Manga

Nosatsu Junkie

Naka is a young model trying to make a name for herself, but she carries a problem that shows up every time she steps in front of a camera: when nerves take over during a shoot, her face tenses into a terrifying grimace that ruins the picture. Her rival at the agency is Umi, the most sought-after model on the roster, whose composure and success make Naka's own struggles sting all the more. Then, away from the lights and the photographers, Naka stumbles onto a secret Umi keeps hidden. What she learns changes how the two of them see each other, and the rivalry that plays out in front of the cameras starts to look very different once nobody is watching.

Mission-chan's Great Adventure

A young girl takes her own life and wakes up in a strange, harsh world. Rather than an end, she finds herself alive in a place she does not know, far from anything familiar. What follows is not a heroic journey but the slow business of continuing to exist. The days pass in surroundings that offer her little comfort, and she has to find a way to live in them while carrying the weight of what brought her there. Quiet, ordinary moments alternate with a growing unease about the world around her and about herself. The story follows her as she tries to make a place for herself in this new life and to understand what she has become.

Shakugan no Shana

Invaders from the Crimson Realm have descended upon Earth in search of the Power of Existence, the force that sustains the very fabric of reality. Whoever holds that power holds existence itself, and the beings who cross into this world will stop at nothing to claim it. Standing against them is an otherworldly girl whose eyes burn with fire. Small in stature and easy to mistake for an ordinary child, she possesses a preternatural strength far beyond anything human, along with a sword of considerable size. She steps forward to meet the invaders and to protect the world they have come to consume. The struggle centres on the Power of Existence itself, a prize that decides not only who rules t

Dokuhime

From the cradle, poison is fed to her. Herbs are laid under the mattress, hidden in the sheets and the clothes, stirred into the milk she drinks. Day after day her body learns to endure what would kill anyone else, until the child becomes a perfect instrument of murder: a girl whose kiss, whose tears, even the lightest touch bring death. They call her the Poison Princess. Raised for one purpose only, she is sent into enemy lands to carry out the duty she was made for. There she must live among people who would destroy her if they learned what she is, and her only chance of survival lies in completing her work as an assassin while keeping her heart whole enough to endure it.

Shinjuku Swan

Shiratori Tatsuhiko is a bum wandering the streets with no money to his name when he meets Mako, a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukicho, Shinjuku's red-light district, that recruits girls for the adult entertainment industry. Tatsuhiko quickly learns the techniques of scouting and becomes even more attracted to how much money he can make. But the industry is maintained through lying, deception, violence, and greed, and it is deeply connected to the yakuza. Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle with rival talent scouts and the criminal underworld. He wants to keep the morals he has, but it gets progressively harder as he gets deeper into the other side of society.

Fate/Apocrypha

The Greater Grail was removed from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War and vanished for many years. In the 2000s, a group called Yggdmillennia openly declares its secession from the Mage's Association and claims possession of the Grail. The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, but all but one are instantly killed by Lancer of Black. The sole survivor activates the reserve system of the Greater Grail, enabling the summoning of fourteen Servants in total. This begins the Great Holy Grail War in Trifas, fought between two factions: the Black Faction, composed of Yggdmillennia members, and the Red Faction, sent by the Mage's Association with the exception of one from the Church.

Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

At the age of ten, Adele von Ascham is struck by a terrible headache, and with it come memories of another life: that of Kurihara Misato, an eighteen-year-old Japanese girl. That life ended abruptly when Misato died trying to help a little girl, an encounter that left her standing before a god. Before she was reborn, Misato made an odd request. She asked for her abilities in her next life to be average, wanting nothing more than an ordinary existence. Adele's second life, however, does not go the way she planned. Few things, especially wishes, ever do, and the average abilities she asked for turn out to be something quite different from what she had in mind.

