Dororo is a thriller manga, which revolves around a ronin during the Sengoku period. He was born malformed, limbless and without facial features or internal organs. This was the result of his birth father daimyo Daigo Kagemitsu forging a pact with 48 sealed demons so that he might rule the world. In return, he promised the demons could each obtain a piece of his unborn child's body. This enabled them to roam free and commit atrocities along the countryside.
After his mother was forced to set him adrift on the river, lest he be killed by his father, the infant was subsequently found and raised by Dr. Honma, a medicine man who used healing magic and alchemical methods to give the child prostheses crafted from the remains of children who had died in the war. The boy became nearly invincible against any mortal blow as a result of the prostheses and healing magic. Grafted into his left arm was a very special blade that a travelling storyteller presented to Dr. Honma, believing it was fated to be within his possession given that ever since the boy had been discovered, the doctor had been visited by goblins. As revealed in a short tale about the blade's origin, the blade had been forged out of vengeance to kill goblins as well as other supernatural entities.
After the doctor was forced to send him on his way because he was attracting demons, the young man learned from a ghostly voice of the curse that had be set upon him at birth and that by killing the demons responsible he could reclaim the stolen pieces of his body and thus regain his humanity. Across his travels, he earned the name "Hyakkimaru" (????) among other names for his inhuman nature. On one such hunt of a demon, Hyakkimaru came across a young orphan thief named Dororo who thereafter travels by his side through the war-torn countryside.
From Kodanclub:
An ordinary, quiet town is shaken by a series of bizarre happenings brought about by the darkness in human hearts. There are no solutions in the real world: Only "Dream Messengers" can find the answers. Dream messengers connect the fabulous with the real and control the power of dreams. Their leader, Toko Mishima, works with 8 other messengers using the powers given by an old spell and a toy made by Toko's father. Toko, her younger sister Rinko, Hajime Tachibana, who loves young girls, and the six other Dream Messengers are given the names of days or stars - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Raff and Keito.
From MangaHelpers:
This volume is a collection of short stories. The title story "Aka no Sekai" features a boys' summer camp out in the country. The main character, Regulus, is reluctantly attending the summer camp, where he shares a room with a cheerful boy named Miran. Soon after arrival, though, some of the other boys begin acting strange, while claiming they want to see the color red. Will Regulus and Miran be able to figure out what is happening before it is too late? [tethysdust]
Comedy, Drama, Mature, Mystery, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
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May 6, 2024
From MangaHelpers:
Tomioka Yuji is a 32-year-old night-shift guard for a mall. He works completely alone, so he often slacks off, exercising and hanging out on the roof. In some ways, the job is perfect for him, as he's always been terrible with people. However, he can't help feeling incredibly lonely and wishing he had friends.
One night, he makes a wish for friendship on a falling star. Shortly after, he finds a strange note left at the door of the mall. It says, "within a year, you'll go mad and die." After this, his solitary life begins to change--some ways for the better, and some for the worse. At work, he notices an ominous silhouette in a nearby apartment building, watching him neglect his job. Who is the mysterious figure? Who sent him the creepy note, and why? [tethysdust]
Megami Ibunroku - Persona - Be Your True Mind; Megami Inbun Roku Persona; Persona - Be Your True Mind; Goddess Revelations - Persona; Shin Megami Tensei - Persona; 女神異聞録ペルソナ
While playing a ritual-like children's game called "Persona", students are knocked unconscious. While asleep, they encounter a man named Philemon who bestows several Personas upon them. When they wake up, the youths discover they can summon Personas.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Generation Next; Yu-Gi-Oh! Genex; Yu☆Gi☆Oh! GX; 遊☆戯☆王GX; 遊戯王GX; The King of Games GX; The King of Games Genex; The King of Games Generation Next; O rei dos jogos GX
Years have passed after Yugi's adventures and now it's Yuki Judai's turn. Yuki Judai is a new student in the school Duel Academy, a school dedicated to teach duelist the basics and advanced techniques. Judai is determined to be world's #1 duelist, accepting challenges from his rivals (and friends). Although the manga is based on the anime, the story is really different and unrelated.
In this story, Nagai gets his folklore on with every chapter containing a lot on Buddhist lore or Japanese folklore. The prologue introduces us to Heaven, Incorporated, a company with a particular staff that hunts down all sorts of supernatural monsters and protects humanity from them.
Toukyou Genji Monogatari (Ozaki Minami) ; 東京ゲンジ物語 ; Genji the Death's Friend ; Tokyo Genji Monogari (OZAKI Minami)
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural
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May 5, 2024
"People often die around me."
