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Jinsei Nagai, aka "Bare-Knuckles Jinsei". Born in a dumpster, raised in an orphanage, living as a yakuza, he is tough enough that he fights all his fights bare-handed, and is covered with countless knife and bullet scars from his battles. But his life changes when he saves the five-year-old Ayumi, daughter of the new police chief, Enjoji Masayoshi, and befriends their family. For the first time in his life, Jinsei feels like he's found a family of his own, and decides to start his life over, but his past and his ties to the yakuza keep getting in the way.

A story about two brothers crawling to survive in the mafias.

Raised by an older brother who was a genius gambler and learned countless tricks of the trade, the man known as "Bull" knows every kind of cheat. However, he himself has never used any of them—he lives a regular life as a full-time office worker. Then one day, his brother goes missing. As Bull searches for him, he uncovers a clue: his brother has fallen into "the Swamp," a deadly gambling den where those consumed by greed end up. To save the kind brother he once knew—and to uncover his brother's hidden side—Bull steps into "the Swamp"!

Flower shop owner Sendou Morio (42) lives with his wife and high-school-aged daughter, but business at the flower shop is not going well, and his wife is working part-time for them to make ends meet. Encouraged by his wife to attend his university reunion, he runs into his former best friend, Kagayama. Reunited for the first time in a long time, Morio reminisces about the past, but Kagayama suggests to him a certain job…

Born as a daughter of a gangster family, Hanazame Ranko longs for an "ordinary romance". However, the young head of another group, Sumikawa, always bothers her! People are scared away because of Sumikawa, who is said to be the worst in the underworld! However, he always sticks by her and if she falls in love with him, whe can't go back to "normal" anymore. A heroine who never wants to fall in love x a young head who plays with her, a love struggle without justice, breaks out here!

A Spinoff of <Castle 2: Pinnacle> - An action drama featuring Saroka 'Seo Jintae'! Jintae becomes a killer after being saved by a man when he was at life's lowest point. While searching for his long-lost sister, he discovers that his younger sister is in Hong Kong and deeply involved with the Triad, Hong Kong's largest criminal organization. Thus begins Jintae's journey as he confronts the Triad in the nighttime streets of Hong Kong while searching for his sister.

(from ebookjapan): A boy, Jiro Ryuzen, is imprisoned in Kanto Juvenile Prison for the crime of "killing his father. He was sent to Seiun Gakuen, a prestigious private school, in handcuffs, which was ruled by the immensely powerful Goji Shinryu... Together with five members of the Gokehoren, his allies in the juvenile prison, Nagare's fierce battle has begun!

After a four-year absence, Ishida Kotori (QP) returns to the city where even his face instills fear amongst the locals. Trying desperately to move away from his once violent past and live an honest life, former classmate and now high profile gang member, Azuma Ryou, has other plans for QP's future.. QP: Soul of Violence is written by Takahashi Hiroshi and set within the same universe as his other works, Crows and Worst.

Young Chihiro spends his days training under his famous swordsmith father. One day he hopes to become a great sword-maker himself. The goofy father and the serious son--they thought these days would last forever. But suddenly, tragedy strikes. A dark day soaked in blood. Chihiro and his blade now live only for revenge.

What if the Port Mafia's Hellhound, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, had joined the Armed Detective Agency? Likewise, what if Atsushi Nakajima belonged to the Port Mafia? In the parallel world of Bungo Stray Dogs: Beast, fledgling detective Akutagawa's desperate mission to rescue his younger sister from the Port Mafia's clutches brings him face-to-face with the organization's fearsome White Reaper…a.k.a. Atsushi Nakajima. What does fate have in store for the two beasts in this alternate tale of darkness versus light…?[4]

A recent college graduate struggles to find a job that fits his abilities, but one day he is hired by a strange company where all the employees have flashy tattoos. The young man meets the charismatic leader of the group and finds out that he is working for the yakuza.

An old school yakuza, Nagamasa Ryumatsu, ended up losing his life due to certain circumstances. But, when he awakened to a strange sort of scenery he had never seen before, he found that he had somehow changed into a beautiful girl?!

