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Tengoku Daimakyou

Also known as Heavenly Delusion.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mystery

Within the safety of the walls, youths are raised in a nursery-style setting by robots. While life there may appear stale on the surface, the children are full of potential and curiosity. In many ways it is like a slice of heaven. The outside world is a hell-scape. It is almost entirely void of anything mechanical and is now inhabited by bizarre, yet powerful super-natural beings.

Maru, with the aid of Kiruko, is out there crisscrossing what was once Tokyo for heaven. But after searching for so long, maybe heaven is more of an untenable dream than a potential reality.



Winner of 'Kono Manga ga Sugoi!' 2019 Award in Male Readers category.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Seinen , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Survival , Dystopian , Achronological Order , Female Protagonist , Body Swapping , Travel , Gender Bending , Conspiracy , Super Power , Heterosexual , Bisexual , Artificial Intelligence , Nudity , Amnesia , Orphan , Yuri , Guns , Demons , Gore

Busou Renkin

Also known as Buso Renkin.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Romance

Buso Renkin is the story of teenager Kazuki Muto, who dies trying to save a girl who was being attacked by an eerie monster. The next morning, however, Kazuki is left wondering whether it was all a dream. Lo and behold, the girl, the monster, and his death are all real! The girl, Tokiko Tsumura, was actually trying to slay the homunculus (a beast that can take the form of humans, but whose main source of food is people), but Kazuki got in her way. To revive Kazuki, Tokiko replaces his heart with a "kakugane," an alchemic device that allows him to summon a lance with which to fight the monsters. It turns out that Tokiko is a member of Renkin Kenshi (Alchemist Soldiers), an organization sworn to protect the world from the diabolical creatures. Soon, Kazuki joins Tokiko in her quest to terminate the sinister being that creates and controls the homunculus.



Tags: School , Shounen , Twins , Alchemy , Super Power , Male Protagonist

Dandadan

Also known as Dandadan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong—Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?



Notes:
Includes 1 extra chapter.
Nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Super Power , Ghost , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , School , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Terrorism , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Acrobatics , Gore , Chuunibyou , Super Robot , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Exorcism , Circus , Gods , Tsundere , Nudity , Bullying , Dissociative Identities , Suicide , Curses

Kiseijuu

Also known as Parasyte.

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

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade–and take control of–a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret–except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?



Tags: Male Protagonist , Seinen , Body Horror , Aliens , Environmental , Super Power , Gore , Shapeshifting , Tragedy , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Delinquents , School , Love Triangle , Nudity

Infini-T Force: Mirai no Byousen

Also known as Infini-T Force: Arc to the Future.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

A girl named Emi uses a pencil that can grant any wish. Emi gets caught up in the robbery of a convenience store, and her life is in danger. She uses the pencil to wish for a "hero that will save everyone." Four heroes appear in response to Emi's wish to change the course of the future.



Tags: Super Power , Seinen , Tokusatsu , Henshin , Urban Fantasy

Aa! Megami-sama!

Also known as Oh My Goddess!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Supernatural

Alone in his dorm on a Saturday night, Nekomi Tech’s Keiichi Morisato dials a wrong number that will change his life forever—reaching the Goddess Technical Help Line. Granted one wish by the charming young goddess Belldandy—a wish for anything in the world—Keiichi wishes she would stay with him always! Complications are bound to ensue from this; the immediate first being the new couple getting tossed out of the dorm—it’s males only!

As the hapless student and his mysterious “foreign beauty” ride around looking for a new place to stay—risking the different dangers of seeking shelter with an otaku convinced Belldandy is an imaginary woman, and a Zen priest convinced she’s a sinister witch—Keiichi’s still got his classes on Monday morning! How is his new “exchange student” companion going to be received on the N.I.T. campus? A little too well for normal life to ever return...



Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2009.

Tags: Gods , Seinen , Magic , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Motorcycles , Demons , Female Harem , College , Cars , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Alchemy , Robots , Coming of Age

70 Oku no Hari

Also known as 7 Billion Needles.

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

Hikaru Takabe may not be the most social of teens. Always sporting her headphones, she gives off an aloof aura that rubs her classmates the wrong way. But her not being part of the crowd takes on a different dimension when she becomes involved in an intergalactic game of cat and mouse.

Inspired by Needle, the Golden Age hard sci-fi classic by the late Hal Clement, Nobuaki Tadano's debut work brings a unique take on alien invasion up to date and into the maelstrom that is the Japanese high school girl.



Tags: Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Hikikomori , Coming of Age , Seinen , Aliens , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Gore , School , Kaiju , Tokusatsu

Sazan to Suisei no Shoujo

Also known as Sazan & Comet Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Romance , Sci-Fi

Sazan, a young man from Earth, works on other planets and has seen his share of galactic oddities. But when he meets Mina, a red-headed girl who zooms into his life on a space scooter, he knows he’s run into someone special. Mina contains shocking power within her body–a power coveted by space pirates who hope to steal it from her. Mina zooms out of Sazan’s life almost as quickly as she arrived, but Sazan is determined to find her again…no matter how far he has to chase her across the galaxy.



Tags: Space Opera , Full Color , Space , Heterosexual , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Aliens , Pirates , Robots , Fugitive , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence

Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor

Also known as Mobile Police Patlabor.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In the near future, large mechs called Labors are made to assist in various reconstruction projects in major countries around the world that are being threatened by global warming. In Japan, the government has enacted Project Babylon in order to conduct land reclamation. Labors are also being pressed into police and military service aside from civilian use.

However, terrorists are now attempting to use labors to make themselves heard, as well as common criminals, thugs and guerrillas. The National Police Agency established the Special Vehicles Division, an all-labor task force to combat the potential use of labors for criminal/terrorist activities.

Note: The chapter count reflects the manga's total number of chapters that were published originally in the Shounen Sunday magazine.

Tags: Real Robot , Police , Shounen , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Terrorism

Ghost Sweeper Mikami

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

Overdevelopment and crowding in Japan has forced many of its indigenous spirits and ghosts to lose their homes. Due to problems caused by the homeless spirits, a new profession was created, the Ghost Sweepers (GS). Private exorcists for hire; they serve only the highest bidder to survive in the cutthroat corporate world. Among this, the Mikami GS Company, led by Reiko Mikami and her two assistants, the teenage boy Tadao Yokoshima and the ghost girl Okinu, is said to be the best.



Included one-shot:
Volume 1: Gokuraku Mouja (Ghost Sweeping in the Haunted Mansion)

Tags: Shounen , Female Protagonist , Magic , Ghost , Urban Fantasy , Exorcism