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

Sousakusha

Also known as The Quest for the Missing Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Shiga, a mountaineer, leaves his isolated lodge and returns to Tokyo in order to track down Megumi - the missing daughter of Tatsuko (Shiga's deceased best friend) and Yoriko (whom Shiga has secretly been in love with since before Tatsuko died). Shiga's investigation takes him into the world of "compensated dating" and disaffected teens and what he discovers there suggests that Megumi may have been abducted by a paedophile with a great deal of power and influence. In order to save the girl and regain the self-respect he lost when his best friend died, Shiga must break through the wall of silence and do what the police dare not.

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Tags: Seinen , Urban , Crime , Mountaineering

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

Master Keaton

Also known as Master Keaton.

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

Taichi Hiraga Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS. When a life insurance policy worth one million pounds takes Master Keaton to the Dodecanese islands of Greece, what will he discover amidst his scuffles with bloodthirsty thieves and assassins?



Tags: Episodic , Military , Work , Seinen , Male Protagonist

Buraiden Gai

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

The story revolves around Kudou Gai, a mischievous 13-year-old all alone in the world. He despises his classmates who live by their free will, although supported by parents, but taking it for granted. Gai soon finds out he is contradicting himself for he is being raised at an orphanage as well, and makes an attempt for independence. His actions lands him in trouble, where he is framed for murder and sent to a place in an unknown location called the "human institute".

Tags: Fugitive , Survival , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Bullying , Gore

Kokuhaku: Confession

Also known as Confession.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Two miles up in the unforgiving heights of Mt. Owari, hikers and friends Asai and Ishikura are hit by a blizzard and lose their way. Injured and sure of his imminent death, Ishikura confesses to killing a member of their university hiking club five years ago. However, Asai then stumbles upon shelter and carries them both to safety, only to realize that the confession has forever changed their relationship—and that the brutal elements may no longer be the most deadly threat around.



Tags: Survival , Seinen , Outdoor , Male Protagonist , Mountaineering

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

Kuuya Shounin ga Ita

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Manga adaption of the novel Kuuya Shounin ga Ita written by Taichi Yamada.

Tags: Elderly Protagonist , Seinen

Zashisu

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Thriller

One day, junior high teacher Yamauchi Umi sees a murder case on the news. The victim was Suzuki Yumi, a former classmate from junior high. A few days later, Yamauchi's girlfriend, Tamao Yagisawa, a rookie editor, finds a rejected novel with a plot that closely resembled the murder case. The author's name is Haruto Saeki. Soon, just as in the novel, an invitation for a reunion comes from an old friend…

Tags: Writing , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen

JUMBO MAX

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Tateo Sone runs a pharmacy in Odawara and leads an ordinary but happy life with his beautiful wife and daughter-in-law. One day, however, when his wife tells him she is pregnant, he is shocked. It's because he has a secret: he has never had a functioning lower half of his body. His wife's child is not his own...Tateo despairs at the thought. At that time, a man named Sumaoka happens to give him a mysterious ED drug. Tateo impulsively takes the drug and is shocked to find that the function of his lower body miraculously recovers. Tateo declares to Sumaoka that he will recreate and make this medicine himself. But this is the beginning of a dangerous day that will change his life forever!



Tags: Drugs , Medicine , Seinen , Pregnant , Primarily Adult Cast