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2057.Hemisphere, a man-made city in Tokyo Bay, has wiped out virtually all crime by introducing the quantum AI system "XEVEC", through which the "law" acts as a physical force to protect all citizens. Hemisphere is a "utopia", an ultra-nomocratic society in which the righteous are rewarded and permanent peace is guaranteed. Or so I thought. Until that incidentConfronting crime in a near-future city! Physical court battles are now in session!

Some kind of global catastrophe results in magic working. So now there are wizards, rangers (shape changers), and elf looking people. A remotely posted squad must fight mercenaries equipped with sci-fi technology and magic to find their missing commander.

Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the Earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the Earth, thirty-five kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the various living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments.

Living in regret that his formula gave birth to the atomic bomb, Professor Einstein sends two boys whose eyes can see the future on a train that travels at the speed of light before embarking on his own final adventure: death. His hope is that they will find "HER" and tell her his wish, for it is only she who can grant it.Fifty years later, it is 2005 and the place is Tokyo. At last, "SHE" (Ruika) has been found... but Ruika has an unusual circumstance. For her mother's sake, she's been living as her dead brother since childhood. Does Ruika truly have the power to grant wishes? If she grants her mother's wish by becoming a boy, then no one can lead us into the GLOBAL GARDEN... Now it's a race against time and against each other, because everyone has a dark past and an ulterior motive for possessing the girl who can grant Einstein's wish.

After being awarded the Nobel Prize, child prodigy Alice T.P. Riida runs away from home and creates the first Artificial Human, Ninomae Shii. Along with Shiratori Jun and Kurosaki Yaoki, Shii now struggles to find out for what reason he was made for.

The story set in the contemporary South Korea. Some 30 years ago, unidentified creatures appeared out of nowhere and have attacked people. They have caused massive destruction wherever they go. The monsters are called "Trouble", and get the world have fallen into chaos. Along with the first appearance of the "Troubles", some number of humans were born with or acquired supernatural abilities. These mutants called "Trace" are the only ones who can fight off the "Trouble". The "Trace" are also considered freaks and generally shunned by the community because some of them misused the powers for their own interest. TRACE Season 1.5 - Communicator Webtoon from Daum

The manga tells the strange tale of cigarettes in robotic human female form who expel tobacco from their kisses, much like regular cigarettes would.The male main character, who has never kissed anyone before, slowly adjusts his life around his new cigarette girl and newfound "addiction".

From ShoujoMagic: Arisue Sei lived as happily as any normal kid would, just him and his mother -- a particularly private woman -- on an outlying island of Okinawa. There were also his friends Toichi and Moichi. The only unusual things about Sei were his sharp instincts and high intelligence. But everything changed when his mother was killed and he was kidnapped by the people of Neo Genesis. Now, six years after the kidnapping, Arisue Sei has returned to Japan with the title of "Doctor" at only the age of 18, and he's not the Sei that his friends remember. There are bodyguards with him who protect him from others who wish to possess his superb intellect. He says he's come back to assist with the research at Rakuhoku University, where Moichi now works, but here is where the door to Sei's secrets just begins to open.Note: Won the 47th annual Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo in 2002.

"I'm sorry I don't bear much resemblance - I love you."Yamada Torao commits suicide after the loss of his lover and wakes up from suspended animation 250 years in the future. The android tasked with assisting him that treats him kindly and with tender care is the disappointing robot of his former lover at a "30% reduction"...? An intense future love story about a stubborn young man who learns to accept love and pursues his aspirations.

From Shogakukan:Watanabe, a creature from a 20,000 light-year outer space, homestays at a high school student, Taeko's house. Watanabe repeats noisily "gozaru."

On the planet of Hekiou, there is a continuing war between the first wave of immigrants and the second. An important section of the military uses a native creature, the Niebass, to give its soldiers translocation abilities. These soldiers are all women, with the alien creature transplanted into their wombs. Some people see this practice as a violation of human women by aliens, and Mana Oga's boyfriend has a similar perspective on the matter. Mana Oga is a new soldier in this section, and the story follows her and the other women in her group who accept the alien creatures into their wombs in order to defend their homes.

