When Keiichi Maebara moved to the small village of Hinamizawa, he did not expect to make friends so quickly. Now Keiichi's days are spent having fun and playing games with his new companions, and his life couldn't be better. However, one day he sees one of his friends, the tomboyish Mion Sonozaki, working at a maid café. Deciding to tease her about it, his initial joking quickly turns to shock as the girl reveals that she is actually Mion's twin sister, Shion. As luck would have it, both girls want to spend the annual Cotton Drifting Festival by Keiichi's side. But when Shion breaks the town's sacred rules and sneaks into a sealed shrine during the festival, dragging Keiichi along with her, things take a turn for the worse. Now, Keiichi and Shion find themselves in fear of being spirited away due to their mistake and must find a way to atone before it is too late. The story of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is divided into a total of eight chapters: four "Question" arcs and four "Answer" arcs. Each chapter keeps the same main characters, but ends in a different way. However, each chapter gives valuable answers, hints, and clues to the previous one, while at the same time bringing forth even more mysteries. The question arcs are: 1. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Onikakushi-hen 2. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Watanagashi-hen 3. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Tatarigoroshi-hen 4. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Himatsubushi-hen The answer arcs are: 5. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Meakashi-hen 6. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Tsumihoroboshi-hen 7. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Minagoroshi-hen 8. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Matsuribayashi-hen The side story arcs are: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Onisarashi-hen Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Yoigoshi-hen Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Utsutsukowashi-hen Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Hirukowashi-hen Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Kokoroiyashi-hen Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Kataribanashi-hen Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei - Saikoroshi-hen Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan

The eternal darkness which people call “night”. Long long ago, there was an opposite to this “night”. Something far brighter than the light of their lamps, the light of hope for humanity. Seek out the forgotten “morning”.

Part of the Umineko When They Cry franchise. This side-story takes place outside the main story.<br><br>The story expands on the use of the Purple Declaration introduced by Bernkastel in Twilight of the Golden Witch. The Red Truth still applies in this game even though there are lesser than usual games. Knox's rules are stated in red to show that it is valid in this game.

Location: London; time: near-future. John Watson, a depressed and unemployed man, receives an invitation to become a certain "unusual person's" flatmate. He soon finds out that this unusual person is an android named Sherlock Holmes.

“R“ or rather Room 402 is the room where our illustrious female main character lives. One day which seems to be by mere coincidence her fate intertwines with that of Sasamoto, a savvy man who seems to be down in the dumps. That is until he picks up a trinket which fell from her nether regions. Prepare yourself for a story of sexual psychological horror as Sasamoto enters into a brave new world.

A dark chronicle of intrigue and betrayal set in the royal palace of a crumbling kingdom. A chronicle that will make you laugh the second before dropping you into a pit of despair. A chronicle without pretense, a strike straight to the heart.

Four grown demons (Enma, Yukihime, Kapaeru, and Grandpa Chapeauji) are part of a Yokai-Patrol searching for demons that have escaped from Hell into the human world. They form the group known as the Enma Detective Agency as a cover for their activities.

A collection of short stories:<br><br>1. One Day In The Life of Ivan Dejavu - Business Jump (Shueisha) 1986 March<br>2. Fangs of the Sea - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1979 January 25th Extra Edition<br>3. Emperor of Winter - Young Magazine (Kodansha) 1996 July<br>4. Alice (Part 1) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 August<br>5. Alice (Part 2) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 September<br>6. Alice (Part 3) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 October<br>7. Hunters at Dawn - Weekly Shonen Jump (Shueisha) 1976 Issue 28<br>8. Lightning Strike - Monthly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1975 August<br>9. A Tale of Seven Cities, Battle of Pell Strait, Extra Chapter - Tanaka Yoshiki Doku-hon (Hayakawa Shobo), 1994 September 30th

The key to save the world is in the primeval period!? Connecting the present and the past. Burning passion opens up the future!! A primeval survival mystery that passes through time and civilization!!

From MangaHelpers: While looking for a ghost that helped him as a child, Satou Akira has run into a fair amount of spirits that he doesn't even see. One day, he goes to a supernatural detective agency for help, and he meets the adorable Yui and her devoted butler Kujou. Using her power, Yui ends up helping him with a number of the dangerous supernatural troubles he gets himself into. Akira starts to feel attached to the detective agency, and wants to learn more about the supernatural! [tethysdust]

'Creepy Side', is a creepy and eerie neighborhood. A series of tragedies mixed with black comedy in this town begins!