Dungeon Sherpa: The Labyrinth Guide

Dungeon sherpas guide adventuring parties through the dark, winding paths of the labyrinth and carry their provisions, a job without which even veteran heroes would not survive an expedition. Rho is a young sherpa in Tyros who has earned a name for himself thanks to his exceptional ability to read the treacherous depths of the dungeon. One day he accepts an offer to guide the Twilight Blade, a renowned party of heroes, on their descent. Combined with Rho's unmatched knowledge of the labyrinth, the group advances toward territory no one has reached before. The deeper they travel, the greater the dangers waiting below, and not even the strongest adventurers can be sure their combined strengt

The Tax Reaper

Jae-Hyeon Sin can see a number floating above every person's head: the exact amount of tax they have illegally withheld. It is a gift that makes him painfully aware of the dishonesty running through the business world around him. When he uses that ability to blow the whistle on someone inside his own company, he is fired for it and branded a traitor across the industry. With no place left in the corporate world, he chooses a different path and becomes a government employee, determined to go after the white-collar criminals who grow rich through tax loopholes. Now he works from the inside, hunting the crooked businessmen and civil servants the law has failed to touch, one hidden debt at a t

Kirei na Kimi ni Korosaretai.

Hijiri Tomoaki works as a university counselor, living a quiet, ordinary life that leaves him quietly unsatisfied. Everything shifts when he reunites with Amawashi Hajime, a strikingly beautiful young man from his past whom he has not seen in more than a decade. Hajime's beauty is matched by an air of mystery he never quite explains. Soon the strange problems his patients bring into his office stop staying there. Bizarre phenomena creep into Tomoaki's daily life, blurring the line between the cases he is meant to treat and whatever is closing in around him. Tomoaki has to work out what these unsettling events really are, and why Hajime has chosen this moment to reappear at his side.

Pokémon Adventures: Black & White

Black is a young Trainer who arrives in the Unova region with a single goal: to become the Champion of the Pokémon League. On his journey he meets White, a young woman who runs the BW Agency, a Pokémon acting company, and who dreams of raising the finest Pokémon actor in the region. Each chases a different kind of victory as they travel across Unova. Their path soon crosses that of Team Plasma, a group that believes Pokémon should be freed from their Trainers, and of the mysterious N, whose convictions place him at odds with what Black and White are working for. As the two pursue their own goals, they must work out what the bond between a Trainer and a Pokémon really means, a question that

Azumanga Daioh: Extra Lessons

Sakaki, Yomi, Tomo, Chiyo, Osaka, and Kagura return to the classroom in this collection of extra lessons. Across three chapters, each devoted to a different year of high school, the friends move through classes, routines, and the small events that shape their days. The focus stays on everyday life, where ordinary moments become comic through their interactions. As the school years advance, the six face whatever each year brings. Each chapter follows its own year, showing how their friendships and routines continue to develop. The comedy comes from the ways they handle high school life together, in and around school. These extra lessons offer more time with the cast as they navigate student

Woof Woof Story: I Told You to Turn Me Into a Pampered Pooch, Not Fenrir!

Routa Okami is a corporate slave who works himself to death. In his final moments, he wishes to be reincarnated as the pampered pet of a rich family, living a life of leisure. A goddess grants his wish, and he is reborn in another world as a dog belonging to the daughter of an extremely wealthy household. At first, Routa believes his dream has come true. But within a month, he grows so large that he easily towers over humans, and he realizes he is no ordinary dog. Despite this, he remains determined to pretend to be a normal pet at all costs. He stubbornly clings to his desire for a comfortable life, hoping to avoid any trouble that might come from being something more than he appears.

Weak Teacher

In the world of Moorim, no name carries more weight than that of Gwi-Myeon-Dok, the finest assassin the martial world has known. His reputation rests on work done in silence, and his skills are the kind that other schools whisper about rather than test. Now his special discipleship is about to begin. The greatest of killers is to become a teacher, a role he was never meant to fill. A man trained to end lives must pass on what he knows, and the lessons that follow are as much comedy as combat. Master and pupil have to find their footing while the murim around them keeps its eyes on the assassin's name. What starts as an apprenticeship turns into a test of whether the finest killer alive can

Top Boys & Queen Bee & Kitazawa in A-class!!

