A very popular early work from Kinoko Nasu from the Tsukihime & Fate fame, the Kara no Kyoukai universe has meet great success as an animated film adaptation, novels and radio dramas. Kara no Kyoukai depicts a world where the true dark nature of the human being is being reviewed and exposed by shocking and ruthless events, and in the center of it all we have Ryougi Shiki, the true heir to the long lived, wealthy and mysterious Ryougi clan and Kokuto Mikiya, a would be normal high school student if it wouldn't be for his amazing deductive & investigative progress. The moment Kokuto and Shiki meet is the moment that the wheel of fate started to turn, however is this fate moving forward naturally on it's own accord, or is it all being orchestrated from behind the scenes by an enigmatic persona? Only time will tell.
A group of six classmates reunites at their hometown by the sea for a long-overdue get-together. They rent a leisure boat, hoping to enjoy a brief escape and savor the freedom of the open waters. However, lurking beneath the waves is a massive, man-eating shark. One by one, the young friends fall victim to the shark's relentless hunger. To make matters worse, the shark's attacks leave their boat damaged, stranding them in the vast ocean with no hope in sight. Dive into this thrilling ocean panic comic! (Source: Bookwalker, translated)
She appeared in the 70s as a response to the calls of the darkest sentiments lying in the depths of the human heart, and now she's back! After Misa Kuroi fades away among reverberations of cursed chants, what is left behind is mostly despair and madness…or not ?
A collection of eight Zombie related oneshots by several authors. Includes illustrations by Hiroe Rei (Black Lagoon), Samura Hiroaki (Blade of the Immortal) and Matsumoto Jiro (Freesia).
Yuu Watase's Masterpiece Collection #5 Includes: - Mint de Kiss Me There is a legend that if you kiss the man you like with a mint candy in your mouth, you can become one with your love. Misono is a rather superstitious girl who decides to test this out on Tohno-sensei, a young teacher she has a crush on. Unfortunately for her, she makes a mistake in the attempt to surprise him and instead kisses her fellow classmate Shindou. Of course this would be the time for the legend to work quite literally as Misono’s spirit enters Shindou’s body. - Genseika (Primeval Flower) Chiya goes to school with her friends and witnesses one of them die suddenly as a flower bursts out of him. The three friends had been together since elementary school, the death hitting Chiya and Yutaka hard. When other people begin dying from the flowers, they investigate possible reasons for such usual deaths. To her surprise, she finds answers close to home. ○ Extra: Hana no Shirube (The Seal of the Flower) - Furimuke Romance! (Turn Romance!) The hero of girls targeted by guys peeking into the locker room, Taka has quite the violent tomboy reputation. But all she wants is for some handsome guy to ask her out. A cheerful street vendor, Ryouta gives her a special ring with a heart locket pendent to hold pictures. When two photos are enclosed, romance is in the air. - Fushigi Yuugi Comic Special: Hang in There, Nakago! (Wake up, Nakago!) Involves the scenario where Fushigi Yuugi was actually done by real actors. Unfortunately, Nakago (stage name) is a lot more unconfident than the character he plays. At least his one main fan, an unnamed woman with flowers, is there to support him through his worries.
In the closed village, there was a demon who eats people and commits a woman to death…! The excursion of the childhood friends who should have been fun turns into a hellish picture by getting lost in the cursed abandoned village. Erotic horror!
This suspenseful, supernatural series tells the tale of Canon, the only student to escape from a bloody vampire attack that took the lives of her fellow classmates and turned her into one of the undead. Struggling against the terrible needs that compel her, Canon commits herself to use her powers for good and do whatever she can to avenge the deaths of her friends and her own terrible fate. Joining forces with a talking, vampire crow, she begins her quest to find Rodd, Lord of the Vampires.
Saki comes from a poor family and leads a boring life filled with constant studying. She worries about her relationship with her parents not ending well and any lingering backlash caused by their fights. One day, she happens upon a group of troublemakers who pressures her into smoking a cigarette. Somehow, her relationship with them turns out to be more pleasant than expected. The time she spends with them makes her alive and revitalized. However, this is only the beginning of her unfortunate life. A tragic suspense story about a young girl falling from grace.
It is the Middle Ages, and the remnants of mankind are plagued by paranoia and death. Spoken in fearful whispers, the word "Yoma" cuts a clear image into the minds of all: monstrous beings with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. But fear of their gruesome appetite is dwarfed by that of their ability to shapeshift and steal the memories of their last meal. Forever vulnerable to attack, humans live in unease, even among family. There are few means to kill a Yoma. The Organization, informally known as "Claymore," is humanity's only line of defense, dispatching half-human, half-Yoma female warriors to purify villages of Yoma. A lonely and dangerous existence, death for these warriors comes with each new assignment. What time is found between trying battles and long, arduous travels is spent in ever-intensifying struggle to resist their Yoma blood and maintain their humanity. Villagers, knowing of this, pay for their security reluctantly and have only loathsome regard for their protectors. Claymore follows the stoic and low-ranking member Clare in her daunting trek as she searches for personal vengeance. Along the way, she encounters many unexpected things about the world, from the camaraderie and hope held fast by her sisters-in-arms to the sinister truth behind the Claymore Organization.