Shaolin Space, a place that's said to be where all martial arts in the universe originated from. And within this planet... a most sacred place among martial artists, Mt. Kunlun. And on top of that Mt. Kunlun, there's Kunlun Headquarters. And if you go down... a long way, inside a small run-down dumpling restaurant, our heroine lives.Color webtoon derived (almost exact replica) from Space China Dress. Original link: http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=423383

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Yuuichi Tate is overjoyed: He gets to go to a brand new high school. Of course, then he just happens to find out the school he choose is under frequent attack by strange creatures called ''Orphans'', and the school set up a special task force of female members called ''HiME''s, using various elements as their powers, to battle these invaders. That's not all, though. Each member of the HiME task force has their own, unique ''Key'', another person whom, upon being discovered, can team up with the HiME to create a ''Child'', a combative unit specifically needed to effectively battle these Orphans. And with Yuuichi's luck, he just happens to find out he's not just the ''Key'' for one of the HiMEs, but for two... Two highly competitive, rival schoolgirls. And that's only the start of the trouble.

The Ex-machina is a gift from Gods whereby mankind can protect themselves. However, mankind use its power to fight against Gods, greedy humans were not satisfied. Instead, they fight against Gods continuously and the world was destroyed at once.

Poisonjoint Scanlations Dyke was once a terrifying villain with the power of Quanx. One day he accidentally agrees with a contract to work the delivery service company Silver Quick five years in return for his debt being cleaned, and then he was knocked out. When he wakes up, he is stuck inside a body of a 12 year old boy. Now he is working as part of the intergalactic delivery service trying his best to get his old body back and take revenge onto who ever is responsible for this.

The story appears to be centered on the investigation of the Book of the Silver Cross, an ancient Belkan magical tome. Tohma Avenir, whilst travelling, discovers a girl named Lily Strosek trapped inside a construct. When rescuing her, she gives Tohma an amulet that gives him access to a new Device power. However, unbeknownst to them, there is another with a similar Device causing massive damage and injury, leading to an investigation by the Time Space Administration Bureau.

Destination is a state of mind. A tale of one girl and her bike and the road ahead. Kino wanders around the world on the back of Hermes, her unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle, only staying in each country for three days. During their adventures, they find happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that because of the world's imperfections, is is actually a thing of beauty. "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is." (Source: TokyoPop)

Students are trained in the Infinite Stratos academy to pilot the weapon system IS (Infinite Stratos). Although it is believed that only females have the ability to operate the IS, there is one man who can. His name is Orimura Ichika.

A planet-threatening space disease, the "demon flu", has infected an inhabitant of Earth, and a space doctor is needed! The Space Medical Bureau has chosen Dr. Rurru for the job, but -- unfortunately for Minao Hitoharu, the infected patient -- she has a tendency to mishear and misspeak (with a mind towards ecchi) to comical effect.

In the distant future, humanity is now only made up of women. Kohane Sumino has just enrolled into the prestigious Shirasakuya Academy that contains within it a secluded courtyard garden maintained by the Gardening Club. Legend has it that if two people pledge their love for each other underneath a pair of trees in that garden, they will be bound for eternity. Kohane seeks out the garden on her first day of school, where she meets Rekka Hanatsuka, the friendly self-proclaimed acting president of the Gardening Club. Although Kohane proves to be fairly popular early on, she soon learns that paradise is not without its thorns.

Naruyuki Touya, young student, arrives at Amagiri Gakuen, his new highschool. He finds himself on the quay of the station faced to a robot out of control and is attacked by a girl and then a classmate.Who are they? How come the girl knows his father?And what is the connection with him and this highschool?

Kurose Urumi, an antisocial woman, just became a new teacher. On the first day of her job, she arrives in an empty classroom with a single laptop. Suddenly, a girl materializes out of the laptop, claiming to be her student, and explaining her job as a teacher is to "download the other students and help them graduate!" Kurose reluctantly agrees to the task, and slowly finds out that her job may be fun after all.

