People with supernatural powers called Talent suddenly appeared in the world.<br>Due to their appearance, the world's power balance was rearranged and it caused disputes in various places including large countries.<br>Later on, the blood-stained battle which continued for 10 years called the World Talent Great War causing the world population to decrease to 20%, and due to a certain happening, it came to an end.<br>The 9 people… The greatest talent users called as Level 5 who reigned the world, signed a pact and segmented the world into 9 sections called Site<br>Those administrators ruled in the way they are not revealed to the public and decided that they would let the unit called countries continue to be used for form's sake.<br>And the world map was redrawn due to the terrain changes and also the international treaty.<br>The war ends, and people start to regain their daily lives.<br>Finally, a peaceful era came……<br>…… Everyone thought so.<br>This is a story 10 years after the world war.<br>Of a boy who lives in Japan governed by the Emperor……<br>A story of the momentary peaceful era and the dispute of end of the era.
Ian Lane wakes to find himself in an eerie house with no memory and only ominous strangers for company. He soon discovers that he's a member of a team of afterlife enforcers and that he was recently tricked into giving away an important key, setting off a chain of events that disturbs the entire balance of the beyond. It's up to the executors to set things right again, but between formidable new foes and demons from Ian's dark past, this job gives new meaning to the phrase "life or death."The Executive / The Executor / /
Everything in this world is my enemy. This kind of world is worthless. A boy, who is called a demon with no human heart, breathes, lives and imagines. But what is the pounding in his heart when he heard he is going to save the world? That’s not his wish, though…
A boy went to take his trash out late one night, and found a strange, creepy, lolita woman sitting amongst the garbage bags. She asked if he had a little sister, and he answered her, hurrying afterwards back to his apartment. When he looked out the window, she was gone. Who is the strange woman, and why does she give him such a bad feeling?
There is something a bit twisted inside of the teenage girl Madoka. It comes out one day when she has to deal with a groper on a public train. He may be scarred for life by the time she's finally through with him. But for her, at least, this encounter may only be the beginning...
Icaro is the adventure of a young man, Icaro, with the ability to fly and a young woman, Yukiko, who risks her life -- and more -- to help Icaro achieve his dream. It capitalizes on Taniguchi's ability to depict a vast and oppressive advanced science laboratory that has made Icaro its guinea pig and will use all its resources to keep him imprisoned for study.
Kyoya Ida is a tough detective who serves in the Shinjuku Police precinct. He is notorious among his colleagues for being an uncompromising figure who is willing to use deadly methods in order to crack cases. As a result, he has earned the ire of both lower-ranking and higher-ranking officers at the National Police Agency. Nevertheless, there are those within the force who applaud Ida's bravery and ingenuity in applying lethal tactics when all other avenues of investigation have been exhausted.
Ichi is a lone goze (blind woman singer) who has become separated from her traveling entertainment troupe. Wondering how she will find her place in life, she carries only a shamisen (a traditional Japanese stringed instrument) and a walking stick with a hidden blade inside. When necessary, she uses her exceptional sword skills to fight off yakuza and other villains.
Growing up a target of bullying, a senior high student, Shiroishi Hajime, is a skilled karateka, but goes completely weak at the knees with fear when it comes to fighting. Among all this, a power junkie and classmate of Ichi who does nothing but fighting, Akakuma Dai, sets his eyes on Ichi!! When Ichi starts to shed tears, all of a sudden a violent impulse that resided inside him is unleashed!!!! This is the complete collection composing of the prelude to the masterpiece: “Ichi The Killer“, and for the first time ever in book form: “Ichi The Killer - The Birth“!!
[From Anime News Network]: In Shinjuku Kabuki-Cho, the biggest sin town in Japan, there are two crazy guys. Ichi is a coward and a wimp, but once he breaks into tears, he turns into a human weapon. With great martial arts skill and a blade hidden in his boots, he butchers a bunch of enemies into mincemeat in the blink of an eye. His arch enemy is Kakihara, a yakuza boss who's tired of everything, including himself. Only when he pierces, cuts, and burns his own and other people's bodies does he feel that he is alive. Warning: Very graphic content.
The experiences of author, Tatsuta Kazuto, a former laborer at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
A martial arts historical series about a peasant turned samurai and caught in the turmoil of the final year of the Edo Period (1868).