Manga

Trap Heroine

Chiroda Taishi shares a room with Kohinata Makoto, a boy who wears girls' clothes. Makoto's hands and feet are slender, his gestures and manner are those of a girl, and his presence is enough to make anyone doubt what they are seeing. Is he really a boy? Taishi has always had a conflicted relationship with being fooled by appearances: he is drawn to it and bothered by it in equal measure. Now the trick lives in the same room, close enough for him to notice every detail that does not add up and every one that fits too well. Between shared meals, borrowed clothes and jokes that go too far, the two settle into a daily life where nothing is quite what it seems. Taishi keeps telling himself tha

Even Monsters Like Fairytales

Sylph Biebel is the daughter of a duke, promised in marriage to Prince Mikhail Luxborn and destined to rule the nation. What she truly wants is to become a librarian, a dream no noble lady is allowed to pursue. She slips into the royal library disguised as a commoner and befriends Kanna Copierne, another book lover. When their true identities are revealed, the friendship holds, until Kanna accuses Sylph of bullying her and plotting her murder. Her engagement is annulled and Sylph is locked in a cage and abandoned near the Kingdom of Dagenhelm, home to a king said to devour people. In that land, Sylph is taken in by a young ruler with a passion for stories and starts a new life among books.

Toshiue no Hito

Tsutomu is a college student whose life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a woman unlike anyone around him. She is older than he is, yet smaller in stature, and there is something about her that feels impossibly familiar: she looks just like the girl he has seen in his dreams. Drawn to her, Tsutomu finds himself caught up in a romance with an older woman, one that stirs his heart in ways he never expected. The two grow closer, and their time together moves between warm everyday moments and the confusion of feelings neither of them fully understands. Age is not the only thing that sets them apart, and as the relationship grows, Tsutomu and the woman he met at college learn that the fee

From Maid to Mother

Lily lives in another world, where she serves as a maid in the royal household. In her previous life she was an ordinary high school girl in Japan, and memories of that existence still surface now and then, though she has long since settled into the person she has become. Her reputation rests on the years she spent helping to raise the young lady who would one day marry the crown prince, and it is this work that earns her the name of the Maid of the Royal Family. That routine takes an unexpected turn when Leonard, the court magician, comes to her with a request. He has adopted a daughter named Jill, and he asks Lily to act as the girl's mother. The proposal pulls her toward a role she never

Abe-kun's Got Me Now!

Akari could not think less of her school's karate champion, Abe-kun, even though he holds a national title. He is giant and uncouth, nothing like Takuto, the sweet childhood friend she adores. She has no interest in him at all. When Abe-kun injures his arm while protecting her, Akari feels responsible. She decides to help him recover, telling herself the school's pride is at stake. But her plan takes an unexpected turn when Abe-kun confesses that he likes her. Now Akari is the goal he is aiming for, and she begins to learn how determined a national champion can be when he sets his mind on something.

Getter Robo G

With Emperor Gore and the Dinosaur Empire finally defeated, Earth has little time to rest. A new power rises to take their place: Emperor Burai and his Hyakki, the Hundred Demon Empire, turn their attention to the planet and begin their campaign to conquer it. Ryoma and Hayato return to the fight, and a newcomer, Benkei, joins them at the controls of Getter Robo G, the new machine built to meet the Hyakki threat. The three pilots must learn to work together and defend Earth against an enemy that is only beginning to reveal its strength. The Hyakki Empire keeps pressing its attack, and the conquest of Earth draws closer with every battle. Ryoma, Hayato and Benkei stand against it in Getter

Zai x 10

Robbers, thieves, and other bad people try to go about their business, but they keep running into a problem. The seemingly good people are worse than the criminals themselves. No matter what the outlaws plan, the good citizens find a way to outdo them in pettiness, cruelty, or sheer absurdity, leaving the criminals unable to do anything. When ten criminal acts collide, the situation becomes even more tangled. Each clash brings the bad people face to face with good people who are not what they seem, and the line between right and wrong grows blurrier. The criminals must deal with a world where being bad is not enough, and where every attempt at wrongdoing is met by something worse. The stor

Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY: Dice Killing Arc

After enduring a century of repeating tragedy, Rika Furude finally reaches a world where she and her friends can live in peace. The brutal murders that once ruled Hinamizawa are gone, and Rika begins to settle into an ordinary life. That calm is shattered when she is involved in a traffic accident and loses consciousness. She wakes in an alternate June 1983, a world that resembles her own but has changed in unsettling ways. Satoko Houjou is cold toward her, Keiichi Maebara never moved to the village, and Rika's parents are still alive. Though this reality offers comforts she thought she had lost, it is not the peaceful world she fought to protect. Unsure which life she truly belongs to, Ri

Behind the Scandal

Chan has always been the kind to blend into the background, unlike his friend Dowoon, a celebrity who draws attention wherever he goes for his height and his looks. He fell for Dowoon at first sight and has kept those feelings to himself since high school. Then one day Dowoon asks Chan to be his boyfriend. Bewildered, Chan tries to laugh it off as a joke, but he cannot stop thinking about it. That same day he comes across an article claiming Dowoon is romantically involved with another woman. Was Dowoon serious, or was he playing a mean prank? Chan cannot make sense of the mixed signals, or of what is really going on behind the scandal.

Classroom of the Elite: Year 3

Horikita and her classmates begin their third year as Class 3-A, having started as Class 1-D. With only one year left until graduation, there is no room for even the smallest failure. They must fight harder than ever, but they face an unprecedented challenge: their most influential student, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, is no longer with them. Amid the chaos of losing Ayanokouji to Class C, Horikita's class is confronted with a cruel truth: if they cannot defeat Ayanokouji, they do not stand a chance of graduating from Class A. The battle for Class A has become even more daunting, and their time at the top may be short-lived. Now they must find a way to overcome the odds without their strongest ally

Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon

In a distant future, Japan is divided into feudal territories and conquered by other countries. Humanity has fallen from godhood and returned to a devastated Earth, with only a region in the Far East, Shinshuu, remaining habitable. To accommodate everyone, they duplicate this land in a parallel world called Juusou Sekai. To restore the broken law of causation, they begin a reenactment of history guided by the Testament. In 1413 TE, during the reenactment of the Nanboku-cho War, an accident causes Juusou Sekai to collapse into the original world. Its inhabitants lose their land. Now, aboard the floating city Musashi—eight ships in the sky—students are drawn into a war that will determine the

Yumi to Kurumi

Yumi is a shy, somewhat awkward office worker who has grown tired of her job. She pushes herself to stay committed, but her efforts go unnoticed and her colleagues keep their distance, and she is close to giving up on it all. Then one day she comes across a ragged stuffed doll abandoned on the side of the road. Worn as it is, the doll still seems to be smiling. Yumi takes it home, cleans it up and mends it, and names it Kurumi. Caring for the small doll slowly changes the shape of her days. The time she spends with Kurumi pushes her worries to one side, and for the first time in a long while she begins to enjoy her life again.

The Redemption of Earl Nottingham

Madelyn has spent years enduring a marriage that turned into a living hell. Her husband, Ian, came back from the war a broken man, and the bitterness he carried spilled over onto her. Unable to bear it any longer, she flees and meets a tragic end. But when she opens her eyes, she is seventeen again, back in a time before the war has begun. The future she lived through is still only a possibility, and this time Madelyn has the chance to change the course of her own fate. Yet the question that haunts her is not only about herself. The war has not started yet, and Ian has not yet become the broken man it will make of him. With the memory of a life already lived, Madelyn must decide what part

