Saki comes from a poor family and leads a boring life filled with constant studying. She worries about her relationship with her parents not ending well and any lingering backlash caused by their fights. One day, she happens upon a group of troublemakers who pressures her into smoking a cigarette. Somehow, her relationship with them turns out to be more pleasant than expected. The time she spends with them makes her alive and revitalized. However, this is only the beginning of her unfortunate life. A tragic suspense story about a young girl falling from grace.
Anime description: Takemoto Takeru, an ordinary high school student, encounters a strange light during a bike delivery for his part time job. When he stops and searches the surroundings, he notices a cute girl named Hikari climbing out of a sparkling cocoon in the forest. Takeru instantly falls for her at first sight, but was interrupted when suddenly a monster appears at the same spot and attacks the girl. This is the beginning of adventurous and exciting days for Takeru, the mysterious girls, Hikari and Akari, his childhood friend Nishino, Mari, and his classmates.
From Storm in Heaven: Deep in a cave lies a demon trapped in ice who will eat any human who dares enter. The demon, Blood, waits for the human who will cry the purest tears, for the gem formed from those tears will break the spell that binds him. Then one day, a young man named Ishuca appears in the cave - and knowing that his weak heart will not last long, he has come to die. Touched by Ishuca's gentle nature, Blood gradually begins to change from the cruel, ice-cold demon he once was.
Doujima Kenji and his friends decide to spend their winter vacation ghost hunting, however all but one of them cancel. Now, he finds himself alone with the girl he likes, and it turns out that there may be more to this ghost story than they had anticipated.
from Sound of Jewels: One day, Yukino received a weird message from her best friend Saho. Then when she came to school she heard about her death. Truth is, she killed herself because she was persecuted by her schoolmates... So why is her last message "run"...?
A nostalgic fantasy that takes you to the "past" at the bottom of the lake.Summer...Aohata Village, which had sunk to the bottom of the lake due to an abnormal drought, has come back to life.Takuro, a native of the village, remembers his friends who went missing in the village and heads for the lake. However, when he passes through a field of sunflowers that appears before his eyes, he finds himself in 1995, just before the village was abandoned...!
An adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's eponymous novel. It's Tokyo and the year is 1924. A young tradesman by the name of Minoura Kinnosuke finds his fiancée murdered inside a locked room. As he struggles to find the culprit, a doctor by the name of Moroto Michio, who has long harboured unrequited feelings towards Minoura, offers to help solve the case.
Cys Beckett learns of the sudden death of his brother he didn't see for 10 years. His only legacy: a disk and a son, Kai. Kai now lives with Sis and every night, comes to his bed. Sequel: Jin to Neko wa Yobu to Konai
From Dark Horse: Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging technoscape, the covert-ops agents of Section 9 are charged to track and crack the most dangerous terrorists, cybercriminals, and ghost hackers. And speaking of ghosts, when supposedly dead people start turning up walking and talking, Section 9 begins to look into the possibility that corpses are being "puppeted" from a remote location, and some serious powerbrokers may be pulling the strings. Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents for the first time in America the "lost" Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, but never collected until now. Focusing on Section 9 agents in their daily battle against technocrime, Human-Error Processor has all the mind-twisting cybermadness you've come to expect from Ghost in the Shell, but set in a more police-procedural context with action and suspense galore.
The series centers on Yui Yūri, the daughter of a death row convict imprisoned for enacting the "greatest terrorist attack in the Heisei era." At the time, Yui was nine years old, and was judged not to have been involved in her father's activities. Now she is a second-year high school student at Takekura Kosugi High School, where the Japanese prime minister and his security detail are conducting a visit. But a paramilitary force assaults the school and takes the prime minister and the students hostage, without issuing any demands. In the middle of the crisis, Yui tries to find a way to get out.
From Day of the River: Hisui, who works for the Golden Rooster Theatre Group, was orphaned when her parents were killed in a giant massacre ten years ago and her brother Kohaku was abducted. One day, she is summoned to the Emperor's palace and only agrees to go because she suspects that he is behind her brother's disappearance. Inspired by "The Story of Saiunkoku". From Baka: Hisui, a crossdresser dancer who works for the Golden Rooster Theatre Group, was orphaned when her parents were killed by a group of bandits ten years ago and her brother Kohaku was abducted. When the group performed in the capital, she met with the Emperor who looks like her missing brother. He suddenly summoned her to the imperial palace. Could the Emperor possibly be her long lost brother?!
Deciphering the memories dwelling within flora to solve each case. A classic Chinese-styled fantasy set in the inner palace. Kouken is a girl from a hidden village that are descendants of florakinetic sages. However, because of their abilities, their clan has a history of being oppressed. One day, the fourth prince Shurei, finds them and takes Kouken to the inner palace for her flora sage abilities to solve various mysteries and cases at court. This is a manga adaptation of the 20th Kadokawa Beans Novel Award winner, which won both the “Excellence Award” and the “Readers' Prize.”
