Manga

My Name is Shingo

Satoru, an elementary school pupil, is fascinated when an industrial robot begins working at his father's factory. He and his friend Marin spend time with the machine and start to suspect there is far more to it than anyone realizes. As their friendship deepens, the robot becomes like a child to them. But neither the children nor the adults are prepared for the robot's violent awakening into consciousness. The machine, named Shingo, develops a mind of its own as it travels the world in pursuit of the two children it regards as its parents, whom it has never met. The story recounts how its mind develops.

Harem in the desert

Mishe is a strong-willed girl who grew up in poverty. Her life changes when she catches the attention of Prince Kallum, and his attention takes a very specific form: she is to become one of his concubines. Taken from the world she knows into the prince's household, Mishe finds herself among other women who share his attention and inside a set of rules she never agreed to. She does not intend to stay quiet or to bend, even as the palace watches her every move. What began as a decision made about her turns into something far more complicated as Mishe and Kallum get to know each other. Between her own pride and the expectations that surround a prince's harem, she has to work out what she want

A Certain Scientific Railgun: Astral Buddy

Hokaze Junko is one of the most trusted members of Shokuhou Misaki's clique at Tokiwadai Middle School, an elite all-girls academy where nearly every student wields a psychic ability. A Level 4 whose Rampage Dress makes her formidable in a fight, she has always been content to blend into the background and let others take the spotlight. That changes when a ghostly figure begins stalking her. Suddenly the center of attention, Junko sets out to find who or what is following her, and the investigation pulls her into an incident far larger than she expected. Along the way she discovers things about her classmates, and about herself, that she never saw coming.

A Scummy Gap Student With a Hard Life Calls Upon a Lady of the Night

Makino has just failed her college entrance exam. With no clear path forward, she takes what comfort she can from the characters of her 2D games, dreaming about the girls on her screen instead of facing the life waiting in front of her. Then she comes across an advertisement for a call-girl whose photo looks exactly like her favorite in-game waifu. Convinced, or simply desperate enough to believe it, Makino makes the call and asks the woman to come to her. What follows is a yuri love comedy between a gullible young woman who knows almost nothing about the real world and a street-wise lady of the night who knows far too much about it.

Living in This World With Cut & Paste

In a world where every person is granted abilities known as Skills when they come of age, a young protagonist receives not one but two of them. That double gift sets him apart from those around him and shapes the path he will walk from that day on. The Skills he is given are meant to be used, and he sets out to make the most of them rather than let them go to waste. In a society where what a person receives at that moment largely decides what they can become, he begins building a life of his own around the two abilities he has been handed. His goal is to rise to the existence known as a hero. What stands between him and that aim, and how far his two Skills can carry him, is what the story

His Devilish New Hire

Nam Jieun is the newest hire at Rendezvous Cosmetics, a small company where fetching lunch and cleaning up after her coworkers come with the job. She doesn't mind: she is glad to learn the ropes and earn her modest wage, even if the president, Ma Seongjun, terrifies everyone in the building with his temper, which contrasts sharply with his striking looks. At the farewell party for the manager she has feelings for, Jieun drinks far more than she should to gather the courage to confess. The words land badly aimed: instead of Kang Minjae, the man she meant to approach, they reach Ma Seongjun himself, who hears a declaration of love that was never meant for him. Unable to take it back, Jieun f

The Tale of the Skeleton Messenger

One hundred and twenty years have passed since the death of the First Emperor. Venlyra, a powerful rogue who served as his trusted herald, wakes from a long slumber to find the empire she once knew crumbling and strayed from the light. She takes up her old duty once more. As the Skeleton Messenger, she makes the rounds again, bound for a decaying throne and carrying the Emperor's words to those who have abandoned them. Her proclamation is a warning: the hour of reckoning is upon them. Yet the road also turns inward. The herald who once spoke with her ruler's authority must reckon with an empire that no longer heeds her, and with the embers of a self she had thought extinguished long before