In the year 2031 A.D., Earth has become ravaged by the attack of insect-like aliens called the "Blue". In an effort to escape their destruction, humanity abandons the planet and now resides in an orbiting space station called "Second Earth".After being diagnosed with an unknown disease, Kaido Yuji was put to cryogenic sleep on Earth until a cure was found. But he's given the rudest awakening of his life when Armour Shrike pilot Marlene Angel comes to pick him up, and Yuji witnesses in horror as her unit is wiped out by the Blue. Now Yuji must survive against the harsh new rules of this apocalyptic world -- and find out the true nature of his strange disease.

A dramatic story set in contemporary Japan, about a guy with amnesia, who finds out he was turned into a super-cyborg in a corporate weapon research program. He goes on a mission of revenge. A little shallow, perhaps, but a good example of shounen SF/action manga. The manga ended abruptly, because the magazine it was being serialized in changed its target public and it was decided that Xenon didn't fit in anymore.

The world has been invaded by aliens and most of mankind was driven underground, but in a town where it rains incessantly, a young girl named Kanon Kouzuki has other things on her mind. Being one of the few civilians to remain living and working aboveground, she is now reunited with her unrequited love turned alien fighting celebrity Sousuke Sakai. Her eyes now completely fixated on him, she starts to notice new things about her loved one. Will he be the same boy she fell for once upon a time, or will he have turned into a completely different person?

[From Viz]: Shy Chise and nervous Shuji are high school seniors in a small town and have just started dating. But everything changes when Shuji discovers that Chise has been engineered by the Japanese Self Defense Force to transform into the Ultimate Weapon! Soon Chise is torn between realizing her potential as a devastating fighting force and her desire to share a bowl of ramen with her new boyfriend!

From MangaHelpers:There is a large virtual space called "Deep Forest," where many people go as avatars. Origa is a schoolgirl who has become an explorer in Deep Forest in an effort to discover the reason behind her mother's death. Luckily, she has a famous hacker as a partner and guide, a monkey avatar called Jr.Deep Forest is a dangerous place, contested by the company she believes is responsible for her mother's death, hackers, and others. Origa has a difficult path to travel in order to uncover the truth. [tethysdust]

After the loss of their family, the Ling Family's descendants flee for shelter. Unexpectedly, they come across a young man while escaping. From then on, they commence the path of the unknown.

This is the tale of two members of a Beatles cover band who find themselves transported back in time to 1961 to a time before anyone had ever heard of the Beatles and decide to take the mantle of the world's greatest rock band for themselves!

The consciousness of human beings can be separated from the body. On the eve of publicizing a revolutionary paper Dr. Ling is captured by The Company and disappears without a trace. Ling Hong begins looking for the whereabouts of his foster mother, secretly starting to confront The Company, and exploring the ultimate secret of "awareness".

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A young boy walks away from home after a quarrel with his father at night and later gets kidnapped. He finds himself in a strange laboratory after waking up, facing a challenge of life and death. He survives the test along with some other men, and later they find out a big secret, a secret that totally changes their lives. So, how will they react? And what else will they find as their adventures go on?

Hyeon Kang, a self-centered high school kid, has to bear the burdening fate of being the master of "KANGTAWOO", the only robot that can stand against "Spelta Empire", which seeks to conquer Earth. A giant robot action in Busan!

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Everyone on the Clockwork Planet considers Naoto Miura a machinery nut. Every moment of every day, he has his mind on gears and his hands tinkering with delicate mechanical motors, but nobody understand how he can hear and feel gears in operation, even from a long distance away. Then one day, a clockwork maiden falls from the sky, presaging events that would shake the whole world...

From MangaHelpers:Technology has now allowed the full integration of virtual reality in massive multiplayer gaming. Gamers can now immerse themselves in a fantasy world, and fully experience a role-playing game. The first game to implement this system was called "Eden." Gamers around the world flocked to their first chance of being part of this system. Three years have passed since the discovery of the bug in "Eden." This bug prevented anyone from "logging out" of this game. Players were forever trapped in the fantasy world of Eden, and now had to fight to survive inside the game.Our main character, nicknamed "Teacher," continues to follow the road of the beginners course inside the game. Tirelessly training his skills, he fights alone against any enemy to become the strongest player in Eden. [DrCoke]

From The Black Abyss:Spirits known as kamui are thrown into chaos when the sacred spirit Okikurumi is taken from Atsuma's village, and the imbalance threatens to destroy Earth. Infused with the spirit of an ancient sword, Atsuma must leave his village to reclaim Okikurumi.He encounters NOA, an organization of youths who wield the power of the kamui, and who may hold the key to Okikurumi. Atsuma is recruited into NOA by Sumire, a young woman with an empty soul who yearns for a miracle. Atsuma and his new companions must work together to find Okikurumi before the world is destroyed.

