From Infinity Studios: Ever since we were children, we’ve heard stories about ghosts and about heaven and hell. Well, what if we told you another existence between heaven and hell exists? This is exactly what Suh Rin, an average high school girl, finds out one gloomy day. On her way home from shopping around, Suh Rin meets with an unfortunate end when she is hit by an on coming truck. The next thing she knows, she’s being abducted by a stranger. Overwhelmed by the fact she had just been killed, Suh Rin has difficulty grasping the fact that she has entered a new existence in a realm of spirits. More importantly, she has yet to realize that tremendous supernatural powers lie within her… a power great enough to make her the target of abductions by tremendously powerful people within the spirit realm. However, thanks to Young and the mysterious owner of a café called the Café Occult, Suh Rin is rescued from a new existence as someone’s servant. On the contrary, she joins Young on action packed thrills in which she assists Young fulfill requests as an ‘errand boy’ taking care of special requests by clients in a lawless world controlled only by power.
From Hoshikuzuu Scans and Starry Sky Scans: "Having sex without love. All the gay people do this, right?" University student, Kawamoto has a string of one-night stands. One day, he meets a university employee called Kuroki, and he tries to bed him. "Do you always do stuff like this?" Kuroki has been in love with one of the school professors for 7 years. "I'm happy just being by his side." That unwavering dedication captures Kawamoto's heart... If love is solely loving someone, doesn't that just invite pain...? The long-awaited young love story by Nanameguri!!
One man felt a great ambition as he silently stood in the shadow of the "wolf", whose beauty far surpassed even that of a woman's. His name was Toshizou Hijikata. Read the tale of the Shinsengumi warriors who fearlessly rode through the Bakumatsu Era! NOTE: On hiatus
Volume 2 of the YuuTopia Collection, contains four stories: the title story, "Perfect Lovers", "Memoir Girl" and "Hang in There Nakago (Part 2)". This last story is the continuation from the last story from Minto de Kiss me. 1. Musubiya Nanako: Nanako has her mother's ability to see the red strings that bind to people together in love. At her parents match making shrine, Nanako is forced to bring couples together by binding their strings. But who is she to be binded to? 2. Perfect Lovers: Mitsuharu and Kana get into a car accident just after breaking up. They wake up just to find themselves in a dimension where homosexuality is normal and heterosexual relationships are illegal. 3. Memoir Girl: Katakura Hitomi does not like her new step-mother taking up all the attention of her father. In an abandoned school building she meets a high school boy who becomes her confidant. 4. Hang in There Nakago (Part II) - Continues the tale from Mint de Kiss Me.
from Iskultrip Scans A long time ago… there was a disease that would cause nightmares and kill people. Doctors and wizards threw in the towel, unable to find a cure. All of a sudden, mysterious magicians appeared. These magicians ate the nightmares of those who suffered from them. It was said that those who had their dreams eaten were able to sleep peacefully. This is the story of “Baku”.
Jooyeon is a guy who wants to put his past of being fat behind him. Upon meeting a model who goes by the name ‘Yeo Soo” by chance, Jooyeon develops a strong desire to emulate the person who gave him hope and decides to follow him to the same university, but…
Adapted from the 2011 video game El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron by IGNITION. The events of this story take place before the game, following the chosen priest Enoch the head still lost in books, as he is about to learn from Lucifel about the great will of God, and prepare himself for the long quest to come among centuries...
This is the debut FC book by Makita Nao. Contains 5 short stories. - I Want to Know Everything♥ I won’t act spoiled with my boyfriend, and I definitely won’t trouble him, either. I’m trying to act like a cool and mature ideal girlfriend, but the truth is, I’m a wholehearted and annoying girl! I can’t tell anyone that I’m stalking my beloved boyfriend!! - Upside Down Honey: Kameyama Chisato is a girl without boyfriend, because of her sadistic personality. While trying to fix it by practicing with a skeleton, a classmate sees her, Kurosawa Akihiro. What will happen to her secret?! And.. will Chisato ever find love?? - Fall, Fall, Rise Michiru is a girl with poor luck when it comes to love. She’s been dumped several times by her boyfriend’s for other girls. During her latest breakup, in her attempt to get over her love she makes as if to commit suicide, however a boy from her school stops her, claiming he’ll introduce her to the best guy on earth. Just who is the best guy on earth and where can be found? Or is he right in front of Michiru’s eyes? [from Starry Heaven] - Tomorrow There Will Be Fireworks Above Tomoe has a dream: to go to the fireworks display during the summer together with the guy she likes. However, she hasn’t found that spark of love at all, at least, not until her childhood friend, Miki, moves back to her school and she meets Kagami through him! She makes the perfect plan to confess to him, but that doesn’t go as well as she had hoped, when Kagami confesses to her that he really likes Tomoe’s best friend, Rikka! Is the friendship ruined between these best friends now? And will Tomoe be able to fulfill her dream of watching the fireworks with someone she loves? [from Starry Heaven] - Super ☆Star There’s a certain group of guys in Kiyoko’s class that stands out, and to her Hoshino stands out the most! In fact, he looks like he’s sparkling. However, he isn’t exactly what he seems to be, when Kiyoko discovers his part time job working at his family’s convenience store! But even in his work clothes, Hoshino is still sparkling to her. But it’s not until Hoshino is confessed to by another girl that Kiyoko truly realizes that even if she’s different from Hoshino’s ideal girl, she still has a chance…but is it too late for her? [from Starry Heaven]
In the early Song Dynasty (AD 960-1127), at the western border of the Tangut Empire - a pivot point of the Silk Road - furious battles were being fought. Brave warriors of the Tangut and a strange religious army from the west battled for a rumoured sacred item. Conflicts, conspiracies, and religious struggles - moving in the heart of the battlefield, the "untouchable war painter" Tao Hui paints nothing but the truth! (from Manga Updates)
From The Black Abyss: Spirits known as kamui are thrown into chaos when the sacred spirit Okikurumi is taken from Atsuma's village, and the imbalance threatens to destroy Earth. Infused with the spirit of an ancient sword, Atsuma must leave his village to reclaim Okikurumi. He encounters NOA, an organization of youths who wield the power of the kamui, and who may hold the key to Okikurumi. Atsuma is recruited into NOA by Sumire, a young woman with an empty soul who yearns for a miracle. Atsuma and his new companions must work together to find Okikurumi before the world is destroyed.
If I could describe it in a few words, I’d say “poetic”, “lonely”, and “deliberate”. There’s a touch of the sadness that comes at the end of summer, the transition into cold and quiet. It feels heavy with undertones. Every word seems deliberate and filled with meaning.
