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Happiness

Also known as Happiness.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Nothing interesting is happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. His life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.



Tags: Vampire , Primarily Teen Cast , Torture , Tragedy , Gore , Cult , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Shounen , Religion , Urban , Nudity , Delinquents , School , Bullying

Mushihime

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

A dark romance story about a high school boy who falls helplessly in love with a beautiful girl who has to eat people to survive.

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Incest , Shapeshifting , Monster Girl , Body Horror , Gore , Cannibalism , Urban , Male Protagonist , Yandere , Denpa , School , Memory Manipulation

Chi no Wadachi

Also known as Blood on the Tracks.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother’s love that has gone too far….



Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Family Life , Denpa , Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Suicide , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Crime , Time Skip , Amnesia , Bullying , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , School , Police , Nudity , Cosmic Horror , Tomboy , Dissociative Identities , Acting

Aku no Hana

Also known as The Flowers of Evil.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.

As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new ”BFF.”

Smart, funny, and emotionally engaging, The Flowers of Evil introduces a character who's not a hero, but just an ordinary teenager in search of true love and real friendship.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Denpa , Philosophy , Love Triangle , Rehabilitation , Classic Literature , School , Tragedy , Time Skip , Sadism , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Suicide , Shounen , Rural , Heterosexual , Writing , Blackmail , Urban , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Crossdressing

Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Hikikomori , Coming of Age , Shounen , Work , Meta , School , Philosophy , Primarily Child Cast , Rehabilitation

Shino-chan wa Jibun no Namae ga Ienai

Also known as Shino Can't Say Her Name.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

High school can be a stressful time for many young people. The change means a new commute, new friends, new courses…new teachers. For Shino Oshima the change could have meant an opportunity to blossom into adulthood. Unfortunately, things go wrong on her first day - she fails to even say her name during her homeroom introduction. From then on Shino is a part-mute part-stuttering mess. Ostracized and afraid she struggles to find her place in this new world... But thankfully for her, she finds her voice through music and some unexpected new frienemies.



Tags: School , Language Barrier , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Bullying , Musical Theater , Time Skip , Disability

Hiromi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

Hiromi tells the story of of the eponymous protagonist, a restless boy and classmate of the author in the first grade of elementary school. Shuzo was afraid of Hiromi, but one day during arts and crafts class, his own words and actions lead him to become more and more afraid of Hiromi. First published in Big Comic Original issue 22, 2024.

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Child Cast , Autobiographical , School , Disability , Bullying

Takopii no Genzai

Also known as Takopi's Original Sin.

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

Takopi travels from his home of Happy Planet to spread happiness across Earth, but meets the unsmiling Shizuka upon landing. Her friends at school and home life seem to be the source of her somber expression—and the pure-hearted Takopi is determined to change things for the better! But what truths await him when the curtains rise in this shocking drama?!



Tags: Tragedy , Bullying , Aliens , Time Manipulation , Denpa , Primarily Child Cast , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Crime , Memory Manipulation , Coming of Age , Shounen , Magic , Philosophy , Clone