The Hero Wants to Die

Dandadan

Momo Ayase is a high school girl who believes in ghosts but thinks aliens are nonsense. By chance, she befriends a boy at school who is obsessed with the occult and UFOs, but rejects the existence of spirits. She nicknames him "Okarun." To settle their argument, they make a bet: Momo visits a spot known for UFO sightings while Okarun heads to a haunted tunnel. Their separate excursions prove both of them wrong, as they discover that aliens and ghosts are very real. The encounter leaves them marked by bizarre powers and throws them into a chaotic world of yokairaqs and extraterrestrial threats. Together, they must deal with the surreal dangers now disrupting their everyday lives while navig

All You Need Is Kill

Keiji Kiriya is a new recruit in the United Defense Force, fighting against the alien Mimics that have invaded Earth. Equipped with a powered combat suit called a Jacket, he is sent to the battlefield with little training and dies on his very first deployment. Instead of staying dead, he wakes up the day before the battle, forced to relive the same fight and his own death over and over. Trapped in a time loop triggered by his demise, Keiji must use each repetition to sharpen his skills and find a way to break the cycle. His only lead is Rita Vrataski, an elite soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch, whose own experience with the loop may hold the key to survival. Together, they face the rel

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Naho Takamiya is sixteen and starting her second year of high school when she receives a letter that seems to be from herself ten years in the future. At first she dismisses it as a prank, but the letter predicts events that soon come true, including the arrival of a new transfer student named Kakeru Naruse. The letter asks Naho to watch over Kakeru and warns that her future self carries deep regrets about him. As she reads on, she realizes that the choices she makes now could change not only her own future, but Kakeru's as well.

86―EIGHTY-SIX

The Republic of San Magnolia claims to have ended casualties in its long war against the Giadian Empire's autonomous drones, the Legion. By deploying supposedly unmanned drones of their own, the government assures its citizens that the fighting now takes place far from them, without the loss of a single life. But beyond the walls protecting the eighty-five official districts lies the hidden Eighty-Sixth Sector. There, the Colorata minority, stripped of their humanity and branded as the Eighty-Six, are forced to pilot the Republic's 'unmanned' weapons. Handler Vladilena Milizé is assigned to command the Spearhead Squadron, where she confronts the brutal truth her country denies and grows att

Btooom!

Ryouta Sakamoto is a 22-year-old unemployed young man who still lives with his mother. In the real world, he is a nobody, but online he is one of the top players of the combat game Btooom!, a title he has mastered to perfection. His uneventful life is blown to pieces when he wakes up on a tropical island with no memory of how he got there. He soon discovers that he has been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game, where the bombs are no longer virtual and the only way out is to kill seven other players. Forced to fight for his life in a hellish free-for-all, Ryouta must use all his skills to survive long enough to figure out who is behind this deadly game and why he was chosen.

DARLING in the FRANXX

In a devastated post-apocalyptic future, Earth is a ruinous wasteland. Humanity’s only remaining strongholds are mobile fortress cities called Plantations, defended by giant robots known as Franxx. These machines are the only weapons effective against the klaxosaurs, massive beasts that have pushed mankind to the edge of extinction. Within the Plantations, children are raised for the sole purpose of piloting the Franxx in boy-girl pairs, knowing nothing of the outside world. Hiro, a former child prodigy, fails out of the piloting program after falling out of sync with his co-pilot. His existence seems unnecessary, as not piloting a Franxx is the same as ceasing to exist. Skipping his group'