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The Metamorphosis (Variety Art Works)

Manga version of the novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

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Chapter 5

6 years ago
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The Book of Five Rings (Variety Art Works)

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Chapter 6

6 years ago
Historical Action Sports Philosophical
Wheel of Reincarnation Rinne

As a child, Mamiya Sakura mysteriously disappeared in the woods behind her grandma's home. She returned whole and healthy, but since then, she has had the power to see ghosts. Now a teenager, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! At school, the desk next to Sakura's has been empty since the start of the school year. Then one day her always-absent classmate Rokudo Rinne shows up, and he's far more than what he seems! After school one day, Rinne helps Sakura deal with the ghost of a boy who has a crush on her. Rinne, it seems, knows just how to handle such ghosts, and has the skills and tools to properly dispatch them to the afterlife (for a small fee of course). Sakura starts to learn more about her mysterious classmate, and her curiosity about Rinne draws her deeper into the amazing world between life and death.

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Chapter 398

2 years ago
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Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu: Dai 3-shou—Truth of Zero

Suddenly a high-school student Subaru Natsuki has been summoned to another world on the way back from the convenience store. With the biggest crisis of his life being summoned to another world and no sign of the one who summoned him things become worse when he is attacked. But when he is saved by a mysterious silver-haired girl with a fairy cat, Subaru co-operates with the girl to return the favor. When they finally manage to get a clue Subaru and the girl are attacked and killed by someone. Subaru then awakens in the place he was summoned and notices the ability he gained "Returns by Death" a helpless boy that only has the ability to rewind time by dying. And beyond the despair can he save the girl from the fate of death! --- [Original Web Novel](http://ncode.syosetu.com/n2267be)

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Chapter 53

6 years ago
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3 Ban Sen no Campanella

Fresh from a break up with his boyfriend, Kanou is depressed, and he wonders where things went wrong. He thinks of committing suicide by walking straight to the upcoming train on his way to work, but a high school student stops him. Since then, Kanou seemed to always run into the boy who smiles or greets him at the train station every morning. Kanou dubs his savior 'Campanella,' a character from a book he read. Meanwhile, at work, Kanou continues to work hard as usual and finds himself being drawn closer to his boss. Will his new-found feelings bring him happiness, or will it end up in tears again?

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Chapter 6

6 years ago
Romance Boys Love Philosophical Drama
The Day of Salvation

Nishioka Kyoudai's anti-war epic, told in their signature surrealist style. A man wakes up one morning to find the world outside of his house a wasteland. As he searches for signs of life, he finds a fetus in a ditch, which promptly latches onto his thumb and won't let go, and things only get stranger from there…

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Chapter 11

6 years ago
Psychological Philosophical Horror Tragedy
Mirror Ball Flashing Magic

These stories are about love, desire and friendship of women. Told by women.

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Chapter 7

6 years ago
Psychological Philosophical Drama Slice of Life
Absolute Awakening Angel Mistress☆Fortune

Tachikawa Kisaki is a 14-year-old girl who's a drop-out ESPer. Her object of adoration is Hashiba Giniro, a superb ESPer who could use ESP at the age of five. Watch them as they become the team of "Fortune Tiara" and "Fortune Quartz", while carry out their duties as a combination!

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Chapter 3.5

6 years ago
Psychological Romance Comedy Philosophical Drama
Queen Millennia

A new discovered 10th planet, called Lametal, will collide with earth on 9th September 1999. While the impact won't affect the giant ice planet critically, earth will be destroyed. Yayoi, daughter of Lametal's queen and entrusted with the mission to abduct a large number of humans for slavery, befriends the orphaned boy Hajime and starts to question the intentions of her mother. Together with her human family and friends, she takes up the fight against Lametal and searches for a way to avoid earth's destruction.

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Chapter 34

5 years ago
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Kokuhaku

If you were a teacher, what would you do if you found out that the murderers of your child happen were two of your students? Would you let their fate to be decided by the law - if you knew the law would let them get away scot-free, or would you seek revenge yourself? Between ethics and justice, which would you choose? The manga version of the popular work "Confessions."

