A Japanese high school student is on his way to a Dragon Ball event with a friend. Suddenly, he sees a cute girl wearing a short skirt, but when he runs over to get a closer look, he trips and dies. Upon waking up, he realizes he's turned into Yamcha from Dragon Ball. Being an avid fan of the series, he knows what lies ahead in Yamcha's future, thus he decides to take matters into his own hands, in order to change Yamcha's fate.
The story is about a university student named Gao Ying, who happened to be staying at a hotel in an old town with many mysteries and suddenly got caught up in a conflict, a disaster from hundred of years ago. Here, for the first time ever, the truth of the world will be revealed to his eyes. A mysterious story filled with spiritual elements and humor.
Answer the unsolved cases! Why is Prometheus taking on the mysteries of mankind!? Prometheus was detained in Caucasian Mountains and continues to be tortured for 30,000 years to pay for his unforgivable sin of giving fire to humanity. During the day, the eagle devours his liver. And at night, Zeus punishes him by making him solve humanity's cold cases of history— an unbearable predicament for someone who loves the human race.
In a forest, there lived several demons, and one ugly monster named Kavo. He lived his days in loneliness until one day he saw a middle-aged man being assaulted by three other men. Kavo tears down the attackers, saving the man, Liam. Liam is the first human to not scream and run away at the sight of Kavo -- in fact, Liam seems quite eager to repay Kavo for his kindness...via kisses and sex! Although shocked by his easy-going, smooth personality, Kavo is unable to leave the defenseless Liam alone and decides to be his escort through the dangerous forest. This is the story of an ugly monster and his human companion that is a total flirtatious beast!
The main character is this guy who's half Japanese, half English. Son of an English woman of noble birth and a Japanese zoologist. Keaton went to England at the age of five with his mother after his parents' divorce. There he learned archeology at Oxford University, where he met his wife with whom he has a daughter (Yuriko). They divorced after five years. He works as an operative/detective for Lloyds of London where he's known for his abilities he acquired as a master sergeant in the SAS and as a veteran of the Falklands War, and was one of the members of the Iran Embassy incident. This helps him carry out his dangerous work of insurance investigator. His works at Lloyds, but his dream is excavating the ancient civilization in a Danube basin. He's called "master" because the SAS training camp' teacher told him that he wouldn't be able to be a "professor" in his fighting style, but a "master" at best. The manga does portray many facets of Keaton. Not only his role as a detective, but also his humanistic views on nature, family and culture. Other manga: + Gangsta manga + Kimagure Orange Road
Seijiro lives alone in the old house surrounded by mountains and forests. Seijiro is a writer whose recent book has gained massive popularity. But as the novel is based on his own life with his late master, he struggles to write an anticipated sequel. How can he continue a story that has already ended...? Perhaps a walk in the woods will help clear his mind...
A fairly close manga adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine. A tale of the rise and fall of a society farm animals form after they overthrow their owner.Animals toil and suffer on Manor Farm, owned by the cruel and careless Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, an elder pig on the farm, has a fantastic dream one night, of which he informs all the other animals; one where animals overthrow the human race, and the fruits of their labor are made theirs to keep. Though he dies not long after, the animals are emboldened with his vivid visions of a potential future - and one day, through a fierce uprising, they take ownership of the farm from Mr. Jones.Manor Farm - now renamed Animal Farm - maintains itself under an ideology known as Animalism, built upon Old Major's dream and stances regarding humans. However, tension is high, and different parties have their own intentions about the fate of Animal Farm...
An office worker man in Japan gets entangled into a children trafficking business run by a group of kids when his daughter suddenly vanishes one day.
Ritsu inherited his sixth sense from his grandfather, along with a demon guardian named Blue Storm. Strange things just seem to happen around these two, and it's left to them to get to the bottom of all these mysterious events. Each story is independent but features recurring characters you'll come to know and appreciate as they, each in their own way, try to deal with things 'not of this world'. Note: Won the Excellence Prize of manga section of Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006.
From Clamp no Lumiere: Albert de Morcerf, 15 years old doesn't know what's the right future for him... in other words he's your average teenager. Despite his money and the glorious name he's caring (he's the son of a famous general) he feel a bit lost. Between Eugenie, his fiancee, he's not sure to love and Franz, his over protecting best friend, he's living a carefree existence... But everything is about to change when Albert crosses the path of the Count of Monte Cristo, a mysterious gentleman, rich beyond anyone else dream. Who is this man? Why does he seem to know everyone's darkest secret? From Del Rey: While vacationing Luna, Albert, a young Parisian nobleman, meets the Count of Monte Cristo, a fabulously rich aristocrat from the far reaches of the galaxy. Fascinated by the count’s sophistication and intelligence, Albert is unaware of the older man’s dark purpose: to enact revenge for a terrible act of betrayal committed against him twenty-five years ago. Soon, all of Paris, including Albert’s own mother and father, will feel the terror of the count’s vengeance.
Growing older is pretty rough and Kenji is finding out just how hard it can be as life starts wearing down on him. On top of trying to make ends meet running a convenience store he has to care for the niece that his missing sister left in his care. Memories of youth make it easier, until those memories come back to haunt him. Continuation of Urasawa Naoki's masterpiece, 20th Century Boys. -- Wikipedia
Compiling what little they know, the Investigation Club deduces that the forest at the center of town is also at the heart of the mystery behind the glitches. High fences on all sides make getting into the forest impracticalbut the library is always a good place to start! In its short history, Touka-cho's shadowy specters and unique mix of otherworldly residents have always been part of the town's fabric, though the library doesn't have much to offer on the provenance of the forestor why it was fenced off years ago+
