Domu: A Child's Dream - Recommendations

• Vol: 6; Ch: 120
• 1982 - 1990

In the aftermath of WWIII Tokyo was re-built as Neo-Tokyo; thirty-eight years later it has become a major metropolis. With the memory of the war and reconstruction fading, corruption, criminality and civil strife are threatening to tear the city apart. The military has a secret project developing humans with psychic powers which they hope will help Neo-Tokyo solve its problems. However, when one of the test subjects escapes and hides with one of the biker gangs plaguing the city, the military does everything it can to recover its test subject and cover up the existence of its research program...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 10
• 1999

In 1990 Yashiro Tenshuu murdered his lover and four others, sending him straight to death row. Now, the day of his execution has finally arrived, but at the last second he's given a choice: die, or go to work for a mysterious group of people. Choosing life, Yashiro is taken to a room and left in the company of another death row inmate, where they go from day to day with sake and other niceties, with no idea of why they are there. That is, until from behind a glass window, they see a beautiful girl awaken...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 16
• 2005

There was a fire. Kousei lost his mother, his father and his precious little sister, Sanae. One month later he woke up to find himself in a hospital and was moved to pediatrics where he could share a room with other boys his age. Professor Kimishiro is loved and respected by his students, but disliked by faculty and administration. He's pushed from his classroom by university politics and takes a team to the jungles of the Amazon in search of new medicines and perhaps a chance to gain back his reputation amongst those with influence back home. Instead of cures, his team stumbles upon a lost temple in the jungle, a place the village guides claim to be 'The House of the God of the Black Death'. What are the temple's secrets, and can any man, let alone a mere boy, survive the plague of an angry God?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2018 - 2019

A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he’s been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them, the opening act for the terror about to occur.

• Ch: 5
• 2011 - 2013

Jefferey Ryan had a troubled childhood: he never knew his father, and his mother died when he was seven. Years later, Fate made it up to him with a loving wife and a beautiful daughter, and he was happy at last. But the rain that was falling the night Jeffrey discovered his mother’s bloodied corpse never seems to stop, and continues to haunt him...

• Vol: 3; Ch: 18
• 2006

When Kyung-do was young, his father brought home a mysterious book from his book club, dying shortly thereafter. Now, as a teenager, Kyung-do is an avid bookworm whose fate appears to be tied to the same sinister tome, and he's not the only one – the school librarian commits suicide after reading it, and others are rumored to have been killed for similar reasons. Now, Kyung-do and his classmate, Eun-sae, must try to discover the truth behind the deadly book to save the boy from his fate, while others investigate these events for their own reasons.   

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 18+
• 2023 - ?

Ougokujima: a heavenly island where everyone, adults and students alike, can live happily and peacefully. It's said that if you can live on this island, you're sure to have a rich and fulfilling school life that will make your youth incredibly satisfying... But all of that is only the island's outward appearance. In truth, the entire island is a place of insanity, filled with nothing but believers being manipulated by a certain cult religion. Every single one of the island's inhabitants have placed their faith in... "youth"?! That's right. Apparently leading a life in which one has celebrated youth to its fullest will bring a person the closest they can possibly get to God. Thus each day, all the islanders behave as if they are the main character of their own story... But since transfer student Shuuichi Mugi has realized the truth behind this island, will he be able to avoid all the insane "stories of youth" that happen one after another, and escape from the island of cult followers?!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 23
• 2006 - 2008

It is said that humans fear what is different, and that such fears drive much of human behavior. Naoto and Nayao learned the brutal truth of this statement when they see the looks on their parents’ faces, the day they were sent to an isolated laboratory to live out their youth. Their crime? Possessing inherent psychic abilities. Yet now, the brothers have escaped and are at last free to experience the world, but they soon discover that their prison was also their protection from the outside world. The question is, are their powers more dangerous to themselves, or those around them?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 23
• 2001 - 2003

Imagine living in a town where supernatural beings stalk the night for their next prey. Toukei Ibun takes place 29 years after Tokyo was established as the capital of modern Japan. Manzou is the owner of an inn in the town of Asakusa. His friend Hirakawa is a journalist who is investigating the bizarre crimes that keep occurring all over the city in the dead of night.

• Vol: 105+; Ch: 1125+
• 1994 - ?

Shinichi Kudo is a famous teenage detective who follows in the footsteps of his favorite hero, Sherlock Holmes, solving difficult cases with ease. One day, while investigating suspicious activity during one of his cases, he was captured and forced to try a deadly experimental drug which ended up being less than fatal, shrinking his body to the age of seven. To cope with the new appearance, he took on a new name, Conan Edogawa. Can he, with his new alias and help of friends and family, capture the culprit?