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July 2005. There is a series of mysterious homicides happening in the blazing city, Tokyo. All the victims were women and the cause of their death was traumatic shocks. Judging from abnormality of these incidents, there are reasons to believe that they have something to do with the occult. In order to make clear the direction they should take, the metropolitan police department decided to carry out their investigations by engaging the help of those influential figures of the occult world. July 21st – the metropolitan police department officially labeled this incident as the No. 568 Specific Crime.
Once... Humans and Orcs peacefully co-existed, but at some point humans got greedy and started a war claiming the Orcs' territory. The deity-Lord who created all, got angry with the humans' greed and decided to punish them with 3 catastrophes. One of them was the "Dragons", divine creatures blessed with magic capable of doing almost anything. Now the Orcs, with a "Dragon" by their side, seem to have the upper hand. Will humans just sit back and see their land get destroyed? They are too devious for that... Their only good plan at this point is to abduct a "Dragon" to even things up. But how are they going to manage the capture of a being with so much power?
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife. On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness. Meanwhile, in the afterlife, Mina encounters Izuko, the Guardian of the Gate. Izuko gives her three options: Mina can choose to ascend to heaven and be reborn, she can choose to forever walk the earth as a ghost or she can choose to curse one of the living to death and as a result be cursed to descend to hell. Mina has 12 days to make her choice. - Wikipedia.
NAGAI Junpei, a high school freshman, wakes up one day to find all of humanity in a deep sleep. In a free world, overflowing with desires, his strange survival days begin.
Maken XFrom Mangaupdates:A research laboratory in the international city Kanazawa. Kei Sagami, daughter of the chief of laboratory, Professor Hiromitsu Sagami, becomes a witness of an experiment - the awakening of a sword, the Maken. It's able to heal mental disorders, at least according to her father. But as strange foreigners forcibly break into the laboratory, kidnap her father and put the actual carrier of the sword out of action, she experiences the true meaning of the Maken first hand.
From MangaHelpers: This is the visual diary of Kiitarou's experience with youkai. He's a boy with a very strong spirit sense, but when he entered a forbidden storehouse, he was kicked out of his home. He soon found a new place to live, where he met a zashiki warashi (house spirit) named Suzu. He and Suzu soon began to attract all kinds of spirit creatures, starting with a nurikabe (appears as a wall that impedes travelers) and mokumokuren (appears as eyes in a torn paper wall). What kind of folkloric creature will he meet next? [tethysdust]
An Anthology of Romantic stories. A must read for all the romance lovers! Later adapted to a Live Action TV Drama. Bunkoban edition: Volume 1: Aki no Shou Volume 2: Haru no Shou Volume 3: Natsu no Shou Volume 4: Fuyu no Shou
A tropical trio of lovely ladies undergoes survival training in the south! Three second-year high-school students from a military academy – tomboy Kasumi Minami, ditzy airhead Raika Utsuri, and dependable Subaru Toma – are stationed for survival training in Nonamimi, an uninhabited island in the southern seas. The girls find out that their wild tropical army life is fraught with all sorts of problems from day one! Will they be able to carry out their mission, and graduate in one piece?!
Raion Den is a really really timid salaryman. He also is a lion.
A series of unrelated short stories about sisters with brother complexes or vice versa
From MangaHelpers: In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo. Tetsuo is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower, and he wants Taichi to be his partner. Taichi, whose life has mostly consisted of poverty, loneliness, and pornography, is enticed by the idea of gaining extreme wealth. He's further convinced when a house fire leaves him without a home and depends on Tetsuo's charity. The adventure is going to be very dangerous, since the same 'enemies' who attacked Taichi before seem certain to try something again! Not to mention, Taichi really knows very little about his new partner.
A series of short stories about true love.
