Mini reviews

In alphabetical order (non-exhaustive list, I'll add them from time to time). To read the web comics please click on the titles, their author's website will open in a new window :

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19. (19。) by AM

A high school boy can see threads representing people's relationships...

Genre: school life, psychological, supernatural
Demographics: young adults (10+ is OK)
Language level: advanced beginner/intermediate
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 8/10
Like this? Try Taijiya 

200m Dash (200mダッシュ) by GUM

Shingo and Kengo are twins but there's something special about them: their wounds heal almost immediately...

Genre: psychological, supernatural
Demographics: teenagers (10+ is OK)
Language level: intermediate
Length: medium
Complete: yes
(sequel to Chônôryoku Shônen Yû and Garden)

My rating: 6,5/10

Ame Agari no Stage (雨上がりのステージ) by Okuda Keiichi

Mariko, a University student, became Megumi's home tutor. Megumi is in her last year of middle school but she hates studying, instead she wants to become an actress...

Genre: friendship, slice of life
Demographics: young adults
Language level: intermediate
Length: short
Complete: yes

My rating: 7,5/10

Anemone Lens (アネモネレンズ) by Kanoto

The perfect Student Council President suffers from multiple personality disorder...

Genre: romantic comedy, school life
Demographics: teenagers
Language level: advanced beginner
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 6/10
Like this? Try Seishun Logic

Aoi Neko (青い猫) by Rai Miruku

Two guys and their cats (in human form) do random stuff...

Genre: random, slice of life

Demographics: all ages

Language level: beginner/intermediate

Length: short

Complete: no

My rating: 5/10

Azuki no Chi! (あずきの地！) by Nagato Kayo

Yankee Azuki likes girly stuff in secret but is discovered by her sworn enemy, the Student Council President...

Genre: romantic comedy, school life, slice of life

Demographics: teenagers (10+ is OK)
Language level: advanced beginner/intermediate
Length: long
Complete: no

My rating: 8/10
Complete review: English, français, 日本語

Berengaria (ベレンガリア) by Isakawa Megumi

Berengaria will do anything to get her house back after being chased out by her evil step mom...

Genre: historical, (romantic?) comedy
Demographics: teenagers (10+ is OK)
Language level: intermediate/advanced
Length: short
Complete: yes

My rating: 9/10

Boku to Uchûjin (僕と宇宙人) by NOBEL

Last year, Yamamoto Manabu was his middle school's Student Council President and this year he looks forward to working as Class Representative with the former Vice President, Shiratori Mizuho, who also happens to be his crush. But then Sola Luli, an exchange student from the Palopilu planet transfers into his class...

Genre: 4-koma, comedy, romance, school life, slice of life, (side character BL, light)

Demographics: teenagers (10+ is OK)

Language level: intermediate

Length: long

Complete: no

My rating: 9/10
Complete review: English, français, 日本語

Chibi môryô (ちびもうりょう) by Puchi

One day, the otter Kotsume suddenly came to Isoshigi's house. She loves doing housework but can be naughty from time to time...

Genre: slice of life, supernatural

Demographics: all

Language level: advanced beginner

Length: long

Complete: no

My rating: 8/10

Chriscrun Rhodteel no Shôgai (クリスクラン・ロドティールの生涯) by Suzuki Anno

Chris is part of a tribe of magicians hated by everyone. Latifa is the first woman to become a "doctor". They both go to study to Gonzales Academy...

Genre: action, romance, supernatural
Demographics: teenagers (10+ is OK)
Language level: advanced
Length: long
Complete: no (hiatus)

My rating: 9/10

Ever Green by Tsukimi & Shûgo (Ginga)

Haruka gets sucked into a book and starts to remember her past...

Genre: adventure, supernatural, slice of life
Demographics: all
Language level: intermediate
Length: short
Complete: yes

My rating: 6/10

Femme Fatale (ファム・ファタール) by Matsuri

Elisa's father, who was a perfumer, was assassinated. Now she has to take over the perfumery even though she's still inexperienced. But as she's going to the market her bag gets stolen and a strange blind man comes to her rescue...

