Tsutomu Nihei returns with another addictive manga (see BLAME!), set in the not-so-distant future (3005 A.D.). It follows a character by the name of Kanoe Zouichi and the mysterious Kanoe Fuyu whose luminous form is integrated into the system of his bike. They are agents sent by a powerful organization to retrieve the human with the ability to resist and transmute the NS5 infection that is spreading across the world, named Yion/Ion Green. However, their mission is delayed by the reckless actions of the Public Health Department's taskforce and the kidnapping of Yion/Ion Green. Will they complete their mission? Where has Yion/Ion Green been taken? These questions will only be answered as more volumes are released. The art in BioMega is similar to BLAME!, with its complicated concrete sprawl and ludicrously wide, empty spaces. However, things seem to happen at a more reasonable pace. In this manga, there is emphasis on the swiftness of the attacks made by Zouichi, such as the gun being sheathed just before the enemies fall to the ground. Speed is crucial in this manga, unlike in BLAME!, and the plot develops just as quickly. An interesting read, especially if one has enjoyed BLAME!
Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head. Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks. Chapters 1-19: Read from left to right Chapters 20-66: Read from right to left
In a summer vacation, a group of 15 children discovered a mysterious man living in a seashore cave, along with his high-tech gadgets. The man claimed to be a game developer creating a video game with a giant robot defending Earth from 15 alien invaders, and asked those childs to test the game for him. The kids agreed happily at first, but soon they began to find the game horrifying, not only because of its realism but also because the first fatality among them happened right after their first victory. Worse yet, they had no idea how to stop or leave the "game."
Action, Comedy, Mecha, Military, Romance, School Life, Sci-fi, Shounen
20
1
4
April 28, 2024
The plot revolves around an intranet-based online game (D.P. = Danger Planet) which is played using V.P. (Virtual Puppet). VP is literally an avatar which a person uses to in the game. However, unlike avatars (characters) from current online games, a VP is allowed to be modified (modded) by a person if he or she has sufficient programming skills.
Buttobi CPU; I Dream of Mimi; ぶっとび!! CPU; Buttobi!! CPU
Action, Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Sci-fi, Seinen
24
1
1
April 28, 2024
This story revolves around the life of Akira, a man who has been saving his money for over three years to finally obtain a computer. Unable to get the computer model he wants he is offered the same model from a shady man in an alley. What happens next is something that will change the life of Akira forever. For he didn’t look at the box closely enough to note that it isn’t Model 9821, it is actually Model 2198, a super advanced gynoid who’s sole purpose is to serve and protect her “master.”
Horror, Mature, School Life, Sci-fi, Seinen, Supernatural
17
1
2
April 28, 2024
Stories about the "chairudo". The title of the series is written with kanji which mean "small-kind-people", but Ogino gives them unusual readings so that it becomes a clever pun for "child".
Chairudo are childlike people (even when they have become adults) with each an exceptional supernatural gift, a power. Some are "firestarters" for example. The main character, Hinagata Heiji, looks like a loser, but looks are deceptive. He has the uncanny ability to bring to life every inanimate object by bringing the object in touch with his blood. He wanders around, enlisting himself in a school from time to time (after all, he looks like a child). But every "chairudo" has got its own territory and conflicts between them, especially about the females, are numerous.
超時空要塞マクロス the First ; Macross The First ; SDF Macross The First ; Super Dimensional Fortress Macross The First ; Super Dimensional Fortress Macross: The First
Mecha, Romance, Sci-fi, Shounen
34
1
5
April 28, 2024
A new manga adaptation of the first TV series called Macross: The First has been released in Japan during 2009. It is a comic format alternate telling of the events in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (with modern character and mecha designs) that is being serialized in the Sh?nen Ace manga magazine. The artist for the new manga series is Haruhiko Mikimoto, who was the character designer for the original Macross.
(Source: Wikipedia)
In a not-too-distant future, the Earth has been overrun by a horrifying technovirus. Mechanical parasites, mistakenly created in an attempt to advance technology, attach themselves to human spinal cords and turn their hosts into cyborgs.
Desperate to rid themselves of this technological terror, the remaining human survivors must band together and learn to defend themselves against their android enemies.
