Best Manga: Top 100+ Good Manga to Read

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High School DxD

High School DxD is a Japanese light novel series written by Ichiei Ishibumi and illustrated by Miyama-Zero. The story centers on Issei Hyodo, a perverted high school student from Kuoh Academy who is killed by his…

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Banana Fish

Banana Fish is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. Serialized in Shōjo Comic from 1985 to 1994 and adapted into an anime television series in 2018, the series follows Ash Lynx, a…

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Ouran High School Host Club

Haruhi Fujioka is a scholarship student at the prestigious Ouran Academy, a fictitious high school for rich kids located in Bunkyo, Tokyo. Looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles upon the abandoned Third Music Room, a…

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My Hero Academia

My Hero Academia (Japanese: 僕のヒーローアカデミア Hepburn: Boku no Hīrō Akademia) is a superhero[9] manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized…

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Tokyo Ghoul

The story follows Kaneki Ken, a college student who barely survives a deadly encounter with Rize Kamishiro, his date who reveals herself as a ghoul. He is taken to the hospital in critical condition. After recovering, Kaneki discovers that he…

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One Piece

One Piece (Japanese: ワンピース Hepburn: Wan Pīsu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shōnen…

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Hunter X Hunter

The story follows a young boy named Gon Freecss, who was told all his life that both his parents were dead. But when he learns from Kite, an apprentice of his father Ging Freecss, that he is still alive and has since become an accomplished…

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Death Note

Death Note (Japanese: デスノート Hepburn: Desu Nōto) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The story follows Light Yagami, a high school…

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Haikyuu!!

Junior high school student Shōyō Hinata gains a sudden love of volleyball after seeing a national championship match on TV. Although short in height, he becomes determined to follow in the footsteps of a star player, nicknamed the…

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No Game No Life

Sora and Shiro are two hikikomori step-siblings who are known in the online gaming world as Blank, an undefeated group of gamers. One day, they are challenged to a game of chess by Tet, a god from another…

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Steins;Gate

Steins;Gate is set in 2010 in Akihabara, Tokyo, and follows Rintaro Okabe, a self-proclaimed “mad scientist”, who runs the “Future Gadget Laboratory” in an apartment together with his friends Mayuri Shiina and Itaru…

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Noragami

Hiyori Iki is a normal middle school student until she was involved in a bus accident while trying to protect a stranger. This incident causes her soul to frequently slip out of her body, and she becomes aware of the existence of two parallel…

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST Hepburn: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Furumetaru Arukemisuto) is an anime series adapted from the Fullmetal…

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One-Punch Man

One-Punch Man (Japanese: ワンパンマン Hepburn: Wanpanman) is an ongoing Japanese superhero webcomic created by ONE[5] which began publication in early 2009.[6] The series quickly…

15

Kimi no Na wa (Your Name)

High school girl Mitsuha Miyamizu lives in the town of Itomori in Japan’s mountainous Hida region. She is bored with the country life, and wishes to be a handsome boy in her next life. She begins switching…

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Hajime no Ippo

Ippo Makunouchi was an extremely shy high school student, unable to make friends due to always being busy helping his mother run their family fishing charter business. Because he kept to himself, a group of bullies led by Umezawa got into the habit…

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Fruits Basket

When high school student Tohru Honda’s mother dies in a car crash, Tohru decides to live with her grandfather. Renovations on the house and unsupportive and unkind family members cause her to move out of her grandfather’s house…

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Berserk

Guts (ガッツ Gattsu) is a wandering mercenary who has known war and death since he was born from a hanged corpse and saved by his adopted mother, who died from the plague when he was only three years old. He was raised and trained…

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Durarara!!

Mikado Ryūgamine, a young boy who longs for the exciting life of the big city, moves to Ikebukuro to attend Raira Academy with his childhood friend Masaomi Kida, whom he has not seen since he was young. After the two meet at the train…

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Overlord

In the year 2126, a Dive Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game or DMMORPG called Yggdrasil was released. It stands out among all other DMMORPGs due to its unusually high ability for the player to interact with the game. After an intense…

21

Aria: the Scarlet Ammo

The setting of the story features “Butei”, a national qualification established to counter worsening crime conditions around the world. The Butei holders were trained in various specialized fields, and were permitted to possess various…

22

Skip Beat!

