Zettai Shounen

Land of the Lustrous

In a distant future, Earth is home to the Lustrous, crystalline lifeforms who defend themselves against the Lunarians, invaders from the moon who seek to harvest their bodies for weapons and decorations. Among the twenty-eight gems, Phosphophyllite is the most fragile and brittle, with no visible talent for battle. Longing to fight but deemed too weak, Phos is instead assigned by their master Adamantine to compile a natural history of their world. The task seems dull and pointless, but it brings Phos into contact with Cinnabar, a gem forced to live in isolation due to their dangerous nature. As Phos pursues this seemingly mundane assignment, they begin to uncover deeper truths about their

Brynhildr in the Darkness

Ryota Murakami is haunted by the death of his childhood friend Kuroneko, who died in a tragic accident while they were stargazing. Ten years later, he keeps the promise he made to her by joining the astronomy club and spending his nights searching for proof of extraterrestrial life. His quiet routine changes when Neko Kuroha transfers into his class. She looks exactly like Kuroneko, yet claims to have no memory of ever meeting him. After giving him an eerie warning, she disappears—only for Ryota to discover that she is a witch who escaped from a secret research laboratory where she was subjected to cruel experiments. As more witches seek refuge in the astronomy club, Ryota takes it upon hi

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.

Ceres: Celestial Legend

Aya and her twin brother Aki arrive at their grandfather's home expecting to celebrate their sixteenth birthday. The funeral-like atmosphere that greets them, however, makes clear that nothing about the occasion is festive. Their birthday present turns out to be a mummified hand, and its power forces an awakening inside Aya while leaving painful wounds all over Aki's body. Grandfather Mikage then announces that Aki will be the heir to the Mikage fortune and that Aya must die. On the run from her own family, she finds allies in Yuhi, an athletic cook and martial artist, and in the attractive, mysterious Toya. What none of them can easily contain is the force stirring within Aya herself, a p

Maison and the Man-Eating Apartment

The clock strikes at the single second before the end of the world, and then time stops. Humanity escapes extinction and carries on with its daily life inside a strange and terrible apartment where nothing ever moves forward. Maison is a young girl who holds the title of Landlord by birth. She lives among the tenants of that frozen building, and she stands on the brink of uncovering the secrets it has kept. Between the ordinary routines of its residents and the impossible truth of a world held one second short of its end, Maison's search for answers draws her deeper into the apartment's mysteries.

Rendezvous

High school senior Yi-Yeon Kang awakens from a coma after a brutal beating to find a world shattered by an alien invasion. The familiar streets are now desolate and dangerous, littered with debris and patrolled by the same bullies who put him in the hospital. Weak and disoriented, Yi-Yeon's only goal is to survive this apocalyptic nightmare and find his friend Young-Lin. He must navigate a landscape of relentless bullies and mysterious alien threats, where every choice is a struggle for survival and every encounter could be his last.