Manga Corner

Japanese: 終焉の栞 Synonyms: Bookmark of Demise Type: Manga Volumes: 7 Chapters: 33 Status: Completed Published: Dec 15, 2012 to Dec 15, 2015 Genres: Mystery, Horror, School, Supernatural, Josei Authors: Yuki Amino (Art), Suzumu (Story) Serialization: Comic Gene Synopsis:   On the normal, unchanging campus, it suddenly occurred; A murder case where a body was cut open, right into two. On the other side of the unsolved case, the rumor-loving high school students became involved in a certain ritual. From the extremely popular songs on Nico Nico Douga, begins the Project. What is the "Bookmark of Demise"...? Who is the traitor...? What will the conclusion to this story be...? So, can you solve this mystery? Background Shuuen no Shiori is based off of the Shuuen no Shiori Project, a Vocaloid song series created by 150P. The lyrics are based off of Japanese children's games and urban legends such as hide and seek, monkey paw, and doppelg...

Japanese: 詭弁学派、四ッ谷先輩の怪談。 Synonyms: Asobiba., Ou-sama Kid, King Kid Type: Manga Volumes: 3 Chapters: 22 Status: Completed Published: Mar 1, 2010 to Jul 5, 2010 Genres: Mystery, Drama, Horror, School, Shounen Mangaka: Furudate Haruichi (Story & Art) Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly) Synopsis:  In the midst of a female-kidnapping serial killer incident, Makoto's best friend Hinano has vanished completely. Desperate to find her before it's too late, Makoto will try anything—even invoking the resident phantom student of her middle school, Yotsuya-senpai! Surprisingly, Yotsuya-senpai appears to be an actual person. He's obsessed with creating the scariest stories ever, using the people and situations in Makoto's middle school to stage them. Though Yotsuya is mostly just interested making scary stories, Makoto finds that his stories tend to contain a kernel of truth and that they can reveal their terrible truth in the telling. But as Makoto helps Yot...

Japanese: ヒトヒトリフタリ Synonyms: One Person as Two, Soul Keeper Type: Manga Volumes: 8 Chapters: 84 Status: Completed Published: Nov 2, 2011 to Aug 1, 2013 Genres: Drama, Supernatural, Seinen Mangaka: Takahashi Tsutomu (Story & Art) Serialization: Young Jump Synopsis:  After the body dies, the soul lives on. Many spirits progress toward the world of light, through the levels of the spirit world where they study how to improve their souls. These spirits are sometimes reincarnated into the physical world, and sometimes they are sent back as guardian spirits for other living people. Guardian spirits must protect their charges souls from the blackness that oozes up from the world of darkness below. Riyon is a very laid-back spirit, who often skips her spirit classes to fool around. To train her further, she is sent back to the physical world as a guardian spirit. Instead of following a human from birth, she is helping a beleaguered man, the Japanese Prime Mini...

Japanese: 不思議な少年 English: A Wonder Boy Type: Manga Volumes: 9 + Chapters: 20 + Status: Publishing Published: Mar 1, 2001 to ? Genres: Mystery, Drama, Supernatural, Seinen Mangaka: Yamashita Kazumi (Story & Art) Serialization: Morning Two Synopsis:  The manga is made of different short stories linked together by the mysterious boy with no particular name. The boy travels in different times and places, trading with different people, letting them to have a glimpse of their future or past or the secret of others, and bet to see if they can change their fate. Groups Scanlating Blue Flor SCX-Scans Village Idiot Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates , Bato.to Side notes: The English translation of this series isn't like following the chapter order and the groups translating are picking only the chapters that they like/ have time to translate. For this reason there is a difference of chapter publishing dates but as now they have reached the ...

