Obake no Q-Tarō (Japanese: オバケのQ太郎, Hepburn: Obake no Kyū-Tarō) is a Japanese manga series by Fujiko Fujio and later Fujiko F. Fujio about the titular obake, Q-Taro, who lives with the Ōhara family. Q-Tarō, also known as “Q-chan” or “Oba-Q”, is a mischief-maker who likes to fly around scaring people and stealing food, though he is deathly afraid of dogs. The story is usually focused on the antics…
Maboroshi Panty (まぼろしパンティ, Maboroshi Panti, “Phantom Panties”) is a Japanese manga created by Hiroshi Koenji and Go Nagai. The manga was originally serialized in the magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump by Shueisha. It is a parody of Maboroshi Tantei, just as Kekko Kamen is a parody of Gekko Kamen. And as a Kekko Kamen, the main heroine is almost nude (mostly topless), using panties as a mask. Her secret identity…
La Blue Girl (淫獣学園 La☆Blue Girl, Injū Gakuen La Blue Girl, roughly “Lewd Beast Academy: The Blue Girl”) is an erotic anime and manga series by Toshio Maeda. Like Maeda’s other hentai series (e.g., Urotsukidōji), La Blue Girl features a large amount of tentacle rape. It departs somewhat from its predecessors, however, by lightening the atmosphere with humor, lightly parodying the “tentacle hentai” genre. An immensely successful series, La…
K-On! (Japanese: けいおん!, Hepburn: Keion!) is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Kakifly serialized in Houbunsha‘s Manga Time Kirara magazine between the May 2007 and October 2010 issues, and also serialized in Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine. The manga relaunched from April 2011 to June 2012 with two separate storylines published in Manga Time Kirara and Manga Time Kirara Carat. The manga is licensed in North America by Yen Press….
G-Taste is a Japanese erotic manga series written and illustrated by Hiroki Yagami and serialized in Kodansha‘s Mr. Magazine (1996–2000) Young Magazine Uppers (2000–2004). The “G” in “G-taste” is used symbolically as the letter between “F” (for “Fetish“) and “H” (for “hentai“). The anime has been licensed in the US by SoftCel Pictures. However the rights have since expired and now Critical Mass has since bought…
Earl Cain (Japanese: 伯爵カインシリーズ, Hepburn: Hakushaku Kain Shirīzu), also known as Count Cain, is a gothic shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Earl Cain consists of five parts or “Series”: Forgotten Juliet (忘れられたジュリエット, Wasurerareta Jurietto), The Sound of a Boy Hatching (少年の孵化する音, Shōnen no Fukasuru Oto), Kafka (カフカ, Kafuka), The Seal of the Red Ram (赤い羊の刻印, Akai Hitsuji no Kokuin), and the sequel series Godchild (ゴッド チャイルド, Goddo Chairudo). Debuting in the Japanese manga magazine Bessatsu Hana to Yume in December 1991,…
D.Gray-man is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino. Set in an alternate 19th century, it tells the story of a young Allen Walker, who joins an organization of exorcists named the Black Order. They use an ancient substance, Innocence, to combat a man known as the Millennium Earl and his demonic army of Akuma who intend to destroy humanity. Many…
C³, also known as C Cube (Japanese: シーキューブ, Hepburn: Shīkyūbu) or Cube×Cursed×Curious, is a Japanese light novel series written by Hazuki Minase, and illustrated by Sasorigatame. C³ is about a high school student named Haruaki Yachi, who receives a mysterious black cube from his father who is overseas. That night, Haruaki is woken by a noise and is surprised to find a girl named…
A-un (阿・吽) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mari Okazaki. The series is set in the Heian period and follows two prominent Buddhist monks: Saichō, who founded the Enryaku-ji temple, and Kūkai, who established the Mount Kōya temple. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits from May 2014 to May 2021. Publication A-un, written and illustrated by Mari Okazaki, was serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits from May…
1-nichi Gaishutsuroku Hanchō (1日外出録ハンチョウ, lit. “One-Day Outing Foreman”) is a Japanese manga series written by Tensei Hagiwara and illustrated by Motomu Uehara and Kazuya Arai. It is a spin-off of the main series Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It has been published in Kodansha‘s Weekly Young Magazine since December 2016. Part of the manga was adapted as segmented episodes within the Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues anime series. A drama CD based on the…
The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls: Revenge of the Hori Clan (Japanese: Y十M ～柳生忍法帖～, Hepburn: Wai Jū Emu: Yagyū Ninpōchō) is a period-themed seinen manga by Masaki Segawa that was serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Young Magazine from 2005 through 2007 and compiled into 11 collected volumes. Like the author’s previous title Basilisk, The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls is an adaptation on a novel from Futaro Yamada‘s Ninpōchō series and can therefore be considered a sequel…
X-Day (Japanese: 彼女達のエクス・デイ, Hepburn: Kanojo-tachi no Ekusu-Dei, lit. “Their X-Day” or “The Girls’ X-Day”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Setona Mizushiro. It was serialized in Princess magazine from March to November 2002 and published in two tankōbon volumes by Akita Shoten. Written in response to the Columbine High School massacre, the story follows three high school students and a teacher who meet online and plot to blow…
