Higuchi Kotarou was just a normal sixth-grader until he gets a new next-door neighbor - an insanely perky angel named Misha that has made it her life's work to make Kotarou happy! And if that weren't enough, Misha has an even stranger roommate - a kind-hearted demon named Shia and her mysterious black cat Nyaa! If Kotarou's life at home is this weird.. what can it possibly be like at school?! (Source: Seven Seas)

Pita-Ten had two volumes published in English by Seven Seas from March 18 to July 8, 2008, before the publisher put their light novel line on hiatus.

Timid, diminutive, and frequently the target of bullies, Sena Kobayakawa has just enrolled at Deimon Private High School. When he angers a group of delinquents by refusing to act as their errand boy, he makes an incredibly speedy getaway, an ability he has developed through years of running from his tormentors.


Youichi Hiruma—the demonic captain of the Deimon Devil Bats football team—happens to be nearby, and seeing Sena's "golden legs" at work, forcibly recruits him as a running back despite Sena's desire to be team manager instead. Made to don the number 21 jersey and a special helmet to hide his identity as a player, Sena becomes "Eyeshield 21," the team's closely guarded secret weapon. Soon he realizes his love for the sport, and aims to help the Devil Bats reach the Christmas Bowl, the high school football championship.

Eyeshield 21 has sold more than 20 million copies in Japan and also has games produced by Konami and Nintendo.


The series was published in English by VIZ Media under Shonen Jump Advanced imprint from April 5, 2005 to October 4, 2011 and has been licensed in France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Taiwan, and South Korea.

Publishers:

• Shounen Jump (magazine)

Original two-part pilot one-shot for Eyeshield 21. It was later collected in the official databook published on October 4, 2005.

Junpei Manaka sneaks up to the roof to see the sunset. When he opens the door, he startles a mysterious beauty. She panics and runs away, but not before Junpei has caught sight of her adorable strawberry print panties...in EXTREME close-up. With that vision forever burned into his memory, Junpei embarks on a quest to find the girl, and the panties, of his dreams!


(Source: Viz)

Ichigo 100% was published in English as Strawberry 100% by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump Advanced imprint from July 3, 2007 to October 5, 2010; it was dropped after volume 14. The series was also published in Brazilian Portuguese as 100% Morango by Panini Comics under the Planet Manga imprint from April 2010 to April 2013.

Publishers:

• Shounen Jump (magazine)

Toradora!'s story begins with the male protagonist Ryuuji Takasu who is frustrated at trying to look his best as he enters his second year of high school. Despite his gentle personality, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent so he is utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either. After being greeted by his hungover mother in the morning, Ryuuji goes to school and is happy to find that he gets to be in the same class as his best friend Yuusuke Kitamura and crush Minori Kushieda. However, it is then that he unexpectedly knocks into "the school's most dangerous animal of the highest risk level"—Taiga Aisaka—who just happens to also be in his class, and is a good friend of Minori.


Taiga has a negative attitude towards others and will not hesitate to snap at people. After meeting Ryuuji, she takes an instant dislike of him. Taiga comes from a rich family, though she moved out to live on her own due to family issues, and by coincidence is now living in an apartment next door to Ryuuji. After Ryuuji discovers that Taiga has a crush on Yuusuke, and Taiga finds out about Ryuuji's affections towards Minori, Ryuuji suggests that they cooperate so they can win the object of their affections. Ryuuji says he will do anything to get closer to Minori, which Taiga exploits, making Ryuuji her personal servant, and getting him to do household chores like cooking and cleaning for her. Taiga spends a lot of her time over at his house, so much so that she could almost be considered a member of his family. Since Ryuuji spends a lot of time with Taiga, he is opened up to her world and to a side of her that most people do not see. The two also attempt to help each other in order to improve how people view them. Unknown to them, however, people they know from school start to become curious about their strange relationship together and rumors begin to spread about them.


(Source: MU)

In Kadokawa Shoten's first Light Novel Award contest held in 2007, Toradora! won an award in the romantic-comedy category.


The series has been licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. It was published in Polish as 2-in-1 omnibus by Studio JG since August 25, 2016.

Akito Hayama is the infamous God Hand, an art thief who steals only masterpieces. But these arn't your ordinary art pieces, they're actually copies made by Akito's missing mother. Akito is caught by an underground art broker and consequently learns the reason for the disappearance of his mother. In a attempt to save himself, a new found ability 'Kannade' emerges within Akito, as well as the quest to find certain art pieces by Akito's mother and what Kannade's fate really is.


