A six chapter mini-series by Miura Kentarou set 100 million years in the future, it's about an epic war between the forces led by Zeus and the nether forces led by the giant Alcyoneus.
The story takes place after an abominable war that foisted a "devil's contract" upon a land. Cecily Campbell, a former noble's daughter who joined a knighthood, encounters a man who dispatches some hoodlums with one sweep of a mysterious sword. The man possesses the power of the same "devil's contract" that has become taboo, now that peace has been restored. Cecily has been searching for a blacksmith who can repair an old sword she inherited from her father, and that mysterious young man happens to be blacksmith named Luke. This encounter launches their adventures together.
Lyle is a young man who lost his memories when he was young, and doesn't know who he is or where he came from. His only connection to his past is his Soul Gadget, "Czerny". Lyle was adopted by Gio, and has a sister-in-law named Sheska. These three work together on special thieving jobs to make ends meet. Read along as Lyle uncovers the secrets of Czerny and his past...
Last Order starts when Desty Nova's nanotechnology resurrects Alita in the floating city of Tiphares. The town 's black secrets are viciously exposed, but it seems to be a little portion of a world that is complicated. Going into space with old and new companies to learn more about her forgotten past and equally, to look for her lost pal Lou Collins, Alita is caught up in an interplanetary battle between the main powers of the solar-system that was colonized. On the way, she forms an alliance with three of the Alita Replicas that have now started to believe for themselves, an unsavory superhacker, and Nova himself when she enters the Zenith of Things Tournament (Z.O.T.T.), a fighting contest held every 10 years. Including the way in which the Earth appeared from a cataclysmic impact winter that wiped-out the majority of the public throughout the length of the narrative, more history regarding the setting of Battle Angel Alita that had not been disclosed in the earlier string is shown.
Imagine a world where everything you write takes life...What would you do then, if paper which had disappeared for more than two hundred years came back in the of Black Fowl, the biggest criminal mind of the century?
An exceptional situation calls for excptional measures.
The Police forces of City Hall will have to call to the rescue two of the best of London: Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle!
Arcana Famiglia – Amore Mangiare Cantare! ; Arcana Famiglia; Arcana Famiglia - La storia della Arcana Famiglia; Arcana Famiglia -The Story of the Arcana Family; История семьи Аркана; アルカナ・ファミリア Amore Mangiare Cantare!
The story follows Arcana Famiglia, a self-appointed organization with mysterious powers that has protected a small Mediterranean island from pirates, foreign countries, and other threats. The only daughter of the family's "Papa," Felicitá, will be married to the next head of the family in two months — and the successor will be decided in a competition that Felicitá herself will take part in.
My name is Suzaki Aiichirou, a lone wolf and I live to fight! However, one day an annoying girl came to my house and challenged me to a duel and since that day on my life has completely changed. This is a story about the birth of a brand-new world.
Sword Art Online – Girls Ops ; SAO - Girls Ops; Sword Art Online: Girls Ops; ソードアート・オンライン ガールズ・オプス; Sword Art Online - Girls' Operations
Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
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May 10, 2024
Follows the heroines from the Aincrad arc through their various adventures in the real world at the SAO Survivor School and in the virtual world of ALfheim Online.
The internet is full of rumors about the Neet and Hikikomori genius gamer siblings Sora and Shiro. The two go as far as to refer to the world as a "shit game", but then one day a young man calling himself "God" summons them to a parallel universe. There, God has forbidden war, and "everything is to be settled with games". Yes, even the national borders. Driven into a corner by other species, the 'human species' is down to its last city. Can Sora and Shiro, these related failures of society, become the saviors of humankind in this parallel world?
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Slice of Life, Supernatural
18
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May 10, 2024
What would be your first thought if someone killed your parents?
Certainly REVENGE...
That being the case for Yoshi, who is a thief that wanders from place to place
searching to find his parent's murderer, that were killed
in a bloody attack his village was under years ago.
His only companions.. His instinct, his memories and a rose which was given by his father shortly before he died.
Follow Yoshi as he searches for his parent's murderer full of hate and rage!
In the year 1492 of the Gregorian Calendar, in the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado... The Samurai guard the Luxurors and Casualries - the people - of Mikado. The wild Samurai Walter seeks to improve his self-taught, but unrefined skill. The Samurai Gina keeps a close, worried eye on the wild Walter. One night, the pair, while keeping watch, are suddenly transported to an unknown world... There, they see a tyrant - a demon that is far stronger than any they have encountered! As a result of the battle with the tyrant, the fate of this pair begins to shift...!
