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Codename wa Sailor V

Also known as Codename: Sailor V.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Like Sailor Moon, Minako Aino is a normal 13-year-old schoolgirl until a fateful day when a white cat introduces himself to her and tells her she has the power to transform into the hero, Sailor V. Using a magic pen to transform, Sailor V fights the evil agents of the Dark Agency as she strives to protect the earth.



Note: In 2004, the series was re-released in two shinsouban editions. The last chapter of the original print was split in two, hence it having 16 chapters. The chapter count follows the tankoubon release.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Henshin , Super Power , Superhero , Tragedy , Shoujo , Reincarnation , School , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Magic , Episodic , Space , Police , Animals , Otaku Culture , Demons , Age Gap , Gangs , Gender Bending , Foreign , Acting , Idol , Memory Manipulation , Tokusatsu , Urban

Magic Knight Rayearth

Also known as Magic Knight Rayearth.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Mecha , Romance

Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu, girls from separate schools, find themselves linked together as they fall through the floor during a field trip to the Tokyo Tower. They land in a place called Cephiro, where their will controls what happens. They meet with Guru Clef and find out that they were summoned to save Princess Emeraude who has been imprisoned by High Priest Zagato. They learn magic and acquire weapons on their quest to save Cephiro from the evils of Zagato.



Tags: Shoujo , Magic , Isekai , Female Protagonist , Medieval , Swordplay , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Henshin , Primarily Child Cast , Tomboy , Tanned Skin , Robots , Super Robot , Urban Fantasy

Futari wa Precure

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro couldn't be more different. Nagisa is sporty and Honoka bookish, and while they attend the same school, they have very little in common - until one day, a shower of shooting stars brings two very unlikely visitors into their lives: Mippuru and Meppuru, refugees from the Garden of Light, which has been conquered by Darkness. Endowed with new and startling powers, Nagisa and Honoka become Cure Black and Cure White, magical defenders of the light --- together, they are Pretty Cure.

Tags: Magic , Shoujo , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Lacrosse , School

SHY

Also known as Shy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

Earth was on the brink of a third World War when super-powered individuals came forth from each country around the globe, ending the conflict and ushering in a new era of relative peace. Among those heroes, Japan is represented by a timid young girl known as “Shy.” She may spend more time worrying about her own shortcomings than she does battling villains, but she’ll show the world that despite it all she still has the heart of a hero!



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Superhero , Henshin , Super Power , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Coming of Age , Tokusatsu , Philosophy , Yuri , Suicide , Ninja , Space , Yandere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Disability , Body Horror , Calligraphy

Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere

Also known as Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc..

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

“Magical Girl”— A profession that undertakes the work of exterminating a kind of natural disaster called “Kaii.” Kana Sakuragi, a female college student who struggles with job hunting, is picked up by a magical girl startup company and…?! Magical Girl work-life starts now!



Note: Includes 18 extra chapters.

Tags: Work , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Magic , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Software Development , Superhero , Urban , Office Lady , Kaiju , Shounen , Politics , Crossdressing , Tokusatsu , Primarily Female Cast

Shining Star

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Imonoyama Taichirou falls in love at first sight with an Indian professor he meets at Oxford University. Soon after he returns to CLAMP School he finds that the person he saw has come to CLAMP School as a guest lecturer and he decides to try and win the man's heart.

This was one of the first stories published in oneshot format CLAMP, 12 members back then. It was first published in the CLAMP BOOK doujinshi. Then, published directly in Volume format in 1987, and re-edited in 1990 by Kadokawa Shoten.

Tags: Boys' Love , School , Male Protagonist , Teacher , Alternate Universe , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Reincarnation

Shoten

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

A series of doujinshi from CLAMP's early years. It contains a number of original comics, short stories, spin-offs, and extras based off some of their early works, including CLAMP Campus Detectives, RG Veda, and Tokyo Babylon.

Tags: Boys' Love , Shoujo

Sweet Valerian

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mahou Shoujo

Three normal girls are tricked into becoming "Valerians". They transform into bunnies to fight the Stress Monsters, a criminal gang.

Tags: Parody , Super Power , 4-koma , Chibi , Shoujo , Henshin , Slapstick , Animals

Boku no Hero Academia

Also known as My Hero Academia.

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

Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…



Note:
Winner of the 1st Next Manga Award in the Print Category in 2015.
Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho Award in 2015.
Nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2016.
Chapter count includes a bonus chapter included in volume 10 “Tsuyu-chan no Kerokero Nikki“.

Tags: Superhero , Super Power , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Boarding School , Terrorism , School , Urban Fantasy , Cultivation , Coming of Age , Crime , Anti-Hero , Criminal Organization , War , Revenge , Urban , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , Politics , Gore , Heterosexual , Body Horror , Drugs , Fugitive , Animals , Tomboy , Guns , Age Regression , Rescue , Yakuza , Robots , Nudity , Memory Manipulation , Yandere , Teacher

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