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Welcome to the liminal zone, where things beyond your wildest imagination await. What fate awaits when death is not the end? A group of four university students stumbles upon a deserted, decaying village deep in the mountains only to find an enormous perpetual motion machine still at work there. Before they can answer the questions of who made it and to what end, the friends begin to disappear, one after the other. Another story sees the return of the strange Hikizuri siblings! A girl weighed down since birth by an invisible burden meets the odd siblings and moves in with them in order to understand the truth about herself. But after a string of bizarre occurrences, the siblings’ uncle appears on the scene…

From Yuana Kazumi, creator of Flower of the Deep Sleep, comes a psychological thriller about a man who may be losing his place in the world...When friends and loved ones begin to disappear, his sense of reality begins to crumble-until the day he runs into a mysterious figure who can erase a person's very existence... Hiromu is a high school boy who has everything he could ever want: a normal life, friends, and a girlfriend. That is until one day Hiromu asks everyone where Tetsuya is and no one knows. All of his classmates think he is crazy for insisting that this Tetsuya person exists since no one has heard of him. Then on his way home from school Hiromu finally meets a boy who remembers Tetsuya and says that Tetsuya was “delicious“ and this isn’t the only strange occurrence. This boy seems to think that Hiromu’s name is Glorious Lily and that his lover is not his girlfriend, but a beautiful, emotionless girl named Valeriana. With the help of this mysterious boy Hiromu uncovers his past, who Valeriana is and who, or what, he is.

A clue from Forgetter’s mysterious past?!Thea—code name Dreamspeaker—is dead set on proving why she’s the team leader, but even with her powers, she can’t get through to everyone. So when a squad mission with Monika, Erna, and Annette ends in success and a miraculous run-in with a down-on-her-luck woman claiming to be Annette’s mother, Thea’s hopes are buoyed. Maybe some extracurricular adventures to help Forgetter recall her past will pay dividends for the team! Or maybe four young spies are in way over their heads…

On Scarlet Crest Island, a cursed immortal princess sleeps in legend. Shrine maiden Mikoto steps into a forbidden forestand simultaneously, a massive earthquake awakens the ancient curse. As monstrous creatures emerge, Mikoto partners with the lecherous Self-Defense Force officer Tatsumi, plunging into a fierce and erotic-horror battle against the resurrected immortal queen.

A shocking display of racism ends athletic superstar James Block’s life when the woman he thought he loved admits she only dated him because of his celebrity status—she would never marry someone of his race. His rage and temper lands him in jail where he meets the mysterious “Dr. F,” a man whose invisibility ray gun killed his daughter and led to the continued diminishing visibility of his granddaughter, Ami. Once freed from jail, James tracks down the gun and turns it on himself, but stops right before he’s fatally wounded. James can no longer be discriminated against due to his skin color for he has none! He takes the nom de guerre “Alabaster” and his translucent tyranny begins with two goals: exact his revenge on his ex-girlfriend, and take on the similarly invisible Ami as his own ward. Written in a dark period of Tezuka’s life, Alabaster is a thrilling revenge story that touches on the dark side of humanity and the extent one would go to get even. It shows that not only does it affect the victims, but how destructive it is to be surrounded by such animosity. How far will you go for retribution?

Arata Natsume works at a child guidance center, is in his thirties and single with no plans for marriage. But one day, he receives a request from the child he was in charge of, Takuto, to "meet the criminal who killed his father". That serial killer is Shinagawa Shinju, also known as the "Shinagawa Pierrot".

From ShoujoMagic:A collection of short horror stories from the pages of Ciao Magazine.Story 01 - The Scream of GlassStory 02 - I Want The Lead Role Story 03 - Exciting Mysterious Club Story 04 - I Want To Be With You Forever Story 05 - Haunted

A short story published in the October 2011 issue of the fashion magazine Spur, in which the mangaka mixes advertising for Gucci products with a little supernatural flavour courtesy of Kishibe Rohan and his grandmother's old traveling bag.  

A mysterious story about a poor young man who orders a kind of tea called Huan Ying – “The Illusion”. He asked for a small quantity - just to have a taste - and was granted one cupful...

A man washed up on an unknown, isolated island has lost his memory. Giant creatures roam around, ruthlessly devouring their prey. Suddenly, the man trembles in fear and discovers an extremely high castle wall. He expected to see signs of civilization and humans, but a large number of corpses were dumped from the top of the castle wall, refusing to come. As the man secretly watched the situation on the castle wall, he began to feel a strong desire to go to the other side of the wall. What will happen on the other side of this high wall, and what will be the fate of this man? One of Hideshi Hino's masterpieces, painted in 1972. The fantastical world view that makes you feel color in monochrome gradually pulls the reader away from reality. You too will get lost in a mysterious space along with the main character. Recreate the original cover from the first edition as much as possible. Includes many other masterpieces.

