Collection of oneshots.

A collection of four short stories.... more>>

Suna no Ue no Rakuen (砂の上の楽園)

Yoru no Mori no Soko ni (夜の森の底に)

Boku wa Tabi o Suru (僕は旅をする)

Ame ni Nareba ii (雨になればいい)

Chapter 1 is the 100-page title story. It's a supernatural fantasy tale about a man with one chance to escape from death, a mysterious woman he meets, and a tribe seeking to find its way back into Heaven.

Chapter 2 deals with the mystery of a man gone missing, and presumed dead.

Chapter 3 is a very short story about a couple in the mountains who pick up a strange guest.

Chapter 4 is a longer story about the traditions binding a family, those that would break away from them, and the dark secret that holds the family in sway. <<less

A collection of stories inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales.... more>>

Story 1, G's Diary: A girl with no memory of who she is spends her days working in a house she has no memory of entering.

Story 2, Frau Trude: A headstrong girl wants to meet the infamous Frau Trude.

Story 3, The Summer and Winter Garden: A beauty lives with a beast in a bespelled mansion.

Story 4, Little Red Riding Hood: A girl in the woods is on her way to grandma's house.

Story 5, The Frog King or Iron Heinrich: A princess finds something she wants and sets about getting it.

Story 6, Little Brier-Rose: A man moves into a new apartment only to find it has a secret.

Story 7, The Bremen Town Musicians: Four scoundrels head to Bremen to become town musicians.

Story 8, Rapunzel: A woman has a recurring dream that she is Rapunzel. <<less

With the airplane, humanity's longing to take to the skies was realized. The development of science and technology has even made it possible for them to advance into space. And thus have the skies, once an object of longing, been transformed into a place of fierce international conflict. ... more>>

Compiles the title story and other short classics by Satomi Mikuriya. <<less

Collection of six short stories.... more>>

Dan of Population GO about first story: "An endearing story of a boy who, while visiting his relatives in a rural village, visits a mysterious pond where the local dragon deity supposedly dwells and uncovers a conspiracy that uses the god's name in greed."

Chapter 1: "Dragon Pond"

Chapter 2: "The Night has a Thousand Eyes"

Chapter 3: "The Star of Azure"

Chapter 4: "The Fog, the Rose, the Star, and" ("Mist, Roses, and Stars")

Chapter 5: "The Conch Elf"

Chapter 6: "Maiden of Dragon God Pond" <<less

One of Go Nagai's first works, this violent period piece takes place in the 1500s and stars a talented, low-ranking ninja named Shishimaru. In it, Shishimaru fights against Ginnai Doma (an immortal samurai who, despite being butchered multiple times, doesn't die) because Ginnai murdered his comrades. ... more>>

Despite being set in historical times, it has time travel, aliens and the alternate universe war. <<less

MAL:... more>>

The Gokuhi-gumi are a band of space Yakuza. Led by "Genji of the North Star," they seek to go to war with other yakuza factions and generally cause trouble throughout the galaxy. <<less

UFO Robot Grendizer is the third entry in the Mazinger Trilogy by Go Nagai, following Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger. This particular incarnation was illustrated... more>> by Gosaku Ota and published in Boken Oh, Otomodachi from October 1975 – March 1977. It follows the adventures of Duke Fleed, the sole survivor of an attack on the Vegan Empire, who defends his second home, the Earth, from the Vegan attack, together with the giant robot Grendizer. <<less

Hayate's father, Tani no Maju (another loyal "Chiguruma Tou" clansman) had discovered and developed the "Ninja Henshin Jitsu" (Ninja Transforming Magic/Techniques) that enabled man to... more>> transform into super powerful "Keshin Ninjas" (Spiritual Ninjas) who would be able to summon and utilize their own inner mystical powers. Majin Sai wanted to use this technique to further "Chiguruma Tou's" cause and make their warriors invincible. Tani no Maju resisted handing Majin Sai the secrets to this technique believing that in the wrong hands, this technique could pose a monumental threat to Japan. Majin Sai sent one of his "Youkai Ninjas" (Supernatural Ninjas) to steal the secrets of this technique. In the process Tani no Maju was killed, but not before he had shown Hayate the secrets of this process. Enraged, Hayate uses these techniques to tap into his inner mystical powers and becomes the super powered ninja "Arashi" (Storm). <<less

Sabu is a mutant boy that uses his newly discovered inner powers to fight against a band of criminals and terrorist organizations.