Ozanari-Kun

Ozanari-kun works in the sales promotion department of Murakami Co., where the ordinary rhythm of office life is anything but ordinary. His boss, section chief Yabusaka, is the one who bears the brunt of it: every day he endures Ozanari's physical and verbal abuse, delivered with the same casual regularity as any other item on the schedule. For Yabusaka, the workplace has become a place of small humiliations and constant friction. Yet somewhere inside his lonely heart, complicated feelings start to bloom, ones he never expected to have for the subordinate who torments him. The story follows the two men through the everyday life of the company, moving between slapstick comedy and the quiete

Jujutsu Kaisen: Thorny Road at Dawn

On a street corner, a talent scout approaches Kugisaki with an offer to become a model. The man turns out to be a cursed speech user with an ulterior motive, and when Inumaki arrives to rescue her, the encounter does not go the way he planned. Elsewhere, Mechamaru sets out on a solo mission, while Gojo and his friends take a night off. Between cursed speech and daily routines, the students and teachers of Jujutsu High find trouble waiting in the most ordinary places. These five short stories follow familiar faces through chilling and charming adventures, each one turning a small everyday situation into something far more dangerous.

Snowball Earth

Yukio is destroyed in battle, and Tetsuo survives in an escape pod. After eight years in cold sleep, the pod finally lands back on Earth. When Tetsuo emerges, he finds a world in ruins, entirely frozen beneath a blanket of ice and snow—a snowball Earth. He does not know what happened to humanity or how the planet froze over. The escape pod that carried him is now his only shelter in a dead world. His last promise to Yukio is the one thing that keeps him moving, but the frozen wasteland offers no easy path. The snowball Earth holds many secrets. As Tetsuo searches for answers, he must also confront the possibility that his promise to Yukio may be impossible to keep. The ice does not care ab

Hell is Other People

Yoon Jongwoo, a young man in his twenties from the countryside, arrives in Seoul to work. With little money to his name, he rents a room in a goshiwon, a cheap and cramped lodging usually taken by poor students, and moves into a building that is run-down and far from welcoming. The other residents are strange, and their behavior unsettles him from the start. Jongwoo decides to stay anyway, telling himself he will put up with the place until he has saved enough to move somewhere better. Then mysterious events begin to pile up around him, and what looked like mere eccentricity takes on a darker edge. Jongwoo comes to suspect that the people sharing the building with him are far more dangerou

Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle

Saku Chitose is the most popular student in his high school: admired by his classmates, trusted by his teachers, and surrounded by a close group of friends. Online insults and rumors follow him constantly, but they barely dent his confidence. As his second year begins, he settles back into a comfortable life among the school's social elite. That routine breaks when his homeroom teacher asks him to help Kenta Yamazaki, a classmate who has shut himself in his room for months and refuses to return to school. Saku expects a quick errand, but Kenta turns out to be firmly on the hate train against him. To protect the reputation he has built and to finish what he started, Saku has to find a way t

All Rounder

The world is full of zombies, and survival now depends on what a person is willing to learn. In this apocalypse, skills can be transferred from experts, letting survivors absorb knowledge and techniques that would otherwise take a lifetime to master. One survivor chooses to prepare for everything. Mental care, wooden construction, heavenly magic, animal communication, mechanical engineering, performance: no field is left aside, and each new ability becomes one more tool for staying alive. Other survivors rely on what they already know, while the all-rounder keeps collecting skills and testing them against the dead. The sprint of the prepared survivor has begun, in a world where being good

Jishou Kanojo no Kouhai ga Iiyottekuru Hanashi

A beautiful girl has decided that a certain guy is her boyfriend. She calls herself his girlfriend, and she flirts with him whenever she gets the chance. He is her senior, and she is his junior, but that does not stop her from coming on to him. She acts as if they are already a couple. The guy is the target of her affection, and she makes her interest known. She comes on to him persistently, treating him as her boyfriend. She is not subtle about her feelings. The story follows their interactions as she continues to flirt with him, insisting on her self-proclaimed status as his girlfriend. He is the object of her attention, and she shows no signs of stopping.