Seigi, a martial arts trained middle schooler, often feels driven to protect the weaker people around him. One day, he defends a homeless man against some punks, and the man gives him a strange tattoo on his palm in return. The tattoo is a secret weapon produced in the arms race between America and the Serinistan Kingdom. Seigi finds himself in over his head when a powerful girl, using the same secret weapon, violently pursues him in order to retrieve it. His skill at martial arts may not be enough to keep him alive, but will he be able to learn how to trigger the power of his tattoo in time? [tethysdust]

In a city where adults go through the motions like robots, Mia feels claustrophobic. Meanwhile, the news is rife with stories of children getting kidnapped. One day, Mia runs into a young man named Joema. At his house, she sees fairies and children with animated faces. Are they holograms produced by his machine? But friendship with Joema comes with a price, Mia learns, as red-eyed Crows approach...

Six months ago, Karukozaka High School was sucked into the demon world, and in the ensuing chaos, only two survivors emerged: Nobu, who defeated the Demon Lord that took over the school, and Yumi, who possesses latent demon powers of her own. Although they're both trying to put the incident behind them, the gateway to the Underworld remains open, and soon Nobu finds himself battling demons right on the streets of Tokyo. The reason for this infestation is simple: a secret organization is trying to establish a Demon Kingdom on Earth by summoning demons through the gateway. Nobu and Yumi are the only people to have been to the Underworld and survived, so they may have the power to stop the infestation but before that can even happen, they'll have to find each other first.

Seven former fellow middle school students are forced to participate in a “death game” by an eerie ‘rabbit’. They have never met after graduating but now they must complete 6 death games within one hour to escape their entrapment! A game of despair begins as their dark past is revealed and their fragile relationships are put to the test!

The night of his coming-of-age ceremony, Mihara Kouki lost his memory. The one thing he remembers is the moment "someone pushed him". Relying on this tiny memory, Kouki will face his past self while pursuing his own relationships (with other people) — as he chases the criminal, he yearns for these relationships (to create bonds with others)! He enters a human drama where he reels in the thread of memory!

The story of a young man on a mission to avenge the death of his father. Now grown up, he’s become a con artist and formed a team to go after the company of scammers responsible for his father's death.

Rick Grimes, Sheriff of a small town in Kentucky awakes in a hospital. Comatose after being shot while on duty, Rick finds the world abandoned of all things living and is faced with walking undead, who attack him on sight. He returns home to find his family, son Carl and wife Lori, gone. He meets his new neighbor, who points him towards Atlanta. After retrieving supplies from the abandoned Police Station, Rick sets off to Atlanta to search for his family.

"Kii-kun will never learn!!" The childhood friend Tsubaki has a little secret she's been keeping. But stray too close and she'll say back, "it's fine, it's fine... I'll be fine..." A story of pure, disgusting love mixed with psycho-horror romance!

Plagued by visions of a psychopath after a slaughter in a busy street in downtown Ikebukuro, Madoka must question her own sanity as to whether what she is seeing is actually happening.

1-3) Underground Kids<br>Everyday Kimi's belongings were searched and destroyed, and she always felt that someone was watching her. They said that the school’s secret organization solves all the problems within the school’s ground thus she gathered up her courage, and went to them for help. Little did she know, this organization actually consisted of 3 “Money-loving” people... can they solve her problem safely?<br><br>4) Fake<br>Miki rolls her eyes just by looking at the girls who are squealing over the beautiful guys of the Disciplinary Committee. She's got the braids, the glasses, the uniform, and the textbook to AVOID having contact with the Committee. No tardies, violations, or absences; now, because of that, she's part of the Disciplinary Committee!<br><br>5) Summer Love Paradise<br>Ichiha's friends take her to the beach with them, hoping she'll get over her troubles with her past four boyfriends. She unexpectedly meets the unpleasant lifeguard, Kouta, though.

Yashima Kashiwagi is a freshman who has transferred to the elite Kusushu Gakuen High School. He quickly became friends with Hasebe Yuki living next door and Kimi Miyazaki. He tries to adapt to his new environment and being friendly with everyone but apparently the class has some "rules" that everyone must obey otherwise there will be consequences! What does this mean though? A reason for bullying or something more sinister is happening?

They walk like ordinary people, they talk like ordinary people but in fact there is nothing ordinary about them since they can materialize an image they have on their mind... They call themselves Chachaoong which also means Shaman and they do not know how or when they came to this world. It is now a time for their current king to choose the future one and so he did by choosing Yu Jin an ordinary human...? Many of the Chachaoong can not tolerate a human ruling them and now the poor Yu Jin not knowing what suddenly hit him, is trying to avoid the Chachaoongs who are trying to kill him!

Based on Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera."