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DEATH NOTE

Also known as Death Note.

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

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?



Tags: Detective , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Police , Urban Fantasy , Crime , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Espionage , Gods , Primarily Male Cast , Time Skip , Shounen , Demons , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Politics , Cult

Mirai Nikki

Also known as Future Diary.

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

Yukiteru is a lonely student whose only hobby is the daily diary he keeps on his cell phone. But Yukiteru has a secret that nobody knows about...his cellphone can tell the future! Now a vicious game of survival is about to begin among twelve future diaryholders - with the winner crowned god of the new world!



Tags: Battle Royale , Yandere , Shounen , Time Manipulation , Death Game , Female Protagonist , Survival , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Gods , Tragedy , Skeleton , Terrorism , Orphan , Detective , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Crime , Bisexual , Cult , Disability , Urban

All You Need Is Kill

Also known as All You Need Is Kill.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death?



Tags: Military , Time Manipulation , Seinen , Aliens , Survival , War , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Time Loop , Guns , Revenge , Alternate Universe , Heterosexual , Gore

Darwin's Game

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery

An unknowing Sudou Kaname is invited to try out a new mysterious mobile app game called Darwin's Game, but later realizes that he's in for more than he's bargained for when he finds out that there's no way to quit the game.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Battle Royale , Death Game , Shounen , Super Power , Alternate Universe , Post-Apocalyptic , Survival , Time Skip , Gangs , Guns , Gambling , Crime , Gore , Assassins , Body Horror , Isekai , Aliens , Yandere , Time Manipulation

Gleipnir

Also known as Gleipnir.

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

Shuichi Kagaya is an ordinary high school kid in a boring little town. But when a beautiful classmate is caught in a warehouse fire, he discovers a mysterious power: he can transform into a furry dog with an oversized revolver and a zipper down his back. He saves the girl’s life, sharing his secret with her. But she’s searching for the sister who killed her family, and she doesn’t care how degrading it gets: she will use Shuichi to accomplish her mission …



Tags: Super Power , Shapeshifting , Monster Boy , Seinen , Anti-Hero , Rural , Psychosexual , Battle Royale , Aliens , Body Horror , Nudity , Memory Manipulation , Gore , Monster Girl , Guns , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Yandere , Love Triangle , Clone , Time Manipulation , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes

BTOOOM!

Also known as Btooom!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

Sakamoto Ryuuta is an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there may be nothing really special about him, but online, he's one of the world's top players of the combat game "BTOOOM"!

One day, he awakes in what appears to be a tropical island, though he has no memory of how or why he has come to be there. While wandering around, Ryuuta sees someone and calls out for help. The stranger responds by throwing a bomb at him! Now Ryuuta realizes both that his life is in danger, and that he has somehow been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game! Will Ryuuta be able to survive long enough to figure out how and why he ended up here?



Tags: Battle Royale , Survival , Video Games , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Gore , Conspiracy , Age Gap , Death Game , Hikikomori , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Slavery , Suicide , Robots

GANTZ

Also known as Gantz.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Tokyo teens Kei and Masaru are killed by a subway train but awaken in a room with an ominous black orb that gives them weapons, suits and orders. Fighting bizarre alien monstrosities in a deadly game, will they win their freedom or die for the final time?



Tags: Survival , Seinen , Aliens , Gore , Tragedy , Death Game , Urban , Guns , Cosmic Horror , Philosophy , Battle Royale , Nudity , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Terrorism , Vampire , Assassins , Female Harem , Youkai , Dinosaurs , CGI , Age Gap , Anti-Hero , Trains

Sugoi Sumaho

Also known as Super Smartphone.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Sci-Fi

What would you do if you had a smartphone that let you look up anything? Secret documents, security camera footage, a certain person's text messages, where people dropped money... This smartphone lets you do the impossible! Jump's newest suspense thriller begins!



Note: Includes an extra epilogue chapter in the final volume.

Tags: Shounen , Artificial Intelligence , Detective , Crime , Police , Terrorism , Male Protagonist

Fate/stay night

Also known as Fate/stay night.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Romance

The story takes place in an ordinary Japanese town, Fuyuki City. Hidden from society, there has been a deadly war going on in this town. Seven sorcerers known as "Masters" summon a powerful familiar called "Servants" and they all fight each other till the last one. The last one is said to attain the Holy Grail which will grant them a wish. Only a few knows when this War started and what the Holy Grail is, but the war was about to begin again this year.

The main character is Emiya Shirou, who lost his parents in a fire and was adopted by a man who called himself a sorcerer. Admiring his step father, he has been training himself to be a sorcerer. However, he had no talent and he could barely use one type of sorcery. His step father has already passed away, and today he's a sorcerer without any skills or knowledge. He is involved in the War of the Holy Grail when he accidentally summons Saber, who is said to be the strongest servant of all...

Note: Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: Battle Royale , Magic , Mythology , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Superhero , Super Power , Swordplay , Tsundere , Matriarchy , Spearplay , Religion , Urban , Tanned Skin , Medieval , School , Slavery

Fate/Zero

Also known as Fate/Zero.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance

The Fourth Holy Grail War has begun, and seven mages must summon heroes from history to battle each other to the death. Only one mage-and-hero pair will remain to claim the Grail and have their wishes granted! Kiritsugu Emiya was once an assassin but now fights in this war to save the world from those who would destroy it with the Grail’s power.



Tags: Seinen , Mythology , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Spearplay , Swordplay , Motorcycles , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Primarily Adult Cast , Dissociative Identities , Body Horror , Nudity , Battle Royale , Medieval