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Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai

Also known as Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Book 1 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.

Out of sight, out of mind! Bunny girls do not live in libraries. This is simply common sense. And yet, that's exactly where Sakuta finds one in the wild. More bewildering is who the bunny girl is: Mai Sakurajima, a girl one year older than Sakuta, famous at their school for her acting career even though she's currently on break. To top it all off, it seems like no one else in the library can see Mai at all, no matter what she does or...wears. Wanting to find out more about this mystery and maybe get a little closer to this beautiful upperclassman in the process, Sakuta launches an investigation to discover why an unforgettable bunny girl keeps becoming totally invisible.



Tags: Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , School , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Bullying , Hikikomori , Idol

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru.

Also known as My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Hikigaya Hachiman is a high school boy with twisted character. He prefers to go against the trend and refuses to make friends with anybody. In order to get Hachiman back the right track, his school teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka forces him to enter 'Public Service Club'. There he meets other problematic students.

Includes volumes 6.5, 7.5, 10.5, and 14.5.

Tags: School Club , School , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Satire , Love Triangle , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Harem , Meta

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Also known as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-.

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

Subaru Natsuki was just trying to get to the convenience store but wound up summoned to another world. He encounters the usual things--life-threatening situations, silver haired beauties, cat fairies--you know, normal stuff. All that would be bad enough, but he's also gained the most inconvenient magical ability of all--time travel, but he's got to die to use it. How do you repay someone who saved your life when all you can do is die?



Tags: Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Witch , Isekai , Male Protagonist , Gore , Time Loop , Cosmic Horror , Astronomy , Magic , Memory Manipulation , Body Horror , Suicide , Amnesia , Cult , Elf , Alternate Universe , Ensemble Cast , Dissociative Identities , Reincarnation , Politics , Heterosexual , Twins , Maids , Time Skip , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist , Assassins , Femboy , Yandere , Dragons , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Kemonomimi , Unrequited Love , Age Regression

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.



Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Meta , Gods , Primarily Teen Cast , Ghost , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , School , Nekomimi , Shounen

Nekomonogatari: Shiro

Also known as Nekomonogatari: Cat Tale (White).

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

A tale of heroine Tsubasa Hanekawa from her own perspective, in her own voice—if that can hold true for a damaged soul who, depending on who you’re asking, suffers from a split personality or a supernatural aberration. The bone-chilling brokenness of her household, where father and mother and daughter keep three separate sets of cookware in the same kitchen and only ever prepare their own meals, and the profound darkness nurtured in the genius schoolgirl’s heart, come to life, if that is the word, through her self-vivisection.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Achronological Order , Primarily Female Cast , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Nekomimi , Ensemble Cast , Vampire , Gods , Meta , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Post-Apocalyptic , Time Manipulation , Tomboy , Youkai , Yuri , Seinen

Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai

Also known as Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.



Tags: Philosophy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Detective , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Hikikomori , Crossdressing , Maids , Gore

Nisemonogatari

Also known as Nisemonogatari: Fake Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Unlike ne’er-do-well former vampire Araragi, his two younger sisters Karen and Tsukihi, who attend a private junior high, are little balls of energy and charisma that their peers look up to. That the “ka” in Karen and “hi” in Tsukihi are both written with the character for “fire” isn’t the only reason they’ve come to be known as the Fire Sisters. Karen is the brawn and Tsukihi the brains of a vigilantism that the pair sees not merely as defending justice but as justice itself. They can’t encounter a harmful fad without trying to hunt down a specific source that had a motive for spreading it. In their big brother’s humble opinion, there is something fake and precarious about it all.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Youkai , Nudity , Vampire , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Harem , Philosophy , Family Life , Urban , Meta , Super Power

Kubishime Romanticist: Ningen Shikkaku - Zerozaki Hitoshiki

Also known as Strangulation: Kubishime Romanticist.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Psychological

Now that he’s a cool college student, our anti-hero Iichan thinks his crime-solving days are behind him. Cynical, sarcastic and minimally engaged in his studies, Iichan is much more interested in his own feelings of disaffection and isolation. But despite his resolve to remain aloof, he’s pulled into the narrative when he encounters and bonds with a serial killer named Hitoshi Zerozaki – a homicidal maniac with the soul of an artist whose talent is on display at the grisly scenes of his crimes.



Tags: Crime , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Urban , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Detective , Mopeds , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Suicide , Yandere , Love Triangle

Hitokui Magical: Satsuriku Kijutsu no Niounomiya Kyoudai

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

The No. 1 Killing Name, "Niounomiya", has finally arrived!

".....Specifically, what are you researching, Assistant Professor Kigamine?"
"——Researching not dying."
Invited to monitor the bizarre research on Kuchiha Madoka—a girl who lives eternal—Ii, the Nonsense User, visits the ruins of a clinic in northern Kyoto with antique apartment dwellers Ichihime Yukariki and Kasuga Kasugai.
However, what awaits them there is a terrible "fate" itself!
The Niounomiya siblings, the number one killers in the world, make their debut in this exciting new coming-of-age story.



Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Assassins , Coming of Age , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist , Gore , Transgender , Primarily Female Cast , Anthropomorphism

Koimonogatari

Also known as Koimonogatari: Love Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

Circling back to a middle school girl’s apotheosis, if we can call it that, in OTORIMONOGATARI, and the mortal threat it poses to the hero and his girl, this “Season Two” finale is narrated, for the first time in the series, by a grown-up—but if the word conjures a sense of reliability, of stability and certainty to you, dear reader, then the lesson to take home from this is to trust no one.

Because the teller of the tale, who has been summoned by the heroine to defuse the situation, despite having been her nemesis since the very outset of the series, is—in the absence of the equally shady adult, Oshino, who at least was an expert—none other than his college frenemy, the fake ghostbuster who doesn’t believe in ghosts, the shameless swindler Deishu Kaiki.

And it is indeed a con that he agrees to perpetrate, uncharacteristically pro bono, on a wrathful god—a mythic undertaking if true, which it may be, when a liar among liars holds that his story, like any other, is all a lie. But maybe not, when a man who claims to be wise in the ways of the world sounds just as self-conscious as his adolescent counterparts or a Russian anti-hero.



Tags: Meta , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Gods , Tragedy , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Vampire , Philosophy , Unrequited Love , Anti-Hero