Café Kichijouji de (Café吉祥寺で, Café Kichijōji de; lit. “At Café Kichijōji“) is a manga written by Yuki Miyamoto and illustrated by Kyoko Negishi. The story surrounds five bishōnen and their rather unlucky manager as they go about their daily routine at their café. Characters Main characters Kurihara Taro Taro is usually considered the cutest and mature worker at the café. He is a fastidious neat freak in glasses,…
Ga-Rei (喰霊), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Segawa. It has been serialized by Kadokawa Shoten in the magazine Shōnen Ace from 2005 to 2010 and collected in twelve tankōbon volumes. The English version was then released digitally on BookWalker on October 29, 2014. A prequel anime series, Ga-Rei: Zero, aired from October 5, 2008, to December 21, 2008, which details the backstory…
Jaja Uma Grooming Up! (じゃじゃ馬グルーミン★UP!, Jaja Uma Gurūmin Appu!; “Unruly Horse Grooming Improvement”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 1994 to September 2000, and compiled into 26 tankōbon volumes. Plot Jaja Uma Grooming Up! depicts the story of Shunpei Kuze, a high-school student unsure of the future until he takes a motorcycle…
Maburaho (Japanese: まぶらほ) is a Japanese romantic school comedy light novel series written by Toshihiko Tsukiji, illustrated by Eiji Komatsu and serialized in Gekkan Dragon Magazine. The light novel was adapted into a manga illustrated by Miki Miyashita and later developed into a 24 episode anime series produced by J.C.Staff and broadcast by WOWOW in Japan. The series is about the story of Kazuki Shikimori, a second year student of…
Nagasarete Airantō (Japanese: ながされて藍蘭島, Hepburn: Nagasarete Airantō; lit. “Cast Away… Airan Island”) is a Japanese harem manga series by Takeshi Fujishiro. It was first serialized in Square Enix‘s Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine in January 2002, and a few years later expanded into a multimedia franchise including drama CDs, light novels, and a 26-episode anime adaptation by Studio Feel that aired in Japan between April 4 and September 26, 2007. From the same author,…
Saber Marionette J (Japanese: セイバーマリオネットJ, Hepburn: Seibā Marionetto Jei) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Studio Junio. aired on TV Tokyo from October 1, 1996, to March 25, 1997. It is the first installment of the Saber Marionette franchise. The show was localized in North America by Ocean Productions and into six other languages by various companies. In between production, Saber Marionette J spun off into other media. A manga…
Tadano Kōgyō Kōkō no Nichijō (只野工業高校の日常; lit. “Daily Lives of Tadano Technical High School”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chisato Oga. It was originally published as a webcomic on the author’s Twitter account in September 2017. A one-shot was later published in Shueisha‘s seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump in December 2018. It later began serialization in the same magazine in July 2019. Synopsis The series is set…
A.I. Love You (Japanese: A・I が止まらない!, Hepburn: A.I. ga Tomaranai!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. The story follows Hitoshi Kōbe, a high school boy who is not good at anything but programming. He creates a program in particular named Program 30 which is that of a female, and is shocked when she comes to life in the real world due…
The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses (Japanese: 女神のカフェテラス, Hepburn: Megami no Kafe Terasu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōji Seo. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine since February 2021, and has been compiled into 22 tankōbon volumes as of January 2026. An anime television series adaptation produced by Tezuka Productions aired from April to June 2023. Season Two aired from July to September 2024. Plot…
Vagabond (Japanese: バガボンド, Hepburn: Bagabondo) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, based on Eiji Yoshikawa‘s novel Musashi. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Morning since September 1998, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes by July 2014. Viz Media licensed the series for English release in North America and has published the 37 volumes…
Ubunchu! (うぶんちゅ！) is a comedy manga serialized in ASCII Media Works‘ Weekly ASCII and Ubuntu Magazine Japan between May 2008 and June 2013. Its name is a play on words combining the Linux distribution Ubuntu and a Japanese onomatopoeia for a kiss, chu (ちゅ). Plot The story follows the activities of the three members of the Ichinomiya Prefectural High School’s system administration club (part of the wider IT club)….
L DK, stylized as L♥DK, is a shōjo manga by Ayu Watanabe, serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Bessatsu Friend since 2009; it has been adapted into a live-action film that was released in 2014. The story tells about the relationship between a high school girl, Aoi Nishimori, and the school prince, Shūsei Kugayama, when they come to share a small apartment. The series volumes have appeared…
