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"The Pretty Guardian in a Sailor Suit! Sailor Venus has arrived!" Thirteen-year-old Minako Aino is an active tomboy who loves idols and video games, and is a popular member of Shiba Koen Junior High School's volleyball team. One day during her PE class, Minako accidentally stumbles upon a white cat, who later sidetracks her from talking to her crush. At home, Minako wonders if she is beautiful, and hearing this, the cat introduces himself as Artemis and gives her a compact mirror that shows Minako more than just her beauty. Before she can fully take in the cat's words, Minako receives a special pen that can transform her into the masked champion of justice, Sailor V! As her carefree love-seeking days begin to include adventures against the energy-seeking Dark Agency, Minako will learn to embrace the full extent of her destiny. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy
• +3

The final diary written with you. On the day they entered university, Haruki and Sakura had a fateful encounter in the classroom. Charmed by each other, they lived together after graduation, but their separation came suddenly. Sakura had disappeared from the world. Since then it's been five years, five cherry blossom seasons. Still brokenhearted, Haruki happens to find a diary. It was the yet-unfinished ten-year diary that Sakura had been keeping. (Source: Square Enix, translated)

• Drama
• Girls Love

At first, Yona gave some major side-eye to the popular game "Concubine Walkthrough" until she got sucked into it—literally! Now stuck as the villain, she has her hands full facing the infamously cruel emperor, shaking off scheming concubines, and befriending NPCs. There's only one way the Game Master will let her out and that's to become the Empress! Will she be able to stay true to her honest and straightforward self despite the palace's intrigues? One extra problem: she's got competition... (Source: Tapas Media)

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Romance

Professional flutist Naomi Kuchiki has been suffering from strange nightmares where she sees a man holding a skull. Unable to fall asleep, she consults with psychologist Matsuzaki—who is anything but conventional. He immediately deciphers Kuchiki's reason for coming to his office and tells her that, beneath these incomprehensible dreams, there might lay a deep-rooted memory she wishes to forget. At the same time, a headless skeleton is found in an empty apartment following an anonymous call. Inspector Tsuyoshi Ishikura suspects that the caller is involved in the case and has set up the crime scene as a challenge to the police. Going off of a mysterious apple-like symbol on the window frame and a photo from five years ago, he sets out to find the one responsible. Elsewhere, the grand return of musical director Yasafumi Yuuki leads to a fallout between violinist Akiho Maya—Kuchiki's friend and Yuuki's ex-girlfriend—and her fiance Kazuo Tamaki, a pianist with an injured hand. With all the pieces being brought together, the tragic mystery behind Kuchiki's memory loss is about to unfold. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

• Drama
• Horror
• Mystery
• +3

Confidential Confessions is a shocking new manga series that deals with many of the hard-hitting issues that teens face today. Using emotionally moving story lines and multi-dimensional characters, each groundbreaking volume tackles such topics as teen prostitution, rape, HIV, stalkers, suicide, and sexual harassment. (Source: Tokyopop)

• Drama
• Romance

The story happens in a circus in Paris in the 1970's. (...) Much is made of the romance of the circus atmosphere, of flying through the air on a trapeze, etc etc. Think cirque here, not circus. We're doing Old World riffs on the romance and tawdriness of the ring. There are no elephants in tutus walking on their hind legs; it's slit-eyed jugglers and daring death-loving trapeze artists and sad Pierrot clowns, even if the Pierrot clown - our hero, Torinosu, 'Bird's Nest' - has a false red nose. The tawdriness comes from the circus master pimping out his performers to anyone willing to pay. (...) And there's tanbi decadence - ghosts who wander into the action looking like teenaged girls even if they're the hero's brother, and abandoned neurotic women with a thing for inflicting pain, and buracon and possible murder and unspoken pining and a hero who looks about to perish at any moment from terminal angst. (Source: Aestheticism)