Joshiraku

Five female rakugo storytellers step off the stage and into their dressing room. On stage, each performs alone, seated in traditional clothes, telling a story and playing every part. But the comedy begins once they leave the stage. In the dressing room, they gather to chat, joke, and pass the time together. Their conversations wander from one random topic to another. A simple question can spark wild theories, strange tangents, and conclusions that have nothing to do with where they started. The five friends find endless ways to entertain themselves, turning ordinary moments into elaborate nonsense. The series avoids heavy drama, focusing instead on the easy rhythm of their everyday banter a

Three-sixty Materials

Mio notices Taki, the cool and clever classmate who always seems to move at his own pace, when she runs into him at the subway station after school. Before she can make sense of the encounter, he is pushed toward the tracks, and she pulls him back. The next day, Taki returns the favor by saving Mio from an oncoming car. That second brush with danger leaves her seeing him differently, and it marks the beginning of her love for him. Taki is strange as well as cool, though, and hard to read even for the people around him. As Mio draws closer, she has to work out what the boy who goes his own way is really feeling, and whether those two rescues meant to him what they meant to her.

Gamers!

Amano Keita is a lonely student who devotes himself to gaming. His friend Uehara Tasuku is secretly a fellow gamer, though he presents himself as someone who leads a perfect life. Their circle expands with the arrival of Karen Tendou, the president of the video games club, and Chiaki Hoshinomori, a girl who never misses a chance to bicker with Keita. What follows is a non-stop sequence of comedic scenes and misunderstandings. As these students cross paths, their shared hobby leads to awkward encounters and growing confusion. The result is a chaotic romantic comedy where gaming brings them together and complicates everything.

The Heir

As a boy, Tae-Ha Jin loses his parents and his future as heir to the Cheon-Gu Group, Korea's leading conglomerate, when their family yacht trip comes under attack. Digging into the truth behind the accident, he finds vicious power struggles and family betrayals, and flees to Italy with a vow of revenge. Seventeen years later, Tae-Ha returns to Korea as a man driven by vengeance, determined to make those who took everything from him pay. But the Cheon-Gu Group is a fortress of wealth and influence, and the people who profited from his family's fall have no intention of giving ground. The battle for Cheon-Gu begins.

Everyone's Getting Married

Asuka Takanashi is a successful real estate professional whose dream is traditional: to marry, become a full-time housewife, and create a warm home her husband will always want to return to. She expects her longtime boyfriend to propose, but he suddenly ends their five-year relationship to pursue his own career goals. Soon after, Asuka meets Ryu Nanami, a popular and handsome television newscaster. Sincere about his work and a gentleman to women, Nanami seems to embody the kind of partner Asuka admires, yet he is strongly opposed to marriage and sees it as a hindrance. Though they come from different worlds and want opposite things in life, Asuka and Nanami get along surprisingly well. The

Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home!

Alec is an A-rank adventurer who accepts a request expecting weeks of hard camping: monster attacks, hostile terrain and a party worn down by discomfort. What he finds instead is Shiori, a support mage who calls herself a housekeeping mage. Shiori has so little magical power that she is useless in combat, so she turns her craft to the chores of an expedition. With a precision and a mix of elements rarely seen in this world, she washes clothes, cooks and conjures warm baths, turning a miserable camp into something far too comfortable for the name. Alec is completely taken with her, and so are his companions. Yet Shiori keeps to herself in a way that looks like loneliness, and the reason for

The Great Sage Who Returned from Another World Wants to Live Quietly

Saito is fifteen when he is transported to another world, and by the time he returns to Japan he has become a Great Sage and defeated the Demon King. The door between the two worlds opens and he steps back into his hometown with his power intact, ready for a quiet life. The problem is that nineteen years have passed on Earth while he was gone. Now an adult in a world that moved on without him, Saito runs into Kanako, his childhood friend, who is raising a child on her own. When he steps in to help her, his abilities draw the attention of the mafia and other powerful groups, and someone appears to be targeting Kanako's life. The more Saito tries to keep his head down, the more trouble finds

