Coelacanth
Alternative title:
シーラカンス (Japanese)
空棘鱼
Shiirakansu
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Shoujo, Tragedy
Number of Tankoubon: 2
Mangaka: Kayoko Shimotsuki
Description: Ten years ago, there was an explosion at Hisano’s apartment building. She would have been there, but she’d been hit by a bike ridden by a boy in blood-stained clothes. He dropped a toy scale when it happened, and she’s been hanging on to it as a good-luck charm ever since. Now Hisano’s in high school. One of her teachers was murdered, and the police are investigating. A young man suddenly appears carrying the toy that scale belonged to. And perhaps… can he also see the hallucinations Hisano has always been plagued with? Everything is connected as the pattern slowly rises to the surface.
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Akusaga
Alternative title:
Akusaga (Japanese)
悪性 －アクサガ－ (Japanese)
悪性
Blank Slate
Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Shoujo
Themes: dark protagonists, forgotten pasts
Number of Tankoubon: 2
Mangaka: Aya Kanno
Plot Summary: Zen, a man with no memory from before being found by a band of thieves on the verge of death, and no interest in his forgotten past, wanders a war-torn country while wanted by the new government for committing unspeaking acts of evil. Not because he seeks to commit acts of evil, but simply that he does whatever, wherever, whenever, and to whomever he wants, and if a few rules or law-abiding citizens happen to be in the way then he destroys them without a moments hesitation or regret. After a chance encounter with the daughter of the army’s general, and the surviving family member of a terrorist organization, he comes to suspect someone is controlling him … a prospect he cannot accept. This drives Zen to set off with the doctor who just patched him up, a physician willing to treat any patient, to rediscover his lost past and eliminate those controlling him. All for the sake of returning to his life of complete freedom.
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