Included one-shot:

Volume 2: Kannade (pilot), God Hand

Shinobu is the only girl that goes to the secret Ninja Academy, which is presided over by a strange, yellow, ball-organism, Onsokumaru. While he knows nothing about being a ninja master, he loses no opportunity to exploit the dim but cute Shinobu. On a mission to steal all the panties from area high school girls, Shinobu meets Kaede who gets drawn into the surreal, ecchi, but fun world of Shinobu.


(Source: ANN)

High school student Riiko Izawa has gone through a series of unrequited crushes. Each time she works up the courage to confess to a boy, he rejects her on the spot. After yet another rejection, Riiko becomes dejected and takes a walk through a nearby park. There, she discovers a lost phone and returns it to its owner.


The owner of the phone, Gaku Namikiri, is bizarre, to say the least. A traveling salesman, he pesters Riiko to accept one of his company's products as a reward. She tells him, sarcastically, that what she wants most of all is a boyfriend. Unfazed, he directs her to visit a website advertising "lover figures," which she assumes to be dolls. Despite her skepticism about the company's integrity, the face of the "Nightly Series 01" model enchants Riiko, and she registers for a three-day free trial. She is shocked when a life-sized naked boy is actually delivered to her the next day!


Riiko follows instructions to activate the very realistic robot with a kiss, and for the next three days, Night Tenjou is the best boyfriend she could ask for. However, Gaku reappears to inform her that she missed the deadline to cancel the free trial, and now she owes one hundred million yen. Alternatively, she can decide to keep Night and act as a beta tester so that the company can collect data in order to improve their future products. What choice does Riiko have? She is broke, and what's more, she has already begun to fall for the artificially intelligent Night...

Released in North America under the title Absolute Boyfriend, Zettai Kareshi. has spawned several live-action adaptations. A Japanese drama series, Zettai Kareshi: Kanzen Muketsu no Koibito Robot, aired in 2008; a Taiwanese drama series, Jue Dui Darling, aired in 2012; and most recently a South Korean drama series, My Absolute Boyfriend, aired in 2019.

Publishers:

• Sho-Comi (magazine)

Based on an ero-game, Prism Palette is Peach-Pit’s (famous for DearS, Zombie Loan, Rozen Maiden and assorted other manga) first publication. It follows the main character, Masaki Shirai, as he spends his days at school, surrounded by beautiful girls. (Source: AT-Translations)

Chiyuki Matsuoka's given name literally means "thousand snow," and it embodies her parents' wish for her to witness the first snowfall of the year perennially. This wish is exceedingly optimistic due to Chiyuki's heart condition, which increases the risk of seizures and decreases her life expectancy. The doctor who presided over her birth said she would be lucky to live 15 years.


Chiyuki is 17 years old when she meets the unlikely vampire Touya Kanou. He claims to hate blood, and he refuses to find a human partner with whom to share the rest of his life. Touya is 18 now, but if he took blood continually from a partner, then they both might live to be a thousand years old.


Chiyuki immediately volunteers to be Touya's partner, but he shoves her away in disgust, inadvertently learning of her poor health when she starts to spasm. Touya treats Chiyuki more kindly after that, but still refuses to drink her blood. She begins to suspect that there is a different reason why he keeps turning her down, but will she live long enough to discover the truth?


Included one-shot:

Volume 1: Isshunkan no Romance (A Romance of One Moment)

Sennen no Yuki went on hiatus after chapter 9 was released in LaLa 2002-05 issue and a special chapter titled Chikai no Hi (誓いの日) was published in LaLa DX 2002-07 issue, which was later collected in volume 3 as chapter 10. The series resumed publication ten years later with chapter 11 in LaLa DX 2013-01 issue.


The series was published in English as Millenium Snow by VIZ Media under the Shojo Beat imprint from April 3, 2007 to December 2, 2014. A 2-in-1 omnibus edition was also released from June 3, 2014 to May 5, 2015.

Publishers:

• LaLa (magazine)

Toua Tokuchi, a master of gambling and mind games, holds the remarkable record of 499 wins and zero losses in "One Outs," a simplified form of baseball that consists of only a batter and a pitcher. Visiting Okinawa, Tokuchi's hometown, is Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the Saikyou Saitama Lycaons, the weakest team in the Japanese baseball league. Dreaming of leading the Lycaons to winning the championship, and in dire need of a replacement for their injured pitcher during a training camp, Kojima involves himself in a game of One Outs, only to lose to a normal fastball from the seemingly invincible Tokuchi.


