In his third year of playing pro, the 20-year-old goalkeeper, Ao Kamiya, was selected for the Japan national team for the first time since he carried his club from the lower ranks to the third place. On the day of the match, Kamiya, who started in the latter half of the game, defended the goal from the national team, despite the heavy pressure. Meanwhile, Kamiya's "one-play" became a mess throughout the venue. This is another soccer drama presented by Takatoshi Nakamura, the author who wrote the award-winning 1/11. (Source: Kodansha, translated) **Included one-shot:** Volume 1: Hiraku

A story by the author of Toriko and Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi about the imaginary sport of Ring.

This is a shoujo horror anthology, containing 9 stories. 1) I Know Basketgore After loving Shouhei ever since her second year of middle school, Natsumi finally gets to go out with him. But then she starts getting prank calls telling her to break up with him. Then mysterious things start happening around her. Pots falling from windows, insects in her locker, glass shards in her towel. Are these just harmless pranks, or is someone truely out to get Natsumi? 2) Labyrinth Maze of Memories "Forgive me! Don't kill me" Those are the words Honjou Kumi continues to hear in her nightmares. She lost all of her memories of the time before her accident, so she doesn't understand why the students stare at her and whisper. Pranks are pulled on her left and right. What is it that she doesn't remember? 3) Best Friend Koyuki and Hiroyo are the best of friends. They've always chosen to be with each other. Hiroyo always listens to what Koyuki tells her to do, because she knows best. So when Kinoshita says that he's in love with Hiroyo, Koyuki doesn't believe him. She says the only way she will believe him is to go to the lecture room at 5:55 pm to see the bleeding holy mother statue. Hiroyo tries to stop him, causing all three of them to see it. According to the rumor all the people who see the bleeding statue will all die. Things start happening, causing Hiroyo to be frightened. But only she is targeted. Could it be that Koyuki and Kinoshita are out to get her? 4) The Neighbor's Doll Itsumi finds her neighbor, Yurika's, doll in the trash, so she decides to adopt it. She sets it out onto the balcony to dry and Yurika notices it there. She gets jealous because now it's all clean and cute. She gets her mother to get it back saying that it was thrown away by accident. After getting the dye on her shirt she says she only wanted it back so Itsumi couldn't have it. In the morning, the doll is sitting at Itsumi's door. However, Yurika claims she didn't put it there... 5) Black Cat Sakura is a timid girl, unable to say no, so when she sees two classmates throwing rocks at a cat, she wants to stop them but can't. They tell her to join in or they'll tell everyone to ignore her. She throws a rock at the cat and runs away, hating herself for it.she goes back to check on the cat to find it dead from the rock she threw. An old lady tells her that the cat won't be able to rest in peace. Strange things start to happen around her, and the two other girls are dead, so will she end up dead too? 6) Former Residents of Darkness Mihara Yuna and her family just moved into their new home. Not soon after she notices a figure standing in the doorway and she feels a cool gust of air,but the air conditioner isn't set up and it's the beginning of summer. Her father has started feeling unwell. She starts seeing the white shadow turning up in other places. And she hears voices saying to get out. Soon she hears from the real estate agent that the house is haunted that the whole family died in that house on the 29th of July. Any family that moved in died, and the day they moved in was July 28th. 7) Last Request Mikoto and her childhood friend, Yamato are staying at her grandfather's temple which they use as a hostel. In Mikoto's room, she finds a doll. She is told that the doll is that of a dead child. She then prays for the child. She is woken up in the middle of the night by Ayano, the dead girl, asking for water. Then she continues to ask for more and more, gaining everything she wants. But then she wants Mikoto's life. Will she give it to Ayano? 8) If You Turn The Page Emiri finds the notebook of her decease mother in her study, and decides to write horror in it. But then the events that she wrote about start happening around her. She knows she must stop writing in the notebook, but suddenly her arm is taken over and forcing her to write. People around her are starting to die, but how can she stop it? 9) Red String Mayumi says that the red string tyed to her pinky is attached to her life long partner, Yuuya. And then, Yuuya is hit by a car at in intersection. But has the red string really been cut? (Source: ShoujoMagic)

