Kikai Banashi Hanasaka Ikkyuu; A Mysterious Tale of Wits - Ikkyuu in Bloom; Kikai Tonchi Banashi Hanasaka Ikkyuu; Kikai Tonchibanashi - Hanasaka Ikkyuu; Kikai-Banashi Hanasaka Ikkyuu; 奇怪とんち噺 花咲一休; 奇怪噺 花咲一休; 花咲一休
Comedy, Historical, Mystery, Shounen
15
1
2
May 23, 2024
Description of the oneshot Kikai Tonchi Banashi Hanasaka Ikkyuu
One-shot published in Weekly Shounen Jump.
Long, long ago, there lived an eccentric spirit. One who ate the souls of humans and loved "riddles". He would ask anyone who crossed his path sadistic "questions", and if they returned a "stupid answer", they would have their souls eaten without a moment's delay. On the other hand, if they answered with "wit", the spirit would grant a single wish, regardless of what it was. There was a bald, witty genius of a boy who responded magnificently to the spirit's "question". His wish was for the spirit to possess him for the rest of his life!
Description of the serialization Kikai Banashi Hanasaka Ikkyuu:
There once was an ayakashi called Karma who challenged his victims to a battle of wits. If the subject succeeded, the ayakashi would grant them one wish, but if they lost, he would devour their soul. At the same time, there was a young monk called Hanasaku Ikkyuu, who was famed for his cleverness. He used to eagerly sharpen his mind, solving challenging riddles sent to him, until his mother fell ill. When he found that his cleverness was of no use in helping her, he gave it up.
Karma seeks out Ikkyuu, eager to best him in a battle of wits and consume his soul. One day, Ikkyuu rescued a young beggar boy, only to see him fall ill with a mysterious illness. That same day, Karma finally finds Ikkyuu and offers him his dangerous bargain. Thanks to Karma, will Ikkyuu finally have a way to use his cleverness to help the people around him?
The door to Kingdom Hearts was sealed, dealing a blow to the heartless and restoring the worlds to normal, but Riku and King Mickey were trapped inside! Now Sora, Donald, and Goofy's search for their friends leads them to the mysterious Castle Oblivion, where a hooded figure tells them, "Ahead lies something you need, but to claim it, you must lose something dear." What could be more dear than their very memories themselves? And what do the shadowy members of Organization XIII want with them?
いばらの王 ; 古城荆棘王 ; 古城荊棘王 ; Ibara no Oh ; Ibara no Ou ; König der Dornen ; King of Thorns
Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-fi, Seinen, Tragedy
96
1
9
May 23, 2024
Two twins, separated by fatal illness and a selective cure. Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim to stone. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to go into a sort of cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the undetermined future, Kasumi awakens to find herself and others who were in suspended animation in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Resolving to unlock the mysteries of her current situation and the fate of her twin sister, Kasumi struggles to survive in a treacherous world.
The Summit of the Gods; Gipfel der Götter; La cumbre de los dioses; La Vetta Degli; Le Sommet des Dieux; 神々の山嶺; 神之山岭; Kamigami no Itadaki; Вершина богов; भगवानहरूको शिखर
From Blackout:
In a small Nepalese shop, Fukamachi stumbles across a camera which may well be that of George Mallory, the celebrated mountain climber who was the first to attempt to conquer Everest. Mallory disappeared along with Andrew Irvine, during the course of their ascent in 1924, without leaving any indication of whether they reached the summit or not. So what if it was only on their return trip that they had their fatal accident.
In the near future, large mechs called Labors are made to assist in various reconstruction projects in major countries around the world that are being threatened by global warming. In Japan, the government has enacted Project Babylon in order to conduct land reclamation.
However, terrorists are now attempting to use labors to make themselves heard, as well as common criminals, thugs and guerrillas. The National Police Agency established the Special Vehicles Division, an all-labor task force to combat the potential use of labors for criminal/terrorist activities.
Twins Kanba and Shoma live with their terminally ill little sister, Himari. One day, they visit the aquarium, a place full of warm memories for Himari, but she suddenly falls ill—and dies! At that very moment, a voice cries out, “Survival Tactic!” and Himari, wearing a penguin hat, comes back to life…?!
白奪のマスカレイド ; Masquerede of White Deprivation ; Shiro Datsu no Masukareido
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Shoujo
15
1
1
May 22, 2024
From AQUA Scans:
Elite Development Education Academy, Noblesse Oblige. The grandson of the academy's chairman, promised heir as the next chairman, Inaba Hakuto. The kind-hearted, younger brother who supports him, Inaba Kokuto. However, with the chairman's death, the fate of the twins begins to greatly warp. The one who holds the key is, the demon who resides in the mask... Masquerade...