Genre: action, mystery
Demographics: teenagers (12+ is OK)
Language: advanced
Length: short
Complete: yes

My rating: 7/10
Like this? Try Yôgen Kaikitan

Gi☆ (sei?) Yasai Seikatsu (擬☆野菜生活) by Sasamine Tomo

Hosokawa Moe enrolled in an agricultural high school following his father's recommandation but he has one big problem: he hates vegetables, to the point he can't even pronounce their names without vomiting but in school every one calls each other with vegetable nicknames...

Genre: comedy, romance, school life

Demographics: young adults

Language level: advanced beginner, intermediate

Length: medium

Complete: no (hiatus?)

My rating: 8/10
Like this? Try Boku to Uchûjin

Gokusaishiki Oni (極彩色鬼) by aiu

Genre: psychological, supernatural
Demographics: young adults (10+ is OK)
Language level: intermediate
Length: short?
Complete: no

My rating: not enough material to rate it

Hakkyô suru Error (発狂するエラー) by Yamada

A bullied guy is saved by his taciturn classmate, who's really strong despite her appearance...

Genre: romantic comedy, school life, slice of life
Demographics: teenagers (10+ is OK)
Language level: advanced beginner/intermediate
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 7/10

Halloween Kids (ハロウィン☆キッズ) by Yamashita Yûsuke

Frederick is a zombie living with his "father", the Dr. Frin whose soul was transferred into a frog skeleton and his "little sister" Sarina, the (Frankenstein type of) creature Dr. Frin made during Halloween 3 years ago...  

Genre: comedy (?), horror, mystery

Demographics: young adults (10+ is OK, preferably 12+) 

Language level: intermediate/ advanced
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 9/10

Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (堀さんと宮村くん) by HERO

Hori stumbles upon her classmate Miyamura after classes, and they both look completely different in and outside school...
  
Genre: (romantic) comedy, psychological, school life, slice of life
Demographics: young adults (12+ is OK, preferably 14+)
Language level: intermediate/advanced
Length: extra long
Complete: yes (extras still ongoing)

My rating: 6/10
Complete review: English, français
Like this? Try Machikado Rendez-vous and Yûnagisô e Yôkoso

Kitsune no Hanashi (狐のはなし) by Konkichi

Yû's twin sister as well as her parents died in a car accident when she was younger but her sister's corpse was never found. One day she sees a boy drawing a picture of her sister at the very exact place the accident occurred...

Genre: horror, psychological, supernatural
Demographics: young adults (10+ is OK)
Language level: intermediate
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 7/10

Kumainu Tsûshin (くまいぬつうしん) by Hirokokko

Kumainu and Chibikuma's daily life in the forest, with their friends... Closer to an online picture book than to a web manga.

Genre: slice of life

Demographics: children

Language level:  beginner

Length: long

Complete: no

My rating: 7/10
Complete review: English, français.

La Strega di Basilico (バジリコの魔法使い) by Nekobungi Sumire

Tetri is a witch living nella città di Basilico. Her job is to take care of the monsters going on a rampage in town and using her magic she makes them edible so that the restaurant next door can cook them...

Genre: action, slice of life, supernatural
Demographics: all
Language level: intermediate/advanced
Length: medium
Complete: yes

My rating: 7/10 

Little Knight by Isakawa Megumi

The King was assassinated and the Princess needs a bodyguard to get to the capital safely...

Genre: action, historical
Demographics: young adults (10+ is OK)
Language level: intermediate/advanced
Length: short
Complete: yes

My rating: 8/10

Machikado Rendez-vous (町角ランデブー) by Ômi Suzu

The love stories of a group of high schoolers...

Genre: romantic comedy, school life, slice of life
Demographics: teenagers (10+ is OK)
Language level: intermediate
Length: medium
Complete: yes

My rating: 6/10
Like this? Try Hori-san to Miyamura-kun and Yûnagisô e Yôkoso

MajoLUCA?! by Satô

A girl tries on the ring of the class prince but it turns out to be a magical ring, and the prince is in fact a witch...

