Nagai, Go

Soft-hearted Akira Fudou has always been somewhat of a pushover. When he reunites with his childhood friend, Ryou Asuka, in a fateful encounter, Ryou reveals to him the terrifying reality of his father's research: demons exist and are planning to claim possession of the earth once again.

Eager to help his friend save humanity, Akira agrees to attend Black Sabbath, a party filled with depravity and corruption, to attempt to merge with a demon. A near-death encounter causes him to unify with Amon, a demon feared amongst even his own kind. Together they form Devilman, a combination of Amon's strength and Akira's pure heart.

After uniting with Amon, Akira begins to fight against the demons with his newfound power, desperate to stop the downfall of all human civilization.

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Devilman

デビルマン

Tezuka, Osamu

After the cruel lord Daigo Kagemitsu sells his newborn son's body parts to 48 demons in exchange for power, he casts what remains down a river and quickly forgets about his son, soon establishing a mighty kingdom. Little does Daigo know that his child survives, possessing advanced spiritual senses that allow him to navigate the world without eyes, ears, limbs, or even a voice.

A brilliant doctor rescues the son and raises him as his own, naming him Hyakkimaru and fitting him with advanced prosthetics that make it possible for him to move and fight. However, tragedy strikes when Hyakkimaru turns out to be a beacon that brings demons into the doctor's home, and the doctor eventually has to send Hyakkimaru out into the world.

Amid his travels, Hyakkimaru learns that slaying demons allow him to recover his missing parts and seeks to kill enough to make himself whole. He soon encounters Dororo—a boy claiming to be the world's greatest thief—who joins Hyakkimaru against his will in hopes of one day obtaining his sword. Together, the duo travels through a countryside infested with both demons and brutal men, who might prove to be worse.

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Dororo

どろろ

Ishikawa, Ken

The first Getter Robo series chronologically published 15 years before the rest of the manga. Getter Robo pioneered the idea of the combining and transforming robot.

Millions of years ago, the dinosaurs were driven deep underground due to the sudden arrival of "Getter Rays" on Earth. After evolving into sentient beings, they grew bitter and vengeful at the humans who replaced them on the surface and began plotting their attack on humanity.

Fighting against them is Getter Robo, a machine built by Professor Saotome which uses the mysterious Getter Rays as its power source. Piloting it are three strong-willed young men—the violent martial artist Nagare Ryoma, the psychopathic yet highly intelligent revolutionary Jin Hayato, and the hot-blooded judo master Tomoe Musashi. Each controls one of three specially designed combat jets which can be combined together in different forms to form three different kinds of giant robots: the flying, axe-wielding Getter-1, the quick, drill-wielding Getter-2, and the tough, tank-like Getter-3.

Getter Robo

ゲッターロボ

Ishinomori, Shoutarou

Shimamoto, Kazuhiko

1. Kamen Rider Black
2-4. Kamen Rider ZO
5. Tenka Osamu Monogatari

Kamen Rider ZO

仮面ライダーZO

Tsunoda, Jirou

There exists a horrific newspaper called the Fear Newspaper that foretells of people’s extreme misfortunes.

Kyoufu Shinbun

恐怖新聞

Miura, Kentarou

Studio Gaga

Guts, a former mercenary now known as the Black Swordsman, is out for revenge. After a tumultuous childhood, he finally finds someone he respects and believes he can trust, only to have everything fall apart when this person takes away everything important to Guts for the purpose of fulfilling his own desires. Now marked for death, Guts becomes condemned to a fate in which he is relentlessly pursued by demonic beings.

Setting out on a dreadful quest riddled with misfortune, Guts, armed with a massive sword and monstrous strength, will let nothing stop him, not even death itself, until he is finally able to take the head of the one who stripped him—and his loved one—of their humanity.

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Included one-shot:
Volume 14: Berserk: The Prototype

Berserk

ベルセルク

Kikuchi, Hideyuki

Amano, Yoshitaka

The series that spawned the Vampire Hunter D anime.

12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires—and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.

Vampire Hunter D

吸血鬼ハンターD; バンパイアハンターD;

Itou, Junji

In a high school classroom, students mourn the loss of one of their own: Tomie Kawakami, who has been murdered and dismembered. Shocked by the announcement of her death, the class is puzzled by the cruel fate that has befallen someone so dear to them; such a radiant and beautiful girl did not deserve such a hideous demise. However, a strikingly familiar student suddenly appears at the classroom's entrance. Gorgeous, slender, and with a beauty mark under her left eye, Tomie smiles and apologizes for being late.
 
But this is just the beginning of the mysteries surrounding this seemingly inhuman woman. The men unlucky enough to catch her eye become smitten with her instantly, but also become driven by a dark impulse to dismember her, one they often succumb to. And each time, Tomie returns from the dead to continue her favorite pastime: toying with men.

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Tomie

富江

1. Kao Dorobou (Face Thief)
2. Kakashi
3. Rakka (Descent)
4. Akai Ito
5. Gosenzo-sama (Honored Ancestors)
6. Kubitsuri Kikyuu (Hanging Blimp)

Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection: Kao Dorobou

顔泥棒

1. Yaneura no Nagai Kami (Long Hair in the Attic)
2. Yurushi (Approval)
3. Hachi no Su (Beehive)
4. Hakumei (Dying Young)
5. Kubi no Nai Choukoku (Headless Sculptures)
6. Nikuiro no Kai (Flesh-Colored Horror)

Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection: Nikuiro no Kai

Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Flesh-Colored Horror

肉色の怪

1. Namekuji Shoujo (Slug Girl)
2. Hyouchakubutsu (Washed Ashore)
3. Kabi (Mold)
4. Samuke (Shiver)
5. Ryokan (The Inn)
6. Umeku Haisuikan (Moan)
7. Bio House

Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection: Namekuji Shoujo

なめくじ少女

1. Ijimekko (Bullied)
2. Dassouhei no Iru Ie (Deserter)
3. Chichi no Kokoro (A Father's Love)
4. Kioku (Memory)
5. Rojiura (Alley)
6. Scenario-doori no Koi (Scripted Love)
7. Tsuchi no Naka... (Under the Ground)

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