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Homunculus

Also known as Homunculus.

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

Nakoshi Susumu, age 34, is living out of his car. Between spending his days with the homeless and his nights in his vehicle, he has little to his name–but not so little that he’ll agree to be the subject of a scientific experiment. An unnerving medical student is stalking him and offering to pay Nakoshi a significant sum to test trepanation: the ability to draw out a sixth sense by drilling into the skull. Nakoshi refuses. When Nakoshi’s beloved car is towed, though, he finally agrees to cash and the operating table. At first, the experiment seems to bear no fruit, and Nakoshi’s life is unchanged. That is, until Nakoshi realizes his vision has warped in his left eye…showing him the twisted homunculus inside every human.



Tags: Philosophy , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Denpa , Amnesia , Anti-Hero , Gore , Body Horror , Homeless , Transgender , Masturbation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Economics , Class Struggle , Boys' Love

Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru

Also known as The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Shy bookstore clerk Kosuke Mikado has the ability to see ghosts and spirits, an ability he wishes he didn't have, since what he sees usually terrifies him. Rihito Hiyakawa, an exorcist whose supernatural powers are as strong as his social graces are weak, doesn't seem to fear anything, mortal or otherwise. When this odd couple gets together to solve the bizarre cases that come their way, their work methods may not be entirely safe for work!



Note: The chapter count includes 10 extra chapters.

Tags: Ghost , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Cult , Detective , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Exorcism

Babylon

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

The suspense story centers around Zen Seizaki, a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles across a conspiracy over an election for an autonomous "new zone" established in western Tokyo.



Tags: Conspiracy , Police , Philosophy , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Suicide

Boogiepop wa Warawanai

Also known as Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

The story takes place in an unnamed Japanese city, and follows five students at Shinyo Academy as they try to piece together the puzzle of a new drug and recent disappearances among the student populace. While the teachers believe them to only be runaways, the female students whisper among themselves about the urban legend Boogiepop, who is said to be a shinigami.

Tags: Dissociative Identities , School , Nudity , Aliens

Subete ga F ni Naru

Also known as The Perfect Insider.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Professor Saikawa and Nishinosono Moe go to camp on an island where the mysterious Professor Magata Shiki has a closed laboratory. They're curious about the murder of Magata's parents, and they manage to talk their way into the lab itself. While they are inside, a dressed-up corpse is shockingly propelled out of the door of Magata's quarters! It appears she was murdered, and she won't be the last...



Tags: Seinen

Banana Fish

Also known as Banana Fish.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...



Tags: Mafia , Tragedy , Gangs , Conspiracy , Noir , Drugs , Primarily Male Cast , Crime , Revenge , Criminal Organization , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Coming of Age , Shoujo , Delinquents , Urban , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Politics , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Adoption , Orphan , Tanned Skin , Assassins , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Police , Cars , Bisexual , Photography , Classic Literature , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Prison

Persona 5

Also known as Persona 5.

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

After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power—the power of one’s true self, a Persona. Using his Persona and the mysterious navigation app Momentos, Akira and his friends take on the role of phantom thieves, saving people from the twisted desires of those around them.

Akira Kurusu thought he was doing the right thing when he rescued a woman who was being attacked. Expelled from his school and sent away from home, he is reenrolled in Shujin Academy on probation. Trouble finds him again on his first day when he comes across delinquent Ryuji Sakamoto and the two somehow stumble into a castle in an alternate reality. Caught by the castle’s king, the schoolteacher Kamoshida, Akira discovers his will to rebel and awakens the power of his Persona!



Tags: Crime , Male Protagonist , School , Anti-Hero

ID: INVADED #BRAKE BROKEN

Also known as ID:Invaded #Brake-Broken.

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

When I open my eyes, I find myself in an unfamiliar car, in an unfamiliar town, in front of the on-ramp to an unfamiliar highway. Before I can process any of this, I see the fiery explosions of multiple car crashes in the distance, and without thinking, I stomp on the accelerator and race toward the scene. I soon find that I’ve driven straight into hell at full speed with no brakes, just like everyone around me...! In the midst of this insanity, I discover the corpse of a girl, and suddenly I know-I am the brilliant detective. And I must solve the mystery of her death. Note: Manga adaptation and sequel of the anime ID: Invaded.

Tags: Detective , Seinen , Virtual World , Crime , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Time Manipulation , Police , Primarily Adult Cast , Cars , Anti-Hero , Suicide , Tragedy

Kokkoku

Also known as Kokkoku: Moment by Moment.

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

Juri Yukawa lives with her NEET father and brother, her retired grandfather, her sister (a single mother) and her young nephew. One day, her nephew and brother are kidnapped for ransom. Having only 30 minutes to meet the demands of the kidnappers, Juri, who realizes there is not enough time to prepare the money, decides to head for their rescue by herself with knife in hand when her grandfather uses a mysterious stone passed on in the Yukawa family to stop time. In a world where everyone and everything are inert, Juri and her father and grandfather run to rescue the two. But at the kidnappers' hideout, they soon realize they are not the only ones who can move about in this still world...

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Cult , Religion , Reincarnation , Age Regression

BAMBi

Also known as Bambi and Her Pink Gun.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Follow the adventures of a punk girl with a pink gun as she rampages across the land. The word is out on the streets: a reward of five million dollars to the opportunist that wastes the courier calling herself Bambi and returns the kid called Pampi she leads around on a leash. Can Bambi's huge ego and formidable gun skills hold off an army?

Featuring awesome art by Kaneko Atsushi and a story that's hard-edged, fast paced and loaded with action, chaotic courier Bambi delivers the goods.



Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Female Protagonist , Gore , Assassins , Guns , Nudity , Sadism , Cyborg , Bondage , Travel