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Naraku no Futari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

The bullied girl in class Sakura Rin and the honor student who doesn't want to make any waves, Komine Yuuya, were classmates and haven't once exchanged words with each other. Everything between them changes when Yuuya goes with the flow around him and tells her to go die. Rin jumps from the classroom window. She escapes death and claims that it was Yuuya's fault. The bewildered Yuuya tells Rin that he'll do anything as he begs for forgiveness. Rin tells him that what she wishes for is love.

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: School , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Bullying , Coming of Age , Nudity , Bisexual , Yuri

Chi no Wadachi

Also known as Blood on the Tracks.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother’s love that has gone too far….



Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Family Life , Denpa , Coming of Age , Crime , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Suicide , Amnesia , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Bullying , Anti-Hero , Psychosexual , Philosophy , Police , School , Cosmic Horror , Tomboy , Dissociative Identities , Nudity

Arakawa Under the Bridge

Also known as Arakawa Under the Bridge.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Kou Ichinomiya, a young man born with a silver spoon in his mouth and raised with the mantra “never owe anyone” suddenly finds himself deeply indebted to a young homeless woman, Nino, who lives on the Arakawa river bank and claims to originally be from the planet Venus. When Nino rejects all of Kou’s mundane offers of money or housing, Kou is at a loss for how to repay his debt, until Nino suddenly asks him to teach her about love. A daunting task, but the over-achieving Kou is determined to return Nino’s favor. And so begins Kou’s life under the bridge, along with a band of eccentric characters who have formed their own little community outside the boundaries of typical Tokyoite life…




Tags: Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Homeless , Seinen , Heterosexual , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Love Triangle