Pure Trance - Recommendations

• Vol: 8; Ch: 110
• 2006 - 2020

This series weaves a strange, surreal, and often dark comedy respendent with ruffles and lace. It is on the surface a farce about a young girl traveling with her lover, some sort of bear-type creature, but as one might expect it's multi-layered.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 15
• 2001

A coming-of-age story from Jiro Matsumoto (the author of Freesia) about a young, aspiring photographer named Soma. He's going nowhere, stuck in a mire of sex and drugs, until a horrible end to a one night stand sets him on a path that changes his life forever.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 5
• 1970

Shogo is a troubled boy. He abuses animals and has no concept of love, having watched his mother sleep with endless men and say she regretted having him while he was a child. After being brought to a mental institution for reform, Shogo is given electric shock therapy and has a powerful vision: a goddess statue tells him that for all eternity, he will fall in love with a woman, only to have their union fall apart. Through visions, dreams and day to day life, Shogo experiences being a Nazi in World War 2 Germany, becoming an assassin in a futuristic world run by non-humans and learning how to be a long distance runner, all the while discovering the true meaning of what it means to love.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2013 - 2014

One hundred million years in the future, the Empire of Olympus uses colossal mutant beasts to crush its adversaries. Only the gladiator Delos, the mystic Prome, and the titan Gohra can hope to prevent genocide!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 16
• 2016 - 2017

A girl with prosthetic limbs and a tragic past wanders a zombie-ridden 23rd century earth now known as Death’s Amusement Park. Overrun by monsters, the post apocalyptic wasteland is the last place a little girl should call home, but she’s developed a unique coping mechanism…

• Ch: 2
• 2015

A girl with a gas mask attempting to fight back against the strange world

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 6+
• 2021 - ?

Set in the near future. A boy wakes up from cold sleep and sees the ruins of a town covered in green. He journeys with a self-proclaimed sorcerer in order to find other humans.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 4+
• 2021 - ?

• Vol: 3
• 2018

The world is deep and wide place. In order to know more about it, the Sky State Central dispatched the investigators Yoki and Shuka to conduct investigations around, and they do so while being very passionate and loyal about their work. This is a story of Yoki who wants to know more about the world and Shuka who loves the world. A slightly mysterious story weaved by these two people traveling around the world, meeting people, and sometimes even solving mysteries. "It sounds like it's going to be an amazing story, isn't it, Yoki?" "I wonder about that. I don't mind as long as Shuka-senpai is working seriously."

• Vol: 2; Ch: 26
• 2018 - 2020

Something happens during school, and when the two girls awake, they discover that the world has ended. Aoi, one of the girls, has knowledge of skills useful to their survival, but frustration rises as the other survivor is the girl who used to bully her. In this desolated world, how will their relationship distort?