Young Aaron is unjustly sent to a reformatory, where he meets Fire Wolf--older, a born rebel, and a talented singer. After Wolf dies in a motorcycle crash, Aaron becomes a rock musician, thus beginning a frenzied odyssey through late 1960s America. Tormented by visions of Wolf, Aaron explores drugs, mysticism, and love.... more>>

This series won the 1969 Shogakukan Manga Award and features the first sex scene in shoujo manga. <<less

Zhang Yi was one step away from becoming an immortal in his previous life, but with the chance to do it all over again, he... more>> must not follow the same path as in his past life. <<less

One day, a gate suddenly opened in the heavens, bringing with it the invasion of monsters and the intervention of monks in the human world.... more>>

『Miracle Drug “Coffee” Administration』

『Medicinal Contents: Caffeine and Sugar』 ☞ Provides energy ☞ Stimulates the central nervous system ☞ Maximizes senses and reflexes

The whole world appeared to slow down, and Hanyul’s medications began to show their true effects. <<less

Riku experienced a lot of pain and tragedy in his early life. After his father's death, a former-boxer Yakuza man taught him how to do... more>> a basic punch, and that punch saved his life when he had to defend himself from his mom's drug dealer. He ended up taking the drug dealer's life, marking him as a killer. Criminals continued to come after him, leading to more tragedy for the people who attempted to care for him. All of this drove him to ask that same former boxer to teach him to become stronger, which led him to a rundown gym, his door to the world of pro boxing. <<less

A Japanese soldier in Manchuria meddling in the opium trade.

The sequel to Blood Rain. It follows Lee Jung Woo and Kim Jong Ill.

Kujo Saburou is an "ordinary" high schooler, hyperactive and strangely interested in mysterious (alien) things. He quickly becomes friends with a new transfer student, Shima... more>> Ango, who happens to find him in a game of hide-and-seek. But what he doesn’t know is Shima’s true goal: the extermination of mononoke terrorizing the Tokyo area. Caught in the middle of their fight, Kujo loses his head, unsealing an Oni inside of him... <<less

Jesus is about a high profile assassin who plans to fake his own death, laying low from all the mafia hitmen and the FBI that are after him. He plans to live the rest of his life with the money he could get from smuggling the drugs he stole from the mafia gangs - one of the reason he is chased. His plan fails and he couldn't get those drugs his old time friend hid for him, because they somehow happened to be concealed in a school's wall, with a super strength blackboard in front of it.... more>>

He has no choice but to pose as a high school teacher to guard his stash, trying his best not to get caught while being involved in crime cases. <<less

Confidential Confessions is a shocking new manga series that deals with many of the hard-hitting issues that teens face today. Using emotionally moving storylines and multi-dimensional characters, each groundbreaking volume tackles such topics as teen prostitution, rape, HIV, stalkers, suicide, and sexual harassment.... more>>

V.1 -

1-3. The Door

4. Mistakes

V. 2 -

Tears

V.3 -

1. Our Future

2-3. Dizziness

V.4 -

1. Pain

2. Distortion

3. Tomorrow

4. Forbidden Kiss

V.5 -

V. 6 -

Series order as published by Kodansha:

1: Itami (いたみ) (Pain)

2: Himitsu (ひみつ) (Secret)

3: Memai (めまい) (Vertigo)

4: Uwasa (うわさ) (Rumor)

5: Namida (なみだ) (Tears)

6: Tobira (とびら) (Door) <<less

Gin is a tall private eye with a dangerous side project crafting potent drugs for mobsters. He's also an inept swordsman whose most powerful tool... more>> is... bluffing. Gin's about to get his butt handed to him when a short but deadly fighter named Ian rescues him with a ridiculously large weapon — just who is this shorty?! Despite Gin's best efforts to eject this annoying (albeit talented) kid from his life, danger knocks on their door. They've got big cases to solve and bigger secrets to discover. <<less

In this new spinoff of the hit manga, a newbie Red Blood Cell is one of 37 trillion working to keep this body running. But... more>> something’s wrong! Stress hormones keep yelling at him to go faster. The blood vessels are crusted over with cholesterol. Ulcers, fatty liver, trouble (ahem) downstairs… It’s hard for a cell to keep working when every day is a CODE BLACK! <<less