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Chapter 4

6 years ago
Psychological Crime Philosophical Drama Slice of Life Mystery Tragedy
2001 Nights

A collection of short stories that look to mankind's exploration of space, and examine the possibilities that we could face when we decide to take those first fateful steps into the unknown. - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nights) **Note:** The Japanese cover images and the Chinese cover images are essentially identical. However, if you look in the top-right of the cover image, you will see that the Japanese one is by Action Comics and the Chinese one is not.

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Chapter 19

6 years ago
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Tempest

Part of the Inio Asano Short Story Collection.

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Philosophical Drama Tragedy
Bloody Stumps Samurai

**"Heed ye scoundrels, I will kill you all."** Gennosuke Inoko is a buraku, a group of people considered to be less than human. Taken in by a dojo and a practitioner of Kenpo, Gennosuke exhibits tremendous skill and a dangerous ferocity. The other members of the dojo conspire against him ending with Gennosuke killing the sensei he thought he trusted. Embittered and lonely, he seeks to eliminate those who wronged him at any cost. Was a very controversial work and many copies were recalled. What has been scanlated on MangaDex is a 2004 release that contains censored dialogue (as represented by Xs and Os) along with an essay giving insight on the controversy. What's also included is a redone version entitled *Heed ye Scoundrels* (alternatively, *Heed my Words*). The official English version that is linked contains the *uncensored* version with the original dialogue and a 2004 essay, as well as the apologies from Hirata himself as well as the (infamous) Hinomaru Bunko. Though, dismayingly, the redone *Heed ye Scoundrels* version is not included. **Links** - Official English (Retrofit Comics) Retail - [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Stumps-Samurai-Hiroshi-Hirata/dp/1940398916/) - Alternate Official English - [Comix India](https://comixindia.org/product/verite-03/) (Re-lettered English translation of Retrofit Comics along with Hindi translation by Mili Yadav)

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Chapter 3

7 years ago
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Scary Book

This series has various different versions. The version used by Dark Horse is outdated, the current Kadokawa Horror Bunko is more complete and higher quality. The spine-chilling influence of Japanese horror cinema has taken hold in Western audiences with hit films like The Ring that are based on Japanese films adapted from classic manga stories. And the master of horror manga is Umezu Kazuo-known as the "Stephen King of Japan," with several of his stories being adapted to film-and Dark Horse Manga is proud to bring his Scary Book horror anthology to Western readers for the first time. This first volume, Reflections, presents two feature-length tales of terror. Volumes (Kadokawa Horror Bunko) 1: 蛇 (Snakes) 2: 異形 (Odd Beings) 3: 狂乱 (Madness) 4: 呪縛 (Spells) 5: 執念 (Obsessions) 6: 怪物 (Creatures) 7: 闇 (Darkness) 8: 異形2(Odd Beings 2) 9: 影 (Shadows) 10: 顔 (Faces) 11: 猫 (Cats)

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Midnight

Midnight is the story of a taxi driver named Shinya Mito (whose name is literally Japanese for "mid" and "night") and his various passengers, each of whom he helps in various ways. Shinya drives a taxi as a way to earn money for the treatment of a young woman named Mari, whose brain was injured sometime earlier as the result of an accident Shinya was responsible for causing. The taxi Shinya drives is equipped with a fifth wheel which makes the car more maneuverable under any kind of road conditions. --- **Volumes 354-359 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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Chapter 53

7 years ago
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PYGMALION

At the National Local Mascot Festival, children all across Japan can meet their favorite local mascots. But as the festival gets underway, it becomes clear that what's inside these costumes aren't people - they're something much darker, with a taste for human flesh. Amid the chaos spreading through the entire country, Keigo Ayahara, his little brother Makoto, and his friend Ako must now fight for their survival and their humanity. ___ **Alt Official Raw:** [MAGKAN](https://kansai.mag-garden.co.jp/series/2d4827935f78f)

