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Berserk

Also known as Berserk.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Psychological

His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers. Bearer of a gigantic sword, an iron hand, and the scars of countless battles and tortures, his flesh is also indelibly marked with The Brand, an unholy symbol that draws the forces of darkness to him and dooms him as their sacrifice. But Guts won't take his fate lying down; he'll cut a crimson swath of carnage through the ranks of the damned—and anyone else foolish enough to oppose him! Accompanied by Puck the Elf, more an annoyance than a companion, Guts relentlessly follows a dark, bloodstained path that leads only to death...or vengeance.



Notes:
- Volumes 1-5 contain the 16 prequel chapters 0A - 0P.
- Chapter 83 was omitted from Volume 13 due to the author’s request.
- Volume 14 includes “Berserk: The Prototype”.
- Due to the author's passing, starting from Chapter 365, the manga is illustrated by Studio Gaga (Miura's assistants) and supervised by Kouji Mori (a close friend of Miura's).

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Demons , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Philosophy , Found Family , Anti-Hero , Travel , Rehabilitation , Swordplay , Mythology , Magic , War , Survival , Foreign , Body Horror , Gods , Religion , Nudity , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Fairy , Military , Disability , Dystopian , Witch , Coming of Age , Amnesia , Sadism , Torture , Time Skip , Elf , Ensemble Cast , Kaiju , Heterosexual , Achronological Order , Tomboy , Age Regression , Skeleton , Cult , Adoption , Dungeon , Slavery , Dragons , Super Power , Kingdom Management , Group Sex , Prostitution , Cannibalism , Pregnancy , Incest , Curses , Medieval , Ships , Monster Girl , Vore , Masturbation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Monster Boy , Mermaid , Fellatio

Kanojo, Okarishimasu

Also known as Rent-A-Girlfriend.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

In today’s Japan, “rental” services can deliver an afternoon with a “friend,” a “parent,” even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his girlfriend, hapless freshman Kazuya gets just desperate enough to give it a try. But he quickly discovers how complicated it can be to “rent” an emotional connection, and his new “girlfriend,” who’s trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya’s are intertwined in surprising ways! Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, too… It’s sweet but naïve boy meets cute but ruthless girl in this 21st-century manga rom-com!



Tags: Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Prostitution , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Gambling , Fake Relationship , Unrequited Love , Work , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Acting , Tsundere , Cohabitation , Filmmaking , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Coming of Age , Meta , Agriculture , Slapstick , School , Nudity , Aliens

Shinai naru Boku e Satsui wo Komete

Also known as My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Slice of Life , Thriller

Eiji the college-age virgin dreams of someday having a girlfriend...until he wakes up one day with his "girlfriend" in his bed with him! Not only that, his buddy tells him he got in a fight...and that three days have passed that Eiji doesn't remember? What dark secrets are being hidden...by Eiji himself?



Note: Includes 1 epilogue chapter.

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Revenge , Crime , Seinen , Amnesia , Police , Denpa , Fugitive , Yandere , Detective , Torture , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Prostitution , Suicide , Gore , Gangs , Nudity , Adoption , College , Time Skip , Orphan , Tragedy , Body Horror , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender

EDEN: It's an Endless World!

Also known as Eden: It's an Endless World!.

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

In the near future, a large portion of humanity is wiped out by a brutal, new virus that hardens the skin while dissolving internal organs. Those who aren't immune are either severely crippled or allowed to live with cybernetically enhanced bodies. Taking advantage of a world in chaos, a paramilitary force known as the Propater topples the United Nations and seeks world domination. Elijah, a young survivor searching for his mother, travels towards the Andes Mountains with an artificially intelligent combat robot. When he encounters a group of anti-Propater freedom fighters, a maelstrom of unique characters unfolds. Graphic, cyberpunk, and philosophical, Eden is a place where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!

Note: The chapter count included 5 extra stories.

Tags: Foreign , Tragedy , Gangs , War , Anti-Hero , Drugs , Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Cyberpunk , Gore , Terrorism , Revenge , Dystopian , Pandemic , Male Protagonist , Guns , Conspiracy , Gods , Alternate Universe , Religion , Travel , Survival , Artificial Intelligence , Environmental , Heterosexual , Prostitution , Military , Coming of Age , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Class Struggle , Time Skip , Tanned Skin , Age Gap , Acting , Cult , Suicide , Cosmic Horror , Fellatio , Cunnilingus

Kasane

Also known as Kasane.

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

Kasane's face is so hideous, you couldn't bear to look twice at her—and her ugliness has forced her to walk a harsh path in life. But her mother left her something: a tube of lipstick. The power of this lipstick will change everything about her downtrodden life.



Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taishou Award.

