From Mangaupdates: This is the story of a girl who works as a performer at sake houses, but who has a unique ability. She has a tattoo of an eye on her hand which endows her with the ability of "second sight." Though this often comes in handy, it also complicates her life. She is constantly getting involved in situations with various supernatural creatures, such as animal spirits, kappas, and more.
A collection of the best stories illustrated by Amagappa Shoujogun, a rising star in the world of horror manga.
Blood Night Street is a town where vampires seeking blood and humans seeking blood buyers gather. Su Tie, a human who has been branded as an "abolished blood", works for the Blood Control Bureau, an organisation that controls the illegal activities of vampires. One day, Su-Tetsu meets a mysterious vampire, Hyakutori, who claims to be a gastronomist in the city. A battle suspense of courtship and redemption, spun by a destiny etched in blood, begins.
(from mangaupdates): Tyrian’s father, a notorious womanizer, decides to remarry, and his victim is a sickeningly sweet and innocent girl named Juliet. But the girl is kidnapped off of Tyrian’s ship, first by pirates and then by more pirates in the form of our dashing Luminous Red Benedict. The neatly woven threads of conspiracy which have been supporting Tyrian’s life begin to unravel, and he flees to Spain at last. Captain Red redoubles his pursuit. Conflict between Tyrian Persimmon (ancestor of one Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach) and Luminous Red Benedict (AKA, pirate ancestor of one Dorian Red Gloria).
After her grandfather's death, Mikura chose to continue their island express courier service. With her seaplane and her adventurous cat, Endeavor, she lives life as she chooses. Soon Mikura becomes very interested in a mysterious island that seems to move around, according to a local legend. After some extensive effort to determine the island's whereabouts, she manages to get a brief glimpse of it from the sky. Now that she knows it's real, she's determined to find the island again, no matter what it takes. ___ The mangaka stopped working on it. There is no information if he will resume his work.
The enormous cave system, known as the Abyss, is the last unexplored place in the world. Nobody knows how deep down goes this titanic pit, inhabited by strange and wondrous creatures and full of mysterious ancient relics which purpose in unknown to modern man. Generations of bold adventurers have been drawn by the cryptic depths of the Abyss. In course of time those brave enough to explore the dangerous pit came to be known as "Delvers." In Orth, the town at the edge of the Abyss, there lives a little orphan named Riko, who dreams of becoming as great a delver as her mother was and solving the great mystery of the pit. One day, exploring the murky depths, she stumbles upon a little boy who turns out to be a robot…
The story follows Tohno Shiki, a teenage boy who, after a near-fatal accident in his childhood, gained the mysterious power to perceive lines covering everything around him. When he cuts along these lines, whatever it was immediately falls apart with a clean cut; in other words, killing it. He would have quickly gone insane from living in a world that could fall apart so easily, had it not been for a wandering self-proclaimed magician who gave him a pair of glasses that blocked his unnatural perception when worn. Soon afterwards, he was disinherited from his family and sent to live with some relatives. For eight years he lived a normal life, hiding his special eyes, until one day he receives a letter inviting him to come back home. Shiki suddenly becomes caught up in a strange and life-threatening series of events, ones that are somehow linked to his childhood accident and a forgotten past… Adaptation of the visual novel Tsukihime by Type-Moon.
In the world of magic, there lived a kind-hearted prince, Linkenel. Prince Linkenel was born with the most powerful magical power in history. His magical power was so powerful that the king had to seal that power within his body from the time he was an infant, not releasing it until the day he comes of age. On July 1024, on Linkenel’s coming-of-age ceremony, Rieswinn, the God of Water, appeared at the ceremony and attempted to abduct the prince in order to claim Linkenel’s power as his own. As Rieswinn casts his water magic in the hall, drowning everyone within it, to spare the king’s and queen’s lives, Linkenel agreed to join with Rieswinn. As they were about to depart, one of Linkenel’s best companion, a puppy named Lyle, tried to intervene. As Linkenel begged Rieswinn to keep the pup by his side, Rieswinn brutally slaughtered the puppy claiming Linkenel is now his and should not be swayed by anything else. Shifting to the modern world, Kanba Yoichi, the protagonist, is a high schooler who has been having dreams about Prince Linkenel, who he refers to as his master, since the passing of his mother. However, his dream has always been the same and ends exactly at the same location (where Lyle was slaughtered and Linkenel was taken away) every time for the past six years. Longing to save his “master,” he stumbles across a fortune teller, who gives him a magical coin to “let him see the sequel of the dream he has been having.” After trying to place the coin under his pillow, Yoichi finds himself in the magical world and, there, he meets with his master. And thus, the magical story of the two begins.
