A girl who calls herself a demon appeared before a timid student named Fumio Kijima. The girl claims to be a campaign girl from the demon world and she gives him the ability to “summon a room” from nothing but thin air.... more>>

At first he doesn’t abuse his power and uses it as a convenient ability in his every day life. But one day he is bullied by his classmates under a false pretext and is made to suffer. In the past he would have wallowed in misery and cried himself to sleep, but now he had a power to call upon.

“I will make them regret it!”

Using his powers to summon his “room”, he begins his era of confinement and brainwashing to achieve his goals. <<less

Takumi is a high school student. He is withdrawn and is not interested in 3D things. In his town, a mysterious serial murder case happens and people get panicked. One day, when he chats on the internet, a man suddenly contacts him and gives him an URL. He goes to the website and finds a blog image that suggests a next murder case... On the next day, it really happens...... more>>

Takumi Nishijo suffers from intense delusions as a result of his apparent schizophrenia and the extremely secluded lifestyle he lives as a hikkikomori. One day he accidentally stumbles upon a gruesome murder scene, a part of a chain of events called "New Generation." After this, his life gets caught up in these events, and he meets a bunch of increasingly insane anime girls with swords. <<less

Morohoshi Daijirou's take on the Grimm Fairy Tales. Some are relatively straight adaptations while others have a sci-fi, horror, comedy, or mystery-twist.

A collection of stories:... more>>

・Devils x Devil - Kiryu in Paris

The story takes place in Paris in the not-so-distant future where a virus that could wipe out the human race is set loose in the city. The effects? It turns people insane and forces them to fight. This story is about Kiryu, Kiichi's uncle.

・Haiiro Odd-eye

・Inou Shain Suzuki Ichirou

・Oton 9 <<less

The story begins with a middle-aged mother committing suicide due to problems with her adult son. Following her miraculous revival and return as a 20-year-old,... more>> she comes to know that her son does not, in fact, hate her like she'd assumed he did. However, in exchange for her second chance at life she's forced into playing deadly mind games with others in the same situation as herself. <<less

Nanako Kobayashi, a 17-year-old teenager, has an ugly face who seems to not have a care for the world. One day, she got a call, only to be given two choices to answer a question. A devil suddenly appears, taking the form of her teddy bear. The devil is willing to grant her three wishes; each based on two options; What wishes will Nanako choose?... more>>

"Once upon a time I dreamed I was a butterfly,

fluttering hither and thither,

to all intents and purposes a butterfly.

I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly,

and was unconscious of my individuality as a man.

Suddenly I woke, and there I lay, myself again.

Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

(Zhuang Zhou Meng Die (庄周梦蝶 )) <<less

G takes place at these points we call boundaries. Boundaries between times, dimensions, destinies, life and death, …... more>>

It tells the story of young Tomak through his initiatic journey.

The Death Grass Spirit is never far...

This story is related to the short story "Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour" published in Heaven's Door. <<less

A collection of strange horror stories in the vein of authors such as R.L. Stine, from the master of absurdist horror, Takahashi Yousuke.

Follows the fantastically absurd exploits of a wannabe detective and his female assistant who roam the Japanese countryside looking for work. Each chapter has them... more>> arriving at a new town plagued by some bizarre problem. <<less

A compilation of short stories by Keiichi Koike.... more>>

1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

2. 3000 Leagues Searching For Mother

3. Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour

4. The Fallen Samurai And The Sea

5. Loopa

6. Kenbo's Diary

7. Sponge Generation

8. By Plane

9. Horizon

10. Landed

An astronaut sent on a space mission promises his wife and child that he will come back to them. <<less

Brainwashing is now a popular activity in corporate circles. Contracted by large companies, professional Washers hack into the brains of new employees and instil loyalty and drive.... more>>

This surge of brainwashing soon gives rise to Deprogrammers: elite Washers who are capable of not only undoing brainwashing but also breaking down the human mind. But as the Washers begin to fear the Deprogrammers and seek to control them, a fierce struggle breaks out...

It's in this world of mind games, trickery, and deceit, that a man is found unconscious by the side of the road, his mind crashed by Washers. Who is this man, who crashed him, and why? Reality and mindscape blur as the answers slowly come to light. <<less

A modern tale of the supernatural by the author of the Eisner Award-winning . ("marginal" is one of several aliases by creator Garon Tsuchiya.) ... more>>

Masahiko is estranged from his family and lives a dead-end life in Tokyo, working as a chauffeur for high-class call girls. When his sister dies under mysterious circumstances, he inherits an unlabeled CD from her possessions. Listening to the jazz music it contains, he is propelled into an out-of-body experience. As he repeats the experience, he begins to wonder if this was how his sister died. Masahiko is determined to find the cause of her death, and the mystery behind the CD. <<less

Mia is a young girl who lives a day without much hope. Seeing the ruby brooch displayed at the jeweler's shop, she is quickly taken... more>> away. When she comes across this accidentally brooch, her life starts to twist irreversibly... <<less

Shirou's ordinary life as a poor construction worker gets turned upside down when he comes across a naked girl, Lucy, who's fallen out of the sky! Her strange and unique personality entices him and he introduces her to his apartment buddies. ... more>>

But after leaving for just a few minutes, he returns to the apartment to find Lucy gone, all his friends slaughtered and an ogre-like stranger standing amidst the carnage.

