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What happens when you put one down-on-his-luck amateur novelist and one amnesiac ghost girl in one bargain-priced haunted apartment? You get the punch line of Bambi’s life. The good news is, Ako is neither the ghost of the person who supposedly committed suicide in the rental nor an unfriendly poltergeist hell-bent on causing chaos. But she needs a place to hang out until she can ascend to wherever ghosts go and Bambi needs source material for his career, so maybe they can have a mutually beneficial relationship... (Source: Yen Press) Notes: -Serialization of the main storyline ended on 11 November 2021. Extra chapters are currently being selfpublished. -On 2022, the manga got licensed by the editorial Asahi Shimbun, being published under their Sonorama + Comics label.

After moving from the countryside into the big city, poor college student Hideki Motosuwa finds himself down on his luck. All he wants is a good job, a girlfriend, and his very own “persocom” - the latest and greatest in humanoid computer technology. Hideki’s luck changes one night when he finds Chi - an adorable, but seemingly broken, persocom thrown out in a pile of trash. After taking her home, Hideki discovers that Chi is more responsibility than he expected - and that there’s much more to his cute new persocom than meets the eye. (Source: Kodansha USA)

Light Yagami finds a notebook that can kill anyone whose name is written inside. What starts as a private judgment fantasy turns into a tense battle of strategy between Light and the detective trying to stop him.

Yuma and Chizumi drift from place to place leaving curses obsession and body horror behind them. This Junji Ito collection turns rumor and cruelty into grotesque supernatural disasters.

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends? How can she find fulfillment in her own life, and can she learn to understand what life means to the humans around her? Frieren begins a new journey to find the answer. (Source: VIZ Media) Notes: - Winner of the Grand Prize at the 14th Manga Taisho Awards. - Nominated for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. - Placed 3rd at the 7th Annual Next Manga Award.

After a forbidden alchemical ritual destroys their bodies, Edward and Alphonse Elric search for the Philosopher's Stone in a story about sacrifice, war, science, and the cost of trying to bring back what was lost.

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town. He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world. He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back. He wants to find some porn. That’s what he wants, but what does he get…? (Source: VIZ Media)

A nightmare plague begins with foul-smelling fish crawling onto land on mechanical legs. Junji Ito turns seaside panic into a relentless horror spiral full of rot obsession and apocalyptic dread.

As leaders of their prestigious academy’s student council, Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it’s lonely at the top… Luckily for them, they’ve fallen in love! There’s just one problem—they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first… Love is a war you win by losing. (Source: VIZ Media) Notes: - The first 10 chapters were published in Monthly Miracle Jump. It switched to Weekly Young Jump starting with Ch. 11, with the chapter count being reset. This entry still includes the first 10 chapters from Miracle Jump. - Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for "Best General Manga" category in 2019.

After her father leaves her homeless Nanami ends up at a rundown shrine and is mistaken for its new local deity. Between divine duties and a sharp-tongued fox familiar her ordinary life turns into a supernatural romance.

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof—she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends! (Source: VIZ Media) Notes: - Winner of the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021. - Includes 37 extra chapters.

Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the boozy bar hostess; and the mooching and peeping Mr. Yotsuya. Funny, touching, and a tad off-kilter, Maison Ikkoku is the great Rumiko Takahashi at her very best. (Source: VIZ Media)

One day, she could see…everything. What’s a girl to do when hideous monsters appear no matter which way she turns? And on top of that, nobody else can see them! Obviously, there’s only one thing that makes sense—ignore them. Kinda hard to put theory into practice, though, when the ghosts know she’s watching… (Source: Yen Press)

Girl meets elk-girl—and chaos ensues! No one knows Torako used to be a delinquent. All of her classmates only know her as the perfect student. But everything changes when Nokotan, a transfer student with antlers, enters her life. Antlers aren’t the only thing strange about Nokotan. Her deer nose can sniff out Torako’s secret past! Whether it’s at school or the zoo, chaos follows this doe-eyed girl’s every step. Torako has so many questions! Is Nokotan a deer, a girl, or something in-between? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Yato is a homeless god. He doesn’t even have a shrine, not to mention worshippers! So to achieve his ambitious goals, he’s set up a service to help those in need (for a small fee), hoping he’ll eventually raise enough money to build himself the lavish temple of his dreams. Of course, he can’t afford to be picky, so Yato accepts all kinds of jobs, from finding lost kittens to helping a student overcome bullies at school. (Source: Kodansha USA)

After—something—changed his life four years ago, Sunny has not left his house once, living in his own reclusive bubble. Hoping for a fresh start for her son, his mother decides to move their family out of town. However, when his childhood friend Kel re-enters his life, Sunny finds himself thrust back into a world he once knew. With only three days before the move, the duo come across familiar faces as they go through town—reawakening a dark past that Sunny has tried so hard to forget. (Source: K Manga)

After being arrested and sent to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu awakens to the power of Persona and joins the Phantom Thieves to confront the twisted desires around them.

Ran Uruma can't wait to grow up and become a sorceress like her mother, so with the help of a magical pair of sneakers, she transforms into an adult and sets off! Her father and older brother Jin try to keep her home safe, but Ran is determined to advance her powers and have adventures of her own! (Source: VIZ Media) Note: Includes six extra chapters.

Ranma Saotome is a martial artist with a curse: cold water turns him into a girl, hot water turns him back, and an arranged engagement pulls him into nonstop fights, crushes, and slapstick chaos.

The neighborhood cock of the walk is more than just an ordinary rooster—he’s humanity’s greatest defender! His opponents may be ten stories tall, but nothing is bigger than his stout heart and his fearsome battle cry—cock-a-doodle-doo! (Source: VIZ Media)

Himura Kenshin was once a feared assassin in the final years of the Bakumatsu. Now he wanders Meiji-era Japan with a reversed-edge sword, trying to protect people without returning to the violence that made him famous.

Shikimori seems like the perfect girlfriend: cute, fun to be around, sweet when she wants to be… but she has a cool dark side that comes out under the right circumstances. And her boyfriend Izumi loves to be around when that happens! (Source: Kodansha USA) Notes: - Originally self-published on Twitter, was then licensed by Kodansha for serialization. - Won 5th place in Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category. - Includes 25 extra chapters.

Meet Amane Mizuno a girl with fierce sanpaku eyes and a pure heart! She has recently fallen for a boy named Katou, who has the exact opposite attitude! Will the tender-hearted Amane ever tell him how she feels?! (Source: Denpa) Notes: - Chapter count includes a bonus chapter. - Originally self-published on Twitter, after six chapters it was serialised by GANGANpixiv.

He was the fiercest member of the yakuza, a man who left countless underworld legends in his wake. They called him “the Immortal Dragon.” But one day he walked away from it all to travel another path—the path of the househusband! The curtain rises on this cozy yakuza comedy! (Source: VIZ Media)

In the distant future, machine lifeforms have driven humanity to the Moon. The Council of Humanity deploys the female android unit YoRHa to Earth, where they fight to recapture the planet in a story set in the world of NieR:Automata.