Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been... more>> suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover a new dream called the Koshien. However, the road to the Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them. <<less

Detroit Metal City is about a death metal band that has gained immense popularity in the indie scene. ... more>>

The main character is a push-over, Negishi Souichi, who is trying to make a living in the music world, but he didn't imagine in his wildest dreams that it would be in such a band. Read and see what hilarious situations he gets himself into. <<less

Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed, transformed himself into something else. Something hard. Something lethal. Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life...and what's left is revenge. ... more>>

The manga that inspired hit Korean movie.

Note: Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan in 2007. <<less

A rather morbid, sombre manga about two high school students, Kamiyama Itsuki and Morino Yoru, who have a peculiar interest in deaths and especially in murders that are committed near to them. Due to their strong fascination with murder and highly-developed analytical skills (along with some luck), they manage to solve the murders that have even eluded the authorities. However, acting on their own sense of justice and in self-interest, the murderers are often able to escape with the murders that they have committed. Often, it is Kamiyama that solves the cases even to the most subtle of details, but he is only interested in one thing, and that is the method by which Yoru... more>> should be killed.

Note - Regardless of appearances, the fact that this was serialized in Shounen Ace makes Goth a shounen manga. <<less

Hayato Igarashi has worked together in a Chinese restaurant with Shouko Mishima for a little while. As the reserved Shouko grows closer to him Hayato realizes his greatest wish is to keep her smiling. Will her tragic last relationship stop that? And what'll happen when a new guy comes to eat at the Chinese restaurant?... more>>

There's a movie with the same name that came out in 2006 featuring Koike Teppei. <<less

When Park Chulsoo was young he fell in love with Sowon. Sowon liked animals so Chulsoo liked animals too. When he became older Chulsoo became a zookeeper and Sowon became a groomer. Sowon got married to a veterinarian. A year later the zoo which Chulsoo works is closing down. Now Chulsoo try to find a way for the zoo not to close down. His only reminder of his love Sowon.... more>>

A movie, is based on this webtoon. <<less

Several oneshots: ... more>>

1) Overhearing a Flower Song

(Spring story) "During these past few days I've been on [cleaning] duty, there's been the sound of a guitar coming from that old school building that we've been barred entry..."

2) Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light (Hotaru no Mori E)

(Summer story) "I met him when I was six years old. On a scorching hot Summer day, in a forest that legend says is home to many spirits and monsters..."

3) The Fallling of Autumn Leaves

(Autumn story) "To me, back then, it was in order to stay by my beloved Kaede... that I came up with the most brilliant plan."

4) Deepening the Scar

(Winter story) About a sister and brother who reunite because their family decides to get together again after 8 years. But things will never be the same as they were in their innocent days...

The reprint contains the identical title story as chapter 1 (Hotarubi no Mori e), and three additional new stories:

2) Taion no Kakera

3) Hoshi no Mienai

4) Hotarubi no Mori e - Special Chapter <<less

Strippers try to stop a zombie infestation.

This successor of the long selling Heisei classic "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves from Hiroshima City to Kure, where she encounters uncertainty in her new family, her new city, and her new world. However, she manages to live each day healthily and happily.... more>>

Note: Was a Jury Recommended Work in the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival and won the Excellence Prize in 2009. <<less

Moyoco Anno lifts the veil on life in the Edo period pleasure quarter, Yoshiwara. The story follows Kiyoha, sold into a brothel as a child... more>> and forced to work as a maid and her rise to prominence as one of the top-ranking courtesans in Yoshiwara. The allure of the "flower and willow world," as it was called by artists in the day, is underscored by the very real tragedy, heartbreak and difficult lives led by those seemingly glamourous courtesans. Will Kiyoha’s fox-like wiles give her a chance to break free of her gilded cage? Or will her fighting spirit ruin her chances of ever escaping the brothel? <<less

From Tapas: Dongkeun and Shi-Jin used to be in love. They used to go on dates. They used to flirt. They used to raise a cat together. And then, they broke up.... more>>

The cat ended up staying with Dongkeun and life simply went on.

However, as they say, every pet is simply a tragedy waiting to happen. So when their beloved cat passes away, Dongkeun seeks out Shi-Jin in order to give the cat and possibly himself, some much needed closure. <<less

A two-part prologue special to the movie Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions set between the end of the Yu☆Gi☆Oh! manga and the beginning of... more>> the movie. <<less

Even by today's standards, this is a startlingly dark, bleak, violent manga about a justice-seeking hitman and his associates. It has more than enough action,... more>> sinister bad guys, and occultish themes to satisfy any action manga fan. <<less

All penniless college student Taiga Mutou wants is a cool job and a cute older woman as a girlfriend. So when he spies a Help... more>> Wanted sign outside an office and a hot girl inside, he applies for the job, no questions asked. After a few bumps at the beginning, things start going Taiga's way, prompting him to steel his courage and ask out Yuiko, that hot girl he spied through the window, on a date. And when she later asks him if it's okay that she's a fujoshi (a very, shall we say, distinct kind of comics/animation geek), he tells her it's fine out of sheer excitement. But poor Taiga has no idea how much trouble he's just gotten himself into! <<less

In the Mimi (w)o Sumaseba series:... more>>

V.1 - Mimi (w)o Sumaseba

Shizuku Tsukishima loves books. One day, she notices that the name Seiji Amasawa appears on the checkout cards of nearly every book she's borrowed! Before she realizes it, her heart is pounding for a boy she's never met... and that's when a mysterious black cat and Shizuku's sense of wonder guide her to an unusual shop--and introduce her to someone she's been curious to meet! Amazing things can happen...when you listen to your heart.