Tags: Shapeshifting , Acting , Body Swapping , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Bullying , Denpa , Crime , Urban Fantasy , Rehabilitation , Torture , Disability , Survival , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Incest , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Magic , Philosophy , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Mythology , Yandere , Prostitution , Time Skip , Suicide , School Club , School

Hotaru no Yomeiri

Also known as Firefly Wedding.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

It is the Meiji era. Satoko is born of a prestigious family and blessed with great beauty, but she is sickly and is said to have a limited life expectancy, so her only dream is… a convenient marriage to benefit her family. But suddenly, she is targeted by a mysterious assassin...!? Trying to survive, Satoko makes a desperate "proposal" to the killer...!? A high-class lady and an assassin... A suspenseful love story about a contract marriage between two people who never should've met!



Tags: Yandere , Heterosexual , Josei , Female Protagonist , Historical , Ojou-sama , Marriage , Assassins , Tragedy , Disability , Prostitution , Zombie , Love Triangle , Gore , Nudity , Bullying , Dissociative Identities , Orphan , Survival , Unrequited Love

Reiraku

Also known as Downfall.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Selling copies is the only thing that matters.

So what if your first series just ended and you have no idea how to start the next one, your marriage is breaking up, your pure love of manga has been destroyed by the cruel reality of the industry and nothing seems to fill the sucking void inside you...

Find the secret combo for a new hit manga series and everything will be okay.

Right?



Tags: Work , Drawing , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Prostitution , Nudity ,

Rikudou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Riku experienced a lot of pain and tragedy in his early life. After his father's death, a former-boxer Yakuza man taught him how to do a basic punch, and that punch saved his life when he had to defend himself from his mom's drug dealer. He ended up taking the drug dealer's life, marking him as a killer. Criminals continued to come after him, leading to more tragedy for the people who attempted to care for him. All of this drove him to ask that same former boxer to teach him to become stronger, which led him to a rundown gym, his door to the world of pro boxing!

Tags: Boxing , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Yakuza , Prostitution , Gore , Time Skip

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

Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

This is a story of a group of college-age people who struggle with gender and sexual identity.

Yuki (nicknamed Yoshiki) is a girl, but she is terrible at 'being feminine.' She mostly dresses like a boy and is often mistaken as one. However, she has to wear a skirt and imagine being dominated by a guy in order to masturbate.

Nagao Mikako seems young and innocent, and she uses that apparent innocence to sell her body as a fake 15-year-old. She knows her youthfulness can't last forever, but she enjoys tricking the men. Her friends have no idea of her sexual habits and believe her to be sweet and sheltered.

Aiba Kaito is a pretty good-looking guy, but he wants to be Nagao Mikako. He often dresses as a girl, picking out clothes that mimic Mikako's style. Though he's into cross-dressing, he is still attracted to women.

Will these young adults and their friends be able to handle their 'guilty secrets' and muddle their way through this confusing period of their lives?



Tags: Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Transgender , Gender Bending , Primarily Adult Cast , Crossdressing , Female Protagonist , Prostitution , LGBTQ+ Themes , College , Yuri , Nudity , Masturbation , Heterosexual , Seinen , School , Gore

Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri

Also known as Gate: Where the JSDF Fought.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

One day in the 21st century, a gate opened in the middle of the Ginza district of Tokyo. Out of the gate poured soldiers and strange creatures, and they soon made Ginza look like an image of hell. The gate apparently connected Japan to another world, a world with a militant empire and many supernatural creatures. The Japanese Self-Defense Force decided to send a small group, led by a soldier who's also an otaku, into the other world on a reconnaissance mission. They're meant to learn what they can about the empire (and its plans), the world, and the people.

They're hardly in the world yet, though, when they come across a village destroyed by a giant fire-breathing dragon. The only survivor is an unconscious elven girl they find hidden in a well. Now they feel like they must warn the nearby towns about the dragon, and do what they can to help. On the way, they'll meet more magical, female companions, and learn more about this dangerous new world.

Tags: Military , Urban Fantasy , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , War , Kemonomimi , Elf , Magic , Seinen , Slavery , Female Harem , Guns , Nudity , Gods , Monster Girl , Monster Boy , Gore , Prostitution , Anachronism , Tanks , Language Barrier , Otaku Culture , Dragons , Medieval , POV

Kiichi!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Left to himself at an early age in the slummiest parts of today’s Japan, Kiichi learns how to survive on his own. As a teenager, how can he adapt to a society whose rules he rejects? Unless he creates his own rules… Kiichi, a raw icon of strength and integrity, stands alone against the world’s injustice and becomes an unforgettable character.

