Tokyo 1968: the time of the student revolt. In an attempt to escape his criminal past, Norio Nagayama sets off to the Japanese capital in the hope of a new beginning. At the "Village Vanguard", a jazz bar where the Japanese revolutionary students tend to hang out, he meets the young actor and director Takeshi Kitano. Takeshi's big film project: "Unlucky Young Men", a chronicle of a disillusioned Japanese generation – willing to do anything to live out their dreams. To finance the film's production, the two young men plan to attack a security van carrying 300 million yen...

Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo... among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off-you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP-gives them a direct line to the dead—the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation. The five form the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! (Source: Dark Horse)

Very popular sword & sorcery shounen series with a mixed dose of Japanese mythology and some futuristic themes. According to myth, the evil emperor Miroku will be dethroned by a young hero who's also destined to open the gateway that connects the human world to the legendary land of Agalta. When a son with tremendous powers was born to Miroku, the infant's body was cut up into eight parts to prevent the prophecy from becoming true and given to Miroku's eight evil generals for safekeeping. Then the poor baby was cast into the river but luckily was found by Tatara who gave it both its name, Madara and artificial limbs to compensate for the missing ones. Madara grew up with a girl named Kirin and when he was 15, he was given the sword Kusanagi and told to go and get his real body parts back. Along the way, he discovers the truth about his father, his lineage and his own powers. Madara also finds out that there are 3 other contenders for this prophesized hero role: Kaos, Seishinja and his own older twin brother, Kage-ou. So the series is about Madara's adventures to bring down Miroku and his final decision when he reaches the legendary portals. \[Source: PRISM\]

A Sci-Fi story in which the world as we know it is just a fragment of the past. By the writer of MPD Psycho, Leviathan, Brothers, and Madara, Japan delves into several interesting topics, such as the importance of genealogy and history, in an enjoyable fashion.

After a long absence, the young shaman Samizo Kohei returns from the dead with a prophecy of the apocalypse. Or part of him returns, at least - most of his body has been replaced with the transplanted body parts of his former friends, all retaining their distinctive personalities. He returns to his home in Shinjuku, where he works as a psychic surgeon in an unlicensed clinic. Here he serves as the unofficial guardian of the Shinjuku underground, solving paranormal murder mysteries, with the assistance of an assortment of other bizarre mystics and semi-human allies. Meanwhile, the others wonder exactly what Kohei has become, and whether he has returned to prevent the apocalypse, or to initiate it.

Toko is a shy, awkward girl who hates her summer holidays. They just don't seem to end, and she's right. She is stuck on August 31st. Every day's the same as any other August 31st, except when a new character comes and changes how her whole day goes, and what she learns later on is not what she wanted to know...

In the year 2290 in Tokyo, a powerful detective association financed by the state is in charge of resolving criminal cases, relegating the police to the background. Although now a new generation of detectives with supernatural powers has appeared that threatens their supremacy. In this climate, the "detective ritual" is convened, a shady initiation ceremony for the Order of Gentlemen Detectives that is carried out on a mysterious island that only appears on special days.

An MPD Psycho Parody.

Spin-off taking place durning Meiji period around 1897.

Within the walls of Tokyo all seventeen year olds are hunted by militant teachers. Ooe Saku has just turned seventeen. Now he must fight for his life and he doesn't even know why.

Note: This work is a substantial remake of Tokyo Jikan. In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. In 1989, the Shouwa era didn't end. When a doppelgänger appears and meets with his double, an explosion occurs which changes the world's history. Tokio is a mysterious person who travels in time in order to find and stop these doppelgängers. He then meets a female morgue worker and a detective. The three are called by Masaki Urashima, only to be told an aeroplane will explode in two days.