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V.2 - Shiawase na Jikan

Two years into the future, and Shizuku is now preparing for her entrance exams. The second story, "Kikyou no Saku Koko" (The Blooming of the Balloon Flowers), is an unrelated original story. Tsuge Takayuki is a normal college boy, who, one day, sees a girl admiring the flowers in his front yard, and was reminded of a girl who stood by the flowers one year ago, crying in the rain. He falls in love with her, but will her injured heart accept his feelings? <<less

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Mongolia ruled over all the Chinese Continent, the Mongols, the Hans, and Koryo (ancient Korea) migrants were... more>> engaged in racial conflict. The son of a Koryo migrant, Jin Ha, and the daughter of a Mongol general, Seol Li, become friends and eventually fall in love. However, when Seol Li's mother dies of a chronic disease, her merciless father Taruga takes her to So Heung with him. She promises to wait for Jin Ha at a pagoda in So Heung on the day of every full moon. But against their will, they become swept up in the current of these tragic times... <<less

Chatting online one day because she had nothing to do, Ye-won encountered Ji Eun-Sung, one of the four kings of Sang High School, and picks a fight with him over the internet. Ji Eun-Song later calls Ye-Won and harasses her for insulting him and finds out the school Ye-Won attends, Doil All Girls High School. Angrily Ye-Won hangs up on him and later goes to the hair salon only to coincidentally meet up with Ji Eun-Sung who instantly recognizes her as the girl who insulted him. ... more>>

Threatening to hit her, Ye-Won escapes the scene only to have Ji threatening her again that he would find her at her school.

The following school day Ye-won attempts to skip classes to avoid being seen by Ji Eun-Sung, but instead accidentally ends up kissing him while trying to jump down from her school's wall. Due to the kiss, Ji Eun-Sung, to Ye-Won's disgust, tells Ye-Won to take responsibility for his first kiss by becoming his girlfriend and eventually marrying him!

Ye-won hated him who is selfish and finical, but unconsciously, she got attracted to him. As the story progresses Ye-Won notices a more gentle and caring side of Ji Eun-Sung...This guy seems to have a broken heart. Finally, Ye-won decided to hug and embrace his hurt... <<less

Shy Chise and nervous Shuji are high school seniors in a small town and have just started dating. But everything changes when Shuji discovers that... more>> Chise has been engineered by the Japanese Self Defense Force to transform into the Ultimate Weapon! Soon Chise is torn between realizing her potential as a devastating fighting force and her desire to share a bowl of ramen with her new boyfriend! <<less

I was born as a dog. For us, we are the "revolutionary warrior," for them, we are a "spy." I was born as dog, and became a monster. The greatest republic's revolutionary monster.... more>>

The story revolves around an elite North Korean spy, Won Ryu-hwan living in South Korea. Through unwavering faith in an environment much different from his home. Living covertly and gloriously for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. <<less

Halfway... more>>

After graduation, a young couple must figure out what they'll do about their relationship now that they're going to different universities.

Kyou Dake no Unreal

A girl learns to cope with the death of someone she hated in her youth and comes to terms with that hatred.

Hoshi wa Hi ga Kureru Made Nemuru

A girl reunites with her childhood friend, only to find that he's quite different from the boy she once knew. <<less

Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town... more>> is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return... <<less

Akira is set in the post-apocalypse Neo-Tokyo of 2030, a vast metropolis built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by an apocalyptic blast of unknown power that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when dormant paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, who becomes a target for a shadowy government operation, a group who will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like that which leveled Tokyo. And at the core of their motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear. A fear of someone or something, of unthinkably monstrous power known only as "Akira".... more>>

Note: Won the 1984 Kodansha Manga Award for best general manga, won the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material in 1993. Was nominated for the Harvey for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work in 2002. Won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material in 2002, the Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project in 2002 and The Akira 35th Anniversary Edition won the Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project in 2018. <<less

A one-shot taking place after the Captain Tsubasa manga and before the manga World Youth. Tsubasa isn't in Japan anymore, the High school national championship... more>> is ending, and Japan's players will make three friendly matchs against the Hollanda Youth. <<less

After suffering numerous interstellar wars, mankind has finally formed an interstellar union. However there are still many disputes and wars occurring amongst the members of the union itself. In order to resolve these problems, a secret organization, known as GOTT, is formed. They employ agents with special powers to fight for the organization. Agents Eclair and Lumiere are two girls with outstanding abilities, and they are assigned as partners. Together, they fight, and slowly uncover more and more about the secret of the organization that they work for.... more>>

Side story that takes place between episode 2 and 15 of the Kiddy Grade anime. <<less

Why me? It was to be the last thought a young prostitute, Rune Balot, would ever have…as a human anyway. Taken in by a devious... more>> gambler named Shell, she became a slave to his cruel desires and would have been killed by his hand if not for a private investigator and his self-aware Universal Tool, Œufcoque. Now a cyborg, Balot has not only physical powers, but the ability to disrupt social environments. She chases after Shell, his partner-in-crime Boiled, and faces down a variety of insane villains in this pulse-pounding cyberpunk noir adventure. <<less