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Sanctuary is a political thriller and crime story that featured two childhood friends, Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami, who are ruthlessly struggling to set a new paradigm of living in Japan. However, the two friends took radically different paths (playing Rock Paper Scissors to decide who does what): Akira chose the dark path and joined a Yakuza gang, while Chiaki strived to become the youngest member of the Japanese Diet. Being survivors of the Cambodian killing fields, the two characters developed an unmatched aggression and survival instincts, helping them to achieve their common ultimate goal: making Japan their own sanctuary.

Kenta is a young boy who dreams about being a super hero called Wingman. All his classmates love it when he disturbs the courses to apply his holy judgment, as much as the teacher hates that. One day while coming home he finds a beautifull girl in a bikini. Aoi Yume, she gives him a wonderful item, the book of dream which can make anything written on it true, and so began the life of the real super hero for our dear Hirono.

Amagane Rinne, an up-beat schoolgirl, has died. Even though she is dead, she still needs to go to school. But if she's dead, where would she go to school? In Hell, of course! But making friends in a school filled with demons isn't as easy as it sounds (and it doesn't even sound that easy)…

A baseball manga about Araragi and Amakusa, two genius rookies on the Osaka Tigers who are exact opposites. Taiyo Matsumoto's first serialized work.

A family is devastated by the Great Tottori Fire of 1952, but the family comes to terms with the disaster and breaks free from the bonds holding them back. (from MangaUpdates): KNOW THY FATHER The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father's death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi's childhood starts to resurface. The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father's barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents' divorce and a new ‘mother’. Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father. Note: Was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia in 2021

Wang You Cai, who has the abilities of a detective, originally planned to take a break after resigning as a cop; but to his dismay, his friend experienced an unexplainable tragic death. As a detective, he has decided to solve the mystery; while searching for answers, he met the female Mc Zhen Meng, who is part of a mysterious group; confidentially, they start to uncover the truth of many other obnoxious situations. Read to find out more!

Japan is hit by a series of monumental natural disasters that leave the country fragmented and its people devastated. Follow the lives of its citizens as they deal with massive emigration to refugee camps on the Asian mainland and try to solve the political task of rebuilding their nation. A Spirit of the Sun is also a retelling and melding of two well-known stories in Japan. The setting is directly lifted from the early '70s disaster science-fiction book and movie "Nippon Chinbotsu," (Japan Sinks) while many of the characters are allegorical to the key players in the Eastern classic "Sangokushi" (The Three Kingdoms). Sangokushi aficionados may discover greater entertainment by watching the characters in A Spirit of the Sun closely to spot these resemblances. From Kaiji Kawaguchi, the author of Silent Service, Eagle and Zipang (as well as the artist for Confession). --- - **A Spirit of The Sun received the 2006 Shogakukan Manga Award for the Seinen/General Manga along with Rainbow by Masasumi Kakizaki and George Abe** --- Published in Indonesian by Level Comics as A Spirit of the Sun.

Warriors of Eden follows the story of Dragon Quest VII with a few new touches. Arus and Kiefer, along with Maribel, discover an ancient temple on Estard Island. In the temple they discover tablets that allows them to travel to continents that were sealed away in the past and are revived in the future. Warriors of Eden now adds an elemental warrior with each elemental spirit, starting off with Arus as the Warrior of Water. Fujiwara also ties Warriors of Eden with the Roto series with a character named Bezul. He's the reincarnation of Emblem of Roto's Quadal, a sage who fought with Roto during the final battle with Zoma. His apprentice, Guren, is the Warrior of Fire. And, on top of all that, Arus's lizard is named Gregory and now speaks.

Kurio, a child who wishes to be a hero, is thrown to a world where monsters are found all over, and is asked to become their new Monster Master hero since the great tree is withering, the monsters are going berserk, and Terry, the previous monster master, has gone missing. This story acts as a sequel to the original "Dragon Quest Monsters" game for the Gameboy.

A desolate town thought a new chemical facility would bring economic revival but instead chaos breaks loose after a gas leak. It causes a mysterious and toxic fog to consume the town, leaving behind a trail of death and mutation. The fearful townspeople begin their fight to survive while the government tries to hide the truth behind the event.