Tags: Conspiracy , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Seinen , Philosophy , Politics , Crime , Bullying , Urban , Orphan , Prostitution , Terrorism , Nudity , Primarily Child Cast , Time Skip , Homeless , Yakuza , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Hikikomori , Aliens , Photography

JK Haru wa Isekai de Shoufu ni Natta

Also known as JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Fantasy , Psychological , Slice of Life

The otaku boys get to have adventures when they’re hit by the inevitable truck and find themselves in yet another fantasy world. The girls, on the other hand…well, Haru finds out the hard way when her classmate Chiba gets the two of them truck-murdered into a fantasy world that treats women even worse than our world does. But a girl’s gotta do what she can to make the cash for survival, and Haru? She intends to thrive.

Note: Chapter count includes four bonus chapters.

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Prostitution , Tragedy , Isekai , Nudity , Acting , Bullying , Super Power

pink

Also known as Pink.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

Pink is a manga about a Japanese girl named Yumi, a beautiful girl in her early 20s. During the day, Yumi works as a regular office lady, but by night, she works as a prostitute. Yumi needs her two jobs to make ends meet. She also needs the extra income to feed her unusual pet, a crocodile, which she keeps in her apartment. Working in an office is quite normal for young Japanese women, but keeping a pet crocodile, and being a prostitute makes Yumi stand out. In truth, few girls are like Yumi, however, many readers can empathize with her. Young women love their "something," symbolized by her pet crocodile, and they can also identify with Yumi's "wild at heart" nature.

Tags: Josei , Prostitution , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Animals , Office Lady , Work

Haruka Tooki Ie

Also known as A Home Far Away.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In the winter of 1990, a young man named Alain finds himself lost and searching for direction. He currently cannot find it at home nor through the church. But when he meets Hayden, a free-spirited cook, he at least finds someone he can relate with. He may not know where his life is going but at least he has someone to lean on. But Alain's new life, filled with new feelings and many new challenging experiences, may force him to find his path on the road...



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Travel , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Fugitive , Religion , Crime , Foreign , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Prostitution , Nudity

Azadarake no Classmate

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

She is always covered in wounds, It is not unusual for her to come to school with bandages. No one in the class wanted anything to do with her. But ...... I couldn't help but notice her. I couldn't stop thinking about that girl....... This is a story about two people from the margins coming together . Notes:
- R18 extras are published on the author's Pixiv Fanbox account.
- An ebook version of the doujin is available for purchase on Amazon as of July 9, 2023.
- A commercial volume under the title "Azadarake no Classmate" (痣だらけのクラスメイト) was released by Kadokawa's Dengeki Comics EX on March 27, 2024.

Tags: Bullying , Time Skip , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Rehabilitation , Primarily Teen Cast , School , POV , Prostitution

Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

"One time a week, I will be the girlfriend of [someone]." A bitter love story depicting the realities of love between female college students who earn money on behalf of her and men attracted by her. The first volume is a young office worker who rents the protagonist snow as a fake girlfriend, and draws a distorted love pattern of sota and snow. A substitute girl who plays the customer and the woman of their ideals to the end... Is the distance between two people's mind really close?

Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Work , Heterosexual , Prostitution , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Fashion , Seinen , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Age Gap , LGBTQ+ Themes , Makeup , Boys' Love

Beageruta

Also known as Die Wergelder.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama

Wergelder: in Germanic law, the money paid by a murderer or his family to the victim’s family in atonement. A mysterious deal goes down on a remote island known as a red-light pleasure district. An insane fight between a blonde sniper and an assassin in a Chinese dress brings up questions about who the players are in this deal. A group of misfit yakuza gets caught in the crossfire while trying to get in on the deal, or at least find out what’s being dealt. At the center of it all is a woman who has been wronged in the worst imaginable ways. She will have her revenge. Eisner award-winning creator of Blade of the Immortal Hiroaki Samura presents a new badass thriller with some very bad ladies!



Tags: Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Martial Arts , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Crime , Assassins , Gore , Prostitution , Foreign , Cult , Cannibalism , Bondage

Yamikin Ushijima-kun

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

In recent years, Japan has become the shining light of Asia, with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of Science and Technology, Medicine and the like.

But while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more who're engaged in a furious struggle simply to earn their day-to-day living expenses -- all the while battling dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism. What will these people do when they require the cash to feed the never-ending desires that are part and parcel of being human? How miserable and dangerous might their lives become if they fall into traps set by black market money-lenders to ensnare just such weak-willed individuals?

Note: Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2011. And the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Social Impact Award in 2020.

Tags: Seinen , Crime , Male Protagonist , Prostitution , Yakuza , Tragedy , Economics , Nudity , Criminal Organization , Delinquents

By Spring

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Souta, a penniless, phoneless, destitute middle schooler, met a high school girl with a stray cat underneath a bridge...
The girl laughed at his minuscule remaining change, and made a surprising proposal with "For this 24 yen of yours, I'll let you buy me," and then...!?

Tags: Seinen , School , Prostitution , Nudity , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle