The story of an adventurer Esto who is looking for his teammates to explore the world. However, his skill 'solo' changed everything.

With her love lost, Miwako promises to give her beautiful hands to the handsome demon Rin.

Kaka, an unusually strong girl with a talent for combat, sees it has her duty to protect and assist her caretaker and master Genjou-sama, a kind but frail young priest who nearly died saving her from a tiger. When poisoned water threatens to destroy their village, Genjou-sama leaves for the capital to find a solution. In his absence, demons burn down their formerly peaceful village and transform the villagers placed under Kaka's care into monkeys.... more>>

Kaka flees in a desperate attempt to find Genjou-sama, only to find a haughty powerful spirit is now using his body as a vessel! She learns that the human Emperor has been secretly replaced by the evil Demon King, and that this spirit has come back for one simple purpose: to restore order. The contact he offers is simple. If she accompanies him on his journey to the capital and all goes according to plan, the spirit will give Genjou-sama back, relinquishing the priest's body and retrieving his soul from the underworld. Will Kaka take the risk? <<less

1) The Memory of Water... more>>

Shiina is an ex-swimmer who is now a chain-smoking high school teacher. He's tried to leave his swimming past behind him, but upright student Kadokura won't let that happen.

2) Forecast of Life's Springtime

Minori is the son of professional gardeners and he's sick to death of flowers! Gardening club student Shoutarou kills everything he touches, and Minori feels sorry for him.

3) A Child's Belongings

Hiroto's parents died in an accident and then he is approached by a businessman who wants to buy him. But he's not interested in sex, he just likes to look at Hiroto in his school uniform.

4) Sweet Home, Bitter Brother

Atsuhiro and Yousuke were childhood friends who became brothers at a young age. They've always been together with the slightly older Atsuhiro leading Yousuke. But Yousuke has feeling's he can't tell his "brother" and resolves to go away to college.

5) Paradise Game

Hazuki Junya is a professional gamer who works for a video game company, but when he gets beaten by his new coworker and amatuer Hatanaki Ryouji he can't believe it. A friendly rivalry and friendship starts between the two. <<less

Long ago, a witch named Red Ridinghood fell in love with a man named Wolf, but he broke her heart. She set a curse on... more>> their descendents… should a Wolf ever fall for a Ridinghood, they will turn into a wolf! <<less

To break the curse placed on his beloved, he resolves to slay fallen gods. Senri, who can hear the voices of the flora, travels together... more>> with Shino, a fox, and serves as a divine messenger whose role is to purify kami that have succumbed to miasma. What tales of tragic love are to be found at the hand of one such Guardian of the Gods? <<less

Sequel to "5 Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love".

Legend has it that if a human eats a mermaid's flesh, they will be granted eternal life. But is that a blessing or a curse? Immortal lovers Yuta and Mana travel through Japan and the centuries longing for a normal life. On their journey, they meet others who have consumed the flesh of a mermaid in hope of becoming immortal. But the powerful substance affects each person differently. Yuta and Mana are two of the lucky ones. Others are fated to die or transform into a savage monster, a "lost soul." Mermaid Saga contains three of Takahashi's uniquely macabre mermaid tales, A Mermaid Never Smiles, The Village of the Fighting Fish, and Mermaid Forest. Each... more>> revolves around Yuta, who wanders for hundreds of years, seeking a mermaid to cure him of his immortality.

Note: Won the 20th Seiun Award for Best Comic (1989). <<less

As an unexpected descendant of a cursed family of mermaids, Eunwoo's only hope of survival is to never fall in love. For years this was easy enough, until one day he's forced to confront his childhood friend and first kiss, Taeho. But why has he come back, toying with Eunwoo's heart? Can Eunwoo resist Taeho's pull or will he succumb to his hidden feelings, and ultimately, disaster? ... more>>

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Lilian McKellion, the girl who wanted to avoid a bad end, willingly went to the insomniac emperor in place of her sister, Laelin. She is tasked to help the sleepless emperor, who was cursed by a witch, by using her ability to induce sleep whenever she touches another person's body with her lips. Can Lilianne survive being with the emperor, ‘Kael Rue Kaldorf?' <<less

High school tough girl Aria is notorious for taking on her school's worst bullies. But punching out jerks is nothing compared to what happens when she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the demonically possessed Sakura, a guy who would as readily rip apart his own parents as seek her healing embrace. Sakura says Aria has the power to save him, but will she be able – or even willing to?... more>>

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Includes two stories (not related to the main story):

• Road Song (Vol. 5)

A young girl moves into another city to fulfill her grandparent`s dying wish. As soon as she gets there she ends up being robbed. This is how all her troubles begin.