(from ebookjapan) Late 19th century London: a 10-year-old girl, Crystal "Christie" Margaret Hope, happens to be the famous detective Sherlock Holmes's niece. Armed with the deductive powers inherited from Holmes and a voracious curiosity, Christie takes on a variety of difficult cases. One day, someone sneaks into Whitehall and steals expensive jewelry. After overhearing an outline of the case by chance, she deduces in just three minutes what Holmes' partner Watson took three hours to find out and then confronts the culprit directly...! **Curator Note** While first volumes arcs and chapters are direct adaptations from Conan Doyle's novels and short stories last two volumes are original Shintani scripts taking some inspiration from titles or Watson/Doyle's hints to unpublished tales, The Giant Rat of Sumatra being the most well-known example
*Reads from Left-to-Right* (from ebookjapan): Unicorns are legendary animals that bring happiness to those who have an honest heart. The unicorn child Unico, who lives with a young girl Psyche, is driven out of the mythical land by the trickery of Venus, the goddess of beauty. Wandering through time and space, Unico repeatedly encounters and parts with various people... A fancy fairy tale that will light a warm fire in your heart! --- **Volumes 285 and 286 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Jinsei Nagai, aka "Bare-Knuckles Jinsei". Born in a dumpster, raised in an orphanage, living as a yakuza, he is tough enough that he fights all his fights bare-handed, and is covered with countless knife and bullet scars from his battles. But his life changes when he saves the five-year-old Ayumi, daughter of the new police chief, Enjoji Masayoshi, and befriends their family. For the first time in his life, Jinsei feels like he's found a family of his own, and decides to start his life over, but his past and his ties to the yakuza keep getting in the way.
In a world revolving around "stones," a mineral craftsman, Akeboshi, encounters a boy living in an underground settlement whose left leg has been petrified solid and is in search of a man with three piercings. What secrets does the boy hold…? The polishing and refining master and student's journey to rescue his family begins!
Pre-serialization oneshot of Hiiragi-san Chi no Kyuuketsu Jijou.
Durarara!! is about a number of unusual people who gather in Ikebukuro, Tokyo— a youth who yearns for an un-mundane life, a hoodlum, a stalking rough-girl, a young man who deals in information ‘for fun’, a black-market doctor, a high-schooler obsessed with magic, as well as a ‘headless rider’ riding a pitch black bike. These unusual people begin a series of abnormal stories that never fail to create headaches. But, although their personalities are all twisted— they still talk about love. Adapted from the light novel series of the same name. ___ **Alt Official Raw:** [Manga UP!](https://www.manga-up.com/titles/492) **Official English Volumes:** [Yen Press](https://yenpress.com/series/durarara)
Han Chaeah, a taxi driver, once saw her church acquaintance Park Yoonsoo walking through the city streets with a girl, but she had no idea that this would lead to the burial of evidence of murder, persecution, and a complete change in her daily lifestyle. --- Chae-a Han and Yunsu Park may be perfect angels at church, but Chae-a is really a foul-mouthed ex-convict, and Yunsu is… a vampire? When Yunsu blackmails Chae-a with a murder she didn’t commit, she begins searching for ways to escape the situation until the perfect opportunity presents itself. With Yunsu’s life now at her mercy, the two begin a life-or-death game of cat and mouse, only to find themselves falling deeper and deeper into each other’s traps... --- **Original Webtoon:** [Naver Series](https://series.naver.com/comic/detail.series?productNo=4419090), [Naver Webtoon](https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=732988) **Official Translations:** * [English](https://www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/trapped/list?title_no=4635) * [Chinese (Traditional) / 漢語](https://www.webtoons.com/zh-hant/drama/trap/list?title_no=1768) * [Indonesian / Bahasa Indonesia](https://www.webtoons.com/id/thriller/trapped/list?title_no=3609)
Eight years ago, a girl went missing while playing hide-and-seek in the forest. Starting around then, instances of 'labyrinths' started spawning in random places, which led to an increasing amount of missing people. Kaori was one of them, when she was never found after the game of hide-and-seek she played with Shuhei. Now, eight years later, Shuhei still feels guilty for the loss of Kaori. He feels as though he, too, should be dragged into these 'labyrinths' in the search for his long lost friend. Now, he found an opening into the labyrinth. In it, he begins his search for the truth behind this phenomenon!