Masashi Kitazawa starts his second year of high school hoping to lead an ordinary life. Nobody around him knows that the confident, good-looking boy they see was a fat child, or how much the bullying he suffered back then still shapes the way he speaks, hesitates and second-guesses himself. Years of dieting and hard training changed his body, not his timid personality. His new class turns out to be anything but ordinary: Class A has gathered the most popular and attractive students of the year, and Kitazawa cannot understand what he is doing among them. Then Ayame Yagyu, the most beautiful girl in school, hands him a secret invitation. The two end up knowing something about each other that

Chikotan is Broken

Miyahara Chiko is a mysterious girl who never seems to talk to anyone. She always wears a pair of headphones and a scarf, a silent figure who keeps her distance from those around her. Her unusual appearance and complete lack of communication make her an enigma to everyone who sees her. No one knows why she is so quiet, or what she might be hiding behind that composed exterior. Is her silence a choice, or a necessity? As Chiko goes about her daily life, the people she encounters can't help but wonder about the girl behind the headphones. The story slowly unravels the mystery of Chiko's true nature, exploring the gap between her silent facade and the person underneath.

This Man

In 2006, a woman in New York told her psychiatrist about a man she kept seeing in her dreams, and the portrait she sketched was made public. When people around the world claimed the same face appeared in their sleep, This Man became an urban legend. In present-day Japan, forensic sketch artist Hakaru Amano lends his skills to the Kumamoto police. Hoshiko Akesato asks him to draw the man who appeared outside her home the week before, and the face that comes from his pencil is This Man. Soon after, Hoshiko witnesses This Man murder her mother, and Hakaru's apartment is set on fire. The killer warns that death awaits anyone who lays eyes on him, and it becomes clear he has allies within the c

I Became the Tyrant's Chambermaid

Lee Chae-Rin dies and wakes up inside a dark fantasy novel as Rose Estania, a chambermaid serving Kalix Forsman, the tyrant crown prince. The only things she brings with her are the hotelier skills she learned in her own world and a diary left behind by the real Rose. The diary offers cryptic hints but no escape route, and the palace is crowded with Kalix's enemies, where a single misstep can be fatal. Keeping the prince's wrath in check becomes a daily matter of survival. To get back to her own world she has to survive the court, decode what the diary is trying to tell her and handle a prince whose temper decides whether she lives or dies.

Gate 7

Chikahito Takamoto is a shy high schooler whose sightseeing trip to Kyoto leads him to a legendary shrine, where he crosses paths with Hana, a high school girl from Kyoto and the daughter of a temple caretaker. What begins as a simple visit turns into something else when he steps into a hidden realm that exists alongside the everyday world. Hana and her companions fight to protect the ordinary world from the beasts that slip out of that realm. Their powers have no effect on Chikahito, however, and that immunity convinces them he is no ordinary, awkward teenager. They invite him into their war, though he is far from sure he wants to be caught in the middle of it. What keeps him there is Han

Darling, Give me a break!

Kokoro Sakurazaka, a young man who is half Italian and half Japanese, moves to a small village in the Japanese countryside. His open, friendly nature quickly wins over the people around him, but Haiji Nakata, a local delinquent raised in that same rural town, is not so easily charmed. Haiji soon notices that Kokoro, for all his warmth, is oddly helpless: he is touchy-feely with everyone and lacks the basic skills to look after himself, even though money is not a problem for him. Against his own instincts, Haiji starts keeping an eye on him, and the distance between the two begins to shrink. What Haiji still does not know is the real reason Kokoro left everything behind to come to Japan. Wh

