Sengoku Akira and his classmates are travelling on a plane when it crashes onto an island inhabited by species thought to have been extinct. The... more>> situation becomes increasingly desperate as some of Akira's classmates are eaten alive, while some kill others in desperation. Now Akira and a few other survivors are trying to survive what seems to be a horrible nightmare. <<less

Touma Sou graduated from MIT, but he comes back to Japan because he wants to know how it feels to be a high school student. On the other hand, Mizuhara Kana is a strong girl who loves sports. Together, they are partners in solving cases that happen around them.... more>>

Won the 33rd Kodansha Manga Award for shounen in 2009 (shared with ). <<less

High school student Kindaichi Hajime - frequently accompanied by childhood friend and (future) love interest, Nanase Miyuki - travels to various places where baffling and convoluted murders have taken place, which he then proceeds to solve thanks to a combination of brilliant deductive skills, talent at performing and figuring out magic tricks, and plain ol' good luck.... more>>

Winner of the Kodansha Manga Award for shounen (1995).

Note: Tokyopop's release grouped volumes by mystery, so the English and Japanese volumes don't match up. Tokyopop's volume 17 ends with chapters that appear in the first half of the Japanese volume 23. <<less

Set in nineteenth-century America, Red is the last living survivor of a Native American tribe that was slaughtered by white men. On a long journey... more>> in search of revenge, he travels with Iero Ito, a samurai who ran away to America after being defeated in the Seinan civil war, and Ann, a mysterious prostitute. The bonds of friendship between the three are touching. Although it is all fiction, the story seems very real as it is based on actual battles between US troops, Apaches and other tribes. <<less

Asagiri Aya is a young girl who has fallen victim to bullies at her school. Looking for a way to escape her troubles, she looks to the internet for distraction, when a mysterious website called “Magical Girl Site” appears. Simply viewing the page is all it takes to hurtle Aya headlong into the deadly world of the Magical Girl Apocalypse. There, it’s fight or die, against a seemingly endless array of savagely adorable, frilly-skirted killing machines, each armed with magical powers and an unquenchable thirst for blood and chaos.... more>>

(Source: Seven Seas) <<less

The "prison survival action" story is set after the sudden emergence of special powers in certain pockets of humanity. To deal with these so-called "Altered,"... more>> a mysterious remote island prison named "Area D" was built. <<less

Who do you think lives next door? A college student? A secretary? A foodie? A quiet sort? Or a killer?

After his parents died, Shinpei was taken in by the Kofune family. One day, he returns to his island hometown to attend the funeral of... more>> his foster sister, Ushio. Everything should’ve ended there, and yet Shinpei is told that Ushio’s death wasn’t an accident, but a murder. <<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

Itsuki and Hayato, two brothers who grew up in a village nestled deep in the mountains, set out to hunt down a wolf that has been attacking the livestock of the village.... more>>

Itsuki is about to go in for the kill when a gigantic beast appears out of nowhere, snatching up the wolf in its jaws and sucking the life out of it.

The beast that stared Itsuki down was a gargantuan, blood-sucking vampire deer? Will the two brothers be able to return to the village alive? <<less

There is a serial killer in my house!... more>>

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You think your ghost stories are scary? Try listening to these stories from the ghosts themselves.

Geeko's weird, creepy, friendless classmate Nero has destroyed all of their mutual classmates, perverting them into her grotesque, monstrous minions. Now she's sending them after... more>> Geeko, the only survivor. However, Geeko is setting out, dressed in her skimpy school uniform and armed with a big chainsaw, to end Nero's mad science, no matter how many undead former friends she has to saw down on the way. <<less

After the crime rate in The Third Toutou Empire spiralled out of control, a law was established to help expedite trials and relieve pressure on the overcrowded prisons, which were filled to the brim with criminals who had been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. ... more>>

According to this new law, trials could be held and the accused sentenced to death even if they hadn't been captured yet. In order to execute those who had been given this kind of advance sentence, the Special Executions Police Force was created. <<less

The series follows the adventures of Sabu, a young Edo bakufu investigator traveling with the blind master swordsman Ichi. In their travels, they assist the common people in solving mysteries and righting wrongs (usually committed by bandits or corrupt officials). Sabu is engaged to Midori, the daughter of his boss, who works as a police officer for the Tokugawa shogunate.... more>>

