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

My Home Hero

Also known as My Home Hero.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

Tetsuo Tosu is a typical father whose biggest worries are his job and his rebellious daughter, Reika. That is, until he finds a bruise on her face. His worst fears come true when he finds out she has a secret boyfriend...and he's part of a crime ring that's using her to steal her grandparent's wealth. If that wasn't bad enough, the thug catches Tetsuo snooping around and threatens to kill Reika as soon as she gets home. Fueled by fatherly instincts, Tetsuo murders the man...only for his wife to walk in and witness what he's done. Now with a corpse to hide and a crime ring hot on his tail, Tetsuo must resort to his love of detective novels and his wits to stay one step ahead of a grim fate...



Tags: Crime , Seinen , Yakuza , Primarily Adult Cast , Mafia , Guns , Family Life , Tragedy , Cult , Detective , Male Protagonist , Police , Nudity , Delinquents , Revenge , Suicide

Old Boy

Also known as Old Boy.

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

Ten years ago, they took him in. He doesn't even know who. And for ten years, he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years, his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jail mates. In time, he lost himself. He changed...transformed himself into something else...something hard...something lethal. Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life...and what's left is revenge.



Includes an epilogue in the final volume.

Tags: Revenge , Noir , Crime , Urban , Suicide , Amnesia , Seinen , Bar , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , School

Shinai naru Boku e Satsui wo Komete

Also known as My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Slice of Life , Thriller

Eiji the college-age virgin dreams of someday having a girlfriend...until he wakes up one day with his "girlfriend" in his bed with him! Not only that, his buddy tells him he got in a fight...and that three days have passed that Eiji doesn't remember? What dark secrets are being hidden...by Eiji himself?



Note: Includes 1 epilogue chapter.

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Revenge , Crime , Seinen , Amnesia , Police , Denpa , Fugitive , Yandere , Detective , Torture , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Prostitution , Suicide , Gore , Gangs , Adoption , College , Time Skip , Orphan , Tragedy , Nudity , Body Horror , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender

Kimi ga Bokura wo Akuma to Yonda Koro

Also known as Back When You Called Us Devils.

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

Yusuke Saito is a normal high school kid...well, normal enough, though there's six months missing out of his memory. But when he starts to get confronted by people who insist they're from his past, who allege that he did horrible things to them...suddenly Yusuke realizes that those missing six months may be crucial to remember. Otherwise, the skeletons in his closet may just make him a skeleton, too...



Tags: Bullying , Crime , Male Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Amnesia , Shounen , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Gore , Police , Detective , Tragedy , Drugs , Suicide

Smiley

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

Yuushi Kamome is a freelance writer who lost his beloved daughter in an accident. In despair, his wife leaves him, and he spends his days like a shell of a man.

One day, however, a flyer from a strange religious group, the "Heart Laughing Society," changes his fate. It shows the image of his wife, whom he has lost touch with...

This is a story of faith and madness. What is the black darkness of the cult that an evil smile invites? A chilling “new religion” suspense begins!



Tags: Cult , Seinen , Religion , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Police , Espionage

The Fable

Also known as The Fable.

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

When you're the infamous prodigy hitman known only as “Fable,” many things come easy. Being a normal person, however, isn't one of them. In fact, being told that he can't kill anyone for a while may just be the hardest job Fable’s ever taken...



Note: Won the 41st Kodansha Manga Awards in the general manga category in 2017.

Tags: Yakuza , Seinen , Urban , Assassins , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Surreal Comedy , Crime , Nudity , Survival , Disability , Revenge , Bar , Heterosexual , Gore

MW

Also known as MW.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations.

During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate.

Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience.

There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’s past—and frequently his bed.



Tags: Seinen , Politics , Conspiracy , Crossdressing , Primarily Adult Cast , Torture , Urban , Crime , Psychosexual , Religion , Nudity , Boys' Love , Bisexual , Espionage , Suicide , Age Gap , Zoophilia