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Jigokuraku

Also known as Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Supernatural

Gabimaru the Hollow is one of the most vicious assassins ever to come out of the ninja village of Iwagakure. He’s ruthlessly efficient, but a betrayal results in him being handed a death sentence. He has only one hope—in order to earn his freedom, he must travel to a long-hidden island and recover an elixir that will make the shogun immortal. Failure is not an option. On this island, heaven and hell are just a hair’s breadth away.



Tags: Survival , Samurai , Philosophy , Mythology , Ninja , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Gore , Tragedy , Historical , Gods , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Eco-Horror , Assassins , Swordplay , Battle Royale , Gender Bending , Body Horror , Shounen , Nudity , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Super Power , Travel , LGBTQ+ Themes , Amnesia , Crime , Yandere

Wild Strawberry

Also known as Wild Strawberry.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

Plants have evolved. They can now feed on humans and become terrible monsters known as Jinka. Kingo and Kayano do their best to survive in a Tokyo overrun by plants, but when Kayano becomes a Jinka, Kingo will do anything he can to get her back!



Tags: Eco-Horror , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Gore , Conspiracy , Urban , Body Horror , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Shapeshifting , Monster Girl , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Gyaru

Terra Formars

Also known as Terra Formars.

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

After humanity’s first manned mission to the Red Planet was lost, a second expedition arrives. The explorers prepare to exterminate the cockroaches that were used to transform the Martian environment, but are shocked to discover that the insects have mutated into giant, aggressive humanoids with one overriding goal—exterminate the humans! However, this crew of explorers has each undergone the “Bugs Procedure,” terrifying experimental surgery designed to make them more than human…



Tags: Aliens , Henshin , Super Power , Tragedy , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Espionage , Martial Arts , War , Space , Tokusatsu , Gore , Shapeshifting , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Politics , Military , Dystopian , Conspiracy

Eden no Ori

Also known as Cage of Eden.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Ecchi , Fantasy

Danger and action abound after Akira Sengoku and his classmates crash-land on a deserted island while flying home from a class trip. The island doesn't exist on any maps but that's not even the strangest part: the animals they find on the island are prehistoric beasts that are supposed to have been extinct for thousands of years! Now Akira and his friends are in danger as the island's residents start eyeing the humans for their next meal. Will they ever solve the mystery of the island and find their way home?



Tags: Survival , Chimera , Nudity , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Lost Civilization , Dinosaurs , Alternate Universe , Time Manipulation , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Love Triangle , Educational , Mountaineering , Heterosexual

Jinmen

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

After a few years, our main character Jinguu Masato, returns home. Due to his nature, he loves animals and he also likes to visit them. Because of this, he loved to visit the zoo since he was small and that's how he developed a close relationship with Hanayo. However, Masato gradually starts to notice some strange incidents happening in the zoo and after that, he's thrown into this unexpected world...

Tags: Animals , Survival , Gore , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Memory Manipulation

Kyokutou Chimeratica

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

A "chimera" is a creature that absorbs other lifeforms to grow. Yuri lives a carefree life as a "hunter," whose job is hunting chimeras. Until when she encounter a "mystery" chimera with human form. A fascinating fantasy featuring fantastical beast-hunting spear action!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Chimera , Monster Girl , Spearplay , Primarily Female Cast , Post-Apocalyptic , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror , Kaiju

GANTZ

Also known as Gantz.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Tokyo teens Kei and Masaru are killed by a subway train but awaken in a room with an ominous black orb that gives them weapons, suits and orders. Fighting bizarre alien monstrosities in a deadly game, will they win their freedom or die for the final time?



Tags: Survival , Seinen , Aliens , Gore , Tragedy , Death Game , Urban , Guns , Cosmic Horror , Philosophy , Battle Royale , Nudity , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Terrorism , Vampire , Assassins , Female Harem , Youkai , Dinosaurs , CGI , Age Gap , Anti-Hero , Trains

Fool Night

Also known as Fool Night.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

The earth of the distant future is covered in thick clouds, and the sun no longer shines. Plants wither, and oxygen is thin. To fight extinction, humankind has developed a technology that turns humans into plants, providing a small amount of oxygen. Is this process sustainable? Is it ethical? Toshiro Kamiya must consider these questions as he’s faced with a difficult choice—save his family or save himself.

Kamiya is at the end of his rope. His mother is ill, and his job barely pays for her medication, much less food. With few options left, he considers the life-changing process of floromorphosis. Ready to give his body up for a payday, Kamiya is about to explore the limits of society’s waning humanity.



Tags: Eco-Horror , Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Class Struggle , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror , Urban , Male Protagonist , Espionage , Work , Female Protagonist , Cult , Police

THE POOL

Also known as The POOL.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Twenty years ago, a wormhole suddenly appeared above Earth's orbit and opened a passageway to an alien planet full of untapped resources and mysterious life forms. Two decades later, Team Sierra, a small military squad of security specialists working for the Tiberius Coke Corporation, are thirty miles away from home base on that planet when their leader, Chief Yugi Oishi, spots an SOS flare coming from a theoretically abandoned mine. Despite the danger, she leads her four-man team to the facility to see who'd called for help, only for it to be attacked by a horde of powerful creatures almost as soon as the doors close behind them. Now, she and the stranded exploratory excavation crew Team Sierra finds inside must traverse the treacherous mine to reach the only vehicle that could get them to safety—without waking the terrifying monster that's been picking off the researchers one by one..

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Aliens , Seinen , Military , Primarily Male Cast , Guns , Gore

Adou

Also known as A-DO.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

A dystopian sci-fi action manga that pays homage to the classics.

Future Japan has became a volatile mix of cultures, rocked by the protests of xenophobic extremists. A brash, job-hopping young woman named Riko happens to save the life of a boy named Eito. Just as they're about to dig into some celebratory ramen, plant-like tendrils snake out from Eito's arm and stop a bullet in mid-flight. Who in the world is this boy, and why is the army after him?!



Tags: Super Power , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Dystopian , Gyaru , Body Horror , Time Skip , Cult