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A Sister’s All You Need.

Mildly successful author Itsuki Hashima yearns for a younger sister and his work shows it! Unfortunately for him, he only has his three friends and his little step-brother, Chihiro, to keep him company. And when they aren’t playing games and drinking, Itsuki’s running away from his editor when he breaches deadlines, brushing off advances from his publisher’s pride-and-joy, Nayuta, and fighting writer’s block. Meanwhile, his more successful author friend, Haruto, is struggling with his upcoming anime adaptation, dealing with unrequited love, and complaining about his own little sister. This is not enough to throw Itsuki off his game, though, for his love of little sisters runs deep and is rooted in his troubled relationship with his own father. However, Itsuki is unaware of a great secret his step-brother is keeping from him that could change everything…

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Yosuga no Sora: In solitude, where we are least alone

After a car accident leaves twins Haruka and Sora without parents, the two move out to the countryside of their childhood with their inheritance and their late grandparents’ house. Her body frail since she was young, Sora chooses not to go to school. However, much to her dismay, her brother still wants to go. While there, he makes friends old and new as he becomes an instant hit with the girls in his class, and the Butterfly Effect gets to decide which one he ends up with: a serious girl whose overprotectiveness has caused a rift with her father, a playful girl who has a one-sided memory of Haruka, a regretful girl whose actions when they last met have led her to avoid him, or even a rich family’s maid whose abysmal luck with men has left her depressed. But one forbidden romance starts bearing fruit as his sister’s fond memory of a youthful kiss becomes apparent and begins to damage his relationships.

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Sunday Without God

Over a decade ago, God abandoned the world, meaning no existing people can die and no new ones can be born. Instead, the dead are left to walk the Earth as zombies. Before leaving, though, God granted one final gift: the Gravekeepers. These beings are the only left that can grant eternal rest to the dead. Ai, one of the last children born, is of both Gravekeeper and human descent. Since the death of her Gravekeeper mother, it’s been Ai’s job to dig graves for her village in preparation. However, one day, a stranger enters the village and massacres all of its residents before asking Ai about a woman who sounds an awful lot like her mother. The stranger calls himself Hampnie Hambart, which just so happens to be the name of Ai’s long-lost father. Free from her duties as a Gravekeeper, Ai must now build a new life and that new life just might lie with this peculiar man who so unceremoniously ended her last one.

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The Pet Girl of Sakurasō

Kicked out of the normal dormitories for taking in stray cats, student Sorata Kanda is determined to escape the mental asylum of Sakura Hall. His plans are thrown into disarray when the dormitory’s teacher bestows upon him the task of looking after her younger cousin, Mashiro Shiina, who just happens to be a world-famous artist! She might be near his age and capable of painting a masterpiece with seemingly no effort, but her room, for one, is hardly her pièce de résistance. In fact, she is altogether incapable of handling the most basic of tasks: like remembering to put on underwear, drying her hair, or buttoning her shirt up right. What’s more, she seems determined to ignore her greater calling for a life of drawing manga. Can Sorata juggle such a high-maintenance ‘pet’ and the huge effort his ordinariness demands of his dream, or will it all get to be a bit much for him?

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Heaven’s Lost Property

Tomoki Sakurai is your average student who loves nothing more than peace and quiet. However, everything changes when an emotionless, winged android falls from the sky and into his life. Ikaros proclaims herself to be a Pet-Class Angeloid that will fulfill any wish her new master, Tomoki, has for her. Of course, he has perverted ideas in mind and carnage ensues. But when another Angeloid appears with orders from the ‘Synapse’ above to eliminate Ikaros, Tomoki becomes suspicious that Ikaros might not just be a Pet-Class Angeloid, afterall, but rather something much more threatening. Suddenly, his goal of making her smile is put on hold as he employs the help of his oddball friends to find out who or what the Synapse is.

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Good Luck Girl!

Ichiko Sakura is easily the most fortunate person on the planet; she’s pretty, loaded, athletic and academic – not to mention she has a huge rack! There’s a reason for this extravagant level of so-called ‘Happiness Energy’, though: she’s unintentionally draining it from others, causing misfortune for those close to her. Not that our stuck-up heroine has anyone close to her, besides her butler! However, her perfect life is threatened when sadistic Poverty God Momiji and her masochistic minion show up with the mission to restore the energy balance. Unfortunately for Ichiko, the only person ready to join forces with her is a perverted monk. Can she grow a heart in time and learn to share her happiness or will Momiji leave her with the dreadful future she promises?

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No Game No Life Zero

Six-thousand years before the events of No Game No Life, the world of Disboard is engulfed in the devastation of a world war. Between the overwhelming strength of the dwarves, the warbeasts and the elves, humanity is left to cower and wait for this apocalypse to be over. However, after sending another comrade to his death in the name of survival, Riku finds the Ex-Machina Schwi. In her dangerous search for an understanding of the human heart, Schwi has been isolated from the system that every other Ex-Machina connects to. As she integrates into the surviving human colony, she sparks a new hope in Riku and the rest of humanity. Now, it seems that Riku – along with the most powerless of races on Disboard – has a plan to stop this war (and war in general) for good. But they’ll have to endure the burning ash that falls eternally from the sky and the psychopaths who don’t want to lose if they’re going to succeed.

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Terror in Resonance

The fire alarm goes off and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building is evacuated; Twelve – a member of terrorist organisation Sphinx – places bombs inside. As he leaves, he runs into Lisa, a bully victim whose father’s recent departure left her mother in hysterics. Twelve knows that he mustn’t get too attached to anyone, but he convinces fellow Sphinx member Nine to offer her two options: she can die in the explosion or she can become an accomplice, herself. Sphinx knows the only way the world will listen to what they have to say will be to perform these acts of terrorism, but they also know that killing people will only weaken their point. With the inadvertent help of ex-detective Shibazaki, they might just be able to pull it off. That is, until Five, an old acquaintance, gets involved…

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Scum’s Wish

High Schooler Hanabi Yasuraoka is completely head-over-heels for her homeroom teacher and childhood friend Mr. Kanai; Classmate Mugi Awaya is completely head-over-heels for his music teacher and previous private tutor Miss Minagawa. However, when the two find out that their crushes have fallen for each other, the two heartbroken students enter into a temporary relationship to deal with their loneliness and need for physical contact. As the two explore their relationship of replacement and lies, Hanabi learns about the hidden feelings of those around her, the true nature of the woman she’s lost to and even what it’s like to be on the other side of a one-sided crush. And she’s not the only one. The road of deceit, using and moving on that’s ahead of her will teach her just the kind of person that she is.

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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

Angel sisters Panty and Stocking Anarchy have been kicked out of Heaven for bad behaviour, but they’ve been offered a way back in. All they have to do is collect Heaven Coins, which are dropped when defeating so-called ‘Ghosts’ that possess troubled people. Doesn’t sound too difficult, considering their angelic powers, however, it’s sex-obsessed Panty’s excessive sex quota and goth Stocking’s bottomless sugar cravings that mostly keep them from devoting much energy to their missions. Thankfully, Priest Garterbelt and his questionable morals are around to keep them on task. But when demon sisters start meddling in the trio’s lives, they might just have to get off the sofa and join a local school nerd in stopping the city’s newest villains and their sadistic master.

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Last updated: Thursday July 25, 2019