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Chapter 19

7 years ago
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Persona 4

Persona 4 takes place in the same universe as Persona 3 in a rural town named Inaba. There have been mysterious murders occurring whenever there was fog after heavy rain. There were also rumors about a channel on television airing only at midnight called Mayonaka TV, during which it is said that one can see his/her "other half" when staring at the TV screen. After hearing about a recent unsolved murder which occurred during the fog, the characters—the main character, Chie, and Yōsuke—discuss how each of them had attempted to watch the mysterious TV channel and witnessed the murder victim. The protagonist later realizes that during midnight when the channel is on, his body can phase into his television set as a gateway to enter another world infested with shadows. After discovering this, they all decide to explore. When first completely entering the world, dazed and confused, the main character meets Teddie. Mayonaka TV and the town murders seem to have a connection. The murder victims may be merely victims of Mayonaka TV. Everyone decides that they will together try to solve the mysterious murders by exploring the hidden world of Mayonaka TV. After the closing events of Persona 3 on January 31, 2010, Persona 4 starts April 11, 2011, Putting the start of Persona 4 fourteen months after the end of Persona 3, this is also evident by the appearance of an older Chihiro, who is now a 3rd year student.

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Chapter 17

7 years ago
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They Were Eleven!

The elite Cosmo Academy attracts applicants from every stellar nation in the galaxy. One young hopeful is Tadatos Lane, an orphan esper from Terra. The final stage of the academy's entrance exam is a perilous mission simulation aboard an actual derelict starship. The applicants depart for the ships in groups of ten, but when Tada's crew arrives on the Esperanza, they are horrified to discover that they now number eleven. As the test progresses, things go awry and the atmosphere grows increasingly tense. The crew members begin to suspect sabotage, and Tada appears to be the likely culprit. --- - **Won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen/Shojo in 1976**

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Chapter 4

7 years ago
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Kamen Rider Black

(from ebookjapan): New York City's underground aqueducts are rumored to be inhabited by strange creatures. In the darkness, like a huge labyrinth, there he is! A black grasshopper man saves a TV crew from being attacked by a monster man who turns into an alligator! The name of the man who appeared before the astonished crew was Kotaro Minami. He had lost all memory except for being Japanese, his name, and the fact that he had escaped from somewhere. In order to solve the mystery of the mutant creature and to find out the truth about his past, Minami heads out to the world...! His next stop is Paris, the Opera!

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Chapter 21

7 years ago
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Nakushita Mono wa Nandesuka

A short story about a town where everything that's been lost always returns.

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Banana Fish

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance… The five oneshots at the end are **Banana Fish another story** ([Mangaupdates link](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/ffdpw36/banana-fish-another-story)). A collection of *Banana Fish* side-stories that take place before and after the main story. Contains **spoilers** for the ending of *Banana Fish* itself. 1. ANGEL EYES 2. Hikari no Niwa - THE GARDEN WITH HOLY LIGHT 3. PRIVATE OPINION 4. Ura BANANA 5. Fly boy, in the sky

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Neo Parasyte f

Parasites: shape-shifting aliens whose only purpose is to assimilate with and consume the human race… but do these monsters have a different side? A parasite becomes a prince to save his romance-obsessed female host from a dangerous stalker. Another hosts a cooking show, in which the real monsters are revealed. These and 13 more stories, from some of the greatest shoujo manga artists alive today, together make up a chilling, funny, and entertaining tribute to Hitoshi Iwaaki's manga horror classic!

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Chapter 11

7 years ago
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Change

Yuuta and Yui had their body swapped when Yuuta fell down from a tree. How will they co-operate in dealing with this as they grow up?

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Chapter 4

7 years ago
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Tenshi Girl

It all started with a banana. When Sayaka finds a banana lying in the street, she barely has a moment to question it before Yoshiko gobbles it up. But that night, the spirit of that same banana visits her and transforms her into an angel! Her mission? To help souls in need! Which is how she winds up at A-kun's house and must grant his true heart's desire. Except, that desire is to marry Sayaka?! Can this newly transformed angel figure out what the heck is going before things get even more confusin? Find out in this parody spin-off to Hiroyuki's wildly popular, Aho Girl series!

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