A guy finds himself transported into the world of a classic horror movie. And what's more, as the 'slutty character' who dies first!?
Is this a dream? Reality? Or maybe something else…? Every night, a mysterious man who styles himself Peter Pan sneaks up in Manami's room. He takes her with him to Neverland, an eerie place created out of human desire. Neither pain nor obligation exist in this place. A fairytale land of freedom, where people live governed only by their own instincts. There, all of reality's troubles and unpleasantness may be forgotten. However… being human may not be quite as bad as it sounds.
Around 1880, the Baron de Portsnell and his family visited a seaside town. They had come from London, and they soon became well known in the city. The baron and his wife and their children, Edgar and Marybelle, exuded an elegance that was out of place in a country town. The sight of them was like looking at a perfect painting. In fact, their beauty was a magical beauty out of time. They were the "Poe's Clan", vampirnellas who consume human blood. The family rented a house on the outskirts of the city and began to search for someone to welcome into the clan, pretending to be human. Edgar was intrigued by Alan Twilight, the son of the city's foremost trader…… **Award:** Won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo in 1976, which it shared with Hagio's other serial, They Were Eleven.
Living in this new age of society, certain people are treated with high regard due to past events that occurred, so most crimes they commit are brushed aside without any consequences. Meanwhile, lurking in the shadows, the new founding fathers, known as “The Criminal Justice System,” are slowly taking control of every single country in the world.
Is that friend real? A school x friendship suspense story where a doll tests your friendship! Tomoko Mochizuki, a high school student who is bullied in class, picks up a discarded doll on her way home from school one day and takes it home. Surprisingly, the beautiful doll has a will of its own. Upon hearing the wish of its new owner, Tomoko, the doll sets out to make her classmates her "friends".
The summer they were eleven, they killed a man and buried his body in a cave. Since then, every year, one summer night has marked a ritual: a ritual never to forget, and never to betray. Five years have passed. Their sixteenth summer. The body, now a skeleton. Unraveled lies. A faceless blackmailer. The phone rings and a life is torn apart. The bones, like their crime: never rotting, never fading away. Now, a living hell begins.
One day, a hikikomori with the ability to see ghosts receives a text "Help me" from an anonymous source. Feelings of heroism coax him to venture out to the outside world. The only problem is, every human being on earth is already dead. He searches for survivors but all he finds are corpses and ghosts. He eventually stumbles upon the person that sent him the the message. It turned out to be the person responsible for him becoming a hikikomori in the first place. Unfortunately, she´s also dead, and has become a ghost. She tags along with the boy, as they brave this new world together.
In New York, behind all the hustle and bustle of the big city, Kazuya and Keith execute “requests” in order to live. No one knows about them. But what happens to people who look directly into Kazuya’s jet black eyes…?! For some reason, they start to change, little by little. The much-awaited first volume of a romantic horror between light and darkness. NOTE: Cover image is from volume one of the bunko edition.
Ichiyoshi continues to work at a chocolate factory, locking away his "best" in his heart. One Christmas night, on his way home, he finds a mysterious superball that rolls out of the darkness...
High school tough girl Aria is notorious for taking on her school's worst bullies. But punching out jerks is nothing compared to what happens when she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the demonically possessed Sakura, a guy who would as readily rip apart his own parents as seek her healing embrace. Sakura says Aria has the power to save him, but will she be able – or even willing to? Includes two stories: Road Song (Vol. 5) A young girl moves into another city to fulfill her grandparent`s dying wish. As soon as she gets there she ends up being robbed. This is how all her troubles begin. Tricky Area (Vol. 6) A family moves into a new house where they get an unpleasant surprise: the house is cursed. Read and see what happens next.
A salaryman stressed out by his day job wakes up to a ghost threatening to kill him. In pure desperation, he shouts out that he'd rather be killed by a "cute cat-girl". And then…!?
Within London dwells humanoid monsters that eat only men—Witches. In order to exterminate them, the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 formed a unit known as RED. Ruby Blood, a young genius Witch Hunter, is a member of this unit. Off duty, she’s just an ordinary, fun-loving girl who loves food, her family, and most of all, her father’s home-cooked dinners. But on Christmas Night, something happens that changes her fate entirely… An eat-or-be-eaten girl-led suspense! *Source: Manga UP! Global*
"There is a girl among you who has become a witch." On the morning she was supposed to start her first year of high school, Emma woke up inside a dimly lit cage. Imprisoned within a remote island prison mansion for a crime she doesn't remember committing, a confused Emma receives a declaration from a single owl: "You have been identified as a potential witch — one who brings harm to this world." "You will spend the rest of your life here as a prisoner." The everyday life she took for granted completely collapsed. As Emma gets to know the other girls, all fellow witch candidates, during her imprisonment, the owl eventually gathers all the prisoners and declares: "A witch trial will now commence." And so began an utterly cruel game — a process of selecting, one by one from the thirteen girls, the witch... that is, the one to be executed.
If you think this has a happy ending, you read the title.
It all started with the sound of an insect…out of the blue they became feral. Women infected with this sound became known as the "crazies" who infect other women and attack men exclusively. The resulting chaos devastated Japans populations as 70 percent perished, forcing the international community to cut off Japan from the rest of the world.