A pair of twin brothers were raised in poverty - but in reality, they're princes, being raised as such to protect them from a witch's curse... Contains other gag one-shots in the second half. --- **Volume 323 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
A jungle and war victims: these fragments constitute Yo Mizunashi's leftover memories. A doctor's son, Yo questions whether these pieces of his "past" aren't just constructs of a delusional mind. He forces himself to remember and in seeking his personal truth, alienates himself from his peers and presents school bullies with an easy target.One day, while he is being harrassed, a mysterious man—with a gaping wound on his abdomen—appears before Yo and his tormentors. Yo hastens to help the stranger and in return, learns that his unexpected patient goes simply by the name "R" and that R trades in secrets.
Welcome to Nanba, the world's largest, most impenetrable prison. Locked away in cell block 13 are four inmates - Juugo, Uno, Rock, and Nico - who provide more than enough trouble for prison guard Sugoroku Hajime to deal with. Between attempted breakouts, gambling and general misbehaviour, these four believe that just because they're in prison doesn't mean they can't have fun! But it isn't all a barrel of laughs, because our protagonist Juugo is hiding a dark past which may soon come to destroy their idyllic prison life...
Empress Desa, a great witch and ambassador for the founding of the country, proposes a bet to find herself among 108 people with identical faces to test the emperor's sincerity. Meanwhile, 'Arit', a young witch who admires Desa, secretly participates in the bet to stop Desa?!
Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming.
At a handshake event for the Pure Idol club, popular idol Karen Amemiya is cut by a male fan with a knife. Half a year later, high school student Nina Kamiyama is the only girl at school who wears the uniform pants instead of a skirt, and is disconnected from her classmates. A teacher then announces that a suspicious person has been going after high school girls recently, and female students should head home in groups. However, Nina ends up leaving alone, and suddenly a figure with a knife appears out of nowhere!
by Rosa Negra: A father who committed suicide on Yuh’s 16th birthday. The boy she met during her sorrow; Mu Hyul Ba-dump Ba-dump; a guy so breathtaking. A proposal at a sky resort. “I can do anything for you as long as it makes you smile. I’ll give you everything you want.” All those to interrupt our love are so dead!
From ADV: Ray was bred and raised to be a living, breathing organ donor. After her own eyes were taken from her, a stranger bestows upon her the gift of sight and something extra - she has X-Ray vision! Ten years later, Ray works as a nurse and moonlights as an underground medical doctor performing for-profit, off-the-book medical procedures. But her daily routine is interrupted by a chance encounter with an old friend that triggers Ray's memories of her hellish childhood. Ray will begin a search that will lead her back to the people who stole her eyes-and her childhood!
From A Duck's Paradise: Doppelgangers. Mice that take the form of humans. With murderous intent, the look-alikes and the originals are both pressured to fight in their own ways. After an ambiguous event in their life, Jin-Uk and So-Hee's love life has been shattered. While trying to reconcile with her, Ji-Suk meets her look-alike, and that's how this story starts. What will he do when he, too, has a look-alike destined to kill him? And what's the secret So-Hee will never tell?
Karin Mochizuki is an attractive woman lawyer. Because she is always calm and collected and never lets her feelings show, she's been nicknamed Stone Cold (a woman colder than a stone). This volume contains four stories about incidents involving Karin.
Katsuya's life is turned upside down when he contracts a strange blood disease. On one hand, a doctor who is an old friend tells him to seek treatment immediately -- but then a strange man appears and tells him that the doctor will kill him. Who's telling the truth, and what exactly is this "Specter" he's infected with? And what could it possibly have to do with his dead father...?
In this world, there exists individuals known as "Majin": supernatural beings able to wield unique powers. They live among the normal human beings, but the divide created between the Majin and the normal human race is severe. There exists a school known as Dangerous, where the population ratio of Majin students exceeds that of any other high school. In this school, two groups known as the "Banchou Group" and the "Seitokai" face each other in war, but they have created a balance of power, resulting in a temporary peace. Now, with the inclusion of new students, this balance of power is about to collapse. One of the "normal" students, Ryouseiin Otome is forced to choose sides before the beginning of Armageddon.
