Saturn Return - Recommendations

• Vol: 5; Ch: 40
• 2014 - 2017

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2016

• Vol: 1; Ch: 20
• 1968 - 1969

Rumors tell of Zephyrus, a beautiful and intoxicating woman who lives in a small island in the South Pacific. She's known to seduce all she meets, and not everyone who visits her leaves alive. In World War II, two soldiers become captivated by Zephyrus, and in the present, send one of their sons to investigate her recent appearance. Why has Zephyrus not aged a day since twenty years ago, and what plans does she have for the world?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 12
• 2003 - 2005

Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumor of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the body of Arié Kimura's mother is found by this tunnel's entrance, next to apparently human traces, the legend seems to be confirmed. Is the end of the world coming? In order to appease the wrath of the beast, the children decide to offer it a sacrifice: The unfortunate Arié, whom they believe to be the cause of the curse, is shoved into a well that leads to the Nijigahara tunnel — an act that in turns pushes Komatsuzaki, the budding thug who has carried a torch for Arié for a while already, entirely over the edge.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 19
• 1972 - 1973

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 25
• 2013 - 2014

When Tetsuo was in 4th grade, his classmate Kaede moved away; but before she left, she offered him her body so that he would always remember her. Though he didn't take the offer, her plan worked, and the pair made plans to reunite in high school - but what Tetsuo didn’t expect was that Kaede would quickly begin to date his older brother Shinya. What’s worse, he overheard the two of them doing the deed while in his adjacent bedroom! With his hopes of a future with Kaede dashed, Tetsuo finds himself saddled with crippling impotence, so to get over the girl he decides to accept a shady offer to work in Shinjuku’s Red Light District. There, he hopes to finally lose his virginity and move on with his life, but with the teen’s intense distrust of the female sex, it might not be easy.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2009

After frequenting a website known as Black Paradox, four strangers, Taburou, Marusou, Piitan and Baracchi have come together in order to commit group suicide. With the intention of taking sleeping pills and inhaling engine fumes, the foursome heads off to a remote spot to end their lives once and for all; yet despite their determination strange circumstances halt their plans and they decide to regroup another day. However, when Piitan begins to vomit mysterious shining stones during their second suicide attempt, Taburou and Baracchi see a money-making opportunity and abandon their plans to die. But what exactly are these stones, and is it really safe to sell them to the general public?

• Vol: 5; Ch: 27
• 2018 - 2020

School, society, as well as male and female relationships. The things that are regarded as normal for others are a considered a curse for her. Embracing the struggles of life in an offering to the public, the curtain rises on one person's ballad of life of despair and hope.

• Vol: 8; Ch: 69
• 2019

A certain summer day, as the cicadas sing loudly. A man with no money and no place to belong tries to end his life, however is unable to take the last step. While wavering between life and death, he sees a gourmet food program on television, and realising he's never once eaten crab in his life decides that "For my last day on this Earth, I'll eat crab". Settings his sights on the wife who lives in a high-class neighbourhood that he happened across in a library, he forces his way into her home. And thus, he demands money from her, however... things go in an unexpected direction.

• Vol: 15; Ch: 166
• 2003 - 2011

Susamu Nakoshi, a man disillusioned with life, meets Manabu Ito, a young medical student bored with life. To relieve his boredom Ito offers Nakoshi 700,000 yen to undergo a trepanning to see if it will unlock his sixth sense, and Nakoshi eventually agrees. However, much to his dismay and chagrin it actually succeeds, and now Nakoshi must contend with seeing homunculi, the metaphysical and symbolic representations of a person's psychological disorder. He now helps people, usually against his own will and often theirs as well, with resolving their psychological problems.