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Ikoku Nikki

Also known as Ikoku Nikki.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The manga centers on 35-year-old novelist Makio Koudai and her 15-year-old niece Asa, who live together under one roof. Makio took Asa in on a sudden impulse after Asa's parents, which included Makio's older sister, passed away. The next day, Makio returns to her senses and remembers that she does not do well in the company of other people. So begins their daily life, as Makio attempts to acclimate to a roommate, while Asa attempts to get used to an adult that never acts like one.



Note: Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: Family Life , Female Protagonist , Josei , Adoption , Coming of Age , Writing , Estranged Family , Primarily Female Cast , Parenthood , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Aromantic , Transgender , School Club , Disability

Kowloon Generic Romance

Also known as Kowloon Generic Romance.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai—one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself…



Note:
Nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2021.
Nominated for the 6th Tsugimanga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2020.

Tags: Clone , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Seinen , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Adult Cast , Dystopian , Office Lady , Urban , Work , Alternate Universe , Nudity , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Foreign , Gender Bending , Denpa

Kono Setsugen de Kimi ga Zutto Waratteirareru You ni

Also known as Snow Angel.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Muku Shiroshika’s happy and carefree childhood comes to an abrupt end after her father’s tragic death. In the ten years since, she’s worked a thankless job as a caregiver for her dementia-suffering grandfather. Between taking care of her family, searching for a job, and enduring her grandmother’s constant criticism, Muku finds herself drowning. She’s desperate to escape, but with nowhere to go, Muku loses hope. That is, until her childhood friend Yuto appears on her doorstep one snowy day and inspires her to live for herself.



Note: Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Found Family , Heterosexual , Snowscape , Rural , Time Skip

Hibari no Asa

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

Teshima Hibari is a 14 year old girl with a body that is more sensual than most girls her age. Her story includes the opinions and reactions of all of the people around her, as well as the actions of her own life. The chapters explore the thoughts and feelings of classmates and adults, men and women. The males often have romantic or sexual feelings for Hibari, while the women sometimes have feelings of inferiority or jealousy. Whether positive or negative, it seems everyone has a reaction to Hibari.

Tags: Josei , Tragedy , Bullying , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , POV , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Survival , Suicide , School , Ensemble Cast , Urban , Heterosexual

Sapuri

Also known as Suppli.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Minami Fujii is an employee at a high-powered advertising firm. She’s good at her job but finds herself torn between the pressure and expectations of her career and her attraction to two of her coworkers: the younger, arty Ishida, and the classy, put-together Ogiwara!



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Josei , Office , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Female Protagonist

she is beautiful

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

Esaka's original story centers on Kurumi, a girl who grew up in an institution, and is excited on the eve of her 10th birthday, when her vocation will be announced to her. But when she awakens, she is already 22 years old, and she is somehow living with Kiyoka, a friend with whom she did not get along too well in the past. She finds out that on the day of her 10th birthday, she had an accident, and she began to suffer from a condition that only lets her hold memories one day at a time, and that 12 years had passed since then.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Primarily Female Cast , Fugitive , Memory Manipulation , Foreign , Seinen , Conspiracy , Dystopian , Yuri , Snowscape , Tomboy , Guns

Limbo the King

Also known as King in Limbo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

It's been eight years since the pandemic in which a deadly sleeping sickness claimed millions of lives. After a serious injury cost him a leg (and, nearly, his life), Petty Officer Adam Garfield retires from active service in the U.S. Navy. But his plan to focus on his family and physical therapy is shattered when he receives secret word that the sleeping sickness has returned, and it's his job to bring back the mysterious man who helped cure it by diving into people's memories—a man known by the codename "King."



Tags: Josei , Male Protagonist , Pandemic , Foreign , Military , Disability

Never-Ending Darling

Also known as Never-Ending Darling.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Ha-Im Yun lives in a world where people register their DNA into cloning databases, a world where human suffering has basically been eradicated. The brilliant mind behind this cloning technology is none other than Ha-Im’s boyfriend of five years, Geun-Hu Ji. Their relationship isn’t perfect, but they make it work -- or so Ha-Im thinks, until she finds a dead body at her boyfriend’s house… and the dead body is hers. The next day, she wakes up with no recollection of the previous day until she finds a note from herself in her room…

“Ha-Im, if you’re reading this, you’re a clone.”



Tags: Clone , Yandere , Amnesia , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Police , Suicide , Full Color , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Detective , Espionage , Fugitive , Office , Revenge

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

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

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Philosophy , Crime , Tragedy , Amnesia , Twins , Noir , Fugitive , Foreign , Historical , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Suicide , Orphan , Adoption , Torture , Assassins , Achronological Order , Episodic , Gore