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Adolf ni Tsugu

Also known as Message to Adolf.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance

A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause.

Note: Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1986.

Tags: Military , Historical , War , Seinen , Torture , Fugitive , Tragedy , Espionage , Travel , Foreign , Time Skip , Politics , Language Barrier , Guns , Suicide , Disability

Bakuon Rettou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

In the 80s, the parents of Kaze Takashi move to a quiet area of ​​Tokyo in order to save the young man from the bad influence of his friends. In class, Takashi does not take long to make new friends and they soon invite him to meet with their gang, the Zeros. Takashi comes to love motorcycles and gets involved with the gang. What has he got himself into and is he ready to face the consequences?

Tags: Gangs , Delinquents , Coming of Age , Motorcycles , Seinen , Autobiographical , Tragedy , Yakuza , School , Revenge , Class Struggle , Anti-Hero , Prison , Bullying , Criminal Organization , Drugs ,

Ishi no Hana

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The author, who saw a microcosm of the world in the multi-racial nation of Yugoslavia, sharply depicts justice and human nature through the eyes of a boy involved in the guerrilla war against the Nazi occupation.

Tags: Shounen , Historical , Male Protagonist , War , Foreign , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast

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

1945

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

The Second World War is about to blow. The brothers Elen and Maximillian are students that struggle at becoming part of nazist organizations.

Elen meets Alex in a short trip. A few years later, they meet again and find out they're in love for each other. But they're emotionally wounded by the war and stay apart.

Occasionally, the three of them get closer, but that's just the start of the tragedy.

Tags: Historical , War , Shoujo , Foreign , Tragedy , Heterosexual

Seraphim: 2-Oku 6661-Man 3336 no Tsubasa

Also known as Seraphim: 266613336 Wings.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Seraphim is the story of a future earth devastated by the “Angel Plague,” a pandemic that induces apocalyptic visions in the afflicted, even as it ossifies their bodies into dead, seraphic forms.

Two of the most acclaimed anime directors of all time, Ghost in the Shell’s Mamoru Oshii and Perfect Blue’s Satoshi Kon, came together to create a manga: Seraphim: 266613336 Wings. Seraphim is from Animage, the magazine that originally serialized Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä manga.



Note: Includes chapter 0

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Pandemic , Dystopian , Seinen , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Politics , Triads , Angels

Billy Bat

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

The story is set in 1949 and follows Japanese-American comic book artist Kevin Yamagata as he draws the popular detective series "Billy Bat" for "Marble Comics." When he learns he may have unconsciously copied the character from an image he saw while serving in occupied Japan, he returns to Japan to get permission to use Billy Bat from its original creator. Upon arriving there, however, he becomes embroiled in a web of murder, cover-ups, and prophecy that all leads back to Billy Bat.

It is soon evident, however, that the truth of Billy Bat's nature is far larger than Kevin could ever guess, spanning millennia and across the world.



Note: Won the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best international Comic" in 2014.

Tags: Drawing , Historical , Politics , Time Manipulation , Philosophy , Conspiracy , Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Travel , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Achronological Order , War , Time Skip , Police , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Anachronism , Religion , Espionage , Nudity , Terrorism