Walking home from school one day, Noriko is innocently caught up in a terrorist bombing. Rather than being blown to bits, she finds herself transported to another world; a world in which darkness seems on the rise, as its powers desperately search for a being known as the Awakening whom it is said will awaken the Sky Demon. She finds this new world to be dangerous and overwhelming, and Noriko has little choice but to throw her lot in with the mysteriously powerful man she encounters upon her arrival. The enigma of this world and her role in it will gradually unfold, but first things first: Noriko must learn their language!... more>>

In 2004, this manga won the 35th annual Seiun Award for best science fiction comic. <<less

The chance meeting in Ueno between Lin Ge and Hiroki Asano began with a misunderstanding, but the two gradually built their friendship despite language and... more>> cultural differences. This is a cute and funny story of a Chinese boy and a Japanese boy! <<less

I, Teruaki Nakamura, transferred to a school Okinawa and developed a crush on a girl named Kiyan-san, but I don't understand her dialect. Higa-san is... more>> always helping me by translating the dialect. A slightly different cultural love starts on the southern island. <<less

In this world exist three species: the beasts, the humans, and the hunters. Since ages beasts have been the prey of hunters, and humans the... more>> prey of beasts. The story follows a famous and powerful hunter nicknamed Little Red Riding Hood, whom the life will change the day he comes across a young beast werewolf girl... <<less

Kamijou is the envy of all of his coworkers. At the office, he can solve any problem. Outside, he is chased by every girl under... more>> the sun. Kamijou, however, only has eyes for one girl: Xianglan, a Chinese immigrant who works as a waitress in the local Chinese restaurant. She can't see him as anything other than a customer, and her lack of fluency in Japanese prevents her from understanding him. Will Kamijou manage to woo Xianglan, or is he forever fated to fail? <<less

A manga where a crossdressing cosplayer gets a brother.

A human girl falls into the demon realm and can't seem to communicate with the local demon Kuro who found her. Humans are rare in the demon realm and many would love to eat a human. However, Kuro ends up falling in love with her and names her Pochi!... more>>

Kuro decides to help Pochi get back to the human world and protects her from demons that try to eat her. She ends up being able to at least understand them but still can't speak the same language. She meets a demon prince who also shows interest in her as well and their long journey back to the human world begins. <<less

A little girl in a frozen world approaches a strange, yet benevolent creature for help. But when all she can say is the nonsense word... more>> "Tetteleposan", how can he help her? <<less

The Mighty Minotaurus, ruler and protector of the forest, is a powerful but gentle being. One day, a patrol of humans enters the forest and he opts to chase them all away, which they promptly do save for Captain Ruviné, a beautiful and tomboyish young woman warrior with a renowned reputation. While she's seeking quarrel, and knowing that they're not a match for Ruviné, in order to find something to fend her off, one of the forest sprites gives Minotaurus a book of human phrases illegible to the forest beings that one of the Captain's subordinates dropped ... which ends up working, but not in the way anyone expected...... more>>

This is a tale of two individuals who, in spite being in opposite camps, are somehow reaching an understanding through multiple misunderstandings. <<less

On the way home from school, Kashiwagi Aki is kidnapped and finds herself in a world populated entirely by beastmen. She ends up in a... more>> pet store where the overzealous and impulsive wolfman Zinovy becomes infatuated with her and buys her on sight. Thus begins their strange and chaotic, albeit incredibly cute life. <<less

The story begins in the distant future in the far reaches of the galaxy. The Human Galactic Alliance has been constantly fighting for its survival against a grotesque race of beings called "Hidiaazu." During an intense battle, the young lieutenant Ledo and his humanoid mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a distortion of time and space. ... more>>

Waking from his artificially induced hibernation, Ledo realizes that he has arrived on Earth, the planet on the lost frontier. On this planet that was completely flooded by the seas, people live in fleets of giant ships, salvaging relics from the seas' depths in order to survive. Ledo arrives on one of the fleets called Gargantia. With no knowledge of the planet's history or culture, he is forced to live alongside Amy, a 15-year-old girl who serves as a messenger aboard the Gargantia fleet. To Ledo, who has lived a life where he knows nothing but fighting, these days of peace continue to surprise him. <<less

A worker at a Japanese arcade meets a young girl from England, who he strikes up a friendship with.