Beetle Fighter; Heavy Shell B-Fighter; 重甲ビーファイター; ビーファイターカブト; Big Bad Beetleborgs; Beetleborgs Metallix
Action, Adaptation, Mecha, Sci-fi
24
1
3
May 3, 2024
Based on the TV Series of the same name, insects all over the world begin to swarm for unknown reasons, with other animals and plants acting strange as well. To investigate this, Takuya Kai is dispatched with an Earth Academia group. Investigating independently, Takuya finds Guru who reveals that insects are preparing for battle against invaders from another dimension. Offering their aid, the Earth Academia create suits of armor to combat the threat as the Jamahl arrive to Earth to enslave humans. Though they have trouble perfecting the Bio-Machinery, Guru arrives to infuse the armor with the life force of many insects. Once the suits become the B-Commanders, one suit chooses Takuya while the other two bond to Daisaku Katagiri and Rei Hayama. With their newfound power, the B-Fighters fight to drive back Jamahl's forces. (Wikipedia)
Cyber Blue Ushinawareta Kodomotachi ; Cyber Blue - Lost Number Children; Cyber Blue - The Lost Children; Cyber Blue (YOSHIHARA Motoki); Cyber Blue: Lost Number Children; Cyber Blue: The Lost Children; Cyber Blue: Ushi; サイバーブルー 失われた子供たち; Cyber Blue - Ushinawareta Kodomotachi
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A remake and reimagining of the original series by Hara Tetsuo (Hokuto no Ken, Hana no Keiji) which ran from 1988-1989, with new art by Yoshihara Motoki. Cyber Blue: The Lost Children follows the story of Blue, a descendant of colonists from Terra who settled the distant world of Tinos in the 22nd Century. The brutal environment of Tinos forces humanity to rely on an artificial life support system implanted in the chest called the Biomatrix, in order to survive.
In the 25th Century, Tinos is ruled by a Planetary Government bent on eradicating The Lost, dissidents who refuse to submit to its autocratic rule and are hunted down by its military for extermination. Through total control of Biomatrix production and issuing them to only those who submit to its authority, the Planetary Government enforces its will in an effort to finish off the Lost and their descendants, the Lost Children once and for all.
Set in the dystopia of Junk City, Blue encounters Fats, a powerful robotic Artificial Intelligence, and the story of their meeting will change both man and machine, the fate of the Lost Children, and the course of human evolution forever.
COMPILER is a story about the Igarashi brothers Nachi and Toshi, and two beauties from another dimension, Compiler and Assembler. Originally sent to conquer Earth through a game of destruction and creation, Compiler and Assembler ended up deciding that living in our world is more fun than conquering it. They moved in with Nachi and Toshi. A growing relationship began to develop between Nachi and Compiler, and Toshi and Assembler, though none of them can bring themselves to admit it outright.
Meanwhile, the people who sent Compiler and Assembler to conquer Earth were outraged by their apparent betrayal. They sent two assassins, Bios and Directory, to deal with the renegades and proceed with the invasion plan. And so, the misadventures begin...
Taking place 30 years after the original Cutey Honey manga. Sister Jill has been revived, and has brought back the Panther Claw to defeat Honey (taken from ANN).
NOTE: This manga reads from Right to Left BUT it has some parts of reading from Left to Right!
After an embarassing encouter, Kouji is surprised to learn that two women have moved into the male populated bachelor dormitory where he lives. Now he must attempt to adjust his life and studies to handle the distraction caused by the new tenants. From the author of Love Comedy Style.
Events taking place between volumes 18 and 19 of Bastard!!
This material was originally going to be in the main manga, but that ended up not being the case.
It was later released in various stages of completion over 3 doujinshi (Sketch, Unused, and Unused- Revised Edition)
Action, Ecchi, Mature, School Life, Sci-fi, Shounen, Supernatural
33
1
4
April 26, 2024
In the midst of a terrorist attack that kills all his classmates,Tohru Kuroe knows the chances of seeing yet another woman die makes Tohru pick up an abandoned gun - The beast awakens; taking over. When Tohru comes to his senses, he finds he is now a killer. Finding out he was genetically engineered to be a killer, his codename is D-17, Tohru continues his 'normal' life amidst challengers threatening his life and those around him.
