Box of Light; La Boîte Lumineuse (French); The Light Box; 光の箱;
Drama, Fantasy, Josei, Mystery, Supernatural
42
1
5
January 3, 2026
A quiet convenience store hovers on the boundary between life and death. Its faint glow in the darkness draws people toward it, pushing them closer to the final purchase they'll ever make…and is that a monster in the magazine aisle?! Prepare for spooky creatures, cryptic employees, and an air of delightful dread in this supernatural mystery.This beloved self-contained tale was awarded a top spot in both the Kono Manga wo Yome! and Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings in Japan.Note: This series is still serializing in Zoukan Flowers.
From Baka-Updates Manga:
The main character is the son of an English woman of noble birth and a Japanese zoologist. Keaton went to England at the age of five with his mother after his parents' divorce. There he learned archeology at Oxford University, where he met his wife with whom he has a daughter, Yuriko. They divorced after five years. He works as an operative/detective for Lloyds of London where he's known for his abilities he acquired as a master sergeant in the SAS and as a veteran of the Falklands War, and was one of the members of the Iran Embassy incident. This helps him carry out his dangerous work of insurance investigator.
A seemingly quiet and peaceful magical town lives a hidden murderer. When the two girls came to this town, they thought they could try to learn magic happily until they fell into fear. Who is that murderer who has been traveling through the magic realm and the mortal realm...? How will the love and hatred between the two girls balance out? Welcome to another Shoujo-Ai thriller series with magic involved~
The newly opened Suehiro Detective Agency is comprised of laid-back manager Hisago, dog-loving chief investigator Shimeki and administrator Tsukumo. With very few paying customers, the three protagonists are free to spend their time bickering with and tea
Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Tragedy
35
1
5
August 6, 2024
Hiroki Wakabayashi is an ordinary high school student who is in love with Kaori, a cute beautiful woman older than him. Their relationship progresses gently and lightly. Meanwhile, cases of serious bullying are taking place at Hiroki's high school. They are called "Suicide play", where the bullied child is driven to suicide. But in this world is the world of immortality! In this world without death, the bullied child cannot die. In this world, when people die, they are revived, unable to escape from bullying. Yes, in the first part 'Hound' we have been following the story from the Police Force's point of view. Now, in the new series 'Ridge' will be telling the story from the vectors' perspective!
It's the distant future. The moon, which was an information relay point between outer space and Earth, accumulated vast amounts of information and became the largest library in human history.
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Tragedy
43
1
1
August 6, 2024
Ichiro Kitamura ("Icchi") is a young man who, due to a near-death experience he had when he was little, has to attend night school. On his way back from school one night, Ichiro encounters something truly out of this world - a procession of ghosts! A conversation with a reporter in the city reveals that Ichiro is not the only one to have come across paranormal encounters as of late. Then, Ichiro happens to see a girl at the train station, but she, too, has ties to the ghosts... --- **Volume 247 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
In the era of cavemen, a boy with white skin is born on the night of a storm. He is immediately outcast as a cursed child, doomed to bring disaster to whoever he comes across. This boy is set to be sacrificed to the Dragon King (a tyrannosaurus), but is saved by an ape woman, Kitty, and is given the name Ryu. Ryu grows up as her child, and soon encounters the world of the cavemen again - with Kitty dying in a skirmish between them and the Dragon King. Ryu soon learns that Kitty is not his birth mother, though she is somewhere out in the world. Faced with this mystery, Ryu ventures on a journey to seek her - all while dealing with discrimination from other cavemen, and the ever-present danger of the prehistoric era. The first part of the Ryu Trilogy. **Links:** - [Anime Adaptation on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1463)
This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kürten", "Sensual Nights", "Lord Iechika Mogami", "The Lady of the Rhine", and "The Thief Akikazu Inoue". --- **Volume 265 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
A young man named Hiiragi has recently learned that he has a half-brother. Seeking him out, he not only finds the brother he never knew, but discovers he is a mysterious individual covered in bandages who runs an exclusive rare animal pet shop. But this unique shop is itself a front for something even more mysterious: a secret shop where customers in-the-know can sign a contract forged in blood and rent out yokai for their own singular purposes!
This is volume 5 of the Kuwata Jirou Masterpiece Selection. (from ebookjapan): A small, unnamed island exists in the nearby waters of South America. Its location is not clear because the island changes its position little by little due to volcanic activity. There is a cursed forest on the island, and it is said that there is a master of the forest who has been living for hundreds or thousands of years, but the master of the forest never dies thanks to the water of life that allows him to live forever. Hearing this story, the sailors search the island for the water of life... but what is waiting for them?
My Gemini, 僕のジェミニ; Boku no jemini; My Gemini; Song Tử của em
Drama, Historical, Mystery, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
93
2
15
August 5, 2024
Who died at that time... Which one? John is red-haired and freckled. His only pride is that he is a close friend of the school's popular twins, Jekyll and Hyde. The twins always pretended to be each other, but suddenly one of the twins died. Who was left... Which one!?
The original version of Lost World done in Tezuka's middle school days. Very close to the final version, but has a number of differences - among other things, Kenichi is an adult instead of a kid. --- **Volumes 360 and 361 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
?Gymnasium × Doll × Mystery? Soleil, a boy who was fascinated by the "Platinum Doll" that he saw with his older brother when he was young, dreamed of one day making a doll so beautiful that it could be mistaken for a human being. Oneshot manga for the novel NOIR DOLL
Drama, Mystery, School Life, Supernatural, Tragedy
36
2
3
August 3, 2024
Morinaga Hiromu saw his parents killed by a murderer and was injured himself. Fortunately, he managed to survive but since that day, he can see ghostly things. On a rainy day, what appeared was the death of a human being carried by a person carrying it on his back-a "murderer's resume" that emerged when a murder was committed. Behind the transfer student, Yuzuka, who came to his class, there are a lot of suffering faces... Is the mysterious girl an angel or a devil?
A completely original story of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. An exciting tale of featuring Yuna, a bear girl dressed in overpowered and cute bear equipment! While living free-spirited in another world, there are incidents that make Yuna want to rest. An original story that no one knows yet begins with delicious food in hand ? During their stay in the royal capital, Yuna and Fina hear rumors of a phantom thief who'd been stealing jewels from nobles and then returning them. They travel to see one of the phantom thief's latest robbery's when...? "Phantom Thief of the Royal Capital" Chapter start!
11人いる!; Juuichinin Iru!; They Were 11!; त्यहाँ 11 जना छन्!
Drama, Mystery, Romance
31
2
2
August 3, 2024
The elite Cosmo Academy attracts applicants from every stellar nation in the galaxy. One young hopeful is Tadatos Lane, an orphan esper from Terra. The final stage of the academy's entrance exam is a perilous mission simulation aboard an actual derelict starship. The applicants depart for the ships in groups of ten, but when Tada's crew arrives on the Esperanza, they are horrified to discover that they now number eleven. As the test progresses, things go awry and the atmosphere grows increasingly tense. The crew members begin to suspect sabotage, and Tada appears to be the likely culprit. The original printing of this manga were volumes 13 and 14 of the Hagio Moto Works Collection.