A series of bizarre "deaths" stalk Genji, while a string of haunting memories and mystery surround him, all rooted in his childhood. A dear friend, a murder, and a curse. As more and more "deaths" unravel, the horrifying truth behind the origin grows ever more entangled. Seemingly the only keys to solve these mysteries, are the charismatic shinigami Touya, and Genji's own memories.
Kindaichi Case Files writer Seimaru Amagi and Zetsuai creator Minami Ozaki come together to bring you a gripping mystery surrounding the past, memories, and the chain of deaths.
Action, Mecha, Mystery, School Life, Seinen, Supernatural
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May 4, 2024
In a parallel 21st century Japan, an enemy with incredibly advanced technology attacks mainland Japan from Hokkaido, shattering the Japanese Defense Forces and their American allies. Japanese military scientists use what enemy technology their troops can capture to create their own mecha to fight off the enemy's advance.
But what does this have to do with a boy named Yuu, a mechanical genius with motor sickness, and his separation from his younger sister for over 7 years? Why does she suddenly appear after all that time, dressed as a miko and shadowed by a fox, at the temple where Yuu lives with his uncle? Is she who she says she is?
She reappears in his life just as military secrets and his own secret burden of a psychic power shake up his socially estranged life. And then the war advances
K, a robot detective, joins the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force’s Science Division and is partnered with human partner, Shinjo Go much to the chagrin of Chief Inspector Shiba Daizo, who distrusts the Robot. Together they battle the crimes perpetrated by the renegade conglomerate R.K.K. “BADO†(Robot Kaishi Kabukigaisha – Robot Rental Company)
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.
This series won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award.
Ririko, a role model Charisma Gal from Shibuya, finds herself playing amateur detective after an unexpected turn of events. She is keen to solve cases to impress elite police detective Nii, a man she adores and regards as her fiance. But her enthusiasm leads her into a whole lot of trouble.
Lost + Brain; LOST + BRAIN; Lost Brain; LOST+BRAIN 迷走记忆; 迷走记忆
Mystery, Seinen
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2
May 3, 2024
This is the story of a very smart student called Hirama Ren who is used to always getting the top results in his school, and is the chairman of the student's council. One day, he walks past a group of bullies and asks them to leave--and because of that, they decide to teach him a lesson. They decide to beat up a couple of guys and they reported it to the teachers, blaming him.
Hirama on being blamed sees the weakness of humans and so he decides to attain the power that would allow him to change the world into an ideal world...one without such weak and pathetic people...the people who hide from responsibilities and blame others.
Coincidentally, his vice-chairperson called him and asked if he was fine with her inviting a hypnotist for some event at school to hype up the school population. He thought it might be THE ability that he was looking for, so he agreed to it. During the "trial" test of the hypnotist's ability, he set up some plan and later on used it to test if hypnosis was able to hypnotise people who were avoiding it. With his new found knowledge, how will Hirama use this new power to reshape the world?
- Taken and Edited from Endless Abyss.
Action, Crime, Drama, Mature, Mystery, Police, Seinen
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2
May 3, 2024
Kyoya Iida is a hard-nosed detective from the Shinjuku Police precinct. He is known in the force as an unreasonable type who would use lethal force to solve cases, making him unpopular with the enlisted and high-ranking officers in the National Police Agency.
Despite this, there are some in the force who admire Iida for his bravery and cleverness in using lethal force to solve criminal cases whenever legal means are met with a dead end.
Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories; 青山剛昌短編集
Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Sci-fi, Shounen
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May 1, 2024
The original collection of Aoyama's short stories. Ranging from sci-fi to romance, and the right out wacky, these stories are a must read for any fan of his other works!
第１話／探偵ジョージのミニミニ大作戦・名探偵参上！
Chapter 1 - Detective George's Mini Huge Cases: Calling on the Great Detective!
第２話／探偵ジョージのミニミニ大作戦・氷の邦の怪物
Chapter 2 - Detective George's Mini Huge Cases: The Monster of the Ice Country
第３話／探偵ジョージのミニミニ大作戦・I AM A DENTIST
Chapter 3 - Detective George's Mini Huge Cases: I Am A Dentist
第４話／プレイ イット アゲイン
Chapter 4 - Play It Again
第５話／えくすかりばあ
Chapter 5 - Excalibur
第６話／夏のサンタクロース
Chapter 6 - Santa Claus of the Summer
第７話／ちょっとまってて
Chapter 7 - Wait for A Little While
第８話／サンデー19Show-さまよえる赤い蝶-
Chapter 8 - The Wandering Red Butterfly
Proof that Tell Me A Lie wasn't his only 6 page work, in this one a "detective" must follow clues left by his date to meet her in time.
From MangaUpdates:
There is a mysterious group of people who inflict cruel and fatal games on people for their own amusement. Tatsuya and Misa are out on a date in an amusement park when they wander into one of these horrific competitions on the tallest roller coaster on earth. The seats fall out of their 12-person roller coaster car, and they are told that the game will end when all but one person has fallen to their death. Will the passengers be able to find a way to escape the competition? Will there be any retribution against the orchestrators of this sick crime?