My Mobster Girlfriend

Zhang Nan is the young master of the Fu Long clan, a once-proud family now in decline. What he wants is simple: to live as an ordinary person. His grandfather has other plans and sends him to an elite academy for the children of powerful families instead. A mix-up during enrollment lands Zhang Nan in an all-female class, where his classmates make his life impossible. Mocked, bullied and pushed to the edge, he starts looking for a way out of the school before the year is over. Yet the girls he meets at Blake Academy, along with the rivalries and intrigues that surround him, keep pulling him back toward the one thing he has been avoiding: his position as heir to his clan, and the enemies tha

Please Love Me Seriously!!

Kawakami Momoyo is a notorious fighter and woman-chaser at her school. She is known for her incredible combat skills, and her days are filled with bizarre situations that often involve people trying to defeat her. Despite her strength, she enjoys a lively and chaotic school life alongside her friends. Their daily routine mixes comedic mishaps and intense battles. Momoyo's reputation attracts challengers, and her flirtatious nature adds another layer of unpredictability to their adventures. Together, they navigate the ups and downs of school life, always finding themselves in the middle of strange events. Their world is shaken when new transfer students from Germany join their class. These

Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san

Yachiyo Inugami and Suzu Nekoyama are best friends whose tastes run opposite to their own natures. Inugami is fond of cats but has a thoroughly dog-like personality. Nekoyama prefers dogs but carries herself like a cat, aloof and hard to read until she decides to curl up close. That contradiction shapes their days. The two spend their time together at school and outside it, and every small thing they share tends to set off the same confusion: what one of them offers, the other takes in an entirely different way. Around them, friends and classmates add their own moods to the routine, so a shared lunch or a walk home rarely stays simple for long. The comedy lies in the gap between what each

Sleepy Barmaid

Yuki Tsukigawa is a bartender who works out of a bar of her own making: a small cart on wheels that she moves to a different spot every night. There is no fixed address and no set schedule, only the promise of a drink poured with care. Her customers arrive carrying all kinds of troubles, and the cart seems to attract them. Behind the counter, Yuki mixes cocktails that leave an unforgettable taste and an impression that lingers long after the glass is empty, slowly easing the worries of the people who sit down in front of her. Each night the cart settles somewhere new, and the people who find it come back for more than the drink. Yuki pours at her own unhurried pace, and the cocktails she s

Hwiyeonggeomjeon

Eunho is the strongest being in the yokai realm. After losing the woman he loved and cutting down countless yokai, he is offered the chance to become human. To abandon his immortal body, he spends a thousand years accumulating merit and passes through the gate of reincarnation. Reborn as a human, he takes up a sword and studies martial arts for the first time in his life. The path that should demand a lifetime, however, proves remarkably easy for him. As a former yokai of unmatched strength, Eunho must find his place in a human world and decide what to do with the power and memories he carried across the gate of rebirth.

12cm Promise with a Cool Girl

As a child, Tomoaki admired his boyish childhood friend Ibuki Tachibana and promised to become cooler than her one day. Four years later, Ibuki has grown into an even more handsome girl, and the gap between them has not closed at all. Tomoaki keeps chasing the image of coolness he once set for himself, while Ibuki, who has no idea how he sees her, is hopelessly in love with him. Neither of them finds the words to say what they feel, and the distance between them stays as stubborn as the twelve centimetres of height that separate them. Their days go on like that, close enough to notice everything and far enough to miss it, with each of them waiting for the other to make a move and the same

'Cause Calypso Can

Calypso Aquasiadel is a modern girl who has been reincarnated into the same novel four times. Each time, she dies before her 22nd birthday and returns to the starting point. Now, as a three-year-old genius in the Aquasiadel family, she is determined to break the cycle. During her third life, she discovered that when a dragon goes on a rampage, it distorts dimensions—a phenomenon she believes can send her back to her original world. But to achieve her goal, Calypso must first survive in this life. She encounters a man she believes to be her father, but he does not recognize her. She seeks his help, inadvertently involving her family as unwitting allies. To earn their respect and survive unti

Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku Special One-Shot Side Story

Long before he reached the island of death, Gabimaru was already a man marked by a life spent around violence in its many forms. This side story turns away from the road ahead and back to an earlier episode of his past, when the path that would eventually carry him away from everything he knew was still being laid. The chapter follows Gabimaru through that episode, one built on the skills that keep him alive and on the dangers that have always come with them. Action and the supernatural run through the story as it shows how he moved through the world long before his fate took the shape it did. It is a brief, self-contained tale that fills in a piece of the past of the man at its centre rat

I Swear We're Just Friends

Rienne, a commoner, transfers to Alena Academy, an elite school ruled by noble mages. Unlike almost everyone there, she is not dazzled by Karcion Liciantus, the academy's most celebrated mage. Karcion needs a third member to register the private after-school club he created to keep his admirers at bay, so he invites her to join. He expects her to fawn over him, but her calm, teasing manner wins him over, and the future duke falls for a girl far beneath his rank. Rienne is certain a noble of his standing could never truly court a commoner, and she has no wish to become the target of every envious student at Alena. While Karcion keeps proving that his feelings are sincere, she insists the tw

The Princess Maid

Siana is a princess of a small kingdom who has spent years quietly enduring her parents' abuse. When the imperial army storms the palace and wipes out her family, she refuses to die without a fight: kneeling before Crown Prince Rashid, she begs for her life and offers the only thing she has, the skills she learned inside the palace. Wouldn't she be useful as a maid? Rashid spares her, and Siana becomes a probationary maid in his household. To her own surprise, the work suits her. The corridors shine when she sweeps them, the cookies come out sweet when she kneads the dough, and the bedding turns white and fragrant under her hands. She asks for nothing more than to serve well and live quietl

The Path of an S-Class Adventurer: The Exiled Boy Becomes the World's Strongest with His True Ability, "Weapon Master"

Haise is a young adventurer who carries a power that nobody, not even himself, can identify. He travels alongside Sasha, his childhood friend and the leader of the team they belong to, until the day she expels him from the group. Unable to use his ability, he is seen as a hindrance and left to continue on his own. Haise refuses to abandon the path he has chosen. Alone, he keeps taking on jobs as an adventurer, until one of them leads him into a trap and leaves him on the brink of death. It is then that his true ability awakens: Weapon Master, a power capable of summoning weapons from another world. With it, the boy who was cast out begins to grow stronger, determined to become the stronges

Erha He Tade Baimao Shizun

Mo Weiyu rose to become emperor of the cultivation world, deceiving elders and slaughtering ancestors along the way, until he ended his own life. He wakes instead in the body of the boy he once was, back at the year he first entered his sect as a disciple, an old and weary soul inside a child's shell. Given a second chance, he begins to uncover the truths that had been buried beneath the surface in his previous life, one after another. None shakes him more than the discovery that the master he hated to the bone had been protecting him from the shadows all along. That knowledge does not undo what he has done. Can a man so stained with blood ever be cleansed, and can even demons and monsters

To Whom It No Longer Concerns

Ariana Lopez has spent her life being used. Her brother exploits her, her sister betrays her, and in the end her own husband takes her life. But at the very moment of her death, she wakes in the past, with her years returned to her and every wound still fresh in her memory. This time she refuses to be a pawn. To bring down her family and reclaim what is rightfully hers, she seeks out Duke Dante Heigenberg, the most feared and most desired man in the empire, and offers him a partnership built on revenge. The duke accepts, though his interest in Ariana seems to reach far beyond her extraordinary musical talent. As their arrangement draws them closer, she has to decide how much she is willing

