Curated playlist
Kodansha manga
- NOiSEA young police officer investigates missing children in the manga NOiSE. Susono Musubi patrols a busy underground city.
- The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can EnterIn The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter, Noir's new power can kill him if his Life Points reach zero.
- Akira (manga)Akira was the first comic in the world to be colored digitally. Steve Oliff colored the American edition of the manga.
- Oh My Goddess!A wrong number connects a college student to a goddess who offers him one wish. He wishes she will stay forever.
- DevilmanDevilman was a dark manga born from a TV studio's request for something softer.
- Vinland Saga (manga)Vinland Saga began as a story about slavery, not Vikings. The manga's editor pushed for a Viking warrior hero first.
- Kurau Phantom MemoryA lab accident scattered twelve-year-old Kurau into light. When she reformed, another being came back with her.
- Ace AttorneyAce Attorney is a Capcom adventure series in which the hero wins by catching a witness in a lie. In its fictional courts, a trial lasts three days at most. Verdicts usually come back guilty, and the cases the games follow are rare…
- Sailor MoonSailor Moon, the Japanese manga written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi, has sold over 46 million copies worldwide. That makes it one of the best-selling manga series in history, and one of the best-selling shōjo series. The story opens…
- Vagabond (manga)The manga Vagabond opens with two bleeding teenagers on a battlefield in 1600. One will become a famed swordsman.
- Attack on TitanAttack on Titan's giants began with a drunk customer at an internet cafe.
- Cardcaptor SakuraCardcaptor Sakura begins when ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally opens a book in her basement. The book was made by a sorcerer named Clow Reed, and it holds a set of magical cards that now scatter into the world. Unless she gathers…
- FLCLFLCL begins with a Vespa, a twelve-year-old boy, and a blue vintage Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar. The boy is Naota Nandaba. The woman swinging a left-handed bass at his head is Haruko Haruhara, an alien who has just run him over. She…
- Initial DInitial D is a Japanese street racing manga written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno, and its hero starts each day delivering tofu. Takumi Fujiwara is a high school student. For years he has made those early morning runs in his father…
- Fairy TailFairy Tail, a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima, had 72 million copies in print by February 2020. That figure places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its hero is Natsu Dragneel, a wizard who roams a…
- Ashita no JoeDid boxer Joe Yabuki survive his final fight in the manga Ashita no Joe?
- Tokyo RevengersIn Tokyo Revengers, a part-timer shoved from a subway platform lands twelve years in the past.
- Witch Hat AtelierWitch Hat Atelier is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kamome Shirahama, and its story begins with a mistake born of longing. A girl named Coco has dreamed for years of becoming a witch. One day she casts a spell by…
- Hajime no IppoHajime no Ippo opens its hero's boxing life with a test involving falling leaves. A professional boxer named Mamoru Takamura sets a bruised high school boy a task. Catch ten leaves from a tree at the same moment, with a single week to…
- Violence JackThe final chapter of manga Violence Jack reveals its ruined world was re-created by God.