Skip Beat! follows the story of Kyoko Mogami, a sixteen-year-old girl who loves her childhood friend, Shotaro Fuwa, but is betrayed by him. Having spent a large part of her childhood at Shotaro’s parents’ inn, she learned a great…

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Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso/Your Lie in April

Piano prodigy Kōsei Arima dominates various music competitions and becomes famous among child musicians, but also controversial. When his mother Saki dies suddenly, he has a mental breakdown while performing at a piano recital which resulted in him…

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Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

After being secluded for his entire life, a boy called Aladdin travels the world with his “friend” Ugo, the Djinn contained within Aladin’s flute, until he meets Alibaba Saluja, a young man aiming to one day explore the nearby…

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Fullmetal Alchemist

Fullmetal Alchemist (Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師 Hepburn: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, lit. ”Alchemist of Steel”) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu…

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Mob Psycho 100

Shigeo Kageyama is an average middle school boy, nicknamed Mob (meaning “background character”) for lacking a sense of presence. Although he looks like an inconspicuous person, he is in fact a powerful esper. As he grows older, Mob…

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Fate/Zero

The story of Fate/Zero takes place ten years prior to the events of Fate/stay night, detailing the events of the Fourth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City.[5] The Holy Grail War is a contest, founded by the Einzbern, Matou, and…

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Dragon Ball

The series begins with a young monkey-tailed boy named Goku befriending a teenage girl named Bulma. Together they go on a quest to find the seven Dragon Balls (ドラゴンボール), which summons the dragon Shenron to…

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Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal

While a raid of bandits slay a group of travelers, a young boy named Shinta is saved from death by a passing swordsman. The swordsman, known as Hiko Seijūrō, is a master of the Hiten Mitsurugi, the strongest of all sword forms. After seeing…

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Gin Tama

The story is set in an alternate late-Edo period, where humanity is attacked by aliens called “Amanto”, and the samurai of Japan join the battle against the aliens, but when the shōgun realizes the power of aliens, he betrays the…

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Yosuga No Sora

Tragically orphaned by a car accident, the Kasugano twins travel to their grandparents’ countryside residence via railcar, hoping to reconstruct the shards of a shattered life. Two lonely souls so physically alike, yet spiritually divergent,…

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Akatsuki No Yona

Set in a fictional place that draws inspiration from a mixture of Japanese, Korean and Chinese cultures, the story follows the redemption of Yona, the sole princess to the Kingdom of Kouka. Yona lives the carefree life of a princess in Hiryuu…

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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable

Set in 1999, 11 years after the events of Stardust Crusaders, Jotaro Kujo tracks down Josuke Higashikata, the illegitimate son of Joseph Joestar, to help him find a magical bow and arrow which grants people Stand powers. Along the way, Josuke…

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Diamond no Ace Act II

The series follows one Eijun Sawamura, a baseball pitcher with a very unusual change of pitch that has occurred naturally. Sawamura plans to go with his friends to a local high school and play baseball to the best of their abilities. However, one…

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Spice and Wolf

Spice and Wolf’s story revolves around Kraft Lawrence, a 25-year-old traveling merchant who peddles various goods from town to town to make a living in a stylized, fictional world, with a historical setting with European…

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Violet Evergarden

The story revolves around Auto Memory Dolls (Jidō Shuki Ningyō): people initially employed by a scientist named Dr. Orland to assist his blind wife Mollie in writing her novels, and later rented out to other people who needed their services. In…

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Made in Abyss

The story is centered around an orphaned girl named Riko who lives in the Belchero Orphanage, which is located in the town of Orth on an island in the sea of Beoluska. The town surrounds a strange, giant hole going deep into the earth, which is…

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Slam Dunk

Hanamichi Sakuragi is a delinquent and the leader of a gang. Sakuragi is very unpopular with girls, having been rejected an astonishing fifty times. In his first year at Shohoku High School, he meets Haruko Akagi, the girl of his dreams, and is…

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One Outs

The Saitama Lycaons are the weakest team in the Japanese league. Hiromichi Kojima, the Lycaons’ star batter, forms a training camp in Okinawa to try for his last attempt at a championship after 21 years. When the minor league pitcher training…

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Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Subaru Natsuki is a hikikomori who does nothing but play games. One night, after visiting a convenience store, he is suddenly summoned to another world. With no sign of who summoned him, he soon befriends a silver-haired half-elf…

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Nana

Nana Komatsu has a habit of falling in love at first sight all the time, and depending on other people to help her. When her friends, and then her boyfriend, leave for Tokyo, she decides to join them a year later after having saved enough money…

