138°E - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2000

Selected by a former editor of the acclaimed manga magazine Garo and a former editor from Japan's third-largest manga publisher, Shogakukan, this collection of underground comics from the last decade ranges from the beautifully surreal to the graphically gruesome.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 12
• 2014 - 2016

They look like us. They feed on us. They’re parasites – alien creatures with one directive: take human form via a host and destroy the human race from within. But no matter who they choose as their hosts—from militia men to the seemingly sweet elderly—one thing is for certain: no one is safe from the parasites …

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2010

Meguru is an ordinary schoolgirl on a school trip. They stop to take a break and she is determined to confess her feelings to the boy she likes, Yashiro. When they get back on the bus, however, a strange man grabs her and says that he’s bus-jacking them. He shoots Meguru for putting up a fight and she thinks, fading into oblivion, “I wish I could go back in time”. The next thing she knows, she has woken up in her bed at home and quickly finds out that it’s the day before! What in the world?

• Vol: 6; Ch: 121
• 1988 - 1996

• Vol: 2; Ch: 21
• 2003 - 2004

• Vol: 1; Ch: 13
• 2021

Creepy, crawly, grotesque...Such is the daily life of Miko and company when ghostly specters lurk around every corner. Meet a new cast of spine-tingling, bloodcurdling monsters in the official comic anthology!!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 19
• 2009

Boisterous, impulsive Haruhi Suzumiya commands the spotlight wherever she goes! But the SOS Brigade chief wouldn’t be any kind of chief at all without a supporting cast of club members to command as well. And there’s no one she loves ordering around as much as Kyon! In this collection of short comics and illustrations by various artists, the boys of the SOS Brigade will at last have their moment to shine!

• Vol: 3
• 1997

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 1993

• Vol: 6
• 2006 - 2009

As long as one processes its power, one's dream will come true. Since The Arm of Kannon has this kind of power, everyone is dying to obtain it. And one day, a high school student accidentally gets a hold of The Arm of Kannon...