The story is set in a dystopian near future where the Japan society is experiencing a crime rampage and in which a powerful and secret religious organization, with mysterious goals, is acting as an invisible hand behind the scenes. The main character is their strongest assassin, lent to them by his fanatic mother when he was a child, and now a ruthless killing machine whose fists and feet cause serious damage to his adversaries, and whose weapon of choice is a special cutting wire with which he grabs and scorches his opponents. He’s a man hunter, whose childhood has been stolen and molded after his tormentors, but when the road of forgiveness is precluded to him what can be left to a man to obtain the redemption? Takeo finds the answer in the vengeance, and in eradicating that same evil from which he has born. So this dark and impressive badass guy, after betraying the sept, gets down to business kicking their ass and unleashing his fury against the deadly opponents sent to stop his unparalleled revenge.

Kotaro Kudo was known as the "Streets' Strongest". Once, 13 thugs, thirsty for revenge, kidnapped his younger sister Hinami. Kotaro beat everyone, and on the same night, he was arrested on suspicion of murder, as each of them was later found dead. He is then forcefully enrolled to a certain school, in which all students must meet "a special criteria" to enter… ---

Three students are living fairly normal lives when, one day, they are overcome with intense stomach pain and a star symbol appears like a tattoo on their skin. With the symbol came supernatural powers, as well as enemies coming to kill them. As more and more people develop similar supernatural powers, the story starts to turn into a Battle Royalesque bloody playground, only with an entire city as the setting and many innocents caught in the crossfire. Among other themes, the story asks the question, "When is it alright to kill?" and delves deep into the darkness of the human psyche.

The Animal Liberation Alliance, an eco-terrorist organization, rescues a pregnant chimpanzee from an animal testing lab—only for it to give birth to a half-human, half-chimpanzee "humanzee" named Charlie! Fifteen years later, Charlie's human foster parents are finally ready to send him to a normal high school, where he makes his first friend: a human girl named Lucy. In the meantime, however, the ALA's stance has become ever more extreme, and now they're here to drag Charlie into their terrorist plot... ___ Winner of the prestigious Manga Taisho, as well as an Excellence Award at the Japanese Media Arts Festival.

There was once an oni mother who gave birth to a human-looking child. Instead of an oni's horn, this child was born with a sword in hand called the "Onigirimaru" or Oni Slayer. He has no name and is only referred to by the name of his sword. Though he appears human, he is pure oni. Believing that he will become human once all of his kind vanished from the world of humans, he sets out on his destiny to slay all of his kind. Even now, in the mother world of Japan, he is still out there slaying oni.

The Muromachi Period was a time when nightfall brought true darkness. Set in this era of gloom, the tale of GAGOZE, a violent demon feared even by the monsters, is about to begin!

Because his friends fired a rocket into the US Army camp, Suzuki was wanted by the US Army and the police. While he was running away the sea surface suddenly rose, and when a brilliant light appeared he saw a strange looking battleship flying in the air. He was dumped into the sea and when he crawled onto the battleship there was a beautiful girl standing there. She said her name was Lyx, the princess of another world, and added; "My Father is Japanese, Shinjiro Sakomizu. Please help me, Suzuki".

Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' lives (as long as they have the money for it), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in. Out of a total of 243 chapters chapter 113.5: 'U-18 Knew' was released in a Weekly Shonen Champion special issue and thos it's unnumbered. Also, 11 chapters were not included in the Vertical English release, out of those 11 chapters: 3 were exclusively Included in the hardcover editions of volumes 1-3, and 5 of them are labeled as [Sealed](http://tezukainenglish.com/wp/?page_id=573) meaning they have been excluded from almost every collected release because they were controversial or Osamu wasn't happy with them. --- - **Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 1977, which it shared with Tezuka's other serial, Three-Eyed One** - **Won the 4th Japan Cartoonists Association Special Excellence Award in 1975** --- **Volumes 151-168, 366 and 367, 370 and 371 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works** --- ### Links * alternative official raw: [Kodansha](https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/title?code=1000005202) * new edition: [Akita Shoten](https://www.akitashoten.co.jp/series/1828) * complete edition: [Fukkan](https://www.fukkan.com/fk/CartSearchDetail?i_no=68320833)

The sudden crisis brought the earth directly into the OL era, and all of humanity fell into the hands of unknown forces. Everyone became level one. In the cruel era of the law of the jungle, high school student Ye Hao could only rise to level three. On the verge of death, he accidentally opened the king account upgrade system. Can Ye Hao become the strongest king?

