Curated playlist
Shogakukan manga
- InuyashaIn the manga Inuyasha, a dying priestess orders her own body burned along with a sacred jewel.
- Ranma ½Ranma ½ is a Japanese manga by Rumiko Takahashi about a teenage martial artist whose body changes with the temperature of the water that touches him. Ranma Saotome has trained in fighting since early childhood. He spends the series hunting…
- DoraemonDoraemon, the hero of a Japanese manga series by Fujiko F. Fujio, is a robotic cat with no ears. Robotic mice chewed them off, and he has feared mice ever since. The same sadness drained his original yellow color and left him blue. That…
- Case ClosedCase Closed, a Japanese manga series by Gosho Aoyama, had more than 270 million copies in circulation worldwide by January 2023. That makes it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. It runs in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, a magazine…
- Kaze to Ki no UtaEditors spent nearly seven years keeping the manga Kaze to Ki no Uta's first page from print.
- DororoA daimyo in the manga Dororo trades his newborn son's body to 48 demons. The boy's mother sets him adrift on a river.
- Mob Psycho 100Mob Psycho 100 follows a middle school boy named Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who carries immense psychic power and works constantly to keep his feelings down. The two facts are linked. His power threatens to break past its limits as…
- Speed RacerSpeed Racer began as a Japanese comic inspired by Elvis and James Bond. Tatsuo Yoshida merged two films into one hero.
- Monster (manga)A surgeon disobeys an order and saves a boy instead of the mayor. That boy grows into the killer in Monster.
- FrierenFrieren is an elven mage who makes a promise to her friends that, for her, is almost no promise at all. Under a meteor shower called the Era Meteors, which appears once every fifty years, she agrees to gather with her old companions again…
- Umamusume: Pretty DerbyOn the 26th of March 2016, a panel at the AnimeJapan event revealed concept art for a cast of racing girls with horse ears and tails. An animated trailer from the studio P.A. Works came with it. This was the first public look at Umamusume:…
- DorohedoroDorohedoro, a Japanese manga series by Q Hayashida, begins with a man whose head is that of a reptile and who cannot remember who he used to be. His name is Caiman. His only clue to the sorcerer who cursed him is a full-size man living…
- Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…