Violence, splattering blood, homoeroticism, the decadent beauty of the Grand Guignol-esque erotic grotesque… this a collection of dark and dangerous short stories by the master of aesthetic horror, Osada Not. 1 • Moujuu (Horror M: Issue from 1994) 2 • Kaki Goori (Shoujo Friend Suspense & Horror: July 1994) 3 • D-Zaka Chuugaku Shounen Tantei-Bu (Horror M: August 1994) 4 • Mercuro Jigoku (Horror M: October 1994) 5 • 10-En no Shounen (Shoujo Friend Suspense & Horror: January 1995) 6 • Getsurei 15 • Horo Bino… (Horror M: December 1994 *Remake of a 1988 oneshot) 7 • Sasurai no Runna (Suspiria: Feburary 1995) 8 • Yoru no Dobutsuen (Horror M: April 1995) 9 • Shinkyouku (Horror M: October 1995) 10 • Afterword
Oogimi Tsumugi is completely ignored at school because his parents are murderers and he has not talked to anyone in school for months. Then one day, a transfer student, Konohata Maya starts a conversation with him, but there's something eerie about her. She understands why Tsumugi is being ignored, but she seems to be even more interested after learning about his situation. What does Maya want with him and more importantly, what is she?
Akechi Ran, an office lady in her 30s who had always dreamed of an engagement ring and a wonderful marriage, lost both her dreams and her man after her fiancé betrayed her. While drinking and complaining with her best friends, Homura and Kei, with whom she spent her youth on the softball team in their all-girls school days, they are shocked by the reality that 10 years have passed since graduating high school and none of their dreams have come true. They then find out that Homura only has one year left to live. To make Homura's dream come true, the three of them band together, live together, quit their jobs, and open a detective agency in Asakusa. She's lost her job, her man, and her dreams, but she has two best friends! Will they be able to turn their lives around?
The Kafkaesque autobiography of a diplomat who compares himself to Grigori Rasputin and what happens after he gets caught up in a political purge during the early 2000s. A legal thriller with a dash of geopolitics. Based on "Kokka no Wana (Trap of the State)", the autobiography of ex-diplomat and political writer Sato Masaru.
By day, Kusakabe Maron is an ordinary high school girl with more than her share of problems. But by night, she is Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, the reincarnation of Jeanne d'Arc, also known as Joan of Arc. Her mission: to hunt down demon-possessed paintings and exorcise the evil spirits! Too bad accomplishing this mission puts her into conflict with the authorities, who view her as a mysterious stranger vandalizing works of art. With only the help of angel-in-training Finn, she must survive high school during the day and battle evil by night! [Official English](https://www.viz.com/phantom-thief-jeanne)
The Fierce Demons pride themselves as being the reigning delinquent gang of Mikado High School, but their name lets on much more, as they are being influenced by strange occult forces. Dan Hayato, a mysterious transfer student with an unknown past, arrives at the school with a hidden agenda. With his power to separate his soul from his body, what does he know about the motives of the Fierce Demons and what events will lead to the destruction of the school?