The story could basically be split into two halves. The main story is about Tamai Shiina, who is an energetic middle-school teenage girl. She visits her grandparent's over the summer where she runs into a very strange creature. Shiina has had lots of strange dreams as of late and also when she was younger, and this strange creature is somewhat related to her visions. She names the small cuddly star-shaped creature, Hoshimaru. Little did she know that this cuddly creature is really part of herself. After her vacation, Shiina goes back to her home, living with her father. She runs into other children with similar creatures the following days. However, these children have developed their creatures, and they have complete control over them. They mostly use these creatures for their own destructive pleasure and not for good. There is a group of teenagers that all have these strange creatures, and they plan to basically conquer the world, creating a utopia of whatever they desire. Will they succeed? Will Shiina ever develop Hoshimaru?

A collection of short stories by the author of Ushio and Tora. 1. **The Puppet Princess** (Karakuri no Kimi), 1994 Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet warriors to seek revenge. She can manipulate these to battle the strongest of warriors, however manipulating the puppets leaves her own self vulnerable to direct attacks, so she seeks a ninja warrior named Manajiri to aid and protect her in her quest. (Source: ANN) 2. **Song of the Open Palm** (Tenohira no Uta), 1994 A legendary practitioner of the Xing Yi Quan style is jailed for the murder of another martial artist. From his cell, he tells his jailer of the incidents leading up to the fight, and hears disturbing news about the successor to the other man's doujo. 3. **Strange Ferry Tale** (Renrakusen Kitan), 1988 A teenage runaway meets a pair of siblings on a ferry. The brother carries an old sword and claims to be haunted by a demon that has cursed their clan for hundreds of years. 4. **To the Merry-Go-Round!** (Merry-Go-Round e!), 1988 A teenage karateka meets a little girl who asks him to take her to a merry-go-round. Her older brother and the police are in hot pursuit, but for some reason she insists on seeing it today. 5-6. **Shall We Go Out Walking by Night?** (Yoru ni Sanpo shinai ka ne), 1993 A detective with a mysterious past is called in to investigate a series of strange murders. When he visits the scene of the crime by night, he meets a young woman out walking alone, hoping to cure her fear of the darkness by "confronting the night." --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/ufujitakazuhiro?lang=ja)

An anthology of 4 early horror stories by Kanako Inuki. Originally published in Shoujo Friend/Fresh Friend magazines.

Due to the invasion of Disas—enigmatic creatures of soil from the land of the dead—mankind, who was on the verge of crisis, was saved by the efforts of magical girls who had obtained a mysterious magical power... Three years later, new incidents suddenly occur, tearing apart the normalcy of the girls who had each returned to their normal lives. The saviours of humanity, those magical girls called "The Magical Five" now live each day fighting for their lives, even as they are trifled with by fate...

7 scary stories by Inuki Kanako (4.1 and 4.2 were adapted into a movie, check Gokiburi no Ie's page for more info) 1- Ushirogami: 2- Psycho Box: 3- Children, Don't Play with Ghosts!: The mangaka, Kanako Inuki, tells some of her own scary experiences with ghost stories in childhood. 4- Women of the Dark (Kurayami no Onna-tachi) 4.1- Room 1: Woman that Loves Cooking 4.2- Room 2: Women in the Trash Dumping Area 4.3- Room 3: 117th Woman 5- The House of Cockroaches: A rich woman has a deathly fear of cockroaches which leads to... 6- Nightmare Door: A girl experiences strange and horrifying nightmares. 7- 100 Ghost Stories

Housen is an Edo period erotic painter, who stumbles into a murder mystery involving women hooking up with one of his patrons. With the help of Tsubaki, a mysterious girl he runs into on the street who seems to know a lot about him and is an artist herself, they start unraveling mysteries involving sex, murder, and occasionally the occult…

Vampires exist. It is the duty of Hellsing, an organization sponsored by the British government, to hide that frightening fact and protect the blissfully unaware populace. Along with its own personal army, Hellsing also has a few secret weapons. Alucard, an incredibly powerful vampire, has been controlled by Hellsing for years. Although he dislikes being a servant to the Hellsing family, he certainly enjoys his job as Hellsing's vampire exterminator. Seras is a fledgling vampire and a former police woman. Although reluctant to embrace her new self, she is still a valuable member of the organisation. Integra Hellsing, the current leader, is usually fully capable of fulfilling her duty, but lately, vampire activity has been on the rise. Unfortunately, the cause is more alarming than anything she could have imagined. A group long thought dead has been plotting in secret since their apparent destruction over 50 years ago. Plotting to plunge England, and perhaps the entire world, into war. ---

