Octopus Girl (戦慄!!タコ少女, Senritsu!! Tako Shōjo, “Shudder!! Octopus Girl”) is a horror manga written and illustrated by Toru Yamazaki (山咲 トオル, Yamazaki Tooru). It made its first appearance in the 1990s as a feature for Palace of Fear before its commercial release on the Leed Publishing Co. label. Plot Octopus Girl is made-up of a series of vignettes about the titular character Takoko (Called…
The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window (Japanese: さんかく窓の外側は夜, Hepburn: Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomoko Yamashita. It was serialized in the monthly yaoi manga magazine Magazine Be × Boy from March 7, 2013, to December 7, 2020. A live-action film adaptation was released on January 22, 2021, and an anime television series adaptation by Zero-G aired from October to December 2021. Plot Kosuke…
Najica Blitz Tactics (Japanese: ナジカ電撃作戦, Hepburn: Najika Dengeki Sakusen) is an anime television series by Studio Fantasia and Amber Film Works. It aired in Japan from October to December 2001. The series is similar to that of Agent Aika, both being directed by Katsuhiko Nishijima and animated by Studio Fantasia, with much of the same content. Though Najica was later adapted into a manga by Takuya Tashiro (田代 琢也, Tashiro Takuya), the majority of the difference…
Mad Love Chase, known in Japan as Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made (Harlem Beatは夜明けまで, Harlem Beat Until Dawn), is a manga by Kazusa Takashima. In 2001, it began serialization in Asuka and the first volume was released in July 2002. In 2009, it was licensed by TokyoPop under the name Mad Love Chase, the subtitle of the series. Plot A supernatural comedy about the Prince of Hell,…
Lagoon Engine (Japanese: ラグーンエンジン, Hepburn: Ragūn Enjin) is a manga by Yukiru Sugisaki. It was followed by Lagoon Engine Einsatz. The main protagonists are Yen and Jin Ragun. The name “Lagoon Engine” is derived from the phonetic pronunciation of the main characters’ names (Ragun Yen Jin). Volume 6 was released on December 1, 2009. Volume 7 was released in September 2010 in the US….
I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too (Japanese: 異世界でチート能力スキルを手にした俺は、現実世界をも無双する～レベルアップは人生を変えた～, Hepburn: Isekai de Chīto Sukiru o Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai o mo Musō Suru: Reberu Appu wa Jinsei o Kaeta) is a Japanese light novel series written by Miku and illustrated by Rein Kuwashima. It began as a web novel that started in…
Getter Robo Hien ~THE EARTH SUICIDE~ (ゲッターロボ飛焔 〜THE EARTH SUICIDE〜, Gettā Robo Hien ~Ji Āsu Sūsaido~) is a Japanese manga created by Naoto Tsushima. It was a monthly serialized super robot manga continuing the Getter Robo mythos by way of the titular Getter Robo Hien. A total of 15 chapters were published the 28th of every month in Magna, a low-resolution free webcomic, only to be…
Gambling Emperor Legend Zero (Japanese: 賭博覇王伝 零, Hepburn: Tobaku Haōden Zero) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, who is renowned for his works Kaiji and Akagi. Similar to Fukumoto’s other works, the story revolves around gambling with high stakes, this time with a greater focus on competition and rivalry. The first part was serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from September 2007 to March…
Fourth Generation Head: Tatsuyuki Oyamato(四代目・大和辰之) is Boys’ love manga/comic book written and illustrated by a Japanese manga artist Scarlet Beriko(スカーレット・ベリ子). It is Beriko’s third published comic, and also the sequel to her popular comic Give Me a Hand (みのりの手) and prequel to her latest comic Jealousy (ジェラシー）). Plot Tatsuyuki Oyamato, a son of the Yakuza boss Akitora Oyamato and an heir to Oyamato Family in Tokyo,…
Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M (Japanese: め組の大吾, Hepburn: Megumi no Daigo) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masahito Soda. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from September 1995 to June 1999. The manga has been licensed in North America by Viz Media. An anime film produced by Sunrise was released in July 1999. A Japanese television drama was broadcast on Fuji Television in 2004. A manga sequel, titled Megumi no…
The Dawn of the Witch (魔法使い黎明期, Mahōtsukai Reimeiki) is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Kakeru Kobashiri and illustrated by Takashi Iwasaki, with partial character designs by Yoshinori Shizuma, and a spinoff sequel of Kobashiri’s earlier series Grimoire of Zero. Kodansha have published five volumes since August 2018 under their Kodansha Ranobe Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Tatsuwo has been serialized in Kodansha’s shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen…
Bambi and Her Pink Gun (Japanese: バンビ, Hepburn: Banbi) is a manga series by Atsushi Kaneko. It centers on a sixteen-year-old girl named Bambi, who has kidnapped a young boy from a crazy vampire star and is taking him back to the ‘Old Men’. The story is extremely violent, with every new scene taking on a different look and feel (Western, Latino, the 40s, traditional…
