University student Ishiko Yuzuki is dumped by his first girlfriend after she cheats on him. At home, his friend Tsuyoshi comforts him, but the heartbroken Yuzuki catches sight of an ad recruiting participants for the second season of the popular romance reality show "Eden of Destiny." Strongly encouraged by Tsuyoshi, the two apply without much hope, but they pass the application screening! However, when they board the luxury cruise ship, what awaits them is not a romance reality show, but an unreasonable death game! (Source: Kurage Bunch, translated)
Tooru Amano is a useless art student who keeps failing grade after another without being able to draw his graduation project. However, Tooru once attracted the public's attention with a painting he drew during his high school days. The model was his sister-in-law Mugi, who was still young at the time. Meanwhile, Mugi, who followed her parents on an overseas assignment, returns to Japan for the first time in six years. Mugi's return to Japan sparks Tooru's creative desire!! His love and creative desire begins to run wild, and ends up involving his college junior Momiji and Shino, the store manager at his part-time job!
Ever feel like your existence does not matter? Ever feel like no one would care if you died? Izumi Hoshi is a pessimistic high schooler ready to kill herself by jumping off a bridge. Turns out that drowning is pretty painful, so she chickens out. Takuto Kurihara saw Izumi jump from the bridge, so he tries to save her. It turns out that Takuto has the personality and skills to bring out Izumi's hidden talent that she never knew she had.
Living on Guicheng Island, called “the most dangerous town in the universe,” is no easy task. Genetic doping is common for gangs to gain ultimate power. Shizuka, a young girl, takes on the most dangerous of assassin jobs, but she’s not the one doing the killing. Rather, it’s her brother, Nagi, a strong assassin who took a bullet to protect his sister, leaving him in a comatose state and having to use a wheelchair. However, Shizuka has figured out the key to waking her brother up: he must be faced with murderous intent! Thus begins a violent journey of recovery, battling the most dangerous foes! *Source: Kodansha USA*
Everyone dreams about being the next J-Pop Idol! Best friends Mika, Kay, and Naomi win a nationwide singing contest, setting them on their way to stardom. But only Mika is offered a recording contract, and if she takes this chance to pursue her love for music, her friendship with Kay might be finished! And when Mika meets Ken--her boy-band idol growing up--she might have found more than just a music producer who promises to make her a household name. But it isn't long before she discovers that Ken is paying his own price for his love of music... (Source: TOKYOPOP)
An empire falling to ruin: The Kio Empire. Living in that empire, is an overweight 5-year-old abandoned by his parents, Prince Ageha. Ageha has memories from a previous life of him living as a Japanese man in another world. He then encounters his younger half-brother, Regulus. Ageha had a vision that Regulus will kill him in the future over inheritance, so Ageha sets out to raise him after Regulus's mother passed. Once the sparkling and fluffy-haired Regulus cozied up to Ageha, He turned into a doting older brother before he even realized! Enjoy a fantasy story of young brothers managing their kingdom, sometimes involving the gods, as they reform it step by step to bring a better land to the next generation! (Source: MangaPlaza)
One day, the powerful “Saint” Healer Rina is suddenly banished from her childhood friend’s hero party. While shocked by this unfair dismissal, Rina decides to completely forget about her former party members and start living her long-awaited, slow lifestyle! But before she can begin to settle into this new routine, her other childhood friend, Henry, appears! The two have not seen each other in five years, and Henry is now a nobleman. While Rina is thrilled by the reunion, it seems like there’s suspicious activity going on within her former party?! (Source: Alpha Manga) *Note: Chapter count includes an additional bonus chapter.*
Invaders from the Crimson Realm have descended upon Earth looking for something called the Power of Existence. Whoever possesses this power will control the very fabric of existence. To the rescue comes an otherworldly young girl with fire in her eyes. She may be cute and petite, but she's endowed with enough preternatural strength to save the entire universe. Plus, she's got a really big sword! (Source: VIZ Media)
Yuji Sakai, a high school student, is told by strange girl that he died some time ago, and that he is a "Torch", a temporary replacement for erased humans. Torches take on the forms of those erased persons, but after a period of time, they will vanish from existence and the memories of the living. Unfazed by his apparent death, Yuji befriends this girl and names her "Shana" after her sword. Shana resolves to protect Yuji from the Denizens, who would use his special replenishing Torch to disrupt the balance of the world, and Yuji decides to join Shana in her fight. (Source: Anime News Network) Note: Chapter count includes two "extra" chapters.
Ryu may be getting on in years, but this aging yakuza boss is still tough enough to take on the punks trying to edge in on his turf. However, when the young toughs ambush him, it looks like it’s lights out for old Ryu. But instead of dying, Ryu wakes up in a fantasy world in the body of a beautiful princess! Is he the one that the ancient prophecy spoke of? Ryu might be out of place in this fantasy realm, but he may be the only one who can save it! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Raphtalia, a demi-human girl, was living happily with her family and friends. However, she loses her parents to a monster that appeared during a phenomenon called the "Waves of Calamity". Her village which was on the brink of destruction then got plundered by soldiers who came to her village and turned her into a slave. However, her fate made a drastic turn when she meets Naofumi Iwatani, a hero summoned from another world to save this world. The bond between the two gradually deepen as they live together while fighting the monsters from the "Waves of Calamity". A retelling of the main story in the perspective of Raphtalia

