Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro

Hyakki Tsurezure-Bukuro
百器徒然袋

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Box of Goblins
Mouryou no Hako· 魍魎の匣
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*Manga adaptation of the second novel in Kyougoku Natsuhiko's award-winning Kyougokudou Series.* Right after the war, Showa era in Japan. Kusumoto Yoriko and Yuzuki Kanako who attend an all girls school plan to take the last train to go to the lake. However, Kanako ends up getting run over by the train. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Detective Kiba who happened to be there when it happened, is asked to watch the confused Yoriko. Kiba goes with the worried Yoriko to the hospital Kanako is taken to, and there Kiba meets a woman who calls herself Kanako's sister; Yuzuki Youko. That happened to be the actress Kiba had been admiring, Minami Kinuko.

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Crazy Bone Dreams
Kyoukotsu no Yume· 狂骨の夢
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*Manga adaptation of the third novel of Natsuhiko Kyogoku's Kyougokudou Series.* "If there's such a thing as a soul, does it remain in this world as long as the bones exist? Will all of my sins and sorrows remain in this world forever?" Tokyo, 1952. A beautiful, mysterious woman who's haunted by dark dreams claims to have murdered her ex-husband... three times. Meanwhile, a small seaside town is terrorized by a bizarre series of deaths. Four seemingly separate murders are linked by strange, unsettling dreams of bones... Is something supernatural going on, or are the real demons found in the depths of the human mind? This complex case reunites the sleuths from Ubume no Natsu and Mouryou no Hako: onmyoudou practitioner Chuuzenji, horror novelist Sekiguchi, police inspector Kiba, psychic detective Enokizu and journalist Atsuko.

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The Summer of the Ubume
Ubume no Natsu· 姑獲鳥の夏
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*Manga adaptation of the first novel in Kyougoku Natsuhiko's award-winning Kyougokudou Series.* Tokyo, 1952: The bizarre case of a missing doctor and his supernaturally pregnant wife captures the imagination of novelist Sekiguchi Tatsumi, so he enlists the help of an old friend, Chuuzenji Akihiko, a bookstore owner and part-time exorcist who begrudgingly agrees to help investigate the disappearance. They'll face a family's darkest secrets... Secrets that Sekiguchi himself can't escape.

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Iron Cage of the Mouse
Tesso no Ori· 鉄鼠の檻
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*Manga adaptation of the fourth novel of Kyogoku Natsuhiko's Hyakki Yakou series.* The story follows antique store worker Imagawa, aging doctor Kuonji, and writer Sekiguchi, who are all fascinated by mysterious events happening in Hakone, including a series of murders of Buddhist monks and a little girl in a kimono who wanders through the mountains.

Cameo

The Mononoke Journal by Chuuzenji-sensei
Chuuzenji-sensei Mononoke Kougiroku: Sensei ga Nazo wo Toiteshimau kara.· 中禅寺先生物怪講義録 先生が謎を解いてしまうから。
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Kusakabe Kanna, who has advanced to the second year of a new high school, meets Akihiko Chuzenji, a new instructor of Japanese. Chuzenji always read books with a bad mood. A combination of teachers and students confronts a series of strange cases.