Warning! This is a collection of seriously scary tales! A mysterious day in a certain town. The price of a promise. The desire to accelerate the progress of mankind. This collection of tales explores the strange possibilities of our reality. Warns against overambitious desires, and reminds us why horror opens our eyes to the wider world. It’s sure to send a chill down your spine! (Source: Shogakukan Asia) Included Stories: 1. **Seguchi-san** (セキグチさん, Mr. Sekiguchi by Isao Sakamoto) 2. **Luna-chan to Yubikiri** (ルナちゃんとユビキリ, A Pinky Promise with Luna by Rei Nanase) 3. **Kindan no Hyakumonogatari** (禁断の百物語, A Hundred Forbidden Stories by Eiko Komuro) 4. **Utsuro no Shoumen** (虚ろの正面, In The Face of Emptiness by Mayumi Yokoyama) 5. **Sakana no Namida** (魚の涙, Tears of Fish by Junko Nose) 6. **Jigoku no Bishounen** (地獄の美少年, The Handsome Young Man from Hell by Ryouko Mizoguchi) 7. **Shiroi Hako** (白い箱, The White Box by Kyuuko Morooka) 8. **Mushi ni Negai wo** (虫に願いを･･･, Wish Upon an Insect by Wakana Makihara) 9. **Sangeki no Yakata** (惨劇の館, The House of Tragedy by Kirara Himekawa)

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his career as low-ranking retainer to the minor daimyo Lord Matsudaira. Tezuka Ryoan, 29, a disciple of Dutch medicine, has just been accepted as a student at Teki Academy in Osaka. Each has a temper to go with his talent, and in a time of brewing upheaval the two are not slow to find trouble, which brings them together in spite of their mutual dislike. Tezuka is called in one night to sew up Ibuya after an illicit duel; a few weeks later, Ibuya finds himself the only thing standing between Tezuka and a gang of swordsmen sent by the head of medicine for the Shogunate. *Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1984.*

"One time a week, I will be the girlfriend of \[someone\]." A bitter love story depicting the realities of love between female college students who earn money on behalf of her and men attracted by her. The first volume is a young office worker who rents the protagonist snow as a fake girlfriend, and draws a distorted love pattern of sota and snow. A substitute girl who plays the customer and the woman of their ideals to the end... Is the distance between two people's mind really close? *Notes: \- Winner of the 68th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shōjo Category \- Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.*

*Tezuka's last manga, which was serializing just weeks before his death in 1989.* In the year 1982, the Edo Shoji Corporation is a large Japanese trading company that has created a new branch in the fictional country of Cannibalia (or Kanivaria depending on how you transcribe it). Executive Director Yabushita assigns Hitoshi Himoto to be the head of the new South American office, which is an exceptional promotion for Hitoshi. Having joined the work force after his days of being a sumo wrestler, Hitoshi finds himself rapidly climbing the corporate ladder. However, not long after he is assigned to South America, Director Yabushita suddenly resigns from the company. Apparently he was involved in a scandalous affair with a woman, and forced to leave after news of the affair had leaked out. This severely affects Hitoshi as he is then demoted and transferred to a different location in South America. Can Hitoshi make a name for himself in a dangerous land, working together with the people that know him as the "Gringo"? Political and Corporate intrigue and drama are all around in Tezuka's last manga. (Source: Wikipedia)

Would you like an otaku girlfriend? Obviously the answer is NO, But..... She comes to school only 3 days a week, has a sickly body, is smart, super popular, and is a cool beauty, shes "mysterious heroine" Shiraishi Yuki. And an "ordinary protagonist" Sakai Haruhiko, nothing stands out about him and hes a harmless guy who does not seems like a protagonist at all. The heroine that the protagonist fell in love without knowing anything, is actually a super closet hikkikomori otaku!! Thus, this is his story to understand her hobbies, while walking in the thorny otaku path. (Source: Amazon, edited)

A boy (Takuya) meets a girl (Satsuki), both 17 years of age, and they fall in love. When she discovers his fetishes, Satsuki brands Takuya a hentai (pervert) and leaves him, only to be drawn back by the power his fetishes give her over him. (Source: Wikipedia)

In Europe, in France, in Paris in particular, the lives of three people intertwine as business and other affairs unfold. Yoshiaki Hongo is the polyglot son of a well-traveled Japanese banker, who now works as a "trader," or "smuggler." Narcissistic, he likes to work out and sculpt his body, to make up for his lack of stamina in bed. Rintaro Norimizu is a former member of the Japanese SDF and French Foreign Legion who fought in Chad and Libya. Now he is a mercenary who sells his services to the highest bidder. Fuchi is a Vietnamese woman of Chinese descent, a fashion model who fled Saigon by helicopter at the age of five, who likes to use her charms to get what she wants. Through four independent story-lines, we follow the misadventures of these characters, sometimes opposed and sometimes joining forces. (Source: Pika, translated)

The story follows Yūsuke Mamiana, an unemployed, broke simpleton who is obsessed with sex, after he returns to his hometown. While there, he encounters the bruised Kyōko, the only person who does not judge him. The two begin living together and work toward finding the meaning of happiness for each of them. (Source: Anime News Network)

Mizuki has been hired to be the private tutor of Naomae kun, one of the worst student of his class.... Naomae kun is not only lazy, but is pretty much incredibly negative when facing academic studies, fact which prompts the serious Mizuki to be very diligent when dealing with Naomae's classes. Naomae is not only a bad student, but also is a little bit of a prankster, so he really isn't easy to tame when it comes right down to it.... And before she notices it, the relationship between the two has this very strange chemistry that can't be easily explained. Naomae, for his part; is quick to fall for Mizuki, and suddenly his goal changes from "getting into the best high-school" to "going to the same high-school that Mizuki", while the high-school is actually the same for those two objectives, Naomae seems to take the second phrasing of his goal much more seriously.... Yet not seriously enough.

Reijirou Yuuki, known by friends as Rei-kun, a boy notorious for being late to school, is suddenly hit by a truck and killed on one of his many rushes to class. He then roams the earth as a ghost, only being visible to his classmate Kodama. Reijirou finds himself and Kodama in many adventures involving his ability to possess, and gets himself tangled up with the lives of his classmates and friends, including Takeshi Gama: the bully, Kaoru Tachibana: the perfect transfer student with a secret, and Bell: the demon working a part-time shift as a shinigami. Later in the series, Reijirou goes beyond his neighborhood to other parts of Japan with Bell to raise his reincarnation credit score, leaving Kodama behind.

The story of a boy, Akira Hiroin whose mother always wanted a daughter. His father, a scientist, makes him take (without knowing) a remedy that turns him into a girl.