Continuation of the manga "Jesus". The legendary killer, hiding under the guise of school teacher Fujisawa Shingo, returns to Japan after more than ten years! What made him come back? What has he been doing for these ten years? Is one of his new students connected to 24? Read on and find out in JESUS: Path of the Sandstorm!

During the past decades, Japan has become the shining star of Asia, with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of science, technology, medicine, quality of life, and many others. Yet, while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more of those engaged in a furious struggle for something as simple as earning to cover their day-to-day living expenses; all the while battling dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism. What would these poor and not-so people do when they require the money to fulfill their never-ending desires, the desires that are part and parcel of being human? Just how miserable and dangerous might their lives become were they to fall into traps laid by *yamikin*, the loan sharks of the Japanese financial world's dark side, whose only goal is to ensnare such weak-willed souls? Adapted into film and a J-Drama. --- - **Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 2011** - **Won the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Social Impact Award in 2020**

Shin, a serial murderer, has shaken the entire nation of South Korea to its core. Jihu Seo, who lost his father to Shin’s evil deeds, meets another victim: Duseok Kim, a former detective who also had his family murdered by Shin. Duseok vows to turn Jihu into a human weapon to exact revenge on Shin - in prison, with his bare hands. “Korea has not implemented the death penalty since 1997. With no one else upholding justice, what other choice is there?”

**NightS** Masato Karashima is a "transporter", a man paid to smuggle anything from guns to drugs to people. When he's hired by yakuza gang member Masaki Hozumi, he finds himself attracted to the older man, and what starts out as a business transaction quickly spirals into a cat-and-mouse game of lust and deception. In **Kanjou Spectrum** (Emotion Spectrum) A high-school student tries to be a good wingman for a classmate, with an unexpected result. **Reply** Told from the alternating perspectives of an emotionally reserved salesman and the shy mechanic who's in love with him. **Night One Month After** A short story (8 pages) that takes place one month earlier than "NightS dj - Another Story" (thus one month after events of "NightS" ;) , when Karashima first time visits Masaki after he discovers his whereabouts. - [SuBLime](https://www.sublimemanga.com/reader/667)

Anthology of short stories created by Kodansha mangaka to celebrate the release of the Hollywood Ghost in the Shell movie adaptation. - Chapter 1 - **A Day In The Life** by Yu Kinutani - Chapter 2 - **Ghost in the Shell - INFLUENTIAL PERSON in SHADOW ~A Man in the Dark~** (攻殻機動隊 INFLUENTIAL PERSON in SHADOW 〜暗闇で操る者〜, Koukaku Kidoutai - INFLUENTIAL PERSON in SHADOW ~Kurayami de Ayatsuru Mono~) by Boichi - Chapter 3 - **The Closed City** (閉鎖都市, Heisa Toshi) by Tomonori Inoue - Chapter 4 - **Meeting Again** by Masayuki Yamamoto - Chapter 5 - **Neet Shosa** (ニート少佐) by Yu Imai - Chapter 6 - **Classic** (クラシック) by Nokuto Koike - Chapter 7 - **Kai Joudou no Ori** (快情動の檻) by Nobuaki Tadano - Chapter 8 - **Hopeful Monster** by Takumi Oyama - Chapter 9 - **Tony Takezaki's Mobile Armored Riot Police - THE GHOST IN THE SHELL** (Tony Takezaki no Koukaku Kidoutai - THE GHOST IN THE SHELL, トニーたけざきの攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL) by Tony Takezaki

Kinukawa Yuusuke is a second-class pianist who earns a living by playing in small clubs. Things become complicated when Fukami, a yakuza boss with mesmerizing looks, becomes a regular at Yuusuke's piano bar. As Fukami's appreciation for Yuusuke's piano playing grows, so do Yuusuke's feelings for him. Although Yuusuke knows he shouldn't be attracted to such a dangerous man, he finds himself unable to stop thinking about Fukami. And so, one night in a desperate attempt to get Fukami's attention on something other than music, Yuusuke spills a drink on him…

People, weapons, drugs, corpses, or anything else - he will always carry them for "10,000 yen per meter". The strongest and fastest cab driver, "Raba the Courier"! A new action series by Kota Ohira, the director of "All Living Things", featuring a fast-moving car action and a flashy battle with bullets flying! The passion is now running through at top speed!