Creamy Mami is about a young girl, Yuu, who after seeing a spaceship is given the power to use magic for one year. She is also given 2 cats, Poji and Nega, to watch over and guide her. Using her magic powers to transform into the idol Creamy Mami, Yuu must work hard at acting, singing, helping her parents at their crepe shop, fighting aliens and bad guys, going to school, plus try to get the affections of her childhood friend Toshio.
Note: The third volume was released after the original serialization of two volumes, and has content from the OVA Forever Once More.
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.
How I Became a Pokémon Card is a manga created by Kagemaru Himeno, who is also an artist for the TCG. While the manga includes some reoccurring characters, each chapter is mainly a standalone story featuring one Pokémon, such as Dratini or Jolteon. At some point within each story an image of an actual Pokémon card is shown, the stories expand on the image that appears on the card and tells about what the Pokémon is doing in the picture or how it got there.-Bulbapedia
From MangaHelpers:
There are men and women that have the ability to control their shadows, molding them into shapes according to their will. These "Shadow Users" gain this special ability through some traumatic event from their past, creating darkness and sorrow in their soul. Cole is a Shadow User, but his shadow, named Shiva, was once human. Now, he is on a search to find the individual responsible for turning Shiva into a shadow and return Shiva to his body. [DrCoke]
God abandoned the world on Sunday. As a result, nobody in the world can die or reproduce. A little girl, Ai, is the gravekeeper for a village. She has prepared 47 graves for the eventual deaths of every member of the village. Later, a boy who identifies himself as "Hampnie Hambart, the 'Man-eating Toy'," which is coincidentally the name that Ai's mother left behind as the name of her father, arrives in the village and slaughters everybody. Just what is going on?
The foolish living things, the humans, who carry darkness in their hearts lost the light from their eyes.
Deep inside the darkness, they lose sight of the way. Crushed in their despair the humans, one day, meet the 'hotaru' which carries a faint, warm light. The hotaru provided the humans with the light, and started to live alongside them. But in this ugly and blood-stained world, the hotaru's number started to decrease day by day. Yet, the humans wanted the light and started to hunt the hotaru. For money they would throw away the life of the hotaru.
Shirogane No Seija – Hokuto No Ken Toki Gaiden ; Silvery Savior - Fist of the North Star: Toki Gaiden; Fist of the North Star Toki Gaiden; Shirogane no Seija; Shirogane no Seija - Hokuto no Ken Toki Gaiden; Silvery Savior; 銀の聖者 北斗の拳 トキ外伝; 銀の聖者北斗の拳トキ外伝; 銀之聖者 ~ 北斗之拳托席外傳; Кулак Северной Звезды: История Токи - Серебристый Спаситель
Toki is a former Hokuto practitioner, and his incredible strength coped with his knowledge of the assassin art would be enough to call him devil.... But Toki's kindness and desire to help people prevent them from calling him devil, they instead can only whisper words akin to that of 'savior'.
The year is '387' in 'Gogeuryuh, city of Yodong' where there is much conflict between two nations. Lately 'Hoo yun' soldiers (the enemy nation) have been subtly harrasing the citizens in the outskirts of Gogeuryuh. A faithful young Prince of Gogeuryuh- Prince Dam Duk is outraged and therefore saves his people by wielding his sword, but doing so- he loses his title of 'prince', and becomes a 'Wanted' fugitive of his nation!
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After the outbreak of the unidentified virus "Lost Christmas" in 2029, Japan has been under the control of a multi-nation organization called GHQ. Ouma Shu is a 17 years old boy who has a psychic power in his right hand. He can use the power "Ability of King" to extract tools or weapons from his friends. He has been avoiding making trouble for others but his life changes when he meets a girl named Yuzuriha Inori, a member of a resistance guerrilla group called "Undertakers", whose members pilot mecha weapons to fight against the government.
From Boku-Tachi:
For the past 500 years, a certain country has spent day and night fighting countless wars. However, the appearance of General Kyoutaka Kuroda seemed to foretell the end of this war-torn world with eighty percent of the country already under his rule. His followers are the People Hunters, indiscriminate murderers who suddenly started killing under Kuroda's orders 15 years earlier. In foreign countries, in their own villages, men, women, children and the old...there were no distinctions made. Kuroda's followers simply murdered...and enjoyed it. Happening upon a lone priest with the eyes of his dead sister, a displaced you man named Kazuma struggles against the demons of his past and present. In this strife ridden land how will he fare?
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mecha, Military, Monsters, Mystery, School Life, Sci-fi, Shounen, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Survival, Thriller, Tragedy
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May 8, 2024
Saburo Kazeta is a young man with amazing mutant powers, he can transform first into a larva-like creature called Sanagiman, and then his final form, a blue insect humanoid called Inazuman!
