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Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

Also known as Assassination Classroom.

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

Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who’s doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry. Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison...? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students’ tattered self-esteem?



Note: Includes 7 extras and the one-shot "Tokyo Department Store War Journal".

Tags: Teacher , Assassins , School , Primarily Child Cast , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Satire , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Otaku Culture , Time Skip , Aliens

Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi

Also known as The Elusive Samurai.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure

Set in feudal Japan in between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, our hero Houjou Tokiyuki is a boy on the run that history all but forgot! When the Kamakura shogunate is overthrown by Ashikaga Takauji, Tokiyuki's family and standing are viciously taken away from him, and he must flee to the far reaches of the land to survive and seek out his revenge!



Tags: Samurai , Shounen , Historical , Surreal Comedy , War , Ninja , Archery , Fugitive , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Anachronism , Gore , Suicide , Primarily Male Cast , Found Family , Primarily Child Cast , Tragedy , Religion , Ghost , Time Skip , Body Horror , Gods , Female Harem , Spearplay , Disability , Polyamorous , Biographical , Tomboy , Scat , Demons , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Cannibalism

Muhyo to Rouji no Mahoritsu Soudan Jimusou

Also known as Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation.

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

Are you a victim of unwanted spirit possession? Is there a ghost you need sent up and away...or down to burn for all eternity? If the answer is yes, then you need Muhyo and Roji, experts in magic law. Serving justice to evil spirits is their specialty.



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Ghost

Kuroshitsuji

Also known as Black Butler.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

In Victorian era Europe, a young boy loses everything he once held near and dear to a vicious plot. In his moment of death, he strikes a deal with a demon: his soul, in exchange for revenge. Ciel Phantomhive is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the underground work for the Queen of England. His new partner is a demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis, whose prowess as a butler is only surpassed by his strength as a demon.

The story follows the two along with their other servants, as they work to unravel the plot behind Ciel's parents' murder, and the horrendous tragedies that befell Ciel in the month directly after.

Tags: Demons , Revenge , Tragedy , Crime , Historical , Butler , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Orphan , Twins , Royal Affairs , Foreign , Cult , Detective , Shounen , Steampunk , Magic , Found Family , Circus , Mythology , Maids , Assassins , LGBTQ+ Themes , Travel , Medicine , Zombie , Fugitive , Anachronism , Transgender , Crossdressing , Boarding School , Estranged Family , Musical Theater , School , Torture , Swordplay , Witch , Disability , Idol , Urban Fantasy

Jigoku Sensei Nube

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Supernatural

The series follows Meisuke Nueno, better known as Nube, an exorcist who also happens to be the teacher for a 5th grade class at Doumori Elementary. While he uses many various exorcism techniques, his main weapon is the Demon Hand which is the power of a chaotic oni sealed right where his left hand should be. The series follows Nube and Doumori class 5-3 though the many weird, chaotic, and downright silly and insane encounters they face with the many forms and elements of the supernatural.



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Jigoku Sensei Nubo (2nd pilot)
Volume 2: Jigoku Sensei Nubo (1st pilot)

Tags: Demons , School , Youkai , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Exorcism

Meitantei Conan

Also known as Case Closed.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Romance

Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which physically transforms him into a grade schooler! Taking on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, he attempts to track down the people who did this to him. But until he finds a cure for his bizarre condition, Jimmy continues to help the police solve their toughest cases. Can you crack the case before Conan does?



Note: Won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category in 2001.

Tags: Detective , Crime , Age Regression , Police , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Episodic , Shounen , Heterosexual , Educational , Ensemble Cast , School , Guns , School Club , Magic , Mahjong

Karakuri Circus

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery

The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helped Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting some weird guys. He found out that they're not humans but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi was forced to admit that he's no opponent for them; and just when he started to think that Masaru would be captured, Shirogane, Masaru's watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Arlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus.

Tags: Conspiracy , Circus , Puppetry , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Adoption , Shounen , Robots , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Martial Arts , Alchemy , Assassins , Trains , Animals , Nudity , Male Protagonist

D.Gray-man

Also known as D.Gray-man.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

A born exorcist, Walker's primary anti-akuma weapon is the cross that's embossed on his red, disfigured left hand, which contains Innocence. But not only does Walker destroy akuma, he sees the akuma hiding inside a person's soul! Together with his fellow exorcists fighting under the command of the Black Order, Walker leads the battle against the Millennium Earl, the evil being out to destroy mankind.



Tags: Demons , Amnesia , Tragedy , Found Family , Super Power , Foreign , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist , Religion , Cult , Shounen , Adoption , Circus , Historical , Primarily Male Cast , Exorcism , Steampunk , Post-Apocalyptic , Curses

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 , Tokusatsu , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , School , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Terrorism , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Acrobatics , Gore , Chuunibyou , Super Robot , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Exorcism , Circus , Gods , Tsundere , Nudity , Bullying , Dissociative Identities , Suicide , Curses

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch

Also known as Umineko When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Each year, the Ushiromiya family gathers at the secluded mansion of its patriarch, the elderly Kinzo. It has been six years since Battler joined his cousins at the annual event, but their happy reunion is overshadowed by worsening weather and an eerie premonition from his youngest cousin—not to mention their parents’ feud over the inheritance. Battler doesn’t hold much stock in dark omens, nor does he believe the tales of the witch rumored to have given his grandfather a fortune in gold…and who walks the halls of the mansion to this day… But when the eighteen family members and servants are trapped on the island by the raging typhoon, the grisly events that follow leave Battler shaken to his core. Is one of his relatives desperate enough to kill for the family fortune? Or is this the work of the Golden Witch?



Note: Volume 4 also contains the tea party chapter for this episode.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Detective , Witch , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Magic , Meta , Foreign , Ojou-sama