Kou Yamori seems like a typical middle school student on the surface. Relatively good at studies and amiable with his classmates, he puts a lot of effort into maintaining this facade. One day, however, he decides to stop pretending and quits school, developing insomnia as a result of having no daytime outlet for his energy. When taking walks alone at night, he feels marginally better, though he is aware that his inability to sleep should be considered a serious problem.... more>>

On one such walk, Kou meets a weird girl, Nazuna Nanakusa, who diagnoses the cause of his sleeplessness: despite making changes in his life, he is still holding himself back from experiencing true freedom. She says that he won't be able to sleep unless he is satisfied with how he spends his waking hours. When it appears that she has resolved his current worries, Nazuna invites him back to her apartment to share her futon. After a while, unaware that he is only feigning unconsciousness, she leans over him—and bites his neck! <<less

If you're born in Japan and you play football, you'll eventually want to wear the national team uniform! It's the same for everyone! Ichijou Ryuu is a boy whose dream is to become a Japan national team player. With his twin childhood friends, Yuuto and Yuki, their first goal is to win the Japan Under-12 Football Championship!... more>>

The excitement of a one-on-one! The tension in front of goal! The elation from pulling off the perfect link up play! The essence of what makes football enjoyable is here.

Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Best Shonen Manga in 2014. <<less

A Detective Conan spinoff featuring Amuro Tooru, a man of three faces - Bourbon, the Black Organization operative, Amuro Tooru, the private detective and Café... more>> Poirot waiter, and Furuya Rei, the NPA officer. Delve into his everyday life that no one's seen before! <<less

Living in the mountains with his grandpa and his two little sisters, Lacile has always looked to the sky. He has dreams of seeing the fabled Flying City of the Heavens -- and one day his dream just might come true.... more>>

One day, he crosses paths with a strange girl named Leana who has the peculiar ability to float away unless she wears heavy steel boots that keep her on the ground. Like Lacile, Leana has dreams -- she wanted to see the outside world just once before she’s married off. But when machine soldiers pursue her, Lacile learns the truth: Leana is actually the princess of the Ariadne Empire, and her home floats in the sky... <<less

Hakuba Keijiro doesn't have any interest in girls, until he meets a beautiful girl that is also very unusual. The girl in question is dressed... more>> in an old-fashioned style, and seems to have nearly complete amnesia. The only thing she remembers is that her name is "Hiiragi." Keijiro gets his parents to take guardianship of her while they look for her real family, and Hiiragi moves in. But who is she, really? Is she a princess, come through some kind of time-slip? Is she something supernatural? Hiiragi herself would like to know... <<less

Shindo Manabu is a student at a very prestigious high school whose goal is to get into Tokyo University. He studies constantly and tries to... more>> never lose sight of that goal. That is until his childhood friend, Amano Megumi, who goes to the same school starts to distract him. He originally only remembered her as the tomboy she was as a kid, until he notices how "developed" she has become. As these two get closer to each other, hilarity often ensues and subsequently, Manabu becomes more and more distracted from his goal of getting into Tokyo U. <<less

Shinichi Kudo is a high-school student who, by using observation and deduction, is good at solving mysteries. While investigating one, he is caught by the criminals that he was watching and forced to take an experimental drug. Leaving him for dead, the criminals disappear. Instead of killing him, however, the drug turns Shinichi into a little kid. ... more>>

To preserve the illusion of his 'disappearance,' Shinichi adopts a new name based on his favorite author (Arthur Conan Doyle) and becomes Conan Edogawa. Ran, his (actually Shinichi's) childhood friend takes this little boy under her wing and brings him to her home.

Conan now lives at a detective agency run by Ran's father, but his mind is as keen as ever and he continues to solve mysteries... always allowing Ran's father to take all the credit.

As far as everyone's concerned, Conan is just a little kid anyway... even to Ran. This is *extremely* frustrating to Conan since nobody will listen to a 'little boy.' Despite this, Conan has a mission... to find the criminals who did this to him and get the antidote to that drug.

Note: Won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2001. <<less

Shigeharu Honda is a Japanese League batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Momoko Hoshino, Goro's schoolteacher, is the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.... more>>

Note: Won the 41st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1996. <<less

Yumesaki-san has a problem. Every day she is given a new, random supernatural ability by an anonymous person called God. But for what purpose?

In the near future, large mechs called Labors are made to assist in various reconstruction projects in major countries around the world that are being threatened by global warming. In Japan, the government has enacted Project Babylon in order to conduct land reclamation. Labors are also being pressed into police and military service, aside from civilian use.... more>>

However, terrorists are now attempting to use Labors to make themselves heard, as well as common criminals, thugs and guerrillas. The National Police Agency established the Special Vehicles Division, an all-Labor task force to combat the potential use of Labors for criminal/terrorist activities.

