Paperakyu

Rising Stars of Manga

Rising Stars of Manga - UK & Ireland

Dragon Head

Teru Aoki is returning home by train after a class trip when the train derails inside a mountain tunnel. Nearly everyone aboard is killed in the violent crash, and amid the bloody wreckage he finds only two other survivors: his classmates Ako Seto and Nobuo Takahashi. Trapped underground with no light, little food, and the stench of death surrounding them, the three teenagers must find a way to survive. Hunger, fear, and isolation begin to take their toll, and one of them starts to lose their grip on reality. As sudden earthquakes shake the tunnel, the survivors realize that escaping to the surface may lead them into an even greater danger waiting outside.

AIDOL

Tadahiro Nasu is a convenience store clerk with a bleak existence, finding his only solace in the virtual performances of Misaki Kanzaki, a former classmate turned idol. Driven to the edge by his oppressive life, he attempts suicide by electrocution. Instead of dying, his consciousness merges with the electrical grid, transforming him into a being of pure electricity with the power to control all connected devices. Now possessing god-like influence over the modern, wired world, Tadahiro dedicates himself entirely to propelling Misaki's career to stardom. He uses his terrifying abilities to eliminate any obstacle in her path, orchestrating elaborate and fatal accidents for those he deems a t

Parasyte Reversi

A veteran detective of the East Fukuyama police department, Fukami, is handed a case that refuses to make sense: three bodies discovered in an abandoned basement parking garage, cut limb from limb while their hearts were still beating. The murders appear to have happened in an impossibly short span of time, and nothing at the scene adds up. The only witness is a high school student named Tatsuki Hirokawa, and his composure in front of the killings unsettles Fukami more than the corpses do. The detective becomes convinced the boy saw exactly what happened and who did it, and that he is holding something back. As Fukami looks into Tatsuki's family, he edges toward a hidden side of the world

Okitenemuru

Kanata and his friend Tokiji are ordinary teenagers living in a modern Japanese city where mysterious deaths have begun to occur: the victims' heads transform into animal faces and explode. The incidents are only rumors until the day one happens at Kanata's own school. Caught in the incident, Kanata awakens a strange ability: he can remove his own limiter and vastly amplify one of his abilities, but once he uses it, another ability runs out of control. Soon after, a mysterious woman in a black skin-tight combat suit named Shiki appears and forces him and Tokiji to become deeply involved in the cases. Behind the deaths stands a shadowy organization, and what begins as a local mystery grows