Noriko has the feeling somebody's watching her. She thinks it's a Yasha (a demon) that she might have angered. But who is the person who is really watching her? And what has happened to her parents?

Koyo Ito works at a law firm while studying to pass his examinations to become a judicial scrivener. One day while out drinking with his friend, Morio, he meets a mysterious and alluring girl in college who goes by the name "Nana." Koyo, who for some reason or another had already given up on dating, is met with a suggestion by Nana that the two "go on a date." Right as a spark is ignited between the two, Koyo's co-worker, Minegishi, begins showing interest in Koyo, which leads to the breaking down of Koyo's everyday life.

(from ebookjapan):Ippei Yasuda, heir to the Yasuda Zaibatsu, is back as a detective! Despite being a rookie, Ippei takes on cases head-on, but is confronted by the unreasonable crimes of those in power. Will Ippei be able to maintain his manly justice?

Helio Westwind comes across supernatural phenomena that have appeared near a lunar colony. Upon discovering how this puts people's lives at risk, he does everything he can to protect his friends and the local inhabitants.

Shizuoka, March 2019. The town where Shiira, a first-year high school student, lives is said that will sink to the bottom of the sea if a major earthquake strikes, but he is fine with that as he still has the past of his mother's death in his mind. Shiira's childhood friend, Anko, has feelings for him and asks him to go to Tokyo with her. One day, however, Shiira meets a woman on a cruise ship, and the wheels of fate begin to move.

Three guys and three girls enter a dilapidated amusement park in the hope of finding their missing friend. The Birdcage Castle is supposed to be abandoned... But now they find themselves locked inside and chained together. They'll have to work together to escape in pairs, or they won't escape at all!

Dive back into Ono Natsume's world of clandestine intrigue and delectable eats! This spin-off puts the spotlight on the supporting characters seen throughout the original series—including the five chief officers of ACCA, Nino, and Mauve! Discover closely guarded secrets, hidden thoughts, and true feelings in the Douwa Kingdom.

CLAMP School Detectives focuses on the exploits of Akira, Nokoru, and Suoh - 3 pre-teen sleuths - and their quest to make the CLAMP world safe for the girls in their class... Meet the CLAMP school detectives: Nokoru Imonoyama, the world's smartest kid, who can detect a woman in distress from two kilometers away; Suoh Takamura, a martial arts master who's cool as ice; Akira Ijyuin, detective by day, master thief by night. Wherever there's a young lady in distress, they'll be there. After all, when you're as smart as they are, you don't have to study.

"An unpredictable and fantastical adventure filled with laughs as well as heartfelt moments." Exorcist Fang Hui has searched for the Cirrus Cloud Scroll for 10 years, with no success. When he comes across an all-powerful sword, he's launched through a magical portal, where he encounters the slain Wan. He resurrects her with a special spell, and though she can’t recall her origins, the one thing she recognizes is… Fang? A hothead, a mysterious girl, and more join them as this eclectic group sets out on an adventure full of demons and magic in hopes of unlocking the mysteries of their pasts and the prized scroll!

Osamu Tezuka unleashes several creepy suspenseful short stories in this anthology of speculative fiction spanning the years 1968 and 1973. 1) When a Nazi lieutenant is sentenced to death for war crimes, he expects to escape with his life, but hubris is his downfall. 2) A female android marries for love but is soon lost, and she must deal with the consequences. 3) After a married man finds out his city is being experimented on, he tries to save the people while struggling with adulterous thoughts. 4) On a dark and lonely road, a cabby picks up a shady man who threatens him, but little does his passenger know the cabby is not as he seems. 5) An educated man falls in love with an elusive woman who has a life-altering secret. 6) American school kids learn the cruelty of war. 7) A revolutionary fails his revolution, and 8) An interstellar peace conference does not yield the hoped-for results when space hippies defy peace conventions. These eerie stories will leave one wandering the depths of despair and hope against all odds.

You mustn’t ever look down into the depths of your memories—

Contains 4 stories:1. Kaine2. Magical Mystery Tour3. Tokei Jikake no Orenji Bakudan (The Orange Time Bomb)4. Tokyo Top

When he was young, Prince Takaoka had been told stories of India by Fujiwara no Yakushi, the favorite concubine of his father, as a bedtime story, and he had longed for that land. Decades later, as he grew up, he set out on an exotic, mysterious and fantastical journey to make his dream come true. A bold manga artist draws the towering mountain in the history of fantasy literature with a neat and mysterious look. A full-fledged comic adaptation.

