Since the beginning of time ninjas have been regarded as people with great skill and power, the Blazing NinjaMan (Shinobi Mantaro) is one such young man. There is only one problem, the era of the ninja has come and gone. How can Shinobi consider himself a ninja in modern day Japan (1990s) and survive the daily rigors of high school life.
An artist picks up a tattooed man off the streets. Though their relationship develops fruitfully, circumstances from the past conspire to tear them apart.
A young man who discovers he can have out of body experiences, which he uses at first to have fun but quickly leads him to discover that his life isn't what he thought it was, and people he knows have lives he never imagined. And then he meets this girl who has the same power and much more control...
An anthology of short horror stories by masters of the genre. Containing various works on tragedy, the grotesque and humor, making for a varied mix. Kanako Inuki Ch. 1 - Your Story Madoka Kawaguchi Ch. 2 - Too Scared to Tell You Madoka Kawaguchi Ch. 3 - Wall Woman Yoshimi Seki Ch. 4 - My Funeral Kaoru Ohashi Ch. 5 - Falling Down Kei Arita Ch. 6 - Hiyamugi Piyoko Marui Ch. 7 - Taro’s Train Osada Not Ch. 8 - The Days of the Carrot and Stick Takuya Hirono Ch. 9 - Sullivan’s Syndrome (from Shoujo Friend: Suspense & Horror September of 1995) Kuro Ch. 10 - The Midnight Assemblies Keiko Hirata Ch. 11 - The Human-Face Tumor I Love Tomomi Sanjo Ch. 12 - In the Cavern Ichiro HIrai Ch. 13 - Book Browsers Yumeji Tanima Ch. 14 - Blood Covered Snowman
There is a rumor going around about a person called the "Contract Killer." If you want someone killed, the Contract Killer will kill that person for free - if you know how to contact the Contract Killer. Nashi is a girl that's immortal. She wants to die but is unable to. The only thing she loves in this world is a girl named Minamo, who she lives with. Minamo may look like a girl in her late teens, but she's really only 9 years old. Not only that, Minamo has a limited life span, and Nashi doesn't want to lose her. So in order to extend Minamo's life, she secretly kills people that someone else wants dead, for free. As a reward, she recieves "time" from the Time Merchant, which she then gives to Minamo to extend her life.
Balance Policy is about Masaomi, a young boy who is trying to restore his friendship with Kenji-kun, a boy who has been changed in an unspecified manner into a girl with newest science technology in order to help maintain the human population after some kind of fertility failure worldwide resulting in the birth of few girl babies. From TS Anthology Change H!
What if you could become young again? What will this young teacher do when this spirit offers her the ability to become a child again and live her love with her young pupil? What must she sacrifice to feel love for the very first time? [Sequel to Bokura no Fushidara]
Misa Kuroi, a beautiful girl who manipulates black magic. When the spell of "Eko Eko Azarak" resounds, something happens in the city and in the classroom... The gold standard of occult mysteries is finally here!
By all appearances, Sakura and her friends are normal, albeit sheltered junior high school girls who enjoy talking about love and walking home from school together. However, they also happen to inhabit a strange and supernatural world populated by mysterious, gigantic beings and unusual plant and animal life. Amid their peaceful lives, Sakura becomes very interested in something only alluded to exist in an old book: dicks.
Yachi Haruaki is a high school boy. He is naturally resistant to curse and his father Honatsu sends him cursed instruments called "Worse" to let him break the curse. One day, Haruaki receives a black cube from Honatsu. At the night, he encounters a naked silver haired girl stealing rice crackers. She is the human-form of the black cube, an instrument of torture called "Fear in Cube". Haruaki and the girl 'Fear' fight together against other 'Worse' instruments and their owners using Fear's 32 mechanisms of torture. [See AnimeNewsNetwork for the anime.](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=12992)
When his love stricken brother commits suicide in his youth, the footsteps left behind lead him to a detective. Because of the unusual scent of the cigarette the neighbor smokes, a maze of suspicion and doubt are created that reach the courts. A story of a painter living in isolation on the outskirts of a town, and a young man who becomes entranced with a secret painting by his grandfather. Know at the end you cannot turn back when the enigma that is love calls. Three thrilling love stories.
After his mother deserted them, senior high school student, Reo was living together with his mother's stern ex-lover, the very imposing uncle Shuuji. But 2 months ago, as he dropped by his home on his way with a friend one evening, an event occurred that changed their relationship forever. Since the day his uncle forcibly embraced him, the man demands his body time and again and Reo who has been suffering ever since seeks his close friend Kenta's advice but… Contains another short story: Pretty After ~ After
A collection of 12 short stories, including: She, her, her, hers: by Otosaki Tsubaki Sakuya is shaken up by her parents' divorce and is worried that her relationship won't last forever either. Her lover, whose parents are also divorced, understands her feelings and tries to reassure her. Endless Narcissus: by Otosaki Tsubaki The protagonist wants someone who will love her and her alone, so she gets a clone of herself. Hidden Meaning: by Itou Chika A writer and an editor who are lovers. The writer keeps basing characters on her lover, and the editor wants her to stop because she's afraid that people at work will find out about their relationship. Maintenance: by Itou Chika A woman fantasizes about the mechanic who works next door to her office building. These fantasies involve being the car the mechanic is fixing.