Virtual World: Close Combat Mage

Gu Fei is a martial arts instructor who has spent his life settling fights with his fists, so when the holographic online game Parallel World launches, he has no doubt about what he wants to play: a Fighter. His student Ah Fa sends him an account, and Gu Fei logs in ready to brawl. The character waiting for him is a Mage. Rather than abandon the account, he decides to make the best of the mistake and carry his habits into a class built for casting spells from a safe distance. Instead of keeping away from his opponents, he closes in and fights hand to hand. The result is a mage who charges into melee, and the other players have never seen anything like it. Between the limits of his class an

Shen Ze

Since childhood, Xu Shenze has been caught up in the same strange dream. The dark shadow that dream casts over his life grows with the years, until one day the shadow becomes real and the life he knew is torn to shreds. His parents meet a gruesome end, and a series of strange and disturbing events keeps happening to him. Alone and afraid, he hears about a place known as the "dream town" and decides to go there in search of answers. Its residents call it both a holy land and a purgatory, and Xu Shenze arrives hoping to learn why his nightmare has followed him into the waking world. What waits for him there are the terrible truths behind the dream that has shaped his life.

The Undetectable Strongest Job: Rule Breaker

Hikaru dies in a traffic accident and wakes up in the afterlife, queued among souls waiting to be judged. Before his turn comes, a stranger offers him a way out: transferring his soul into a body in another world. The deal comes with the Soul Board, an ability that lets him spend points on skill trees and decide what he will become. The offer has a condition. He has to take revenge on someone within an hour, or his soul will be destroyed. With no time to weigh his options, Hikaru pours every point he has into the Stealth skill tree. In a world he knows nothing about, he has to make his way with a build nobody would expect, turning his skill trees into weapons and proving that strength does

Only Hope

Eun-Hye Ju believes she has a perfect marriage to Do-Jin Nam, until she discovers a hidden basement in his villa and learns that her husband is hiding something terrible. Before she can understand what she has found, the house goes up in flames and a masked intruder kills her. She wakes nine years in the past, on the very day she first meets Do-Jin. Her memories intact, she has a second chance to retrace the steps that led to that night and to uncover the secret he keeps buried, even as the man she once loved becomes the man she now fears. Living through a past she already knows, Eun-Hye must decide how close she can stay to Do-Jin without being pulled into the violence that surrounds him.

Blade & Bastard

Deep in the unexplored floors of a dungeon, a corpse is found—one that should not exist. The man who rises from it is Iarumas, a resurrectionist who has lost every memory of the life he lived before death. He now spends his days retrieving the bodies of fallen adventurers, collecting his finder's fee whether God grants them a second chance or reduces them to ash on the altar. His cold, utilitarian manner earns him grudging respect and open scorn in equal measure, and the living keep their distance; Iarumas consorts mostly with the dead. Everything changes when he meets Garbage, a feral young swordswoman and the sole survivor of a massacred party. With her at his side, Iarumas ventures deepe

Ecstas Online

Kakeru, a high school student, is trapped inside the virtual reality game Exodia Exodus, reincarnated as the Dark Lord Helschaft. Unlike the other players, he can still take human form. Among those trapped with him are his classmates, including Ririko Asagiri, the girl he has long had a crush on. Ririko and the other students swear to defeat the Dark Lord and return to their own world, unaware that the demon king they are hunting is one of them. Kakeru knows that a player who dies in the game loses their consciousness in the real world, so Helschaft's death would endanger everyone. To protect the people who matter to him, he faces his classmates in battle while drawing on a forbidden power

Jimi Joshi x Osekkai Danshi

Takashi Sudai works at a candy company, where a promotion puts him alongside a new colleague, Chikako Kobayashi. Kobayashi keeps to herself: she is shy, unsociable and deliberately plain, hiding her figure because her chest has caused her trouble in the past. Sudai is the opposite, a man who cannot resist meddling in other people's business, and he sets out to help her come out of her shell. Between office routine, awkward silences and small misunderstandings, the two slowly grow closer than either of them expected. What starts as a co-worker's well-meant concern becomes something Sudai has trouble naming, while Kobayashi has to decide how much of herself she is willing to show.