• Boys Love
• Drama
• Romance
• +2

In 2016, a meltdown of a nuclear power plant creates a big catastrophe in Tokyo. 20 years later, the city has become a ghost town due to the high levels of radiation. From that area, a distress signal is received. The Self-Defense Forces dispatch three girls from the special unit "Coppelion" to search for survivors. But why aren't they wearing any protection against radiation? (Source: MU)

• Action
• Drama
• Sci-Fi

Christine Langton is a tomboy whose relatives send her away to a boarding school after her father dies. The school is divided into three classes—an upper, lower, and special class. As fate would have it, Chris is sorted into the lower class and given a dusty old room in the attic. In fact, all of the students are oppressed by the cruel headmistress, Ms. Desdemona, and no one can stop it but the students themselves. (Source: Which Scanlations)

• Drama
• Romance

Tough, lazy, money lover, yet beautiful high school student named Shin Bia. While she's thinking about the era's she suddenly falls into that ancient time period! She had to transform into an elegant lady and while she's there she faces quite an obstacle. (Source: HMR Scans)

• Comedy
• Drama
• Romance
• +1

The protagonist, a poor, moody student named Tachi Miroku, was recently recognized as the Best New Writer in a major literary competition, but the stress of living up to his family's goals of him becoming a powerful man has broken him on the cusp of greatness. Despite his tremendous potential, success does not come easy. Alone and without direction, every day is a vicious battle with his past and his moral fiber. He hasn't been to work in four months and his dreams are a total mess filled with abuse, taunting, and the strong smell of blood. And that is just the tip of the iceberg... (Source: JManga)

• Drama

All that matters to 15-year-old Nobara Sumiyoshi is volleyball—she's an awesome player with big-time ambitions. But sometimes it seems like a girl just can't get a break in the competitive world of high school volleyball. (Source: VIZ Media) Included one-shots: Volume 15: "Second" Volume 16: Sugar

• Drama
• Romance
• Sports

Less than siblings. More than friends. When her grandmother passes away, high school student Kajitsu Toda suddenly finds two hot stepbrothers and an adorable little stepsister dropped in her lap! Kajitsu and her step-siblings have only one thing in common: they were all abandoned by their parents. Against the odds, they've pulled together to form a family without grown-ups. They don't want charity, they don't want pity—they just want their dignity! Things are particularly tough for Kajitsu and her step-brother Natsu. As kids, they were as close as any true siblings. Now, reunited for the first time in seven years, they've grown as far apart as two people can be. Can they ever become friends again? And can two high school students living together, even as "siblings" ever escape scandal? (Source: Go! Comi) Included one-shot: Volume 6: Sotsugyou Ryokou Gentei☆Kanojo (Girlfriend Only for Graduation Trip)

• Comedy
• Drama
• Romance

An assassin is retiring after he finishes dodging bullets from his current assignment, all while fantasizing about his future leisurely life, when a strange woman throws a little boy down to him and begs him to, "Save this child!" 14 years later, instead of managing a fancy art gallery he's doing manual labor and raising an increasingly distant teenage boy but he's happy to provide a happy home for his new son until he realizes why Ryuunosuke has been acting so strangely.... (Source: Dangerous Pleasure)

• Boys Love
• Drama
• Erotica

Subaru Takahashi recalls the six months after his wife, Chika, was diagnosed with cancer.

• Drama
• Romance

Manga adaptation of Dante Alighieri's classic work The Divine Comedy.

