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Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.



Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Meta , Gods , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Ghost , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , School , Nekomimi , Shounen

Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai

Also known as Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.



Tags: Philosophy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Detective , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Crime , Hikikomori , Crossdressing , Maids , Gore

Zerozaki Soushiki no Ningen Shiken

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Psychological

The forefront of new youth entertainment! "Now then, let's commence the Zerozaki"

The Zerozaki Clan is a family of demonic killers, ranked third among the Killing Names. The eldest brother whom is a leader of the clan is the user of Suicidal Tendencies (Mind Render)—also known as the Twentieth Hell—Soushiki. What awaits him on the other side of the breathless turmoil......?! The forefront of new youth entertainment is here!



Tags: Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Philosophy , Assassins , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Also known as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

Subaru Natsuki was just trying to get to the convenience store but wound up summoned to another world. He encounters the usual things--life-threatening situations, silver haired beauties, cat fairies--you know, normal stuff. All that would be bad enough, but he's also gained the most inconvenient magical ability of all--time travel, but he's got to die to use it. How do you repay someone who saved your life when all you can do is die?



Tags: Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Witch , Isekai , Male Protagonist , Gore , Time Loop , Cosmic Horror , Astronomy , Magic , Memory Manipulation , Suicide , Body Horror , Amnesia , Cult , Elf , Ensemble Cast , Alternate Universe , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual , Politics , Reincarnation , Twins , Maids , Time Skip , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist , Assassins , Femboy , Yandere , Dragons , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Kemonomimi , Unrequited Love , Necromancy , Zombie , Werewolf , Age Regression

Durarara!!

Also known as Durarara!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance , Supernatural

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE DOWNRIGHT WEIRD.

The Ikebukuro district in Tokyo is full of interesting people. A boy longing for the extraordinary. A hotheaded punk. An airheaded pseudo-stalker. An information broker who works for kicks. An underground doctor who specializes in truly desperate patients. A high school student infatuated with a monster. And a headless rider on a pitch-black motorcycle. Their story may not be a heartwarming one, but as it turns out, even weirdos like these sometimes fall in love.



Tags: Gangs , Yakuza , Achronological Order , Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Otaku Culture , Motorcycles , Delinquents , Mythology , Mafia , Dullahan , Female Protagonist

Phenomeno

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

“There are things that shouldn’t be seen.”
Often said my late grandmother, and that was quite true.

I was drawn to the occult from childhood, and upon entering university, I learned the truth of those words by stepping many times into the edges of the netherworld. Ghosts — beings which no one can decisively determine whether they exist or not. The story that begins here revolves around stories brought forth by them.

And this story, it can also be said to be the story of it and I.

As its eyes glimmer in front of strangeness, as it breathes out words with a bedazzled expression, it warped the world that I always believed in. It made me anxious of whether the ground I stood on would shake. I would want to look over my shoulder just by listening, and I grew to fear whether someone were peeking from the dark shadow of the door. Maybe it was because the words it spoke included truths about the other side. It included truths that only applied to the scant, grotesque, waning, dead ones.

Now, after it has disappeared, do I finally know that.

As grandmother said, it was a world that I should not have seen. It was a story that was not for the living person.
However.
However, I intend to speak of that.
I intend to speak about all of that. Because if I don’t — it wouldn’t be able to rest in peace.
Because it, having lived on the edge of darkness, having struggled through the threshold of darkness, would not be able to live in peace.

Yes — I’ll say it once more.
From here on, is a story that shouldn’t be known.

Tags: Ghost