Mazda Hun is a soldier caught in a web of political and military struggles beyond his comprehension. Captured by the government, they sentence him to Lethe. Society doesn't believe in the death penalty anymore. They've modernized the paradigm of punishment. ... more>>

Lethe has many names: mercy, treatment, repair, reformation and rehabilitation. Some even call it justice. The Lethe procedure inflicts no pain and is over quickly, but its victims consider it a fate worse than death.

Lethe is the execution of a person's soul. They make room for a new personality that will remember nothing of the old. Those who undergo the process don't seem quite human ever again. And Mazda Hun's time is running out fast. <<less

A story about the humble marriage of a corporate slave salaryman and a housework robot.

"Ethics" is the path of humanity, a principle that becomes the norm of morality. Learning is not a problem in the future. But this class is filled with the truth of life. Cool ethics teachers Takayanagi confronts the problems of students and their own stance.... more>>

New Age, teacher story!! <<less

An immortal being was sent to the surface of the earth and met a boy living alone in the middle of tundra. The being can... more>> take the shape of dying things, but only if the "impetus" is stronger than the previous one. What sort of experiences and meetings will the being encounter while living forever? <<less

Japan, 1995. After graduating from high school, Itou Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job, but fails to find steady employment because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he festers in his apartment, wasting the day away with cheap pranks, gambles, liquor and cigarettes.... more>>

This goes on for two years until he's paid an unexpected visit by a man named Endou, who wants to collect an outstanding debt owed to him in Kaiji's name. Endou gives Kaiji two options: either spend ten years repaying the money, or board the gambling ship Espoir (French for "hope" ), and stand a chance to clear the debt in one night. Using a con, Endou pressures Kaiji into accepting the latter option, believing he will never return alive.

The Kaiji series currently consists of six parts:

1. Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji

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Chapter 0 is a non-canon one-shot called "Kaiji Gaiden". <<less

In 2015, the "Angels" have returned, and Shinji Ikari, a fourteen year-old child of the new Earth, is forced by his father -- Gendo, commander... more>> of the secret organization NERV -- to pilot the monstrous biomechanical weapon called "Evangelion" to match the Angels' fearsome power. <<less

One day, numbers appeared above the heads of every student in school.

Ten is a friendly guy who happens to be good at Mahjong. Or, more appropriately, good at cheating at Mahjong. If someone is betting on... more>> a Mahjong game and ends up in a pinch, they call Ten to win for them. He always does, and because he understands how frustrating it is, always has the courtesy to give the people he cheats against a chance to beat him up. With his friends Hiroyuki, Ken, Akagi, and others, he eventually decides to take on something much bigger than cheating in small gambles. <<less

They exist in the most unexpected places—be it within your eyes and ears, under the floor and roof of your house, or in the trees and flowers in your garden. They are everywhere, and yet nowhere, at the same time. Are they alive or not? Perhaps it is more apt to say they are beings who transcend the concept of life and death itself. They are mushi. ... more>>

Some wreak havoc in the lives of humans; others bring them deliverance from suffering. Mushi are neither good nor evil: for just like any other creature, they are merely striving to survive in this harsh, competitive world.

Ginko, a lone wanderer with a reclusive personality, offers help and guidance to those plagued by mushi. This is the tale of his travels and exploits in a wondrous world populated by these mysterious entities. <<less

Hatou Gaku has a very odd friend at school named Marii Yukari. Yukari has purple eyes and a bizarre way of looking at the world: she sees all living things as robots. This has not always worked out well for Yukari, even costing her a best friend when she was younger. However, Yukari insists that the things she says she sees is true, and her vision seems to give her insight into the abilities of others.... more>>

Gaku thinks she's just weird, but she soon realizes that Yukari has unexpected talents. It seems she can fix anything, and even the police come to hear her insights. It turns out that Yukari's purple eyes are not unique in the world! However, there is one important distinction among those who see humans as other objects. Do humans appear as unimportant as objects, or do those objects appear as important as human beings? <<less

After losing his mother at an early age Mizushima dedicates his life to studying and pursuing the goal of creating a flower that would never... more>> wilt. One day, after meeting Hanamori, a florist from a nearby flower shop, his perspective on life begins to change. <<less

Like the earlier Battle Royales, a class of middle school students are picked to compete in fights to the death on an island until there is only one left.... more>>

The manga follows the point of view of Girl #10 Makoto Hashimoto, an unlucky girl who fears that her class will be chosen to participate in "the program," a mysterious event that forces students to kill each other. Makoto attends Shikanotoride Junior High School. After the encouragement of her best friend Itou Yamamoto and her mother she decides to face the chances. Her fears are supposedly put to rest when word spreads that all 50 Programs had already been executed in the year making them 100% unlikely to participate.... <<less