A series of fairytale-like stories, loosely connected by the ongoing adventures of the enigmatic Hwa Ryungang, a man with strange powers and a connection to the spirit world, and Moohwe, an irrepressible wanderer with a mysterious past.
A boy whose father fell prey to a book which drives its readers to take their own lives, a girl who tries to protect the boy from meeting a similar fate, a forensic pathologist who cannot forgive herself for the death of a girlhood friend, a mysterious used-book store - The Book Club - that only deals with books about death and despair, and a suicide which was committed in the ancient Library of Alexandria are all inexplicably connected in this unusual Korean horror story.
Schoolgirl Makishima Misaki's life is about to get a lot more complicated in this first volume of an exciting new title! She has inherited the house that belonged to her maternal grandfather, in a small, quiet, snowy town that boasts its own local legend, the Hohopo. Moving into the house with her klutzy widower father, she soon makes new friends — including one very unusual friend: the Hohopo itself, a shape-shifting creature who looks like a small Loch Ness Monster…when he's not masquerading as the boy next door!
Conspiracy, betrayal, and war that revolves around the Chess Isle Crest! Amidst these events, one man's sleeping resentment and grudge starts to become conscious and real.
Webtoon from Naver
Please address this work as a Manhwa (Korean word for cartoons)
Corpse Party Another Child ; Corpse Party - Another Child; コープスパーティー Another Child; 尸体派对Another child
Action, Drama, Historical, Horror, Mystery, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural, Tragedy
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April 27, 2024
With their school shutting down for good, the students of a small town were heading for different directions in life. For Minase Tamaki, who was staying in town to find a job, it might be the last time she sees her crush Shindo Yuuma, who is moving to the city to attend a new school. She asks him to do a little prayer that is supposed to help people cross paths again even if they become separated. But her classmate, Yuzuki Erina, overhears their conversation and, out of jealousy, decides to ruin her plans by inviting their entire class on what was supposed to be an intimate spell.
As soon as the charm goes off, the ground splits in half, swallowing the entire class and, when they wake up, they find themselves in an old school campus. Unable to find a way out, they wander the corridors, trying to figure out where they are. But it seems that the building isn’t as abandoned as they thought it was and, in fact, something evil is lurking in the shadows.
During an investigation, private detective Amaki comes across Kou, a man with a mysterious aura about him; a man with strangely sharp perception and eyes that shine like a beast’s. Since his meeting with this man, for some reason wild creatures that are not supposed to inhabit the city keep appearing around Amaki... Who is this Kou? The author goes all out, a Shamanic Fantasy begins.
From Horobi no Michi:
Astarte and Towa are two girls who act as "Undertakers," people who deliver the final messages of the departed to their loved ones.
In addition to trying her best at her job, Towa is also attempting to deal with her growing feelings for Astarte, and there's also the question of their shared past...
Note: On hiatus
Continuation of the succesful manga and anime series Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger starts after the defeat of Mazinger Z. Tetsuya Tsurugi is the new protagonist, piloting the powerful Great Mazinger, a creation of the once thought dead Kenzo Kabuto, the father of Koji Kabuto. This time the enemy is the Mycene Empire and its powerful robots. While not as succesful in Japan as the original series, Great Mazinger has a great following in Europe, specially in Italy.
新城未明の宝石事件簿 賢者は眠る ; 賢者は眠る―新城未明の宝石事件簿 ; A Wise Man Sleeps ; Kenja wa Nemuru - Shinjou Mimei no Houseki Jikenbo ; الرجل الحكيم ينام
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Shoujo
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April 20, 2024
Summary from Go! Comi:
Miharu hasn't been having a good year. Her mother died, leaving her only a single ring to remember her by, and her father went bankrupt – leaving her with all his debts! Though she intended to sell the ring to pay off her debts, a run-in with a hot boy and a brush with alchemy leave her unable to part with it...literally!
From Tokyopop:
Nanaki survives a car accident to discover he is psychic. Recruited into an organization that solves cases with psychic powers, Nanaki's average life quickly turns into one of adventure and intrigue.
Slacker Nanaki Shunsuke's life is turned upside down when he's hit by a bank robber's car and later meets a strange boy who claims that the accident caused Nanaki to develop psychic powers and that he is required to join LOCK, a paranormal investigations agency or be the suspect of any and every suspicious case that turns up.
