Gekiga Hitler (劇画ヒットラー) – 1 Volume Complete

Title:Gekiga Hitler (劇画ヒットラー) – 1 Volume Complete

Alternative Name : 劇画ヒットラー, Gekiga Hitler, Hitler: La Novela Gráfica, Hitler: The Graphic Novel
Genre(s) : Drama, Historical, Psychological, Seinen
Author : MIZUKI Shigeru
Artist : MIZUKI Shigeru
Years : 1971
Status in Country of Origin : 01 Volume (Complete)

Hitler: The Graphic Novel is a rigorous and lucid biography illuminated with a pulse and freshness that only a full-blooded narrator can still bring about on one of the most complex figures in the history of the world.

From his beginnings as a mediocre painter to the horror of the Final Solution, the maestro of manga, Shigeru Mizuki, draws some of his best pages in this work without losing sight of a human monster, all too human.

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Tomodachi Game (トモダチゲーム) – Update Volume 2

Title:Tomodachi Game (トモダチゲーム) – Update Volume 2

Alternative Name : トモダチゲーム, 朋友游戏, Friends Games
Genre(s) : Shounen
Author : YAMAGUCHI Mikoto
Artist : SATOU Yuuki
Years : 2014
Status in Country of Origin : 02 Volumes (Ongoing)

Katagiri Yuichi believes that friends are more important than money, but he also knows the hardships of not having enough funds. He works hard to save up in order to go on the high school trip, because he has promised his four best friends that they will all go together. However, after the class’s money is all collected, it is stolen! Suspicion falls on two of Yuichi’s friends, Sawaragi Shiho and Shibe Makoto.

Soon afterward, the five of them are kidnapped, and wake up in a strange room with a character from a short-lived anime. Apparently, one of them has entered them into a “friendship game” in order to take care of their massive debt. But who was it, and why did they have such a debt? Could they have stolen the money from class to pay for entry into the game? Katagiri and his best friends will have to succeed in psychological games that will test or destroy their faith in one another.

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Tsukidate no Satsujin (月館の殺人) – 2 Volume Complete

Title;Tsukidate no Satsujin (月館の殺人) – 2 Volume Complete

Alternative Name : 月館の殺人, 月館殺人事件
Genre(s) : Comedy, Mystery, Seinen
Author : AYATSUJI Yukito
Artist : SASAKI Noriko
Years : 2004
Status in Country of Origin : 02 Volumes (Complete)

On the island of Okinawa, Sorami Karigaya is a high school girl who lost her father many years ago, and her mother just passed away. Two months after her mother’s death, an attorney from Hokkaido arrives at her residence, claiming on behalf of her maternal grandfather with inheritance issues, who had been claimed long dead by Sorami’s mother. The attorney explains it as a lie because for some reason she hated her father so much that she didn’t even reveal his existence to Sorami. After arriving Hokkaido, the attorney tells Sorami an additional condition: her grandfather can only be reached by an express train named Genya, a type of transportation her mother prohibited her from taking.

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UFO Robo Grendizer (UFOロボグレンダイザー) – 3 Volume Complete

Title:UFO Robo Grendizer (UFOロボグレンダイザー) – 3 Volume Complete

Alternative Name : UFO Robo Grendizer, UFOロボグレンダイザー
Genre(s) : Mecha, Sci-fi
Author : NAGAI Go
Artist : OUTA Gosaku
Years : 1976
Status in Country of Origin : 03 Volumes (Complete)

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.

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Unknown (UNKNOWN -アンノウン-) – Update Volume 2

Title:Unknown (UNKNOWN -アンノウン-) – Update Volume 2

Alternative Name : UNKNOWN -アンノウン-
Genre(s) : Action, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
Author : YOSHIMURA Tsumuzi
Artist : YOSHIMURA Tsumuzi
Years : 2013
Status in Country of Origin : 04 Volumes (Ongoing)

Wisdom brings good fortune; but wisdom that is too advanced to humans bring destruction.
Ox and Ivan, a pair of “wisemen”, are on a journey to collect wisdoms that are in the wrong hands.