This is the story of a prince, Izegole, the sixth son of the Agon family. The family that years ago took control of all the 500 villages of their continent. Izegole and his brothers and sisters are in charge of security in all the villages while the king, their father, takes care of politics. But one day everything changes, when a killer is sent to kill Izegole, a God comes to Earth with a secret mission and one after an other, his World, all that he considers important crumbles before him and leaving him but with hobson's choice: fight or fall? What will he choose?
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Love-Eating Girl / 恋喰少女 / Koibami shoujo / Las Chicas Devoradoras de Amor / Devoradoras de Amor / Голодные до любви девушки / Luyến Thực Nữ
Comedy, Mystery, Romance, School Life
1.5K
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January 7, 2026
Afraid of women, high school student, Ooishi Kyou. Five girls suddenly confessed to him. Among them, four are creatures called "Koibami" that devour human romantic feelings. If he has his romantic feelings eaten by these girls, he will never be able to love again. However, he cannot abandon the feelings of the one who confessed to him for real - Kyou decides to find the one he truly loves among the five! A brain-shaking, romantic comedy suspense begins.
Jae is a Korean student who came to Europe to study art. Things aren't going her way, but she's determined to make it. One night, her friend Melissa brings a drunk guy to her apartment and asks if he can stay there for the night. Jae doesn't like it, but agrees. That night she has a dream that the drunk guy drinks her blood...which, of course, turns out NOT to be a dream.
Jae is surprisingly unafraid of the vampire, Michael, and starts to paint his portrait. The two strike an unusual deal: if Jae allows the vampire to feed on her, he will pose for her. His beauty and alluring preternatural energy could be exactly what Jae needs to finally succeed as a painter.
Creator's Info
So-young Lee made her manga debut in 1994. Her best-known works includeModel, God of Death, and Check. A painter, she gets her inspiration from nature, especially flowers.
From INKR: During the dark of night, mysterious and horrific events occur right under our noses. The few unlucky people who experience such events either come out forever changed or never return. A series of cautionary tales about humans and their meeting with the supernatural
Motoba Hitachi has lived a boring high school life, until his kouhai invited him to a real-life simulation event of Incubate Castle, an online game they both played. But, what seemed like a harmless replication of the game turned out to be as real as it could get. Now, Hitachi must find allies to get out and survive this reality of a game.
From ADV:
Ray was bred and raised to be a living, breathing organ donor. After her own eyes were taken from her, a stranger bestows upon her the gift of sight and something extra - she has X-Ray vision! Ten years later, Ray works as a nurse and moonlights as an underground medical doctor performing for-profit, off-the-book medical procedures. But her daily routine is interrupted by a chance encounter with an old friend that triggers Ray's memories of her hellish childhood. Ray will begin a search that will lead her back to the people who stole her eyes-and her childhood!
Two young men vow to transform the destiny of Japan, by any means. As children, they survived the horrors of the Cambodian killing fields together. Now, can they topple the leaders of both the Japanese Parliament and the yakuza crime syndicate?
Although cold and calculating when need be, Hojo and Asami exemplify the traits their colleagues lack: loyalty to friends, compassion for the downtroden...and an irresistible way with women.
Deputy Police Chief Ishihara sets out to expose their ingenious machinations, but instead falls helplessly in love with Hojo...
Persona Tsumi To Bachi ; Persona: Crime & Punishment; Persona: Sin & Divine Punishment; Persona: Tsumi to Batsu; ペルソナ 罪と罰; Persona: Sin & Punishment; Persona: Una Substantia
Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Demons, Monsters, Mystery, Philosophical, School Life, Sci-fi, Shounen, Slice of Life, Supernatural
88
1
3
May 21, 2024
Kazumi thought he was good friends with a boy he had known for ten years, Rihito. One day, while they were out in town together looking for a shop selling masks for their school's masquerade ball, Rihito suddenly disappears. Kazumi drops out of school and starts looking for him, and will soon set foot in a totally new world.
Sequel to Kindaichi
Kindaichi (frequently with best-bud, Miyuki) travels to various places where a murder has taken place, typically involving ghosts, curses, myths and folklore of significant events from the distant past, and solves the mystery using ingenious deductions of curious clues and his cool magic.
Drama, Historical, Horror, Mystery, School Life, Shoujo
15
1
3
May 20, 2024
Identical twins Jeanie and Amber are new students at Greenwich Private College, that lies on the edge of virgin bushlands. The school is run by its vice-principal, who has a prejudice against twins - in fact she rejects all twins' applications.The girls are only able to get in by saying that they are just regular sisters,born 11 months apart.
