Yamanouchi Kouya, the daughter of a famous author, is a shy young girl just starting middle school. She is named class representative along with Kannatsuki Yuuya, a boy she met on her way to school who frightens her a little bit. They are trying to work together, but he always seems mad at her and she is painfully shy. The thing is, Yuuya knows something that Kouya doesn't know yet—that her famous father is going to marry his mother!

From Manga Updates "If you can get 5 million yen for killing a person, what would you do?" A beautiful woman asks Shiki, a part-time lecturer that question on their first meeting. Shiki answers "If it's an evil person...", mistaking this for a joke. But then the woman points out the target...

Each year, the villagers of a certain mountain village hold a festival to celebrate the harvest. Tominaga Yuuki, a 17-year-old born outside the village, is chosen to play the role of purifier in the Oni exorcism, the festival's most important ritual, opposite 3-year veteran of the dance Kurashina Hana, his female classmate. In the days leading up to the festival, Yuuki gets more and more fru strated with his role, until he starts to see...?

From Project Strikeout: The story starts in Okinawa, in a training camp-- the ace batter of the Lycaons, a notoriously weak professional baseball team with a record of losses, Hiromichi Kojima, is trying to find out just why his team can never make it to the championships. During his training, he discovers the game of One Outs, a gambling derivative of baseball, and the game's champion, Toua Tokuchi. The rule of the game is simple: if the pitcher can strike the batter out in three pitches, the pitcher wins. No one had ever been able to get a hit from Toua. This is the Lycaons' and Toua's fateful meeting, and it's here that the story begins

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Collection of 6 short stories including: • Biroudo no Tensoku - Yuuki's boyfriend Eiichi hits him, leeches off of him, and even whores him out to some of the worst people. But Yuuki still says that he loves Eiichi and refuses to leave him

From Clamp no Lumiere: Albert de Morcerf, 15 years old doesn't know what's the right future for him... in other words he's your average teenager. Despite his money and the glorious name he's caring (he's the son of a famous general) he feel a bit lost. Between Eugenie, his fiancee, he's not sure to love and Franz, his over protecting best friend, he's living a carefree existence... But everything is about to change when Albert crosses the path of the Count of Monte Cristo, a mysterious gentleman, rich beyond anyone else dream. Who is this man? Why does he seem to know everyone's darkest secret? From Del Rey: While vacationing Luna, Albert, a young Parisian nobleman, meets the Count of Monte Cristo, a fabulously rich aristocrat from the far reaches of the galaxy. Fascinated by the count’s sophistication and intelligence, Albert is unaware of the older man’s dark purpose: to enact revenge for a terrible act of betrayal committed against him twenty-five years ago. Soon, all of Paris, including Albert’s own mother and father, will feel the terror of the count’s vengeance.

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A wounded soldier with a disturbed mind kidnaps the priest who tries to help him. He then has the brilliant idea of going AWOL with the priest. He's in the middle of the African desert in WWII, with supplies running low and his sanity (or is it his morality?) long gone. All that's left is sex and agony. And maybe, eventually, death.

From DrMaster: Goths Cage is an enchanting manga-esque picture book series of three short stories with a malicious twist of love and romance. It is based on Yasushi Suzuki's art series that was previously released online in Japan under the name Phantoms KADAN. Suzuki-san re-adapts his art series and transforms it into a bewitching picture book with entrancing grace and charm. Each of his gothic tales is exquisitely crafted with elegant detailed illustrations that transport readers into an enchanted world of gothic glory. In his first story, Glass Magic, Suzuki-san does a twisted take on the classic Cinderella tale. An ugly corpse-like servant girl wishes to fall in love with a prince and become a beautiful princess. Then a sinister old witch offers her a magic potion that can grant her heart's desires, but in order for the magic to work, she must abandon her soul. She gets rid of her memories, her face, and her master to become a cruelly beautiful glass princess. In another of Suzuki's splendidly dark tales, the shop keeper of an enchanted barbershop attends to his beautiful victim under the moonlight. He snips away at her thoughts and memories, mystically cutting away all her painful memories that scar her heart. However, because she is sapped of her thoughts and memories, all that is left is her pitiful vacuous body. Prepare to be mesmerized by Yasushi Suzuki's spine-chilling tales of love and entrancement this fall 2008, because this enchanting collection of spellbinding illustrations and twisted tales is a must-have! Note: 32 page hardcover volume, all in color

A rather morbid, sombre manga about two high school students, Kamiyama Itsuki and Morino Yoru, who have a peculiar interest in deaths and especially in murders that are committed near to them. Due to their strong fascination with murder and highly-developed analytical skills(along with some luck), they manage to solve the murders that have even eluded the authorities. However, acting on their own sense of justice and in self-interest, the murderers are often able to escape with the murders that they have committed. Often, it is Kamiyama that solves the cases even to the most subtle of details, but he is only interested in one thing, and that is the method to which Yoru Morino should be killed.

