Projects

Addicted to Curry

Author: FUNATSU Kazuki (ふなつ一輝)

Synopsis:
Makito Koenji is a curry chef with a mysterious past who helps Yui Sonezaki keep her father's curry restaurant, Ganesha, open through a lack of customers, a hostile takeover attempt by a huge company, and many other challenges. Get addicted... to Curry.

Genres: Action, Comedy, Ecchi, Seinen

Café Occult

Author: Kari (가리)

Artist: AHN No-Uhn (안노은)

Synopsis:
On her way home from shopping around, Suh Rin meets with an unfortunate end when she is hit by an on coming truck. The next thing she knows, she’s being abducted by a stranger. Overwhelmed by the fact she had just been killed, Suh Rin has difficulty grasping the fact that she has entered a new existence in a realm of spirits. More importantly, she has yet to realize that tremendous supernatural powers lie within her… a power great enough to make her the target of abductions by tremendously powerful people within the spirit realm.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror

Chinatsu no Uta

Author: KITAGAWA Shou (きたがわ 翔)

Synopsis:
The series takes place at a certain Japanese location, where a girl moves in with her aunt to a new house after experiencing some more or less shocking events back home. There she meets a boy named Fuyuki, who she from then on spends a lot of time with. The thing special about Chinatsu is her voice, a voice which many seem to have heard before, but from where? What's so special about this girl, and what'll happen in the future?

Genres: Drama, Seinen, Slice of Life

Code-ex

Author: SAKAKI Ichiro (榊一郎)

Artist: HARAO Yumiko (原尾有美子)

Synopsis:
Yuma Saihashi is a Miko who lives at the shrine. She is a lone wolf who distances herself from others and refrains from making friends. During her free time, she gives massages to the elders in the neighborhood but refuses their gifts. Like her friend Chinami, she can emit electromagnetic waves. Her power is not as strong as Chinami’s but she can control it better.

Genres: Sci-fi

Dispatch!!

Artist: KOBAYASHI Hiyoko (こばやしひよこ)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates: The main characters are the sexy and voluptuous Atsuko and Kohei a young policeman who just made Detective. Atsuko is Kohei’s boss and would do anything to get the bad guys. She even uses her body from time to time to catch or distract a criminal.

Genres: Action, Ecchi, Seinen

Doctor Du Ming

Artist: ZHANG Jing (张晶)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates: Du Ming, young anaesthetist in a big Chinese hospital, is haunted by the memory of Zhang Qian: a young lady coming from the same school as him, who bewitched him by the sulphurous beauty and the aura of strangeness she emits. After graduating, Du Ming stayed in touch with Zhang Qian, who writes him. Now a terrible piece of news arises: the young lady is said to have committed suicide.

Genres: Drama, Mature, Psychological, Romance, Seinen

Go! Tenba Cheerleaders

Author: SOGABE Toshinori (宗我部としのり)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates: The Cheerleading Club is trying to recruit the last remaining member of the Rooting Club. Expect an excess of school spirit and fanservice. Boobs.

Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, School Life, Seinen, Oversized Boobs

Hikari no Machi

Author: ASANO Inio (浅野いにお)

Synopsis:
The sun’s rays enter the city of light, as various stories unfold:

Bright, dark and harsh; a story filled with people from whom you’d want to avert your eyes. Yet, it’s close to reality; so maybe it’s true to humanity.

Like an old bond between a boy and a girl, a friendship is born between girls who rarely speak to each other.

A man who dirties his hands for money, and the girlfriend who waits for him to come home.

Genres: Drama, Mature, Seinen, Slice of Life

Kanojo o Mamoru 51 no Houhou

Author: FURUYA Usamaru (古屋兎丸)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates:

February 23rd, 20XX.

Looking for a job in the famous TV station at Odaiba, college senior Jin Mishima attended the recruitment orientation. Not far away from the station, Nanako Okano, a gothic lolita trying to attend a concert, found out that her friends tricked her about the concert ticket because of jealousy. The two bumped into each other and “reunited” — they were junior high classmates — moments before an earthquake of Richter Scale 8.1 turned the island (the entire city, in fact) into ruins.

From here on, 51 Ways is a predictable but remarkably believable survival adventure. Based on a well-researched novel by Minoru Watanabe, the series paints a picture not quite as explicit and horrifying as ones in other apocalyptic fiction, but one that is frightening in it’s detail.

