Elfen Lied - Recommendations

• Vol: 10; Ch: 74
• 2003 - 2010

With a past shrouded in mystery and a blank memory, Shiki Tohno seems to be just another "average high school student". That is, until he nearly kills a female vampire with his secret deadly ability to "see the lines". His journey to unlock the secrets of the Tohno family and unbury his own lost memories has only just begun, and now he must also help the woman, Arcueid Brunestud, find a lethal phantom named Roa, and kill it using his ability.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 9
• 1984 - 1985

Ikurou is a young man with problems: after a terrible car accident, he was captured by a seedy organization and implanted with a parasite known as Baoh -- a creature which bestows superhuman powers on its host, especially when mortally wounded. While being transported by train, he is accidentally set free by Sumire, young a psychic girl, and the two make their escape. With more of his humanity slipping away by the minute, and the organization hot on their tracks, will the two escape with their lives, or simply cause a bloodbath along the way?

• Vol: 8; Ch: 38
• 2006 - 2010

In 2010, the Britannian Empire enslaved Japan after a brutal month-long assault; in the aftermath Japan was renamed Area 11, and its people began a hard and terrible existence. Lelouch, a Britannian student living in Area 11, has grown up hating the Empire and everything it stands for. One day, while investigating a crashed military plane, Lelouch meets a mysterious girl who grants him the ability to control minds. Can he use his new power to fight for freedom, or will his hatred twist his good intentions into mindless acts of vengeance?

• Vol: 5; Ch: 44
• 2004 - 2005

Tate Yuuichi has just transferred to Fuka Academy and is thrilled at the prospect of living in a normal co-ed environment. Little did he know that he enrolled in a school where all-out battles between female students are nothing out of the ordinary! On his first day Tate unwittingly stumbles into the middle of a fight between Mai and Natsuki – two of the ‘HIMEs’, a group of specially selected and powerful girls recruited to fight monsters known as Orphans. While the HIMEs themselves are strong, they can only unlock their true power when they partner up with their ‘Key’. Unluckily for Tate he finds that he is not only the Key for Mai but also Natsuki! Now Tate is entering a world of monsters, battles and even rival HIME groups, but that’s only the start of his troubles…

• Vol: 4; Ch: 19
• 2004 - 2006

Hosho Aiko should be dead. To be precise, when she came back home one day, she found her entire family slaughtered by a grotesque monster. The creature attacked and killed her as well, but she finds herself awakening in a mysterious room, taken care of by Dr. Kochigawa. She has amnesia, but when another monster appears before her in her room, she regains her memories and her left arm changes into a powerful weapon, very similar to that of the monster, which she destroys.

• Vol: 40; Ch: 576
• 1987 - 2002

Yakumo Fujii, the son of an archeologist, is working at a restaurant one day when a strange Chinese girl named Pai enters and asks Yakumo to help her become human. For Pai is the last of a race of three-eyed immortals known as a Sanjiyan Unkara, and after granting Yakumo immortality, he is now charged with protecting her. However, doing so won't be easy; even though Yakumo is now immortal, he still only has the powers of a normal human being. With few clues to follow and plenty of stronger beings on the hunt for Pai's life, will Yakumo succeed at helping Pai become mortal?

• Vol: 7; Ch: 30
• 2006 - 2013

When the infected approached Rei and Takashi's school, it led to a gruesome blood bath that left the majority of students and staff dead or turned into the zombie-like monsters that have spread throughout the world. Together with a handful of other survivors, Rei and Takashi set forth to find their families in a world that is rapidly detoriating. Governments have collapsed, the killer disease is out of control, and people everywhere are trying their best to simply live through each day...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 9
• 2004

Talented art student Eiri works part time at an antique store, where many of the items on sale are said to 'have a story behind them'. Recently, he has been having visions of a beautiful yet sad-looking young girl named Cossette. These visions lead him to the stock room, where he finds an unfinished painting of the girl. The former owners of the painting all died in bizarre ways, and according to Cossette it is only one of many of her former belongings - belongings that remember her, that bind her to this Earth, that will continue to drive people mad. That is, unless Eiri can save Cossette from her eternal suffering...

• Vol: 10; Ch: 40
• 2004 - 2007

Fifteen-year-old Tsukune Aono is average in every way; he has no hobbies, less-than-stellar grades and he's even flunked his high school entrance exam. His parents have managed to enroll him in a school, but it's no ordinary school! Tsukune will be attending the Youkai Academy, a place where monsters learn how to co-exist with humans! As the werewolves, vampires, witches and other monsters are required to retain their human forms, Tsukune - the lone human - is able to avoid their bloodthirsty gazes. However, he quickly attracts the attention of a number of devilish beauties including the vampire Moka, a busty succubus and even a young witch! It seems Tsukune's average life isn't so average anymore!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 1999 - 2000

London, 1899: A girl with special powers runs away from the sanatorium, a hospital where she'd been kept. Her name is Koudelka, but that's all she remembers about herself. She meets up with a boy called Joshua, and together they flee from the agents of the sanatorium, who seem to be obsessed with her. Will Koudelka be able to escape from her pursuers, regain her memories, and discover the mystery that is her own power?