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Seinen manga
- NOiSENOiSE is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei, and it holds a particular place in his body of work: it is the prequel to his…
- Akira (manga)Akira is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo, and when its first collected volume hit shelves in Japan in September 1984, its…
- Oh My Goddess!Oh My Goddess! began with a wrong number. Keiichi Morisato, a college sophomore, accidentally dials the Goddess Help Line and finds himself face to face with…
- DevilmanDevilman is the manga series by Go Nagai that sent a 16-year-old reader named Nanase Ohkawa into a state of shock she never forgot, and eventually led her to…
- Vinland Saga (manga)Vinland Saga is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura, and it begins with a boy who wants nothing more than to kill a man.
- Jinki: ExtendJinki: Extend is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shiro Tsunashima, built around a single strange premise: two girls from different eras…
- Kurau Phantom MemoryKurau Phantom Memory begins with a birthday gone wrong. A twelve-year-old girl named Kurau follows her father, Dr. Amami, into his lab.
- Berserk (manga)Berserk, the dark fantasy manga series created by Kentaro Miura, opens with a man born from the corpse of his hanged mother.
- Battle Angel AlitaBattle Angel Alita opens on a garbage dump. Not a metaphor, not a mood-setter, but a literal scrap heap raining down from a floating city high above.
- Captain Harlock (manga)Captain Harlock first appeared in the pages of Play Comic, a manga magazine published by Akita Shoten, in January 1977. Leiji Matsumoto wrote and drew every…
- Puella Magi Madoka MagicaPuella Magi Madoka Magica arrived on Japanese television on the 7th of January 2011, and within weeks it had upended everything audiences thought they knew…
- RWBYRWBY, pronounced "Ruby," launched on the 18th of July 2013, on the Rooster Teeth website, and it arrived with a question its creators never expected to face…
- Seinen mangaSeinen manga is the editorial category of Japanese comics made for young adult men, and it sits at a crossroads that few publishing categories can claim…
- Vagabond (manga)Vagabond, the manga series by Takehiko Inoue, begins with two teenagers bleeding on a battlefield in 1600, in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of…
- Crayon Shin-chanCrayon Shin-chan is a Japanese manga series created by Yoshito Usui, and from its first appearance in 1990, it has never quite behaved the way anyone…
- Fate/stay nightFate/Stay Night began not as a game but as a story Kinoko Nasu wrote in college with no particular destination in mind. He only completed what would become…
- K-On!K-On! began not with a grand origin story but with a small crisis: a high school light music club on the verge of being shut down, saved by four girls who…
- Monster (manga)Monster opens with a choice that changes several lives at once. Kenzo Tenma, a neurosurgeon at Eisler Memorial Hospital in Düsseldorf, West Germany, is…
- Sakigake!! OtokojukuSakigake!! Otokojuku has sold over 26 million copies, yet outside Japan almost no one has heard of it. That single number places it among the best-selling…
- Oshi no KoOn the night of Ai Hoshino's delivery, obstetrician Gorou Amamiya stands in a hospital room filled with the sterile scent of antiseptic and the hum of…
- NoiseTsutomu Nihei wrote and illustrated the manga series NOiSE. This work serves as a prequel to his larger ten-volume project known as Blame!.
- Baccano!Baccano! begins on a ship called the Advenna Avis in 1711, where a group of alchemists summons a demon and walks away with eternal life.
- Cobra (manga)Cobra, the manga series by Buichi Terasawa, opens not with a hero striding across a starfield, but with an ordinary office worker named Johnson who is bored.
- Violence JackViolence Jack arrived in Weekly Shonen Magazine on the 22nd of July, 1973, and it arrived with a figure unlike anything manga readers had encountered.
- Lone Wolf and CubLone Wolf and Cub begins with a one-year-old placed before two objects: a ball and a sword. His father, Ogami Itto, the shogun's executioner, watches in…
- Guin SagaGuin Saga began as a single novel in 1979 with a premise that sounds almost absurd: a warrior with no memory, no name, and a leopard mask magically fused to…
- Bastard!!Bastard!! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara, and it is named after its own irreverence.