Dead End

• Name — Dead End • Genre — * Action • Science fiction • Suspense

• Type — manga • Author — Shohei Manabe • Publisher — Kodansha • Imprint — Afternoon KC • Magazine — Monthly Afternoon • First — February 23, 2001 • Last — September 25, 2002 • Volumes — 4

• Portal — yes Dead End, known in Japan as The End (stylized in all caps), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shohei Manabe. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from February 2001 to September 2002, and published in four tankōbon volumes. The manga was licensed in North America by Tokyopop.

Shirou Shiba is a construction worker, tired of the usual daily routine of his job; he hopes that something will come to awake him from the monotony of his life. His wish is seemingly answered when a young girl named Lucy, falling naked from the sky, enters his life. They spend two days together, enough for Shirou to fall in love with her. On the third day however, when Shirou comes back home, he cannot find her anymore, and instead he finds his friends murdered. After that, he meets a stranger who claims to be his friend, and learns that he had his memory voluntarily erased: he knew Lucy from before, and to find a way to solve this puzzle, he has to find five old friends who had their memory erased just like him. Along with these five friends he must uncover, there are many others who seek his death and one particular monster who kills in a brutal fashion.

Written and illustrated by Shohei Manabe, the series was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from February 23, 2001, to September 25, 2002. Its chapters were collected into four individual tankōbon volumes, released between August 23, 2001, and November 22, 2002. Tokyopop had licensed the manga for English publication, releasing four volumes between March 8, 2005, and May 9, 2006.