I woke up as Kayena Hill, the novel’s villainess, praised as the greatest beauty in the empire. Who knew that her story would catch my... more>> attention because I was her in my past life? Destined for terrible ends, I’ve died twice—but I refuse to die a third time as a pawn in someone else’s scheme. I’m no longer the vain and naïve princess. Now that I know how the story will unfold, I’ll turn the tables around and have everyone dancing to my tune. This time, I’ll be the one pulling the strings. <<less

[From the authors of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint:]... more>>

Humans were suddenly summoned to become “Walkers”, and they needed to clear the tower to save the world.

Then, the “Stone of Regression” was discovered. Walkers could now “return” to the past. And slowly… everyone left.

Humanity’s last hope, “Carpe Diem”, was formed by people who refused to abandon the world.

But once the last Walker reached floor 100, he no longer knew what to believe.

This is the tale of the only man who didn’t regress, despite everyone else going back to the past. <<less

Kou Yamori seems like a typical middle school student on the surface. Relatively good at studies and amiable with his classmates, he puts a lot of effort into maintaining this facade. One day, however, he decides to stop pretending and quits school, developing insomnia as a result of having no daytime outlet for his energy. When taking walks alone at night, he feels marginally better, though he is aware that his inability to sleep should be considered a serious problem.... more>>

On one such walk, Kou meets a weird girl, Nazuna Nanakusa, who diagnoses the cause of his sleeplessness: despite making changes in his life, he is still holding himself back from experiencing true freedom. She says that he won't be able to sleep unless he is satisfied with how he spends his waking hours. When it appears that she has resolved his current worries, Nazuna invites him back to her apartment to share her futon. After a while, unaware that he is only feigning unconsciousness, she leans over him—and bites his neck! <<less

Includes:... more>>

1. Ouji-kun

2. Hare, Tokidoki Yami

3. Kiri no Ie

Suddenly a strange man gives Hayase Nanami, aged 16 years, a package and run away. What will happen next? Will he come back and then...

(Reprinted in Seimei no Netsuryou)

4. Fukou Sakka to Yobaretai

(Reprinted in Seimei no Netsuryou) <<less

Secchan is about a girl who sleeps with anyone and a boy who doesn't have interest in anyone. These two young university students meet due... more>> to a certain incident and their lonely lives intermingle. <<less

Following the death of his daughter, Assistant Inspector Yamada Hajime has lost hope in everything, and jobs like closing under-aged prostitution rings don't exactly help... more>> matters. But there he meets a girl who looks alarmingly like his late daughter. Her name is Umino Shiori, a runaway girl who's desperate enough to sell herself to escape her house but won't tell anyone why. <<less

The story starts with college student Taichi, who comes from a not-so-well-off household and is desperately searching for work. He (literally) stumbles across fellow student Kouhei while on a job hunt, and is incredibly enticed by the delicious bento Kouhei has in hand. However, something seems a bit off about Kouhei and when Taichi consults his friends about it, he gets an answer he really wasn't expecting: Kouhei is severely hearing impaired.... more>>

Hidamari ga Kikoeru - Limit

College student, Kouhei is hard of hearing and so he distances himself from those around him. He then meets Taiichi, a classmate who's got a bright personality and speaks his mind. "It's not your fault that you can't hear." When Taiichi speaks these words, Kouhei is suddenly saved by those words... More than friends. Less than lovers. His meeting with Taiichi will change him.

Series order:

1) Hidamari ga Kikoeru

2) Hidamari ga Kikoeru - Koufuku Hen (Theory of Happiness)

3) Hidamari ga Kikoeru - Limit

Note: Two extras are left unscanlated. <<less

Areum falls into a strange world called 'Soltera' after a car accident. Mistaken for a vampire because of her hair color, she is sold by... more>> a slave trader to Duke Millard Travis, the one and only vampire in Soltera. Desperate to survive in any way, Areum becomes Millard's personal servant, vowing to serve him as her master. Day by day, Areum tries her best to serve Millard, and his attitude starts to change. <<less

