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Seinen manga
Manga first published for adult men: sharper, often darker stories with room for complex characters and slow burns.
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Completed · 19951. Initial D
by Shuichi Shigeno
- Action
- Drama
- Sports
Every morning before school, Takumi Fujiwara delivers tofu down Mount Akina in his father's old Toyota AE86, with a cup of water that must not spill. Without noticing, he has become the fastest driver on the mountain. The street-racing manga that made drifting famous around the world.
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Ongoing · 20072. Giant Killing
by Masaya Tsunamoto, Tsujitomo
- Drama
- Sports
East Tokyo United are a struggling football club. Their new manager is Takeshi Tatsumi, a former star who once walked out on them, and who specialises in giant killing — beating the big teams. A football manga told from the manager's bench.
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Ongoing · 20173. Record of Ragnarok
by Umemura Shinya, Fukui Takumi, Azychika
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Tragedy
The gods have met and voted: humanity ends. One valkyrie objects and invokes Ragnarok, a final tournament of thirteen one-on-one duels between gods and the greatest humans in history. Zeus, Thor and Poseidon against Lu Bu, Adam, Kojiro Sasaki and Jack the Ripper. Win seven, and humanity lives.
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Ongoing · 20124. One-Punch Man
by ONE, Yusuke Murata
- Action
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Superhero
Saitama trained so hard that he can now end any fight with a single punch — and that is the problem. With no opponent able to last more than one blow, being a hero has become terribly dull. A superhero comedy and a spectacular action series at once, drawn by Yusuke Murata from ONE's web comic.
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Completed · 20175. MF Ghost
by Shuichi Shigeno
- Action
- Drama
- Sports
In the 2020s, combustion cars race on public roads in Japan's MFG series, streamed to the world. Kanata Livington, a young driver trained in England, enters with an underpowered car and a search for his father. The sequel to Initial D, set in its future, with the same love of mountain roads.
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Completed · 20116. Hozuki's Coolheadedness
by Natsumi Eguchi
- Comedy
- Supernatural
Hell is understaffed and overcrowded, and the one keeping it running is Hozuki, the King of Hell's deadpan, merciless chief of staff. An office comedy in the afterlife, full of Japanese folklore.
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Ongoing · 20177. The Apothecary Diaries
by Natsu Hyuuga, Itsuki Nanao, Nekokurage
- Drama
- Medical
- Mystery
- Romance
Maomao, an apothecary's daughter from the pleasure district, is kidnapped and sold into service at the imperial palace. She plans to keep her head down — until she works out why the emperor's babies are dying. A beautiful eunuch named Jinshi notices, and keeps bringing her the court's poisonings and puzzles to solve.
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Ongoing · 20198. Ya Boy Kongming!
by Yuto Yotsuba, Ryo Ogawa
- Comedy
- Drama
Zhuge Kongming, the great strategist of ancient China, dies on the battlefield and wakes up in present-day Shibuya on Halloween night. He meets Eiko, a singer nobody listens to yet. He becomes her manager, and turns the war strategies of the Three Kingdoms on the music business.
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Completed · 20149. The Fable
by Minami Katsuhisa
- Action
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama
Fable is a hitman of legendary skill. His boss sends him to live quietly in Osaka for a year, under a new name and with one rule: he may not kill anyone. Living like an ordinary person turns out to be his hardest job yet.
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Completed · 200510. Vinland Saga
by Makoto Yukimura
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
Growing up amid Viking warfare, Thorfinn carries both a fierce desire for revenge and childhood stories of a distant western land. His journey crosses battlefields, shifting alliances, and lives shaped by conquest. Set against the upheaval of eleventh-century Europe, this historical epic asks what strength means and whether a person can build a future beyond the violence that formed them.
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Completed · 201411. Tokyo Ghoul:re
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
- Psychological
Two years on, the ghoul-hunting CCG trains the Quinx: humans given ghoul powers. Their mentor, investigator Haise Sasaki, has no memory of who he used to be. The sequel to Tokyo Ghoul, where the war between humans and ghouls comes to its end.
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Ongoing · 201812. The Way of the Househusband
by Kousuke Oono
- Comedy
- Slice of Life
The Immortal Dragon was the most feared yakuza in town. Now he has left that life to keep house for his wife, and he brings the same terrifying intensity to bargain sales, bento boxes and the neighbourhood watch. Short, very funny chapters in which nobody can quite believe the man in the apron is harmless.