A collection of shoujo eroguro stories (weirdly with the girls) by Sanjou Tomomi. 1. Akachan wa Daare? 2. Ana no Naka (In the Cave) 3. Inu ni Naritai (I Want to Become a Dog) 4. Mushi Shoujo (An Insect Girl) 5. Koibito Ningyou (A Lover Doll) 6. Bijo to Kaibutsu (Beauty and the Monster) 7. Koufuku e no Shinryaku (Aggression To Happiness) 8. Kyoufu! Uroko Shoujo (Fear! A Scale Girl) 9. Kawahagi Collector (A Leatherfish Collector) 10. Imomushi (A Green Caterpillar) 11. Mori no Hanayome (A Bride of a Forest)

Danger - Do Not Touch!From horror to silly gags, and even human drama! A rare collection of works by the unique talent, Ranjyo Miyake, showcasing her distinctive style!This collection includes the title story, "Ghost Window," with a shocking ending that will send chills down your spine, along with "47C6," "Gonbe-san," "Run Away," "Rebellion 'Ramen Theory,'" "Mint Detective," and "Let's Hold Hands."

7 scary stories by Inuki Kanako (4.1 and 4.2 were adapted into a movie, check Gokiburi no Ie's page for more info)1- Ushirogami: 2- Psycho Box: 3- Children, Don't Play with Ghosts!: The mangaka, Kanako Inuki, tells some of her own scary experiences with ghost stories in childhood.4- Women of the Dark (Kurayami no Onna-tachi)4.1- Room 1: Woman that Loves Cooking4.2- Room 2: Women in the Trash Dumping Area4.3- Room 3: 117th Woman 5- The House of Cockroaches: A rich woman has a deathly fear of cockroaches which leads to...6- Nightmare Door: A girl experiences strange and horrifying nightmares.7- 100 Ghost Stories

Ian and Rin used to just see spirits. Now Ian is one. Using the Fairy Cube, Ian must figure out how to stop the lizard spirit Tokage from taking over his life and destroying any chance he has of resurrection.

For the sake of finding clues about his younger twin brother who suddenly went missing, the protagonist changed his identity and infiltrated the academy his brother was attending. However, what clearly came to light there was a surprising truth! His brother had multiple fiances...?

In the whole world there lay a mythical creatures which have their own ecosystem and can't be considered part of the food chain. They also have supernatural powers and live together with humans. Ferry is one of the professional investigator, who researches the connection between the creatures and humans and is called a Genjuu Chousain (Mythical Beast Investigator). The story starts when a flying reptilian dragon (Wyvern) is attacking a village, and a Girl dispatch on the quest to research and investigate Wyvern and other mythical creatures.

Elementalium is the supreme being who created our world. She was able to give people the power of the 4 elements, and not only, so that they in turn would contribute to the prosperity of the created world. Everything was wonderful, people lived without worrying about tomorrow, until one day the Elementalium disappeared, leaving only its power, which endowed the earth. But soon a tragedy occurred, due to which a young guy named Sheiron, became the owner of the Elementalium, who wanted to save his people.Many years later, people forgot about their deity, and Sheiron was forced to wander the earth, still helping people, as Elementalium wanted. Will Sheiron be able to return hope to people, and faith in Elementalium in this now cruel world, and return paradise on earth? Let's find out together.

A gigantic monster returns to the town it ravaged years earlier in this poignant kaiju manga from the creator of the hit series Colorless. In the spirit of the classic Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One, GAEA-TIMA combines thunderous action and character drama with the social conscience and thematic complexity of the genre’s post-war roots.

When one version of himself becomes wildly rich—but also a murderer—a man is left questioning whether fortune can ever outweigh the cost of morality. Struggling with unease and a growing sense of dread, he begins to contemplate the unthinkable: killing his counterpart from a parallel world. Is it justice, survival, or something darker? He doesn't know what's right anymore—only that this may be the only way forward.

The popular game gets a comic adaptation!! When I woke up, I found myself inside a prison. Thirteen girls, brought here as candidates to become dangerous, world-threatening "witches." What even are witches, and what are the organizers' intentions...? The mysterious witch trials begin!

In Battle City , a battle ground of magical realism torn between war and chaos, the tournament of the 4th season has begun. Out of the shadows , Estelle Thornewood, a top ranked assassin and one of the top ten players emerges , a lone wolf driven by an insatiable desire for recognition with the goal to break the UPPER MANAGEMENT system. As the battle unfolds within the tournament, she and her crew fights their way to the zenith , to finally face the UPPER MANAGEMENT in a battle supreme..

A young man reads the suicide note from his deceased sister...