Garouden is the story of a muscular man named Bunshichi Tanba who trained hard for five years to get his revenge on Kajiwara, the only... more>> man to have defeated him in a fight. <<less

K, a robot detective, joins the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force’s Science Division and is partnered with human partner, Shinjo Go much to the chagrin of... more>> Chief Inspector Shiba Daizo, who distrusts the Robot. Together they battle the crimes perpetrated by the renegade conglomerate R.R.K.K. “BADO” (Robot Rental Kabushiki Kaisha – Robot Rental Company) <<less

A collaboration between horror radio show host personality Inagawa Junji and horror mangaka Itou Junji. Published in the September 2007 issue of "Real Horror Stories."

The series follows the adventures of Sabu, a young Edo bakufu investigator traveling with the blind master swordsman Ichi. In their travels, they assist the common people in solving mysteries and righting wrongs (usually committed by bandits or corrupt officials). Sabu is engaged to Midori, the daughter of his boss, who works as a police officer for the Tokugawa shogunate.... more>>

This series won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award. <<less

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Based on the life story of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.

The seventeenth daughter of Lord Neville has been setup for an arranged marriage. She and her close maid companion Ada come up with a plan... more>> to derail this plan. From outside appearances, our heiress is an extremely plain girl while her maid is beautiful. Though plans aren't always what they seem… but then again, neither is our gentleman suitor. A definitely wicked story where women take charge of their own fate…and men happily accept theirs? <<less

A story where students face off against teachers to bring down the tyrannical education system.

This manga is the adaptation of two movies: Zatoichi's Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka) and Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro).... more>>

The Ballad of Zatoichi:

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi." Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels, he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to stay and defend the town or to leave and be on his way.

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage:

After he's ambushed in a small village terrorized by a gang of thieves, the legendary blind swordsman Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man in self-defense. As fate would have it, his travels soon lead him to Okichi, a woman whom Zatoichi discovers is the sister of the young man whose life he stole. In anger, Okichi attacks the blind swordsman, but her conscience gets the better of her, and as she tends his wounds, the two fall in love. <<less

Karate fighter Raion Ryu is so unflinchingly powerful that, during a sanctioned match, his strikes accidentally explode his opponent into piles of steaming meat. As... more>> punishment he dons a sutra-infused mask to suppress his horrific might and goes into hiding with his psychic sister, but the two are eventually hunted down by his ex-master and the fiancé of the man Ryu killed. While their modus operandi would appear to be revenge, they follow divine instructions from up above—Destroy Ryu before he can awaken as the Antichrist! God himself has put out a hit on our masked hero. <<less

A young man named Speed Racer wants to become a professional racer, despite the lack of approval from his father, Pops Racer. When Pops reluctantly... more>> quits his job after the corporate company he was working for had declined the production of a modified engine for his new racing car, the Mach 5, he later thinks of creating his own family owned company, Racer Motors. He realizes that he would need a great amount of money to make his idea work. Speed, who values the welfare of his family, decides to take it upon himself to obtain the money for Pops. In hopes of using his unique driving skills to do so, Speed decides to do what he does best and enters a race. Pops tells Speed to quit racing, but Speed, who is confident enough to ignore Pops, drives away into many different adventures that come towards him and his friends. <<less