Stories included in this volume:
1. Mishiranu Machi (見知らぬ街) (Date:1989)
A group of teenagers went on a summer holiday and had a car accident. The woke up and found the whole city was empty. How can they escape the eerie place? But more importantly, can they really all go back?
Note:
It has been suggested that MATSUMOTO Yoko traced some of her panels of this stroy from Birthday Present (MIYAWAKI Akiko).
2. Youkoso Mystery Tour e (ようこそミステリーツアーへ)
In the summer holiday, a 15 year old girl Kana went on a vacation on an island, when a certain hotel giving out invitation to join a treasure hunt event with only a ridiculously impossible map to read. With a group of four along with her cousin Riku who can't handle transportation, her little brother Takashi who likes mystery and her brother's girlfriend Natsuki, the group join the event, meeting suspicious people and witnessing unexplainable occurences. Can they find the treasure? Is there any hidden agenda from the hotel owner by making such an event?
3. A wa Akuma no A (アは悪魔のア)
An almost dead man entrusted a Devil statue to Riku, a 15 year old boy. Before they realized, Kana, Riku, Takashi and Natsuki were already involved in an adventure involving antiques, cops, a devil in disguise, an angel in custody, and a cold blooded killer.
From ANN:
The story follows KanzÅ Wakai, a 15-year-old who is considered weird due to his hair which has looked like "dried seaweed" since birth. The boy with the troubled adolescence happens to encounter Noemi Hokari, a mysterious, peculiar girl who believes that she "cannot touch people." Were the "dried seaweed monster" and the "electrified girl" destined to meet?
September 11, 197x, In the whole Kantou region a magniture 8-9 violent earthquake occured. Scholars called it the great destruction of the showa era, but the people called it the earthquake from hell! volcanoes errupted, buildings crumbled, tokyo became decimated in a single day. The government, after failing to recover the city, abandons Tokyo and moves the capital. The survivors form a society with no laws. In this harsh lawless world emerges Jack, a 10 foot giant who annilates anyone and anything in his path. The manga details his journey.
Many years ago, an ancient civilization once ruled Earth. They were known for advanced artifacts and machines, but were destroyed in the end due to the misuse of their creations. Creating indestructible message plates written in Hebrew, these people left messages for later generations, informing them that if they could not find a good use for their creations, they should be destroyed.
Various entities such as paramilitaries, national armies and armed private forces began to secretly search for these "mysterious" artifacts in order to be used for their own good and against their enemies after the end of the Cold War. Only the ARCAM Corporation can stop these forces from destroying themselves with these "advanced" machines. With the help of its military arm, the ARCAM Private Army and their elite secret agents known as Spriggans (or Strikers), ARCAM plans to turn the tides of battle against those who would threaten the safety of humanity by using the dangerous artifacts.
Spriggan, known for a short time as Striker in Canada, France, the Netherlands and the US, was censored in the North American market for excessive violence, blood and quesitonable content (The prominent example: The use of a black ops unit in the US Army with the majority of its soldiers revealed to be brainwashed children and teenagers under the age of 18).
James C. Wingfield is accidentally, during an archeological excavation in Turkey, sent to another world, filled with dragons, magic, and talking fish.He meets a young girl by the name Victoria, who is bored with her every day life of magic and fantasy, and wishes to see James world of scientific wonders.James and Victoria travels on a flying train by the name 'The Steam Dragon Express', searching for a way to get home to James world.Note : Read from Left to Right
In Northern France there lives a boy by the name of Nicholas. He dreams of becoming a knight like his father was, but people doubt his abilities, as his father is dead, and now he lives with his uncle, a Pig Farmer. Basically the story tells of his adventures as he strives to become a Knight Templar.
Based in year 1212.
Inherit the Stars; Das Erbe der Sterne; Der tote Raumfahrer; Gwiezdne Dziedzictwo; Herederos de las Estrellas; Hoshi wo Tsugumono; Kdo zdědil hvězdy; Lo scheletro impossibile; Ruïnes op de maan; 星を継ぐもの; 星辰的繼承者; 星辰的继承者; 별의 계승자
Adaptation, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-fi, Seinen
37
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April 17, 2025
In 205X, armed forces and conflicts are a thing of the past and people live safe, peaceful lives, all thanks to a cheap, inexhaustible source of energy. One day, something strange is discovered on the moon: an ancient corpse in a spacesuit. The corpse is undeniably human, but it appears to be about 50,000 years old! What does this mean about the history of our species and what effect will this discovery have on current human society?
Won the Seiun Award in 2013