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Completed · 202013. Oshi no Ko
by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari
- Drama
- Mystery
- Psychological
A country doctor is reborn as the son of Ai Hoshino, the idol he adored, with his memories intact. When tragedy strikes her, he grows up with one aim: to find out who was behind it. A sharp, dark look at the entertainment industry, from idols and reality TV to the stage, wrapped around a mystery.
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Ongoing · 201714. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama
- Slice of Life
Yatora is a popular student with good grades who feels nothing about any of it. Then he paints Tokyo at dawn the way it looks to him — blue — and for the first time he feels something. He sets his sights on Japan's hardest art university: a story about the hard work behind talent.
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Ongoing · 201715. Magus of the Library
by Mitsu Izumi
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life
Theo is a poor, half-elf boy in a small town who loves books and is not allowed to read them. Then the librarians of the great library of Aftzaak come to visit, and he decides to become one. A richly drawn fantasy about knowledge, exams and a boy finding his way into a world of stories.
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Ongoing · 202116. The Summer Hikaru Died
by Mokumokuren
- Drama
- Horror
- Mystery
- Psychological
Yoshiki knows his best friend Hikaru died in the mountains. Something came back wearing his face, his voice and his memories, and asks to stay his friend. A quiet, unsettling horror story set in a small village, about grief, an impossible friendship and what is waking up around them.
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Ongoing · 201817. Skip and Loafer
by Misaki Takamatsu
- Comedy
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Mitsumi, the top student from a tiny seaside town, moves to Tokyo for high school with a ten-year plan and no idea how the city works. On her first day she gets lost, and Shima, a charming classmate with secrets of his own, helps her out. A bright, funny story about friendship and finding your feet, with a heroine who stumbles a lot and never stays down.
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Ongoing · 202218. Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
by Jinushi
- Comedy
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Sasaki, a tired office worker, lives for two small pleasures: a cigarette behind the supermarket after work, and the shy cashier who smiles at him every day. Then a stranger starts joining his smoke breaks, and she looks oddly like that cashier. A warm, funny romance about two grown-ups who each show the other a different face.
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Completed · 201919. Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible
by Nene Yukimori
- Comedy
- Romance
- Romantic Comedy
- Slice of Life
Junta Shiraishi is so unnoticeable that teachers mark him absent while he sits in class. Only Kubo, the girl next to him, can always see him — and she enjoys teasing him about it. A gentle, sweet romantic comedy about being seen.
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Completed · 201120. Tokyo Ghoul
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
- Psychological
Ghouls live hidden in Tokyo and can only survive by eating people. Quiet student Ken Kaneki learns this the hard way: after a deadly date he wakes up half-ghoul, hungry for what he cannot bear to eat. Caught between two worlds that want each other dead, he tries to stay human — dark, graphic and heartbreaking.
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Completed · 199421. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi
- Slice of Life
Long after the seas rose, Alpha, an android, runs a little coffee shop on the Japanese coast while humanity slowly fades. Coffee, watermelon, her guitar and the gulls. A quiet, bittersweet classic about finding beauty at the end of things.
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Ongoing · 202122. The Moon on a Rainy Night
by Kuzushiro
- Drama
- Girls’ Love
- Romance
Rushing to a piano lesson, Saki bumps into a tall, lovely stranger who hands back her sheet music with a plaster and leaves without a word. The next day the stranger turns out to be Kanon, a classmate at her new school, who is deaf and wants no one's special treatment. A gentle love story between two girls.
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Ongoing · 201623. Drifting Dragons
by Taku Kuwabara
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life
The crew of the airship Quin Zaza hunt dragons for a living — and sell the meat, the oil and everything else. Mika, their best hunter, mostly wants to cook what they catch. An adventure about a dangerous trade, a close crew and very good food.
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Ongoing · 201524. Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou!
by Y.A, Hiroki Kusumoto
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Isekai
A 25-year-old office worker goes to sleep and wakes up as Wendelin, six years old and the eighth son of a poor country noble — last in line for everything. With no inheritance coming, his only way up is the magic he turns out to be very good at.
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