"I don't want to go home or back to school."
It was a hero with dreams of unifying the continent that saved me, who was about to become an offering made to a monster. And inevitably, I fell in love with him. But, the sad truth is, every famed and mythical hero eventually ends up with a beautiful and noble princess. And I was just a girl he’d saved. So, when he finally did unify the continent and marry a princess like any other hero, I, who couldn’t bring myself to kill you, decided to leave forever. “Goodbye, my moonlight.”
The Kaiji series is divided into five parts: 1. Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji 2. Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji 3. Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji 4. Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: Kazuya-hen 5. Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: One Poker-hen
After Kaiji's showdown with Chairman Hyoudo at Starside Hotel Kaiji is forced into labor at an underground mine. With meager wages each day, he will work for decades unless he doesn't do something. Now Kaiji must wager his earnings in underground Chinchirorin gambles for a ticket to the rest of the world. But even if he surfaces, he only has one chance to pay back his enormous debt, and that is by challenging the "unbeatable" Pachinko machine, The Bog. The Kaiji series is divided into four parts: 1. Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji 2. Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji 3. Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji 4. Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: Kazuyahen Note: The group ZAWAnons started this manga as volume 14 of the Kaiji series.
Japan, 1996. After graduating from high school, Ito Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job, but he fails to find steady employment because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he festers in his apartment, biding the time with cheap pranks, gambles, liquor and cigarettes. Kaiji is always thinking about money and his perpetual poverty frequently brings him to tears. Kaiji's unrelenting misery continues for two years until he is paid an unexpected visit from a man named Endo, who wants to collect an outstanding debt owed to him in Kaiji's name. Endo gives Kaiji two options - either spend ten years to repay this outstanding debt, or board the gambling ship Espoir ("hope" in French) for one night to clear the debt. Using a con, Endo pressures Kaiji into accepting the deal, believing he will never come back from the voyage.
Summary by Vexed-Scans and Deus-Ex Scans: Ikagawa Tokage is a boy with a superpower. He has the the ability to change the color of his eyes whenever he closes and reopens the eyes. Kinda useless, right? Regardless, Ikagawa Tokage strives to strengthen his power in an effort to become the strongest and not have his power be nothing more than an arrow to the knee. With that desire in mind, he trains daily in an abandoned building in modern day Tokyo. But on one such day, he comes to what looks to be a scene of a crime and feels the culprit might still be nearby. Will he make it out of the abandoned building with a broken knee? Is there more to his power than meets the eye?
Short story collection of a variety of more mature Tezuka work. The story "Clockwork Apple" was borrowed from the book, before the movie was made, but has very little to do with the book either as Tezuka admits to writing it without reading Clockwork Orange.
What do you spend the time left of your life when it's measured in heartbeats? This is the story of Hato Iijima and Hatsu Takagi, connected to each other by a rare disease called "Tempocardy".
An introspective, character-driven series, Tokyo Babylon reads like a manga version of The X-Files. Its story -- a modern-day fantasy -- follows a young onmyouji (spiritual medium) on his quest to protect Tokyo from evil spirits. Teenaged Subaru Sumeragi is the 13th head of the Sumeragi clan. Together with his twin sister Hokuto and the mysterious veterinarian Seishirou, Subaru travels around Tokyo, calming the ghosts that threaten the city.
It's the year 2020 AD, and Tokyo is a city infested with crime. Women can no longer go out in the streets alone without being victimized. Not wanting their daughter to suffer the same fate, Tsukasa Kozuki's cop parents raise her as a boy. When they are suddenly killed by one of the yakuza's in-fights, Tsukasa is left orphaned on the streets along with her three brothers. With no other options, she goes to the only person she can think of for help: pokerface Ryuji Shirogami, her classmate of 8 years and also the head leader of the powerful yakuza group, Kuryugumi. Ryuji, whose father was also a victim of the same yakuza fight, agrees to take her on as his personal bodyguard. As they set out to find their enemy, Ryuji slaps on an increasing amount of debt onto Tsukasa using all manners of ploys necessary to keep the reluctant Tsukasa by his side.
It was just a normal day for Kokoro and his friends, until they received a grim shock: their world had been invaded by dragons! These vicious dragons consumed every human they saw, and destroyed everything in their paths. Japan’s military turned out to be useless against these creatures. Just as all hope was lost, a mysterious classified military division appeared, with knowledge of these dragons’ secrets. What is this unknown division? How do they have information on these never-before-seen dragons? Where did these dragons come from? What is their purpose? Who is their leader? Can Kokoro and his friends unravel these mysteries before it’s too late?
is a story happening in a world where instead of undertaking the first rank on the food chain, human being is hunted and devoured by a human-like creature named Ghoul. This organism possesses supernatural powers beyond capacity of a normal man. AMW Tokyo Ghoul - We Are As a result, Commission of Counter Ghoul (CCG), a federal agency of highly professionally trained people to deal with crimes related to ghouls with special weapons was incorporated. They, Ghoul Inspectors, are rarely seen without big suitcases. Main content of the story is fierce fighting between Ghouls eating human flesh and Individuals who on behalf of mankind are combating for purpose of survival and extermination of devil. However, appearance of Ken Kaneki (the main character) makes everything overturn. Tokyo Ghoul Manga Kaneki Ken (18 years old), a protagonist of Tokyo Ghoul Manga, is the first year student of Kamii University in Tokyo. After the meeting with Rize Kamishiro at Anteiku coffee shop in 20th ward and having the same hobby of book and novel reading, this gentle boy decides to date with her. After the date, Rize suddenly attacks Ken under the nature of a Ghoul. Due to failure of resistance, he tries to escape from Rize’s kill. Fortunately, at the most dangerous moment, Rize was struck by a fallen i-beam, Ken survives with serious wounds. To save his life, the surgeon Kanou decided to transplant some Rize’s organs into his body. Henceforth, his life turns over a new chapter with full of tragedies. After the operation, he develops ghoul like tendencies - must consume human flesh to survive and characteristics and his rationality begins to wane. As one that is now both ghoul and human he struggles to keep his human identity and always fighting against his ghoul side while trying to continue to live like a normal human. Kaneki later works as a waiter for Anteiku – a coffee shop founded in 20th ward to give a hand to weak ghouls in the secret under Yoshimura’s guidance. After his fight with inspector Amon, he gains the name “Eye Patch” because of his mask’s design and somewhat famous after another ghoul saw him defeating the investigator. Attack on Titan manga Hajime no Ippo manga
