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MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

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

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Philosophy , Crime , Tragedy , Amnesia , Twins , Noir , Fugitive , Foreign , Historical , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Suicide , Orphan , Adoption , Torture , Assassins , Achronological Order , Episodic , Gore

Smiley

Also known as Smile!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

A journalist risks everything to uncover the truth behind a sinister cult...

Yuushi Kamome is a freelance journalist who lost his beloved daughter in an unforeseen accident. His descent into despair following her death drove his wife to leave him, and he lives each day a shell of the man he once was. But his fate changes one day when members from a religious organization he had never heard of, the Smiling Hearts Society, knock on his door and hand him a flyer. He’s ready to dismiss them until he notices the face of his estranged wife on the flyer, smiling ever so softly. And so begins a tale of religion and insanity. What kind of sinister darkness lurks behind this religion and its strange smiles?



Tags: Cult , Seinen , Religion , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Police , Espionage

Pet

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Supernatural

The story revolves around people who possess the ability to infiltrate human minds and manipulate memories. Their powers have been used in the underworld for covering up accidents, assassinations, and all manner of crimes. However, these powers not only destroy others' spirits but also corrupt the users' own hearts. They chained to one another, protecting their fragile and insecure hearts. Out of fear and contempt, others called them "pets".

Tags: Memory Manipulation , Seinen

Emerging

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror

Japan is a brilliant model of Asian success and obligation. But how would this country manage a large-scale sanitary crisis? What would happen in Shinjuku, one of Tokyo's biggest districts, if a man exploded in the street during broad daylight? How would the political and sanitation authorities manage such a crisis? Please consider this question as long as you can--because it's already too late for professors Onodera and Sekiguchi! Is an emerging virus slowly spreading itself into the arteries of the Japanese capital?

Tags: Pandemic , Medicine , Seinen

Platinum End

Also known as Platinum End.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.



Tags: Gods , Angels , Shounen , Cosmic Horror , Urban , Tragedy , Battle Royale , Survival , Male Protagonist , Superhero , Suicide , Philosophy , Crime , Politics , Religion , Coming of Age , Super Power , Memory Manipulation , Heterosexual , Conspiracy , Ensemble Cast , Bullying , Denpa , Guns , Nudity , Urban Fantasy , Cult , Yandere , Zombie , Ghost , Kuudere , Time Skip , Amnesia

Natsume Arata no Kekkon

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

Arata Natsume works at a child guidance center, is in his thirties and single with no plans for marriage. But one day, he receives a request from the child he was in charge of, Takuto, to "meet the criminal who killed his father". That serial killer is Shinagawa Shinju, also known as the "Shinagawa Pierrot".

Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Revenge , Tragedy , Philosophy , Adoption , Body Image , Fugitive , Suicide , Parenthood , Seinen , Prison , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Crime , Marriage , Nudity

DEATH NOTE

Also known as Death Note.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?



Tags: Detective , Police , Anti-Hero , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Crime , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Gods , Primarily Male Cast , Espionage , Time Skip , Shounen , Memory Manipulation , Demons , Amnesia , Politics , Cult

Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gihren Ansatsu Keikaku

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Mystery , Sci-Fi

In December of UC0073 Investigator Leopold Fieseler of the Zeon National Public Safety Division is investigating a series of terrorist bombings that have been occuring on Side 3 when without warning he is contacted by an old childhood friend, Elise Ann Finnegan, who is now working with the Prefectural Office.

When they meet, she hands him a disk containing a list of Zeon Officials marked for assassination; Officials who have been dying during the very bombings he is now investigating.

At first he thinks that its data that has been leaked to the press, but as he scrolls down he discovers something further. This list does not stop with those who are already dead, and at the bottom of the list is the name "Commander Gihren Zabi" - the Leader of the Principality of Zeon.



Tags: Military , Space , Shounen , Real Robot , Conspiracy , Crime , Criminal Organization , Detective , Disability , Espionage , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Terrorism , Urban , War , Ensemble Cast , Police

DEATH NOTE C-Kira-hen

Also known as Death Note: C-Kira.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery

A one-chapter sequel of the Death Note manga which tells what happened 3 years after it all ended. The chapter was later published in volume format as a bonus in the Death Note: All-in-One Edition, then later in the volume “Death Note: Tanpenshuu”.

Tags: Police , Philosophy , Primarily Male Cast , Suicide , Gods , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Shounen