Honey Bitter
683
Shuri Otokawa, a girl who can see premonitions of the future, has been trying to hide and suppress her special ability for 18 years. In order to start a new life, she joins the private investigation agency owned by her aunt, trying to use her ability in a beneficial way. However, her ex-boyfriend (and the reason of her hate towards men) Riki Nijihara was accidentally hired by her aunt as well, not to mention his superior performance as a private detective has thwarted her plan to have her aunt fired him. With another male colleague named Youta Kubo who has a crush on her, Shuri has to prove herself professionally worthy as well as dealing her office affairs triangle. (Source: ANN) Volume 3: Bunkai File
Devil Survivor
286
The Comp is a popular portable game system that also functions as a smartphone. But it suddenly becomes a portal for demons to travel to the human world! Kazuya receives three Comps, from his master programmer cousin Naoya, for himself and his two friends Atsuro and Yuzu. In order to survive the demon invasion, the trio have to use the Comps to summon and subdue the demon that appears in order to fight back against the waves of demons that are about to swarm Japan! (Source: MangaHelpers)
Fortified School
1,615
A reform school for juvenile delinquents established in 200X is actually a government-sponsored laboratory, which makes ultra-human warriors with genetic modification. Three new kids enter the school. Itsuki, who is actually a girl dressed as a boy so she can get into the school to look for her lost brother; Mei, a very quiet, mysterious boy; and Gentaro, an energetic boy who is easily elated by flattery. The three revolt against the school rules and cause the other students to riot. The school turns into a battlefield. (Source: Kodan Club)
Rocket Man
237
A jungle and war victims: these fragments constitute You Mizunashi's leftover memories. A doctor's son, You questions whether these pieces of his "past" aren't just constructs of a delusional mind. He forces himself to remember and in seeking his personal truth, alienates himself from his peers and presents school bullies with an easy target. One day, while he is being harassed, a mysterious man—with a gaping wound on his abdomen—appears before You and his tormentors. You hastens to help the stranger and in return, learns that his unexpected patient goes simply by the name "R" and that R trades in secrets. (Source: MU)
Detective Xeno and the Seven Locked Murder Rooms
2,689
The story follows Detective Xeno, who after being found collapsed at the side of a road covered in blood and was taken to a hospital the first thing he said upon awakening was solving a murder that happened in the hospital! Xeno himself has no memory of who he is or where he came from, but after that huge incident and after leaving the hospital, he opened up a detective agency and in just a year he solved some high-profile cases.
Ship of Theseus
2,748
28 years ago, Tamura's parent was responsible for a mass indescriminate poisoning case while he was in elementary school, and since then he grew up branded as the son of a criminal. After Tamura's wife dies during childbirth, he heads back to Hokkaido to confront his past. The mysteries surrounding his father, a police officer, go back to the year of 1989... (Source: MU)
Brynhildr in the Darkness
2,039
A tragic accident that took the life of his childhood friend, Kuroneko, fuels Ryouta Murakami to dedicate his life to what she believed in—aliens. Ten years later, Ryouta is the sole member of the Astronomy Club, and spends late nights hoping to find proof of extraterrestrial life. One day, a girl named Neko Kuroha, who looks suspiciously like Ryouta's late friend, transfers into his class. Denying any memory of knowing Ryouta, she disappears after giving him an eerie warning. It is later revealed that Neko is a witch—a scientifically enhanced magic wielder—who escaped from being experimented upon in a secret research laboratory. Soon, other witches find their way to the Astronomy Club in an attempt to escape the tragic fate that awaits them. Witnessing the cruelty the young girls were subjected to, Ryouta takes it upon himself to protect the witches against their oppressors, and uncover the mystery behind Neko's bizarre resemblance to Kuroneko. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
In the summer when you die
1,734
"Summer, ghosts, and my feelings for you." Yamano is a second-year high schooler in love. One day, out of nowhere, the very object of his affection, Tanigawa, appeared in front of him. As a ghost. It seems that she died after being involved in some kind of incident. To save Tanigawa from death, Yamano gets busy trying to change her future, but— A vague and fleeting youthful mystery. (Source: Kadokawa)
Super Danganronpa 2: Komaeda Nagito no Kouun to Kibou to Zetsubou, Komaeda Nagito's Good Luck and Hope and Despair
3,610
At Hope's Peak Academy, an elite school for "Ultimate" students, 16 teenagers have gathered together to begin their new year. However, once they set foot inside, they all promptly pass out and awaken later in a classroom. A pink and white bear named Usami appears and informs the students that they will be going on a school trip to an island, and that they can leave once they become good friends with one another. However, their fun in the sun is quickly interrupted by a black and white bear named Monokuma. He overpowers Usami and introduces himself as the students' headmaster, revealing that they are on a "School Killing Trip": if they want to leave, they have to kill one of their classmates without being caught. When the first body is discovered, Nagito Komaeda, the "Ultimate Lucky Student," strongly believes that none of them could be capable of murder. However, with so much at stake, even Komaeda's feelings of hope may be overridden with despair. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Montage
3,392
In a story that moves through different time periods, mostly between 1968 and the present day, two teenagers (cousins) in the present day are learning the truth about the deaths of their parents, which appear to be tied to a murderer who has been a fugitive for over 40 years... (Source: MU) The San Oku En Jiken, ( ),"...was the single largest heist in Japanese history. It occurred on the morning of December 10, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. The case still remains unsolved."
