Adapted from the Front Mission games.
Huffman Island is a land split by an uneasy cease-fire between two major world powers, the USN (United States of the New Continent) and the OCU (Oceania Cooperative Union). The cease-fire has held for 20 years, but now tensions are mounting, and it looks like open war will break out again soon. Matsuda Akira has gone to join the on-site reporting team for NNTV. Are he and his colleagues really ready for the horrors they may face if they're caught in the middle of a war?
Every 1,000 years, 100 demon children are sent to Earth to compete in a battle to become king of the Demon World. Each demon is paired with a human partner who is given a spell book of a specific color. The human can cast the demon's spells through their book. If a demon's book is burned, they disappear and return to the Demon World. The last demon remaining becomes the king. The show is oriented around Gash Bell and his human partner, Takamine Kiyomaro.
In 2003 Zatch Bell! won the Shogakukan Manga Award for best shounen title of the year.
Legend has it that if a human eats a mermaid's flesh, they will be granted eternal life. But is that a blessing or a curse? Immortal lovers Yuta and Mana travel through Japan and the centuries longing for a normal life. On their journey, they meet others who have consumed the flesh of a mermaid in hope of becoming immortal. But the powerful substance affects each person differently. Yuta and Mana are two of the lucky ones. Others are fated to die or transform into a savage monster, a "lost soul." Mermaid Saga contains three of Takahashi's uniquely macabre mermaid tales, A Mermaid Never Smiles, The Village of the Fighting Fish, and Mermaid Forest. Each revolves around Yuta, who wanders for hundreds of years, seeking a mermaid to cure him of his immortality.
Arion, a young man, is kidnapped by Hades as a child, raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus, and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure her.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Delinquents, Drama, Martial Arts, Military, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life, Survival
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Otokojuku - a private school for juvenile delinquents that were previously expelled from normal schools. At this school, Japanese chivalry is taught through feudal and military fundamentals. Similar to an action film, the classes are overwhelmed by violence. Only those who survive it become true men. Source - ANN
Captain Tsubasa - Road to 2002; Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002 - Go for 2006; GO FOR 2006; キャプテン翼 ROAD TO 2002; 足球小将 Road to 2002
Drama, Seinen, Slice of Life, Sports, Survival, Thriller
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After the World Youth, Japanese players are looking for pro careers in Japan and around the world.
In order to fulfill their dream of World Cup 2002 in Korea and Japan, they must get stronger playing in various club competitions, home and abroad.
*Includes a side story called Go for 2006 in vol. 15.
The story is set in a dystopian near future where the Japan society is experiencing a crime rampage and in which a powerful and secret religious organization, with mysterious goals, is acting as an invisible hand behind the scenes.
The main character is their strongest assassin, lent to them by his fanatic mother when he was a child, and now a ruthless killing machine whose fists and feet cause serious damage to his adversaries, and whose weapon of choice is a special cutting wire with which he grabs and scorches his opponents.
He's a man hunter, whose childhood has been stolen and molded after his tormentors, but when the road of forgiveness is precluded to him what can be left to a man to obtain the redemption?
Takeo finds the answer in the vengeance, and in eradicating that same evil from which he has born.
So this dark and impressive badass guy, after betraying the sept, gets down to business kicking their ass and unleashing his fury against the deadly opponents sent to stop his unparalleled revenge.
In Cat Shit One '80, the story continues to follow the three protagonists as they became involved in various low intensity conflicts in the 1980s. Perky, now a member of Delta Force, is attached to the Special Air Service and is involved in various SAS operations while Rats and Bota are now involved with the U.S. operation in Afghanistan against the Soviets.
Action, Mature, Mecha, Military, School Life, Sci-fi, Seinen, Survival
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Kidou Ryodan Hachifukujin is set in the near future where Japan has been subjugated by China and now fights against its former ally America under the Chinese banner. Fukujin, literally “luck god,” are special armor suits that are impervious to most conventional weapons. The story follows new recruits in the army of Japan, in a war torn future. There's an eccentric girl, a pacifistic guy, an advanced suit of armor impervious to all weapons figure in a story about war, violence, and militaristic subservience.