The big man suddenly pulls Shirou out of the apartment building just before it explodes! Shirou gets pushed down into the sewage system of the city and is saved by a mysterious man... <<less

A man who wants to escape his boring, repetitive life sets out on a journey. On the way, he comes across unbelievable things, terrible things.

This manga presents different stories set in a future world in which biomechanoids are used for every purpose.... more>>

All the stories, through different angles and in a somewhat bizarre fashion, explore the same theme: Are they mere machines, or do they dream of electric sheep? <<less

In the future, alien invasion is a daily occurrence and everyone must be prepared. Elementary School #9 has assigned three students to fight off the... more>> extra-terrestrial threat. <<less

The twin brothers Susumu and Tsutomu have been friends with the girl Sakura since they were kids. But when Tsutomu mysteriously disappears at the age... more>> of ten, Susumu and Sakura begin to drift apart. What Sakura doesn’t know: Tsutomu has returned, not as a person, but as the mirror image of Susumu. That is, whenever Susumu looks in a mirror, he sees his brother who talks to him. Thus begins a bizarre love triangle between Sakura, who torments the poor Susumu as much as she is being tormented by her peers, Susumu, who keeps thinking he has to save Sakura because he likes her, and Tsutomu, who despite being stuck in a mirror pulls everyone’s strings. <<less

Many children mysteriously disappear in 2005. This is called it the "Reasal Phenomenon." A few children came back with tails on their behinds. One of them was Hana Yamaguchi. Hana calls upon children with tails and creates the "Macro Cosmic Invincible Legion of Kids."... more>>

These children can go freely back and forth from one world to another and with such special powers, they save missing children. But then, the Ali Troops invade this world. This is a fascinating science fiction drama about the wonders of the universe.

--Kodanclub.com <<less

Now that Ira's older sister is getting married, who will take her to the bathroom after 10 p.m. and sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" outside the bathroom door in order to protect her from the beautiful, androgynous, child-eating clown? Will marrying a closeted gay man help?... more>>

Considered by many fans to be Ooshima's best work. <<less

Naota's life isn't simple: he lives with his eccentric father and grandfather in a two-story house above a family-owned bakery in a town marked by... more>> a gigantic factory at its heart. The factory looks suspiciously like a hand iron, complete with a steam release at the top--not the most typical landmark. Life is already strange enough, but to top it off, his older brother's ex-girlfriend starts making extremely suggestive passes at him... and an impish, playful alien smacks him in the head with a bass guitar and then infuses herself into his family. <<less

One night, mild-mannered college student Mori Hiroshi bumps into a woman visiting his next-door neighbour, Yamamoto. Abnormally tall and dirty-looking, the woman has long, straggly... more>> hair, wears a man's coat and carries shopping bags in both hands. But then, without warning, she abandons her dogged pursuit of Yamamoto and shifts her attentions to Hiroshi himself. Who is this woman, what is she after, and will Hiroshi ever be able to shake her off? <<less

In the midst of a female-kidnapping serial killer incident, Makoto's best friend Hinano has vanished completely. Desperate to find her before it's too late, Makoto will try anything-- even invoking the resident phantom student of her middle school, Yotsuya-sempai!... more>>

Surprisingly, Yotsuya-sempai appears to be an actual person. He's obsessed with creating the scariest stories ever, using the people and situations in Makoto's middle school to stage them. Though Yotsuya is mostly just interested making scary stories, Makoto finds that his stories tend to contain a kernel of truth and that they can reveal their terrible truth in the telling. But as Makoto helps Yotsuya stage his tales, can she convince him to tell the story of the whereabouts of her best friend?

[tethsdust]

Included one-shots:

Volume 2: Asobiba.

Volume 3:

・Ou-sama Kiddo

・Kiben Gakuha, Yotsuya Sensei no Kaidan (Original Oneshot)

Yotsuya-Sensi likes to tell stories, and his most recent one stems from the mysterious death near the school. Now the question is... was it a suicide or was it something more sinister? <<less

Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to... more>> the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late? <<less

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they... more>> get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming. [Locked Room International] <<less