The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess

Konoha Satou spent her middle school years writing a self-indulgent fantasy romance about Konoha Magnolia, the daughter of a count, and the knights who adore her. When it looks like her mother is about to uncover that dark history, she panics, dies in a traffic accident and wakes up inside her own story, reborn as Iana Magnolia, the most despicable villainess she ever created. The plot she knows by heart now works against her: the villainess is meant to meet a miserable end, so remembering every detail of the original script is a matter of life and death. Just as she begins to find her footing, a mysterious stranger returns from the Lily Kingdom: Yomi, a character she has no memory of writ

Even In This Excessively Cruel Other World, Suzuki Is Cute

Suzuki is a kind-hearted young man who dreams of a quiet, heartwarming life in another world. When he is finally reincarnated, he receives a cheat ability that promises unconditional love from every local species, and he pictures himself raising cute animals in a peaceful land. Instead, he opens his eyes in a blood-soaked wasteland where humanity is on the verge of extinction, ruled by demons who think nothing of massacre, torture and looting. His gift looks useless there, and his only real weapon is his own overwhelming cuteness. Yet every demon that lays eyes on him starts to act strangely, and Suzuki decides to use that charm to survive and to soften a world built on violence.

Demonic Frontline: The 13th Flying Dragon Company

Jin Seonu has always been the embarrassment of his clan. When his family sends him away to the frontlines, he builds a new life there among soldiers and monsters, far from the home that never wanted him. Years later, that life ends at the hands of his own brother. Then he opens his eyes and finds himself ten years in the past, standing exactly where he once began. The war, the comrades he lost and the brother who killed him are all still ahead of him, and this time he knows what is coming. Armed with that knowledge, Seonu returns to the frontlines, determined to prove himself for real instead of surviving on luck and other people's pity. But a second chance does not mean the same choices,

Torikagosou no Kyou mo Nemutai Juunintachi

Sixteen-year-old Kizuna Etou spends her nights on the city streets with a group of high school dropouts, flirting with middle-aged salarymen and coercing them out of their money. The group calls it The Game, and its final rule is absolute: nobody is allowed to quit. The thrill has worn thin, yet Kizuna cannot walk away, and her everyday life leaves her restless and unsatisfied. Then Inoue Yuki, a fellow resident of Birdcage Manor, approaches her with an unusual proposal: to model in the nude for her cousin, the painter Yuusei Asai, who also lives there. Kizuna takes the job, and the two of them, each stubborn in their own way, slowly begin to unsettle the habits they have held on to and to

Run Wild

Jiang Cheng is an accomplished student whose life is turned upside down when he discovers that he was adopted. His adoptive family abandons him and sends him to live with the biological father he has never met, a vulgar man with a gambling addiction in a run-down steel mill town. Everything about his new life, from the shabby surroundings to the man he is now supposed to call family, drags him into depression, and he drifts through days that seem to offer him nothing. Then, by chance, he meets Gu Fei, known around the steel mill as a delinquent, who shines like a bright light in that bleak city. Little by little, the two become each other's salvation and hope.

The Doctor Is Out

Rita Estelle knows what is coming: Duke Erwan Cereus falls gravely ill, dies, and the rebellion that follows drags the country into chaos and takes her life with it. A sorceress gives her a second chance and sends her back to the past, and Rita resolves to use her medical genius to stop the disaster before it begins. Her plan is simple. She gets close to the young duke, treats him and keeps him alive so that no rebellion ever starts. She pushes her way into his household, lecturing him about his health, his food and his immunity, and watches him grow strong under her care. The more time she spends at his side, however, the more she suspects that his illness was never natural. Someone wante