A brutal attack as a child leaves Hyun-Tae emotionless and numb with the inability to feel pain. His condition allows him to become a ruthless gangster that everyone fears. As he begins to hunt for the truth about his past, he also sets his eye on finding a missing jewel worth millions that puts his life at risk.

Space is mainly inhabited by three different groups: the Federation, which is the real government; Various pirate clans, which use special techniques and magic to dominate the frontier; and the outlaws which are just about everywhere in between. There are also various alien races and empires which sort of fall within this category.It is on this frontier where Gene Starwind and his 11-year old partner Jim Hawking, freelance bounty hunters and odd-job takers extraordinaire, live and work. Until they happen to take a job from a mysterious woman named Hilda. In no time flat they`re up to their ears in pirates…

Taro Sakamoto was the ultimate assassin, feared by villains and admired by hitmen. But one day... he fell in love! Retirement, marriage, fatherhood and then... Sakamoto gained weight! The chubby guy who runs the neighborhood store is actually a former legendary hitman! Can he protect his family from danger?

A cataclysm has destroyed the cities and empires of men and disfigured the spirit of humanity. In this nightmare, it falls to him to descend a mysterious tower in search of absolution. Is the angel correct that he is responsible for the destruction of the world, and what can he do in this monster infested world to redeem himself? Based on the Saturn/PSX/PS2/Wii game *Baroque*.

At the behest of his father, Tamekage, Kagetora (Kenshin Uesugi) was sent to Rinsenji Temple from an early age to study Buddhism and the art of war. However, after the death of Tamekage, someone came to seek for Kagetora to be the daimyo of Tochio Castle. Kagetora struggles between being a Buddhist priest and a military commander... How was a genius of war born to live righteously? This is a super epic Sengoku picture scroll depicting the young days of Kenshin Uesugi, a brilliant and witty shogun who lived through a tumultuous and tumultuous life! (Source: ebookjapan)

Ryu stows away on a space vessel, only to be found by the crew when it's far to late to return to earth. So they stick him in a spare sleep capsule instead. Things take a turn for the unexpected, however, when Ryu wakes up to find himself the sole survivor of the expedition, the spaceship having crash landed on a grossly mutated and wholly unfamiliar Earth. Joining forces with fellow survivors from a different crash, Ryu and his comrades fight to survive on this new and deadly Earth as they search for any humans that might've made it through the mysterious apocalypse. The Second part of the Ryu Trilogy

Kenichi, a 20-year-old man, took an entrance exam into college, but fails it for the third straight year. That day, he came across a traffic accident where it appeared that a giant robot went crazy and disrupted the flow of traffic. He meets a person by the name of Mitchy who is trying to save the remaining survivors. Who is this Mitchy person and what does this "Red Party" fraction have to do with the giant robot? Adapted from "Metropolis" by Tezuka Osamu.

Satsuki, a high school boy and his childhood friend are riding in an underground train until it suddenly stops. Upon closer inspection the denizens of the train discover a mysterious beast! Panic sets in as the passengers struggle to survive the beast and escape to the surface.

The typical Kochikame plot involves Ryo-san coming up with a money-making scheme by inventing a new gadget or capitalizing on a fad, achieving great success, calling on Nakagawa's help as things turn sour, and finally losing it all as the fad runs out of steam or out of control. While the plots are gag-driven, much of the humor comes from the juxtaposition of mundane characters with the bizarrely incongruous (Nakagawa's wealth, Maria's appeal, everyone's lack of actual police work), most of which is never explained or rationalized in the slightest. --- - **Won the 30th Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize in 2001** - **Won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award Special Jury Prize in 2004** - **Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2017** - **The Previous Holder of the Guinness World Record for Most Volumes of a Single Manga Series**