Genre: romantic comedy, school life, supernatural
Demographics: young adults (10+ is OK)
Language level: intermediate
Length: long
Complete: no

My rating: 7/10
Like this? Try Tree of Light

Mamagoto wa Hon no Mushi. (ままごとは、ほんのむし。) by Takaramomo

The heroine, Keina, works in a library but she doesn't like books that much. One day, her friend gives her a kitten and she decides to name him Mamagoto ("playing house"). He started reading the books Keina brought home and became a bookworm, he can even speak human language. He often get immersed in his new passions (making tea, learning Chinese, cooking...) and Keina has to handle his eccentricities.

Genre: comedy, random, slice of life
Demographics: all
Language level: advanced beginner
Length: long
Complete: no

My rating: 6/10
Complete review: English, français  

Momokuri (ももくり) by Kurose @Comico

Momozuki has just started going out with his senpai, Kurihara. But what he doesn't know is that despite her appearance, Kurihara is a stalker obsessed with him... 

Genre: romantic comedy, school life
Demographics: teenagers
Language level: intermediate
Length: long
Complete: no

My rating: 6/10

Mushikago no Cagaster (虫籠のカガステル) by Hashimoto Chicken

A disease turn people into insects. Right before he dies a man asks an "exterminator" to help his daughter reunite with her mother...

Genre: action, sci-fi
Demographics: young adults (12+ is OK, preferably 15+)
Language level: intermediate with a dictionary (lots of kanjis)
Length: long
Complete: yes

My rating: 7/10
Complete review: English, français, 日本語
Like this? Try Tokyo Nostradamus

Namida Yamai (ナミダヤマイ) by Suzuki Hiromi

Rikô is in love with the girl who sits next to him in class, Niko. But she's got a strange disease that makes her cry all the time...

Genre: romance, school life
Demographics: teenagers
Language level: intermediate (but hand written)
Length: short
Complete: yes

My rating: 7/10 

Nichijôteki na Ôji no Arekore (日常的な王子のアレコレ) by Kishi Miwako

A Prince is fed up with his princely duties and decides to transfer into a Japanese high school...

Genre: (light) BL, comedy, school life, slice of life
Demographics: teenagers
Language level: advanced beginner
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 6/10

Ogihagi (荻萩) by Yû

Ogino and Hagino are in the same class. They aren't even friends but teachers keep mixing their names up and this upsets Hagino very much...

Genre: romantic comedy, school life
Demographics: teenagers
Language level: advanced beginner
Length: short?
Complete: no

My rating: 7/10

Onimucha (鬼むちゃ) 

The Heike monogatari transposed into the year 2160...

Genre: action, comedy, historical?, sci-fi
Demographics: young adults (13+)
Language level: super advanced
Length: long
Complete: no

My rating: 9,5/10

ResQ by GUM

Minmi starts working in an illegal hospital hoping to find a way to "revive the dead". But all the doctors there are weirdos and one of them may have killed Ellemijah, the neurologist...

Genre: comedy, medical, mystery

Demographics: all ages

Language level: intermediate/advanced (lots of medical vocabulary)

Length: medium

Complete: no (on hiatus until spring 2015)

My rating: 6/10 

Ryû ga Mau by Hinomaru Akira

Long ago dragons used to soar in the sky but they were all exterminated by a living weapon made by humans, Asurai. Ryûi refuses to believe dragons exist no longer and is searching for them. One day as he and his comrades are looking through a "tipper ship" they finds a living weapon...

Genre: action, science-fiction, supernatural
Demographics: teenagers (10+ is OK)
Language level: advanced
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 7/10
Like this? Try Tree of Light and Chriscrun Rhodteel no Shôgai

Seishin Nijûmaru Rureba (精神◎流レ葉) by Osara

People from another world are invading Earth and killing humans. Kuro used to be part of a group of fighters who get rid of those invaders but he suffers from Schizophrenia and has stopped all activity. That is until Rureba, a normal girl, saves him...

