It started with a brutal beating at a pachinko parlor, and now Bakune Young-maniac, moron or mastermind -- has taken Japan's biggest crime boss as a hostage as Step One of his plan to rule the world! Soon, yakuza, police, hapless detectives and Bakune's former gym teacher collide as Bakune holes up ...
(From StarryHeaven) There's the affectionless father and the overly affectionate mother, and then there's the beautiful 18 year old high schooler Rina. "Friends are just meant to be used," is what Rina says when she is caught having sex with one of her friends' boyfriends. Rina has such a low opinio...
In a forest on a mountain, a class is out on excursion. A girl strays from her group and meets a witch. She escapes, but when she groups up with her classmates no one believes her, except for her best friend. After the class returns to the mountain for a reunion after graduating, old memories resurf...
[From NetComics]: Ordinary high school girl Jina discovers that she is heir to a terrible legacy handed down from her family's sinister history. Long ago, her ancestors killed a magical serpent known as an Imugi, believing that it would bring them good luck. Unfortunately, the creature cursed them a...
From Entropy: Jin Young is a good student with good grades, but she has a little bit of an unstable mind. Hye Jung is a cheerful girl who helps out at her mom's "snack shop", a sort of small restaurant that offers light meals to diners. Both attended the same school, and both transferred to an indep...
From MangaHelpers: In 2019, childhood friends Yashio Kaito and Senomiya Akiho are in their last year of high school. Together, they are the only students in the robotics club, which has lost its school funding. Akiho is passionate about robots, and longs to complete building the robot her older sist...
From Aerandria: "The moment you open the letter, you will be cursed. After reading the letter, you have to make two copies and send it to a close friend within 24 hours." Everyone knows what it's like to pass notes in class. People carelessly write about things like love or gossip. One day, everythi...
New Japan Airlines, flight 179 from Narita to Osaka, has been hijacked by terrorists. Inside the plane, everyone is panicky, experiencing terrible violence and fear. Under such hopeless circumstances, a young negotiator happens to be on board the plane, among the 230 passengers. The lives of all are...
The Nightmare of Fabrication is a beautifully drawn full-colour manga from Yoshitoshi ABe. The 18 page short story can be found in the Lain Omnipresence in Wired artbook. It's a bonus story which apparently isn't related with neither the anime nor the PS game. It shows characters who were included i...
High school student Shintou Shou, son of the Superintendent General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, is known for his uncanny ability to solve even the most difficult cases. However, reality is much more prosaic: Shou's brilliant deductions are based on solid proof and confessions obtained through ...