Like many of Furuya’s other works, we’re also shown just how fragmented and superficial Japanese youth has become: gals, rock stars, Gothic Lolita’s, otaku, salarymen, ganguro, and schoolgirls are all here in their self-imposed stereotypical, shallow glory. But while the ugliness of the fragmentation of Tokyo youth is striking – these people all come together in the face of disaster in a way that’s ultimately hopeful. When you strip off the posing and expensive clothing: we’re all the same.

Genres: Action, Drama, Mature, Romance, Sci-fi, Seinen

Let's Lagoon

Author: OKAZAKI Takeshi (岡崎武士)

Synopsis:
Yamada is a castaway on an island without any ships passing by and he is unable to recall why he is there. After finding his sports bag, he assumes he was on a school trip. With only 7 days worth of food, he eventually decides to make a boat to leave the island. He thought he was alone on the island until finding a girl named Imaise Chika eating his food. They then decide to continue carving the boat together. Since the boat only has room for one, Yamada decides to set off for help, but returns upon noticing that not only has Imaise put her share of rations in his bag, they are mostly untouched as well. After returning, he notices she made the oar out of a fishing lance and he decides they can live on the island longer.

Genres: Drama, Ecchi, Romance, Seinen

Nina Jalhae

Author: JO Oon Hak (조운학)

Synopsis:
Choi “Rotten Tooth” Choong Chi just wants to be left alone so that he can study like his mommy told him too. His life-long ambition is to be ranked first academically in school. Unfortunately for him, he’s also a brilliant fighter, coveted (or targeted) by every gang that crosses his path.

After transferring to the prestigious Yong Yong High School from the delinquent-ridden 88 Academy, Rotten Tooth also makes a new discovery: girls, and to top it all off, the prettiest and smartest girl in the school, Yeon Doo. Too bad his main rival Jang Bogo is also after the same girl.

Genres: Action, Comedy, Shounen

Nodame Cantabile - Opera Hen

Author: NINOMIYA Tomoko (二ノ宮知子)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates: The son of a famous pianist, music student Shinichi Chiaki dreams of studying abroad and becoming a conductor like his mentor. Unfortunately, his fear of flying grounds his lofty plans! As he watches other classmates achieve what he has always wanted, Shinichi wonders if he should quit music altogether. Then one day he meets fellow student Megumi Noda, also known as Nodame. This oddball girl cannot cook, clean, or even read a music score, but she can play the piano in incomparable Cantabile style. And she teaches Chiaki something that he has forgotten: to enjoy his music, no matter where he is.

Nodame Cantabile received the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo manga, and was a jury recommendation at both the 2005 and 2008 Japan Media Arts Festivals. It was a finalist for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2005 and 2006, but did not win.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Josei, Romance, School Life, Slice of Life

Pineapple Army

Author: KUDOU Kazuya (工藤かずや)

Artist: URASAWA Naoki (浦沢直樹)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates: Pineapple Army is a story about a legendary Japanese ex-mercenary, working as a self-defense instructor. He is sent all around the world for a job by an international self-defense agency, and in each episode, there is a human drama. Along the way, he also saves the world a few times from the hands of terrorists.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Seinen

Pumpkin Scissors

Author: IWANAGA Ryoutarou (岩永亮太郎)

Synopsis:
The bitter war between the Empire and the Republic of Frost has ended, but three years after the cease-fire, the Empire is still ravaged by starvation and disease, and bandits terrorize the populace. Can the Imperial Army State Section III, aka Pumpkin Scissors, stop a renegade force with chemical weapons? And who is the mysterious stranger helping Pumpkin Scissors?

Genres: Action, Shounen

Sekitou Elergy

Author: KIRA Takashi (きらたかし)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates: Satoshi Yanagawa is working part-time as a police assistant, and works with a beautiful girl that he likes at first sight. But she has a pretty bad character. Are there any prospects for romance? Read on to find out, the story is hilarious at certain moments, and touching at others.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life

Spas-Pa

Author: MIYAKE Taishi (三宅大志)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates: Itsuki Minamori has fallen asleep in class and dreams about a girl from his past. He is awakened by Haruna a girl who apparently has a crush on him, but her friend Chihaya Yuuki tells her to stay away from this boy. He explains that he’s spent his life being followed by evil ghosts and during the exposition, another one shows up.

Genres: Action, Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural

Zero: Circle of Flow

Author: IM Dal Young (임달영)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates: Gi Yuh is the leader of the strongest gang in his high school. He lives together with his younger sister, who seems to love him. When saving the beautiful Ha Na from a truck he instead gets injured and lies in coma for two weeks. During these two weeks he dives into a strange dreamworld and after his recovery he is not the same anymore. He regularly dreams about what seems to be a past him. To find out what happened to him he asked his teacher for help, who has friends, who deal with fortunetelling and supernatural powers. Here he finds the answer to his strange condition: He is supposed to be a “higher” ghost”, who takes the position of a dead or soon-dying person.

