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Tajuu Jinkaku Tantei Psycho

Also known as MPD Psycho.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological

Police detective Yosuke Kobayashi's life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something "special" about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi's wife and kick-starts a "multiple personality battle" within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and evil forces. Earning praise for its consistently shocking plot lines and Tajima's clean, arresting art style, MPD-Psycho is the manga event of the decade!



Tags: Detective , Clone , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Seinen , Police , Body Horror , Terrorism , Nudity , Anti-Hero

D.Gray-man

Also known as D.Gray-man.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

A born exorcist, Walker's primary anti-akuma weapon is the cross that's embossed on his red, disfigured left hand, which contains Innocence. But not only does Walker destroy akuma, he sees the akuma hiding inside a person's soul! Together with his fellow exorcists fighting under the command of the Black Order, Walker leads the battle against the Millennium Earl, the evil being out to destroy mankind.



Tags: Demons , Amnesia , Tragedy , Found Family , Super Power , Foreign , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist , Religion , Cult , Shounen , Adoption , Circus , Historical , Exorcism , Primarily Male Cast , Steampunk , Post-Apocalyptic

Vampire Hunter D

Also known as Vampire Hunter D.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Sci-Fi

The year is 12,090 A.D., and what little is left of humanity has finally crawled out from the ashes of war and destruction. From the darkness of the fallout, mutants and a race of vampires known as the Nobility have spawned. They rule the weak with no remorse. Once bitten by a Nobility, one is cursed to become a member of the undead. Villagers cower in fear, hoping and praying for a savior to rid them of their undying nightmare. All they have to battle this danger is a different kind of danger – a Vampire Hunter.



Tags: Vampire , Nudity , Seinen , Werewolf , Swordplay , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist

Search and Destroy

Also known as Search and Destroy.

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

This is a tale of rage. Rage against hypocrisy, injustice, exploitation, and the wrongs done to a child who grew into a righteous killer….Complete in three volumes, Search and Destroy transplants the vengeful action of Dororo from feudal Japan into a dystopian future where mercenary robots known as "creatures" serve the human elite and victimize the city's scrabbling, desperate masses. The violent death of one of these creatures connects an orphaned thief named Doro with a mysterious girl in a stinking animal hide that conceals deadly cybernetic implants. Who is this mysterious girl? How is she killing, one by one, the city's most twisted and powerful creatures? And why is she so angry?


Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Seinen , Cyberpunk , Dystopian , Politics , Female Protagonist , Robots , Revenge , Cyborg , Artificial Intelligence , Police , Tragedy , Yakuza

Gilgamesh

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

And epic sci-fi story heavily influenced by the Epic of Gilgamesh, as several groups fight for a mysterious power. While a close bother and sister get tied up into the battle unwillingly.

Tags: Seinen

Warau Kyuuketsuki

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Volume 1 : The Laughing Vampire.
While a young boy, just resurrected as a vampire, commits acts of awful ferocity, the city around him shows all its perversion. The adults abuse their power, the boys degenerate and use all the available means to achieve their goal to give vent to their low instincts. Whoever can't understand and make opposition is doomed to change or becoming crazy. So which is the real horror? The vampire who kills in order to feed himself or the crawling disease hidden in society, which slowy corrupts without being noticed?

Volume 2 : Paradise.
Following the events narrated in the first volume, Luna and Konosuke are now living together with the old woman vampire as fellows, as lovers, in a diabolic innocence, killing for quieting their thirst for blood, joining death and love under the dream of eternal youth. Meanwhile, a young boy named Makoto is looking for his lost sister Miko, who disappeared years ago in mysterious circumstances. But what really happened to that girl who liked eating grubs and dreamed of becoming one of them? And is there really a terrible secret that someone is hiding? The paths of all the characters will dramatically collide, bringing unexpected consequences after the things are gradually revealed.

A story suspended between weirdness and decadence, showing a clear nostalgia for German cinematography and Federico Fellini, where blood is used to trace a great and only apparently amoral story.

Tags: Seinen , Vampire , Gore , Ero Guro , Body Horror , Historical

Harukkun

Also known as Dayseller.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Sci-Fi

“Daysellers” absorb humans’ negative emotional time for sustenance. A story of daysellers delving deep into the minds of humans!



Tags: Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Episodic , War

Megami Ibunroku Persona

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Supernatural

Based on the Playstation Game Revelations: Persona.

Note: Released in Enix Supercomic Gekijoh Volume 06, 08 and 10.

Tags: Anthology

Ayako

Also known as Ayako.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Opening a few years after the end of World War II and covering almost a quarter-century, here is comics master Osamu Tezuka’s most direct and sustained critique of Japan’s fate in the aftermath of total defeat. Unusually devoid of cartoon premises yet shot through with dark voyeuristic humor, Ayako looms as a pinnacle of Naturalist literature in Japan with few peers even in prose, the striking heroine a potent emblem of things left unseen following the war.

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter?



Tags: Historical , Politics , Seinen , Espionage , Tragedy , Rural , Incest , Yakuza , Crime , Fugitive , Time Skip , Police , Nudity , Gangs , Rehabilitation , Urban

Tsurikichi Sanpei

Also known as Sanpei the Fisherman.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Mihira Sanpei is a down-to-earth cheerful boy, who is gifted with a genius in fishing. What he lacks in experience is covered by his first-rate sense in fishing. He lives in the mountainous regions of Akita prefecture where natural environment creates a challenge for fishing itself. He faces numerous challenges and participates in various competitions, under the guidance of his grandfather Ippei Sanpei, a master fishing rod maker. Along the way, he encounters all kinds of rivals and companions who increase his experience and help him grow.

Tags: Fishing , Shounen , Male Protagonist