The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur´s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large... more>> estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmer´s terrible news, if you are landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with the reds. What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter? <<less

Yo Hinomura was an ordinary Japanese potter when a run-in with a Chinese mafia changed his life forever. Now an assassin for the 108 Dragons,... more>> Yo is the perfect killing machine. As a sign for remorse over his victims, he sheds tears after eliminating his targets. Because of this, he is infamously known by the Dragons and every other crime gang as "Crying Freeman". <<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

The story is about class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Middle School, where every morning they greet their teacher with a massive firing squad. The teacher is a weird combination of an alien and a octopus that moves at speeds of mach-20. It turns out this creature was responsible for the destruction of the moon, rendering it forever in a crescent shape. He has announced that he will destroy the world in one year. The creature will teach class 3-E how to assassinate him before the year is over.... more>>

Volume 21 contains Tokyo Depato Sensou Taikenki (Tokyo Department War Memoir). <<less

The story revolves around a mysterious place called "Angel's Island" that resides somewhere on the ocean seas. Living on Angel's Island are a species of... more>> merpeople that can live in both the sea and on land. They have the form of a human, but can breath in water as well as on land. Luna is a princess of this species of mermaid living on Angel's Island, but is exiled for breaking some of their rules. As punishment, she is placed inside a sea shell, and set adrift across the sea. Meanwhile Eiji Kusahara, the son of a wealthy Japanese family, meets Soleiu (Luna's older sister) and they try to discover the mysteries behind Angel's Island. <<less

Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story “The Book of Human Insects.” The great honor is... more>> not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy Award, before which she was the lead actress of an established theatrical troupe. Yet, while the media go abuzz, the woman in the limelight slips away from the metropolis; what the sole paparazzo who manages to trail her to an abandoned country house witnesses is an immobile figure of an old woman and the star herself, naked, in a reverie as bizarre as it is erotic… <<less

Andou is a high schooler who possesses the ability to force others to vocalize his thoughts—an ability similar to ventriloquism. Inukai is a young man shrouded in mystery who commands the vigilante group, Grass Hopper, which appeared in a city shaken by the downtown restoration program. This is a tale of courage, resolution…and confrontation; this is a depiction of the two boys’ encounter.... more>>

"Even if it’s nonsense, if you believe in yourself and face things head on, the world will change." <<less

During a turbulent time in the world of murim, Number 2044 was kidnapped as a child and brought to the Demonic Faction in order to train in the ways of assassination. ... more>>

After enduring all of his harsh training and surviving till the end, he was able to earn the title, ‘Mook-Hyang’. However, Mook-Hyang has always had an insatiable thirst, and that was his desire for the sword! It was during this time that Mook-Hyang met his new master, ‘Blade of Illusions, Yoo-Baek’, which became a turning point in his life!

Will Mook-Hyang be able to rise to the Profound Demonic Realm that he’s been aiming for all his life?

This is the story of Mook-Hyang who ends up fighting against numerous martial masters in order to achieve his goal! <<less

<<Honorable Mention>>Draw the game! Two major brands collaborate for a manga competition! Jump and top game publisher Ubisoft team up for a new manga competition! Four of Ubisoft's biggest games: Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, The Division and Far Cry are used as source material. Here are the 5 award-winning works!... more>>

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The killer, Cong Zhong Feng has always despised those who fail to keep their word, especially those first parties who keep changing their requests! When he meets a bald young painter, Cong Zhong Feng agrees to avenge her for free. Who would have expected that along the way, they would meet “a set of Matryoshka”, who is the ultimate target?... more>>

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Takasugi Gen deeply regrets the day he killed his adoptive father. He dies at the age of 46, only to find himself as a teenager... more>> trapped in a world between heaven and hell that nonetheless feels like paradise. Takasugi's fight to regain his family and friends begins! <<less

In a death match where prisoners will be set free after 1000 wins, Elio who bears the sin of killing his brother is let out... more>> into the outside world after three years. <<less

The organization known as “Gigant” has sent one of their best men to kill a cute young high school girl. However, the assassin seems reluctant…... more>> Why did he get these strange orders? What’s the secret behind that girl? <<less

To help pay for her sick mother's medicine, Lydia accepts a job with Lord Evert Drake. While there, she encounters a mysterious, mute girl.

Itsumi is a girl who moved to the city with the dream of becoming a cellist. One day, caught by the sound of her music,... more>> Warren, a mysterious boy, comes in her room through the window. What does fate have for them after this extraordinary meeting...? <<less

Due to reasons, Jinsuke has to live in secrecy with his mother. But they can't stay safe for long. Eventually, their pursuers catch up with them and leave Jinsuke's mother for dead. But their mysterious neighbor Suzuki hears the gunshot, saves Jinsuke, and gets dragged into a murderous chain of events... ... more>>

On the run with the targeted boy, the solitary female assassin Suzuki discovers the warmth of human relationships for the first time.