In the panic surrounding a worldwide pandemic which kills 15 percent of the population and cripples many more, a secret organization, the Propater, topples the UN and seizes control of much of the world. A boy and a girl, raised in an abandoned virology research center, immune to the virus, are attacked by the Propater and escape.... more>>

Based strongly on Gnostic mythology, all major characters are named after gnostic deities, and have analogous roles. <<less

As birth rates decline, in an effort to increase the total population of Japan, the country has implemented a pet-humanism policy as more and more... more>> owners "humanize" their pets. Having them become members of society Japan begins to experience a hike in economic growth as well as an increase in crimes committed by these "dogmen" and "catmen". Amid such social unrest, what could be of bigger concern to one cynical high school girl named Ao? <<less

From on high, the gods make sport of the mortals who toil below them. None know the cruelty of these beings better than Ganymede, a... more>> beautiful prince who was torn away from his family by the gods’ divine hands. Granted immortality, Ganymede now whiles away his days in an inescapable miniature garden for the amusement of the gods, particularly Apollo. But the gods themselves are no strangers to the boredom of eternal life, and as Ganymede quickly discovers, they will do anything to keep themselves entertained, both at his expense and at one another’s… <<less

Hideki's just like every other guy in the 22nd century. He just wants a good job, a good car, and a sexy robot girlfriend to... more>> call his own. Until he lands a job, he'll never be able to afford his own 'Persocom' companion. Hideki's luck changes when he discovers Chi--an adorable but seemingly stupid Persocom--tied up in a pile of trash. His first robot companion turns out to be a lot more responsibility than he expected, and she gets him into quite a few embarrassing situations. It's 'boy-meets-girl' for the cyber age. <<less

A collection of stories by various authors about the universe and beyond.

The Nightmare of Fabrication is a beautifully drawn full-colour manga from Yoshitoshi ABe. The 18 page short story can be found in the Lain Omnipresence... more>> in Wired artbook. It's a bonus story which apparently isn't related with neither the anime nor the PS game. It shows characters who were included in the PS game but not in the TV series (like the psychiatrist), but also determinant characters from the anime who didn't appear in the videogame (like Deus). <<less

Atelier "Paraiso".... more>>

A place which is protected by God and where people study painting.

As the war worsens, they seek their own heaven, not to be entangled in the harsh reality. <<less

Kurushima Akira is a member of the Japanese Society of Thanatology, which offers illegal euthanasia services to those who "desire a worthy death." People who... more>> wish to die come to Kurushima, asking him to keep watch over them in their final moments. <<less

In the frontier of the American West, a veil of evil threatens to engulf humanity. Servants of the fallen archangel Temozarela are paving the way... more>> for their dark lord's resurrection. One man stands in the way of the apocalypse: Ivan Isaacs, a fallen priest who sold his soul to the devil Belial for the power to fight evil. Armed with a wicked blade and silver bullets, Ivan will give the heretics a baptism of blood in his pilgrimage for humanity's redemption. <<less

This is the story of a very smart student called Hirama Ren who is used to always getting the top results in his school, and is the chairman of the student's council. One day, he walks past a group of bullies and asks them to leave--and because of that, they decide to teach him a lesson. They decide to beat up a couple of guys and they reported it to the teachers, blaming him.... more>>

Hirama becomes enraged by it and so he decides to attain some power that could allow him to change the world to a world that he wanted; one without such pathetic people.

Coincidentally, his vice-chairperson called him and asked if he was fine with her inviting a hypnotist for some event at school to hype up the school population. Thinking that the ability of hypnotism is just what he was looking for, he agrees to it. During the "trial" test of the hypnotist's ability, he set up some plan and later on used it to test if hypnosis was able to hypnotise people who were avoiding it. With his new found knowledge, how will Hirama use this new power to reshape the world? <<less

This is a 5-volume manga series comprised of individual short stories that all have to do with coffee one way or other. Each of them... more>> is bittersweet with a philosophical bent. <<less

A childhood dream has led Ha Min to work as a conductor for Pidgeon-ho, a slow-train in a backwater country. But the life of the... more>> slow-train is unexpectedly ending and Ha Min must transfer to another train in the city. People in the new railroad are different and he soon realizes that there are some things in the slow-train to be missed. On a closer look though, Ha Min discovers that not all is bad, and maybe his dream is nearer than he thinks... <<less

A man, heartbroken over the death of the wife he never got to say goodbye to, is killed in a drunken hit-and-run accident. He wakes... more>> up in a place somewhere between life and death where other recently deceased souls stay before moving on to the afterlife. When he realizes that his wife may still be in this place, he races to find her before it's too late. <<less