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Ashita no Joe

Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxingtrainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, leader of a group…

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JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run

Steel Ball Run (Hepburn: Sutīru Bōru Ran) is the reboot and seventh story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Set in 1890, it stars Gyro Zeppeli, a disgraced former…

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Umineko: When They Cry

Umineko no Naku Koro ni is primarily set on October 4, 1986 on Rokkenjima, a small island privately owned by the wealthy Ushiromiya family.[2] The Ushiromiya family gathers for the annual family conference, which concerns the division of assets…

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Monster (manga)

Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a young Japanese brain surgeon, working at Eisler Memorial Hospital in Düsseldorf. Tenma is dissatisfied with the political bias of the hospital in treating patients, and seizes the chance to change things after a…

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Kino’s Journey

In Kino’s Journey, the protagonist, Kino, accompanied by a talking motorcycle named Hermes, travels through a mystical world of many different countries and forests, each unique in its customs and people. She only spends three days and…

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Yakusoku no Neverland

Set in year 2045, Emma is an 11-year-old orphan living in Grace Field House, a small orphanage housing her and her 37 siblings. Life had never been better; with food that tasted gourmet, plush beds, snow-white uniforms, the love of their…

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Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!

Following an untimely and embarrassing death, Kazuma Satō, a Japanese teenager shut-inNEET, meets a goddess named Aqua, who offers to reincarnate him in a parallel world with MMORPG elements, where he can go on adventures…

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Akira

On December 6, 1982, an apparent nuclear explosion destroys Tokyo and starts World War III. By 2019, a new city called Neo-Tokyo has been built on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay. Although Neo-Tokyo is set to host…

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Vinland Saga

Vinland Saga is set in England starting in 1013 AD, the year in which the Danish King Sweyn Forkbeard conquered most of it. As King Sweyn nears death, his sons, Prince Harald and Prince Canute, are arguing over his…

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Monogatari Series: First Season

Koyomi Araragi catches Hitagi Senjōgahara as she falls down from a great height, and he immediately notices that Hitagi weighs little to nothing; however he does not mention this to her. Later he asks Tsubasa Hanekawa, the class chairman, about…

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Oyasumi Punpun

Goodnight Punpun (Hepburn: Oyasumi Punpun) is a manga written and illustrated by Inio Asano, published between March 2007 and November 2013. A drama story, it follows the life of a normal child named Onodera Punpun, from his…

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March Comes In Like A Lion

The series is set in Tokyo, following the everyday life of a 17-year-old shōgi player, Rei (lit. “Zero”).[3] Umino based the setting of March Comes in like a Lion on research she conducted herself, whereas…

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Pandora Hearts

Oz is the heir to the Vessalius house, one of the Four Great Dukedoms given excessive power by the country’s royalty. He lives a luxurious life alongside his younger sister Ada and valet and best friend Gilbert. This extravagant lifestyle is…

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Mushishi

Mushishi is set in an imaginary time between the Edo and Meiji periods, featuring some 19th-century technology but with Japan still as a “closed country”.[5] The story features ubiquitous creatures called…

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Hyouka

At the request of his older sister, student Hotaro Oreki joins Kamiyama High School’s Classic Literature Club to stop it from being abolished, joined by fellow members Eru Chitanda, Satoshi Fukube and Mayaka Ibara. The story is set in Kamiyama…

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ReLIFE

If one day you were offered a pill that could make you a high school student again, would you consider taking it? Well, for the main character Kaizaki Arata it did not take too long to agree. Despite being a young 27-year-old guy he is already…

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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

Student council president Miyuki Shirogane and vice-president Kaguya Shinomiya appear to be the perfect couple. Kaguya is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate family, and Miyuki is the top student at the school and well-known across the…

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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin

The plot of the manga follows somewhat closely to the plot of the original series. It is the year Universal Century 0079, and the eighth month of a vicious war between the Earth Federation and a breakaway nation of space colonists, the…

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Chikan Otoko

Molester Man is a perverted, socially inept otaku who spends most of his time on the textboard 2ch. One day, on the way home from his part-time job, he is mistaken for a stalker and arrested. After clearing the misunderstanding, Molester Man learns…

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Sakamichi no Apollon

Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job, so the first day at his new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual and the new transfer student, he has always been seen as an outcast,…

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Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu

A 34-year-old Japanese NEET is kicked out of his house following the death of his parents. He intercepts a speeding truck heading towards a group of teenagers and pulls one of them out of the way before dying. Awakening in a baby’s…

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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō is set in a peaceful, post-cataclysmic world where mankind is in decline after an environmental disaster. Exactly what happened is never explained, but sea levels have risen significantly, inundating coastal…

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Classroom of the Elite

In the not too distant future, the Japanese government has established the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing School, dedicated to instruct and foster the generation of people that will support the country in the future. The students are given a…

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Suzumiya Haruhi Series

Kyon is a student at North High School in Nishinomiya. He is dragged along by his classmate, the titular character Haruhi Suzumiya, an eccentric schoolgirl who seeks supernatural phenomena and figures such as aliens, time travelers,…

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The Twelve Kingdoms

The Twelve Kingdoms (Jūni Kokuki, also known as “Record of 12 Countries” or “Jūni Kokki”) is a Japanese series of fantasy novels written by Fuyumi Ono and illustrated by Akihiro Yamada. The first entry in the series…

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Shimanami Tasogare

The story takes place in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture. Tasuku Kaname’s classmates discover he was watching ‘gay porn’, and the boy, scared of being outed, considers commiting suicide. Before he does it, he sees a woman, called…

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Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

High school student Chiyo Sakura has a crush on schoolmate Umetarō Nozaki. When she confesses her love to him, he mistakes her for a fan and gives her an autograph. When she says she wants to be with him, he invites her to his house and has her…

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Phoenix (manga)

Phoenix is about reincarnation. Each story generally involves a search for immortality, embodied by the blood of the eponymous bird of fire, which, as drawn by Tezuka, resembles the Fenghuang. The blood is believed to grant…

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The Breaker

Chunwoo Han is a martial artist who earned the title of Nine Arts Dragon from the Murim, a secret martial arts society that exists in harmony with modern society. The Murim’s government is the Martial Arts Alliance who has garnered…

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Blue Submarine No. 6

The story sets in the distant future, when the Earth’s oceans have risen and flooded most of the sea-lying land on Earth. The rogue scientist Zorndyke caused the flooding, which killed countless individuals, and most of humanity’s…

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Shinsetsu Ookami to Koushinryou: Ookami to Youhishi

The beginning of a new adventure! Featuring Myuri, Lawrence and Holo’s daughter, the world of Spice and Wolf opens anew! Shinsetsu Ookami to Koushinryou: Ookami to Youhishi has been published in English as Wolf & Parchment: New Theory…

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Otoyomegatari

A Bride’s Story (Hepburn: Otoyomegatari) is a historical romance manga by Kaoru Mori. It is published by Enterbrain in the magazine Harta (previously called Fellows!), and is so far collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. The manga is…

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Spirit Circle

Fuuta Okeya is a high school student who can see ghosts and has a strange mark on his cheek, that he hides. When in the class arrives a new student, Kouko Ishigami, with a scar on her forehead and accompanied by a ghost named East his tranquillity…

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Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai

Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: “Living with…

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Pluto

Pluto follows the Europol robot detective Gesicht in his attempts to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths around the world, all the victims have objects shoved into or positioned by their heads, imitating horns. The case becomes…

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Dorohedoro

The plot centers on a man named Kaiman and his search for his real identity, after a transformation by a magic-user left him with a reptile’s head and no memory of his former life. Along with his female friend Nikaido, he violently assaults…

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The Gift of the Magi

On Christmas night, with only $1.87 in hand, and desperate to find a gift for Jim, Della sells her hair for $20 to a nearby hairdresser named Madame Sofronie, and eventually finds a platinum pocket watch fob chain for Jim’s…

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Kakukaku Shikajika

Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey, known in Japan as Kakukaku Shikajika, is an autobiographicaljoseimanga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s Cocohana manga magazine…

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Real

The story revolves around three teenagers: Nomiya Tomomi, a high school dropout, Togawa Kiyoharu, an ex-sprinter who now plays wheelchair basketball and Takahashi Hisanobu, a popular leader of the high school’s basketball team who…

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Bastard

In Bastard!!, the Kingdom of Meta-Licana is attacked by the Four Lords of Havoc. This prompts the high priest to ask his daughter to awaken Dark Schneider, a wizard and former leader of the Riders, from within the body of 14-year-old Luche…

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Zaregoto (series)