Genres: Action, Ecchi, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Seinen

Ann Cassandra

Author: HIFUMISHI Gorou (斐文士吾朗)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates:

Bekku Nanaki is mirror clairvoyant. She moved to Tokyo from the countryside to escape calamities she sees. There, she witnesses an accident on the road caused by a mobile fish vendor, who saves her from being crushed by a billboard that falls from above.

The next day, he turns out to be Banjou Kizaki, her classmate and a student held back due to his involvement in incidents and accidents that others attribute to his being unlucky. His eccentric behavior, however, catches her attention, which he explains as changing the future…

Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural

Moriguchi Orito no Teiougaku

Author: OKAYU Masaki (おかゆまさき)

Artist: SANADA Rin 真田鈴)

Synopsis:
Moriguchi Orito is transferring to a new school, but being lost in the fog he can’t find his way to it and end up bumping into a beautiful girl and got struck by a vision of her in a very sexy pose. Seeing him with his cellphone in his hand, she thinks he took a picture of her and runs away crying, “My life has ended!”, dropping her own cellphone in the process. Finally finding his way to the school, he realises that it’s full of very weird people, and that his new seat is next to an empty desk where a bag is hanging with the same strap as the one on the cellphone the beautiful girl dropped…

Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, Seinen, Supernatural

Ordinary±

Author: TAKAHASHI Keitarou (高橋慶太郎)

Synopsis:
Two assassins met – Imari Matoba, Yayoi Kawaguchi; one lost his master and they part.

“We’ll help each other out if we’re in trouble.”
“I have no intention of needing the help of an assassin.”

What does Fate have in store for them in the future? Will they meet again? As enemies or allies?

Genres: Action, Seinen

Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo

Author: SAKURAZAKA Hiroshi (桜坂洋)

Synopsis:
From Manga-Updates:

Kirisaki Fumio’s just a highschool girl in love…

…but then she finds out that the guy she’s fallen for happens to love someone else.

…so she decides to go out and get a chainsaw.

And take it to school.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, School Life, Seinen, Tragedy

Era of Death

Author: Kari (가리)

Artist: LEE Sung-Gyu (이성규)

Synopsis:
Mok, a son of a Yangban, becomes seriously ill and finds out that he's being protected by four divine spirits and is also gifted with special abilities. After he is cured, he is able to see the world of spirits and ghosts. Fortunately, his new friend Han helps him in his new life between the worlds of humans and spirits, because with these new abilities, new adventures await him...

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Historical, Seinen, Supernatural

Hatsukanezumi no Jikan

Author: TOUME Kei (冬目景)

Synopsis:
Maki Takano and his three best friends Ryo, Natsume and Mei are students at a private academy for highly gifted children. Like all the other students of this isolated and heavily guarded school, they have never seen the outside world since they were brought to the school at the young age of three.

When a new female student named Kiriko Hinatsu arrives, Maki has the strange feeling that he has met her before. However, he seems to be the only person who can remember the girl. When he confronts her with his discovery, Kiriko reveals the unbelievable truth about their existence and the school they’re attending.

Maki now has to decide: will he continue his school life or will he help Kiriko escape even if that means putting himself and his mental health at risk?

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-fi, Seinen

Mr. Fullswing

Author: SUZUKI Shinya (鈴木信也)

Synopsis:
Baseball, girls, gags, and one big idiot, that’s Mr Fullswing for you. The new generation of Sports/Gag manga has been born with the release of this insane series, so what are you waiting for, get to reading!

Genres: Comedy, Shounen, Sports

Otaku no Musume-san

Author: Stu-Hiro (すたひろ)

Synopsis:
Kanau Yukimura is nine years old and she’s meeting her father for the first time. However, he turns out to be an otaku! The two of them start living together in the same apartment, next to a lot of interesting neighbors. Unsurprisingly, things don’t always go smoothly for these two…

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Shounen

Zokusei

Author: MATSUYAMA Seiji (松山せいじ)

Synopsis:
Zokusei follows the adventures of a male (who seems to change every few chapters) and a short, humorous, but mostly ecchi encounter with the various females he meets, whether it’s in school, in the class room, or in the nurse’s office. Each chapter is a mere 9-13 pages, and contains more fan service than needed!

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Shounen