(thought a summary and categories were need since there weren't any :P If your into Shonen it's a good read :P Sirenic Griffin){Corrections by Silvermagic}
From Storm in Heaven:Tome dreams of becoming a famous fashion designer. She's on the right track, working for some big-shots, and then Tamara gets dumped on her. While Tamara may be a famous beauty on the run-way, in her normal, daily life, the supermodel is self-centered, obnoxious, bossy, and an utter leech. However, when the bearer of a "cursed" necklace dies at a fashion show, is Tamara the only help Tome will get to solve the mystery?
Fujita is a second year middle school student with a face as pretty as a girl's. On top of that he's whimpy and a bit of a crybaby so he's often confused for a girl. Echo-chan is a fairy who promises to grant his wish and turn him into a strong and attractive man capable of sweeping Onigasaki, his unrequited love, off her feet if he agrees to help her.
From Nagareboshi Manga:
Sachi has always been known for her gorgeous amber-colored hair that she inherited from her mother. She has a happy enough life, except for the fact that her mother is dead, which she keeps a secret.
One day, she is approached by a classmate who seems to know all her family's secrets, and is forced into his "Money Game".
Bug, Eyeball, and Teddy Bear; Le fruit de l'éternité; 虫与眼球与泰迪熊; 蟲と眼球とテディベア
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Supernatural
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April 11, 2024
From wikipedia:
Usagawa Rinne, a normal female high-school student, was spending happy days with her lover, Sakaki Guryuu. However, the peaceful days shattered suddenly, On the night of Sakaki's birthday, Sakaki witnessed Rinne get killed after her eyeball was gouged by a girl named "Gankyuu Eguriko" as well as witnessed Rinne revive as if nothing had happened. To the shocked Sakaki and confused Rinne, Gankyuu Eguriko speaks of an "Eden's Apple"...
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Officer Shibata Taketora works in a local koban (a small police office). He may have a child-like face on the outside, but he's more serious than anyone in his pursuit of justice! With his goal being to become a detective, Taketora confronts everyday problems that happen within the town! Various incidents within the street make him chase after and apprehend criminals!
From Selene Scans:
Murakami and Nakabayashi are just policemen trying to do their jobs. When there is a bomb explosion inside Shuei Primary School, they were asked to do their jobs as policemen and check out the lead. It turns out a doctor from a mental institution called in to warn about the explosion immediately before the bomb went off. And so begins their association with the mental patient with no name who they would eventually call "Maki"
For some reason, Maki can "speak" with spirits. There are spirits all around us and Maki can communicate with them. These spirits tell Maki about deep dark things... Things that go on when no one else is looking...
From MangaHelpers:
A terrible creature has been plaguing the community: a man with a fishbowl for a head. When he attacks someone, the goldfish leaps out of his bowl and drinks their blood. The victim is irreversibly transformed into a goldfish! This terrible crime has happened to high-schooler Kousuke's little sister. With no other option, he takes care of his goldfish-sister as best he can.
One day, he comes across a strange girl named Ringo, who wears a school swimsuit, carries an umbrella, and keeps a gun hanging around her neck. Ringo is an apprentice blood diver, and the gun is her way of shooting herself into the wounds of the fishbowl man's victims. If she can get to them in time, she can prevent them from turning into goldfish. Ringo's mentor, Ichigo, says that she's heard of a way to turn people back from goldfish into humans. Kousuke is determined to help Ringo find a way to help his sister and the loved ones of his friends at school who have met the same fishy fate! [tethysdust]
From MangaHelpers:
Hatou Gaku has a very odd friend at school named Marii Yukari. Yukari has purple eyes and a bizarre way of looking at the world: she sees all living things as robots. This has not always worked out well for Yukari, even costing her a best friend when she was younger. However, Yukari insists that the things she says she sees is true, and her vision seems to give her insight into the abilities of others.
Gaku thinks she's just weird, but she soon realizes that Yukari has unexpected talents. It seems she can fix anything, and even the police come to hear her insights. It turns out that Yukari's purple eyes are not unique in the world! However, there is one important distinction among those who see humans as other objects. Do humans appear as unimportant as objects, or do those objects appear as important as human beings? [tethysdust]
From Shoujo Manga Maniac:
Ruri is desperate to see the mysterious jewel thief Kaitou Crow. If she becomes a jewelry model, will she be able to see him again when he robs her?
We came from the far future, where most of the adults have disappeared as if they vanished into thin air and all of the children are managed by a few adults. To discover the cause behind human extinction and to evade it from that root cause... That's what we had jumped to the past for, supposedly.
A boy sitting in the seats of a movie theater fidgets with his cellphone. "Before aptitude or anything, trying to change the future with just five kids? You would think there's a limit to lack of planning," he typed on his cellphone.
The boys wonder if they had really come to the past. Why? Because, ever since they arrived, they haven't stepped one foot outside this theater.
Note: This manga is included as a bonus with the limited OVA Blu-ray disc.
