Love Hina is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 1998 to October 2001,with the chapters collected into 14 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The series tells the story of KeitarōUrashima and his attempts to find the girl with whom he made a childhood promise to enter the University of Tokyo. The manga was licensed for an English-language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop,in Australia by Madman Entertainment,and in Singapore by Chuang Yi. Two novelizations of Love Hina,written by two anime series screenwriters,were also released in Japan by Kodansha. Both novels were later released in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop.
Fruits Basket,sometimes abbreviated Furuba or Fruba (フルバ),is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya. It was serialized in the semi-monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume,published by Hakusensha,from 1998 to 2006. The series' title comes from the name of a popular game played in Japanese elementary schools,which is alluded to in the series.
Great Teacher Onizuka,officially abbreviated as GTO,is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 1997 to February 2002,with its chapters collected in 25 tankōbon volumes. The story focuses on 22-year-old ex-bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka,who becomes a teacher at a private middle school,Holy Forest Academy,in Tokyo,Japan. It is a continuation of Fujisawa's earlier manga series Shonan Junai Gumi and Bad Company,both of which focus on the life of Onizuka before becoming a teacher.
Tsubasa:Reservoir Chronicle is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. It takes place in the same fictional universe as many of Clamp's other manga series,most notably xxxHolic. The plot follows how Sakura,the princess of the Kingdom of Clow,loses all her memories and how Syaoran,a young archaeologist who is her childhood friend,goes on arduous adventures to save her,with two other companions. The Dimensional Witch Yūko Ichihara instructs him to go with two people,Kurogane and Fai D. Flowright. They search for Sakura's memories,which were scattered in various worlds in the form of angelic-like feathers,as retrieving them will help save her very being. Tsubasa was conceived when four Clamp artists wanted to create a manga series that connected all their previous works. They took the designs for the main protagonists from their earlier manga called Cardcaptor Sakura.
Initial D is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from 1995 to 2013,with the chapters collected into 48 tankōbon volumes. The story focuses on the world of illegal Japanese street racing,where all the action is concentrated in the mountain passes and rarely in cities or urban areas,and with the drifting racing style emphasized in particular. Professional race car driver and pioneer of drifting Keiichi Tsuchiya helped with editorial supervision. The story is centered on the prefecture of Gunma,more specifically on several mountains in the Kantōregion and in their surrounding cities and towns. Although some of the names of the locations the characters race in have been fictionalized,all of the locations in the series are based on actual locations in Japan.
Full Metal Panic! is a series of light novels written by Shoji Gatoh and illustrated by Shiki Douji. The series follows Sousuke Sagara,a member of the covert anti-terrorist private military organization known as Mithril,tasked with protecting Kaname Chidori,a hot-headed Japanese high school girl.
Tokyopop is an American distributor,licensor and publisher of anime,manga,manhwa and Western manga-style works. The German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga,as well as original German-language manga. Tokyopop's US publishing division publishes works in English. Tokyopop has its US headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles,California. Its parent company's offices are in Tokyo,Japan and its sister company's office is in Hamburg,Germany.
xxxHolic is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp. The series,which crosses over with another Clamp work,Tsubasa:Reservoir Chronicle,revolves around Kimihiro Watanuki,a high school student who is disturbed by his ability to see the supernatural,and Yūko Ichihara,a powerful witch who owns a wish-granting shop. When Watanuki asks Ichihara to remove his ability to see spirits,she grants it on the condition that he pay for his wish by working for her. Clamp created xxxHolic to link the supernatural and fantasy series.
Rave Master,Rave,and alternatively,The Groove Adventure Rave in Japan,is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. The series follows Haru Glory,a teenager on a quest to find the five fragments of the sacred stone of light Rave in order to bring peace to the world by defeating the criminal group Demon Card. Mashima created this series with the idea of travelling around the world and was presented with difficulties in its serialization due to its considerable length.
Beck is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Harold Sakuishi. It was originally serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2008,with the 103 chapters later published into 34 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. It tells the story of a group of Japanese teenagers who form a rock band and their struggle to fame,focusing on 14-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka,who until meeting guitar prodigy Ryusuke Minami was an average teen with a boring life.
Speed Grapher is a 2005 anime series produced by Gonzo. The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005 on TV Asahi. It tells the story of former war photographer,Tatsumi Saiga and his quest to save Kagura Tennōzu from Chōji Suitengu and the members of a fetish club,the Roppongi Club. In 2006,the series was licensed for release in North America by Funimation and aired on the Independent Film Channel between March 7 and August 15,2008.
Ikki Tousen,also known as Battle Vixens in North America,is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūji Shiozaki. Loosely based on the classic 14th century Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms,the series revolves around an all-out turf war in the Kantōregion of Japan where fighters known as Tōshi from seven schools battle for supremacy. The story centers on Hakufu Sonsaku,a fighter who transfers to Nanyo Academy,one of the seven schools involved in the turf war.
GetBackers is a Japanese manga series written by Yuya Aoki and illustrated by Rando Ayamine. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 1999 to February 2007,with its chapters collected in 39 tankōbon volumes. The plot follows the "GetBackers",a group that retrieves anything that was lost. The team is primarily composed of Ban Mido,a man born with the illusionary technique "Evil Eye",and Ginji Amano the former leader of a gang called "The Volts",a powerful group in the dangerous territory called the Infinity Fortress in Shinjuku.
Chobits is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the Japanese manga collective Clamp. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from September 2000 to October 2002,with its chapters collected in eight bound volumes. Chobits was adapted as a 26-episode-long anime television series broadcast on TBS from April to September 2002. In addition,it has spawned two video games as well as various merchandise such as figurines,collectable cards,calendars,and artbooks.
Fairy Tail is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2006 to July 2017,with the individual chapters collected and published into 63 tankōbon volumes. The story follows the adventures of Natsu Dragneel,a member of the popular wizard guild Fairy Tail,as he searches the fictional world of Earth-land for the dragon Igneel.
Dragon Voice is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuriko Nishiyama. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 2001 to January 2003,with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. The manga was licensed in North America by Tokyopop;10 volumes were released before their manga licensing contract with Kodansha had expired in 2009. The story centers on a Japanese pop-singing group called Beatmen and focuses on the life of Rin Amami,the unlikely fifth member of the group who was foretold as the bearer of a legendary unique singing vocal called "Dragon Voice".
Code:Breaker is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimine Kamijyo. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June 2008 to July 2013,with its chapters collected in 26 tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of a high school girl named Sakura Sakurakōji who is trained in martial arts and a male transfer student with mysterious powers named Rei Ōgami. The manga was licensed in North America by Del Rey Manga;only the first two volumes were released.
Noragami:Stray God is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist duo Adachitoka. It has been serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Magazine since December 2010,with its chapters collected in 26 tankōbon volumes as of February 2023.
Kujōno Taizai is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shohei Manabe. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits since October 2020.
Shohei Manabe is a Japanese manga artist. Writing and drawing gritty seinen manga about the Japanese underworld,he is best known for Ushijima the Loan Shark (2004–2019),which won the Shogakukan Manga Award and spawned several films and series.
