Kagen no Tsuki (下弦の月, lit. Waning Moon) is a Japanese three-volume shōjo manga series by Ai Yazawa. It was first published in Ribon, a manga magazine primarily read by teenage girls. In 2004 it was adapted into a live-action movie. The film was released in the United States by Geneon Entertainment, but as yet the manga has no official English translation. Plot Mizuki Mochizuki is…
Jing: King of Bandits (Japanese: 王ドロボウJING, Hepburn: Ō Dorobō Jing, lit. “King of Bandit Jing”), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuichi Kumakura. The series was originally serialized in Kodansha‘s Comic Bom Bom magazine from 1995 to 1998; the publisher later collected the individual chapters into seven tankōbon volumes. The series continued in Kodansha‘s Magazine Z in 1999, under the title KING OF BANDIT JING, known as Jing:…
Gaku Ou: The Royal Seven Stars (学☆王 -THE ROYAL SEVEN STARS-, lit. “School King”) is a Japanese adult visual novel developed and published by Lump of Sugar. The game first released on January 27, 2012, it was then later ported to PlayStation Portable, entitled Gaku Ou: The Royal Seven Stars + Meteor (学☆王 -THE ROYAL SEVEN STARS- ＋METEOR), and released on March 28, 2013 by Alchemist. The PSP…
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest is a Japanese manga series written and storyboarded by Hiro Mashima, and illustrated by Atsuo Ueda. It is a sequel to Mashima’s Fairy Tail series, focusing on Natsu Dragneel and his team from the titular wizard guild as they aim to complete an unfinished, century-old mission. The manga was launched in Kodansha‘s Magazine Pocket manga app in July 2018, and is licensed by Kodansha USA for an…
Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two is a Japanese two-part adult visual novel series by Minori for Windows PCs. The first game in the series, Ef: The First Tale, was released on December 22, 2006, and the second game, Ef: The Latter Tale, was released on May 30, 2008. The opening video for the game was animated by Makoto Shinkai, and a majority of the music…
12 Beast (Japanese: トゥエルヴビースト, Hepburn: Tueruvu Bīsuto) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Okayado. The series is published by Fujimi Shobo in Japan, and by Seven Seas Entertainment in the United States. On September 6, 2020, Okayado announced the manga has been canceled due to multiple reasons. Summary Touga Eita is a high school student and video-game otaku. He is the heir to the…
Zetman (stylized as ZETMAN) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Katsura. The series started as a 49-page one-shot in the 1994 Autumn Special of Shueisha‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. A more mature and full-fledged series ran in Shueisha’s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 2002 to 2014. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment was broadcast in Japan from April to June 2012. In North America, the…
Vampire’s Portrait (吸血鬼の肖像, Kyūketsuki no Shōzō) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hiroki Kusumoto. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga’s first tankōbon volume through its imprint, Juné, on October 7, 2008. The second volume is due to be released on December 2, 2009. Oakla Publishing released the manga’s two tankōbon volume between March 13, 2007, and January 12, 2008….
The Saga of Tanya the Evil, known in Japan as Yōjo Senki (幼女戦記, lit. “The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl”), is a Japanese light novel series written by Carlo Zen and illustrated by Shinobu Shinotsuki. It began serialization online in 2010, on the user-generated novel publishing website Arcadia. Enterbrain acquired the series in October 2013 and has published twelve volumes by February 2020. A manga adaptation…
Oh! Edo Rocket (Japanese: 大江戸ロケット, Hepburn: Ō Edo Roketto) is a 2001 stage play written for the Gekidan Shinkansen theater troupe by Kazuki Nakashima and directed by Hidenori Inōe, with a novelization released in August of the same year. A manga adaptation illustrated by Una Hamana was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from February 2007 to July 2009, with its chapters collected in three tankōbon volumes. A twenty-six episode anime television…
Märchen Mädchen (メルヘン・メドヘン, Meruhen Medohen, German for “Fairy Tale Girls”) is a Japanese light novel series written by Tomohiro Matsu and StoryWorks, with illustrations by Kantoku. The series was being worked on by Matsu before his death in May 2016, and he is still credited as the writer.[2] Shueisha have published four volumes since February 24, 2017 under their Dash X Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation by…
Kageki Shojo!! (かげきしょうじょ!!, Kageki Shōjo!!) is a Japanese manga series by Kumiko Saiki. It was serialized as Kageki Shojo! (かげきしょうじょ！, Kageki Shoujo!) in Shueisha‘s seinen manga magazine Jump X from 2012 to 2014 and was collected in two tankōbon volumes. It was later re-released as Kageki Shojo!! Season Zero (かげきしょうじょ!! シーズンゼロ, Kageki Shoujo!! Shīzun Zero) in a single tankōbon volume by Hakusensha in March 2019. A sequel manga by Saiki has been serialized in Hakusensha’s josei manga magazine Melody since 2015. It has been collected in twelve tankōbon volumes. The…
