While we release just a few manga here, in the past I’ve worked on, and read, a great many manga that I’ve fallen in love with. I’d like to share these fully scanlated manga with you, in case you have yet to enjoy them. Lovely, uplifting titles to refresh you; strange, unique titles to expand the mind; and dark, tragic titles to tug the heartstrings. And every now and then, a title that’s a little of each, and shines all the brighter for it.
Group Recommendations
Antisense Scans – Lovely josei/seinen (alongside shoujo smut).
Blue Flor (inactive) – Mainly fantasy/whimsical josei.
Delish Scans – Mainly lovely shoujo one-shots.
Golden Roze – Seinen, sweet shoujo, and classics.
Habanero Scans – Mainly seinen/shounen works, wide variety.
Hotcakes – Wide variety of josei, with a focus on romance.
One Snowshoe – Mainly atypical lovely/strange seinen.
Stiletto Heels – Oodles of josei.
Manga Recommendations
Coelacanth (シーラカンス) by Shimotsuki Kayoko (霜月かよ子)
Genre: strange dark > shoujo > mystery drama
Length: 2 volumes (complete)
Complete scanlations by Storm in Heaven, read online @ MangaDex.
Summary: Ten years ago, there was an explosion at Hisano’s apartment building. She would have been there, but she’d been hit by a bike ridden by a boy in blood-stained clothes. He dropped a fake gem when it happened, and she’s been hanging on to it as a good-luck charm ever since. Now Hisano’s in high school. One of her teachers was murdered, and the police are investigating. A young man suddenly appears carrying the toy the gem belonged to. And perhaps… can he also see the hallucinations Hisano has always been plagued with? Everything is connected as the pattern slowly rises to the surface.
Jiraishin (地雷震) by Takahashi Tsutomu (高橋ツトム)
Genre: dark > seinen > psychological action/drama
Length: 19 volumes (complete)
Complete scanlations by Hawks, read online @ MangaDex.
Summary: Kyoya Ida is a hard-nosed detective from the Shinjuku Police precinct. He is known in the force as an unreasonable type who would use lethal force to solve cases, making him unpopular with the enlisted and high-ranking officers in the National Police Agency. Despite this fact, there are some in the force that admire Ida for his bravery and cleverness in using lethal force to solve criminal cases whenever legal means are met in a dead end.
My Girl (マイガール) by Sahara Mizu (夢花李)
Genre: lovely > seinen > drama, slice of life
Length: 5 volumes (complete)
Complete scanlations by various groups, read online @ MangaDex.
Summary: Kazama Masamune – a single 23-year-old man… has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.
Omae ga Sekai o Kowashitai nara (おまえが世界をこわしたいなら) by Fujiwara Kaoru (藤原薫)
Genre: strange dark > josei > supernatural psychological romance drama
Length: 17 chapters (2 volume reprint, complete)
Complete scanlations by Storm in Heaven, read online @ MangaDex.
Summary: Koizumi Kanna is infatuated with the man who came to the restaurant she works at and ordered a burger with no onions. Little does she know, Toujou Ren is interested in her as well, but for a different reason. Kanna just so happens to be the mirror image of a woman he knew a very long time ago. It is for that reason that he saves her when she nearly dies in a car accident. But the life he gives Kanna is far different from the one she lived before, and she’s not certain it’s the kind she wants…
Sorayume no Uta (空夢のうた) by Kazumi Yuana (和深ゆあな)
Genre: lovely dark > shoujo > drama fantasy
Length: 1 volume (complete)
Complete scanlations by Storm in Heaven, read online @ MangaDex.
Summary: In the future, a devastating war has forced mankind to take refuge under ground. While most of humanity is content, several people dream of the impossible–of seeing the sky. The Narise Corporation has been researching just how to do that, using a special robot, Ciel, who has the unique ability to conjure up images of the world above ground through his songs. However, when murder strikes the company, Ciel has to run away…but he won’t ever forget his promise to lead his friend to the sky.
Yume no Soko (ゆめの底) by Iwaoka Hisae (岩岡ヒサエ)
Genre: lovely strange dark > seinen > psychological fantasy drama
Length: 1 volume (complete)
Complete scanlations by Storm in Heaven, read online @ MangaDex.
Summary: A girl falls into a coma and finds herself at an odd convenience store managed by a talking furry creature. In the land where dreams are made, on the brink of life and death, the girl watches and learns from the whimsical creatures she comes across.