, so the cold spots, the strange noises and the objects that move on their own are just ordinary annoyances to him. Kinako-sama, the self-proclaimed strongest earthbound spirit, treats the place as her own and has tried every trick she knows to drive him out. Nothing works. On the last day before he moves away for good, she makes one final, all-out attempt to scare the living hell out of him before he leaves. What follows is a one-sided contest between an overconfident ghost and a man who cannot see her at all.

Dumb Mutt Girlfriend

Sakurako Kuramochi has rebuilt herself from scratch since her high school debut, turning into a far more popular girl than she once was. Deep down, however, she still carries the scars of being dumped by a girl she liked in the past. One day after school, while walking downtown, Sakurako runs into another girl who turns out to be the very person who rejected her. The girl does not recognize her, and for some reason declares that she has fallen in love with Sakurako at first sight, asking whether they can meet again. Furious at being courted purely on her looks by the person who once hurt her, Sakurako decides to play along and starts plotting her revenge.

What Was I Meant to Call This Mess That Wouldn't Go Away?

Cleanliness is everything to Nakayama, a high school boy with an extreme case of germophobia. He avoids all social interaction and wants nothing more than to spend his private time alone, in a perfectly clean space far from a world he considers filthy. That peace never lasts. Nishino, the cheerful and unpredictable girl who ends up sitting next to him, keeps disrupting his sanctuary with her messy, unsophisticated ways, and his protests go unheeded. Day after day, he finds himself at her mercy, his carefully guarded solitude slipping away. What he wants is a spotless, solitary life. What he gets is a daily battle, because the girl beside him has no intention of leaving him alone.

Shall We Have Dinner Tonight?

Do-hee Woo and Hae-Gyung Kim are both young, single, and still carrying the scars of relationships that ended badly. One evening they cross paths at the same restaurant, each hoping to eat alone, and end up sharing a table instead. That accidental meal becomes a habit: every week the two meet to eat, talk and compare notes on the heartbreaks they are slowly getting over. Between dishes they begin to lean on each other, and the easy friendship they have built starts to shift into something harder to name. Neither of them is sure what the other has become — a comfort, a companion, or something else entirely — and both have to work out what they mean to each other before the next dinner comes

EVANGELION: 3.0 (-120min.)

A prequel set roughly two hours before a decisive turning point. The single chapter follows the people who are about to live through it, during the minutes in which the situation is still open and the outcome has not yet been decided. As the clock runs down, tensions surface among those involved. Orders, silences and old loyalties weigh on every exchange, and the approaching deadline pushes each of them toward a decision that cannot be postponed. The focus stays on the characters and their unresolved conflicts rather than on the action that follows, in a short, quiet piece about the hours that precede an irreversible event.

News of Transformations

A collection of nine short stories centers on human beings whose lives are touched by the mysterious and the surreal. The tales feature characters such as Akahoshi-kun, Dan-kun, and Kamimura, each facing peculiar situations that blend the ordinary with the inexplicable. The stories unfold in a seemingly surreal yet pure literature-like style, delving into the mystery of human beings. In each, everyday moments—a lunch break, a summer day, a daughter's plan—give way to psychological depths and strange occurrences. As the characters confront these mysteries, the line between the ordinary and the surreal blurs, leaving them to ponder the enigmas at the heart of everyday life.

My Sweet Marriage to My Ex-Nemesis

Roushi Saikawa and Ritsuka Yanagi spent years as sworn enemies, fighting for rival organizations of supernatural power users. He was known as the Feather Hunter, while she was their strongest, the White Demon. Neither of them had anything resembling a normal social life outside of duels and schemes. Then their organizations were disbanded, and somehow the two former rivals started dating and got married. Now they are an openly affectionate couple, kissing each other at the door every morning before work. Marriage, however, brings its own battles. Roushi has never shared a bed with his strict wife, and his awkward, desperate attempts to close that distance keep landing him in trouble, while

I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying

Kaoru is a serious, hardworking office lady who leads an ordinary life. She is married to an otaku husband who is utterly absorbed in a massive internet bulletin board system, to the point that he practically lives online. Their days together unfold as a series of small, everyday moments. The trouble is the gap between them. Kaoru approaches life with earnest practicality, while her husband filters everything through the obsessions and slang of his beloved forum. She often cannot make sense of what he says or why he cares about the things he does. Simple conversations turn into confusion, and ordinary situations reveal how differently the two see the world. As they navigate married life, t

The Irregular at Magic High School - Recollection Arc

Three years before the present, Tatsuya Shiba stands behind his sister Miyuki in the same posture he held three years earlier. And yet, compared to back then, something between them has changed. The story returns to those years to show the events that would shake Miyuki's world and the ones that set Tatsuya on the path to becoming who he is now. Brother and sister grow up under circumstances that test the place each of them holds, and the bond that has always tied them together begins to take its final shape. What happens in that time decides how the two will stand once the present arrives, and why Tatsuya never steps out from behind Miyuki.

Put on my princess shoes.