Genre: action, psychological, romance, science-fiction, supernatural, WTF
Demographics: young adults (15+ is OK)
Language level: intermediate/ advanced
Length: long
Complete: yes

My rating: 6/10
Like this? Try Mushikago no Cagaster

Seishun Logic (青春ロジック) by Mau

A girl's boyfriend keeps ignoring her and when he doesn't ignore her he's mean. But that's what she likes about him...

Genre: romantic comedy, school life
Demographics: teenagers
Language level: advanced beginner
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 6/10
Like this? Try Anemone Lens

T.Y Memories (T.Yめもりーず) by も印西瓜

T-rô and Yûta are best friends and moe enthusiasts. However, even though T-rô is an otaku for all to see, Yûta does his best to hide it from his other friends and girlfriend... 

Genre: comedy, school life

Demographics: all ages

Language level: advanced beginner/ intermediate (lots of otaku jargon)

Length: medium

Complete: no

My rating: 8/10

Taijiya (退治屋) by Matsuri

At night the shadows attack people. A waitress is saved by an exorcist and starts living with him and his familiars...

Genre: action, historical, psychological, supernatural
Demographics: young adults, adults (15+)
Language level: intermediate/advanced
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 8/10
Like this? Try Yôgen Kaikitan

Tokyo Nostradamus (東京ノストラダムス) by Neko Karintô

No one knows about it, but Nostradamus' prediction was right. This is the story of the hero who stopped the end of the world...

Genre: action, psychological, supernatural
Demographics: young adults (12+ is OK)
Language level: advanced
Length: long
Complete: no

My rating: 7/10

Tree of Light (ツリーオブライト) by Harutya

Fine has no memories but she lives happily with her adoptive father and goes to school like normal. However one day after the siren for an attack goes out, she meets a child pretending to be a God who then tells her she's the reincarnation of the Saint Maiden...

Genre: action, school life, supernatural
Demographics: young adults (12+ is OK)
Language level: advanced
Length: long
Complete: no

My rating: 7/10
Like this? Try TRIGGER and Ryû ga Mau

TRIGGER by Kazutake Hazano

The war has been going on for a long time and the country's divided between those who want to continue and those who want to stop the war. And there's this school where children are trained to be soldiers...

Genre: action, psychological, school life
Demographics: young adults (12+ is OK, preferably 14+)
Language level: intermediate with a dictionary (lots of kanjis)
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 8/10
Like this? Try Tree of Light

Uchi no Musuko wa Alien (うちの息子はエイリアン) by Okutoba

Kusunoki Atsushi is a single father living with his 2-year-old son. But he just has one problem: his son is a genius child... 

Genre: comedy, slice of life

Demographics: all

Language level: advanced beginner

Length: short

Complete: no

My rating: 6/10

Yôgen Kaikitan (妖幻怪奇譚) by Kubouchi Yôko

Hina is the cursed child of an exorcist family and when she turns 17 her protector god comes to meet her...

Genre: psychological, romance, slice of life, supernatural
Demographics: young adults (12+ is OK, preferably 15+)
Language level: advanced
Length: medium
Complete: no

My rating: 9/10
Complete review: English, français, 日本語.
Like this? Try Taijiya

Yûnagisô e Yôkoso (夕凪荘へようこそ) by Miyako

The high school life of three students living on their own in the Yûnagi appartments...

Genre: psychological, romantic comedy, slice of life
Demographics: young adults (12+ is OK, preferably 14+)
Language level: intermediate/advanced
Length: long
Complete: yes

My rating: 7/10 (5/10 with the extra chapters, don't read them!)
Like this? Try Hori-san to Miyamura-kun and Machikado Rendez-vous

Zinon by Isakawa Megumi

Three generations of father and son relationships...

Genre: historical, romance
Demographics: young adults (not under 12)
Language level: intermediate/advanced
Length: short
Complete: yes

My rating: 7/10