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Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Suicide , Gender Bending , Nudity , Tomboy

BANANA FISH

Also known as Banana Fish.

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

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...



Tags: Mafia , Tragedy , Gangs , Conspiracy , Noir , Drugs , Primarily Male Cast , Crime , Revenge , Criminal Organization , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Coming of Age , Shoujo , Delinquents , Urban , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Politics , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Adoption , Orphan , Tanned Skin , Assassins , LGBTQ+ Themes , Police , Cars , Boys' Love , Bisexual , Photography , Classic Literature , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Prison

Ginmokusei no Shitateya

Also known as Haberdashery Ginmokusei.

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

Ubuki has taken over Ginmokusei, a long-established haberdashery in Ginza, he inherited from his grandfather. But unlike when his grandfather was in charge, the shop is now dead!
So when a handsome man named Tosei comes to visits the shop, Ubuki is elated! But his joy is cut short when he is told that his customer service is not up to par.



Tags: Boys' Love , Work , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tanned Skin , Fashion , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Haruka Tooki Ie

Also known as A Home Far Away.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In the winter of 1990, a young man named Alain finds himself lost and searching for direction. He currently cannot find it at home nor through the church. But when he meets Hayden, a free-spirited cook, he at least finds someone he can relate with. He may not know where his life is going but at least he has someone to lean on. But Alain's new life, filled with new feelings and many new challenging experiences, may force him to find his path on the road...



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Travel , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Fugitive , Religion , Crime , Foreign , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Prostitution , Nudity

Sleeping Dead

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

Earnest and pleasant Sada is a high school teacher popular with his students and colleagues. One day, while patrolling after school, he encounters a female student being attacked by someone with a knife. He doesn't get the chance to run away, and dies. However, Sada wakes up on a cold table...



Note: Includes two bonus chapters.

Tags: Zombie , Gore , Boys' Love , Primarily Adult Cast , Unrequited Love , Cannibalism , LGBTQ+ Themes , Psychosexual , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Revenge , Teacher , Aromantic , Asexual , Torture , Suicide , Tsundere

Kimi no Yoru ni Fureru

Also known as Touch Within the Abyss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

“When you get to know the real me… you will be disappointed.”

Chinatsu, a hitman, meets his destiny again. His name is Kasumi. He was the boy who reached out to Chinatsu when he lost his brother in front of his eyes.

A few years later, Chinatsu rescues Kasumi from a snatcher by chance. Kasumi is blind, and Chinatsu can’t leave him alone in the street… although he knows he shouldn’t get close to him, the distance between them gets shorter day by day…

A story of redemption, in which two young men trapped in darkness slowly soothe each other’s loneliness.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Boys' Love , Disability , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Assassins , Tragedy