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Night Raid is a band of assassins who work covertly to cleanse the Capital, a place where greed and corruption runs rampant. Mercilessly killing those who perpetuate its evil, Night Raid aims to help the innocent and pave the way for a better tomorrow.... more>>

While Sheele is training Tatsumi in the forest, the two happen upon a young girl being attacked and save her. The girl, called Nea, cannot see or make her way alone, and they end up taking her back to Night Raid's hideout. Tragic circumstances have forced Nea to seek out her remaining family in the Capital, and having taken a shine to the girl, Sheele resolves to help her. However, with the Capital being the swirling pot of avarice and malice it is, Nea's troubles are far from over.

At another time and place, Night Raid sets their sight on a new target: a group of deadly assassins indiscriminately killing civilians for sport. As Night Raid prepares to deliver retribution upon the culprits, Bulat finds an unexpected dilemma in this routine mission.

Akame ga Kill! 1.5 was originally released as a special 100-page bonus volume bundled with the limited editions of the anime Blu-ray/DVD volume 1.

It contained two side story chapters about Bulat and Sheele, and the opening pages contained a crossover with Isshuukan Friends.

It was rereleased as a standalone tankobon on December 25, 2017, with two new chapters. <<less

Nishino Gokyou, the dull faced highschooler in the middle of the school caste, and the one with the greatest abilities in the neighborhood. While caring... more>> about his appearance, he spends everyday burying himself in his work that makes use of his ability. He has deemed this life of solitude as acceptable. However, those days would not last. The fall of his second year, the virgin recognized the preciousness of youth through the culture festival. He learned of the importance of friendship with the opposite sex. With this, that boy Nishino decides to turn over a new leaf from the simple life he had, along with revising his attitude towards his everyday life, and in order to make a wonderful girlfriend to enjoy his highschool time, he uses every means in his disposal to struggle up the school caste, but the chance of climbing doesn’t look great, this is a, what do you call it, a hard-boiled story (Along with superpowered battles) <<less

I have an obsession with cleanliness—maybe that's why the girls in my class hate me. One day, they locked me inside the Yukimura house, which... more>> is famous in our neighborhood for being packed with garbage. But there, I met the boy I was destined to be with... <<less

Teenage country bumpkin Tatsumi dreams of earning enough money for his impoverished village by working in the Capital - but his short-lived plans go awry... more>> when he is robbed by a buxom beauty upon arrival! Penniless, Tatsumi is taken in by the lovely Lady Aria, but just when his Capital dreams seem in reach yet again, Lady Aria's mansion is besieged by Night Raid - a team of ruthless assassins who targets high-ranking members of the upper class! As Tatsumi is quick to learn, appearances can be deceiving in the Capital, and this team of assassins just might be the good guys? <<less

A homeless girl is rescued and brought home by a hitman. He then helps her out and gives her a place to live.

Karate fighter Raion Ryu is so unflinchingly powerful that, during a sanctioned match, his strikes accidentally explode his opponent into piles of steaming meat. As... more>> punishment he dons a sutra-infused mask to suppress his horrific might and goes into hiding with his psychic sister, but the two are eventually hunted down by his ex-master and the fiancé of the man Ryu killed. While their modus operandi would appear to be revenge, they follow divine instructions from up above—Destroy Ryu before he can awaken as the Antichrist! God himself has put out a hit on our masked hero. <<less

After an asteroid destroys Earth, Moon Yoo unintentionally becomes the last person in existence, or so he thinks. Stuck on a research facility on the moon, he struggles with being the last person alive. Little does he know that humankind is watching his every move from Earth.... more>>

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In a world where elves, dwarves, and invisible dragons live in harmony inside a metropolitan city, Jig sets out to find someone or something that... more>> can unleash the curse that he carries on his back. As he attempts to survive in the city of Jinbocho, a city filled with fantastic secrets and organizations, he encounters many powerful individuals who set out to either destroy him or save him. Will Jig be able to discover the true secret of his curse, or will it lead him to his own demise? <<less

After her mother passed away, a young girl named Pepe disguises herself as a boy in order to work. Keeping her mother's pendant with her,... more>> she travels to a secluded mansion to work as a servant. While working she stumbles across a secret passage leading her to a prison. Behind the prison bars is a man in a pig mask who calls himself Jack. <<less