Set in a "futuristic, yet feudal Japan," and stars a samurai named Afro for his hair. The story follows Afro as he tries to avenge his father's murder. In the world of Afro Samurai, it is said that the one who becomes "Number One", will rule the world, wielding powers akin to a god.
Someone becomes Number One by killing the previous Number One and taking his ceremonial headband. However, the only rule in this world is that only the "Number Two" (also designated by a sacred headband) is allowed to fight the "Number One." The downside of this is that anyone (and typically everyone) can challenge and try to kill the Number Two, to gain the right to move forward and challenge Number One. Afro Samurai's father was the old Number One, until he was challenged by a gunman, "Justice" (who was then Number Two), who fought him in a duel to become the new Number One. At the time the gunman challenged his father, Afro had only been a child. The gunman severed his father's head right in front of the young Afro.
Now an adult, Afro Samurai is the current Number Two and a master swordsman; he travels the road seeking revenge on Justice, the current Number One. Lengthy flashbacks interspersed throughout the story detail how Afro rose from frightened boy fleeing the death of his father, to master swordsman, and eventually to become the current "Number Two", while the story in the present deals with the adult Afro making his way to the mountain top keep of the "Number One" to duel Justice, while at the same time the mysterious cult known as the "Empty Seven Clan" sends various agents to kill Afro and take his Number Two headband.
Madeth and Lalvan successfully obtain a castle but it seems that there is a rumour going on around that says the castle is haunted by a spirit. The spirit is actually an angel that blesses kings that are currently ruling the land of good fortune and that he will be loved by all the people of the land. He will also be most likely ruling the land for a long time.
However, one day, the appearance of a lady has stirred conflict between the two good friends. What will happen to the relationship of Madeth and Lalvan?
The setting of Devil Survivor 2 spans the whole country of Japan. It tells the story of Japanese high-school students who receive emails from a website foretelling their friend's deaths. Mysterious creatures invade the country, and the students enter a pact, enabling them to summon demons from their cell phones with a special Devil Summoning App.
When Shouta finally finds a clue to his missing brother’s disappearance, he mysteriously wakes up in a room he’s never seen before.
The events of this room are broadcast online, and the only link with the outside is voice chat with the viewers of the broadcast.
In the midst of this extreme environment, a battle royale style murder game begins!
In a different world than the one we live in, a world where Japan is the lone superpower of the world, there is a wildly popular game show called the National Quiz. Every night, people dreaming of riches, fame, vengeance, and happiness compete on the show, for the chance to be granted a wish, any wish they have: the National Quiz has the power to make your wildest dreams come true. It also has the ability, if you lose, to make your life a living hell.
This is the story of K-i K-ichi (aka prisoner KK47331), a former actor-turned losing National Quiz contestant-turned wildly popular host of the show, and the people and events surrounding him.
From all over Japan, Yankee Boys (hoodlums) full of dreams and ambition gather in Gure Tokyo. Then Chagecha appears with his unorthodox "Yanki", and changes everything!!
It focuses on a boy named Yamano Koichi, who is one day revealed to be the heir to the supernatural powers of an alien named Babel, who was stranded on Earth 5000 years ago and built the biblical Tower of Babel. Koichi becomes Babel II, armed with supernatural powers and served the Three Servants: the shapeshifting Rodem, the giant, pterodactyl-like Ropross, and the humanoid aquatic robot Poseidon. With his newfound powers, Babel II seeks to put an end to the ambition to Yomi, a man from the Himalayas who seeks world domination.