My Ray of Hope

After a hit-and-run accident, Yurina Carthia wakes in the body of the villainess of a novel she once read, a young noblewoman destined to be brutally murdered by the story's second male lead. Knowing the ending she is headed for, she resolves to change it before the plot catches up with her. Her plan is simple: find the boy who will one day become that second male lead, take him out of the orphanage, sponsor him, and make sure he ends up on her side instead of turning against her. Her memory of the story is patchy, though, and after months of searching she finally locates him, or believes she has. The boy she brings home is not quite what she expected, but Yurina blames her faulty recollec

If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord

Dale is a cool, composed and highly skilled adventurer who has made quite a name for himself despite his youth. One day, on a job deep in the forest, he comes across a little devil girl who has almost wasted away. Unable to leave her there to die, he takes her home and becomes her adoptive father. The girl is named Latina. Devil or not, she is beyond adorable, and the adventurer soon finds himself head over heels with being a parent, learning as he goes what it means to raise a child. Yet two questions remain unanswered: why was she out in the forest to begin with, and why does she carry the mark of a criminal?

1 Second

Hosu is a firefighter with a perfect rescue rate: every person he has gone in for has come out alive. He also carries a secret. Under extreme stress, in the middle of a blaze or inside a collapsing building, he catches a glimpse of what is about to happen. That power is also his problem. It comes and goes on its own, answering to pressure rather than to him, and the seconds it lasts are never enough to be sure of anything. Every call puts him in situations where the vision could save the people trapped inside, if it arrives in time and if he can read it right. Between the heat, the smoke and the weight of the lives depending on him, Hosu has to find a way to make that single second obey hi

The Housekeeper of the Dungeon

Hui-Na is tired and overworked, and dungeons and Hunters have nothing to do with her life. Then, without warning, she is gifted with a Hunter's abilities and finds herself navigating a game-like reality whose skills and stats belong to a very unexpected class: Homemaker. With that class, Hui-Na becomes an extraordinary cook, custodian and caretaker, talents that land her a seemingly harmless job inside a Hunter guild. There she discovers that her new coworkers live on the edge of exhaustion, and that her everyday skills may be worth more than anyone suspects. Still, the guild is not the safe place it appears to be, and Hui-Na must decide how far she is willing to go for the people she now

Tokyo Mew Mew a La Mode

With Ichigo Momomiya studying abroad in London, Café Mew Mew is one protector short. Berry Shirayuki, a cheerful girl, transfers to a new junior high simply because she liked the uniforms, expecting nothing more from the year ahead than new friends and ordinary school days. A visit to Café Mew Mew changes that. Caught in a strange vision of a cat and a rabbit, Berry transforms into a magical girl with bunny ears and a cat tail, the first Mew Mew to carry two sets of animal genes. She soon discovers keen hearing, powerful jumps and a craving for carrots. Her new powers bring a new enemy. A gang calling itself the Crusaders has appeared, and its leader has a taste for wild game, rabbit inclu

Magical Girl Incident

As a boy, Hiromi Sakura dreamed of growing up to be a hero. That dream never came true, and he now lives as an ordinary office worker, spending his days at a desk job he never wanted and longing for the courage he once imagined he would have. Then one evening he sees a little girl in danger and, without stopping to think, steps in to save her. That act awakens something unexpected in him, and Hiromi suddenly transforms into a magical girl. The change brings him powers and a duty to fight evil, but it also means juggling battles with the demands of his job, hiding what he has become from the people around him, and making peace with a role that looks nothing like the hero he pictured as a ch

Fushi no Kami: Rebuilding Civilization Starts With a Village

Ash is a young boy living in a remote farming village, and he carries a secret: memories of a past life in a distant, far more bountiful world. Compared with what he remembers, his present feels like the Dark Ages, a place without proper sanitation or transportation faster than horses. The contrast fills him with a stubborn desire to make everyday life better. Books are the key. They are the only surviving evidence of an ancient civilization advanced enough to build the things he misses, so Ash sets out to find and read them. There is one problem: he cannot read at all. With help from the church and from the people around him, including Maika, the village chief's daughter, Ash begins to le

