Stochastic Manga

Dead End
There’s more to this universe than what you allow yourself to feel.

Author
Shohei Manabe

Status
4 Volumes - Completed

Plot Summary
Shirou was a typical construction worker living the same routine day by day. He lived a meaningless life; a life not worth living for. But that simple life changed for the better after an unexpected encounter with Lucy. Lucy brings light to Shirou’s life. Shirou began to appreciate life. Everything life has to offer made him happy. He’s happy living with Lucy. He can’t let her go. He refuse to let her go even though he doesn’t know anything about that girl.

Happiness comes short. That’s what happened to Shirou. Shirou introduced Lucy to his apartment neighbours. After a casual dinner with Lucy and his friends, Shirou’s out to buy cigarettes. He came back only to find his friends murdered and Lucy gone. Standing next to the corpse was a big man telling him that everything’s okay. The big man suddenly pulled Shirou out of his apartment just before the building explodes. He’s trying to save Shirou. Shirou was told to go down the sewer system to meet someone. Amidst the confusion, Shirou decided to listen. Thus he begins the journey through a dark world to find Lucy and unravels the mystery of his slaughtered friends.

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Goodnight Punpun
You’ll love me forever and ever… and never think of anything else… right? Right?!

Author
Inio Asano

Status
2 Volumes - Ongoing

Plot Summary

In his short career as a manga artist, Inio Asano has tackled various formats and genres - short existential vignettes, twenty-something dramas, mind- bending psycho-horror - with a delicate emotional touch and a willingness to break stodgy storytelling rules. While his body of work is not yet large enough to suffer legitimate accusations of repetition, he nonetheless announced before his latest story that he wanted to “start fresh.” The result of this rebirth is the comedy “Goodnight Punpun.”

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Basilisk
A bitter fate of ninja

Author
Fuutarou Yamada

Status
5 Volumes - Completed

Plot Summary
Iga and Kouga were two ninja clans fighting as enemies for hundreds of years, but a peace treaty had kept the two clans from attacking one another. Unfortunately the day for the treaty to be broken has come. The Shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, decided that his successor will be determined through the battle between Iga and Kouga. Ten ninjas were chosen to fight to the death in this battle. Gennosuke of Kouga and Oboro of Iga were part of the chosen ninjas. Both of them were actually lovers who tried to unite the two clans. It is unfortunate what fate has offered them. Will their love hold the peace or will they die for the sake of their clan?

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Minami-ke

“This is just a plain depiction of the days of the lives of the three Minami sisters. Please do not expect too much.” Minami Chiaki.

Author Sakuraba Coharu

Status 5 Volumes - On Going

Plot Summary

Meet the three Minami sisters - the gentle Haruka, who has to combine high school with being a surrogate mother to her siblings; the boisterous middle schooler Kana, whose opinion of herself far exceeds her abilities and Chiaki, the youngest and most arrogant of the three

They live together, taking care of one other. With nobody to answer to but themselves and each other, the three sisters deal with daily life and the strange and humourous events it – and their odd friends – throws at them.

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Koharu Biyori
Don’t bother…

Author
Mizuki Takehito

Status
1 Volume - On Going

Plot Summary
Set in the near future, where it’s commonplace for robots to work for their owners, Takaya Murase has just purchased a maid robot from a robotic doll distributor, MaidWorks. Although the robot, Yui, is programmed to lead a normal life cleaning, cooking, and serving her owner, Takaya has other plans for her… like dressing her up in the costumes of his fantasies and more.

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