Captain Tsubasa - International Overseas Games - EN LA LIGA; Captain Tsubasa - Kaigai Gekitô Hen - EN LA LIGA; Captain Tsubasa - Kaigai Kekidou-Hen - En La Liga; Captain Tsubasa - Kaigai Kekidou-Hen - En La Liga Saishuushou; キャプテン翼 海外激闘編 EN LA LIGA; キャプテン翼 海外激闘編 EN LA LIGA 最終章
Kidou Senshi Gundam U.C. Hard Graph - Tetsu no Kanba
Kidou Senshi Gundam U.c. Hard Graph – Tetsu No Kanba ; Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. HARD GRAPH: IRON MUSTANG; Kidou Senshi Gundam U.C. Hard Graph - Tetsu no Kanba; Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Hardgraph: IRON MUSTANG; Mobile Suit Gundam: UC Hardgraph Iron Mustang; 機動戦士ガンダム U.C.HARD GRAPH 鉄の駻馬; Kidou Senshi Gundam U.C. HARD GRAPH - Tetsu no Kanba
Universal Century 0079.03.18 – The Principality of Zeon carries out their third drop operation. The 4th Terrestrial Mobile division make their way down to Earth. Chief Petty Officer Cuaran arrives on Earth as a part of the 908th Mobile Reconnaissance Company 2nd Team’s Commander. He would later be the man who attempted to destroy the Federation’s “white mobile suit”, the dreaded “Gundam.”
Nakanishi, delinquent just out of reform school, tries in vain to get free of his past. His new job does not satisfy him and he has to suffer the provocations of his boss. One day, an acquaintance from the net introduces him to a game to help him relieve him of his stress: Duds Hunt.
One rule: no holds barred...
Also contains Awakened Dreams, a colored short story.
Orphen, the tough-talking sorcerer-for-hire, is putting his wand-wielding skills to use for quite a price, but with a boneheaded companion and a wide-eyed pupil tagging along, they can�t help but attract a little trouble! Magical mercenaries are all around, and the hair-triggered Orphen is no stranger to a good fight, so he�ll have to cast his spells in record time to stay in the game of magic in Orphen.
The story takes place in a fictional world full of monsters and adventurers called Monster Hunters, who, as their name implies, hunts these monsters. The plot revolves around a young Monster Hunter, Shiki, whom was taken in as an apprentice to a Monster Hunter named Gurelli as a child. A few years after Gurelli's death, which was due to a gunpowder incident, he comes back to his master's residence, Akamaaya Town, to join the guild there. In that guild, he meets a girl called Irie and after a series of events, he finds that she is the daughter of his master. From this point onwards, they form a party to find the legendary Miogaruna, which was Gurelli's life-long ambition.
M60-toting Kenji Hado, known as "the Hard", pays his divorce bills by working in the US as a bounty hunter. Masseria, a ruthless and ambitious mafia boss, targets his family - starting with the Hard's father-in-law, a Don in the NY mafia. Hard's aim, while poor when sober, becomes extremely accurate when drunk! The short story N.Y. Dust, in volume 12 of Riki-Oh, was the prototype for The Hard.
An anime was made of this series.
Once upon a time in ancient Ireland, a bard-in-training named Bryan gets sent to a town that never heard music before. Oi is a fantasy comic about rockstar bards, idols, witches and druids.
The year is 1274, and the Mongols are invading Japan! It's Kublai Khan, aiming to conquer the world. But Japan has a secret weapon in a crack team of killers, known as The Carrion Eaters. Led by the vicious Ranomaru, who wants to take Kublai's head. Not all is well in Kublai's camp, though...a Korean leader might well be dissatisfied with what Kublai plans. This conflict will take them to the ends of the earth.
Girls & Panzer - Ribbon no Musha, Girls & Panzer - The Ribboned Warrior, Girls und Panzer - The Ribboned Warrior, The Ribboned Warrior, ガールズ＆パンツァー リボンの武者
Tankathlon is a new form of tank sport gaining slowly gaining popularity among Senshado enthusiasts. While also involving tank battles, Tankathlon is distinguished by its lack of official oversight allowing any school with tanks to participate in a battle anywhere at any time, and a 10-ton weight restriction on tanks used, limiting battles to light tanks and tankettes.
