Series of Shinrei Tantei Yakumo side stories.
The fabulously creepy story of The Ring takes a side step from the plot of the original Japanese film, taking the reader into life after all that tragedy and mystery. And guess what? Sadako, the psychic killer, isn't so easily disposed of. (Source: Dark Horse)
"I'm ready to spread my wings and fly." All her life Kris Laurensen had been trapped in the silken prison of her family's immense wealth. Decisions were made for her by her stepmother and her dynamic guardian, Jared Chayse-including the decision that she should marry Jared! Kris was shocked. The match would cement a financial empire but what about her feelings for Jared, feelings that veered crazily between attraction and resentment? Returning to Sydney from finishing school in Europe, Kris had been eager to taste her freedom, to experience life. Instead, she was being forced to contemplate marriage to a man who might never love her. (Source: FictionDB)
During a divine item bestowal ceremony, Bale’s memories of a past life resurface, and he realizes he’s been reborn into a video game he once played! After being kicked out of his household, he heads to a secret dungeon, wielding the “Dragontree Sword“—an item packed with farming buffs! What follows is the start of a new chapter in Bale’s life, filled with easygoing farming and cute girls! *Source: Manga UP! Global*
Goths Cage is an enchanting manga-esque picture book series of three short stories with a malicious twist of love and romance. It is based on Yasushi Suzuki's art series that was previously released online in Japan under the name Phantoms KADAN. Suzuki-san re-adapts his art series and transforms it into a bewitching picture book with entrancing grace and charm. Each of his gothic tales is exquisitely crafted with elegant detailed illustrations that transport readers into an enchanted world of gothic glory. In his first story, Glass Magic, Suzuki-san does a twisted take on the classic Cinderella tale. An ugly corpse-like servant girl wishes to fall in love with a prince and become a beautiful princess. Then a sinister old witch offers her a magic potion that can grant her heart's desires, but in order for the magic to work, she must abandon her soul. She gets rid of her memories, her face, and her master to become a cruelly beautiful glass princess. In another of Suzuki's splendidly dark tales, the shop keeper of an enchanted barbershop attends to his beautiful victim under the moonlight. He snips away at her thoughts and memories, mystically cutting away all her painful memories that scar her heart. However, because she is sapped of her thoughts and memories, all that is left is her pitiful vacuous body. Prepare to be mesmerized by Yasushi Suzuki's spine-chilling tales of love and entrancement this fall 2008, because this enchanting collection of spellbinding illustrations and twisted tales is a must-have!
Orin Edwards, famed as “The Sage” for training generations of exceptional talent, finally grows fed up with the academy principal’s abuse of power and resigns after many long years of service. For his second life, he chooses to settle on a mysterious place known as the “Island that Calls Disaster,” where he begins a quiet homesteading lifestyle. Together with his former pupil Patricia, Orin starts exploring the island, encountering its native inhabitants and even uncovering an uncanny shipwreck—gradually drawing closer to the island’s hidden truth. Meanwhile, rumors of Orin’s resignation reach his former students who now stand at the core of the nation, praised as the “Golden Generation.” One after another, they rush to gather around him…! Thus begins the leisurely island life of the resigned sage! *Source: Alpha Manga*
From Udon: Thanks to “The Crown of the Covenant”, the accursed isle of Lodoss has seen peace for 100 years. However, the ambitious ruler of the kingdom of Flaim now threatens to return Lodoss to a state of war. Heroes appear once more, as the young prince Lyle of Marmo seeks the help of the legendary high elf, Deedlit. Will a new “Knight of Lodoss” arise to save all the kingdoms?
Prince Callus Leditzweissen is a Taboo Being, an unfortunate soul born with a deadly curse that causes him constant suffering. With no known cure, the doctors say Callus only has six months left to live. But a magician named Gourley gives the boy a sliver of hope when he demonstrates the healing power of light magic. Callus is determined to learn how to use light magic in time to save himself, hoping to live longer to repay all the kindness he’s been shown throughout his life. *Source: J-Novel Club, Vol. 1*
The hit manga adaptation of the 2021 movie of the same name, *The Great Yokai War: Guardians* is the epic adventure of Watanabe, a seemingly ordinary student who inherits the power of a legendary monster hunter, to defeat the monstrous yokai rampaging towards Tokyo! After ancient fossils are disturbed by an earthquake in Japan, the spirits of evil yokai manifest as gigantic monsters, rampaging towards Tokyo! The only person who can stop it is young elementary school student Watanabe who is the unknowing descendant of a long line of legendary monster hunters! (Source: Titan Manga)
Mireille is the daughter of a bakery owner and her twin brother Fredrick was adopted into another family when they were kids but they remained in contact with each other by sending letters to each other. One day a letter from her brother said he was in love with another man's woman. She replied, provoking him to be a man and claim the woman as his. Two months later, a beautiful young man named Richard, claiming to be a messenger from her twin brother Fred, visits and tells her "I've come for you." When the bewildered Mireille resists, he proceeds to kidnap her! She learns that Fred has run and eloped with the crown prince's fiance and now, it is now her responsibility to impersonate Fred who was the former Count of Bernhardt! *Note: Includes four extra chapters.*
In this retelling of its prequel, Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken, Frederick talks about his observations of Mireille.
At the news that her best friend Mimi was missing, Tsukino began frequenting the rabbit hutch more so than before. One day she sees a boy she's never seen before, and a twisted truth is unfolded.