Taken from Wikipedia and Dangerous Pleasure:... more>>

After being devastated in the third World War (known as The Third Division), Japan was divided in two. Several years after the end of the war, a crime organization called Vischio has taken control of the destroyed city of Toshima (formerly Tokyo, Japan's capital city), where they are holding a battle game known as "Igura". The main character, a young man named Akira, is falsely accused of a crime. Once arrested, a mysterious woman appears before him, offering him freedom if he agrees to participate in Igura and defeat Igura's strongest man: the king, or "Il-re". The story follows Akira's life in the harsh, lawless Toshima as he fights both to survive and to unravel the mysteries developing around him. <<less

Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock 'n' roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip, and all-night parties!... more>>

Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo in 2002.

Note: The Nana oneshots that introduce the MCs appeared in Cookie's first two issues in late 1999 and early 2000. The "first" compiled volume was out as volume "one", which was before the regular serialization's beginning. So you can see as the irregular serialization began with oneshots as Cookie was irregular magazine. Because of this, the series generally tagging and counting as "90s" series on Japanese sources. <<less

Eurenia, the eldest daughter of Count Vincent, famously lost her eyesight and voice when she saved the madam of the Euclid dukal family from a fire.... more>>

The truth, however, is that while she did save the duchess, her loss of sight and inability to speak are due to a drug she was forced to take in order to blackmail the Euclids into marrying her to their oldest son Cassius, the future Duke of Euclid. Treated as a pawn and puppet by her family, she was used and then discarded only to die from the sideeffects of the drug.

She thought that was the end, but no: When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to four months earlier, before she had betrayed her husband by order of her family. This was her chance to divorce Cassius, who was forced to marry her, then find a cure for the sideeffects of the drug that had robbed her of her sight and voice but…

"Is the reason you've been avoiding me all this time just because you're afraid of being discovered?"

His purple eyes almost pierced her body, "It isn't because you hate me?"

Suddenly his eyes turned red, "May I come near you now?"

Then his ears also turned red... <<less

She was kidnapped by a man all over the city! "Hey, give me a baby..." This black belly prince madly pets the young wife.... more>>

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She encountered him by mistake but now he won't let her get away that easily. And he seems to be a real prince?! <<less

"It's my first time, and neither of us would have expected anything like this to happen. You are my first and only woman, I will... more>> take responsibility." Li Feng, who came back from a mysterious land, wielded his superior skills and conquered his hardships along the way, fulfilling his goals and finding love at the same time. <<less

Kubota Makoto wandered through life, not taking things too seriously or looking too deep within himself. His job as the head of the Izumo Group's... more>> youth gang kept him pleasantly occupied with yakuza wars, mahjong and assassinations... Until the day he stumbled upon a strange drug called Wild Adapter that produces bizarre side-effects -- including death. Forever changed, Kubota becomes entangled with a drifter named Tokito Minoru, and the two form an unlikely companionship that draws them deeper into the mystery of Wild Adapter. <<less

In the year 2000, a Chinese nuclear experiment went wrong mid-transit, resulting in Japan falling into ruin. Those who survived were housed in Japanese based American military facilities to escape from the deadly radiation and learned to live following regimented lives of labor and learning.... more>>

To relieve the boredom, a recreational drug called "Zero" was created and sold illegally. Taking the drug induced a dream filled sleep where people saw their lives as they were in the year 2000. And in the cases of those who hadn't been born before 2000? The most they could surmise is that they saw who they were in their past lives.

But it seems something is brewing below the surface, and those past lives may just hold the answer. <<less

Morio Chito,41, who lives with his wife and daughter, runs his own flower shop. Business is bad, and his wife has taken up a part-time... more>> job to help make ends meet. Then, at a class reunion, an old friend Kagayama comes to Morio with a proposition to help him with his financial troubles... <<less

Collection of short stories.

Note: It should be noted that the webcomic was originally published on Naver, but that version has now been canceled. The author started a new version on TTale.... more>>

Note 2: TTale is no longer in service. See . <<less

A negligent mother, an affair, a broken family, domestic abuse, and drugs are among the subjects in these Goth short stories that revolve around the... more>> lives of teenagers with complicated problems. <<less