Golgo 13, the man who is shrouded in mystery, and the terrifying facts that shine behind the fiction... The trajectory of the bullets fired by Golgo 13 will determine the course of the world's murky waters! British Intelligence hires Golgo 13 to eliminate a former Nazi SS chief who hid a vast amount of counterfeit money at WWII's end. What awaits him in the fortified castle? Currently the longest running manga series done by one of the members of the gekiga group. The bestselling Seinen manga (and the best selling Gekiga) as of 2022 with over 300 million tankoban volumes sold, and the 2nd bestselling manga in history behind Dragon Ball and One Piece. --- - **1976 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga winner** - **2002 31st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize winner** - **2005 50th Shogakukan Manga Jury Special Award winner** - **2021 Guinness World Record for Most Volumes of a Single Manga Series** - **The 2nd Bestselling Manga in History** --- [Anime and live action adaptions](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=1519)

Lupin the Third and his motley crew return in Shin Lupin III! This time, several of the stories are either brand new or adapted from or to the Lupin anime, and the beginning story was even animated by itself several years later! Lupin the Third is the grandson of the famous literary thief Arsène Lupin, and his partners in crime include the sharpshooter Jigen Daisuke, the stoic samurai Goemon Ishikawa the Thirteenth, and the on-again-off-again lover/enemy Fujiko Mine. Their goal is to outwit enemies bigger than themselves while nabbing the world's rarest and most important items, while also outwitting the dogged Inspector Zenigata, who's made it his life's work to capture and secure Lupin. In the manga however, his relationship with the titular thief isn't as "respecting to the enemy" as you would expect, as he's attempted multiple times to kill him without shedding a tear! What kind of sexy exploits will Lupin and his crew get up to next in…Shin Lupin III!

After Japan lifting the ban on narcotics, drug addicts now gained a paranormal power from the new drug Icarus. Those who gained power are called the "Dope Men" and have become a threat to humanity. In order to crack down on them, The Narcotics Control Department established a special investigation team commonly known as the "D Unit". Now a doping battle beyond the human knowledge has begin!

Jockey Tetsu is a man who lives by his own style. One day, he is charmed by a certain horse and follows it to the end. What Tetsu finds is a runaway horse on the verge of being killed by poison. **Note:** The 2004 and 2018 releases also include the 3-chapter story *Unrepentant Samba*.

As the conflict between Kenji Endo, his childhood friends, and cult leader "Friend" comes to an end, two mysteries remain—Friend's true identity and whether the threat of an "anti-photon bomb" before his death was legitimate. Hoping to find an answer, Kenji, alongside the United Nations, decides to use a virtual reality program created from Friend's childhood memories in this conclusion to a long journey that will span decades.

Hiroki Endou's latest series tells the story of two old friends, Meguru Takayanagi and Takashi Yamabuki, who after a long time meet each other again at an amateur Shooto mixed martial arts contest. While Meguru only practices MMA for fun, Takashi is pursuing a serious goal. Even though each of them has their own reason to fight, both are becoming stronger with each match… Universally praised for its realism and accurate depiction of martial arts, All-Rounder Meguru is one of the first manga to provide a glimpse into the energetic and exciting world of modern MMA. ___ **Official English Volumes:** [Kodansha USA](https://kodansha.us/series/all-rounder-meguru/)

Naoto Date is a feared heel wrestler in America known as Tiger Mask who is extremely vicious in the ring. However, he decides to change after returning to Japan when a young boy tells him he wants to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grows up. The boy resides in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he does not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger is inspired to be a heroic wrestler. The main antagonists are Tiger's Cave, a mysterious organization that trains young people to be villainous heel wrestlers on the condition that they give half of their earnings to the organization. Tiger Mask was once a member of Tiger's Cave but no longer wants anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriates the leader of the organization and he sends numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, after Tiger Mask to punish him. Most of the environment and characters are fictitious, but real-life pro wrestlers Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba are included in the story as well.