Across Japan the Kuro Juujigun decimates its targets, killing all those who oppose them. Yet from the ashes of these destroyed bases, five young recruits... more>> miraculously survive and vow vengeance. Given a special interlocking "key", the various survivors are summoned to snackshop "Gon", secret gateway to EAGLE Japan's main command center by Japan's EAGLE Commander Edogawa Kenpachi. There they are given special formfitting electronic battlesuits, which empower its wearer with various superhuman abilities. Edogawa tells them that they are the Secret Squadron "Goranger", the world's best chance against the forces of the Kuro Juujigun. Armed with these battlesuits and other special weapons created by EAGLE scientists, they extract their revenge upon the Kuro Juujigun operatives who killed their comrades and dedicate themselves to crushing the remaining forces of the Kuro Juujigun and its sinister leader Kuro Juuji Soutou (Black Cross Fuhrer/Generalissimo). <<less

1 - Nightmare Negotiator - Yumetsugu is a college student whose part-time job is taking people's nightmares away for a fee.... more>>

2 - Little Sister - A young woman has recurring nightmares of herself killing her twin sister. Can Yumetsugu help?

3 - Who is Snow White? - A modern-day Snow White. Yumetsugu investigates.

4 - A Round of Ghost Stories - A girl who committed suicide by hanging herself tries to gatecrash a Hundred Ghost Stories event being held in an abandoned mansion. Will Yumetsugu save the participants from her wrath? Or...

5 - Street Stall - A street seller deceives his customer.

6 - Replay - A secluded mansion has put out an ad for a babysitter, and one unsuspecting girl falls prey...

7 - Home Visit - A teacher tries to help out his student by talking to her abusive mother.

8 - Don't Listen to a Mermaid's Song - There's a serial killer on the loose. One plucky young woman decides to catch the culprit.

9 - Big Sister - A girl and her imaginary onee-chan.

10 - Indian Magic Trick - A girl watches two Indian street magicians put on an amazing performance.

11 - Reset - The adventures of a "civil servant" in a world that's more-than-slightly off-kilter. <<less

Great Mazinger starts after the defeat of Mazinger Z. Tetsuya Tsurugi is the new protagonist, piloting the powerful Great Mazinger, a creation of the once... more>> thought dead Kenzo Kabuto, the father of Koji Kabuto. This time the enemy is the Mycene Empire and its powerful robots. <<less

The Soichi Front... more>>

For 10 years, a woman named Michina Hirose has been looking for any shred of evidence that could lead her to the missing Tsujii family. While in a certain town, she sees children acting strangely, spitting nails at others, and trying to curse people, just like the youngest Tsujii son—Souichi—used to do. Learning that the children only started behaving that way after visiting a local haunted house, she decides to investigate further, but ends up with far more than she bargained for.

Soichi's Beloved Pet

A stray cat decides to follow Sayuri Tsujii home one day, and everyone in the house gets attached to her, deciding to name her Collon. But after Collon has a run-in with Sayuri's youngest brother—the gloomy, curse-happy Souichi—she begins to act strangely. Is this the result of a curse, or something else?

In The Valley of Mirrors

There is bitter enmity between two villages, facing each other across a river. But instead of erecting walls and battlements, they both decided to put up mirrors. What could this mean? And where did all the people disappear to, all those years ago?

Anything but a Ghost

While driving on a mountain road one night, Shigeru finds a girl covered in blood.

Library of Illusions

Koko lives with her husband Goro in a giant mansion full of books. The books are a family heirloom, and heâ??s fiercely protective of them, so it would really suck if something were to happen to them...

Songs in the Dark

There are songs that stick with us long after we've heard them; the song Tamayo hears while passing a street musician is one of those. However, even with a doctor's visit and medication, the song won't leave her. Seeking resolution, she tracks down the musician, Yu Kanade, and discovers that this "brain noise" is contagious, with Yu's entire audience falling prey to it. But why is Yu's song stuck in everyone's head?

Splatter Film

Ogi got lost while traveling in South America, but was saved by a kind tribe of people who sent him home with a pot of delicious nectar from a plant their religion is focused around. At home, he offers some to his friend Sugio, but warns him that he must not be noticed while eating it. Sugio loves the nectar, and finds that regular food just can't compare, so he and some of Ogi's other friends sneak in to eat it. However, they are met with a grisly sight, which is only just the beginning of the strange events that will befall them. <<less