Zodiac P.I. (Japanese: 十二宮でつかまえて, Hepburn: Jūnikyū de Tsukamaete) is a mystery manga series written and illustrated by Natsumi Ando. Appearing as a serial in the monthly shōjo (targeted towards girls) manga magazine Nakayoshi from the April 2001 issue to the January 2003 issue, the chapters were compiled into four bound volumes by Kodansha and published from November 2001 to March 2003. Set in present-day Japan, the series focuses on Lili Hoshizawa, a teenage detective who…
Yamaguchi-kun Isn’t So Bad (Japanese: 山口くんはワルくない, Hepburn: Yamaguchi-kun wa Warukunai) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuu Saiki. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s shōjo manga magazine Bessatsu Friend since September 2019. Publication Written and illustrated by Yuu Saiki, Yamaguchi-kun Isn’t So Bad started in Kodansha‘s shōjo manga magazine Bessatsu Friend on September 13, 2019. The manga went on hiatus in June 2022 due to Saiki’s childbirth, and is set to resume on July 13,…
Wandering Sun (さすらいの太陽, Sasurai no Taiyō), also known as Nozomi in the Sun and Jane e Micci on Italy, is a Japanese manga series written by Keisuke Fujikawa and illustrated by Mayumi Suzuki. It also received an anime adaptation by Mushi Productions which ran for 26 episodes in 1971. Both Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yoshikazu Yasuhiko were involved in the production of Wandering Sun, and would later again collaborate on the ground-breaking and genre-defining…
Variante – requiem for the world (Variante -ヴァリアンテ-) is a Japanese horror manga by Iqura Sugimoto. The manga focuses on Hosho Aiko, a girl who is brought back to life by the left arm of a “Chimera”, a grotesque human-derived species that can drastically alter the shape of their own body parts. Story Hosho Aiko should be dead. To be…
Ultraman (stylized as ULTRAMAN) is a Japanese manga series written by Eiichi Shimizu and drawn by Tomohiro Shimoguchi of Linebarrels of Iron fame. Published in Monthly Hero’s since the magazine’s inaugural issue. It is part of the Ultraman franchise and a manga sequel of the 1966 television series. The series has been collected in 19 tankōbon volumes as of May 2023. A 3DCG original net animation (ONA) anime adaptation co-produced by Production I.G and Sola Digital Arts was released…
The Tale of the Outcasts (Japanese: ノケモノたちの夜, Hepburn: Nokemono-tachi no Yoru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Hoshino. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from August 2019 to April 2021, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes. The series is licensed for English release in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television series adaptation by Ashi Productions aired from January to April 2023….
Saijō no Meii (最上の命医, lit. “The Best Skilled Surgeon”) is a Japanese manga series written by Kenzō Irie and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from December 2007 to February 2010, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. A sequel, titled Saijō no Meii: The King of Neet, was serialized in the same magazine from March 2010 to April 2014, with…
Rakuen Noise (Japanese: 楽園ノイズ, Hepburn: Rakuen Noizu, “Paradise Noise”) is a Japanese light novel series written by Hikaru Sugii and illustrated by Yū Akinashi. The series is published by ASCII Media Works, under their Dengeki Bunko imprint, since May 2020, with five volumes released as of August 2022. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Akisato Shino, started in Media Factory‘s Monthly Comic Alive in March 2022. Light novel Written by Hikaru Sugii and…
Paradise Kiss, also abbreviated to ParaKiss, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ai Yazawa. It appeared as a serial in Shodensha‘s fashion magazine Zipper [ja], with its chapters collected in five volumes. The series has also been adapted into a 12-episode anime series, produced by Aniplex and Studio Madhouse, and aired in Japan on Fuji TV‘s Noitamina programming block. The comic and the anime have become popular both domestically and…
Ohime-sama Navigation (おひめさまナビゲーション, Ohime-sama Nabigēshon, lit. Princess Navigation), with the subtitles Otogibanashi Uranai (おとぎばなしうらない, lit. Fairy tale divination) and Which Girl do you Trust?, is a reader-participation game in the Japanese bishōjo magazine Dengeki G’s Magazine, published by ASCII Media Works, which ran between the February 2008 and May 2011 issues. The project had been first announced in the two-hundredth issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine released in the October 2007…
Nanana’s Buried Treasure (龍ヶ嬢七々々の埋蔵金, Ryūgajō Nanana no Maizōkin, lit. “Nanana Ryūgajō’s Buried Treasure”) is a Japanese light novel series by Kazuma Ōtorino, with illustrations by Akaringo and Non. Enterbrain has published twelve volumes since January 2012 under their Famitsu Bunko imprint. A spin-off light novel series titled Ikkyū Tensai no Kiwamete Fuhon’i na Meisuiri (壱級天災の極めて不本意な名推理, lit. “Tensai Ikkyū’s Reluctant Deduction”) is also published under Famitsu Bunko, with the…
Maga-Tsuki (まがつき) is a shōnen manga series by Hoshino Taguchi, who got the idea for the story after visiting a shrine. The story follows Yasuke, who is about to confess his love to his childhood friend when he is cursed by accidentally breaking a mirror at his family’s shrine. The curse causes him to be linked to the goddess of misfortune…
