Tatakau Shisho to Koisuru Bakudan - Recommendations

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 6+
• 2021 - ?

A tower containing all the books of a kingdom. On it is the librarian, the lord of the collection tower. The librarian existed only to be used by the Great King as a tool. The story of Shishosei begins when a barbaric girl named Millet is selected as the new librarian's maiden.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 36
• 2012 - 2015

The year is 2050, and all books have been digitized in a virtual Bibliotek. Oreson’s dad has the job of fixing the digital books that “break”. One day a chained book is brought to the house by 3 hooded figures, and Oreson opens it at the urging of a strange man despite his father’s warning. A plume of black light consumes his father as Oreson loses consciousness, and when he comes to everything is gone. Now an adult, Oreson is training to repair the Bibliotek himself, in an effort to understand what happened all those years ago… as well as the true nature of the black light that’s consuming the Bibliotek data.

• Vol: 2+; Ch: 10+
• 2020 - ?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 15
• 2015

• Vol: 2; Ch: 11
• 2011 - 2012

A young man sits in the inner room of a library, diligently restoring old - but valuable - books to their former splendour. An enthusiastic, upbeat young police officer often comes to him for help with hard-to-solve cases...But what exactly is the mysterious skill that allows this man to unfailingly discover the truth lying in places that even the watchful eye of the Law has failed to penetrate?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 21
• 2022

While taking the first train of the day, of which he thought no one else would be on, Katsuki encounters his classmate, Sappuukei. Katsuki usually doesn't talk to her much, which results in a rather awkward situation for the two of them. But in the midst of that awkwardness, they begin probing each other to find out why they ran into each other so early in the morning...

• Vol: 15; Ch: 124
• 2010 - 2017

The daily life of Mikoshiba, a young man who works in a children's library.

• Vol: 8; Ch: 50
• 2008 - 2011

Hugh inherits a musty old mansion, along with the entire book collection contained within, from his grandfather - a bibliomaniac who once traded half his lands in exchange for a copy of a rare book. The only condition was that he also inherit the "Archives of Dantalian." Having arrived at the mansion to put his grandfather's possessions in order, Hugh meets a girl of 12 or 13 quietly reading amongst the tall piles of books in the basement. She is dressed in jet-black, and wears a lock around her neck. Her name is Dalian, and she controls the gateway to the Archives of Dantalian, where the forbidden mystic books of demonic wisdom are kept...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 15
• 2019 - 2020

By the time he realized it, Wallace, the head librarian of the "Library of the End", had no memory. And what lies inside the forgotten library in the furthest end of the world are only a taciturn maid and "The Magic Monsters of the Books" that he just can't get through. And then, one day. He met Lucia, a witch apprentice from the village of the beginning, through a mirror. In order to save the world from the slowly encroaching demon lord, Lucia travels together with the hero who appeared in the village of the beginning. As Wallace is supporting Lucia from the shadows, he comes to realize that his past memory is the key to defeat the demon lord.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 21
• 2008 - 2009

Suzuki, who was once a law-abiding teacher, joins a criminal organization called Reijou in order to avenge his murdered wife. But his attempt is thwarted by a mysterious man who comes to be known as the "Pusher" because he shoves the criminal into the path of an oncoming car. Suzuki decides to pursue the Pusher. This mysterious man is also being pursued by two other hit men; the knife-wielder Cicada and the assassin Whale, whose family is in the business of making people commit suicide. The story is written from the points of view from these three people and ultimately relates how their fates are intertwined.