*Long ago there was a brave swordsman known simply as ‘the Hero’. Back then, people suffered under the rule of the great Demon King, but the Hero and his companions challenged the Demon King and, after a great battle, emerged victorious… The Demon King had fallen! The monsters who were under his influence were freed and settled on an isolated island and, with no humans around to stir the monsters, it became a peaceful place where everyone could live together.* On a remote island on the southern seas lives Dai, a shipwrecked boy adopted by Brass, a lump wizard monster. Dai dreams of becoming a great hero, but after years without human contact, one day a ship arrives to the island. This is the start of Dai's adventures… **Notes:** - MangaDex's volume numbering goes by the small-format edition (bunkoban). - The official English localization of the repackaged color record edition (shinsousairokuban) by VIZ Media is possibly discontinued. The most recent release was Volume 5 on November 8, 2022. ___ **Supervisor:** [Horii Yuuji](https://mangadex.org/author/66e591eb-d155-446d-a2b4-7e7a6828592e)

Taking place in 1930s Japan and China, Kenshiro Kasumi (the uncle of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star) is forced to leave his teaching job and settle an old gang rivalry with the help of his martial arts. Along the way, he meets the son of one his triad buddies, an old flame, and a mysterious old man who teaches him new techniques which will assist him in his quest.

The rogue cop Ham Egg is plotting to take over a small town on the border region between New Mexico and Arizona. Only one thing stands in his way: a Native American sharpshooter known as "Monster". Aiding Monster are two other young sharpshooters, Anna and Jim, who combat Ham Egg and his gang to end corruption and liberate the town. Cover image shown is from the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works. This version of Angel Gunfighter was published after Tezuka's passing. --- **Volume 324 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Another short story collection from Jirô Matsumoto. Contains 5 stories: 1. A Revolutionist in the Afternoon 2. A Revolutionist in the Afternoon 2 (not a sequel to the first one) 3. Desert Witch: A wounded man is being chased, but then he stumbles on cursed grounds 4. Takeyama's Life: A vampire, who is not really into the whole gothic vampire thing. 5. The Footmen Flee: Two men are in the battlefield, and all they want to do now is go home (without being killed by the opposing side)

A short story collection from Jirō Matsumoto (the artist of "Freesia"). Contains explicit sexual imagery and language, not recommended for the squeamish.

The story centers around Becchin, a high school girl who lives in a battle tank on a riverbed in Tokyo's Suginami ward, and her friend Mandara. Together, the two exterminate the zombies of dead Suginami citizens.

Naota is a normal Japanese sixth grader (although a little cynical), but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball he leaves his homeless 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity. [Official English](https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/18-934/FLCL-Omnibus-TPB)

Voices in the Dark is a collection of horror shorts from Junji Ito, published in 2003. The stories themselves were previously published in bimonthly serials in magazines from Asahi Sonorama.

A short manga version of the UFO Robo Grendizer anime. Released along the anime series, UFO Robot Grendizer follows the adventures of Duke Fleed, the prince of Planet Fleed, who, disguised as Daisuke, a farm worker, fights against the forces that destroyed his planet, the Vegan Empire, also the creators of Grendizer that Duke stole to fight them. While not originally considered part of the Mazinger series, Koji Kabuto and the Mazinger mechas appear in this series, making it sort of a sequel. Grendizer introduced the concept of a transformable robot and a space mecha, concepts that were later taken into other mecha series. It was extremely popular in Japan, Canada, France, Italy, and the Arab world and has a strong following in those countries even today.

UFO Robot Grendizer is the third entry in the Mazinger Trilogy by Go Nagai, following Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger. This particular incarnation was illustrated by Gosaku Ota and published in Boken Oh, Otomodachi from October 1975 – March 1977. It follows the adventures of Duke Fleed, the sole survivor of an attack on the Vegan Empire, who defends his second home, the Earth, from the Vegan attack, together with the giant robot Grendizer.

Sana Tsukimori is a 10 year old horror star but she can't grab the attention of her older brother.

A collection of short stories by the author of Ushio and Tora. 1. **The Puppet Princess** (Karakuri no Kimi), 1994 Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet warriors to seek revenge. She can manipulate these to battle the strongest of warriors, however manipulating the puppets leaves her own self vulnerable to direct attacks, so she seeks a ninja warrior named Manajiri to aid and protect her in her quest. (Source: ANN) 2. **Song of the Open Palm** (Tenohira no Uta), 1994 A legendary practitioner of the Xing Yi Quan style is jailed for the murder of another martial artist. From his cell, he tells his jailer of the incidents leading up to the fight, and hears disturbing news about the successor to the other man's doujo. 3. **Strange Ferry Tale** (Renrakusen Kitan), 1988 A teenage runaway meets a pair of siblings on a ferry. The brother carries an old sword and claims to be haunted by a demon that has cursed their clan for hundreds of years. 4. **To the Merry-Go-Round!** (Merry-Go-Round e!), 1988 A teenage karateka meets a little girl who asks him to take her to a merry-go-round. Her older brother and the police are in hot pursuit, but for some reason she insists on seeing it today. 5-6. **Shall We Go Out Walking by Night?** (Yoru ni Sanpo shinai ka ne), 1993 A detective with a mysterious past is called in to investigate a series of strange murders. When he visits the scene of the crime by night, he meets a young woman out walking alone, hoping to cure her fear of the darkness by "confronting the night." --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/ufujitakazuhiro?lang=ja)

Nakanishi, delinquent just out of reform school, tries in vain to get free of his past. His new job does not satisfy him and he has to suffer the provocations of his boss. One day, an acquaintance from the net introduces him to a game to help him relieve him of his stress: Duds Hunt. One rule: no holds barred… Also contains Awakened Dreams, a colored short story.

