Growing up in 17th century Sengoku era Japan, Shinmen Takezou is shunned by the local villagers as a devil child due to his wild and violent nature. Running away from home with a fellow boy at age 17, Takezou joins the Toyotomi army to fight the Tokugawa clan at the battle of Sekigahara. However, the Tokugawa win a crushing victory, leading to nearly three hundred years of Shogunate rule. Takezou and his friend manage to survive the battle, and afterwards swear to do great things with their lives.
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This is the story of up-and-coming young delinquent Tatsumi Oga, a first year at the infamous Ishiyama High, who one day suddenly finds himself the unintentional adoptive parent to the Demon Kings s son himself, Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV (Baby Beel for short), an adorable little baby boy who is destined to destroy the world.
Three Years ago a Hero sealed a Hell Gate. The Seal has been weakening ever since, sporadically letting Monsters through. After a big Group of Monsters entered the Country through a Hell Gate, the profession of Heroes was needed again.
Touka Scott a small Radish Farmer in the southern Town of Cheza is prepared for sudden Monster Attacks. He built himself a hidden Pittrap with Bamboo spikes, to lure unsuspecting Monsters in if they ever try to Attack the Village.
The land of dreams, Dreamland, really exists. At night, when people sleep, they enter in Dreamland as Dreamers and dont remember what happened in their sleep. But sometimes, by overcoming their fear, they can become Travellers whose obtain the power to act on Dreamland and remember it.
The story takes place in the beautiful city of Montpellier, France. Terence is an high school student who dreams about the fire which kills his mom a few years ago. Since this event, his most fear is the fire. But in this dream, he overcomes his fear and learns to manipulate fire.
There’s a mountain called Spirit Blade Mountain. Inside or by the mountain resides Wizards, also known as Spirit Blade Masters. Together they form the Spirit Blade clan. Spirit Blade is synonymous with magic, as it’s the Blade your Spirit forms. The current relation between the Mountain and the actual Spirit Blade is unknown. How the Spirit Blade manifests itself and how it is used is also unknown. However, not everyone can learn magic. Only those with the “Spirit Base” can learn the basics of magic, and even then, you have to practice it to become good.
Azumi is a manga series that concerns a young woman brought up as part of a team of assassins, charged with killing three warlords that threaten Feudal Japan with an agenda of war and bloodshed.
Azumi received an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1998.
Riku experienced a lot of pain and tragedy in his early life. After his father's death, a former-boxer Yakuza man taught him how to do a basic punch, and that punch saved his life when he had to defend himself from his mom's drug dealer. He ended up taking the drug dealer's life, marking him as a killer. Criminals continued to come after him, leading to more tragedy for the people who attempted to care for him. All of this drove him to ask that same former boxer to teach him to become stronger, which led him to a rundown gym, his door to the world of pro boxing!
The story revolves around Kaiman, who does not remember who he was before he was transfigured by a Magic user. This transformation left him with a reptiles head, and a desire to find out the truth about who he really is. Accompanied by Nikaido, his female companion, he tracks down Magic Users in "The Hole" and unceremoniously chomps down on their head, hoping to find out who it was that put him in this state. One by one, they witness this "second man" inside the head of Kaiman, and after pulling them back out of his mouth he asks them all a question...
The story revolves around Baki Hanma and his quest to proclaim himself as the strongest grappler in the world, thus taking the title from his father. Baki also fights to gain the trust of his overly psychotic mother.