Ax is the premier Japanese magazine for alternative comics, heir to the legendary Garo. Published bi-monthly since 1998, the pages of Ax contain the most innovative, experimental, and personal works in contemporary manga -- the flourishing underground of the world’s largest comics industry. Now Top Shelf presents a 400-page collection of stories from ten years of Ax history, translated into English for the first time.
AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga It is also Known as: AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga
Genres: Comedy , Thriller , Slice of Life , Drama , Psychological , Dementia
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Top 5 Manga Like AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga [2025 List]
5. Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is a paradise-like school, but the truth is that only the most superior of students receive favorable treatment.Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its “inferior” students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyou, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka’s situation begins to change.
Classroom of the Elite is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ, Welcome to the Classroom of the Know-It-Alls , Welcome to the Classroom of the Supreme Ability Doctrine , Yō Jitsu
4. Isekai Yakkyoku
A young pharmacologist and researcher in Japan died from overworking, and was reincarnated in a Medieval Parallel Europe.
He was reincarnated as a 10-year-old apprentice to a famous Royal Court pharmacist, had attained an inhuman skills of ability to see through disease, material creation, and material destruction. In a society in which dubious medical practice are rampant, price gouging thru the monopoly of the pharmacist guild, and good medicine aren't available to the commoners. He was recognized by the Emperor at that time and opened a Pharmacy at the corner of the town.
He will wipe out the fraud that has swept the world, and deliver to the commoners a truly effective medicine that was developed using present day pharmacology. Thus the boy pharmacist will cheat by using his previous knowledge to create innovative medicines while helping the people of the parallel world, a story about living his new life to the fullest this time.
Isekai Yakkyoku is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 異世界薬局, Parallel World Pharmacy
3. Cheese in the Trap
Having returned to college after a year long break, Hong Sul, a hard-working over-achiever, inadvertently got on the wrong side of a suspiciously perfect senior named Yoo Jung. From then on her life took a turn for the worse and Sul was almost certain it was all Yoo Jung's doing. So why is he suddenly acting so friendly a year later?
Cheese in the Trap has finished publishing and it has 46 Chapters. It is also Known as: チーズ・イン・ザ・トラップ, Cheese in the Trap
2. NHK ni Youkoso!
Sato Tatsuhiro is a drug-addled "hikikomori" (a Japanese shut-in) who thinks a sinister organization, NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai), is the cause of all his problems! He falls in love with a girl, Misaki, who he thinks is trying to assassinate him, but doesn't know how to talk to her or if he can trust her. The more he stay in his house watching anime porn, reading manga and doing drugs, the harder it is for him to leave. Only Misaki can keep him from rotting away in his own apartment!
Welcome to the N.H.K. has finished publishing and it has 40 Chapters. It is also Known as: NHKにようこそ!, Welcome to the NHK!
1. Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is a paradise-like school, but the truth is that only the most superior of students receive favorable treatment.Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its “inferior” students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyou, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka’s situation begins to change.
Classroom of the Elite has finished publishing and it has 110 Chapters. It is also Known as: ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ, Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