I Fell for My Friend's Older Sister

Haruto Arisawa is a second-year junior-high student who pays a visit to the home of his best friend, Hisashi Misumi. There he meets Rio, Hisashi's older sister, a college freshman, and falls in love with her at first sight. Rio is gentle, nurturing and ladylike, everything Haruto could want, but she is five years older than him and sees him only as a friend of her little brother. Haruto wants her to notice him as something more, and he is willing to do whatever it takes to prove himself in her eyes. What began as a boyish crush may be something deeper, but the gap between a junior-high boy and a college student is not easy to close.

Fairies Cultivation Manual

Yuan Ding is an otaku whose ordinary life ends when he is transported to another world. Once there, he sits the entrance exam for Shuo Yue Academy, and the result sets the course of everything that follows. That new life has a single purpose: to collect the demon spirits said to exist in legend. The world is full of them, and Yuan Ding wants every one, a hunt that carries him across a land far stranger than his own and into the company of people and creatures he could never have imagined. Between the academy and the search, his days fill with comedy, mischief and the spirits and women he gathers along the way, while the collection he dreams of stays just out of reach.

Ghosts of Greywoods

Marie arrives at Greywoods, a beautiful mansion isolated deep in the countryside, to take a position as its new maid. The household is small: Viscount Rose, his daughter Lady Eileen, the housekeeper, the butler, and now Marie. For Lady Eileen, Marie is the newest and only companion in the house. As Lady Eileen and Marie begin to open up to each other, their hearts may follow close behind. Yet the estate is said to have lingering ghosts haunting its grounds, though the household insists they are not real. Nor are there any enduring secrets, deep-rooted betrayals, or an air of mystery—or so they would have Marie believe.

I'm Not the Hero!

A middle-aged salaryman dies saving a schoolgirl from a truck and wakes up inside the world of his favorite video game, reborn as a character from its opening stages. The new body is handsome, already at level 50 and loaded with skills from every class, which looks like an unbeatable start. There is a catch. That character is only a minor helper meant to carry players through the tutorial, and past that point his growth stalls until he is all but useless. Knowing what waits ahead, he decides to track down the game's real protagonist and hand over the whole business of saving the world, monsters included, while he takes it easy. Nobody else seems to agree with the plan. Wherever he goes, pe

The Classmate Who Is Adored by Everyone Smiles Teasingly Only at Me

Souma is a high school student who dreams of becoming a pastry chef and devotes himself to making sweets. When he shares his desserts with Chika, a classmate admired around school as the Angel of Peace for her gentle, soothing nature, he expects a few polite words of praise. Instead, alone with him, she teases him about how cute his embarrassed face looks. That unexpected side of Chika catches Souma off guard. She hides it from everyone else and shows it only when the two of them are together, and each meeting over sweets leaves him more flustered than the last. As they keep talking about desserts, he finds himself wondering what she really wants from him, and what he has started to want fr

Monkey High!

After her politician father is disgraced in a corruption scandal, Haruna Aizawa leaves her prestigious school for a new one. The friends she trusted cut ties with her as soon as the story went public, and she arrives convinced that school life is nothing but a monkey mountain: cliques that form, fight and make up again, all of it ordered by a hierarchy she has no intention of joining. Then she meets Masaru Yamashita, a classmate everyone calls Macharu, whose earnest manner and baby-monkey face are impossible to ignore. She starts to lower her guard around him without quite knowing why. When she carelessly compares their class to a pack of wild monkeys in his hearing, he asks her where she s

When the Third Wheel Strikes Back

Ye-Seo Jung wakes up one day to find himself trapped in the body of Jesse Venetiaan, the ill-fated second male lead of a hit fantasy romance novel. In that story, Jesse dies in the war while trying to protect the male lead, a fate Ye-Seo has no intention of sharing. His plan is simple: keep his distance from the main characters and stay alive until the war is over, all while searching for a way back to his own life. The story, however, refuses to leave him alone. Christelle, the female lead, and Cedric, the male lead, keep approaching him no matter how hard he tries to slip out of the plot.