Usami Nagisa is a yankee who suffers from a supposed rare disease which causes her health to decline if she feels lonely. Sewa Natsuhito, the... more>> boy who sits next to her in class realizes this and keeps her company, but the only way Usami believes she can cure her "illness" is to make lots of friends, a process she might find quite difficult due to her aggressive looks and personality. <<less

In the distant future, a new immortal and genderless life form called Gems populate the Earth. The 28 Gems must fight against the Moon Dwellers, who attack them regularly to abduct them and to turn them into decorations. Each Gem is assigned a role, such as a fighter or a medic.... more>>

Being only 300 years old, Phosphophyllite is the youngest of the Gems and has no assignment yet. Phos wants to help fight the Moon Dwellers, but is too weak and brittle for battle. One day the master of Gems, Adamantine, assigns Phos the task of creating a natural history encyclopedia.

Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho in 2015. <<less

When you have an invisible roommate.

Tomoko Kuroki naturally assumed she’d be popular when she got to high school…but then cold, hard reality swooped in for the attack! Turns out all... more>> the popularity points she’d racked up in her video game dating sims are worth squat in real life, and Tomoko’s far from prepared to navigate high school! How can she possibly hope to impress her classmates when she can’t even talk to them?! A new high-school heroine is born (maybe?)! <<less

Natsume has always been aware of the supernatural, but after he inherits a magic book, the supernatural is aware of him!... more>>

When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to get their names back. <<less

A youth named Kiriyama Rei, who lost his family as a child, endures loneliness to become a professional shogi player. Then, through a chance meeting, he develops a relationship with the three Kawamoto sisters (Akari, Hinata, Momo), who hail from a working-class district of the city, and little by little his frozen heart begins to thaw.... more>>

Note: Nominated for the 2nd Annual Manga Taishou in 2009 and won the award in 2011.

Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the general category (shared with ) in 2011 and won the Grand Prize of the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2014. And won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Grand Prize in 2021. <<less

Cat-rearing college student x hamster-rearing salaryman... more>>

Despite the fact that his ex-girlfriend left due to him constantly doing overtime at the company, Naoe Yoshihito doesn't think of himself as being enslaved by his company. Between living for his job and providing for his beloved hamster Hanako, one thing that always helps relieve his stress is following the social media account of a cat named Goma. But it turns out that his favourite cat-idol and their owner is much closer than he'd ever imagine...? <<less

Rize, who’s a university student, met Kairi at her part-time job at the supermarket. While lending her shoulder to Kairi who has trouble sleeping, she... more>> is reminded of her older brother who left her when she was young, and Rize starts to feel affection towards him. However, she was shocked when she saw Kairi’s diary in his apartment saying that he had killed someone. What is the truth behind the person she likes? As the truth slowly comes to light, Rize starts chasing after her love for Kairi! This is Morie Satoshi’s roller coaster work that has crime, mystery and love!! <<less

Hasegawa Kodaka has transferred schools, and he's having a hard time making friends. It doesn't help that his blond hair tends to make people think he's a delinquent. One day, he runs into his bad-tempered solitary classmate Yozora while she's talking animatedly to her imaginary friend Tomo. Realizing that neither of them have any actual friends, they decide that the best way to alter this situation is to form a club and start recruiting.... more>>

That is how "Rinjinbu" was formed, a club specifically designed for people who don't have very many friends. As other lonely classmates slowly join their little club, they'll try to learn how to build friendships through cooking together, playing games, and other group activities. But will this group of relationship-challenged misfits really be able to get along? <<less

Unrequited love is a tragic circumstance with no simple resolution. It comes in many forms, yet each one shares the same debilitating feeling of inconceivable longing.... more>>

Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are two high school students who appear to have the ideal relationship. They are the envy of their classmates, and it is easy to portray them as the classic example of high school sweethearts. Unbeknownst to friends and family, however, there is a side to their love veiled by hidden passions: their true affections lie elsewhere, and they use each other to physically sate their unreciprocated feelings.

