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BEASTARS

Also known as BEASTARS.

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

One night at Cherryton Academy, an herbivore student is brutally murdered. Among the members of the Drama Club, the herbivores’ suspicions naturally turn to their carnivore classmates… The prime suspect? Gray wolf Legoshi. But he wouldn’t hurt a fly. Or would he? Will dwarf rabbit Haru bring out the beast in him? Or are his feelings for her…something else?



Notes:
Winner of the 11th Manga Taisho Award in 2018.
Winner of the 42nd Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2018.
Winner of the New Face Award from the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2018.
Winner of the New Creator Prize of the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018.

Tags: Anthropomorphism , Animals , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Cannibalism , School , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Urban , Crime , Philosophy , Gangs , Primarily Animal Cast , Psychosexual , Tragedy , Revenge , Shounen , School Club , Yakuza , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Class Struggle , Bullying , Heterosexual , Adoption , Survival , Acting , Cultivation , Martial Arts

Baccano!

Also known as Baccano!.

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

New York, 1927.

In a corrupt city where crime rules the streets, Firo Prochainezo is in the Camorra, an Italian criminal syndicate distinct from the mafia. Though a member of the relatively small Martillo family, Firo has big ambitions and is determined to make his mark. But while the Martillos may not be the biggest bad guys on the block, they've got some distinct advantages working in their favor. Does Firo have what it takes to become a made man?

Let the crazy ruckus begin!



Tags: Mafia , Seinen , Crime , Alchemy , Foreign , Poker , Urban Fantasy

Ousama Ranking

Also known as Ranking of Kings.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

The web manga centers around Bojji, a deaf, powerless prince who cannot even wield a children's sword. As the firstborn son, he strives hard and dreams of becoming the world's greatest king. However, people mutter about him behind his back as "a good-for-nothing prince" and "no way he can be king."

Bojji is able to make his first ever friend, "Kage" (shadow) — a literal shadow on the ground who somehow understands Bojji well. (Kage is a survivor of the Kage assassin clan that was all but wiped out. No longer a killer, Kage now makes ends meet by stealing.) The story follows Bojji's coming-of-age as he meets various people in his life, starting with his fateful encounter with Kage.



Tags: Disability , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Bullying , Magic , Fairy Tale , Language Barrier , Conspiracy , Swordplay , Historical , Royal Affairs , Assassins , Demons , Shounen , Amputation

Setoutsumi

Also known as Seto Utsumi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

This manga has been made into a movie and a TV drama in japan. "I wish we could just spend all our high school days sittin' and chattin' by this river." This seven chapter volume is a collection of the funky, off-the-wall, and sometimes cynical after-school conversations between Seto and Utsumi, two high-schoolers from the Kansai region of Japan.



Note: Includes 17 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Achronological Order , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Shounen , Revenge , Animals

Durarara!!

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

Welcome to Ikebukuro, where Tokyo's wildest characters gather!! Meet an ordinary boy who daydreams about the extraordinary. A naive stalker girl. The strongest man in Ikebukuro. A shut-in doctor with questionable credentials. A hedonistic informant...and the "headless rider" astride a pitch-black motorcycle!? As their paths cross, this eccentric cast weaves a twisted, cracked love story...



Tags: Gangs , Dullahan , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Yandere , Super Power , Ensemble Cast , Motorcycles

Midnight

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Midnight is the story of a taxi driver named Shinya Mito (whose name is literally Japanese for "mid" and "night") and his various passengers, each of whom he helps in various ways. Shinya drives a taxi as a way to earn money for the treatment of a young woman named Mari, whose brain was injured sometime earlier as the result of an accident Shinya was responsible for causing. The taxi Shinya drives is equipped with a fifth wheel which makes the car more maneuverable under any kind of road conditions.

Tags: Cars , Shounen , Ghost , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Urban , Tragedy , Twins , Gender Bending , Adoption , Anti-Hero , Anthropomorphism

No Guns Life

Also known as No Guns Life.

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

When a fellow Extended showed up in Inui’s office—on the run from the Security Bureau with a kidnapped child in tow and asking for help—Inui almost throws the guy out. But Inui’s loyalty to a brother Extended makes him take the job. Keeping the child safe won’t be easy, since everyone wants him, from the mob to the megacorporation Berühren, which sends out a special agent who knows exactly how to deal with the Extended…



Tags: Seinen , Cyborg , Cyberpunk , Crime , Urban , Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Guns , Robots , Noir , Amnesia , Disability , Body Horror , Class Struggle

Ookami no Ko Sora wa Senjou ni iru

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Slice of Life

As humans and demons continued endless wars, the mixed forces of various races, the anti-human allied special operations unit and the cross company, were developing local battles in a dense jungle. The captain of the third company, Dill, is bringing up children while running on the battlefield. It is a nemesis child to defeat. It was a small little human child.

Tags: War , Demons , Military , Anthropomorphism

Mori no Asagao: Shinjin Keimukan to Aru Shikeishuu no Monogatari

Also known as Mori no Asagao.

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

As a new prison guard assigned to death row, Oikawa Naoki faces condemned criminals every day, trying not to make a connection with men he knows are doomed to die. In the course of his duties, he strikes up a unlikely friendship with inmate Mitsuru Watase, a man sentenced to die for the revenge murder of the man who killed his parents, and slowly begins to wonder about the necessity of the death penalty and the meanings of concepts like repentance and forgiveness. Based on close and careful research, this thought provoking work tackles the serious theme of the “capital punishment system” head-on, from the view of both those who execute others and those who are executed.



Tags: Seinen , Police , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist

Beast Complex

Also known as Beast Complex.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

A tiger and a beaver who grew up together defy peer pressure to end their friendship and join forces to fight injustice. A camel journalist who passed judgment on carnivores for years spends a life-changing night with a seductive wolf. A crocodile and a gazelle must find a way to work together as chef and assistant on a cooking show with flagging ratings. A fox and a chameleon wrestle with stereotypes about each other—and themselves. And much more…



Tags: Animals , Anthology , Shounen , Crime , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Animal Cast