I'm Obsessed With My Little Bro!

The older sister is flawless. She is beautiful, intelligent and admired as the president of the student council, and everyone expects her to be composed at all times. Her little brother is the one thing that undoes her. Around him she loses all control, carried away by an obsession she cannot hide, and the household turns into a daily spectacle. As if that were not enough, a crowd of eccentrics keeps gathering around them: a friend who is not quite right in the head, a younger sister with a sister complex of her own, a former punk running the convenience store, a hardcore masochist and a loli-con, among others.

Our Little Empress

Adel has always wanted a family to love her, and for a moment it seems she might get one. When it becomes clear that she is the Child of Prophecy destined to lead the empire, Duke Aizen adopts her and brings her to his castle. There is a catch: the arrangement is meant to last only a month. With her future uncertain, Adel sets out to win over the people around her — her reserved adoptive father, a maid who wants nothing to do with her, and the colorful group of guards who watch over the estate. Bit by bit, she begins to think of the castle as home. Being good, however, may not be enough. Between the prophecy that hangs over her name and the doubts of the household, Adel has one month to pr

Me~teru no Kimochi

Koizumi Shintarou is thirty years old, a virgin, and has isolated himself in his room for fifteen years. He lives with his father, Koizumi Yasujirou, and has become a burden to him. One day, Shintarou makes a proposition: if his father gets a girlfriend, he will come out of his room. It turns out that Yasujirou already has a girlfriend. Yoshinaga Haruka is a young, beautiful woman who is with him for her own personal reasons. Yasujirou and Haruka decide to get married, but Yasujirou dies during their honeymoon. After his death, Haruka decides to take care of Shintarou. The two of them begin living together as a strange mother-and-son pair, bound by a situation neither of them planned.

Gisèle Alain

Gisèle Alain owns an apartment building and has decided to take on any request her tenants and neighbours bring to her, offering her services to anyone who asks. To help her, she drags along Eric, a resident who owes her rent and has little say in the matter. Their first job is to find a cat that another resident lost three days ago. Following the trail, the two of them come across a suspicious man carrying cats away towards an unknown alley, and Gisèle sets out to find out who he is and what he is doing. Between odd requests and the daily life of the building, Gisèle's quiet, good-humoured service business takes shape, one errand at a time.

Wicked No More

A reader wakes up in the body of the empire's only duchess, a villainous woman feared and hated by her husband and son. In the novel, she is the evil mother-in-law destined to die for tormenting her daughter-in-law, Liliana Everett. Determined to avoid that fate, she decides to befriend Liliana before the girl becomes her daughter-in-law. She rescues the abused child and raises her, hoping that Liliana will take her side when the story reaches its cruel conclusion. But changing the plot is not simple. No matter what she does, the people around her seem determined to cast her as the villain. At the same time, Liliana, her son, and her cold husband begin to treat her with an affection she ne

Na Honja EX-geup Sohwansu

Summoned creatures are ranked from the lowest F-rank up to the highest S-rank, and every summoner knows where their creature stands on that scale. The rank decides how a summoner is treated, what they are offered, and how far they are expected to go. One summoner's creature does not fit. When its rank is measured, the result is EX, a category that sits outside the scale entirely, above S. Nobody, the summoner included, can explain it, and the question that keeps coming back is a simple one: why is this summon EX-rank? The story follows that summoner from the moment the impossible rank is revealed, along with the questions that come with it. What an EX-rank creature is actually capable of,