A collection of five spooky stories: 1. **Tenchi Shinmei!** (天地神鳴!) Asuna Shio is a teenage girl with a very strong perception of the spirit world and has a shrineless god as a companion. One day, Shio's classmate is seen vanishing into a mirror. She reappears afterward, but seems changed for the worse in terms of personality. What has happened to her? 2. **Gekkouchou: Hyaku-nen no Koi** (月光蝶~百年の恋~) A two-tailed tiger-striped cat is taken in by a girl called Mitsu and given the name Torakichi. Torakichi is no ordinary cat, and the love and tragedy between them may be strong enough to transcend a simple lifetime. 3. **Friend Doll** (FRIEND DOLL) Mizuno Sachi spends almost all of her time studying, thanks to her demanding parents, and she doesn't really have friends. There's a boy she likes at school, but it seems impossible to get close to him. Suddenly, her stuffed bunny, Mimi, starts showing up in her dreams to advise her through her teenage life. But what is Mimi's motivation for all this help? 4. **Tonari no Yomi-san** (隣のヨミさん) There's an urban legend about a girl who killed herself as a teenager, "Yomi-san," due to her insecurity over her appearance. Supposedly, her father stuffed her body, and, in her quest to become beautiful, the body seeks to take parts from pretty girls. At one school, several pretty girls have been mysteriously injured. Could the culprit be the dead girl, Yomi-san? 5. **Oni no Sumu Shima** (鬼の棲む島) Saki moves out to a rural area, where she has no friends. In her loneliness, she goes out to an uninhabited island, where she meets a new possible friend. He's a demon, but as Saki gets to know him, she finds him less and less frightening...

Say, did you think that humans were the one standing at the top of the food chain? That's a great misunderstanding. The ones who are located at the top of hierarchy of this world are "Them" who live inside the darkness. By no means do they come to the surface world, the one we humans live. What we understand about "Them" is only that they absolutely hate having their existence to become known to human society. While there are some of "Them" with a form resembling that of a human being, there are others that look like a completely different kind of living creature. It is rare, but sometimes trouble between humans and "Them" can happen. Humans who discover the secret of "Their" existence, a stray "Them" preying on humans, and many other problems that I can not talk about to anyone. In those cases, in order to resolve those incidents involving "them", an utility man is employed. That man's name is "Pluto O"... that's me. What I told to you only was what I know. If you ever get in troubles, call my name three times. Say "Pluto O! Pluto O! Pluto O!", and if you're lucky I'll show up to help. All the volumes of this series were released under the name of Echizen Matarou (越前魔太郎); the true identities of the writers were later revealed on Kodansha's page, but not which author wrote which book. The project was a collaboration between Kodansha and Kadokawa, and the books were published by 3 different labels. (Source: Kodansha Book Club)

"Nagamori Tomoka, you have been chosen as Choco's 'friend'. Nice to meet you, okay?" As a human weapon, she protects the Earth from giant life forms. On one of those days, Nagamori Tomoka met a single 'girl'. Robot. The girl personally introduced herself as such. According to the shady, doctor looking man beside her, her name seems to be 'Choco'. Choco seems to have chosen me as her 'friend'. "Tomoka, I have a question. What is a friend?" Don't you know. ...No, wait. Do I know the meaning of that? In a way, she was an existence that was more unrealistic that a giant robot. A machine with eyes prettier than any human. This is the meeting between Choco and I. (Source: Translated from official description)

Nagato Momiji dislikes his fellow actor Akira Shinonome. When they last performed together, Shinonome called Momiji by “Momi-chan,” and that gave people a cutesy image of him that stuck. When he really wanted to present himself as a cool dude! Despite that, he and Shinonome got the chance to co-star in a drama, and they had a get-together to celebrate. Drunkenly, Shinonome's usual kind smile disappears, and his Kansai accent becomes a little slurred… Suddenly, he kisses Momiji and confesses, *“I've always had a crush on you...”!* (Source: Futabasha, translated) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*

Itsuki Ichigohara is a married high-school teacher in her late 20's, who finds herself involved with a high school girl, her student, who is 10 years younger. The student's name is Rin Togawa. She is taller than Itsuki, with a beautiful face, mild-mannered but a little childish sometimes. Rin is a good girl, but she has problems in her family life, and as Itsuki tries to counsel her, they somehow end up kissing in bed together. This is an adulterous betrayal, not to mention a crime. How could she have got herself into such trouble that could only lead to her own destruction? — How could I have let this happen? It is a lewd and immoral, but somehow heartwarming relationship. A love story between a female teacher and her female student. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

We came from the far future, where most of the adults have disappeared as if they vanished into thin air and all of the children are managed by a few adults. To discover the cause behind human extinction and to evade it from that root cause... That's what we had jumped to the past for, supposedly. A boy sitting in the seats of a movie theater fidgets with his cellphone. "Before aptitude or anything, trying to change the future with just five kids? You would think there's a limit to lack of planning," he typed on his cellphone. The boys wonder if they had really come to the past. Why? Because, ever since they arrived, they haven't stepped one foot outside this theater.

Itsuki Ichigohara is a married high-school teacher in her late 20's, who finds herself involved with a high school girl, her student, who is 10 years younger. The student's name is Rin Togawa. She is taller than Itsuki, with a beautiful face, mild-mannered but a little childish. She is a good girl, but she has had problems in her family life, and as Itsuki tried to counsel her, they somehow ended up kissing each other in bed. This is definitely an adulterous betrayal, not to mention a crime. How could she have got herself into so much trouble that could only lead to her own destruction? — How could I have let this happen? It is a lewd and immoral, but somehow warm relationship. A love story between a female teacher and her female student. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Anthology of shorts based on Shin Megami Tensei IV.

A collection of yuri short stories.