Macabre manga master Junji Ito applys his singularly anxious touch to a manga adaptation based on No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku in the original Japanese), a classic of modern Japanese literature written by Osamu Dazai. The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
Ikuru is a boy who doesn't have long to live. Grown up question the purpose of his life and the reason for his death, he's grown up constantly confused and lonely. Now, learning that he hasn't long to live, he requests that a special "girl" called a AGH-RMS be given to him. These people are genetically made so that they help heal and ease the mental burdens of someone who hasn't long to live. This manga is cute, sad and ultimately a story about life , death and humanity. --- **Notes:** - Scanlators used korean raws for the translations up to chapter 17. - Scanaltors used tankōbon for translations. There are two Aizōban that contains extra material.
Meet Mon, a violent killer faithful only to his own eruptive desires, and his timid companion Toshi, a demolition-devil with a fanatical thirst for destruction. Their killing-spree across Japan is destined to intersect the path of the enormous "Higumadon," a mysterious beast on a Godzilla-like rampage from Hokkaido to Tokyo.
A collection of short stories. 1. The Moonlight One midwinter night, some female prostitutes picked up a child, Kiyohito, in the red light district. He is forced to take clients at age 14; and in two years, he has become the moneymaker of the shop. Resigned to his fate Kiyohito hides his feelings of love from his physician, the object of his affections. 2. Homo Rangers Regiment 3. Hidden Sin 4. Jugurino Juguno 5. Mirage
Takezou, wearing rose perfumes belonging to his brother's wife, sneaks into Shinobu's bedroom. Invisible to Shinobu, he caresses his brother's body.
In order to conceal that he’s a werewolf, Coyote avoids getting too involved with humans. But Marleen, a pianist at a bar he frequents, is interested in him and just won’t take no for an answer. When Coyote unexpectedly goes into heat for the first time, Marleen catches him while he’s unable to maintain his human form and offers up a tempting invitation. Coyote wants to resist, but can he?
Plot revolves around high school freshman Shingo Susa as he is invited by his crush from middle school Sayuri Shiroyuki to the school's supernatural club. Over the course of the series Susa begins to gain supernatural powers, something that prodigy Rei Uryu, attempts to awaken to bring out the psychic giant, Susano Oh to destroy humanity and establish a new world order. --- - **Won the 4th Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 1980**
Mihama Academy - on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Whatever the circumstances behind its establishment, Mihama Academy is at present home to five female students, all with their own reasons for "enrollment." For better or worse, each girl has established a routine obliging of her current situation; life moves at an idle, yet accommodating pace within the walls of Mihama. Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome? Based on the visual novel of the same name by Front Wing.
An abusive father, an indifferent brother, a mother forced to endure it all, and her, Kinomiya Aya, a girl living in a family that's fallen apart. One day she makes a wish: "I don't want to be here…", and finds herself with the ability to turn invisible. This is the story of how one girl takes back her own pain and her chance at a normal life.
Keyman is the resident hero of Lockville City, a place inhabited by both humans and animal people. In the years since his debut as a hero, crime has decreased significantly, which does not look all that great for the local police force. But one day, after he catches yet another group of criminals, Keyman is mysteriously murdered. Detective Alex and his police force are investigating the murder, and one of their major clues is the words "Dr. Necro," which were carved onto Keyman's body after his death. Their case gets even stranger when Alex unexpectedly meets "Dr. Necro," who appears to be a young girl, in a bar. What monster could be behind the murder of Keyman, and what does the childlike Dr. Necro have to do with it all?
In this new spinoff of the hit manga Cells at Work!, a newbie Red Blood Cell is one of 37 trillion working to keep this body running. But something’s wrong! Stress hormones keep yelling at him to go faster. The blood vessels are crusted over with cholesterol. Ulcers, fatty liver, trouble (ahem) downstairs … It’s hard for a cell to keep working when every day is a CODE BLACK! The manga and anime Cells at Work! showed you what happens when a young, healthy body gets in trouble … but what if the body wasn’t so young, and was never very healthy? This new take stars a fresh-faced Red Blood Cell and his friend, the buxom White Blood Cell, as they struggle to keep themselves and their world together through alcoholism, smoking, erectile dysfunction, athlete’s foot, gout … it’s literal body horror! Whoever this guy is, he’s lucky his cells can’t go on strike! --- **Links:** - [Official Twitter](https://twitter.com/cellsatworkbla1) - [Manga Artist's Twitter](https://twitter.com/hatsuyoshiya) - [Official Anime](https://saibou-black.com/)