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Rosario to Vampire

Also known as Rosario+Vampire.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Supernatural

All-around average student Tsukune can't get accepted to any high school save one...but on his first day, he finds the rest of the student body doesn't appear average in the least. Best of all, the cutest girl on campus can't wait to fling her arms around his neck! Wait a sec'--are those her teeth around his neck too...? Tsukune's going to have one heck of a hickey when he gets home from Monster High! But does he have a chance in H-E-double-hockey-sticks of raising his grades at a school where the turf war isn't between the jocks and the nerds but the vampires and the werewolves?



Tags: Vampire , Monster Girl , Magic , Female Harem , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Witch , Demons , School Club , Mythology , Primarily Female Cast , Youkai , Boarding School , Female Protagonist , Body Horror , Memory Manipulation , Unrequited Love , School , Succubus , Urban Fantasy , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual , Mermaid , Love Triangle , Monster Boy , Delinquents , Gore , Chimera , Kemonomimi , Nekomimi , Tragedy , Bisexual , Estranged Family , Martial Arts , Zombie , Tanned Skin , Clone , Terrorism , Triads

Toradora!

Also known as Toradora!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Takasu Ryuuji has learned the hard way that appearances can be deceiving. For despite his inwardly sweet personality, his unintentionally sharp gaze and aggressive features give him the air of a delinquent thug, putting his chances at making new friends, let alone a girlfriend, next to zero.

It's Ryuuji's first day of his second year of high school and it seems as if things are looking up. He gets to sit in between his only friend, Yuusaku, and more importantly, the girl he's secretly crushing on, Kushieda Minori. But just when he thinks the stars are aligned in his favor, he unwittingly crosses the most feared girl in school, Aisaka Taiga, making her into his arch enemy. To top it off, Taiga has moved in right next door to Ryuuji and happens to be Minori's best friend! Can this school year possibly get any worse?!



Tags: Coming of Age , Tsundere , School , Shounen , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast

Sankarea

Also known as Sankarea: Undying Love.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Since he was little, Chihiro has felt an unusual emotional connection to zombie movies. It's not that he feels bad for the survivors—instead he fantasizes about comforting the poor undead girls they slaughter! When his beloved pet passes away, he decides to brew up a resurrection potion in secret. But he's discovered by popular girl and local heiress Sanka Rea, whose life isn't as perfect as it seems ... and Furuya suggests that she could serve as a test subject!

Tags: Zombie , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Medicine , Amnesia , Gore , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Rural , Love Triangle , Ojou-sama , Tomboy , Animals , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Nudity , Maids , Shrine Maiden , School , Body Horror , Torture

Jitsu wa Watashi wa

Also known as My Monster Secret: Actually, I Am….

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

High school student Kuromine Asahi is the kind of guy who literally cannot tell a lie. Whether it’s trying to maintain a poker face in a simple game of cards, or keeping scurrilous gossip to himself, Asahi is a total failure when it comes to the art of deception.

So what happens when he stumbles upon the most shocking secret of his life? When Asahi learns that Shiragami Youko, a beautiful girl of few words, is actually a vampire. Can Asahi possibly keep his lips sealed?



Note: Includes 80 extras chapters.

Tags: School , Vampire , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Monster Girl , Female Protagonist , Demons , Female Harem , Love Triangle , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Shounen , Angels , Gods , Werewolf , Ninja , Age Gap , Ghost

Ano Hito no I ni wa Boku ga Tarinai

Also known as Sachi's Monstrous Appetite.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Makie's a boy in love, with his tall, older classmate Sachi. As a sign of his affection, he makes Sachi a special lunch every day. Sachi loves Makie, too, but she has a secret... she's actually a shapeshifting monster called a watari, and she was drawn to Makie because he smells...delicious! But it's not just Sachi who's drawn to Makie's scent, and soon, he realizes the entire monster world is after him. Fortunately, Sachi's a watari who eats watari, and she pledges to protect him. But how long can Makie survive, with Sachi's appetite the only thing between him and a monster's belly?

Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Monster Girl , Seinen , Heterosexual , Crossdressing , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Demons , Food , Vore , Urban , School , Primarily Teen Cast

Hekikai no AiON

Also known as AiON.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery

After both his parents died in an accident, Tsugawa Tatsuya is now left with millions of heritage he can't use. In the weeks after, he's still mourning and thinking about his father's last words, "Tsugawa family's man must be a man of great vessel". But Tatsuya is not confident he can fulfill his father's last wish.

One day, he met Miyazaki Seine, a strange girl who seems to enjoy being bullied. Tatsuya believes he can help her even though his friends only see her as a masochist pervert, and Seine herself told him to mind his own business.

Seine hunts creatures of the sea, a kind of parasitic bug that controls humans and influences them to do hateful things. She possesses an immortal body and a beast called AiON that's used to lure and devour the bugs from inside the human host. She and the bugs naturally have an impulse to kill each other on contact.

Even so, Tatsuya still can't just leave her alone, he wants to help her.


Tags: Mermaid , Demons , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Shounen

Devil-chi

Also known as Devil-Chi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Supernatural

Just another average day at your average high school. Fuyuki Hino is a typical student with an ordinary set of friends...except for Sakijo Yomina. Yomi-chan is unbearably shy and can't talk to boys...or girls, for that matter. Even stranger, Fuyuki vaguely remembers some kind of vow he made to her when they were children. But when he accidentally walks into the girls' locker room, he makes a shocking discovery—Yomi-chan is a devil, wings and all! However, this irregular girl still has regular high school problems, including dealing with bullies and just wanting to be liked by others.



Tags: Demons , Heterosexual , Angels , School , Female Harem , Love Triangle , Nudity , Shounen , Succubus , Memory Manipulation , Tsundere

Ichijou-san wa Kao ni Deyasui

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Mahiro likes to admire Ichijou-san from afar. She is the most popular girl in class and comes from a very prestigious family. Despite all this, Ichijou-san treats everybody nicely and is equally kind to everyone. But she harbors a secret that Mahiro unexpectedly discovered— she's a vampire! She claims she's not interested in human blood, though there appear to be moments when she's barely able to conceal her innermost desires...

A bloodsucking, heart-throbbing love-comedy about a young lady vampire!



Tags: Heterosexual , Vampire , Male Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , School , Crossdressing

Vampire Knight

Also known as Vampire Knight.

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

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students, the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the academy’s dark secret—the Night Class is full of vampires!



Note: Includes 15 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Vampire , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Tsundere , Twins , Kuudere , Urban Fantasy , Incest , School , Male Harem , Adoption , Amnesia , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Ojou-sama , Gore , Boarding School , Time Skip , Conspiracy , Suicide

Ruri Dragon

Also known as RuriDragon.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Well, a half dragon. Her mom admits Ruri inherited her draconic traits from her father, who, yes, is actually a dragon. As if dealing with curious classmates wasn’t already challenging enough, Ruri and her dragon genes literally turn up the heat in the middle of a lecture. Her ordinary life is about to be anything but!



Notes:
Chapters 1-6 were published in Weekly Shounen Jump from June 13, 2022 until the series went on hiatus in August 2022 due to the author’s health. It resumed with five weekly chapters from March 4 to April 1, 2024, then switched on April 22, 2024 to a bi-weekly publication on the digital Weekly Shounen Jump and Shounen Jump+.
Ranked 1st in the Nationwide Bookstore Staff Recommended Comics 2023.
Nominated for the 2023 eBookJapan Manga Award.
Ranked 9th in the Male Readers' division of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2024 guidebook.
Ranked 2nd in the Web Manga category of the 2024 Next Manga Award.
Winner of the Setting Award at the 4th Magademy Awards in 2025.

Tags: Monster Girl , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Dragons , School , Iyashikei , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Super Power , Family Life , Slapstick