The setting is Aonokujima, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean far from Honshu. There, a high school student, Reigo Muraame, lives alone. His parents died in an accident, and his grandmother, who took him in, recently died. Even so, he does not want to leave the island. He has a girl he is in love with, Ichika Kannagi. One summer day, they decide to go to the summer festival together. They are buoyed by the knowledge that there is a secret festival that is held exclusively for adults, and they go deep into the mountains where it is forbidden to enter. Little do they know that this is the beginning of a tragedy.
Miyahara Chiko is a mysterious girl who never seems to talk to anyone and always wears a pair of headphones and a scarf. But what is she hiding behind that silent facade?
It's April of my third and final year in high school... But the beautiful girl I have a crush on is my best friend's girlfriend. Thus begins my year of treading on the dangerous ground...
When Lord El-Melloi II, the later Waver Velvet, gets asked to claim his inheritance over Adra Castle, he travels there with his apprentice Gray to do so. But they are not the only ones called that way. The will of the previous owner states that the assembled contestants - including Luviagelita Edelfelt - must compete in a game of wits to win the castle.
A police story about two very different types of men teaming up to fight crimes in high places. The combination turns out to be one-of-a-kind. The story is based on the adventures of a pair of policemen, Hashiba Shigemi 26 years old and Keiichi Sasaki, 22. The two handsome young men are somewhat nonconformist and often act of impulse; especially the impetious Hashiba. They solve crimes with "less-than-orthodox" methods and push themselves to the limits of the legality; Often engaging themselves more on hunches and "faith" than for the same law; but after all they are the best "Combination" that can be found, thus the title of the series. They prefer to take action against the politically corrupt and the dealings of the yakuza. The Japanese Robin Hood?
What can you do when you get mistaken for murder? Nothing. You go to prison. Lucky you, your inmates are some of the biggest cutthroats in the prison. Seriously you are lucky. Especially when zombies attack.
From Twisted Curiosity: Meguru is an ordinary schoolgirl on a school trip. They stop to take a break and she is determined to confess her feelings to the boy she likes, Yashiro. When they get back on the bus, however, a strange man grabs her and says that he’s bus-jacking them. He shoots Meguru for putting up a fight and she thinks, fading into oblivion, “I wish I could go back in time”. The next thing she knows, she has woken up in her bed at home and quickly finds out that it’s the day before! What in the world?
From Yen Press: Abandoned as a baby and raised in an orphanage, the kind-hearted high-schooler Yuki Sakuragi is driven by a need to find the reason for his existence. Plagued by mysterious dreams, Yuki also possesses the strange ability to read the deepest, darkest thoughts of anyone he touches. As both the dreams and his powers intensify, there appears before him a beautiful young man named “Zess,” whose face tugs on Yuki’s memory. He warns Yuki not to venture outside on Walpurgis Night, the eve of the blood-red moon, which invites death. But when Yuki’s compassion leads him to disobey Zess’s order, has Yuki carelessly thrown his life away before he’s even given himself the chance to find out the very reason for it?
A tribute anthology for Mushishi.
A collection of four short stories.Chapter 1 is the 100-page title story. It's a supernatural fantasy tale about a man with one chance to escape from death, a mysterious woman he meets, and a tribe seeking to find its way back into Heaven.Chapter 2 deals with the mystery of a man gone missing, and presumed dead.Chapter 3 is a very short story about a couple in the mountains who pick up a strange guest.Chapter 4 is a longer story about the traditions binding a family, those that would break away from them, and the dark secret that holds the family in sway.