Nishimura Shousuke is a local shoemaker who once made a name for himself with the women's shoes he crafted by hand. He also carries a fixation on legs and feet, and it was that same devotion that led him to a difficult decision: he would never make a pair of women's shoes again. Then a high school girl walks into his shop carrying a pair of shoes that he himself made years ago. They are worn out and need repairing, and the request draws him back toward the work he swore to abandon. The girl and the shoes on her feet stir something he thought he had buried. The promise he made to himself begins to weigh against what he still longs to do, and the encounter slowly pulls him back to the craft

Great Mage of Light

Zhang Gong is an elementary magic student who makes an unusual choice: he decides to study light magic, an attribute that few mages show interest in. Despite the lack of enthusiasm from others, he is determined to master this rare form of magic. His path takes a demanding turn when he receives special guidance from a harsh teacher whose lessons are almost impossible to complete. Determined to prove his worth, Zhang Gong sets his sights on becoming the legendary Great Mage of Light. At the same time, he dreams of ending the continent's east-west separation and uniting all the different races. But with such a severe mentor and such a daunting ambition, his journey is anything but easy.

My Maid, Miss Kishi

Kiichiro Hayase is the heir to a distinguished family and the wealthiest, most eligible bachelor in town. An elite among elites, he has a business empire waiting to fall into his hands. His one weakness is that he is hopelessly clumsy, and he would trip over his own feet without his maid at his side. That maid is Miss Kishi, the most competent and professional of her trade. Nothing rattles her, her expression never changes, and she quietly covers for her master whenever something gets broken, scattered or lost. Kiichiro knows he owes her everything, and he is determined to repay her by making her happy, whatever it takes. But a maid who never lets her feelings show is not easy to please, a

Returned from Another World, Earth Turned Out to be Quite the Fantasy Too. Also, Losing Heroines, Stop Looking this Way

Six years ago, Yura Natsuki was summoned to another world to serve as a hero. Swept into the war between humans and demons, he was handed the usual bargain: the only way back home was to defeat the Demon King. He fought desperately, siding with humans who cast aside even their own kind, and survived as a pawn in a conflict he never chose. At last he manages to return to Earth, expecting an ordinary life. What he finds instead is a world just as fantastical as the one he left behind, where gods, angels, aliens and psychics are part of everyday reality. Having spent six years fighting simply to stay alive, Natsuki must now find his footing in a home that is no longer the ordinary place he re

The Necromancer of the Renowned Swordmaster Family

Two hundred years ago, the necromancer Archimonde called upon the wardens of darkness and all their servants and soldiers, unleashing hordes of the undead upon the continent. For a decade they ravaged the land until the hero Birkel Reinrandt killed him, and the world moved on. Eight generations later, an infant born into House Reinrandt screams the very incantation Archimonde once uttered. The necromancer has returned in the body of a baby, inside the family of his old mortal enemy, and no one yet understands what cries in the cradle. To survive, he must hide what he is from the descendants of the hero who destroyed him, while the household around him watches for any sign of the darkness h

GeGeGe no Kitaro

Since the dawn of time, youkai have lived alongside humans. These specters usually rest quietly in their own dwelling places, and as long as they are left alone they cause no harm. But when humans disturb them through careless or inconsiderate acts, the youkai wake angry, and their fury falls on the living. Kitaro is a young youkai who does not want that cycle to continue. He believes humans and spirits can share the world without preying on each other, and he sets out to prove it. That places him between the two sides: he defends people from the enraged youkai who lash out at them, while also facing spirits who are only answering the intrusion of humans. Every encounter returns him to the

Wet Moon

The murder of an engineer leads the police of Tatsumi to a workshop that manufactures parts for a mysterious space program. There, detective Sada pursues a secretary who is fleeing the law, in a city of the 1960s where madness and lust seem to keep the citizens company. Sada falls unconscious during the chase, and when he wakes he carries a metal fragment in his brain. It leaves him with memory lapses and hallucinations, and the woman accused of murder is gone. To find her, he puts up posters of her face all over the city. What begins as an investigation turns into something else: an obsession that grows into love, and a need to understand what was done to him.

Like the Kudan

Seven college students are traveling back from their graduation ceremonies when they witness something impossible: a strange, cow-like creature with a human face. The encounter leaves them shaken, but the true horror comes when they realize the sighting has marked them. They have only seven days left to live. With no explanation and no clear enemy, the group is thrown into a desperate race against time. Each passing day brings them closer to the fated end, and they must find a way to survive. But how do you fight a curse you do not understand? As the deadline approaches, the students grapple with fear, uncertainty, and the bonds that tie them together. They search for any clue that might s

Kurozuka

Fleeing from his brother, who has just ascended the throne, Yoshitsune takes to the mountains with his servant, Kurou. In the middle of a desolate landscape the two come across a lone house, where the only inhabitant is a young woman named Kuromitsu, who seems to carry a dark and ominous past. Kurou and Kuromitsu begin a bond that goes beyond life and memory, and that encounter sets off a pursuit destined to last more than a thousand years. Centuries later, Kurou has lost almost every memory of who he was and has been separated from the woman he loves. Unable to die, he searches for the reason behind his immortality, for his own identity and for the woman who still haunts his dreams, while

