An anthology by various artists to commemorate the 50th death anniversary of Tanizaki Junichiro, adapting various stories. 1. **谷崎ガールズ** (Banko Kuze) 2. **少年** (Usamaru Furuya) 3. **猿が人間になった話** (Tsuchika Nishimura) 4. **夢の浮橋** (Akino Kondoh) 5. **飈風** (Sansuke Yamada) 6. **痴人の愛** (Machiko Kyou) 7. **続続羅洞先生** (Nakamura Asumiko) 8. **青塚氏の話** (Shunji Enomoto) 9. **陰翳礼讃** (Fumiko Takano) 10. **谷崎潤一郎『瘋癲老人日記』×ヘミングウェイ『老人と海』REMIX** (Kotobuki Shiriagari) 11. **台所太平記** (Akira Yamaguchi)

Chikage is a beautiful girl in my class who is smart and well-behaved. She is my rival in school, but after school, she has another face. After school, she plays in the arcade with an innocent smile that would be unimaginable in class. I try to make friends with Chikage on campus and play with her after school in order to get to know her better. It seems like we're getting closer to each other, until finally… Chikage confesses her feelings for me as we were leaving school! I decide to accept her confession and I tell her how I feel on our way home from the arcade. Just when I think Chikage is now my girlfriend, another girlfriend shows up! (Source: Fantasia Bunko, translated)

Gambling Thriller set in a near-future Japan where casinos are legal and gambling wide-spread across the country. A female civil servant wants to take revenge for her parent's death caused by gambling. She's determined to put her entire life at stake for the sake of getting her revenge. In order to achieve her goal the civil servant woman deliberately transfers 50 million yen of relief funds to a legendary gambler and uses his skill in her revenge plan to take on the exploiters face-to-face.

Rindo Kurosawa is a man who loves horror films and aims to become "king of films", the top of the filming world with horror films. One day, he receives a master tape from Robert Skye, a master of the horror film's world whom he deeply admires. However, this is the beginning of a strange fate for Rindo, as Skye's unfinished work "Axeman" appears from the tape...! In order to realize his ambition, Rindo throws himself into a deadly battle with the "Kinema" who lurk behind the scenes of the film industry... *Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.*

Nako Nishino is a new kindergarten teacher. Nako's dream job as a teacher starts with a shocking turn of events, when she found herself playing mahjong against kindergarteners...! Suddenly, Nako found herself in debt for 1 million yen, and the strongest player at the school, known as "Janji", is determined to help her out. (Source: Shonen Jump Plus, translated)

From the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, the "Sakai Incident" depicts the dedication of warriors who risked their lives to uphold their beliefs in the midst of the rapidly changing times, and other quintessential Hirata gekiga are now back in print! Three additional works that were never before published before are collected in this edition! A bibliography and complete list of Hiroshi Hirata's works are also included. (Source: Seirinkogeisha, translated) Included Stories: 1. 大垣藩治水魂 2. 堺事件 3. 鹿島事件 4. 飛騨大名金森家 5. 下僕茂兵 6. 旗本郷右衛門 7. お金改役

"Brace yourself, Protagonist. With this power, I will create a new future." When I realized it, I was in the world of my favorite romance RPG. However, I was reincarnated as Harold, the "Useless Evil Prince," who breaks off the heroine's engagement and meets a disastrous ending. Moreover, due to the setting, I cannot use magic at all and was just a minor character who gets defeated by the protagonist. But it is different this time. First, I will stop the engagement cancellation with the heroine and begin focusing on my own development. Additionally, I will acquire weapons different from those in the original story and use my vast magic power that I couldn’t utilize before to overwhelm my foes! In my pursuit of strength, I inadvertently become a figure of interest to other heroines as well...

The village where her best friend disappeared is a land ruled by terrifying "dolls." One day, her best friend Chiyo suddenly disappears. In order to find her, Mocha goes alone to the "doll village" where she was taken. However, the village is locked up tight, and no one knows where Chiyo is. The village is overflowing with "dolls," and a horrifying custom still remains... This is a suspenseful horror story of desperation, set in modern-day rural Japan! (Source: Magazine Edge, translated)

Miyabi tells Neko she has to go back to the moon cause that's where she's from.

When Iwanaga Kotoko was eleven, she was kidnapped by yokai who persuaded her to become their "god of wisdom": a mediator between yokai, other supernatural beings, and humans. With the apparently goat-like but also monstrous Sakuragawa Kurou and his ex-fiancée, police officer Yumihara Saki, she attempts to solve a particularly difficult problem. That is, the ghost of idol Nanase Karin, the violent "Steel-Beam Nanase," wanders the streets every night swinging her I-beam at anything that moves. This "ghost" is very likely not what it purports to be.