Hadam, who has just come back to school, learns that Erin, a French exchange student, will be living with her due to an administrative error.... more>>

Will Hadam and Erin be able to conquer their grades and overcome their language barrier to understand each other's feelings? <<less

Various short 4koma scenes about five girls, Shinobu, Alice, Karen, Youko, and Aya, all attending the same school together. The main idea behind all of the scenes are that the two English girls, Alice and Karen (Alice is pure English, while Karen is half-English, half-Japanese), are trying to live in Japan and are trying to learn their culture and language!... more>>

"I made wonderful friends!" <<less

Arisugawa Kiku (aka Arisu) is a Japanese high-school girl who gets really nervous around foreigners. Arisu's father is getting transferred to New York for his... more>> job, so her mother pressures her to sign up for conversational English lessons. Arisu reluctantly goes to class only to discover that she's already met Ish, one of her new instructors! The two had fought over the last can of mackerel at the 100 yen shop the day before. Despite being a rude and sarcastic guy, Ish is actually very popular... Why is it that guys with glasses are just so SEXY?! <<less

A 18-year old-Japanese otaku from Tokyo runs into a cute and lost Chinese cyclist. He offers her to lead the way, and she gladly accepts.... more>> But what happens when her destination turns out to be Kyoto instead of the sports stadium he thought of? Will the Chinese he learned from anime be enough to communicate, and moreover where will this unexpected journey lead them to? <<less

An historical shoujo manga about Spain and Japan. Maria lives a quiet peaceful life in Spain except for the constant affections of Antonio, but fate... more>> changes when Maria trips onto Koujirou, a samurai. <<less

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Manabu is a 3rd year middle schooler & former student council president. Suddenly he's in charge of a new student Rui but she is no ordinary girl - she's an alien! Manabu loses the chance to be with his crush Mizuho who now has a thing for Rui & gets nose bleeds from her cuteness. The teacher is of no help, her focus & nosebleeds are on Rui's hot cousin who is also an alien! ... more>>

The new 2nd year student council body also plays a role in the story. The student president Hikaru is short & hot tempered, he is dating the vice president Nozomi who is tall & gorgeous. The treasurer Kazuma is a good looking guy with a great voice, yet he wears a mask and is madly in love with the cute guy secretary named Touru (who is unsure of Kazuma and his feelings)!

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After the ninja abolition act was passed in Japan, ninjas were forced to relocate. How will 15 year-old Shinoko handle transferring to an American high... more>> school, when she can barely speak English and is still a ninja in training!? <<less

Alice is a transfer student from overseas and can't speak Japanese. Fujimura is a student who can't speak English. Because of the language barrier, Alice... more>> became isolated in the classroom, and Fujimura has become in charge of taking care of her. Is there a way for them to understand each other? <<less

William’s mother is now tired of his fantasies and dreams of traveling to the east. He is in danger of getting married and never being... more>> able to see the wonders of the world! Through his friend Yan’s help, he sneaks on to a Dutch ship that’s heading for Nagasaki, Japan… But he doesn’t even know how long it will take to get there. Then, the ship hits a storm and William, trapped in his hiding place, is thrown overboard. He wakes up to find a girl with curious eyes standing over him… <<less

A spoiled brat from a wealthy Japanese family, Tsuyoshi is unceremoniously shipped off to Korea by his strict grandfather who tells him the family secret... more>> — they’re Korean! Sparks fly when the resentful high schooler arrives at the airport and shares an impromptu cab ride with Kang Be-Ri, a plucky girl who happens to be his new neighbor. Will the two ever get past their differences? And will Tsuyoshi learn to accept his new destiny? <<less

Kooru, a young elementary school girl from Tokyo, is suddenly given the news that she will be moving to Mugentou along with the rest of her family. It's a mysterious secluded island lost to the times and cut off from the rest of civilization. It lacks the many technological advances but has abundant natural life and beauty complemented with many magical and paranormal phenomenons.... more>>

Follow along and see where Kooru's imagination will take her. <<less

A one-shot taking place after the destruction of the world by the Devil Moon. It's about a half-mage who works as the executioner of mages... more>> and a girl-mage who suddenly appears before him. <<less