I Tried Asking a Hot-Tempered Gal Out on a Date

The protagonist works up the courage to ask Kirishima, a gyaru with a notoriously short temper, out on a date. Though the request itself is simple, her fiery personality makes every step of the approach unpredictable. As he tries to navigate her quick anger and unpredictable moods, each interaction turns into a blend of comedy and awkward romance. Misunderstandings arise easily, and he must figure out how to communicate with someone whose reactions are never what he expects. The story follows his efforts to get closer to her, balancing his own nervousness with her explosive temper. The story explores the growing tension between them, where every conversation could lead to either a laugh or

The Middle-Aged Man Who Just Returned from Another World Melts His Fathercon Daughters with His Paternal Skill

Nakamoto Keisuke is summoned to another world at fifteen and only manages to defeat the Demon King at thirty-two. With his role there finished, he returns to Japan, where the welcome awaiting him is a middle school diploma and a seventeen-year blank period on his record. No decent job will take him, so he spends his days on part-time work. Then a beautiful girl turns up at his door claiming to be the reward owed to the hero who defeated the Demon King. Angelica comes from the other world and keeps pressing him to take her as his wife, while a high school girl who resembles Elsa, the woman he lost over there, drifts into his life as well. Between the two of them, his old cheat skills and the

Hoshikawa Ginza District 4

Matsuda Otome is a home-schooled girl who has been through a difficult past. She now lives under the care of Nakagawa Minato, a teacher who has taken her in and looks after her day to day. As time passes, Otome begins to notice small details in Minato's routines, things that do not quite add up. Curiosity turns into suspicion, and she starts investigating on her own, following the traces of a life her guardian keeps separate from the one they share at home. The closer Otome gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to leave it alone. When she finally confronts Minato, the question between them is what her guardian will choose to say, and how much of it Otome is ready to hear.

I Want to Put the Cheeky Asahi-chan in Her Place

Ryou is a third-year high school student who is enjoying his otaku life to the fullest, but one particular girl keeps getting on his nerves. She is Asahi-chan, his cheeky childhood friend, two years younger and a student at the same school. Although she is his junior, she never misses a chance to tease him. Whenever Asahi-chan is teased back, though, she is at a loss for words and makes a defeated face, insisting that no one can say anything mean to a cute girl. She also has few friends and is not very honest about her feelings. For Ryou, the daily teasing has gone on long enough, and he is not willing to let his cheeky junior have the last word forever. He decides that someday, somehow, s

A Badboy Drinks Tea!

Masaya Funabashi is a high school delinquent known as "Devil Ma-kun" due to his fearsome appearance. He has been repeatedly entangled with thugs and beaten up, perhaps because of his devilish face. When he enters high school, he wants to start over and live a peaceful life. But his reputation precedes him. During club recruitment, other students avoid him on sight. Then a female student asks him if he would like some tea, and he joins the tea ceremony club. He hopes the club will help him find calm and change his ways. Now he must balance the serene practice of tea ceremony with his violent past, trying to reform his image while others still see him as a threat.

Necromancer Survival

Choi Yikyung is weak and unconfident. When he first finds out that he is a user, he thinks he has finally hit the jackpot. In his mind, Necromancy seems like the ultimate mix of cool and interesting. He has no idea that the Necromancer class is the weakest of them all. He enters the newly reopened Tower of Spirits in search of enhancement materials and is sucked into a mysterious area of the dungeon. There he encounters a frightening corpse. A quest window pops up: he has made a pact with Seo Dawon, a vengeful spirit. Having a companion or two does not hurt, especially if one of them is the spirit of an ultra powerful and handsome young man. It is dangerous to go alone, after all.

My Little Sister Can’t Be My Girlfriend

He has a little sister whose face rivals a model's, whose style stands out in any crowd and who, on top of everything, has a great personality. Living beside her every day is, for him, the most ordinary thing in the world, though to anyone watching from outside, the closeness between the two of them looks more than a little strange. The brother and sister get along better than anyone expects, and their routine at home and at school draws looks, comments and questions they would both rather avoid. Between the affection he feels for her and what other people insist on seeing, he has to work out what his little sister really is to him. That is the starting point of a romantic comedy about a b