The Vertical World

7 Seeds

Natsu Iwashimizu wakes up on a sinking ship with no memory of how she got there. Rescued by three strangers—Arashi, Semimaru, and Botan—she makes it to a deserted island that turns out to be Japan, transformed beyond recognition. A meteorite struck Earth and wiped out humanity. Anticipating the disaster, the government launched the 7 Seeds project: five teams of seven young people and a guide, kept in cryogenic sleep until the planet became habitable again. Natsu and her companions belong to Summer B, the group made up of those society considered failures. Now awake in a hostile world, they must find one of the seven government shelters, learn to survive, and figure out how to coexist with

Astra Lost in Space

In the near future, space travel has become a reality. Aries Spring and eight other students from Caird High School set off on their first Planet Camp, a weeklong excursion to the distant planet McPa. Among the group is Kanata Hoshijima, an athletic and determined boy who keeps his wits about him. Shortly after arriving at their destination, a mysterious sphere of light appears and sends the entire group hurtling into deep space. They awaken 5,012 light-years from home, stranded and alone. Their only hope lies in an abandoned spaceship drifting nearby. Now the nine students must work together to pilot the ship and survive the long journey back. But as they travel, they begin to suspect tha

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.

HEART GEAR

Two centuries after World War III, the world lies in ruins. Roue, a young human girl, lives a quiet life with Zett, a gear, or droid, who acts as her guardian. Together they explore the remnants of the old world, salvaging what they can. During one of their explorations, Roue discovers and accidentally activates a strange new gear named Chrome. Unlike other gears, Chrome has no base program, the core directive that defines a gear's purpose. Roue and Zett take him in, forming a makeshift family and encouraging him to find his own reason for being. Their peaceful days are soon threatened when a violent, insane machine attacks their home. Chrome must now fight to protect the only family he ha

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World

Kino travels the world on the back of Hermes, an unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle. Together they roam from country to country, never staying in any one place for more than three days. Each land they visit has its own customs, laws, and ways of life, and every stop brings new encounters. Through their journeys, Kino and Hermes witness happiness and sorrow, kindness and cruelty, beauty and decay. As they move along the road, they come to understand that the world is full of imperfections. And yet, it is precisely those imperfections that make it a beautiful place.

Joshi Kouhei

In the future, colonists who migrated to an alternate dimensional space rebel against Earth, seeking independence. The United Army of Earth answers with a long, multi-dimensional war, and the battlefronts keep spreading with no end in sight. Hoping to break the deadlock, the United Army deploys a new weapon in vast numbers: the Assault Girls, machines shaped like teenage schoolgirls that render every earlier weapon obsolete. Corruption eventually claims every pilot, and those who succumb turn rogue. To hunt them down, the army fields the 13th Independent Assault Girl Hunting Platoon, nicknamed the Hyena Platoon, crewed by outcasts and criminals.