September 1945, Tokyo. A post-war process is underway. It is the extermination of the human weapons "Unit 731", remnants of the war which are to be eliminated.
A young immortal girl soldier, Saika, is determined to live and be free, with the aid of Kankuro Konoe, a former combat medic as her subordinate.
From the Animeraider:
Satoshi and a group of his friends are on a lengthy boat ride to Kijijima when the world comes to an end – literally. A huge Tsunami wave 500 meters tall overpowers the boat and he finds himself stranded on an island and alone. Meanwhile the rest of the boat has grounded after being dashed upon the shores and soon Satoshi finds them, and sets off a struggle to survive for the passengers and crew of the ship…
The Temple of El Alamein is a compilation of World War II short stories from the perspective of the German military personnel. As the saying goes, the winner writes history, and these stories are the untold, unwritten part of the history of WWII. Taking place between 1940 and 1945, when the war was at its most violent peak, each story takes place in a different part of the world where Germans were fighting.
One story takes place in Egypt where soldiers find an ancient ruin that prove the existence of dinosaurs that helped build the Great Pyramids. Another story tells how one German fighter jet was able to take down a B-47 Stratojet 40,000 ft. in the air, far above what a fighter jet could achieve at the time.
From Tokyopop:
They took his family, they took his face, and they took his soul. Locked between the lethal but gorgeous assassin Maria and the mutant Spider Man, the Skull Man digs into the conspiracy that gave birth to his powers and those of his partner, Garo. Haunted by his past, he will not let them stand in the way of his revenge.
Alien Lifeforms took refuge on Earth to start their lives anew, however these beings don’t seek cohabitation, they want to phase humanity out; Clans of Aliens prey on human flesh and spiritual energy and can implant their essence on human females to bear their children. Benimaru is one of these offsprings, however his mother was a Medium, she could manipulate Benimaru’s spirit while he was inside her, she managed to give him a human heart, and for this she was brutaly killed and devoured by Benimaru’s “father”. From there on Benimaru swore to exterminate these Clans, half-human and half-alien, one man wages war against an entire race!
"There are men who, on coming to places that women find unlivable, are all the more determined to find there a reason for living. These men epitomize grandeur."
Welcome to Gun Frontier.
The story centers around Becchin, a high school girl who lives in a battle tank on a riverbed in Tokyo's Suginami ward, and her friend Mandara. Together, the two exterminate the zombies of dead Suginami citizens.
From TokyoPop:
After having finished a job at Research Colony Mendel, a mysterious mobile suit approaches the colony--likely with hostile intent. When Lowe Gear intercepts in the Red Frame, the pilot opens fire... and thus begins another exciting adventure set in the popular Gundam Seed universe! Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X Astray continues where Gundam Seed Astray R left off!
Japan Sinks; Jepang Kelem; Jepang Tenggelam!; The Sinking of Japan; Гибель Японии; 日本沈没; 일본 침몰; 日本沉沒; 日本沉没; La Submersion du Japon; Nihon Chinbotsu (ISHIKI Tokihiko)
Adaptation, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Military, Mystery, Office Workers, School Life, Sci-fi, Seinen, Slice of Life, Survival, Thriller, Tragedy
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From the Animeraider:
Japan is a seismically active country, so the occasional trembler isn't anything that people get too worked up about. They happen and it's unfortunate, but in general Japan is prepared. But there is one scientist who believes that he has found proof that a recent quake has triggered a cataclysmic event, and that within a year Japan will sink into the sea. Now if he can get anyone to believe him before it’s too late…
Also known as Japan Sinks, this is based on the award-winning novel and movie of the same name. It's a well-written and complex story, and will seem like it's about something else before it gets into the meat of things. Well worth the effort.
