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SOIL

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

Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?

Tags: Police , Seinen , Cosmic Horror , Surreal Comedy , Crime , Aliens , Memory Manipulation , Lost Civilization , Gore

Homunculus

Also known as Homunculus.

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

Nakoshi Susumu, age 34, is living out of his car. Between spending his days with the homeless and his nights in his vehicle, he has little to his name–but not so little that he’ll agree to be the subject of a scientific experiment. An unnerving medical student is stalking him and offering to pay Nakoshi a significant sum to test trepanation: the ability to draw out a sixth sense by drilling into the skull. Nakoshi refuses. When Nakoshi’s beloved car is towed, though, he finally agrees to cash and the operating table. At first, the experiment seems to bear no fruit, and Nakoshi’s life is unchanged. That is, until Nakoshi realizes his vision has warped in his left eye…showing him the twisted homunculus inside every human.



Tags: Philosophy , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Denpa , Amnesia , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Gore , Homeless , Transgender , Masturbation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Economics , Class Struggle , Boys' Love

Search and Destroy

Also known as Search and Destroy.

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

This is a tale of rage. Rage against hypocrisy, injustice, exploitation, and the wrongs done to a child who grew into a righteous killer….Complete in three volumes, Search and Destroy transplants the vengeful action of Dororo from feudal Japan into a dystopian future where mercenary robots known as "creatures" serve the human elite and victimize the city's scrabbling, desperate masses. The violent death of one of these creatures connects an orphaned thief named Doro with a mysterious girl in a stinking animal hide that conceals deadly cybernetic implants. Who is this mysterious girl? How is she killing, one by one, the city's most twisted and powerful creatures? And why is she so angry?


Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Seinen , Cyberpunk , Dystopian , Politics , Female Protagonist , Robots , Revenge , Artificial Intelligence , Cyborg , Tragedy , Police , Yakuza

Lady & Oldman

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Slice of Life

The story takes place in Los Angeles in the 1960's. A pair known as "Lady and Oldman" roam the streets of the city, sometimes getting caught up with mysteries and sometimes finding solutions.

Note: Chapter count includes two extras chapters.

Tags: Seinen , Foreign , Crime , Twins , Conspiracy , Noir

Area 51

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

In the American Area 51, there is a society where many varied supernatural creatures--kappa, vampires, aliens, gods and goddesses of various mythologies, mythological figures (like King Arthur), and more-- make their home. In addition to the non-humans, there's also a population of humans, people who can't live in the ordinary world for one reason or another. One of these people is Magoi Tokuko, commonly known as Makkoi, a tough woman who works cases with the help of her kappa associate, her deep knowledge of the area, and her pistol. In her office, which she's built in an unfinished subway station, she takes on all kinds of jobs (recovery of stolen goods, infiltration, etc.) from the many humans and non-humans who come to pay for her help.



Tags: Gods , Noir , Mythology , Seinen , Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Crime , Female Protagonist , Guns , Aliens , Foreign , Gore

Kurayami Dance

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

Undertaker by day, biker by night, Kaido Wataru dreams of one day riding at an unsurpassed speed. But the moment he finally reaches 300 kmh, a terrible accident sends him into a 3-year coma. When Wataru awakes, he finds that the Japan he once knew is long gone. Now followed by an otherworldly creature and equipped with a mysterious transplanted eye, Wataru embarks on his very own road movie...

Kurayami Dance is a manga based on the original draft for Shadows of the Damned, which was a loose adaptation of Kafka’s The Castle.

Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Surreal Comedy , Time Skip , Meta , Male Protagonist , Assassins , Motorcycles , Afterlife , Revenge , Bullying

Yan Tiehua

Also known as YAN .

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

Thirty years ago, the young Peiking Opera performer Yen Tieh-hua was wrongly convicted of the murder of her own family and sent to prison. Twenty years later she died while still incarcerated. Yet, today, this same woman has mysteriously returned as a superpowered teen in Peiking Opera costume, determined to avenge the massacre of her family.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Revenge , Henshin , Acting , Super Power , Time Skip , Female Protagonist

OPUS

Also known as Opus.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

A manga artist planning a shocking surprise ending to his story gets literally pulled into his own work—to face for himself what he had planned for his characters!



Note: OPUS went on permanent hiatus after Satoshi Kon's directorial career took off and was not completed. A rough final chapter was found in Kon's files after his death and was published with his family's permission by Ryu Comics.

Tags: Meta , Seinen , Demons , Magic , Drawing , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Alternate Universe , Isekai , Reincarnation

Lost Lad London

Also known as Lost Lad London.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Thriller

The whole of London is shocked when the mayor is found dead on an Underground train, but perhaps none more than university student Al Adley. Though he took the Tube at the time of the fatal stabbing, he doesn’t remember seeing anything unusual—certainly nothing to explain how a bloody knife found its way into his pocket that night. However, in spite of this damning evidence, Detective Ellis believes Al’s claims of innocence. Now the two must work together to conceal Al’s involvement and clear his name in the face of shadowy forces working to see Al take the fall for a crime he didn’t commit...



Note: Won the 25th Japan Media Art Festival New Face Award for Manga in 2022.

Tags: Police , Detective , Foreign , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast

Ibutsu Konnyuu: Kago Shintarou Kounou Tanpenshuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

Inject a foreign object into your seemingly peaceful everyday life! Expose your desires!

Tags: Seinen , Anthology , Ero Guro , Surreal Comedy