Tell Me You Love Me

Do-kwon has a secret: pretty faces undo him completely. One glimpse at a handsome boy is enough to send him screaming on the inside, and Ryeo-soo happens to be one of the prettiest boys he has ever seen in real life. Every time they interact, Do-kwon's mind fills with silent admiration he would never say out loud. It is a good thing nobody can hear that inner fanboying. Except someone can. Ryeo-soo has a secret of his own: he hears the thoughts of the people around him. Listening to Do-kwon is, to his surprise, a lot of fun, and he keeps coming back for more. Still, there is something Ryeo-soo wants to hear from Do-kwon that no amount of unspoken gushing can give him. As the two grow close

Rockin‘★Heaven

Sawa enrolls in a high school she picked for a single reason: she thought she would look cute in its uniform. What she does not know is that the school was formerly an all-boys academy, and that her class has become a lawless zone ruled by boys. From the start, fitting in is hard. Sawa is teased and bullied, and her classmates even throw her new shoes into the water. The worst of it comes from Ran, the class president, who makes no effort to hide how little he thinks of her. When Sawa tries to retrieve her shoes from the water, she slips in, and it is Ran who pulls her out. That unexpected gentleness makes her see him in a different light, and she starts to fall for him, even as she wonder

From the Strongest Dark Knight ♂, Changed Job into Combat Maid ♀

Albright was renowned as the strongest Black Knight, but he is reborn as a girl named Maria. Sixteen years old, she serves as a maid in the household of the Marquess of Urband, attending the Marquess's daughter, Relena. The ribbon she wears suits her surprisingly well. Life at the mansion is settled until Relena becomes engaged to the fourth prince. From then on, the world around Maria grows busier, and a former knight discovers that a maid's duties reach far beyond tidying rooms and pouring tea. Maria must balance the quiet tasks of her new station with the attention and troubles that follow a noble house on the brink of a royal marriage, all while keeping her past as the strongest Black

Lia's Bad Ending

Emilia is reborn in the otome game she once played, cast as the jealous friend who vies for the male leads' attention before being discarded. The heroine, Ophelia Windrose, is beloved by every noble around her and has only a short time left to live. Knowing how the story ends for her, Emilia chooses instead to love her, and the two grow as close as sisters. When Ophelia dies of an incurable illness, Emilia decides she wants no part of the plot that follows. On the day of the funeral she leaves the estate where she has spent ten years, meaning to live quietly, far from the roles the game assigned her. But the men who were supposed to mourn Ophelia and turn to her replacement keep looking fo

Swan

Masumi Hijiri is a sixteen-year-old ballet student at a small school in Japan. Her training is modest, her technique the weakest in her class, but she dances with a devotion that sets her apart from everyone around her. An unexpected invitation to a special ballet competition opens a door she never expected, and later she is admitted to a renowned ballet academy. There she finds herself surrounded by rivals far more gifted and experienced, and every step forward demands more of her than the last. Far from home and constantly tested, Masumi relies on her determination and her faith in herself as she navigates the fierce, demanding world of ballet, forming friendships and facing hardship alo

Blade Dance of Elementalers

Kazehaya Kamito is summoned to an academy where noble young ladies learn to form contracts with powerful spirits. On his way there, he accidentally catches sight of one of the students bathing: Claire Rouge, who is bound to a spirit named Scarlet but has her sights set on a far stronger one. Claire agrees to lead him to the school, though she makes a detour to attempt a contract with that more powerful spirit. The ritual goes wrong, and the spirit ends up in Kamito's hands instead, revealing him as a male spirit contractor, something unheard of at the academy. Convinced that what he now commands should rightfully be hers, Claire insists that he make it up to her and support her from then o

Candy Man

Kyuyeon Kim plays an online game under the female persona of Yorong, a character he uses to charm male players and live off the items and gifts they send him. His most devoted admirer, a player called Yeommin, showers Yorong with presents day and night and keeps asking her for a date. Kyuyeon is happy with the loot but increasingly uneasy about the pressure, and the situation only gets worse when he discovers that Yeommin is really Kimin Yeom, his handsome and popular classmate. As Yeommin grows more clingy in the game, Kimin starts acting friendlier toward Kyuyeon in real life, and the two worlds begin to tangle around him.