Inspector Kurokouchi
492
Kurokouchi Keita is the black sheep of the police force. He works alone, and doesn't think twice about extorting money from the dirty politicians by getting hold of their achilles heels. Using the money and whatever bits of information acquired through underhanded means, he gets closer and closer to the ultimate unresolved crime of the Showa era (1968); the 300 million bank heist. One day, the new rookie Seike Mayo, is assigned as Kurokouchi's partner. Excellent, but naive, she is the exact opposite of Kurokouchi, but nonetheless, the duo relentlessly chase down the criminals.
Old Boy
1,346
Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed…transformed himself into something else…something hard…something lethal.
Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life…and what's left is revenge.
Manga that inspired hit Korean movie Old Boy!
Strange and Beautiful
2,441
"A special human girl is born once every one thousand years, and the one that marries her will become the one true king." Ever since Shin Ji-Ahn and Yi-Ahn's mother passed away, the two have become different and distant people. After a fight, Ji-Ahn's father makes her promise to make up with Yi-Ahn, and come back home hand-in-hand. When Yi-Ahn is kidnapped to become the Goblin's wife, Ji-Ahn vows to bring Yi-Ahn back home no matter what. Even if it means venturing through the land of human-eating monsters ruled by four cruel brothers—who all aim to become king.
AiON
382
After both his parents died in an accident, Tsugawa Tatsuya is now left with millions of heritage he can't use. In the weeks after, he's still mourning and thinking about his father's last words, "Tsugawa family's man must be a man of great vessel". But Tatsuya is not confident he can fulfill his father's last wish. One day, he met Miyazaki Seine, a strange girl who seems to enjoy being bullied. Tatsuya believes he can help her even though his friends only see her as a masochist pervert, and Seine herself told him to mind his own business. Seine hunts creatures of the sea, a kind of parasitic bug that controls humans and influences them to do hateful things. She possesses an immortal body and a beast called AiON that's used to lure and devour the bugs from inside the human host. She and the bugs naturally have an impulse to kill each other on contact. Even so, Tatsuya still can't just leave her alone, he wants to help her.
Lupin the 3rd
3,876
This is the first time Monkey Punch's original, classic series has been published in the U.S. International man of mystery and master thief extraordinaire, Lupin III comes from a long line of high stakes bandits, all committed to stealing from the rich and giving to themselves. Fortunately, Lupin tends to avoid robbing society's virtuous and, instead, targets some pretty shady characters. Of course, he partners with some pretty shady characters as well: Daisuke Jigen is an ex-mafia hit man who carries himself with a somber demeanor, his trademark black fedora tilted forward to hide his eyes. Goemon Ishikawa is a cipher-like swordsman with samurai-ish overtones who mysteriously fades in and out of Lupin's exploits. Fujiko Mine is the object of Lupin's affections, but, since she is a thief herself, the duo's romance more than occasionally clashes with their competition for big scores. The global police force, Interpol, and in particular the tenacious Inspector Zenigata, long to capture Lupin and his gang. Zenigata's relationship with the eponymous master thief is a complicated one, characterized by mutual respect laced with utter disdain. The two have even worked together when it's served both their interests, but they understand that when the crisis ends, they must resume their former wariness and animosity toward each other. (Source: Tokyopop)
Coffee Moon
3,551
The story starts with the heroine, Pieta, being asked "How long are you going to keep singing in the same rain?" by a girl in the pouring rain. Pieta leaves the house on her birthday thinking "It's going to be a good day," but her uniform gets dirty with muddy water from a car and her umbrella is blown away by the wind. However, as if she knew that misfortunes would hit her, she was ready to solve the problem of dirty clothes and lost umbrellas. The story gets going when Pieta returns home at the end of the day, and wakes up after going to bed. (Source: Comic Natalie, translated)
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