There's a serial killer on the loose in Los Angeles and the local authorities need help fast. For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene. Each of these clues, it seems, is an indecipherable roadmap to the next murder. Onto the scene comes L, the mysterious super-sleuth. Despite his peculiar working habits - he's never shown his face in public, for example - he's the most decorated detective in the world and has never tackled a cased he hasn't been able to crack. But this time he needs help. Enlisting the services of an FBI agent named Naomi Misora, L starts snooping around the City of Angels. It soon becomes apparent that the killing spree is a psychotic riddle designed specifically to engage L in a battle of wits. Stuck in the middle between killer and investigator, it's up to Misora to navigate both the dead bodies and the egos to solve the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.
Find out more about the other characters from Mirai Nikki - Future Diary. These stories start out a few days prior to them receiving their own diary and give us some insight as to how they think and their personal reasons for using the diary they've been chosen to have. In the process learn a little more about Deus ex Macchina, the 'God' of Space and Time, and what his goal really is.
Inferiority, cowardice, desire to be loved, but always running away. A human and a demon are in the midst of the uncertain struggle to find a place where they can belong and carry their own way of life.
In middle school, Ichinose Kimitaka taught his friends how to play basketball. Despite his experience with the sport, his friends quickly outmatched him in skill. After an incident brought on by his frustration and jealousy, he was crushed to overhear those same 'friends' discussing how they wished he'd just kill himself. On his way to toss out his special basketball shoes, he met a girl who was just as frustrated, throwing her own dancing shoes away. She was so tall, and her hands and feet are so large, that she had been rejected from her chosen hobby of Spanish dancing. He urged her to give basketball a try, and the two exchanged their shoes instead of throwing them away. As he enters high school, Kimitaka learns that meeting him changed that girl's life for the better, and she is now a happy, social basketball player. Will Kimitaka be able to find the courage to make new friends and pursue his own talents?
결혼 장사 / The Marriage Business Bianca De Blanchefort. The Wife Of Zachary De Arno, Thrown Out Of Arno Family After His Death Due To Her Self-Indulgent, Frivolous, And Immoral Behavior. She Had Nowhere To Go, The Blanchefort Family Having Already Fallen To Ruin, And Was More Or Less Kicked To A Convent Out In The Border. A Woman Who Ultimately Met Her End On A Cold Stone Floor. A Villainess With No Honor: That Was Bianca’s Life Before She Went Back In Time. “Is This Truly Reality? Did I Really Travel Back To The Past?” This Was Neither A Dream Nor A Hallucination. This Feeling Of Hunger, Fatigue, The Vivid Sense Of Everything Around Her… This Was All Real. If This Was Indeed Reality… If God Truly Gave Her One More Precious Chance…! ‘I’m Going To Carry Out A Business. A Marriage Is A Business In The End. Zachary’s Child Will Be The Perfect Source Of Financial Support. I’m Sure My Dowry Will Remain Safe Too. I Won’t Have To Lose The Blanchefort Or Arno Territories To That Damned Viscount Either.’ Then Whether It Be Through Seduction Or Persuasion, She Needed To Give Birth To Her Husband, Zachary’s Child. “How Much Was My Dowry Exactly?” “400 Calves, 900 Pigs, 100 Units Of Silverware, 300 Rolls Of Silk, 2 Crates Of Jewels, And A Portion Of A Territory… Equivalent To A Two-Year Budget For The Arno County.” “Don’t You Think You Should Compensate For That?” Alternative Name 결혼 장사 / The Marriage Business
Based on the game of the same name, a variety of authors and artists write a large offering of short stories starring the various characters featured in the game. The stories range from being lovingly heartfelt, packed full of comedy and gags or being downright evil or messed up sometimes!Note: These are NOT doujin. These are official comic anthologies licensed by Spike Chunsoft, the developers of the Danganronpa series.
From Turtle Paradise: 16-year-old Kizuna stalks the city at night, flirting with middle-aged salary men and coercing them out of their money. The thrill should be enough to satiate her, but Kizuna remains unsatisfied with her everyday life… That is, until the beautiful Inoue Yuki, also living in “Birdcage Manor” approaches Kizuna with a job proposition- to model in the nude for Yuki’s cousin, a painter and fellow resident Yusei Asai!
Serge Battour is the son of a French viscount and a Romani prostitute, and despite his kind nature and academic talent, is shunned by his family and his peers due to the color of his skin. He begins to attend Lacombrade Academy, his father's alma mater, in the hopes that there he will find a place to belong. Gilbert Cocteau is, like Serge, the orphaned son of a wealthy family, and is infamous at Lacombrade for his beautiful and delicate appearance, lack of dedication to schoolwork, and habit of prostituting himself to other students. He has no intention to connect with any of his classmates, instead devoting himself to his uncle Auguste. Due to a shortage of living space, Serge and Gilbert become roommates even though Gilbert's antisocial nature has in the past made it impossible for him to room with anybody. Serge, being sociable and idealistic, is determined to be friends with Gilbert; Gilbert is only interested in either being able to manipulate Serge or push him away entirely. To the surprise of both of the boys, however, the two eventually form a deep, albeit generally dismal, bond that leads to a romantic connection. In 1979, this series was awarded the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen/shoujo manga. For those who don't like yaoi - this manga is more of shounen-ai and the sex scenes are nothing like the ones you can see in modern yaoi mangas. A bit of warning: "Kaze..." includes scenes of rape and child abuse (but no shota).
Robert Johnson did not invent the blues, he merely refined it with such skill that he became the most famous and influential delta blues singer in history. There is a well-known legend he gained his skill by selling his soul to the Devil at a lonesome crossroads late at night. This manga is an account of his life that doesn't intend to be historically accurate. Note - This series was discontinued at 4 volumes.
Su Aixin, a fourth-year university student got a magic bracelet by chance. Since then, she has had the ability to change her personality, and each different personality that she changes into grants her different powerful abilities and knowledge that she never had. With this unexpected turn of events, her life has never been the same again….
Saha cross-dressed as a woman in order to disguise himself as his twin sister who was supposed to beKang Heetae’s unlucky wife, but ran away that night. Saha met Kang Heesu; the younger brother of the sick Kang Heetae. Heesu felt obligated to take care of Saha who was in danger. As time passes, Saha slowly begins developing feelings for Heesu, “her” savior.
Mekakushi no Kuni is the story of high school student Outsuka Kanade who can sometimes see a person's future with a touch, and transfer student Naitou Arou, whose ESP is limited to past events. When Kanade glimpses an unfortunate incident coming, can she change it? She soon befriends Arou, who's no novice. While Kanade’s power is limited to the near future and is somewhat incontrollable, Arou’s is permanent and he can even use it to see an object’s “memories”. Are these teenaged seers of the past and future made for each other? And who's right: Arou with his "hands off" policy about meddling in people's lives, or Kanade whose more proactive stance has already had unhappy consequences?