Maho-chan has been able to bend spoons ever since childhood and her friend, Keisuke-kun has always been fascinated by her supernatural powers. (Source: ChinatownKM)

After being expelled from his family home, our main character tries his hand at becoming an adventurer, only to find out that things aren't quite as they seem. Determined to change his fate, and with the money he's saved up, he heads out to purchase a plot of land in the remote, unexplored wilderness, with the intent of forging his perfect new life. Little does he know, this expanse is infamous as the 'Demonic Realm,' a treacherous territory brimming with savage plants and creatures! But navigating the daily trials of this life-threatening wilderness may prove be a challenge. In his journey of growth, an array of inhabitants, each driven by their motives, decide to follow him, bringing vibrancy back into his life. However, unseen powers resolute in preventing the Demonic Realm from being conquered begin to surface... Will he be able to endure, triumph, and make this land his new home?

One day, 30-year old highschool teacher Mizuki is sent a mysterious package with a beautiful little box inside. She opens it, and finds herself in the middle of the forest of fairies. Somehow, the box has caused her to cross over to another world, and now she must find a way to live and be happy here with the help of the forest fairies, who've taken a liking to her. And what's a good way to earn some money? That's right, let's start an apothecary!

Compilation of various Iwaaki one-shots published between 1985 and 1990, including the title story *Hone no Oto* and his debut work *Gomi no Umi*, which was selected for the 12th Chiba Award. The stories are collected in the following order: 1. **Sea of Garbage** \[ ゴミの海 \]; *Morning Open Special Edition* (1985) 2. **Unfinished** \[ 未完 \]; *Morning THE Open* Issue #A, (1988); Selected for the 13th Chiba Award. 3. **Dreams that kill** \[ 夢が殺す \]; *Morning THE Open* Issue #C (1988) 4. **The Day of the Ring** \[ 指輪の日 \]; *Morning THE Open* Issue #E (1989) 5. **Watayama** \[ 和田山 \]; *Morning THE Open* Issue #D (1989) 6. **Sound of Bones** \[ 骨の音 \]; New story realized purposely for 1990's *Hone no Oto* tankobon edition. 7. **What I remember as an Assistant** \[ アシスタントで覚えた事 \]; 4 page extra story realized only for the 1990's *Hone no Oto* Masterpiece Edition.

Seven stories adapted from the horror of Hokazono Masaya.

She had a dream: the world was brimming with light. Family. School. Friends. Trains. Buses. Movies. Books. In that world of light, she grew into adulthood… and at the very end, in a white room, she fell into darkness. She awoke from the dream to find that she had become a demon. In the demon world, she lived a carefree life until she encountered a powerful being. After such a long time spent living as a demon, before she knew it, spreading in her heart was a yearning for that world of light. She plunged herself into a summoning magic circle that had appeared. Then… when she opened her eyes once again, she had become a human baby. She was in the Holy Kingdom. She felt fearful: while she was indeed a demon, she only had the strength of a baby. Her being a demon, if discovered, would be terrible. Was she a human or a demon? Would she be able to survive from here on out?

Hinata was corrupted by his stepfather and felt that he had lost the right to love his childhood friend, Tatsuya. He left home and became an escort to support himself. A pretty Shinto priest, Clayle, appeared and gave him the spear of the light’s fragment. Rele, knight of the sun shrine, appeared suddenly and told Hinata that he’d obey and protect the owner of the fragment. Clayle was imprisoned before they could find out more. What will happen from here? (Source: Attractive Fascinante) In the series: Vol.1 - Chijoku no Kusabikehen (恥辱の楔編) Vol.2 - Kanketsuhen (完結編)

Ninjas with bloodline limits begin disappearing in all the countries and blame points toward the fire nation. By Tsunade's order, Kakashi is sacrificed to prevent an all out war. After inheriting charms left by Kakashi, Naruto fights through friends and foes to prevent his death while changing the minds of those who've inherited the will of fire. (Source: Anime News Network)

When given a magic lamp, 37-year-old Tooru Sugamo wishes for his childhood dream to come true and gains all the powers he thought up once upon a time as a wannabe novelist, but it turns out an eighth grader's ideas aren't the most original - or the kinds of things you'd want causing havoc in your married life.