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Yasha Garasu (夜叉鴉) – 10 Volume Complete

Title:Yasha Garasu (夜叉鴉) – 10 Volume Complete

Alternative Name : 夜叉鴉
Genre(s) : Action, Adventure, Horror, Mature, Seinen, Supernatural
Author : OGINO Makoto
Artist : OGINO Makoto
Years : 1993
Status in Country of Origin : 10 Volumes (Complete)

Nachi Takeru is a young man who supervises a mountain shrine, where three teenage girls also work. Takeru can’t get into any good colleges, but he figures that he’s destined to run his family’s shrine, anyway. The three girls are working at the isolated shrine for various reasons, and they sometimes complain about being so far away from cute boys (other than Takeru) and civilization. However, aside from the peaceful mountain shrine life, Takeru also uses his shinto powers to defeat powerful evil spirits (Aradama) as the protector Yasha Garasu!

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AD. Police 25-ji (AD.ポリス25時) – 1 Volume Complete

Title:AD. Police 25-ji (AD.ポリス25時) – 1 Volume Complete

Alternative Name : AD.POLICE 終焉都市, AD.POLICE Shuuen Toshi
Genre(s) : Action, Mature, Sci-fi, Seinen
Author : SUZUKI Toshimichi
Artist : TONY Takezaki
Years : 1989
Status in Country of Origin : 01 Volume (Complete)

The AD Police are an elite group of highly trained and specially equipped police officers who have been formed to deal with terrorist activities and Boomer robot crimes in the city of Megatokyo. They are too heavily armed and equipped (including power armors like the K-11 and K-12) for a normal police force, and too lightly for a military organization.

The AD Police are offered a great deal of leeway in their activities, often blockading large sections of the city and causing great amounts of property damage in the course of fulfilling their duty. Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Megatokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the AD Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.

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Ai. (あい。) – 11 Volume Complete

Title:Ai. (あい。) – 11 Volume Complete

Alternative Name : あい。, 你不知道什么是爱, 爱, Ai: You Don’t Know What Love Is, You Don’t Know What Love Is
Genre(s) : Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Mature, Romance, Seinen
Author : SENDOU Masumi
Artist : SENDOU Masumi
Years : 2000
Status in Country of Origin : 11 Volumes (Complete)

Renji is a photography college student., just now living on his own in Tokyo. He sets about seducing a classmate, and then things start to go in direction he didn’t expect.

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Ai wa Noroi no Nihon Ningyou (あいは呪いの日本人形) – 1 Volume Complete

Title:Ai wa Noroi no Nihon Ningyou (あいは呪いの日本人形) – 1 Volume Complete

Alternative Name : あいは呪いの日本人形♥, 小爱是日本诅咒人偶, Ai is a Cursed Japanese Doll
Genre(s) : Ecchi, Shounen, Supernatural
Author : SUIHEI Kiki
Artist : SUIHEI Kiki
Years : 2008
Status in Country of Origin : 01 Volume (Complete)

Figures are one of the many things that otakus love. Kotobuki is one of those otakus that love figures. One day he looks through his aunt’s storage and finds a Japanese doll. His aunt warns him that the doll is cursed and has been put away for a long time due to this.

So what?

Kotobuki only sees the Japanese doll, named Ai, as another figure to add to his collection. Ai, existing as a doll to scare off people, feels insulted that her scares aren’t working, but at the same time she realizes that Kotobuki isn’t just an otaku, he has pride and love for figures, and Ai is no exception.

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Aizawake no Etosetora (相沢家のえとせとら) – Update Volume 2

Title:Aizawake no Etosetora (相沢家のえとせとら) – Update Volume 2

Alternative Name : 相沢家のえとせとら, 아이자와 가문이야기, Aizawake no Etc, Aizawake no Etc., Aizawake no Etcetera
Genre(s) : School Life, Seinen, Shoujo Ai
Author : MANAMI Tatsuya
Artist : MANAMI Tatsuya
Years : 2007
Status in Country of Origin : 02 Volumes (Ongoing)

Aizawa Umi is a good-natured girl who is the youngest of three sisters that live together. Her oldest sister, 21-year-old Sora, is kind of pushy and intimidating, but it’s clear that she loves her sisters. The middle sister, Riku, is cheerfully clumsy and enthusiastic about life. Riku and Umi attend high school together, where they both hang out with their friends and Umi tries to handle her crush on a male classmate. This 4-koma tells comedic stories about their everyday home and school life.

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