Cat's Eye

By day, the three Kisugi sisters—Hitomi, Rui, and Ai—run a café called Cat's Eye. By night, they are a trio of highly skilled art thieves, leaving a calling card with the name "Cat's Eye" at the scene of each crime. Their targets are works of art, mostly paintings, created by their long-missing father, Heinz, a famous artist. The sisters hope that by stealing his pieces and spreading the Cat's Eye name, they will lure him out of hiding and reunite with him. Hitomi, the middle sister, faces a dangerous complication: she is dating Toshio, a police officer assigned to capture the Cat's Eye gang. Toshio is determined to bring the thieves to justice, unaware that his girlfriend is one of them.

Hozuki’s Coolheadedness

In the afterlife there is Heaven and Hell, and Hell itself is divided into the Eight Greater Hells and the Eight Cold Hells, further split into 272 subdivisions. Keeping that vast bureaucracy running is Hozuki, first aide to King Enma and the demon who handles what the King of Hell would rather not. Cool-headed to the point of cold, Hozuki deals with the daily chaos of the underworld: counseling figures out of Japanese folklore, receiving diplomatic missions from the Judeo-Christian Hell and keeping his colorful colleagues in line. Every problem that reaches Lord Enma's shadow lands on his desk, and he meets each one with the same unshakeable calm. Between the sadistic efficiency of its ch

The Grim Reaper Falls in Love With a Human.

A man known only as "Human" pushes himself through endless overtime at a black company until one night the work nearly kills him. In that moment he sees the Grim Reaper: a girl whose job is to collect the souls of the dying. She is supposed to take his, yet she worries about him instead. Rather than let him die, she begins looking after him, and the two settle into everyday life together, from spring through summer, autumn and winter. The reaper keeps a close eye on the human she refuses to reap, and he, exhausted by his job, finds his days changed by her company. Over the course of a year, the two grow used to each other in ways neither expected.

Maybe Undefeatable

Yu Hyeol is a third-rate warrior whose menacing appearance earns him the nickname "The Star of the Dark Arts." False rumors and endless misunderstandings have made him an outcast in the martial arts world, despite his lack of real skill. Everything changes when Seolhwa, the woman he once promised his future to, reappears. She is no longer the gentle figure he remembers but a formidable martial arts master. From that moment, Yu Hyeol's name becomes entangled with warriors, sects, and factions, spiraling his unwanted reputation out of control. As his notoriety spreads, the Murim Alliance, the Demon Cult, and even the royal court take notice of him. He insists it's all a big misunderstanding,

Toshishita Yankee o Oseru Ken

Nachi is the top student of her grade and a devoted fan of a cute character in a social network game. To earn money for in-game items, she decides to put her academic skills to use and takes a part-time job as a tutor. Her new student, Soushi, turns out to be younger than her and a red-haired delinquent. Nachi braces herself for the worst, prepared to face even death, but as the lessons go on she begins to catch glimpses of a side of Soushi that is far cuter than his appearance suggests. As tutor and pupil spend more time together, the distance between a studious girl and a rough younger boy starts to shrink in ways neither of them quite expects.

The Friend's Sister

A young man agrees to do a favor for a friend: keep an eye on the friend's sister and make sure the wrong kind of guys stay away from her. It sounds simple enough, until he meets her and falls for her at first sight. The very job he took on becomes the thing that pushes him toward the person he was supposed to be guarding. What begins as a harmless promise turns into a secret relationship, one the two of them keep hidden from the brother and from everyone else. The arrangement is sweet and uneasy in equal measure, and the more attached they grow, the harder it becomes to keep the truth out of sight. Between everyday life, awkward encounters and the constant risk of being found out, the pai

Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M

Daigo Asahina has dreamed of becoming a firefighter for as long as he can remember. Fresh out of the training academy, he is assigned to the Medaka-Ga-Hama fire station, home of Company M, a unit stationed in a district known for having almost no fires. Daigo is not the hero type. He is naive, short-tempered, fiercely competitive with his rivals and prone to drifting off with a spaced-out look on his face, yet he is convinced he is ready for anything. The first calls he answers as a rookie quickly prove him wrong and cut his confidence down to size. Between the smoke, the fear and the adrenaline of a job where everyone else runs out while firefighters run in, Daigo still has a long way to

The Little Landlady

Vivielle Andante has met terrible ends in her first two lives, so she holds no high hopes for her third. This time, however, she is reborn as the daughter of a wealthy duke. The catch is that the kingdom is literally crumbling, all because of a severe lack of architects. Though still a child, Vivielle retains lifetimes of training as an architect in her mind. She knows she can repair the failing structures and rebuild what has been lost. But can a little girl convince the kingdom to trust her with its future? And will her efforts be enough to lay a strong foundation for her own new life? Determined to make the most of this third chance, Vivielle decides to put her skills to use. She faces