Sometime in the future, somewhere in Europe a city has many levels of underground, even secret dangerous levels that have answers to the past. Mihai is a retired assassin who has returned home to settle a vendetta and start a new life as a restaurant owner. Haine was genetically experimented on as a child, which led to him possesing dog like attributes. Badou is his clumsy chain smoking partner who becomes deranged when denied cigarettes. Naoto was orphaned as a child and has amnesia she was trained to wield the sword. Their pasts are somehow connected to the secret underground and the organization that controls it.
A symptom which causes one to physically regress till the point of disappearance. A pharmaceutical company which claims to be researching a cure and the cause for this syndrome. What are their motives? And what does a dragon slayer and even a handful of demons have in relation to all this?
Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the Earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the Earth, thirty-five kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the various living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments.
Fudou Jun is a highschool teacher and takes a trip with a group of students. While there, a group of martial artists staying nearby take a strange interest in the girls. These men are actually demons and after changing into their true form break into the cabin to rape the girls. One gets Jun and violates her. She feels her soul being torn apart and transforms into Devilman Lady. With newfound powers and strength she kills all the demons and protects the girls from any further harm. What are these demons and why did she turn into a hybrid of one? What does this mean for her and for the rest of humanity?
Dr. Kishiwada’s Scientific Affection ; 岸和田博士の科学的愛情 ; 岸和田博士科学的爱情 ; Kishiwada-Hakase no Kagakueki Aijou
Comedy, Mecha, Sci-fi, Seinen
22
1
3
April 26, 2024
The hero is Dr. Kishiwada, a brilliant but demented scientist, who creates bizarre mechas, battles the forces of evil, or just mucks about. There are many parodies of B-grade sci-fi movies and of TV. Crazy, slick, and very funny.
The Adventures of Doraemon; 大長編ドラえもん; Cerita Panjang Doraemon; Truyện dài Doraemo; Daichohen Doraemon; Doraemon Petualangan
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Shounen, Time Travel
90
1
1
April 26, 2024
"Doraemon" is a series about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to help a schoolboy named Nobita Nobi. Aside from the normal manga books, their great adventures to different places are specially described in Doraemon Long Stories books.
Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-fi, Shounen, Sports, Time Travel
43
1
1
April 26, 2024
A spin-off of Doraemon, it is a story about how a baseball team comprised of futuristic robot cats and a human make their way towards becoming a great team.
The author was an assistant to the author of the original Doraemon manga.
Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-fi, Shoujo, Shounen Ai
27
1
0
April 25, 2024
From Blu:
It's present day, and Archangel Michael is fed up with the pathetic development of the human species. The angels, in their world high above ours, have been given the choice between destroying or preserving humanity. This will be decided by having "Plus Checkers" looking for good points and "Minus Checkers" looking for bad points, and whichever finds 10,000 points first decides the outcome. Chihaya and Kagetsuya are angels who have known each other since their days at military school in Eden, and having taken up opposing sides of this "good vs. bad points" checking system, are teamed together during their stay on Earth.
However, Chihaya is unusual even by angelic standards—he has black hair, eyes and wings. He's one-of-a-kind, unusually powerful in spite of his naive demeanor (much to Kagetsuya's dismay), but set apart from his angel kin...until the Black Cancer strikes the heavenly population, darkening the wings and hair of its victims before spiraling them down into painful death. Tension builds among the angels and between Chihaya and Kagetsuya in particular, and it looks as if the secrets to the salvation or destruction of both Earth and Eden may lie with Chihaya himself.
Note: The English version is of the Japanese Deluxe rerelease, contained in only four volumes and also having some bonus materials.
At the end of the 21st century, humans have made great advancements in technology and were able to create a giant energy source to power that technology. However, this new source of energy overloaded and turned into a more devastating force than nuclear weapons. The catastrophe wiped out the majority of human civilization and those who survived lived in terror of the anarchy that took over.
Hagakure Kakugo comes from a secret family that has protected people for generations from powerful organizations and evil from taking over. They are only awoken in time of need and it has been decades since Kakugo was conscious. His body had been heavily modified by fusing it with metals to enhance both his offense and defense. He uses an armor called the Exoskull that attaches to him to greatly boost his already superhuman power. Thus begins a story about a young man and his armor’s journey through hell.
Drama, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Sci-fi, Shoujo
20
1
2
April 25, 2024
Taken from Baka-updates:
An anthology of oneshots.