Dead Account

Souji Enishiro is a fifteen-year-old high school dropout who streams under the name Aoringo, building an audience out of the outrage he provokes. His content is deliberately inflammatory, and the hate it draws pays well. Away from the camera, though, he is a caring older brother with a sweet tooth whose earnings go toward the medical bills of his ailing little sister. He does not care that the world despises him, as long as she gets better. Then something strange begins to happen around the sister he does all of this for, and the life he has built on provocation starts to slip out of his control, dragging the boy behind the troll into something far beyond a viral stunt.

Cry, or Better Yet, Beg

Orphaned at twelve, Layla Llewellyn is passed from one indifferent relative to another until she is sent abroad, to the Empire of Berg. There she is placed in the care of Bill Remmer, a gruff distant relation whose attention goes mostly to his work as a groundskeeper for the wealthy Herhardt family. After years of neglect, all Layla wants is a place she can call home. Her path brings her into the orbit of Duke Matthias von Herhardt and of a high society that has little kindness to spare, and the tender-hearted girl must find her footing among people far more powerful than she is. Every encounter with the duke and with the world he belongs to tests her, and the simple wish for a home proves

The Delivery Man From Martial World

Smiley Kang is stranded in a world that is not his own, and he keeps a low profile by working as a delivery man. Around him, humanity has spent years holding back demonic beasts that pour out of portal-like gates, relying on the Awakened, citizens granted supernatural abilities. Yet not everyone stands together. Behind the front lines, other forces scheme to seize and monopolize the demonic resources that come through the gates, and their rivalries matter as much as the monsters do. When the number of gates begins to rise, the world faces the threat of another onslaught. With the Awakened stretched thin, the answer may lie with the mysterious delivery man nobody pays attention to.

Living With Him

Ryota Natsukawa is starting university and looking forward to life on his own, but the roommate he is assigned turns out to be Kazuhito Tanaka, his childhood friend. Kazuhito is good-looking and seemingly perfect in every way, yet he has no girlfriend at all. Puzzled by this, Ryota decides to look at him the way a girlfriend would, hoping to spot the flaws that keep women away. But the more time he spends with Kazuhito, the harder it becomes to keep his distance. Between shared meals, small routines and the slow discovery of who Kazuhito really is, the friendship they once had starts to change into something neither of them expected.

Children of the Rune

After a family feud forces him to flee his home, twelve-year-old Boris Jineman is left with only his older brother and Winterer, the treasured sword of his family, the last tie to the life he has lost. When his beloved brother sacrifices his life for him, Boris becomes the sole guardian of Winterer, a sword coveted by everyone around him. The boy must fend off the many people who come after the blade, and every fight leaves his heart colder and stiffer. Hunted for what he carries, Boris tries to endure a winter that seems to have no end, clinging to the hope of the spring that waits somewhere ahead.

Tsuki ga Kirei Desu ne

In a faraway country where people are born with animal ears and same-sex marriage is an ordinary thing, Chiru Kasuga is the only daughter of a wealthy and powerful family. At seven years old she was engaged to Senri Shinonome, a girl from a household of far lower status, and after that moonlit night the two never met again. Now sixteen, Chiru leaves home to marry a woman she has seen only once. She wonders whether the kind Senri she remembers has changed over the years, and whether a union arranged by their families can ever become a happy one. In Senri's town she finds an apothecary loved by everyone around her, and the fondness the townspeople feel for her fiancée stirs something unexpect