Japanese: しらぬい奇譚録 Synonyms: N/A Type: Manga Volumes: 1 Chapters: 8 Status: Completed Published: Apr 6, 2012 to Jun 28, 2013 Genres: Mystery, Horror, Shoujo, Supernatural Mangaka: Inai Kaoru (Story & Art) Serialization: Hana to Yume Online Synopsis:  A man travels, collecting and sharing creepy and weird tales of the supernatural. Groups Scanlating Kaito Zero Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates , Bato.to Side notes: I had to smile a bit when I read bato.to comments... as there was someone stating:" It was published in shoujo magazine, don't change its genre to seinen. "(Racky) As with many other mangas there is more or less this same feeling "there must be something wrong with the genre tagging" but that is only following up the magazine where they were serialized. If the manga was serialized in shoujo manga magazine it is shoujo come what may and same goes with other mangas as well depending the magazine and its main target grou...

Japanese: ヴァムピール Synonyms: A King and a Baron+, Vampire (ITSUKI Nasumi) Type: Manga Volumes: 5 + Chapters: 13 + Status: Publishing/ Hiatus Published: Aug 2006 to ? Genres: Drama, Supernatural, Seinen Mangaka: Itsuki Natsumi (Story & Art) Serialization: Afternoon Synopsis:  He died, only for a minute. Minakawa Ryo was an ordinary high school student until the day a girl jumped off a building, killing him with her. He miraculously comes back to life but with a new ability to see and hear what ordinary people cannot. Then one day a mysterious girl, Hokuto Shou, appears and tells him that his half has become a resident of the world of the dead. His previous ordinary life has dissipated, and a new life between the "living" and the "dead" begins.  Groups Scanlating Loyal Kiss Whisper Wingtip Cafe Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates , Bato.to Side notes: This series is in Hiatus mode in Japan and the same goes for the transla...

Japanese: 闇鍵師 Synonyms:  Jyonosuke,  Yami Kagishi,  Yamikagisi Type: Manga Volumes: 4 Chapters: 34 Status: Completed Published: Oct 28, 2005 to Mar 28, 2008 Genres: Action, Historical, Supernatural, Seinen Authors: Akana Shuu (Art), Nakashima Kazuki (Story) Serialization: Manga Action Synopsis:   The shogunate installed by the Tokugawa is abiding order, the people live in peace and in a relative prosperity. However, the dark part of the human heart does not cease to arouse their cupidity: it is the ideal doorway for all demons that, by possessing humans, seek to pass into their world. Exorcising these demons is Jyonosuke's mission, the master of keys. Known for being the best locksmith of Edo, Jyonosuke uses particular locks to put the wicked spirits under lock and key. With the help of the bewitching O-kin, a divine who uses unorthodox methods, Jyonosuke is going to meet during his demon hunt some notables of his time which will prove to be p...

Japanese: もののけ草紙 Synonyms: Mononoke-Zoushi, Book of Wraiths Type: Manga Volumes: 4 Chapters: 31 Status: Completed Published: Feb 6, 2007 to Feb 2011 Genres: Horror, Supernatural, Josei Authors: Takahashi Yousuke (Story & Art) Serialization: Horror M Synopsis:  This is the story of a girl who works as a performer at sake houses, but who has a unique ability. She has a tattoo of an eye on her hand which endows her with the ability of "second sight." Though this often comes in handy, it also complicates her life. She is constantly getting involved in situations with various supernatural creatures, such as animal spirits, kappas, and more. Groups Scanlating Habanero Scans Itadakimasu~ StubbornOne Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates , Bato.to Side notes: The R17 tag this time is totally related to theme and Josei tag. Josei means a story type that is meant mainly for grown ups and not readers under R17. Still Bato.to isn't red f...

Japanese: モノノ怪 Synonyms: モノノ怪 -鵺-, モノノ怪―座敷童子―, モノノ怪-海坊主-, MO NO NO KE, Mononoke - Nue, Mononoke - Umibouzu, Mononoke - Zashiki Douji Type: Manga Volumes: 2 Chapters: 19 Status: Completed Published: Aug 17, 2007 to Aug 1, 2008 Genres: Demons, Mystery, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Supernatural, Seinen Mangaka: Ninagawa Yaeko (Story & Art) Serialization: Young Gangan Synopsis:  The story is about a man who is a medicine seller. He hunts mononoke (demons) and kills them by using a sword. However, before unsheathing his sword he first needs to learn of the form (katachi), the truth behind the human tragedies (makoto) and the reason behind the evils (kotowari) that gave birth to it before killing the demon.(MAL) Baka updates:   Set in the Edo period, Mononoke tells the story of a supernatural horror that lays siege to an aristocratic household, and of a mysterious apothecary who seeks to uncover the ugly truths that gave rise to the monstrosity in order to ...