Note: Won the 36th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shounen manga in 1991. <<less

Milia, the great witch who has reached the pinnacle of evil, has fallen in love for the first time... with her arch nemesis "The Hero"?!... more>> She has the highest magical power, but her experience in love is nil. Now the witch begins her quest to discover more of this "Love" in this romantic comedy! <<less

The fantasy story centers on Zabi, who ventures into the outside world Utopie in order to save his kingdom of Tolso, the last human nation... more>> which is fast running out of land and resources. <<less

A mysterious mansion has towered proudly over the Tokyo district of Numanakarai since the Taisho period. Those who enter either never escape, or leave having... more>> experienced horrors untold, and with the desire to take revenge. <<less

Every 30 years, a new princess is chosen from the Hime family to serve the Hayagami. The time has come again, but over these past... more>> years, records state not a single female has been born, save for one, the 15-year-old Arata. The only problem is, Arata is actually a male! Forced to disguise himself and take the place of the princess candidate until a formal one can be found, he attends the festival only to witness the current princess, Kokuri-hime, murdered, and his own life is forfeit as well, by the hands of the princess' personal guard, the 12 Shinshou. As he runs for his life, Kannagi of the 12 convinces everyone that Arata is the one who has murdered the princess instead, and now everyone in the Imperial Court is after his head! Now, another Arata from our world has crossed over in Arata's place! How did this happen, and how will these two survive? <<less

Yaiba's whole life has been spent training to be a samurai and he doesn't know about anything else, not even girls. When he returns to Japan, a pair of cursed swords makes life even more exciting... and hilarious.... more>>

Note: Starting at chapter 80, started using bunko scans, so the volume numbering is a little different.

In 1993 Yaiba received the Shogakukan Manga Award. <<less

Scientists predicted an imminent meteor impact on Earth that would annihilate civilization, but contrary to their prediction, the meteor missed Earth. Though avoiding immediate destruction, humanity found that the meteor left behind something in its wake, something that would change the course of civilization forever: a new form of bacteria that ate through all known metals.... more>>

Facing this new era where all metals turn to ash, Jinkichi and his classmates will have to survive with little help from the Japanese government. Some of his classmates have already begun to understand that the norms of the past have collapsed, and lawlessness will be the new law. Jinkichi will have to protect himself as well as his classmates from the violence that ensues. <<less

"Standing above all and controlling the masses. That is the way of life I aspire to!"... more>>

Ikurumi Akuto is the top of his class in every subject, including sports, and he knows it. The son of a well-known politician, a degree of arrogance is to be expected. But Akuto takes it to a new extreme with his condescending and self-important attitude. It doesn't help matters that his effeminate voice makes him a target of constant ridicule by his "lower class" schoolmates.

Then Harusaka Nari enters his life, and Akuto's controlling personality is thrown off kilter by the optimistic but manipulating young seiyuu. With his life on the line, he agrees to be a voice in her Anime Research Society's project for the upcoming Cultural Festival... as the female lead?! <<less

Darren Shan was an average kid until destiny brought him to the Cirque du Freak. Now Darren’s been immersed into a shadowy world inhabited by... more>> vampires, werewolves, and strange creatures the likes of which he’s never imagined, and his life will be changed forever! <<less

Tired of constantly being compared to his prodigious older sibling, Riku, Raimu decides to take him head-on by surpassing him in the field of basketball.

The story follows Detective Xeno, who after being found collapsed at the side of a road covered in blood and was taken to a hospital the first thing he said upon awakening was solving a murder that happened in the hospital!... more>>

Xeno himself has no memory of who he is or where he came from, but after that huge incident and after leaving the hospital, he opened up a detective agency and in just a year he solved some high-profile cases. <<less

Tsukishiro Sou chose to enter the same high school as his childhood friend Kashiwagi, for whom he secretly has feelings for. He happily spends each day at school with her, despite knowing that she chose to go to this school to chase after her first and current love interest.... more>>

Sou's eyes possess a special ability inherited from his vampire father, called "Temptation." Its power allows the user to make anyone their "captive" just by making eye contact with them. These "captives" will do anything for their "master" no matter how dangerous or unfavourable it is. Sou sealed this power because it led to the death of his mother, but it unexpectedly ends up activating. A story of a pure, dark love twisted by the power to control the hearts of others. <<less

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When Futaro was five years old, his father left his home. Futaro's mother got sick in poverty. Also, Futaro has a ugly face, like Quasimodo.... more>> He's been discriminated against and treated like trash by almost everyone in his neighborhood. Finally, his mother dies because they can't afford medical treatment. Burying his mother's body, Futaro makes up his mind to do anything for money... <<less

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Tatsuhiko Shiroyama hates being stuck in the boonies. Greetings from strangers feels fake, part-time job prospects are limited, and he's been "blessed" with the nickname... more>> "Niyayama" from his classmates due to his creepy, unsociable attempts at smiling. He turned to the radio as a means to escape, and thinks about nothing more than saving up for a move to Tokyo where he can explore his passions. But Tatsuhiko's life changes forever when he saves a rich CEO from a rice paddy and is set up with his granddaughter, the equally as shy and antisocial Tamiko Mita. Together, the two stumble through the nuances of "dating", and Tatsuhiko's dreary days become a whole lot brighter. <<less