- [g]N @ K[/g]

• Tricky Area (Vol. 6)

A family moves into a new house where they get an unpleasant surprise: the house is cursed. Read and see what happens next.

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Bai Yao had just became an intern as the assistant of the big-headed celebrity, Ji Chen. Even though he had thought that this was already... more>> unfortunate enough, never would he have expected that Ji Chen was a vampire! What's more is that, the way to break the blood-sucking taboo was a k...kiss?! <<less

Sagimiya Makage is new to an all girls school and doesn't feel like she will fit in. However at the entrance ceremony, someone even more weird in the school introduces herself as an actual witch doctor who is employed to help with the schools curse. ... more>>

Shrugging it off, later Makage makes a good friend at the dorms who won't wake up from the curse! How will Makage help her friend, and what is the secret behind this curse anyway? <<less

What'd happen, if a terrible curse struck a fantasy world and everyone would be able to see how many times in your life, you... masturbated?

Cursed to experience a love straight out of a romance comic!? With a boy I hate!? Not in a million years! But... my heart won't stop racing...... After a shocking event from her past, Momoko becomes a romance comic hater. She encounters the school's hottest boy by chance... and it turns out he's an awful person! A curse dooms Momoko to experience a romance-comic-like love with the infamous Aiji Aoto! "I bumped into him when turning the corner and munching on my sandwich! We took shelter from the rain in the same place! We ran into each other at the infirmary! For some reason we're the only ones taking this extra class!! The looming curse... more>> is making my heart pound whether I like it or not......!! Come what may, I'm never falling for this boy......"

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Lance is a devil punished to guard the gates of Heaven and Hell and to lie to souls to get them into Hell. He can... more>> never tell the truth because to do so would mean he will disappear. He has to send one more soul to Hell before he can finally be free from his punishment. For a devil, lying is easy, right? But what happens when the soul of the person he cherishes walks up to the Gates for judgement? <<less

You have three choices:... more>>

1. Accept that you are dead and await reincarnation in Heaven.

2. Deny that you are dead, and wander the mortal world as a ghost.

3. Curse one mortal to death, and suffer forever in Hell. <<less

Fujiwara Sunao is a rather unusual young lady. Not only does she prefer to wear her hair short and dress like a boy, but she... more>> also possesses the power to control water! One might think Fujiwara would be an odd fit at her school, but strangely, she's not. Between the destructive and demented school president, the kooky and somewhat stalker-like school nurse, and the obsessed underclassman who wants to be her apprentice, Fujiwara may be the sanest person at the school--which is a big help considering she may be asked to save it! <<less

A one-shot about a strange curse visited on a family after an archaeological dig.... more>>

One-shot in celebration of 30 years of Itou Junji's career. <<less

Mary is hired as a laundress at a castle inhabited by a mad Earl who is obsessed with making her become his doll.

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A chef becomes indebted to the yakuza when his restaurant fails. To pay them back they force him to become the personal live-in chef for... more>> a girl they are holding captive. <<less

Four years ago, Prince Lulnavul fell into an eternal sleep due to an unknown curse. The king then made a proclamation: whoever wakes the prince... more>> will receive any reward they choose... but up until now, not one has achieved it. Now, Witch Sayla, scorned by the outside for being a witch, attempts this task as the 99th contender, not for the sake of the prince's hand in marriage like the princesses before her, but solely for the king's national treasure, the Sapphire of Illusions. Can a witch, who is hated even in fairy tales, be the heroine of this one? Follow Sayla as she goes to meet this sleeping prince inside his dreams. <<less

High-school girl Kamigaya Kai often gets confessions. She then poses a requirement "If you let me stab you to death, I'll give my love to you.". This way people don't reaproach her in her quest to live her boring life, with boring parents, boring school colleagues and boring media.... more>>

Kuwashima Kusabi, a seemingly plain girl brightens the world that is "boring" to Kamigaya Kai. It first seemed like she was the 5th confession that turned someone off, but she ran home instead to fetch a sturdier knife. <<less