The story revolves around a narrator whose name is never mentioned and the mysteries he encounters, but after the second book, the series comes with more and more fighting and action. The narrator tends to try in vain to keep out of the story, but…

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Beck

Yukio Tanaka, known as “Koyuki” by his friends, is a regular 14-year-old Japanese boy starting eighth grade in junior high school. His boring life is changed when he saves an odd-looking dog, named Beck, from some kids. Beck’s…

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Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

Having lasted merely two weeks, World War III has come to an end. Both Accelerator and Hamazura Shiage have returned home to the people they cherish most after overcoming their individual conflicts. The world is at peace and Academy City continues…

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Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu

The story is staged in the distant future within our own Milky Way Galaxy, starting in SE 796/IC 487/AD 3596. A portion of the galaxy is filled with terraformed worlds inhabited by interstellar traveling human beings. For 150 years two mighty…

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Lone Wolf and Cub

Ogami Ittō, formidable warrior and a master of the suiō-ryū swordsmanship, serves as the Kogi Kaishakunin (the Shōgun’s executioner), a position of high power in the Tokugawa shogunate. Along with…

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Natsume

For as long as he can remember, Takashi Natsume has had the ability to see spirits, inheriting the power from his grandmother Reiko Natsume. This ability resulted in his having a lonely childhood because children his age considered him strange. He…

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WorldEnd

It’s been over 500 years since the human race almost went extinct at the hands of the fearsome and mysterious “Beasts”. The surviving races now make their homes, towns, and cities up on floating islands in the sky to keep out of…

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Monogatari Series: Final Season

The arc opens with Koyomi Araragi and Shinobu Oshino musing about the true nature of Shikigami doll Yotsugi Ononoki. Koyomi supposes that as an apparition, Yotsugi isn’t well suited to life among humans, in spite of her attempts at being…

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Houseki no Kuni

In a place inhabited by jewels that take the form of people, Phosphophyllite (Phos) is weak (with one of the lowest hardnesses) and considered useless by their peers. Phos asks their aloof but wise colleague Cinnabar for help after they receive…

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Monogatari Series: Second Season

It’s the beginning of the second semester and on her way to the first day of school, Tsubasa has a short meeting with Mayoi who reveals that she has just came from Koyomi’s house where she forgot her backpack, but could not retrieve it…

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Uchuu Kyoudai

In the summer of 2006, Mutta Nanba and his younger brother, Hibito, witness what they believe to be a UFO, which flies off towards the moon. Hibito decides he will go onto the moon whilst Mutta decides he will aim for Mars. Nineteen years later, in…

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Koe no Katachi

The story revolves around Shoya Ishida, a former delinquent who bullied Shoko Nishimiya, his deaf classmate, alongside his friends back when he was in elementary school. When Nishimiya transferred, all of his friends and teachers turned against him,…

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Great Teacher Onizuka

Eikichi Onizuka is a 22-year-old ex-gang member and a virgin. While peeping up girls’ skirts at a local shopping mall, Onizuka meets a girl who agrees to go out on a date with him. Onizuka’s attempt to sleep with her fails when…

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Yotsuba to!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba%26!Yotsuba&! is centered on Yotsuba Koiwai, a five-year-old[8] adopted girl who is energetic, cheerful, curious, odd, and quirky — so much so that even her own father calls her strange. She is also…

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Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä

Nausicaä is the princess of the Valley of the Wind, a state on the periphery of what was once known as Eftal, a kingdom destroyed by the Sea of Corruption, a poisonous forest, 300 years ago. An inquisitive young woman, she explores the…

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Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru

The story follows two loners: the pragmatic Hachiman Hikigaya and beautiful Yukino Yukinoshita, who, despite their varying personalities and ideals, offer help and advice to others as part of their school’s Service Club, assisted by the…

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Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria

The story revolves around a carefree boy named Kazuki Hoshino, who is intensely attached to his normal daily life, and Aya Otonashi, who suddenly transfers into his class for the 13,118th time and declares her goal to “break” him…

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20th Century Boys

In 1969, young boys Kenji, Otcho, Yoshitsune and Maruo build, in an empty field, a hideout they call their secret base, in which they and their friends can get together to share manga and stolen pornographic magazines and listen to a radio. To…

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Kingdom

Kingdom (Kingudamu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhisa Hara. The manga provides a fictionalized account of the Warring States period primarily through the experiences of the war orphan Xin and his comrades as he…

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