From Blackout:
Yamagami is a small hamlet in Kyuushuu, the mountainous region in the south of Japan. Today, this village is inhabited only by old people still living in the rhythm of tradition and communion with nature. The return of one of the village youths, pursued by yakuza, will overturn life in this little world, spared until now from modernization. These sinister gangsters intend to seize this enchanted spot and trash it. Will Yamagami come to experience the harshness of the modern world?
Susumu Hayashi, his twin brother Tsutomu and Sakura Toyama are childhood friends. Tsutomu disappeared when he was ten years old. Then two years later, he reappeared—this time only in front of Susumu. And what’s more, from inside a mirror! Now, events that no one has ever experienced take place in this bizarre love triangle!!
Aoyama’s love story starts off with a twist: The twin brothers Susumu and Tsutomu have been friends with the girl Sakura since they were kids. But when Tsutomu mysteriously disappears at the age of ten, Susumu and Sakura begin to drift apart. What Sakura doesn’t know: Tsutomu has returned, not as a person, but as the mirror image of Susumu. That is, whenever Susumu looks in a mirror, he sees his brother who talks to him. Thus begins a bizarre love triangle between Sakura, who torments the poor Susumu as much as she is being tormented by her peers, Susumu, who keeps thinking he has to save Sakura because he likes her, and Tsutomu, who despite being stuck in a mirror pulls everyone’s strings.
Aoyama’s lively narrative and her beautifully rich artwork lend this strange story a surprisingly charming touch. Considering that SWWEEET is her first series, it’s amazing how well she did her job. From the paneling to the layout to the pacing, everything is excellently executed. If you like unusual and exotic youth love stories, you should definitely give SWWEEET a try.
よろず屋東海道本舗 ; Yorozuya Toukaidou Honpo ; The Great Cases of Yorozuya Toukaidou ; Satisfaction Guaranteed
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Shoujo
20
1
0
May 20, 2024
From Tokyopop:
Shima and Kaori are two teenage detectives who have their own odd-jobs agency, Anything Inc. If they take your case, you know your satisfaction will be guaranteed! Shima is a smart kid with a knack for solving other people’s problems. He’s recently lost his parents to an arson’s fire. Now the sight of fire makes him cringe, often reducing the super sleuth into a pool of tears. Kaori, a supermodel, seems an unlikely partner for Shima, but they’ve been best friends since Kaori hired the junior Sherlock to rid him of a troublesome stalker. For some reason, Shima is comfortable mourning in front of the handsome Kaori; on his end, Kaori trusts Shima to help him suppress his over-aggressive modeling persona, Kyo.
Comedy, Mystery, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural
13
1
2
May 20, 2024
Rikushou Mikoto is a transfer student with a habit of talking to trees and a knack for handling horses. When a person starts making trouble, Mikoto is determined to catch him. As she tries, she not only stumbles on the school secret, but becomes a part of it!
The adventures of Agent Z, the newest recruit to Major Eberbach's alphabet soup of subordinates. These stories take place in the Eroica universe, but they are serious espionage adventure tales and Dorian and his crew do not appear.
The year is 1916. Saya and Hagi are entrusted with their first mission in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. The grand battle between Men and Chiropterans ensues in the Romanov Imperial court on the night before the Revolution!
From Stage Storm:
Venice, 17th century. Safinia lives a simple and happy life with her father, a renowned artisan and his apprentice Angelo. Everything changes when a man named Ricardo Carrá comes looking for her saying the rich Poliziano family wants her as the lady's companion who has "a weak constitution". However there's more to it than it seems and after her refusal, her father is mysteriously accused of robbery...
From Tokyopop:
Makoto Kubota wandered through life, not taking things too seriously or looking too deep within himself. His job as the head of the Izumo Group's youth gang kept him pleasantly occupied with yakuza wars, mahjong and assassinations... Until the day he stumbled upon a strange drug called Wild Adapter that produces bizarre side-effects--including death. Forever changed, Kubota becomes entangled with a drifter named Minoru Tokito, and the two form an unlikely companionship that draws them deeper into the mystery of Wild Adapter...
Venus Versus Virus revolves around the life of the young girls named Sumire Takahana and Lucia Nahashi, who met as Sumire mysteriously discovered Lucia's secrets at the Venus Vanguard, a group who hunts demons called "Virus" led by Lucia's adopted father Nahashi. Now, while accepting jobs from people who find the Venus Vanguard brochure, they fight off the “Virus” while seeking their true roots and motives, and for that, Lucia finds that Sumire can be a lot more useful than she seems.
