The manga is set in 1968 in Japan, where, against the backdrop of student movements, N, a man with a criminal past, makes the acquaintance... more>> of T, a young comedian intent on making a career in the film industry. T wants to shoot "Unlucky Young Men", a chronicle of a disillusioned Japanese youth ready to do anything to realize their dreams; to finance the film, the two begin to think about attacking a van carrying 300 million yen... <<less

Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo...among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off--you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP--gives them a direct line to the dead...the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation.... more>>

The five form the Kurosagi ("Black Heron”-their ominous bird logo) Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! The kids from Kurosagi can smell a customer a mile away--it's a good thing one of the girls majored in embalming! <<less

After a long absence, the young shaman Samizo Kohei returns from the dead with a prophecy of the apocalypse. Or part of him returns, at... more>> least - most of his body has been replaced with the transplanted body parts of his former friends, all retaining their distinctive personalities. He returns to his home in Shinjuku, where he works as a psychic surgeon in an unlicensed clinic. Here he serves as the unofficial guardian of the Shinjuku underground, solving paranormal murder mysteries, with the assistance of an assortment of other bizarre mystics and semi-human allies. Meanwhile, the others wonder exactly what Kohei has become, and whether he has returned to prevent the apocalypse, or to initiate it. <<less

The main character is a detective, Kazuhiko Amamiya, suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder (a.k.a. Dissociative Identity Disorder). Starting out as a violent detective series with... more>> a twist (the twist being the variant personalities that take over Detective Amamiya at various intervals), the series evolves into an exceptionally complex and involved sci-fi conspiracy story. <<less

Toko is a shy, awkward girl who hates her summer holidays. They just don't seem to end, and she's right. She is stuck on August... more>> 31st. Every day's the same as any other August 31st, except when a new character comes and changes how her whole day goes, and what she learns later on is not what she wanted to know. <<less

Two brothers, Shunpei and Kyouhei, have very opposite characters but share a crush on their cute sister Anko. The three of them live with their excentric father, may (or may not) have diffferent mothers, have fun, lots of tantrums and try to lead a happy life in junior high school.... more>>

Eiji Otsuka and Sho-u Tajima at it again, Eiji in a much more minor role this time, however. In any case, this a relatively older and short comedy series (4 volumes) that should be a fun break from their usual mayhem with MPD (Multiple Personality/Dissociative Identity Disorder) .

In 1994, this manga was published as a whole under title "BROTHERS High School". <<less

Meet the extended staff of JDC, quite possibly the oddest detective agency ever formed, which includes a strange boy with a circle tattooed around one... more>> eye, a man missing his mouth, another man in a ball-gag, a woman in a cartoon mask, a socialite… and yet they all come together to solve murders that ordinary police cannot seem to grasp, and there’s a reason for that… <<less

A Sci-Fi story in which the world as we know it is just a fragment of the past. By the writer of MPD Psycho, Leviathan,... more>> Brothers, and Madara, Japan delves into several interesting topics, such as the importance of genealogy and history, in an enjoyable fashion. <<less

Spin-off taking place during Meiji period around 1897.

On the seventeenth birthday, a virgin must be sacrificed. But why?