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Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori

Also known as Red River.

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

Yuri, a pretty Japanese girl, is ecstatic after passing her college entrance exam and having her first kiss with her childhood friend-turned boyfriend. However, her luck soon changes. She starts to notice that water becomes agitated whenever she goes near it. One night, hands appear out of a puddle on the street and drag her into the water! Transported to an ancient village in the Middle East, she is then captured by armed troops and taken to the Queen's palace for a human sacrifice.



Notes:
Winner of the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shoujo category.
Chapter count includes 3 extra chapters

Tags: Historical , Foreign , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Isekai , Nudity , Slavery , Royal Affairs , War , Politics , Magic , Desert , Love Triangle , Tragedy

BASARA

Also known as Basara.

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

Basara is a post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure series and one of the most popular shoujo manga of the 90s in Japan. It is the story of how a young girl becomes "the child of destiny" and finds the strength to free her people and seek revenge for the death of her brother.



Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo category in 1992.

Tags: War , Twins , Shoujo , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Coming of Age , Revenge , Fugitive , Slavery , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Travel , Class Struggle , Royal Affairs , Lost Civilization , Disability , Desert , Archery , Pirates , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Astronomy , Animals , Bisexual , Prison , Boys' Love ,

Inuyasha

Also known as InuYasha.

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

Kagome is a modern Japanese high school girl. Never the type to believe in myths and legends, her world view dramatically changes when, one day, she's pulled out of her own time and into another! There, in Japan's ancient past, Kagome discovers more than a few of those dusty old legends are true, and that her destiny is linked to one legendary creature in particular--the dog-like half-demon called Inuyasha! That same trick of fate also ties them both to the Shikon Jewel, or "Jewel of Four Souls." But demons beware...the smallest shard of the Shikon Jewel can give the user unimaginable power.



Tags: Demons , Youkai , Shounen , Historical , Kemonomimi , Found Family , Reincarnation , Heterosexual , Isekai , Revenge , Time Manipulation , Shrine Maiden , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Nudity

Fushigi Yuugi

Also known as Fushigi Yûgi.

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

Miaka Yuuki is an ordinary junior-high student who is suddenly spirited into the world of a book, The Universe of the Four Gods. There she becomes the priestess of the god Suzaku, and is charged with finding all seven of her Celestial-Warrior protectors.



Tags: Historical , Isekai , Male Harem , Shoujo , Heterosexual , Foreign , Mythology , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Ghost , Magic , Bisexual , Crossdressing , Unrequited Love , LGBTQ+ Themes

Meteor Methuselah

Also known as Immortal Rain.

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

Rain Jewlitt, known as the Methuselah, is a spaced-out, immortal, 624-year-old man dressed in priest's clothes. He's got eternal youth and a large price on his head ... put there by those questing after the secret of his immortality.

Machika Balfaltin is a tomboyish, energetic 14-year-old girl who, upon the death of her grandfather, sets out to kill Methuselah, the one bounty her assassin grandfather, Zol the Grim Reaper, couldn't kill. Instead, however, Machika ends up being saved by Rain again and again from other aspiring bounty hunters attacking them both.



Tags: Shoujo , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist , Age Gap , Magic , Tragedy , Gore , Heterosexual , Angels , Religion

Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden

Also known as Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden.

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

Travel back to the mystical Universe of the Four Gods in this prequel to the hit series Fushigi Yûgi!

When schoolgirl Takiko Okuda attempts to destroy her father's translation of The Universe of the Four Gods, she is instead sucked into the story, becoming the Priestess of Genbu in an epic journey to find the seven Celestial Warriors!

In her first encounter, she meets the mysterious outlaw Limdo, a Celestial Warrior with a tattoo of the Chinese character for "woman" on his chest. Limdo can not only summon the wind as one of his special powers, but he can also transform into a woman!

Takiko meets up with the bowman Chamka, who is hunting Limdo. It seems Chamka is one of the seven Celestial Warriors as well...



Note: Volume 6 includes the one-shot "Ayashi no Ceres Gaiden" (Ceres: Celestial Legend Another Story).

Tags: Shoujo , Isekai , Tragedy , War , Magic , Female Protagonist , Gender Bending , Politics , Travel , Love Triangle , Time Manipulation , Twins , Mythology , Assassins , Snowscape

SILVER DIAMOND

Also known as Silver Diamond.

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

Rakan lives alone, and the plants in his garden grow so thick and fast that it seems like a jungle. One day a man, holding a gun made of wood, falls right down into his garden. He seems to come from another world, and he's searching for someone who can bring back the green into his own dark and inhospitable world.

Tags: Shoujo , Boys' Love , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Isekai , School , Gods , Desert , Horticulture

Kaze Hikaru

Also known as Kaze Hikaru.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi—a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to the Shogunate system. In time, this group would become one of the greatest (and most famous) movements in Japanese history... the Shinsengumi!

Into this fierce milieu steps Kamiya Seizaburo, a young would-be warrior who, though lacking in combat experience, possesses a fiery enthusiasm to both aid the Mibu-Roshi in their mission and to avenge his wrongfully murdered family. One of the Mibu-Roshi's most gifted (and immature) swordsmen, the legendary Okita Soji, agrees to take Seizaburo under his wing. What no one suspects, least of all Soji, is that Seizaburo is actually a girl named Tominaga Sei in disguise!



Note: Volume 45 includes the one-shot "Oo-Edo Shinsengumi! Kaze Hikaru Another World".

Tags: Samurai , Swordplay , Shoujo , Historical , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , Episodic , Gender Bending , Female Protagonist , Crime , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Assassins , Suicide

Boku no Chikyuu wo Mamotte

Also known as Please Save My Earth.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

Life's hard when you're shy, harder still when you move from your quiet hometown to the bustle of a big city and a new high school. Poor Alice also has to cope with being regularly harassed by the bratty neighbor boy, Rin. Her life turns upside-down when she's stuck babysitting Rin and the annoying chore ends in unexpected tragedy. What Alice doesn't realize is there could be a greater force at work than unhappy chance!



Tags: Space , Reincarnation , Shoujo , Body Swapping , Aliens , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Tragedy , Age Gap , War , Super Power , Heterosexual , Boys' Love , Urban , Environmental , Revenge , Unrequited Love , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes

Akatsuki no Yona

Also known as Yona of the Dawn.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Yona reels from the shock of witnessing a loved one’s murder and having to fight for her life. With Hak’s help, she flees the palace and struggles to survive while evading her enemy’s forces. But where will this displaced princess go when all the paths before her are uncertain?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Travel , Shoujo , Historical , Found Family , Dragons , Politics , Fugitive , Gods , Mythology , Reincarnation , War , Tragedy , Royal Affairs , Heterosexual , Foreign , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , Archery , Super Power , Survival , Orphan , Kuudere , Drugs , Pirates