Kaiki Ningyou-kan's first appearance was in Shoujo Friend Zoukan: Suspense & Horror 01/1992 This volume collect 6 horror stories by Kanako inuki, the first 4 all being about dolls. - **Playing with Dolls** - O Ningyou Asobi (お人形遊び) - **Mannequin** - (マネキン) - **Blue Eyed Marie** - Aoi me no Mari (青い目のマリー) - **Ventriloquist's Love** - Fukuwajutsushi to Koi (腹話術師と恋) - **Ritual** - Gikishi (儀式) Shoujo Friend Zoukan: Suspense & Horror 01/1991 - **I Can Fulfill Your Love Wishes** - Koi no Negai Kanaemasu (恋の願いかなえます) Shoujo Friend 06/1990

Kagome is a modern Japanese high-school girl. Never the type to believe in myths and legends, her world view dramatically changes when, one day, she's pulled out of her own time and into another! There, in Japan's ancient past, Kagome discovers more than a few of those dusty old legends are true, and that her destiny is linked to one legendary creature in particular–the dog-like half-demon called Inuyasha! That same trick of fate also ties them both to the Shikon Jewel, or "Jewel of Four Souls." But demons beware…the smallest shard of the Shikon Jewel can give the user unimaginable power. --- Official Release: - English release by [Viz Media](https://www.viz.com/inuyasha) - Indonesian release by Elex Media --- - **Won the 47th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 2002**

Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story "The Book of Human Insects." The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy Award, before which she was the lead actress of an established theatrical troupe. Yet, while the media go abuzz, the woman in the limelight slips away from the metropolis; what the sole paparazzo who manages to trail her to an abandoned country house witnesses is an immobile figure of an old woman and the star herself, naked, in a reverie as bizarre as it is erotic! --- **Volumes 271 and 272 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

The city of Tokyo is plagued by a deadly phenomenon: spontaneous human combustion! Luckily, a special team is there to quench the inferno: The Fire Force! The fire soldiers at Special Fire Cathedral 8 are about to get a unique addition. Enter Shinra, a boy who possesses the power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous “devil’s footprints” (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can Shinra and his colleagues discover the source of this strange epidemic before the city burns to ashes?

The protagonist is an ordinary soldier from an empire at war who gets used as a guinea pig for genetic engineering experiments, turned into a monster and put into cryosleep. 200 years later he wakes up in a sword and sorcery world. The empire is gone and he has to survive alone in the body of a monster whom everybody wants to kill on sight. Meanwhile he encounters various pretty ladies (and elves) in need of rescue.

Extra-terrestrial life known as Trench Walkers reveal themselves, emerging from the Antarctic, and walking on the sea floor. Their goal is to terraform the Earth to their liking, which involves raising the sea level by 70 meters, thus rendering Tokyo and many other population centers uninhabitable. They have also begun to change Earth's surface water into what they call Nectar, the "divine water." Those who are incompatible with Nectar have a high chance of death when imbibing it. However, there are girls who are found to be compatible with Nectar, and they are recruited to be marines in a fight against the Trench Walkers, boarding ships to do battle in a new deep sea front line. Hiro Todoroki, having received a message from her deceased sister, searches for the strongest Marine, Kiriri Kakuba, and, despite her doubts, decides to join the Masakado Girls' Academy Submarine Fleet—!?

Katou Narumi (19) suffers from Zonapha Syndrome, a rare ailment that stops his breathing unless he makes people laugh. He's been forced to abandon his training in Chinese kenpo and return to Japan, where he now works as a clown. The only problem: he's not very funny. One day he meets Saiga Masaru (11), the recent inheritor of a huge fortune, who gives him the first laugh he's gotten all day. When he realizes Masaru is being pursued by assassins, he steps in to protect the boy, only to discover that instead of conventional weapons, the assassins wield huge, eerie puppets. They soon encounter the mysterious Shirogane (age unknown), who controls a puppet of her own, and claims she was sent from France by Masaru's late grandfather to protect him. Their paths intertwine and diverge, splitting into two stories: Karakuri and Circus, puppets and performers, tears and laughter. The strange circus of living dolls that spreads Zonapha Syndrome, the human puppets known collectively as the Shirogane, and the puppeteers whose undying grudge set in motion both sides of this performance.

Aotsuki Ushio's family maintains a Shinto temple in Japan, where 500 years ago, his samurai ancestor battled a demon to a standstill, and eventually trapped him against a rock using a blessed spear called the "Beast Spear". While cleaning out the temple storage, Ushio accidentally unseals the chamber the demon, later named Tora by Ushio, was trapped in. Initially, Ushio wisely refuses to remove the spear pinning the monster down, as Tora unwisely makes the strategic blunder of mentioning that the first thing he would do upon being freed would be to devour Ushio; but Tora's unsealed presence attracts various demons to the premises, and Ushio is forced to free Tora in exchange for his help. The two later realize that they make a perfect team, despite the latter's reservations to eating the former. - **Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 1992** - **Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 1997** --- **Officially Published:** - In Italian by [Star Comics](https://starcomics.com/testate-fumetti/ushio-e-tora-perfect-edition) --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/ufujitakazuhiro?lang=ja) - [1992 OVAs on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=237) - [Anime Season 1 on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16754) - [Anime Season 2 on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=17232)

A collection of early one-shots. 1. Hell Mother (ヘル・マザー) 2. House (ハウス) 3. Kagami yo Kagami (鏡よ鏡; Mirror Mirror) 4. Kowai Yume (こわい夢; Nightmare) 5. Fusuma (襖; Half-Open Door/Sliding Door)

"There's nothing in this world that money can't buy!" Denko got the "face" of Sayuri, the most beautiful girl in school, for a lot of money. WIth her beautiful face, she even stole Sayuri's lover...!? Super SHOCKING!! Maruinu's very scary story.