In the future, when music becomes illegal, an illegal hacker singer enters the stage. From the first strum of the guitar, the world will never be quiet again.

At the start of Kashimashi, a young high school boy named Hazumu Osaragi declares his love to classmate and close friend Yasuna Kamiizumi, but she quickly rejects him. Dejected, Hazumu climbs Mt. Kashima and is killed when an alien spacecraft accidentally crash lands on him. To rectify this, the alien in the ship named Hitoshi Sora brings Hazumu back to life, but inadvertently regenerates him as a female right down to the DNA level. This change in Hazumu serves as the catalyst for the development of character interactions for the remainder of the series.Now Hazumu must learn how to be the girl his parents always wanted while dealing with the trials and tribulations of being caught in a love triangle between two girls--his childhood friend, Tomari, and Yasuna, the girl who rejected him but is now strangely attracted to him/her!

From ADV Manga:On the planet Aqua, a world once known as Mars, Mizunashi Akari has just made her home in the town of Neo-VENEZIA, a futuristic imitation of the ancient city of Venice. The technology of "Man Home" (formerly Earth) has not entirely reached this planet, and Akari is alone, having no contact with family or friends. Nonetheless, the town, with its charming labyrinths of rivers and canals, becomes Akari's new infatuation, along with the dream of becoming a full-fledged gondolier. Reverting to a more "primitive" lifestyle and pursuing a new trade, the character of Akari becomes both adventurous and heartwarming all at once.

Hyemin Lee is your typical high school student, complete with a pet cat and an annoying older brother. But when the shapeshifting villainess Nero unleashes a cat the size of an apartment building to terrorize Hyemin's hometown, Hyemin comes into possession of a magical watch and finds her true calling: she must join the fight against feline foes and become a Meow Ranger.Zipsa RangerButler RangersCat RangersCat Servant RangersZipsa Rangers

The terrorist organization known as the Animal Liberation Alliance (ALA) attacked a biological research institute and rescued a pregnant chimpanzee. That chimpanzee gave birth to a "humanzee" (half-human, half-chimpanzee) who was named Charlie. After being raised by human parents for fifteen years, Charlie enters his first year of high school. There, he meets the intelligent but socially misunderstood Lucy.

The enormous cave system, known as the Abyss, is the last unexplored place in the world. Nobody knows how deep down goes this titanic pit, inhabited by strange and wondrous creatures and full of mysterious ancient relics which purpose in unknown to modern man. Generations of bold adventurers have been drawn by the cryptic depths of the Abyss. In the course of time, those brave enough to explore the dangerous pit came to be known as "Delvers."In Orth, the town at the edge of the Abyss, there lives a little orphan named Riko, who dreams of becoming as great a delver as her mother was and solving the great mystery of the pit. One day, exploring the murky depths, she stumbles upon a little boy who turns out to be a robot

A post-apocalyptic world. Following her last order, the mechanical soldier Ria has been fighting an endless war for over a hundred years. With the people she was meant to protect gone, and her comrades-in-arms lost, Ria spends her days fighting alone.Then, a human appears before her once more..!?

From ADV:Imagine a Neon Genesis Evangelion where choosing the right girl is more important than saving the world! That's the gist of Angelic Days--the hit manga that Eva fans have been waiting for! Based on a popular PC and Playstation 2 game released only in Japan, Angelic Days takes the angst-ridden Eva pilots and sets them in a lighter, brighter world.

The misadventures of Son Goku, Krillin, and other friends from the original story. Supervised by Akira Toriyama.

Yoi, a girl who has nowhere to go because she looks different from the people around her. Who reached out to her?This is a sci-fi story about an atypical girl who puts her existence on the line to survive in a world of despair !+