Kyouichi Miyasako is the star employee at his company. Why does he work so hard? He doesn’t know either. What he does know is that he sorely misses his girlfriend… the one he broke up with in college because he couldn’t put up with her hobbies any further. One day, an ominous black sphere mysteriously appears in the skies and shoots a laser beam in his direction. He doesn’t get hit, of course, but when the smoke clears, guess who he sees?

Masumi Takanagi is normal 16 year-old boy, that is until one night, he dreams of an mysterious man cutting off his hand with a scythe. Then he wakes up to the sound of his alarm clock, and finds his hand bleeding. Now strange things are happening and his seemingly woundless hand continues to bleed. What will become of Masumi and his mysterious hand?

What is the purpose of your life? To live is just to die? Is life a slow death? Do you even have your own purpose? Nao is a college student with such thinking... yet, reality is cruel to him. Ever since he was a child, he was categorized as a "ghost boy" whose existence was so faint that no one cared about him. One day, after being mentally traumatized by a child in a family restaurant, Nao snapped and poisoned that child. While being interrogated by the police, a mysterious beauty appeared and rescued him. Her reason was simple: "do you want to dominate the world with me?"...

The Emishi warrior Aterui, a guardian deity protecting the mysterious power source called the Dragon from the gods of destruction, is reincarnated into the body of mild-mannered archaeologist and professor Kogami Ryuichi.

Robot detective "K" belongs to the newly established "Special Investigation Unit" of the Metropolitan Police Department. He is a fighting machine with an expressionless mask, a blue-black steel body, and powerful weapons, but he is more gentle than a human being. He teams up with Shiba, a stubborn old detective who hates mechs and despises "K," and daringly challenges the mysterious organization "R.R.K.K. (BAD)" to solve a number of mysterious cases!

One night, mild-mannered college student, Hiroshi Mori, bumps into a woman visiting his next-door neighbor. A large, creepy woman, she has long hair, wears a coat and carries shopping bags in both hands. He had never seen her before. But then, without warning, the woman starts stalking Hiroshi, shifting her attention from his next-door neighbor whom she had been visiting to Hiroshi himself. Who is she and what is she after? Originally published in 1993 - before the term "stalker" was acknowledged in Japanese society, this well-written horror manga is about a young man pursued by a mystery woman. Serialized for just ten weeks, this short, single-volume manga unusually became a hit bestseller, selling a staggering 400,000 copies. Regularly chosen as "the scariest manga ever" in magazine horror specials.

In a different world than the one we live in, a world where Japan is the lone superpower of the world, there is a wildly popular game show called the National Quiz. Every night, people dreaming of riches, fame, vengeance, and happiness compete on the show, for the chance to be granted a wish, any wish they have: the National Quiz has the power to make your wildest dreams come true. It also has the ability, if you lose, to make your life a living hell. This is the story of K-i K-ichi (aka prisoner KK47331), a former actor-turned losing National Quiz contestant-turned wildly popular host of the show, and the people and events surrounding him.

From the same creator of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, teenager Ikuro Hashizawa can transform into the parasitical bio-weapon, Baoh, gaining superhuman strength and other abilities such as firing a corrosive substance. He escapes from the Secret Organization Dress along with a young psychic girl, Sumire, and the two must face various assassins sent by the organization to kill him. Link: [JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia](https://jojowiki.com/Baoh_the_Visitor) (Manga) [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=259) (OVA)

A group of thirteen boys join the children's crusades of 1212. Violence ensues.

A collection of sci-fi short stories. **Contents:** 1-2: **Legend of Giants** A sci-fi drama about humans, inspired by Prometheus, struggling against their given fate by using fire to end the ice age. 3: **Icarus Asteroid** A sci-fi drama about a smog-covered world and a daring plan to transmit enough energy from the Sun so humanity can survive. 4: **Horizon Patrol:** A sci-fi action/comedy about a futuristic Earth covered by a sprawling mess of highways, and two loose-cannon officers who help keep the roads safe.

The story focuses on the 16-year-old protagonist, Akira Kurusu, who got transferred to Shujin High School in Tokyo after he was sued by a man with political connection for a non-existent violence when Akira saved a woman from being molested by the man, leading to his probation. Arriving in Tokyo, he finds a mysterious app got installed into his phone that enables him to enter another world formed from corrupt hearts of adults where he awakens his power called Persona. During his times there, he is joined by two fellow students Ryuuji Sakamoto and Ann Takamaki, and a shape-shifting cat-like creature known as Morgana. Feeling suppressed by their environment, the four form a group known as the "Phantom Thieves of Heart" to steal corrupt hearts of adults and reform society.