Collection of 13 one-shot stories by ero-guro mangaka Suehiro Maruo.Includes one story featuring Midori from (https://mangadex.org/title/082d9c57-8c00-45f2-8376-49f749cfd85b/mr-arashi-s-amazing-freak-show).
The original version of Lost World done in Tezuka's middle school days. Very close to the final version, but has a number of differences - among other things, Kenichi is an adult instead of a kid.---**Volumes 360 and 361 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
A boy abandoned at birth and raised by rats, with the mysterious power to control rats, grows up seeing the dark side of the humans that rejected him, and vows to become humanity's greatest enemy.
Anthology of shorts based on Shin Megami Tensei IV.
Yuka Katsuragi, a beautiful TV news reporter, has attracted the affections of a Yakuza thug, Katsuji Yashima, who travels with his brother all the way to Spain to find her, only to have his affections rebuffed by Yuka. A terrible earthquake hits, and Katsuji, his brother, and Yuka, along with four high-schoolers in Spain on a field trip, all fall deep underground. While trapped below the surface, they encounter a mysterious old woman who reveals to them prophecies that the wealthy nation of Japan will meet the same demise as the once-prosperous city of Carthage. Katsuji and the others insult the old woman, who then sends them to see the world of the future with their own eyes, a future of desolation and death…
Kitahara Kei is a screenwriter whose prodigious talent is taking the world by storm, but the people on whom he models his protagonists invariably end up dead. Dismayed by the misfortunes piling up in his wake, he abandons the pen and falls into dissipation, spending his days drinking in underground bars. One night when Kei is drunk and collapsed in the street, he is approached by a young amateur photographer named Youichi. Kei finds himself irresistibly drawn to Youichi’s ever-changing expressions, his radiantly pure smile, and sometimes sultry gaze… Being with Youichi, Kei finds himself overflowing with words once more, and yet he knows that he will only bring misfortune to Youichi…
It’s hard to defeat a mighty hero when he keeps coming back to life–in fact, it’s impossible. The Dark Lord, stuck in a loop of battling a good guy who won’t stay dead, finally loses the fight and meets his own end…or so it would seem. The Dark Lord saved himself by putting his soul into an empty vessel, and now he’s about to stage his own comeback. He may be weak now, but along with his newly formed fellowship of misfits–a slime, an orc, an ifrit, and a dark elf–he’s convinced he can rebuild his evil empire, one bumbling step at a time.
In the aftermath of a great war between humanity and creatures known as the Talaiv, the storms of war are brewing again.
After being gruesomely murdered, Park Juhyeon begs the grim reaper for a chance to find his killer. To solve this mystery, he returns to earth as a ghost and teams up with Choi Seongmin, a vampire who assists the dead in the world of the living. As they dig deeper into the case, Juhyeon uncovers some disturbing clues and slowly realizes that his past was less clear-cut than he remembered. Was Juhyeon really just unlucky to meet an untimely death? Or did he have a hand in his own bloody demise?
The setting is 15th century Poland. It was a time when heretical ideas lead those to who possessed such a mindset to being burned at the stake for their beliefs. Rafal, a child prodigy, is expected to major in theology, the most important subject at the time, at the university. One day, however, he comes across a mysterious man, and is now studying a possible "truth" in the midst of heretical thought!