• Drama
• Mystery
• Supernatural

Conor, a Korean-American, lives in a city where same-sex marriage has been legalized, but where racist and homophobic hate crimes are still frequent. He joins a band with the blonde hair, blue-eyed Simon and the two go on to create their own "dark heaven" in an abandoned church. Feelings develop between the pair, but light cannot dwell with dark, and their time together will soon come to an end... (Source: Lezhin Comics)

• Boys Love
• Drama
• Erotica

She just wants to start fresh so she can graduate in peace. She just wants to leave behind all the bad memories—her sleepwalking, the trauma from being bullied at school—all of it. She did everything she could to keep to herself, but the class president, Hae-on, just won't leave her alone. One day, when Seulbi visits the local lake Hae-on recommended, she comes across something she never imagined seeing in her wildest dreams: a wild, dark mermaid. (Source: Webtoon Entertainment)

• Drama
• Girls Love
• Supernatural

Being called a freak isn't so bad when you have a spunky little black blob as a companion. An explosion leaves Nam Kang orphaned, scarred, and nearly blind, but he toughs out the daily bullying with the help of his imaginary blob friend, Inky. Until one day, Nam wakes from a bad beating to find his scars healed and his vision restored. At a new school, Nam is finally given the chance to live life as a normal kid. But it isn't just his scars that have disappeared. His best friend Inky is gone, too. (Source: Webtoon Entertainment)

• Action
• Drama
• Supernatural

Taking place after the events of Darker than Black, Hei (BK201) and Yin return to Tokyo to investigate how a Black Dandelion is granting Contractor-like powers to people who come in contact with it.

• Action
• Drama
• Sci-Fi
• +1

In a world where nobles take pride in their jet-black hair, the red-haired Princess Nakaba of Senan is locked away in a tower until she is forced to marry Caesar, the arrogant second prince of Belquat. Practically a political hostage, Nakaba only has one attendant by her side: Loki, whose dog-like ears mark him as an ajin—a race of beings with animalistic traits who are looked down upon by the general populace. Nakaba—the possession of her conceited husband, the discarded princess of a kingdom that saw her as their shame—expects to endure her pain and continue living life no matter what. However, a splash of crimson blood dyes her world in a red hue, awakening her power—the Arcana of Time. This ability allows her to see the past—her own, which she has locked away, and that of others—and the future. But changing the future comes at a price, and to save one life means something else must be sacrificed in return. Amidst the rising tension on the continent, Nakaba must use her power to fight not only for peace, but also to save those she has grown to love. [Written by MAL Rewrite] Note: Chapter count includes extras.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Romance

Friends since childhood, Haru and Hana do not have a typical relationship—Hana is human, and Haru is her werewolf who must protect her. Although werewolves are starting to have more rights, they are still seen as exotic beasts by society. As the two fall in love, what will be their fate? (Source: LINE Webtoon)

• Drama
• Romance
• Supernatural

A young girl named Rahzel is booted out of her house one day by her father with the instructions to 'see the world.' And so her journey begins, However, she won't be doing it alone...for she befriends a stoic young man named Alzeid seeking revenge for his father's murder. Alzeid and Rahzel are like oil and water...but even still, they feel strangely drawn to one another. This could be either the result of an underlying attraction—or their shared powers with magic. And so, the two reluctant allies travel from town to town, using their powers to help the helpless, while discovering their own respective places in the world. (Source: Tokyopop)

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy
• +4

Yuuto Lenix, a former DEA investigator was arrested by a false accusation of killing his own partner. The FBI agents gave him a special deal, to look for a particular criminal hiding in the same prison. By the time he was detained in the Schelger Prison, he got to meet his cellmate, Dick Burnford, who didn't show signs of being kind and welcoming upon his arrival. Will he ever be in good terms with his inmates, especially to Dick? (Source: Tokuma Shoten, translated)

• Action
• Boys Love
• Drama
• +2

There's the affectionless father and the overly affectionate mother, and then there's the beautiful 18 year old high schooler Rina. "Friends are just meant to be used," is what Rina says when she is caught having sex with her friend's boyfriend. Rina has such a low opinion of friends, but when she is hospitalized her classmate from elementary school, Maki, appears before her, wanting to continue their free-of-charge friendship from long ago. In this day and age, just what is the meaning of friendship? A tale of friendship based on a true story, as retold by Yoshi. (Source: StarryHeaven)

• Drama
• Slice of Life