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

Dandadan

Also known as Dandadan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong—Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?



Notes:
Includes 1 extra chapter.
Nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Super Power , Ghost , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Henshin , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Tokusatsu , Heterosexual , School , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Terrorism , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Acrobatics , Gore , Tragedy , Chuunibyou , Super Robot , Cannibalism , Exorcism , Circus , Nudity , Gods , Tsundere , Bullying , Dissociative Identities , Suicide , Curses

Tokyo Shinobi Squad

Also known as Tokyo Shinobi Squad.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

Tokyo, 2049... Thanks to the Galapagos Reform enacted by the government, Russia, China, America and Japan are now connected by a Hyper Loop system. This globalization has turned Tokyo into the most crime-ridden city in the world. To fight the rising crime, those who have been working in the shadows since the Sengoku period are needed... They are...the Shinobi!

Tags: Cyberpunk , Shounen , Ninja , Super Power , Assassins

Gintama

Also known as Gin Tama.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

The samurai didn't stand a chance. First, the aliens invaded Japan. Next, they took all the jobs. And then they confiscated everyone's swords. So what does a hotheaded former samurai like Sakata "Gin" Gintoki do to make ends meet? Take any odd job that comes his way, even if it means losing his dignity.



Included Bonus Chapters:
Volume 1: Dandelion (One-shot).
Volume 2: Shirokuro (One-shot).
Volume 24: 13 (One-shot).
Volume 38: Bankara-san Ga Tooru (One-shot).
Volume 41: Special Lesson.

Tags: Samurai , Found Family , Parody , Meta , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Aliens , Philosophy , Shounen , Episodic , Tragedy , Space , Historical , Anachronism , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Police , War , Dystopian , Fugitive , Robots , Ninja , Ghost , Homeless , Assassins , Crossdressing , Idol , Shrine Maiden , LGBTQ+ Themes , Body Swapping , Gender Bending , Judo , Drawing , Gangs , Female Harem , Dissociative Identities , Afterlife , Amnesia , Cult , Military , Reincarnation , Nekomimi , Conspiracy , Politics

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

The World Is Mine

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Psychological

Meet Mon, a violent killer faithful only to his own eruptive desires, and his timid companion Toshi, a demolition-devil with a fanatical thirst for destruction. Their killing-spree across Japan is destined to intersect the path of the enormous "Higumadon", a mysterious beast on a Godzilla-like rampage from Hokkaido to Tokyo.



Tags: Seinen , Philosophy , Terrorism , Politics , Anti-Hero , Gore , Crime , Nudity , Kaiju , Tragedy , Crossdressing , Cult , Conspiracy , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual

Kiichi VS

Also known as Kiichi VS.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Ever more uncompromising in the face of injustice, Kiichi has become a star. Known around the world for shaking the Japanese establishment, he doesn't intend to stop there. Now at the head of a big company, between school of thought and mafia, whose members number in the thousands, he wants once again to get the population moving, even if it means provoking the powerful of the country!



Tags: Class Struggle , Philosophy , Politics , Crime , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Terrorism , Seinen , Criminal Organization , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Torture , Conspiracy , Nudity

Lunatic Terrapop

Also known as Lunatic Terrapop.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Seventeen year old Satsuki Moriyama is enjoying her life to the fullest with the boyfriend of her dreams! After 3 months of dating, they finally hold hands and Satsuki is over the moon! Sasaki-kun is the coolest and her reason for living, yet...



Tags: Shounen , Aliens , Female Protagonist

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

Fire Punch

Also known as Fire Punch.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Orphaned siblings Agni and Luna, like the Ice Witch who cursed their world, are two of the “blessed,” humans who hold special abilities. However, not all who are blessed are friendly, and after another of their kind attacks Agni and decimates the orphans' village, Agni fights to survive, vowing revenge.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Suicide , Tragedy , Dystopian , Revenge , Philosophy , Cult , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Survival , Religion , Body Horror , Torture , Meta , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Male Protagonist , Acting , Coming of Age , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Snowscape , Incest , Transgender , Slavery , Surreal Comedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gods , Memory Manipulation , Filmmaking , Denpa , Politics , Heterosexual , Shounen , Orphan , Psychosexual