Story 1: Promise by NISHI Keiko
Story 2: They were Eleven by HAGIO Moto
Story 3: The Changeling by SATO Shio
Story 4: Since You've Been Gone by NISHI Keiko
The two stories by NISHI Keiko were also published as a separate book in English called "Promise." Those stories were originally taken from "Mizu ga Kooru ni Naru Toki."
ギョ ; ギョ～うごめく不気～ ; 鱼 ; Gyo - The Eerie Wriggle ; The Enigma of Amigara Fault ; The Sad History of the Principal Post
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-fi, Seinen
30
1
3
April 25, 2024
From Viz: Something is rotten in Okinawa...the floating stench of death hangs over the island..What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene...so begins Tadashi and Kaori's spiral into the horror (and stench) of the sea. --- *Includes two bonus stories called • The Sad Tale of the Principal Post in vol 1. • The Enigma of the Amigara Fault in vol 2.
Haight and Andrews are successful engineers working for a company on the verge of developing a history-making breakthrough on nanotechnology; however, when Haight discovers a new technology that will help people live better and cure a few diseases, Andrews decides to use this technology for military purposes. Aware of his intentions, Haight resigns from the company taking all the documents and research about his discovery with him. Andrews becomes angry at this and prepares a trap for Haight. Andrews and his five maniac sidekicks brutally torture Haight and kill his loved ones, then sever both his arms and leave him for dead.
Luckily Haight is rescued by a mysterious doctor and his assistant. Both men are experimenting with the strange power of "The Zetsmos," which is the ability to control the ghost inside the body while one is still alive. Reports of people that had their limbs severed confirm that they can still "feel and move" their limbs even if they are not there, but with the Natural power of the Zetsmos, the body can assimilate any kind of material and make it part of the body (such as wood, paper, water, metal, etc.) and recreate the limb that was gone.
However, awakening the Zetsmos is a painful and dangerous process; the bearer has to put himself between life and death to awaken it. But Haight will stop at nothing to hunt down those that made his life a living hell, and he's determined to use the mysterious power to carry on his revenge.
Plug works in a company from a parallel world and her job is to secretly revitalize people from our world who are stressed out. Her clumsiness always gets her into trouble and she is constantly in danger of having her salary cut due to her performance. One day, she meets a young teenager that makes her realize that revitalizing people mindlessly is just a temporary remedy and does not solve the root cause of the problem. She then slowly begins to see the importance of timing the revitalization. However, her new aim is the exact opposite of the company policy and her boss sends Aresta to supervise her. Will she be able to keep from losing her job?
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…
From Mobots: Renton is a 14-year-old boy who occasionally helps out his grandfather as a mechanic. But his feelings of dissatisfaction and frustration grows as his mundane and routine work clouds his visions for his future and he dreams of flying around the world. It isn't until one day, a large human-like mech, a LFO (Light Finding Operation), falls from the sky in front of Renton and appearing from the depths of the machine is a beautiful young girl named Eureka. And as she asks the dumbfounded Renton for repairs, the two will embark upon a fantastic journey into the unknown.
Ken il guerriero; Ken le survivant; Ken, The Great Bear Fist; 北斗の拳; 北斗神拳; Hokuto no Ken; Ken the Survivor; Ken the Warrior; หมัดดาวเหนือ; उत्तर तारा को मुट्ठी; Кулак Полярної Зорі; Кулак Северной Звезды; Pięść Gwiazd Północy; El Puño de la Estrella del Norte; Bắc đẩu chi quyền
199X, nuclear war has ravaged the planet. From the ashes, gangs have risen to take all the power from world governments. Justice has ceased to exist in this now lawless world. From the ashes of a desert a man appears. His name is Kenshiro, and he is the sucessor to the most powerful martial art in the world, Hokuto Shinken. This art attacks the foes insides, and makes him explode internally, dying in often brutal ways. Kenshiro's goal is to kill the man who kidnapped his fiance, Yuria. A man that he once called friend, but whom betrayed him and left him for dead. Along the way he makes friends and enemies alike, while protecting those who cannot protect themselves.
Alita is a powerful cyborg with a soft heart and a mysterious past. Her second lease on life isn't easy: her heart is broken, she gains and loses friends to the cruel world of the Scrapyard far below the Utopian city of Tiphares, and she serves many masters in her quest to protect the innocent and create a new life for herself.
