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.
The girl I love is my brother's ex-girlfriend. She's a trashy girl who's clingy, stubborn, and takes advantage of my weaknesses. But I can't seem to stop our relationship.
A man sets out on a journey to go away from his repetitive and boring life. He finds unbelievable things, terrible things. Note: This manga contains cannibalism.
Taro Kajiura and his friends from the same folkloristic research group at Tonan University went on a trip to Ikishima island in order to pursue the origins of the myth about princess Kwannon. At the same time the villagers of Ikishima were holding the annual festival in which outsiders were forbidden to participate in since 400 years. The consequences for breaking that rule were more severe that anyone had imagined...
Can a poem save your life?Words are powerful. Insults and rumors can derail a career; a bit of encouragement can give someone the strength to pursue their dreams. When a high school boy skipping class to sketch shoe designs and a taciturn woman drinking a morning beer meet in a Tokyo park, they say little, but the woman bids farewell with an ancient tanka poem. Will the boy figure out the poem's meaning and its corresponding response before it's too late?
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.
A text message would be sent out to people whose lives were in danger, guiding them to safety. This mysterious system called itself the "Police Inspector". One day, three youngsters—who had been saved by the Police Inspector in the past—receive another text. This time, it is the Police Inspector who needs help. Now, Natsumi, Shogo, and Teru work for the mysterious texter, who gives them clues as they track down a criminal. But who or what is this mysterious texter... and can they really trust it?
A new masterpiece from the author of Fuan No Tane, Nakayama Masaaki. It comprises of horror stories using introspection that will unhinge you ~ best for midnight viewing!
A boy jumps off a building ready to end it all.
From Anime News Network: In a near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their "ghosts" to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Kusanagi Motoko and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case involving an extremely dangerous "ghost" hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions.
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.
Takes place a few years after the first Ghost In The Shell manga. The Major has been missing since then, and Ghost in the Shell 2 follows the mysterious Motoko Aramaki as she runs an investigation into an incident at an organ factory and its consequences. She's on the run to clean up the mess and save herself in the process. Meanwhile, the former members of section 9 investigate Motoko to find out who she really is.