This series won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award. <<less

Tagami Yusuke, led by a mysterious voice, is summoned to another world, "Caltsio". He was just a young video-game lover, but Fate decided to make... more>> him become the "Evil God of Calamity" of this world, obtaining the ability to create and customize everything, Customize Creation. <<less

At the age of sixteen Ryo Narushima was a genius and looked to have no trouble of getting into Tokyo University and joining the elite of society. However, that summer something cracked inside Ryo's head. With a small knife he brutally murdered both of his parents only leaving his sister alive and cowering in a corner. It is at this grotesque incident that our story begins.... more>>

Note: The series has been completely written & drawn by Tanaka Akio from ch 61 in Vol 26, which was the first chapter after a long hiatus, and the original author Hashimoto Izou wrote less and less starting from Vol 4. The series changed publishers, which lead to a restart of the chapter numbers with Vol 20. <<less

"If you can get 5 million yen for killing a person, what would you do?" A beautiful woman asks Shiki, a part-time lecturer, that question... more>> on their first meeting. Shiki answers "If it's an evil person...," mistaking this for a joke. But then the woman points out the target... <<less

Kyouhei, after moving away to Tokyo from his old town to get away from the events that happened, is on a goukon with his friends,... more>> including his old neighbor, Shiba. After drinking for a whole night, he and Shiba discover a dead, bloody, body in the elevator. He is told by his younger sister, Utao with her doll, that Aki, an old friend, and his doll, are the culprits responsible. <<less

Staffed by murderous maids and situated on a war-ravaged island, the Voynich Hotel is far from your run-of-the-mill vacation destination--but it’s not such a bad... more>> place to lie low for ex-yakuza Kazuki Taizou, who’s on the run from his so-called family. As he settles into his weird new life, this darkly comedic manga winds through plots both nefarious and romantic, delving ever deeper into the island’s witchy--and sometimes demonic--strangeness. <<less

After the death of his parents, a young Mirai Kakehashi is left in the care of his abusive relatives. Since then, he has become gloomy and depressed, leading him to attempt suicide on the evening of his middle school graduation. Mirai, however, is saved by a pure white girl named Nasse who introduces herself as a guardian angel wishing to give him happiness—by granting him supernatural powers and a chance to become the new God.... more>>

In order to earn the position, he must defeat 12 other "God Candidates" within 999 days. Soon, Mirai begins a struggle to survive as a terrifying battle royale erupts between himself and the candidates looking to obtain the most power in the world. <<less

Ichiru Mizunuma is the student council president at the prestigious Ichimatsu High School. Shockingly, he is stabbed by fellow student and council vice president Kyosuke Hino.... more>>

What is Kyosuke's motive? What is the badly injured Ichiru's secret plan? <<less

Sengawa's day job is as an accountant working for the police. But at night, he transforms into a ruthless assassin bringing death to anyone who... more>> deserves it. Those who have been wronged and whose grievances the police can't - or won't - listen to, turn to The Man With A Thousand Guns to avenge their suffering. <<less

While many of us would probably scream at even the thought of a ghost being near us, Freshman Nimura Kensuke just thinks of it as... more>> a common everyday thing, seeing as how he has the uncanny ability to see so many of them on a daily basis. Things soon heat up for him when he meets a girl who changes his life from then on. Her name's Kagura, and she has the power to summon a mighty "spirit devourer"--otherwise known as a "Ga-rei"--called Byakuei. So, what's Nimura to do? Chase down the evil spirits and have Kagura summon the Ga-rei to devour them, of course! Now, come feast on their adventures like some ravenous Ga-rei! <<less

In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock... more>> tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo. He is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower, and he wants Taichi to be his partner. Taichi, whose life has mostly consisted of poverty, loneliness, and pornography, is enticed by the idea of gaining extreme wealth. He's further convinced when a house fire leaves him without a home and depends on Tetsuo's charity. The adventure is going to be very dangerous, since the same 'enemies' who attacked Taichi before seem certain to try something again! Not to mention, Taichi really knows very little about his new partner. <<less