Mind Game - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 16
• 1989 - 1996

A collection of sixteen early works by Nishioka Kyodai, including their three-part debut series. As always the stories range from the whimsical to the surreal, with tales of serial killers, bird women, and a man who one day wakes to find himself with a pouch like a kangaroo.

• One Shot

Kaoru is an ex-manga artist who for the past fifteen years has shut himself away in his darkened room. However on one hot summer night, the recluse hears voices calling to him and he decides to leave the house for the first time in over a decade...

• Ch: 4
• 2024

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2022

As a high-ranking general captured after the end of a war, the Holy Knight Gilbert braces for execution... when at the last moment, his life is saved by Chris, the enemy nation's master artificer and puppeteer. An arrogant, wickedly playful man who surrounds himself only with dolls of his own making, Chris claims to admire the beauty of Gilbert's soul and intends to use him to create his newest masterpiece. When Gilbert refuses to go along with Chris's plan, he is forced to choose between certain death and forsaking his faith to become an immortal doll. Hoping to buy enough time to make his escape, Gilbert instead offers himself up to Chris as a slave. But if that's the game this knight wishes to play, then Chris fully intends on toying with him until Gilbert breaks to his will...

• Ch: 2
• 2013

Is it okay for a killer to love someone?... Even if that love has to be killed by her own hands...

• Vol: 4; Ch: 23
• 2013 - 2015

A port town where the Mafia actively operates behind the scenes. Gohongi is a young man who has come back to this to place where he was born after many years and finds a job working at a video rental store, which also becomes his new home. It is here that he begins to live with a young girl named Mei and a homosexual by the name of Katsura. But both of them are members of the Mafia group, Lovely Town, and fifteen-year-old-Mei is a ruthless hitman.There have been rumors that the struggles between Mafia factions are becoming more intense, and still not able to completely grasp the situation, Gohongi winds up getting dragged into a world of trouble...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2018

Three yakuza go through a life normal people cannot even imagine. The strife, the love and the complex relationships unwind as their lives continue on.

• One Shot
• 2016

• One Shot
• 2015

A teenage boy gets more than he bargained for when he tries to fulfill his own need for attention in an unusual way.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 28
• 2020 - 2021

A suspense series about a beautiful girl with fresh blood. A girl with rough life circumstances makes a life-altering decision for the worst. In this tainted world, I shall live with the Original Sin of Purity.