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Trinity Blood

Also known as Trinity Blood.

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

In a dark and distant future, Armageddon has given rise to the fabled Second Moon - and a perpetual war between the vampires and the humans!

Esther is a nun in the city of Istavan. When she crosses paths with Abel Nightroad, a priest sent from the Vatican to combat the local order of vampires, the two form a holy alliance to battle the most evil of threats. In this gorgeous, gothic-action series - part of the super-popular Trinity Blood franchise - the very survival of the human race is at stake!



Tags: Nun , Post-Apocalyptic , Vampire , Shoujo , Foreign , Pirates , Guns , Religion , Trains , Mermaid , Nudity , Cyborg , Politics , Conspiracy

xxxHolic

Also known as xxxHOLiC.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Kimihiro Watanuki is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. He seeks help from a mysterious woman named Yuko, who claims she can help. However, Watanuki must work for Yuko in order to pay for her aid. Soon Watanuki finds himself employed in Yuko’s shop where he sees things and meets customers that are stranger than anything he could have ever imagined.



Notes:
The series was re-named to xxxHolic•Rou on chapter title pages of chapter 186 and on, but not on their volume's front covers, spines and indicia.
The chapter count contains a one-shot published in May 2010 to commemorate the switch, which was later collected into Volume 18.
The chapter count also reflects the magazine releases; the chapters plus the one-shot were re-arranged into 109 chapters across 19 volumes.

Tags: Magic , Youkai , Mythology , Ghost , Crossover , Seinen , Curses , Male Protagonist , Clone , Witch , Philosophy , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Denpa , Episodic , School , Heterosexual

Cossette no Shouzou

Also known as Le Portrait de Petit Cossette.

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

Eiri Kurahashi is an art school student, with a job at a local antique store. It's there that he develops a strange obsession. He finds himself entranced by a portrait of a Victorian-era girl named Cossette. It's a portrait with a strange history--everyone who has owned it has been murdered in a bizarre fashion. But the story runs much deeper than that. Cossette was savagely murdered by her lover, who also happens to be the artist who painted the portrait. When the new owner of the portrait nearly kills himself, Eiri decides to get involved. And that's when Cossette begins speaking to him...



Tags: Revenge , Reincarnation , Ghost , Male Protagonist , Curses , Tragedy

Teiden Shoujo to Hanemushi no Orchestra

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

The foolish living things, the humans, who carry darkness in their hearts lost the light from their eyes.

Deep inside the darkness, they lose sight of the way. Crushed in their despair the humans, one day, meet the 'hotaru' which carries a faint, warm light. The hotaru provided the humans with the light, and started to live alongside them. But in this ugly and blood-stained world, the hotaru's number started to decrease day by day. Yet, the humans wanted the light and started to hunt the hotaru. For money they would throw away the life of the hotaru.

Nemu, a hotaru who has lost her light, makes a contract with a abandoned baby, Haibane. Haibane seeks to find a way to gain back Nemu's light.

Tags: Shounen

Zetsuai 1989

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

When he was very young, his mother killed his father and also hurt him badly; that may be the reason why Takuto Izumi, high school soccer star and the girls' idol, is so cold towards other people. He trusts no-one, and refuses to love anyone, so he leaves his adoptive family and goes to live on his own as soon as he's capable.

As he's struggling to put the past behind him, a certain incident on a dull rainy day turns his life around completely. The drunk he helped out on a whim turns out to be the famous idol popstar Nanjou Kouji, and ever since that encounter, Kouji has taken an interest in Izumi... An interest that seems to grow deeper every day until it becomes what can only be described as "obsessive love."

Tags: Boys' Love , Shoujo , Yandere , Idol , Tsundere , Football , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist

Osakana wa Ami no Naka

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ever feel like you just want to sit in a corner and just curl into a little ball? Or when your world seems to be too crowded, you just fight against your fate? Yuuji Tsukamoto can do either. He’s the son of a very successful business man and is as suave as Takehito Koyasu’s voice when he talks. But one thing he wants is out of his reach: Takuya Matsui. Will his constant watching over this boy lead to both of their destructions? The obsession begins…

Tags: Boys' Love , Primarily Male Cast , Swimming

Rurimiya Mugen Kobutsuten

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Supernatural

Tags: Magic , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Seinen

Houtai Koushaku no Kekkon Jijou

Also known as The Marriage of the Unseen Duke.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance

Alfred, the head of the Duc de Besculey family, is known as the "Bandaged Duke" and is feared by everyone for the mummy-like wrappings all over his body. One day, the king suddenly orders him to get married. Even more shocking—his blind bride-to-be, Sierra, is somehow head-over-heels for him! The story of the marriage between a lonely duke and a songstress with the blessing of a goddess begins!



Tags: Shoujo , Disability , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist

Superior

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

The demon queen subdued enormous and powerful monsters and slaughtered over half of the world's population. Surviving members of the human race elected a hero to slay the demon queen, beseeching release from her oppressive rule. However, he questions his mission to eradicate the monsters in his opinion they too are conscious and alive, and so he anguishes over that fact. Sheila the Demon Queen became interested in him and joined his journey, hiding her identity with the plan to kill him after she has gained his trust. Eventually, she realizes that she fell in love with the hero and hence their journey begins...

Includes chapter 3.5 "Ai no A○ron" (愛のエ○ロン).

Tags: Anti-Hero , Monster Girl , Demons , Magic , Shounen , Heterosexual , Dragons , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Swordplay

Koushaku Reijou Theresia no Fukushuu: Akuma no Chikara, Okarishimasu

Also known as The Duke's Daughter Tiaresia Takes Revenge.

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

Queen Kristian was framed by her half-sister and executed at just 16 years old. Another sixteen years have passed since then, and the daughter of a duke is about to make her societal debut—her name is Tiaresia. Always close at hand is her loyal servant, growing more impatient by the day. In truth, this handsome servant is a demon, waiting to reap the rewards of a magical contract made with Tiaresia—the reincarnated former queen Kristian. Together, they plan to exact a calculated and tragic revenge.



Tags: Revenge , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Demons , Reincarnation , Butler