Kage Gari (影狩り, lit. Shadow Hunters) is a 1969 jidaigeki manga series by Takao Saito. It follows the adventures of three ronin – Jubei (十兵衛), Sunlight (日光), and Moonlight (月光) – who dedicate their lives to hunt down “shadows”, the ninja spies of the Tokugawa shogunate. Films The series was later adapted into two live-action films in 1972 Kage Gari and Kage Gari Hoero taiho directed by Toshio Masuda and…
Jihai (JIHAI〜磁海〜, lit. “Magnetic Sea”) is a SF Manga series by Toshimi Nigoshi that was serialized in Comic B’s-LOG magazine (an Enterbrain publication) from April 2006 until January 2008. The series was collected in three tankōbon volumes. The English-language release was licensed by CMX Manga. It was published in English in 2009. Plot In the future, mankind has installed a ring around the Earth to prevent the disasters that…
Eden’s Bowy (Japanese: ヱデンズ ボゥイ, Hepburn: Wedenzu Bui) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kitsune Tennouji. It was originally published in the magazine Comptiq in 1994, but it moved to Shōnen Ace in 1996. It was adapted into a 26-episode animated series by Studio Deen in 1999. Plot Comic version After human civilization were destroyed and rebuilt for several times, the world was now a…
Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kotoyama. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 2014 to April 2018 and has been collected into eleven tankōbon volumes. A light novel adaptation titled Dagashi Kashi: Mō Hitotsu no Natsu Yasumi, written and illustrated by Manta Aisora, was published in a single volume by Shogakukan in December 2015 under their Gagaga Bunko imprint….
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (Japanese: とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ, Hepburn: Tondemo Sukiru de Isekai Hōrō Meshi) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ren Eguchi. The series originated on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in January 2016, before being published in print with illustrations by Masa by Overlap beginning in November 2016 under their Overlap Novels imprint. As of December 2022,…
009-1 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shotaro Ishinomori. The manga was serialized in the Futabasha publication Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974. The story concerns Miléne Hoffman (“Mylene” in the English translation), a female cyborg who works as a secret agent. The Japanese title of the manga was 009ノ1, or “Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi”, a…
Made in Abyss (Japanese: メイドインアビス, Hepburn: Meido in Abisu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized online in Takeshobo‘s digital publication Web Comic Gamma since October 2012, and has been collected into 11 tankōbon volumes. The story follows an orphaned girl named Riko, who finds and befriends a part-robot boy named Reg, and descends with him into the titular “Abyss”…
Kagaku na Yatsura (カガクなヤツら, “Scientific Guys”) is a manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Yoshikawa. There was an OVA adaptation released along with the fourth volume, animated by Hoods Entertainment and directed by Hiraku Kaneko. Characters Haruki Komaba (駒場 遥希, Haruki Komaba) Voiced by: Junji Majima Haruki is high school boy with two eccentric girl friends. He gets involved in ecchi troubles caused by the…
Fairy Gone (stylized as Fairy gone) is a Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works that aired from April to December 2019. Plot In the aftermath of the War of Unification, all the nations of the continent of Eastald are forcefully united under a single ruler. During the war, special soldiers were implanted with Fairy organs, allowing them to summon…
Eden: It’s an Endless World! is a science fiction manga by Japanese artist Hiroki Endo, published monthly in the Japanese magazine Monthly Afternoon. It is published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics, in the United Kingdom by Titan Books, and in Germany by Egmont Manga & Anime. Eden is set in the near future, following a pandemic called closure virus which killed…
Babel II (Japanese: バビル2世, Hepburn: Babiru Ni-sei) is a Japanese 1971 manga series by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It was translated into an animated format in 1973 as a television series, in 1992 as an original video animation series and in 2001 as a thirteen-episode television series. Yokoyama’s sequel to the series, set in a parallel universe, is entitled His Name Is 101 (その名は101, Sono Na wa Wan-Zero-Wan). Plot The series…
Abara (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump from May 19, 2005, to March 18, 2006, with its chapters collected in two tankōbon volumes. The series takes place in a dystopian universe characterized by towering edifices. It centers around a particular class of beings, termed Gaunas, who possess the unique ability…
