Alice in Borderland- - ASO Haro

Synopsis:

Alice Ryouhei is about to leave high school, but she tries to avoid thinking about her future. One night, while hanging out with her loud friend Karube and her silly, girl-crazy friend Chota, they watch fireworks. After one blindingly bright explosion, they find themselves waking up in a different world. In this 'Borderland', people are forced to participate in potentially deadly games or simply die. Will Chota, Karube, and Ryouhei be able to survive in this dangerous new world, and is there any way they can return to their old lives?

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• Japanese title: Imawa no Kuni no Alice
• 18 volumes (END)

Hyde & Closer -- ASO Haro

Synopsis:

Shunpei Closer's grandfather, Alsyd Closer, was an odd man. He traveled around the world always coming back to Japan to tell his grandson all the amazing adventures he would have. Before leaving to Africa on Shunpei's 7th birthday, he gives him a teddy bear named Hyde. Six years have passed and one day Shunpei receives a mysterious package that contains a deadly surprise. To survive, he will learn more about his grandfather than he ever dared to dream and learn what it takes to be a real man, and not the coward he always thought it was all right to be.

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• 7 volumes (END)

Birdmen -- TANABE Yellow

Synopsis:

Eishi Karasuma is a loner with a monotone life and his only friend is Mikisada Kamoda. One day they venture together while skipping class and they meet Tsubame, a very energetic girl, and Rei Sagisawa, a pretty boy that attends the same middle school. On their way back to school a sudden event happens. A mysterious boy with wings will come to help.

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• 16 volumes (END)

Animal Kingdom -- RAIKU Makoto

Synopsis:

Monoko is a raccoon who lives in the land of animals, a world inhabited only by animals.

Monoko, who lives alone because her parents have been eaten, one day picks up an animal she has never seen before.

A human baby! That small encounter changes her world, and the curtain of a magical fantasy world of animals is lifted!

NOTE:

• Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Children's Manga in 2013
•  Japanese title: Doubutsu no Kuni
• 14 volumes (END)

Traumeister -- NAKAYAMA Atsushi

Synopsis:

Hika Souma, called Picasso by friends, is 17 and still without a girlfriend after being dumped 13 times. One day, a pretty girl who later introduces herself as Sujata drags him out from a moving train, and with her unwanted assistance, his childhood trauma toward demons (oni) takes the form of a real demon summoned out from his body.

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• 5 volumes (END)

Artist Acro -- SAKURAI Ato

Synopsis:

In this world artists have special powers that helps them create their art, but when artists began using human souls as raw material for their work, being an artist is no longer what is used to be. Follow Acro, a young artist starting his new action packed adventure to realize his dreams despite it’s impossibility and to gain the understanding of what it means to become a great artist.

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• 9 volumes (END)

Arms -- NANATSUKI Kyoichi & MINAGAWA Ryoji

Synopsis:

In a world of nano-machines, cybernetic assassins, powerful telekinetic opponents, and secret organization dedicated to bringing forth the next evolution of humankind, children arms transform into grotesquely deformed superweapons.

NOTE:

• Received the Shogakukan Manga Award for Shounen in 1999
• 22 volumes (END)