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Kaijuu 8-gou

Also known as Kaiju No.8.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

A man working a job far removed from his childhood dreams gets wrapped up in an unexpected situation…! Becoming a monster, he aims once again to fulfill his lifelong dream…!



Note:
Nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2021.
Winner of the 7th Next Manga Award in the Web Manga Category in 2021.

Tags: Kaiju , Urban Fantasy , Shapeshifting , Shounen , Military , Henshin , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Monster Boy , Tokusatsu , Guns , Gore , Urban , Conspiracy , War , Revenge , Body Horror , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Slapstick , Survival , Primarily Male Cast , Kuudere

Tokyo Aliens

Also known as Tokyo Aliens.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Shiny new high school first-year Akira is as ordinary as they come. He's awkward, has terrible grades, and loves manga. In fact, the only thing that really sets him apart from his peers is his staunch determination to follow in his late father's footsteps as a police officer.

But fate has its own plans for Akira. After witnessing a ferocious battle unfold between two strangers with unusual powers on the train—one of whom looks a lot like the tall, dark, and handsome kid in his grade—he finds himself kidnapped...by none other than an alien! And as if being thrust into the occasionally violent and always complicated relations between humans and aliens wasn't mind-boggling enough, nothing can prepare Akira for learning the truth about his beloved father...



Tags: Aliens , Seinen , Cyberpunk , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Police , Super Power , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Chibi , School , Primarily Teen Cast

ALIENS AREA

Also known as Aliens Area.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

Tokyo, Planet Earth... High schooler Tatsumi Tatsunami lost his parents at a young age and now works multiple part-time jobs to live a hectic but peaceful life with his younger siblings. One day his body undergoes a sudden change... And now mysterious beings are showing up at his house! In order to protect the people he holds dear, in order to protect Earth (or "area"), Tatsumi must awaken! He better, because "they" are already here!



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Shounen , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Police

Rai Rai Rai

Also known as Rai Rai Rai.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Sumire Ichigaya’s got it tough. She’s drowning in debt, surrounded by noisy neighbors, fighting for discount supermarket meals, and working a dead-end job exterminating space vermin left over from a failed alien invasion. It seems like things just can’t get any worse—until she’s abducted by aliens and wakes up with a monstrous new arm and a voice in her head urging her to kill all of humanity!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Aliens , Monster Girl , Shounen , Work , Shapeshifting

Hero Company

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

"A hero" is a job that in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice. Would you like to work as such a hero in our company? You may transform, manipulate a huge robot or fight as a squad. Shall we realize your dream in our "Hero Company"?!

Tags: Seinen , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Parody , Superhero , Super Power

Uramichi Oniisan

Also known as Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Uramichi is 31. Uramichi appears on children’s TV alongside two grown men dressed as forest creatures and a singing woman with a very short fuse. Uramichi leads little kids in exercises and answers their questions about life. But Uramichi’s life is pain. Uramichi just wants to be miserable in peace. But, in his words, “There are games that don’t end even after you forfeit. Like life, for example…”



Note: The English edition volumes are omnibuses combining two Japanese volumes into one English volume.

Tags: Satire , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Acting , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Josei , Teacher , Urban

Tenbou Daikaku

Also known as Empyreal Cabinet.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Supernatural

The long-awaited series by the up-and-coming writer of the Jump+ one-shots O no Utsuwa (under the pen name Kyo Oribe) and Kuga Masamune no Junan. A mystical epic drawn with stunning penmanship is about to unfold...



Tags: Politics , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Magic , Exorcism , Shounen , Curses