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This prequel to the very popular Boogiepop Phantom series deals with the sudden disappearance of several female students at Shinyo Academy. Are they runaways, abductees or murder victims? Couple this mystery with the sudden appearance of a mysterious apparition known only as Boogiepop, and even more questions arise in the mind of Keiji, a student who can see and converse with the strange spectre. Who or what is Boogiepop? Is he responsible for the abductions or is he trying to stop them? Why does he have the appearance of Keji's girlfriend, Touka?
It is a short story collection to commemorate the forty anniversary cartoonist life of Go Nagai. And decorate the top, "Sirene birth Guide". Birth secret story of that Sirene.
A girl with a scarred heart stops by an antique shop. There she meets the talking cat Bonten and the shopkeeper... a slightly fantastical story of bonds between cat and man.
Folklore detective Asou Daisuke would rather deal with normal, everyday, things like cheating spouses, embezzling partners and the like. (That and his huge collection of ero-manga.) Because whenever he deals with the supernatural, he gets the hiccups. But no matter, an endless stream of desperate people come to him troubled by what he calls allegories. Those are stories, usually urban legends, that one believes to be true and if one believes strong enough can cause them to become true. His first case involves "The Man Under The Bed." Can he stop this creepy man with an axe before he chops up kawaii Hiranuma Kanae? Why does Asou count his hiccups, and just who is that strange girl in his bathroom?
From Adachi's Universe: A quirky but fun series, Itsumo Misora explores the lives of six kids and how they are brought together by fate and the appearance of unusual powers. It contains everything Adachi is synonymous with: humor, sports, tangled lives, strange situations, and love triangles...
In a fantasy world, with slight RPG-like element, the demon king has been revived and it is up to the Subjugators class to find him and slay him before it is too late. Follow Tolza, a young Subjugator, on his journey to slay the demon king along with his teammates he makes along the way. However, there lies a dark secret that his teammates must never know, regarding the Subjugator class.
From Shogakukan: Hitomi Kosaka, who wants to be a novelist, admires Takeru Murasaki, a genius writer and high-school student. She dreams that he would help her make her debut, and enters the same high school that he attends. However, being opposite of the image, Takeru is dirty-minded and sadistic in reality. What is worse, he says to her, "I'll make love to you."
A girl from the Edo era somehow time-travels to modern Japan and finds the reincarnation of her dead lover in Tokyo... a middle school kid. He wants nothing to do with her. A little "get to know you" story.
A Twilight Zone/Outer Limits-esque romp through the occult and supernatural led by your elven-eared hostess, Misery.
From Ryuusei no Mafia: The Black Bard, a lonely bard who travels around the perverse and charming world. Who will be delighted by his voice? What is the mystery surrounding this bard? This fantastic adventure told in the way of the bards, filled with mystery and intense drama, begins now!
Continues the story of Shingo and Kakami.
As part of the Manga Classic Literature (Koten Bungaku) series, Ikeda adapts for manga the tale of the bamboo cutter. This is a Japanese folk-tale dating from the 10th century. One day, an old and childless bamboo cutter discovers a child inside a glowing bamboo plant. The child grows up into a beautiful lady, Kaguya Hime (Princess Kaguya) and the news of her unusual beauty spreads around...
