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Kimi ni Koisuru Satsujinki

Also known as Killer in Love.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

“You should stay away from her.
What? But I need to thank her...”

Suzuki Ryuto is an introverted, timid college student. Every day he puts on a fake smile, trying his best to blend into a group of outgoing students even despite cruel teasing over his virginity. One day he comes to a drinking party where he meets a beautiful girl, Kokoa. Per her request, he pretends to be her boyfriend to ward off the stalker who has been harassing the girl.

Their tender love lead to great tragedy.



Tags: Tragedy , Yandere , Body Horror , Fake Relationship , Gore , Crime , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Bullying , Shounen , College ,

Boku no Namae wa "Shounen A"

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A story about a goodhearted boy named Takashi, who murdered his teacher at the age of 13 to protect his childhood friend Yui.

The story revolves around tragedies happening to both of them because of that incident.

Tags: Crime , School , Tragedy , Revenge , Heterosexual , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Nudity , Rehabilitation , Detective , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Hikikomori

Adabana

Also known as Adabana.

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

After the gruesome murder of two small-town residents, a ramen shop owner, and a local student, the community is left shocked. Mizuki Aikawa, the best friend of one of the victims, confesses to the brutal crime. However, nothing is as it seems, and Mizuki's public defenders believe there has to be more to the story. When the truth unravels, they discover a tale of class, exploitation, and the deeper struggles of meeting family expectations.



Tags: Crime , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Achronological Order , Suicide , Tragedy , Prostitution , Police , Prison , Torture , Denpa , Sadism , Nudity

Pumpkin Night

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Psychological

A deformed female human goes out with a pumpkin on her head to kill all those who bullied her in the past after escaping from a mental hospital.

Tags: Revenge , Gore , Anti-Hero , Bullying , Tragedy , Body Horror , Dissociative Identities , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Yandere , Seinen , Time Skip , School , Male Protagonist , Politics , Motorcycles , Transgender , Femboy

Yuureitou

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

In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo.

Tags: Seinen , Noir , Transgender , Historical , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Crime , Detective , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Boys' Love , Body Horror , Bisexual , Body Swapping , Nudity , Adoption

Accel World

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

No matter how much the times change, bullied kids aren't going anywhere. And fat junior high school student Haruyuki is one of them. But one day, Haruyuki encounters Kuroyukihime, the most beautiful and elegant girl at school, who gives him a mysterious program: "Brain Burst"...and the secret of the "Accelerated World." He may be at the bottom of the food chain at school, but Haruyuki and his destiny begin to "accelerate" with incredible speed in the virtual realm as he aims for the top!! The manga adaptation of Reki Kawahara's wildly popular Accel World light novel series follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, bringing you a futuristic coming-of-age tale about the potential that lies within all of us!



Tags: Virtual World , School , Shounen , Bullying , Henshin , Tokusatsu

Nare no Hate no Bokura

Also known as The Shadows of Who We Once Were.

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

Nezu was looking forward to his elementary school reunion—after all, his class was united by unbreakable bonds. But when his former classmate, Mikio, reveals that this reunion is a very real matter of life and death...suddenly Nezu finds those bonds put to the test.



Tags: Shounen , Death Game , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Nudity , Male Protagonist , School , Bullying

Nibiiro no Chameleon

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery

During the Japanese Asset Price Bubble, everyone, men or women, young or old, lived in a world that was filled with frenzy. In the air where strength overruns weakness, there is a "woman" who tries to avenge her past. But, there's a twist with this "woman". One is that she was a cold killer. Second is that this "woman" is actually a man.

Note: Chapter count includes 3 extras.

Tags: Crime , Revenge , Crossdressing , Seinen , Yakuza , LGBTQ+ Themes , Adoption

Bokutachi no Shitai Sagashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Thriller

One day during summer vacation, a young boy called Isshin, Kazuma Inui, goes out with his friends from the same junior high, hoping to find "that girl" who disappeared several years ago, in an area where child kidnapping cases run rampant…

Tags: Crime , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Seinen , Rural , Police , Male Protagonist

Boku dake ga Inai Machi

Also known as Erased.

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

Twenty-nine-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is floundering through life. Amid his daily drudgery, he finds himself in the grip of an incredible, inexplicable, and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time, a condition that seems to only make his drab life worse. But then, one day, everything changes. A terrible incident forever changes Satoru's life as he knows it...and with it, comes a "Revival" that sends Satoru eighteen years into the past!

In the body of his boyhood self, Satoru encounters sights he never imagined he would see again--the smile of his mother, alive and well, his old friends, and Kayo Hinazuki, the girl who was kidnapped and murdered when he was a boy the first time around. To return to the present and prevent the tragedy that brought him back to his childhood in the first place, Satoru begins plotting a way to change Hinazuki's fate...But up against the clock and a faceless evil, does eleven-year-old Satoru even stand a chance?



Note: Was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Reader Award in 2014 and for the 7th, 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award between 2014 and 2016. Also nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Volume 9 contains the 5-chapter “Boku Dake ga Inai Machi:Re” side story.

Tags: Crime , Primarily Child Cast , Age Regression , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , School , Seinen , Detective , Fugitive , Tragedy , Revenge , Bullying , Rehabilitation , Writing , Amnesia , Snowscape , Photography