Japanese: 少年陰陽師 Synonyms: Shonen Onmyoji, Shounen Omyouji, Shounen Onyouji Type: Manga Volumes: 1 Chapters: 6 Status: Completed Published: Aug 24, 2005 to ? Genres: Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Shoujo, Supernatural Authors: Yuki Mitsuru (Story)*, Seta Hinako (Art) Serialization: Asuka (Monthly) Synopsis:   Abe no Masahiro, grandson of the famous Abe no Seimei, is always looked down because he could not see spirits. But he saw them when he was younger? After some unexpected occurrences, he can see spirits once more and must try to prove to himself that he isn't just "Seimei's grandson" with the help of Mokkun, the so-called mononoke.(MAL) Bato.to:  Abe no Masahiro is the grandson of the great omnyouji Abe no Semei, who passed his teachings on to his grandson. Masahiro lost his sixth sense and the ability to see spirits, but with Mokkun as his guide, he works to become his grandfather's successor. Related Series Shounen Onmyouji (Novel)...

Hi!^-¨ I think it's time for the Halloween... Yay! But if I'm wrong don't mind me blowing the whistle.XDDD Today I'm going to be a bit late probably as I's reading one novel series that contained over 600 chapters since last week untill now... (and it's still continuing) while not doing much for manga scanning. But fear not... I picked still few mangas here to lead the way towards the future.^-^ Sadly my mumbles and picus are slowly appearing into my previous posts as it takes some time and effort to do those (especially picus). So hope you can be patient with me... I'm still one person here making these posts popping up though I think the quality probably isn't that high. So let's go on and see what's there is to offer: 1.  Shounen Onmyouji (Shoujo) 2.  Mononoke (Seinen) 3.  Mononoke Soushi (Josei) 4.  Yamikagishi (Seinen) 5. Vampir (Seinen) 6.  Shiranui Kitanroku (Shoujo) 7.  Fushigi na Shounen   (Seinen) 8.  ...

Japanese: 天空侵犯 English: High-rise Invasion Type: Manga Volumes: 9 + Chapters: 141 + Status: Publishing Published: Dec 5, 2013 to ? Genres: Action, Mystery, Horror Authors: Miura Tsuina (Story), Oba Takahiro (Art) Serialization: Manga Box Synopsis:  High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. The original author of "Ajin," Tsuina Miura works in collaboration with Takahiro Oba, the artist of "Box!", to bring you this thrilling skyscraper suspense! Groups Scanlating Manga Box Licensed in English DeNA Manga Box  Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates , Bato.to Main characters Yuri Honjou (本城 遊理), 16 Birthday November 6th Yuri Honjo is a tall, slender woman with black hair that reaches to her lower back. She wears a blazer school uni...

Japanese: DAWN ～冷たい手 Synonyms: ドーン 冷たい手, Dawn: Chilly Hands, Dawn - Cold Hand, Dawn Tsumetai Te Type: Manga Volumes: 6 Chapters: 37 Status: Completed Published: Apr 27, 2002 to Aug 28, 2007 Genres: Drama, Horror, Josei Mangaka: Ueda Shinshu (Story & Art) Serialization: Comic ZERO-SUM Synopsis:  Remember that plague you learned about in history class? Well, it's back, ready to infect hordes of people! Follow Nagasawa, a melodramatic student caught in the middle of this horrid epidemic, with absolutely no idea what's going on, trying to get through life with infected people all about. Can you say creepy? Groups Scanlating Boku-Tachi Izumo no Ryuu Shimi Storm in Heaven Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates , Bato.to Main characters Takashi Nagasawa (長沢 喬) Nagasawa Takashi is your everyday normal high school guy, he's a geek and has a crush on a girl. A member of the biology club, one day he gets bitten by a mouse and ...