 | Battle Royale: Volume 1: v. 1 by Koushun Takami
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Extremely graphic violence, beutiful artwork - based on the famous novel and movie but probably the best of all three, at just 15 volumes long this is a manga masterpiece!
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 | Hellsing: v. 1 (Hellsing) by Kohta Hirano
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £1.44 Hellsing takes vampires, monsters, zombie Nazi's and the Catholic and Protestant church and throws them all together for a frenzy of insane violence. Another very gory title.
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 | Black Lagoon 1 (Black Lagoon): v. 1 by Rei Hiroe
Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £3.59 Fast paced action thriller about a ragtag group of renegade modern pirates and the work they carry out for various mafia and cartels. Each volume is like an epic action movie transferred onto paper!
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 | Vagabond: v. 1 by Takehiko Inoue
Buy used from: £1.08 THE very best samurai manga there is, vagabond is a fictional account of real life samurai Miyamoto Musashi, one of the most renowned samurai of all time.
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 | Blade of the Immortal: Blood of a Thousand v. 1 (Blade of the Immortal) by Hiroaki Samura
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.22 Manji is a samurai who cannot be killed no matter how bad the injury. In order to break this curse he must kill 1000 evil warriors. Graphicaly violent samurai manga.
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 | Uzumaki: Volume 1
Buy used from: £7.56 Seriously disturbing and very surreal horror manga. No description i could give would do this horror masterpiece justice!
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 | Hunter X Hunter, Volume 1 by Yoshihiro Togashi
Buy new: £3.76 / Used from: £0.88 Dont let the cutesy cover art fool you, this shonen is actually pretty dark. One of the best shonens around and often very violent.
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 | Jyo-Oh-Sei: v. 1 (Jyu-Oh-Sei) by Natsumi Itsuki
Buy new: £6.66 / Used from: £2.31 Short manga set in a future where people live in space colony's, two children are kidnapped and left stranded on a planet used exclusively to dump the colonies worst criminals. Will they survive?
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 | One Piece: Romance Dawn v. 1 (One Piece) by Eiichiro Oda
Buy new: £4.05 / Used from: £1.35 IMO the very best shonen manga of all, one piece is a masterpiece. Wonderful artwork, unique characters and epic battles all set in a beutifully drawn world where pirates infest the sea's.
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 | D. Gray-Man: v. 1 (D.Gray-Man) by Katsura Hoshino
Buy new: £3.78 / Used from: £1.99 Another great shonen, this time the protagonists are exorcists granted powerful magics by catholic relic's known as Innocense, to help them fight the demons of the world in the name of the church.
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 | Claymore: v. 1 (Claymore) by Norihiro Yagi
Buy new: £3.78 / Used from: £1.59 Another sword fighting manga where women are breeded with monsters in order to grant them the strengh and speed to fight the man eating beasts that infest the world. Great stuff.
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 | Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: v. 1 (Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Graphic Novel)) by Eiji Ohtsuka
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £2.99 Very morbid manga. A group of psychic students seek out corpses so that they can carry out the dead spirits final wishes and hopefully get paid in the process!
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 | Eden: It's an Endless World!: 1 by Hiroki Endo
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.85 Post-apocalyptic manga set in a world where disease has killed most of the population, terrorists rule the remains. Very intelligent and even philisophic manga for the more thoughtful reader.
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 | Reborn! Vol 1 (Reborn): v. 1 by Akira Amano
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £1.72 Hectic shonen comedy about a toddler mafiosa hitman and his mission to train the future boss of the family.
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 | Naoki Urasawa's Monster: Volume 1 by Naoki Urasawa
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £2.23 Famous psychological thriller set in germany. when a surgeon saves a childs life, he does not expect it to lead him into a life on the run in an underworld of secret police, nazi's and conspiracies.
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 | GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka: v. 1 by Fujisawa Tohro
Buy used from: £1.63 One of my top 3, a brilliant comedy about a biker punk turned teacher. Touching at times, violent at times but always crazy and always hilarious. No manga collection should be without GTO!
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 | Rurouni Kenshin: v. 1 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
Buy used from: £1.58 Samurai action epic about a famous ronin and his quest to protect the innocent.
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 | Alive: Volume 1, the Final Evolution by Tadashi Kawashima
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £1.24 When a worldwide virus suddenly causes millions to start commiting suicide, its up to a group of teenagers with strange new powers to find the root of this new evil and stop it before its too late!
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 | The Drifting Classroom: Volume 1 by Kazuo Umezu
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £4.33 Old school horror manga about a school of students and teachers who, after an earthquake, find themselves stranded in a barren, hostile wasteland in some parrallel universe!
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 | MPD Psycho: Volume 1: v. 1 by Eiji Otsuka
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.75 Incredibly violent, graphically horrific. A brilliant manga series about a brilliant detective with multiple personalities - one of those personalities being an insane psychopath!
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 | Gantz: Volume 1: v. 1 by Hiroya Oku
Buy new: £5.61 / Used from: £3.06 My all time favourite, no explanation can do this masterpiece justice. A very bloody and graphic dark manga, it humans versus aliens in a regular battle royale!
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 | Berserk Vol. 1: The Black Swordsman by Kentaro Miura
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £6.33 Brutal Swordfighting manga set in a medievil world where one lone swordsman must fight against the demonic legions of the five apostles! Very dark and very violent!
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 | Welcome to the NHK: v. 1 (Welcome to the N.H.K.) by Kendi Oiwa
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £1.50 Black comedy series about a hikikimori (house-hermit) and his crazy experiences as he ventures out into the world with his crazy friends. Very funny and often surreal.
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 | Old Boy: v. 1 (Old Boy) by Garon Tsuchiya
Buy new: £5.45 / Used from: £3.71 The manga that inspired the popular movie, when a working man is kidnapped and imprisoned for 10 yrs in a small room, he is suddenly released and enters into a deadly game to find the man responsible.
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 | Akira: Vol.1: Bk. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo
Buy new: £11.46 / Used from: £9.00 No aime fan should be without the famous manga series that inspired the greatest anime movie ever made! Expensive but well worth the money.
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