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FLCL

Also known as FLCL.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

Naota is a normal Japanese 6th grade boy but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball, his brother leaves his 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity.



Tags: Coming of Age , Shounen , Robots , Aliens , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Age Gap , Mopeds , Baseball

Crime Zone

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Horror , Supernatural

The people of Earth live in a society where vampires aren’t just real but dangerous. Although humanity has been able to keep them under control and even take the night away as the vampire’s natural habitat, some of them have adapted. Hesperides, a relatively new breed of vampires, have adapted over hundreds of years in order to be able to go outside during dusk when the sunlight is at its weakest and feast on humans.

Aburaya Shiro, a high school kid, lives in a town where there has not been a vampire attack in years, but adults keep warning them of going outside at dusk. Shiro and his classmates take this warning lightly and head out at dusk only to find out one of their classmates who they thought they knew well turnz out to be a Hesperides. With all his classmates violently murdered, the only way Shiro was able to survive was with the help of a different classmate, Ichijoji Eruka, who doesn’t seem to be human herself.



Tags: Vampire , Shounen , Gore , Male Protagonist , Monster Girl , Urban Fantasy

DEATHTOPIA

Also known as DEATHTOPIA.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Koh Fujimura's world is turned upside down when he’s involved in a car accident that leaves his eyes seriously injured. He regains his eyesight after surgery, but also seems to have gained an ability to sense strange apparitions around him … Meanwhile, a serial killer with a disturbing fondness for eyeballs is on the loose in Tokyo, with a band of intriguing beauties in hot pursuit!



Tags: Gore , Seinen , Assassins , Police , Urban Fantasy , Female Harem , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Guns

Chainsaw Man

Also known as Chainsaw Man.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

The name says it all! Denji's life of poverty is changed forever when he merges with his pet chainsaw dog, Pochita! Now he's living in the big city and an official Devil Hunter. But he's got a lot to learn about his new job and chainsaw powers!



Notes:
Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.
Winner of the 2021 Kono Manga ga Sugoi Award.
Winner of the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category.
Winner of the 2021 and 2022 Harvey Award for Best Manga.
Chapters 1-97 were released in Weekly Shounen Jump from Dec 3, 2018 to Dec 13, 2020. The series resumed from Ch. 98 in Shounen Jump+ on July 12, 2022

Tags: Demons , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Dissociative Identities , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Gore , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Urban , Survival , Monster Boy , Found Family , Work , Ensemble Cast , Cult , Memory Manipulation , Shounen , Heterosexual , Yandere , Guns , Assassins , Human Pet , Coming of Age , Monster Girl , Revenge , Terrorism , Shapeshifting , Philosophy , Meta , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Afterlife , Nudity , School , Angels , Necromancy , Cannibalism , Femdom , Delinquents , Time Skip , Amnesia , Mafia , Yakuza , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Chimera , Zombie , Motorcycles , Yuri , Vore

Kokkoku

Also known as Kokkoku: Moment by Moment.

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

Juri Yukawa lives with her NEET father and brother, her retired grandfather, her sister (a single mother) and her young nephew. One day, her nephew and brother are kidnapped for ransom. Having only 30 minutes to meet the demands of the kidnappers, Juri, who realizes there is not enough time to prepare the money, decides to head for their rescue by herself with knife in hand when her grandfather uses a mysterious stone passed on in the Yukawa family to stop time. In a world where everyone and everything are inert, Juri and her father and grandfather run to rescue the two. But at the kidnappers' hideout, they soon realize they are not the only ones who can move about in this still world...

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Regression , Reincarnation , Religion , Urban Fantasy , Cult

Golden Gold

Also known as Golden Gold.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Hayasaka Ryuka is a junior high school second grader. She did not get along well with the inner junior high school, leaving her parents and living in Setonai where her grandmother lives. One day, when Rika asked for an object picked up in the sea, a variant similar to a figurine appeared. This is the Lucky God ...!?

Note: Nominated for the 10th Manga Taishou Awards (2017).

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Rural , Gods