Mesmerized by his prowess, Kojima recruits Tokuchi to the team after narrowly avoiding defeat in a rematch, believing he might just be their key to victory. However, the greedy owner of the Lycaons refuses to give him a decent salary, leading Tokuchi to suggest an unusual contract: every out he pitches will gain him five million yen, but every run he gives up will lose him fifty million yen. With his fate now tied to that of the team, Tokuchi's fight to bring the Lycaons to victory becomes yet another gamble—the very thing that he does best.

In this awkward love-triangle between two step- siblings, -Otome and Minami- and a best friend, Amane, the three are trapped in a web of love. After getting along for five years, Otome and Minami's peaceful relationship takes a turn in the wrong direction when Amane confesses his love to Otome. What will Otome do?


(Source: TokyoPop)

Cherry Juice was published in English by TokyoPop since September 11, 2007 to August 12, 2008.

Publishers:

• Nakayoshi (magazine)

A mysterious cult is sacrificing beautiful young women to a demonic force that has promised them the kingdom of France in return for the blood of their victims. Only one man can save Paris from chaos and terror: the Chevalier d’Eon!


(Source: Del Rey)

Le Chevalier d'Eon was first published in English by Del Rey Books from June 26, 2007 to July 27, 2010. The series was later published digitally by Kodansha Comics from September 9, 2014 to September 23, 2014.

Publishers:

• Magazine-Z (magazine)

A novel retelling of the Le Chevalier d'Eon story by Ubukata Tow. Not a direct adaptation of either the anime or manga series.

Shimizu (a spoiled rich high school boy) leaves his home to become a comic artist, and ends up rooming with his friend Umeya. Umeya is so poor that he's got nothing in his fridge except mayonnaise to eat with the rice!


(Source: MU)


Included one-shots:

Volume 1: , Anata ga Suki desu, Daisuki desu.,

A collection of one-shots:


0) Introduction to Three Quarters - Renai no Plus-Minus


1) The Border of Plus and Minus (Kyoikaisen no Plus-Minus)

Yamashita meets and, to his annoyance yet not surprised, falls in love with womanizer Fukazawa. He's torn between his desire to be in love and his fear of being hurt again. (Yamashita originally appears in Yamagata's Fake Fur.)


2) Karugarui koi de ikkou


3) Mahiru no Ue


4) Three Quarters


5) Three Quarters (Fukazawa side)


6) Blue Air (Aoi Air)

Takahara is in love with his carefree childhood friend Kusumi, but afraid that revealing his feelings would ruin their friendship and harmony. However, their school friends are starting to question the closeness of their friendship...


7) Sleeping Lovers

Minato likes having a warm body in bed to huggle up with, but every person who shared his bed gets annoyed that he won't do any more than huggle. He doesn't think no one would ever understand the simple joy of sharing a bed. That's until he meets a young stranger named Ren. Ren agrees to share the bed with Minao, but on one condition: help him to find "Kanou".


8) Atogaki


(Source: M-U)

Majeh was a great swordsman in life but in death he is merely an envoy to the next world for the King of Hell. It is later discovered that he is a legendary swordsman who was placed in a magical realm called the Moorim where the fiercest warriors stayed.


When a disaster occurred in hell where the most wicked demons escaped into the world of Mortals, the King of Hell sends Majeh out to capture these escape demons...


(Source: Wikipedia)

Majeh was partially published in English as King of Hell by Tokyopop, who published the first 22 volumes between June 23, 2003 and February 10, 2009, before becoming defunct.

Publishers:

• Comic Champ (magazine)

Shoei Academy is a prestigious private school system for young boys from well-to-do families. Newly appointed teacher Mr. Reiji Kurashina soon finds himself to be the center of attention at Shoei Academy – the center of attention for young men who are just about to ripe, that is! What does cool and collected Kurashina-sensei do when he becomes the object of love!


(Source: DMP)

Shiritsu Shouei Gakuen Danshi Koutoubu: Kurashina-sensei no Junan was partially published in English as Kurashina Sensei's Passion by Juné from September 9, 2009 to September 14, 2010, before the license was dropped.

Inside the jungles of Vietnam, a courageous Special Ops. Unit is fighting the most infamous war of decades past—the Vietnam War. This bold account follows the brave exploits of Sergeant "Perky" Perkins and his unit...of rabbits! Join Rats, Perky and Botaski as they fight against the cats of the Viet Cong. From the Tet Offensive to the My Canh bombing, watch these commando-style bunnies through an anthropomorphic lens as events unfold and violence erupts.


On-human cast of characters notwithstanding, this compelling and painstakingly-researched work places an emphasis on factualism in order to accurately portray the events of the Vietnam War. With a fresh perspective on one of history's greatest calamities, Apocalypse Meow is a daring new take on a conflict that won't soon be forgotten...especially after these young rabbits are done!


(Source: Manga Sketchbook)

Cat Shit One was published in English as Apocalypse Meow by ADV Manga from July 13, 2004 to November 16, 2004.

Follow up to Cat Shit One. The story continues to follow the three main protagonists as they became involved in various low intensity conflicts in the 1980s. Perky, now a member of the elite Delta Force, was attached to the Special Air Service and was involved in various SAS operations while Rats and Bota were invovled with the US operation in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion.


(Source: Wikipedia)

Johnathan Perkins, son of Vietnam War hero "Perky" Perkins, is an U.S. exchange officer serving in British Special Air Service (SAS). He and Sergei, a Russian Spetsnaz exchange officer, participate covert SAS actions behind enemy lines alongside British soldiers in Operation Desert Storm.


(Source: ANN)

Like, Like, Love is an extra one-shot of FAKE that Sanami Matoh included in her illustration book, Monotone.


It takes place a few years after the conclusion of FAKE, and shows who ends up with whom.

Continues the story of Dee, Ryou, and the rest of the gang in the 27th precinct of the New York police department. New crime, new faces, new clues, and new loves can all be expected in this thrilling sequel!


(Source: Mangago)

Al Foster is a private detective whose workaday life suddenly shakes up with the arrival of 13-year-old Rai Spencer, youngest son of the billionaire Spencer family, genius child prodigy, and unrepentant smart aleck. Rai has an unusual gift -- his telekinetic powers can knock out anyone who stands in his path. He also has a sister who sports a mean left hook. But what Rai desperately needs is someone to figure out who has been trying to kill him for the past month! (Source: Tokyopop)

Ra-i was published in English by Tokyopop on October 10, 2006.

Kamishina Fuuto would like to think he's a normal boy, but he is the reincarnation of the High Priest of Darashaal, a tiny Asian country that has just celebrated the inauguration of...its new high priest. Clearly, only one of them is the true priest, and unfortunately for Fuuto, it is he. As the celestial guardians come to dispose of him they discover that he is not, as their leader Naga says, a fake. Fuuto just wants to be normal and live a normal life, but he is constantly drawn into trouble as he has an extremely keen spiritual sense and the ability to soothe ghosts.


(Source: Tokyopop)

Ueki no Housoku tells the story of the Battle of the Supernatural Powers, a tournament to decide who will be the next King of the Celestial World. Each candidate (100 in total) is required to choose a junior high school student to act as their fighter. Each student is given a unique power—the power to change one thing into something else. The winning King of the Celestial World Candidate will become King of the Celestial World and the winning student will receive the Blank Talent, a talent that can be anything they choose.

Ueki no Housoku was published in English as The Law of Ueki by VIZ Media from August 8, 2006 February 10, 2009.

Publishers:

• Shounen Sunday (magazine)

Shi-Hyun is a girl who has nothing but bad luck - at least, that's what everyone believes. In some ways, Shi-Hyun herself believes this and tries to stay away from the people she loves the most. As a result, she has developed an outer shell, making her look tough and indifferent even with the constantly bullying. But when she transfers to a different high school, a fresh start brings unfamiliar characters - and new challenges - into her life.


(Source: Tokyopop)

Daughter of a brilliant professor, Asuna is a below-average student at Ecole du Ciel, where teachers and other students constantly belittle her. However, with the world spiraling toward war, Asuna's headed for a crash course in danger and love, as everyone prepares for combat...


(Source: Tokyopop)

1940s Hiroshima. Suzu, a young bride, leaves her home to join her new husband, a member of the Japanese navy, at a military base in the port city of Kure. Confronted with the challenges of a new life, Suzu must also come to grips with a world at war and her beautiful home collapsing around her. Unwilling to give up hope, Suzu holds on to happiness to persevere through the trials of war.


(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

In 2009, Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni received an award of excellence in the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival in manga category. The manga also ranked 1st place in the "The Best Manga 2010: Kono Manga wo Yome!!" (THE BEST MANGA 2010 このマンガを読め！) and "Da capo Tokubetsu Henshuu: Saikou no Hon! 2010" (ダカーポ特別編集 最高の本！2010) in manga category.


