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Munou na Nana

Also known as Talentless Nana.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

An academy on an island in unnavigable waters. There, students trained tirelessly, to fight back against the enemies of humanity. The protagonist, a student newly transferred there, also sets out with the intention of eradicating all enemies of humankind. An unpredictable, intellectual suspense story of justice and evil.



Tags: Conspiracy , Dystopian , Tragedy , Assassins , Super Power , Anti-Hero , Female Protagonist , Detective , Time Skip , Found Family , Primarily Teen Cast , Crime , Espionage , Ensemble Cast , School , Military , Politics , Prison , Shounen , Urban , Rural , Terrorism , Amnesia , Kuudere , Shapeshifting , Adoption , Gore , Yuri , Time Manipulation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bullying , Twins , Zombie , Necromancy , Photography , Suicide , Chibi , Time Loop

"Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omou na" to Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou Sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai

Also known as ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Horror , Sci-Fi

Flum Apricot was never meant to be a hero. Despite zero stats across the board and a power she can’t even use, she somehow finds herself included in a party of heroes. But Flum’s life hits rock bottom when the party’s renowned sage, Jean Inteige, decides that the useless girl is dead weight, and arranges to have her sold into slavery. Tossed to monsters to be feasted upon for her master’s entertainment, Flum makes the desperate choice to reach for a cursed weapon…and something new awakens within her. A grimdark tale about one woman’s blood-soaked quest to reclaim her life!



Tags: Conspiracy , Female Protagonist , Magic , Yuri , Slavery , Religion , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Seinen , Reincarnation , Demons , Swordplay , Foreign

Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

Also known as Assassination Classroom.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who’s doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry. Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison...? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students’ tattered self-esteem?



Note: Includes 7 extras and the one-shot "Tokyo Department Store War Journal".

Tags: Teacher , Assassins , School , Primarily Child Cast , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Satire , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Otaku Culture , Time Skip , Aliens

Akame ga Kill!

Also known as Akame ga KILL!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror

Teenage country bumpkin Tatsumi dreams of earning enough money for his impoverished village by working in the Capital--but his short-lived plans go awry when he's robbed by a buxom beauty upon arrival! Penniless, Tatsumi is taken in by the lovely Miss Aria, but just when his Capital dreams seem in reach yet again, Miss Aria's mansion is besieged by Night Raid--a team of ruthless assassins who targets high-ranking members of the upper class! As Tatsumi is quick to learn, appearances can be deceiving in the Capital, and this team of assassins just might be...the good guys?!



Note: Volumes 5 and 8 each contain a bonus chapter.

Tags: Assassins , Shounen , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Gore , War , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Yandere , Love Triangle , Henshin , Kuudere , Crime , Time Manipulation , Military , Conspiracy , Female Harem , Tsundere , Nekomimi , Guns , Dragons , Youkai , Alchemy , Transgender

Shinigami Alice

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Romance

Returning home late in the evening, Kanogawa Masaki is attacked by a murderer! Just in time to save her, a cute doll-like girl with deadly scissors kills the attacker, with the explanation that she is just doing her job. Unfortunately, part of this strange girl's job is also killing any witnesses. For reasons unknown, she allows Masaki to run away. Now Masaki can't stop thinking about her, and about finding a way to see her again...

Tags: Yuri , Assassins , Primarily Female Cast

Zettai Zetsubou Shoujo: Danganronpa Another Episode

Also known as Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Komaru Naegi, little sister to Makoto Naegi, has been imprisoned inside a mysterious apartment for over a year. One day, she is rescued by Byakuya Togami of Future Foundation, but the rescue is derailed by a sudden attack of hundreds of Monokumas. Komaru soon discovers that the city has been taken over by a group of children calling themselves the Warriors of Hope. Their leader, Monaca, declares that the city will be the site of a “children's paradise,” and to accomplish this, all the adults will be exterminated. Komaru teams up with Toko Fukawa to try to survive the rampaging Monokumas, escape the crafty Monokuma Kids, and uncover the secrets of the city.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Post-Apocalyptic , Survival , Urban , Super Robot , Anti-Hero , Shounen

Happy Sugar Life

Also known as Happy Sugar Life.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological

Theft. Murder. Anything goes. To be with her. This must be what love is. That is what she thought. In order to protect this feeling… …she would do anything.



Note: Includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Yandere , Anti-Hero , Yuri , Age Gap , Crime , Suicide , Achronological Order , Gore , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Work , School , Psychosexual , Delinquents , Pregnant , Heterosexual

Shitsurakuen

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Himoto Sora is a transfer student with a sense of justice and dreams of becoming a knight. Upon arriving at Utopia Gakuen, she learns of a virtual reality-like game played by the male students in which they use girls as weapons in battles for status and treat them as commodities. Seeing one of these girls being abused she steps in and though some sort of error unwittingly becomes the first female participant of the game.

Tags: School , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Slavery , Female Harem , Tsundere , Amnesia , Heterosexual , Yandere , Shounen

Shoujo Shikkaku

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery

A mysterious transfer student arrives to the third year, class C for Hanazono Girl's Middle School. Akane is a plain and simple girl who was tired of her over bearing Friends, and silently thinks that it is ok for the world to be destroyed. However, all the girls of the class wake up to find themselves in a desolated school, with countdown timers. Every girl is tied to another one, and this pair must survive a 7 day Battle Royal. As it turns out, Akane is tied down to the mysterious transfer student.

Friendships crumbles, hopes are lost and sanity is tested as the game starts of with a bang!

Tags: Yuri , Battle Royale , Gore , Yandere , Bullying

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Thriller

The manga adaptation of Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~, authored by Nitroplus and with the art of Masaki Hiragi, is being published in Japan in the magazine Monthly Comic Alive (Media Factory).

Tags: Seinen , Assassins , Tragedy , Gangs , Yakuza , Crime , Noir , Mafia