Ayako - Recommendations

• Vol: 15; Ch: 166
• 2003 - 2011

Susamu Nakoshi, a man disillusioned with life, meets Manabu Ito, a young medical student bored with life. To relieve his boredom Ito offers Nakoshi 700,000 yen to undergo a trepanning to see if it will unlock his sixth sense, and Nakoshi eventually agrees. However, much to his dismay and chagrin it actually succeeds, and now Nakoshi must contend with seeing homunculi, the metaphysical and symbolic representations of a person's psychological disorder. He now helps people, usually against his own will and often theirs as well, with resolving their psychological problems.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 27
• 2018 - 2020

School, society, as well as male and female relationships. The things that are regarded as normal for others are a considered a curse for her. Embracing the struggles of life in an offering to the public, the curtain rises on one person's ballad of life of despair and hope.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 2013 - 2016

The story centers around Higashiyama Haruto, a high-school teacher, whose dearest wish is to be killed by a high-school girl.

• Vol: 12; Ch: 83
• 2013 - 2020

At a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can go to and request him to kill someone. His assassinations can never be blamed on him because he takes no illegal action. His strength is in the power of suggestion and the arrangement of events. He accepts these requests, all the while privately mocking the foolishness of those whose unwise wishes he grants.

• Vol: 1
• 1970 - 1971

Sachiko and Ichiro are a couple who can't seem to find their ways in life. While ruminating on the states of their families, jobs and relationship, the pair pass the time smoking, drinking, and having frequent sex, all the while trying to figure out what to do next.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 20
• 1968 - 1969

Rumors tell of Zephyrus, a beautiful and intoxicating woman who lives in a small island in the South Pacific. She's known to seduce all she meets, and not everyone who visits her leaves alive. In World War II, two soldiers become captivated by Zephyrus, and in the present, send one of their sons to investigate her recent appearance. Why has Zephyrus not aged a day since twenty years ago, and what plans does she have for the world?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2010 - 2013

An older brother who can only embrace sleeping women, a younger sister with a heart condition and prohibited from having sexual intercourse, and the older brother's girlfriend, who watches them quietly from the sidelines. Three people with three different viewpoints. Where will their entangled, distorted thoughts lead them?

• Vol: 6+; Ch: 45+
• 2019 - ?

Kaji Ritsuko, an author of short stories, finds herself unable to write. On a certain day, a remnant from Ritsuko’s past reemerges. Aoi, a male friend she used to completely confide in, appears in a dream and asks her, “Your life… is that really it?” The next morning, Ritsuko is awakened by a phone call. Aoi has committed suicide. The glimmer of a forgotten dream, the day-to-day of a modern couple, the death of someone irreplaceable… A life of “loss” that she had always averted her eyes from begins to move…

• Vol: 20; Ch: 165
• 2008 - 2016

Billy Bat is a comic-in-a-comic and the real protagonist is a Japanese-American artist named Kevin Yamagata who draws Billy Bat for "Marble Comics". Shortly after they transition to the artist in his studio with his assistant, two actual detectives, who look like Laurel and Hardy in Dick Tracy era suits and trench coats, knock on the door and appropriate Kevin's room for the purpose of conducting surveillance on a room in an adjacent building. One of the detectives, the skinny “Laurel”, sees Kevin's work and it turns out he's a Billy Bat fan. The other chubby "Hardy" detective picks up a page and says that the characters look familiar and accuses Kevin of translating an old "Jap" comic.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 13
• 2001 - 2003

Young Tomeki is a poor orphan girl that is sold to a brothel in the Red Light District. In a world of courtesans and nameless men, she grows from an awkward, petulant child into Kyoha, one of the most prized Oiran in the entire district. But trouble arises when Kyoha falls in love with a handsome young man. Forbidden to love, will Kyoha find a way to be with the man who is constantly lingering within her thoughts?