The series was published in English as In This Corner of the World by Seven Seas Entertainment in a complete omnibus on October 31, 2017. It had previously been digitally published in English by JManga.

Publishers:

• Manga Action (magazine)

Twin Brothers Thor and Rai, the sons of murder parents are sent to prison star Kimera. What was waiting for them is a planet where meat eating plants rules and society is in four different colony based on skin color. Will the boys survive in these harsh conditions!?


(Source: MU)


Includes a two-part short called "Death Game".

Juu Ou Sei was re-released in a three-volume edition. This is the edition that was released in official English translation by Tokyopop from August 12, 2008 to June 1, 2009.

Publishers:

• LaLa (magazine)

Your typical romance story between a girl (Konatsu Narumiya) and a guy... except that this guy changes into a pervy girl! He can only change into a girl during the night. Konatsu is the manager of the boys' basketball team, has a crush on the team captain. Unfortunately, the team captain is a complete jerk. When Konatsu confides in another team member, Haruki, about her troubles, their relationship grows closer. The only problem: Haruki is a nice ordinary boy by day, but a pervy girl by night!


(Source: MU)


Included one-shot:

Volume 2: Shounen Ningyo

Liling-Po, a master thief, has finally been captured by the government. But in order to be set free, Liling-Po must do one thing: Retrieve these eight magical, yet mysterious treasures that had been recently stolen from the government. So now, he must go on a journey with two other officials, Mei-Toku and Bu-cho, and find the Eight Great Treasures.


(Source: ANN)

The first eight volumes of Liling-Po were published in English by Tokyopop from May 15, 2006 to April 8, 2008, before the company became defunct.

Publishers:

• Wings (magazine)

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.


(Source: Tokyopop)

Model was published in English by Tokyopop from April 15, 2005 to October 15, 2006.

500 years before the story of Saiyuki, a heretic child with golden eyes is brought into Heaven. He is given into the reluctant care of a minor deity named Konzen, the nephew of the Merciful Goddess Kanzeon Bosatsu. Konzen eventually gives the child the name "Goku." Goku becomes friends with two other minor gods, Marshal Tenpou and General Kenren of the Western Army of Heaven. He also meets a strange little boy who seems to be his own age, the War Prince Nataku. Although Goku is happy in his new home, Heaven is not kind to heretics. There are those who would use Nataku and Goku as tools in an attempt to seize the throne of Heaven, and Konzen, Tenpou, and Kenren may not be able to save them.


(Source: ANN)

Saiyuuki Ibun recounts how a man grew up to become the pivotal character Koumyou, years before the first Saiyuki storyline.


(Source: ANN)

Genjou Sanzo, Son Goku, Sha Gojyo, and Cho Hakkai are summoned by the Heavenly Lords of Sanbutsushin to go and stop the revival of the evil youkai Gyuumao.


This is the pilot chapter/doujin of the manga Gensomaden Saiyuki, done by Kazuya Minekura as a part of the circle Studio Backgammon.

The year is 1921, and this is a Tokyo where monstrous steam-powered robots crash a flower-viewing party only to be cut down samurai-style by a young girl in a kimono and traditional hakama pants.


It's eight years after the horrific Demon War, and Japan is a peaceful prosperous place. Meet Ensign Ogami Ichiro, who has just graduated from the Naval Academy. He's assigned to a base in Tokyo, but soon discovers that his headquarters is the Imperial Theater and his first mission is collecting tickets at the gate. He gamely goes about his menial jobs at the theater, surrounded by beautiful girls who seem to know a lot more about what's going on than he does, but he's about to be swept into a roiling world of robots, demons, and hot girls in uniform.


(Source: Tokyopop)

Sakura Taisen had seven volumes published in English by Tokyopop from December 13, 2005 to May 1, 2008, before the publisher became defunct.

Publishers:

• Magazine E-no (magazine)

A spin-off manga of Sakura Taisen series. As a rookie member of The Imperial Kanade Division, Miyabi Neko beats off enemies with other handsome male members.

The smugglers in our tale—guys who have to clean up the bodies after mob assassinations in which heads get ripped off—are a cold-hearted silent veteran, an old man, and a young guy forced to do dirty work to pay back money he owes the mob. When the young smuggler makes a mistake by allowing a captured rival to escape, the price he must pay for his error gets horrifically high...


(Source: Tokyopop)

Smuggler was published in English by One Peace Books on December 15, 2013.

