Penguindrum - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2008

In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls, Tuan Kirie, grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.

• 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: 7
• 2002 - 2003

Sano Yohei takes on terrorists who have commandeered a commercial jet liner. The exciting plot-twists and espionage only start in the cockpit of the jet liner. Who is behind these attacks and why? Follow Sano Yohei as he uncovers the mystery of the terrorism attacks.

• Vol: 3+; Ch: 15+
• 2020 - ?

• Vol: 7; Ch: 26
• 2011 - 2013

After the outbreak of the unidentified virus "Lost Christmas" in 2029, Japan has been under the control of a multi-nation organization called GHQ. Ohma Shu is a 17 year old boy who has a psychic power in his right hand. He can use the power "Ability of King" to extract tools or weapons from his friends. He has been avoiding making trouble for others but his life changes when he meets a girl Yuzuriha Inori, a member of a resistance guerrilla group called "Undertaker", whose members pilot mecha weapons to fight against the government

• One Shot
• 2012

Three days ago, identical twins Miori and Kaori had their fortune told by Justice: a woman said to be able to tell the future with 100% accuracy using spirit photography. So when she showed them a photo of one of them lying bloody on the ground, the two were afraid of what was to come. One question remains, which twin will die, and by what means?

• Vol: 8; Ch: 70
• 2021 - 2023

Hajime leads an unremarkable life as an undertaker, but he likes his job and has no reason to complain. Nor can he complain of being always called "onii-san" by one of the top star actresses in the country, Kidō Kotone, a childhood friend. Their relationship has always had a touch of awkwardness due to the parents of both having died violent deaths, but nothing could have prepared Hajime - or Japan - to the deed Kotone decides to perpetrate seemingly out of the blue.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 8
• 2019 - 2020

• Vol: 18; Ch: 162
• 2002 - 2006

Nagasawa Shiina is just an average 3rd year high school student until her parents' company goes bankrupt. In order to pay the bills, she sells herself into prostitution. At her first job, a mysterious masked man crashes the party... and it's someone she knows. Akumetsu is the story of Shou, a vigilante that's out trying to straighten the corrupt Japanese Government through terrorism with his "One man, One kill" code of action.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2010 - 2011

The bright spot in Futaba's lonely childhood was Yuki, a pretty boy who helped him when he was lost and would magically appear to relieve his tears. One day, Futaba, sad at his parents continual neglect runs away and asks Yuki, "Do you hate me too?" Yuki responds with a kiss and then disappears. Years later his father announces that his brother, Kazuyuki, from a previous marriage will be living with them. Yuki has returned to Futaba but the gentle and kind boy of the past has been replaced by a cold and beautiful stranger.