Yoichi Isagi lost the opportunity to go to the national high school championships because he passed to his teammate who missed instead of shooting himself. Isagi is one of 300 U-18 strikers chosen by Jinpachi Ego, a man who was hired by the Japan Football Association after the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to guide Japan to winning the World Cup by destroying Japanese football. Ego's plan is to isolate the 300 strikers into a prison-like institution called "Blue Lock", in order to create the world's biggest "egotist"/striker, which has been lacking in Japanese football.<br> ___<br> <b>Notes:</b><br> - <b>Won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 2021</b><br> <br> <b>Links:</b><br> - Alternative Official English - <a href="https://kmanga.kodansha.com/title/10008/episode/318774" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">K Manga</a> (U.S. Only), <a href="https://kodansha.us/series/blue-lock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kodansha</a>
Won Do-yoon, a boy left alone in the most underdeveloped neighborhood. He was talented, but the world dragged him down. In a world where giant organizations grip and shake, we realize that the higher we go, the deeper we fall. Won Do-yoon finally chooses. The abyss instead of the top. And he stands at the center of the cartel himself and tries to bring down the huge organization.
A man who has never experienced the warmth of affection finds himself consumed by an obsession with a user named “Cocorose” in an anonymous group chat. To a man whose existence in a cramped gosiwon is already hanging by a thread, a single emoticon was enough to stroke his vanity, and a solitary delusion was enough to shatter his reality. The moment he misinterpreted an anonymous woman’s message as a sign of love, his bottom-tier youth began its descent into total catastrophe. Now, he is trapped in a collision between the woman from his daily life and the one from the digital shadows. It wasn’t truly love he was seeking, but a sense of salvation. This is the chronicle of a “trash-tier” romance, ignited by the desperate fantasies of a man with nothing left to lose.
In a back alley stands a fortune-telling shop called Hachikake, rumored to be "accurate". Even today, a line of customers burdened with worries forms outside its door. The fortune teller, Mito Tawara, listens to her clients' stories, sometimes quietly, sometimes cheerfully, and then, at a certain moment, she whispers: "Don't you want to curse that person?" Shaken by words that test their resolve to cross the line, the customers entrust her with their "curses". When Mito takes action, someone's wish is granted, and a price is paid. Is that curse truly a "salvation"?
Sayeon Lee despises Aberrants. They wreak havoc on society with their strange, unthinkable powers. It's just too bad she happens to be an Aberrant herself! Forced to fend for her life in the deadly Aberrant Corps, she's determined to make it to the top, and her unusual ability should help her -- if she can figure out how to use it in time.
Midnight is the story of a taxi driver named Shinya Mito (whose name is literally Japanese for "mid" and "night") and his various passengers, each of whom he helps in various ways. Shinya drives a taxi as a way to earn money for the treatment of a young woman named Mari, whose brain was injured sometime earlier as the result of an accident Shinya was responsible for causing. The taxi Shinya drives is equipped with a fifth wheel which makes the car more maneuverable under any kind of road conditions.<br> <br> ---<br> <b>Volumes 354-359 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works</b>
Onmyoji and Yokai? A girl's bizarre Taisho romance! When she was in the first grade of elementary school, her whole family was involved in an accident, but she is the only one who survived. In her third year of junior high school, she passes by the accident site again and is somehow transported back to the Taisho Era! The next day, Nanoka's physical abilities are awakened when she is told by Mao, a boy she met there who is an Onmyoji, "You are a demon, aren't you?"<br> ___<br> Official Release:<br> - Indonesian release by <a href="https://www.gramedia.com/products/mao-01" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Elex Media</a> (2021)
After receiving a scathing text from his roommate, Geon-Pil is puzzled but unperturbed when said roommate returns radically changed. The new “Yeon-Seung,” driven by a primal, insatiable hunger, takes his friends-with-benefits relationship with Geon-Pil to the extreme to sate himself. As their physical encounters grow increasingly intense and feral, Geon-Pil slowly realizes that something is amiss. Even as whispers of danger warn him to back off, Geon-Pil finds himself growing comfortable with this strangely honest, dangerous new version of his partner… who just might devour him whole. (Source: Tappytoon)
Kitami, a boy serving as class representative, is struggling to get a girl named Toujou — who transferred into the class in the middle of the semester — to fit in better with the class. But try as he might, his effort just goes nowhere. That's the situation when one day, a theft incident occurs in class. Toujou is suspected of being the culprit and becomes the target of bullying. Kitami desperately tries to stand up for her, but he gradually becomes isolated... (Source: Gangan Online)
After being aggressively rejected, Momo Ayase finds herself sulking when she stumbles across a boy being bullied. Saved by her rash kindness, the occult-obsessed boy attempts to speak to her about supernatural interests he believes they share. Rejecting his claims, Ayase proclaimed that she is instead a believer in ghosts, starting an argument between the two over which is real.<br> <br> In a bet to determine who's correct, the two decide to separately visit locations associated with both the occult and the supernatural—Ayase visiting the former and the boy visiting the latter. When the two reach their respective places, it turns out that neither of them was wrong and that both the occult and ghosts do exist.<br> <br> This marks the beginning of Ayase and the boy's adventure, who shares a name with Ayase's favorite idol—Ken Takakura, as they attempt to fix the surreal supernatural and sci-fi elements around them to return to a normal life.<br> ___<br> <b>Official English Volumes:</b> <a href="https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/dandadan" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VIZ</a>
The manga follows a Square Enix's employee who get hit by a truck along with his sister and both of them are transported into the world of Final Fantasy. <br> <br> Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger was released as part of the Final Fantasy franchise's 30th anniversary project.