Publishers:

• Afternoon (magazine)

Yuuki is an energetic teenager who carries the disturbing power of foresight in her dreams. She finds that this is tied to the mysterious Deep Sleep that has overtaken her sister, Yuuka.


Clues left on her cell phone and visions that come to her in her dreams begin to reveal a strange puzzle... and then in one dream, a glass wall stands between her and her sister while a faceless little girl stands by Yuuka. The mysterious girl hands Yuuki a kaleidoscope—which Yuuki discovers she still has when she awakens from the dream the next morning...


(Source: Tokyopop)

Fukai Nemuri no Hana was published in English as Flower of the Deep Sleep by Tokyopop on May 22, 2007. VIZ Media digitally republished the series under the VIZ Select imprint from May 26, 2015 to June 30, 2015.

Publishers:

• Asuka (magazine)

A century ago, the good king Phelios and the Vampire King Duzell had a life-threatening duel. Phelios defeated Duzell, but he was killed in the process. Now Duzell has been reincarnated as a kyawl, a catlike creature, to take revenge on Phelios's reincarnation. He becomes adopted by Princess Ishtar, one of Phelios's decendants. Duzell, with the help of Ishtar, now begins his quest for revenge!

Vampire Game was published in English by TokyoPop from June 17, 2003 to August 29, 2006.

Publishers:

• Wings (magazine)

Lonely high school student Kei Kurono isolates himself out of a growing cynicism toward his fellow man and the cruelty they are capable of enacting. One day, while waiting to take the subway to school, Kei's classmate Masaru Katou leaps onto the tracks in an effort to save a drunk man. Driven by an uncharacteristic desire to rescue someone else, Kei follows Katou down into danger. While successful in saving him, the two boys are killed by the train.


Kei wakes up beside Katou in an apartment full of strangers and furnished by a giant black orb with a glass-like outer surface. After finding out that everyone in the room has recently died, words appear on the black ball tasking them with killing a strange creature. The ball equips Kei and the others with power suits and mysterious guns before sending them off to collect this bizarre bounty.


Although Kei discovers the mission to be far more deadly than originally suspected, he manages to survive. He is teleported back to the apartment where he and the other survivors are rewarded point values according to their actions in battle by the black sphere, which a fellow survivor says is called "Gantz." Despite his death earlier that day, Kei is granted the ability to return to his daily life with one condition: he can be uprooted from his day at any time and summoned back to the apartment, where Gantz will task him and other recently deceased with the assassination of another target.


While Katou dreads the inevitable return to Gantz, Kei finds himself living for the sole purpose of carrying out these missions. Thriving in the heat of battle and learning to care about himself and his comrades, Kei faces escalating monstrous threats that begin to bleed out into his normal life outside of Gantz.

Gantz was published in English by Dark Horse Manga from June 25, 2008 to November 17, 2015. It has also been published in Czech by CREW since 2013.


The series has been adapted into two live-action movies which released in Japan on January 29, 2011 and April 23, 2011 respectively. A TV movie titled Another Gantz was aired before the second film was released and is an alternate telling of the first film.

Publishers:

• Young Jump (magazine)

In a world where injustice prevails, the Holy Knights of Britannia protect their homeland with their unparalleled magic and strength. Their most sought-after targets are "The Seven Deadly Sins": a group of criminals once regarded as the strongest of Britannia's Holy Knights. Their supposed conspiracy to overthrow the Kingdom of Liones led to their defeat at the hands of the Holy Knights, but rumors persist that the seven infamous knights still live.


Ten years later, the Holy Knights ironically stage a coup d'état themselves and capture the King of Liones, installing themselves as the new rulers of the kingdom. Elizabeth Liones, the third princess of the kingdom, sets out on a journey to find the Seven Deadly Sins and request their aid when she stumbles upon a bar owned by Meliodas, the Dragon's Sin of Wrath and the former leader of the disgraced knights. The pair sets out to find Meliodas' old comrades, but will it be hope or despair that awaits them in their travels?

Nanatsu no Taizai won the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards in the shounen manga demographic category, alongside Yowamushi Pedal.


The series has been published in English as The Seven Deadly Sins by Kodansha Comics USA since March 25, 2014; in Spanish by Norma Editorial since September 26, 2014; in French by Pika Edition since March 19, 2014; in Italian by Star Comics since March 29, 2014; in German by Carlsen Manga since March 17, 2015; and in Brazil by JBC since March 21, 2015.

Publishers:

• Shounen Magazine (magazine)

The story of Nishi and Izumi, before the events of GANTZ.

A special one-shot that shows what Nishi does in his spare time.