Gray Town – a town filled with gray colored buildings. I’m not too clear on the details surrounding Gray Town’s history. Just that somewhere in this town, stands a lone house, different in coloration from the buildings around it. The Red House... 

A battle has broken out among rival sorcerers.The most nefarious group, the Necromancers, is killing young girls in Hong Kong to read the future in their entrails. Carno, a human youth raised by Aeromancers in a different dimension, is summoned back to his homeworld to join in the battle.Does Carno have what it takes to survive in a world of political alliances and emotional entanglements?(from mangaupdates)

In every school there are very unusual characters. Take, for example, a quiet and seemingly unremarkable girl named Mako, who turns out to be an extremely gifted psychic. The school where Mako studies is beset by a series of supernatural disasters caused by a mysterious entity, which becomes the clairvoyant's primary task to track down and neutralize - because if she fails, all the school's students will be in mortal danger!

The horror tale born from the innocent, when the ghost in children's imagination suddenly becomes real and roams around.

"Who is it that you truly killed?" Ochou, a woman imprisoned and sentenced to death for the crime of the massacre of the Sasaki family, including her own husband and mother-in-law. The medicine seller suspects the presence of a Mononoke behind the incident. At that moment, a mysterious man wearing a Noh mask appears, trying to take Ochou out of the prison...!? The sorrowful fairy tale of a Mononoke who fell in love and the criminal Ochou, now begins.

Lili is just like any other girl except she can foretell the future! This 'Zodiac PI' relies on horoscopes and astrology to help her solve crimes and track down criminals. When there's trouble a'brewing, she transforms herself into the magic Detective Spica and looks to the stars to guide her way. Before long, she is joined by her childhood friend, Hiromi, who dreams of becoming a detective as skilled as Lili. Soon, no astral investigation is too arduous for this dynamic duo!

The Earth Defense Force is a secret organization that protects Japan from extraterrestrial life forms. Yamato Koichi, a member of the force, believed that capturing the extraterrestrial life forms would lead to peace in the country. That was until he met her. "Are the extraterrestrial life forms really what is ruining Japan?" Recession, declining birthrate, corruption, illicit funds. An unreasonable evil that cannot be punished by law, the elderly, that nests within the country. Exterminate the elderly in the name of justice. A picaresque novel of the Reiwa era that questions true patriotism.

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Six lost souls gather in a candle-lit room with a mysterious host. None of them know exactly how they came to be there, but there's only one way out. Each of us follows a path preordained by destiny. If the souls are judged to have lost their path by mistake they will be returned to it. But if destiny says their time is up: they have to move on.

In the lively Onion Academy, the interactions between teachers and students lead to endless laughter, and the office instantly transforms into a stress-relief zone. This reveals the hilarious daily lives of the K12 teacher dream team, curing your back-to-school anxiety turns out the stories behind education are even more interesting than homework answers!

H.P. Lovecraft's horror story, rendered in chilling detail by modern manga horror master Gou Tanabe! The complete story in one volume, featuring a tip-in title page in metallic gold ink and four pages in color. Even the folk of Arkham are frightened of a valley west of town…blighted and deformed by something that fell from space—a twisting, spectral hue. In 1927, a surveyor examining a site for a new reservoir arrives at the bottom of a desolate valley in rural Massachusetts…a place spoken of in fear, even by the inhabitants of witch-haunted Arkham—for in the past, they say, there were “strange days” there. The surrounding landscape is weirdly tangled and overgrown, but at the very center of the isolation are five acres where nothing lives and nothing remains, but a fine gray ash unstirred by the wind. What turned this farmland into a sterile, blasted heath? It happened long ago, the visitor learns from aged survivor Ammi Pierce, when in 1882 a visitor fell out of a clear blue sky, trailing smoke like a dragon. Soon scientists from Miskatonic University arrived at Nahum Gardner’s farm, where the meteorite landed—if indeed it was a meteorite, for the strangely plastic object refused to cool after its descent, seemed to gradually shrink, and in the laboratory, samples of it faded away slowly into nothingness. But not before revealing under analysis strange, shining radiance, unlike any known element of the spectrum. What had been a mystery to the professors gradually becomes a horror for the Gardner family as first, bizarre lightning disintegrates what remains of the cosmic visitor, and then their crops begin to come in strangely—fruits big and bountiful, but bitter and repugnant to eat. Then the unnatural blight spreads to the animals…and finally, to the minds and bodies of the Gardners…twisted by the colour out of space. “I love H.P. Lovecraft…It would be great to adapt him as a serialized manga, but I actually saw Gou Tanabe create a great adaption of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories. Afterwards, I ended up not doing it because I thought I wouldn’t be as good as Gou’s version.”—Junji Ito (Uzumaki, Black Paradox)