[From AnimeWaves]: Two kids, Kouhei and Akio, made up an imaginary girl named Hajime to take the blame for destruction of the principal's copper statue. But one day, they meet a girl that is exactly like their description of Hajime, but only they can see her.

Yuzu is a first-year University student. He is surrounded by great friends and enjoying his school life. One of his friends, Natsuki, is a popular and attractive guy who is always nice to him. They often even eat together, and like usual when they're talking about attractive women Yuzu starts to get a little too excited. Being a virgin, he couldn't help himself but before he even realizes it he's getting off with Natsuki. Feeling weird about the situation in the morning, he goes to Natsuki's room to find a very unexpected scene...?!

It’s tough to make friends when you’re the sheltered youngest child of a business mogul, but Kay isn’t about to let that stop her! After her strict upbringing with her brothers Jarod and Sebastian, the three find themselves on the bridge between childhood and adulthood. New experiences and people begin to enter their lives, and the bond that they’ve shared with each other–and only each other–will be tested to its limit.

Boy meets girl. Drunk, chain-smoking, "private dick" widower meets young private tutor. It's all the same damn thing.

Tenny Hale is an 18-year old Law Student at Vellichor University. She aspires to be a lawyer, but is limited by an ability of hers which she labels 'Trust', which forbids her from revealing what someone does not want known. It also allows her to witness a crime from the culprit's point of view from beginning to end, but immediately silences her once she knows the culprit's identity. How can Tenny expect to be a lawyer with a restriction like this?

After a lot of traumatic events Strive receives an app on his phone that will give him three choices at random times that will change his life and those around him. Little does he know that all 5 app users will soon decide the fate of the world.

Her father is a serial killer. She knows that he doesn't want to kill. He is sick. And she has to find a cure.

Manga Biography of Osamu Tezuka's life covering his youth, to his tragic passing. This was serialized in the Asahi Shinbun, a famous newspaper, by Tezuka's then chief assistant, Toshio Ban, not long after Tezuka's passing. Ban interviewed as many surviving family, friends, and colleagues of Tezuka's as well as gathering other research materials.The content is divided into three arcs (per volume) covering a period of Tezuka's life, which are as follows:- **Volume 1 - The Appearance of Osamushi, 1928~1945** (オサムシ登場, Osamushi Toujou) - Covers Tezuka's youth, his developing talents during his school days, fascinations with bugs, manga, and animation, and his trials and tribulations during the war.- **Volume 2 - Dreams of Manga, 1945~1959** (漫画の夢, Manga no Yume) - Covers the immediate struggles of the Post-War period, his time in medical school and the decision between being a physician or a mangaka, his debut and career throughout out the 50s. Also covers the emergence of the assistant system, the many assistants that would later become famous mangaka themselves (Matsumoto, Ishinomori, the Fujios, etc.), the obsession with movies and the influence they have on manga, and the gradual shift toward animation.- **Volume 3 - Dreams of Anime, 1960~1989** (アニメの夢, Anime no Yume) - Covers his time entering animation interning at Toei, the founding of his Anime Studio, Mushi Production, the culture of the studio, the anime adaptation of Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom) and the emerging anime production philosophies, the collapse of Mushi Production, the "Dark Tezuka" period, Tezuka Productions, Black Jack, the events leading to the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works, later anime productions, and his tragic passing.(https://www.stonebridge.com/catalog-2020/The-Osamu-Tezuka-Story)

Fight poison with poison! Risa Aioi is a detective with a most unusual prediliction. Her investigative techniques verge on the criminal, pushing viscious criminals to turn themselves in! Ultra irregular! A unique take on the crime-suspense genre!

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In Astar, in the midst of war, a stone with extraordinary qualities is found that can change history with its power. But the discovery, which at first appears like a gift from above, leads to disaster and irreversible consequences. Three young people are involved in the events surrounding the unusual phenomenon and will have to decide for themselves whether the stone will be used for good or evil.

In other people’s eyes, Mikhail Lim seems to be a perfect guy. But, what they don’t know is that he has a sick, twisted hobby....

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