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch
Umineko No Naku Koro Ni Episode 1 Legend Of The Golden Witch ; Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch; うみねこのなく頃に Episode1:Legend of the golden witch; Umineko No Naku Koro Ni Episodio 1: La Leggenda Della Strega Dorata
Based on the visual novel of the same name. In 1986, between October 4th and 5th, members of the Ushiromiya family gather on the secluded island of Rokkenjima to discuss the division of the family's massive fortune upon the impending death of the family's head, Kinzo. However, when a typhoon traps the eighteen people present on the island, six people are mysteriously murdered. The remaining people struggle to survive as the murders continue, supposedly by the will of the legendary Golden Witch, Beatrice.
Other manga:
From Dark Horse:
In a strange future where gifted, "hybrid" humans police the planet, Mina is a likeable tomboy with growing psychic powers. When a young boy falls into a coma after gazing into her eyes, it's clear that there's more to Mina than her pretty looks. This young boy, Inchang, grows up to be quite a daredevil, and his awkward, secret love for Mina fuels his protective fire when mysterious men arrive, bringing the violence of the "hybrid" world with them!
Soko starts feeling sick soon after moving to a new city, apparently for no reason. As beautiful as she is, a lot of guys start to bother her, especially Kashi. While trying to rape her, Kashi disappears and after a few days another guy shows up pretending to be Kashi. And everyone but Soko believes him!He tells her he is Akira the Byakko, from the family of the West. Because she is the reincarnation of Souryo, the queen of the Oni from the family of the East, a monster that eats humans to stay alive, he must destroy her and erase her genes from Earth. He is the only one who can kill her and the one that must do so. Soko is desperate. Is she really a monster? Why does she have human memories? Why does she have to die? Will she be able to change her destiny and stay alive? from SIH
Suicide Circle; Cercle du Suicide; دائرة الإنتحار; 自殺サークル; Suicide Club; Jisatsu Circle
Adaptation, Drama, Horror, Mature, Mystery, School Life, Slice of Life, Survival, Tragedy
71
1
1
May 19, 2024
A disturbing manga inspired by an even more disturbing movie of the same name (aka Suicide Club). As you might expect, they both deal with the theme of suicide. However, the plots of the manga and movie are significantly different, so don't wory about spoilers and such. Finally, I'd just like to point out that the manga isn't for the faint of heart, and the movie even more so.
Robert Cornelius is a master artisan renowned the world over as an expert in the crafting of "GEM", a brand of dolls who are humanoid in size, shape, and movement.
Before he passes away, Cornelius destroys his house and his workshop, only leaving behind, in his grandson Frants' name, a journal, a key, and an elegantly crafted GEM named "Jade".
But as Frants is soon to find out, a skilled craftsman's work is never safe from those who covet it...
Farelerin Zamanı; The Hour of the Mice; ハツカネズミの時間; 白老鼠游戏
Drama, Mystery, Seinen
12
1
2
May 19, 2024
From Kotonoha:
Maki Takano and his three best friends Ryo, Natsume and Mei are students at a private academy for highly gifted children. Like all the other students of this isolated and heavily guarded school, they have never seen the outside world since they were brought to the school at the young age of three.
When a new female student named Kiriko Hinatsu arrives, Maki has the strange feeling that he has met her before. However, he seems to be the only person who can remember the girl. When he confronts her with his discovery, Kiriko reveals the unbelievable truth about their existence: The school they have been living at all this time is actually an experimental facility and all the students are but guinea pigs who are being used for sophisticated neurological experiments.
Maki now has to decide: Will he continue his false but sheltered life or will he help Kiriko escape even if that means putting himself and his mental health at risk?
Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Mystery, Seinen, Slice of Life
12
1
4
May 19, 2024
Teshigawara Saki is a high school girl who lives in Roppongi with her perverted father and grandfather. Though she may seem like an ordinary girl, she has the extraordinary ability to open any kind of lock. Saki uses this ability for whoever asks, regardless of whether they are the police or yakuza. But with the organized crime situation worsening in Roppongi, this openness may end up getting Saki more involved than she would like...
A scientist finds a brain in an alley and implants it into the body of his beloved, Nina. It turns out the brain belonged to a boy, Misumi Yutaka, and he is none too happy to find himself in a female body. What happened to Yutaka's body and why was his brain in the middle of an alley? What will happen to "Nina" when the female parts of "her" body start to have an effect on "his" mind? You'll have to read to find out.