A record-breaking auction price of 200 million yen. On a small, isolated island flourishing through the breeding of Koi... lies a hidden truth.

3 Stories (part 1 and 3 of chapter 1 and chapter 3) here were adapted into a movie called Bourei no Sumu Ie ~Kanako Inuki Kyoufu WORLD~ (亡霊の棲む家～犬木加奈子恐怖world～) 1. Kurayami no Onnatachi (*暗闇の女たち* Women of the Darkness) 3 stories about women living normal lives in their apartments, but eventually everything starts going wrong. 2. Gokiburi no Ie (*ゴキブリの家* The House of Cockroaches) A high-class woman with a phobia of cockroaches faces a bizarre infestation... 3. Kao no nai Onna (*顔のない女* Faceless Woman) A woman's neighbor starts trying to take her identity and eventually take over her life... 4. Jukai Kitan (*樹海奇譚* Strange Tale of the Sea of Trees) A suicidal man enters the infamous Aokigahara forest, there he finds the corpse of a beautiful woman, and decides to take photos of it... 5. Rei to Asobu na Kodomotachi!! (*霊と遊ぶな 子供たち!!* Children, Don't Play with Ghosts!! Kanako Inuki tells her own scary stories from life. Features ghost stalkers, out of body experiences and haunted apartments. 6. Akumu no Tobira (*悪夢の扉* Door of Nightmares) Two girls end up stuck in twisted fairytale-esque nightmares...

Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' lives (as long as they have the money for it), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in. Out of a total of 243 chapters chapter 113.5: 'U-18 Knew' was released in a Weekly Shonen Champion special issue and thos it's unnumbered. Also, 11 chapters were not included in the Vertical English release, out of those 11 chapters: 3 were exclusively Included in the hardcover editions of volumes 1-3, and 5 of them are labeled as [Sealed](http://tezukainenglish.com/wp/?page_id=573) meaning they have been excluded from almost every collected release because they were controversial or Osamu wasn't happy with them. --- - **Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 1977, which it shared with Tezuka's other serial, Three-Eyed One** - **Won the 4th Japan Cartoonists Association Special Excellence Award in 1975** --- **Volumes 151-168, 366 and 367, 370 and 371 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works** --- ### Links * alternative official raw: [Kodansha](https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/title?code=1000005202) * new edition: [Akita Shoten](https://www.akitashoten.co.jp/series/1828) * complete edition: [Fukkan](https://www.fukkan.com/fk/CartSearchDetail?i_no=68320833)

Lambert, one of the great generals from Regios kingdom, was suspected of planning a rebellion against his lord at the end of unification war, and he died an unnatural death. Two hundred years later, when the era had changed and Regios kingdom had entered its peaceful era, he accidentally revived as a demon called Undead Knight… Lambert, whose entire body was wrapped in a flashy Demon Metal[Organ], set out on a journey to punish the wrongdoers while enjoying the peaceful sight of Regios kingdom. But… This peaceful era was basically an easy mode for Lambert, the greatest general of the chaotic era.

After the end of the third Grail War, a group of magi separate from the London based Mage Association decided that they would copy the ritual. They only managed to copy part of the ritual, which lead to the loss of the Saber class and further loss of the definition of a "Hero." The magi eventually infiltrated the U.S. Government and for two hundred years manipulated events in Snowfield, California to replicate the Sacred Land needed to generate a Grail.

Player Name: Yuki Age: 17 Profession: Death Games A huge amount of money, with lives on the line. Participants? Beautiful girls only. A deadly showbiz where people die. These death games are her calling and her reason to live. For some reason she knows: This is where she belongs. Elegant. Ruthless. Cutting through the dazzling gauntlet of death. Playfully. Desperately. Aiming for the unprecedented "99 Consecutive Wins"!

“Kunugi Renya-san, you have passed away!” After passing away at the age of 94, Kunugi Renya is asked by a girl who seems like god to live a second life in another world. How can he enjoy his new life when the mission he's given is lame—!? ___ **Character Designer:** [Kabocha](https://mangadex.org/author/b37f7b35-686a-43cf-ae64-f046b81c6adf) **Additional Links:** - [Deleted Official Raw Web Novel](https://ncode.syosetu.com/n6332bx/)