Hanabi is in love with Narumi Kanai, her new homeroom teacher who is also her childhood friend. Mugi is in love with Akane Minagawa, who used to be his tutor when he was younger. Now teachers at the same school, Kanai and Minagawa begin to show an interest in one another. As a result, Mugi and Hanabi find solace in each other as victims of the same pain.

With little hope of their feelings being realized, these two students face a challenging predicament: cope with and move on from their lust, or become further entangled in their web of unrequited love.

Included One-shots:

Volume 1: Nyan Nyan Prelude

Volume 2: Nyan Nyan Serenade

Volume 3: Nyan Nyan Oratorio

The lonesome struggles of the only living being on Earth.

Volume 4: Nyan Nyan Cantata

A pet cat looks back on her life with her kind master when she feels that her days are coming to an end.

Volume 5: Nyan Nyan Andante

An abandoned cat grows fond of her new owner but she starts to feel insecure when the kind-hearted owner adopts another stray creature. <<less

On his first day of transferring to a new high school, a loner named Mori Buntarou is cajoled by a classmate into climbing the school building. Despite knowing that one misstep could send him spiraling to his death, he moves forward, and upon finally reaching the top, Mori experiences a sense of fulfillment. That feeling, which seems to be telling him "You're alive!", gives birth to a passion for rock-climbing.... more>>

Note: Sakamoto Shinichi did both the story and the art from Volume 4 onwards. <<less

Confidential Confessions is a shocking new manga series that deals with many of the hard-hitting issues that teens face today. Using emotionally moving storylines and multi-dimensional characters, each groundbreaking volume tackles such topics as teen prostitution, rape, HIV, stalkers, suicide, and sexual harassment.... more>>

V.1 -

1-3. The Door

4. Mistakes

V. 2 -

Tears

V.3 -

1. Our Future

2-3. Dizziness

V.4 -

1. Pain

2. Distortion

3. Tomorrow

4. Forbidden Kiss

V.5 -

V. 6 -

Series order as published by Kodansha:

1: Itami (いたみ) (Pain)

2: Himitsu (ひみつ) (Secret)

3: Memai (めまい) (Vertigo)

4: Uwasa (うわさ) (Rumor)

5: Namida (なみだ) (Tears)

6: Tobira (とびら) (Door) <<less

At first glance, the family of Kinomiya Aya may seem quite ordinary: loving mother and father and a kind elder brother, however, appearances can be deceiving—Aya's father constantly beats her mother, scolds them for the slightest "transgressions," and commits other inappropriate deeds. Her brother spends all of his time selfishly ignoring what's right in front of him in favour of enjoying himself. Her mother is enduring it all for her children, and both mother and daughter live in constant fear of Aya's father. Because of all this, Aya envies ordinary families and the children who enjoy them.... more>>

One day, after witnessing a quarrel between father and mother turn violent, Aya experiences a great deal of stress, due to which she gains the ability to turn invisible. At first, the girl indulged in her superpowers, but eventually she makes a decision that will probably make her blame herself for the rest of her life... <<less

Koizumi Kanna is infatuated with the man who came to the restaurant she works at and ordered a burger with no onions. Little does she... more>> know, Toujou Ren is interested in her as well, but for a different reason. Kanna just so happens to be the mirror image of a woman he knew a very long time ago. It is for that reason that he saves her when she nearly dies in a car accident. But the life he gives Kanna is far different from the one she lived before, and she's not certain it's the kind she wants... <<less

An apparently simple romance story has just started but a lust murderer is haunting behind the couple.

Abandoned as a baby and raised in an orphanage, the kind-hearted high-schooler Yuki Sakuragi is driven by a need to find the reason for his... more>> existence. Plagued by mysterious dreams, Yuki also possesses the strange ability to read the deepest, darkest thoughts of anyone he touches. As both the dreams and his powers intensify, there appears before him a beautiful young man named ""Zess,"" whose face tugs on Yuki's memory. He warns Yuki not to venture outside on Walpurgis Night, the eve of the blood-red moon, which invites death. But when Yuki's compassion leads him to disobey Zess's order, has Yuki carelessly thrown his life away before he's even given himself the chance to find out the very reason for it? <<less

Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a... more>> little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring. <<less