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Shinji Ikari attends the NERV Foundation Academy and lives a life of relative normality. One night he encounters Rei Ayanami and Kaworu Nagisa fleeing the scene of a violent explosion and is eventually recruited to assist them and Asuka Sohryuu Langely in fighting the Angels, who have taken on human form, in order to retrieve their cores to support the world tree, Yggdrasil. Should the Yggdrasil die, their world would be thrown into a chaotic state where parallel streams of existence collide, eventually bringing about the destruction of all things. -- Manga Updates

From Viz: Delve into the tortured past of Earl Cain C. Hargreaves, charismatic heir to a wealthy family full of secrets, lies and unthinkable crimes. The prequel to the Godchild series, The Cain Saga follows the young Cain as he attempts to unravel the secrets of his birth, all the while solving each new mystery that comes his way.

From MangaHelpers:One day, Matsui Sakura receives an invitation to a "Revenge Game," and decides to attend. At the location indicated, she ends up locked in a dorm-like building with four of her classmates. It appears that the Revenge Game is being run by a wealthy classmate, Saionji, who was bullied so badly by some of the students that it ruined his life. Now he is taking his revenge, in a brutal game that allows him to have one of his former tormentors killed each morning.However, Sakura--a lonely, quiet, orphan girl--does not understand why she is there, unless it was due to her inaction in stopping the bullying of others. She's also the only one who received an invitation, while the others were abducted or tricked into attending. What is the final purpose of this game? [tethysdust]

From ShoujoMagic:A collection of short horror stories from the pages of Ciao Magazine.Story 01 - The Scream of GlassStory 02 - I Want The Lead RoleStory 03 - Exciting Mysterious ClubStory 04 - I Want To Be With You ForeverStory 05 - Haunted AfternoonStory 06 - My Place In The World

From JShoujo:It's a story about a girl who lost her every memory. One stormy night a sudden meeting changes her life forever. She starts anew while still trying to set the pieces of the puzzle that was once her life. Soon after, a love that puts everything on a line is born in the girl's heart.

There's a game going around Japan called 'Rabbit Doubt'. The premise of the game is that all of the players are rabbits in a colony, and one amongst them is randomly chosen to be a wolf that infiltrated the group of rabbits. Every round, the wolf kills off a rabbit, and every round, the group tries to figure out which of the rabbits is actually a wolf in disguise. Sometimes the kids who play this game decide to meet up in person, and Yuu, Mitsuki, Rei, Hajime, Eiji, and Haruka have done just that. Unfortunately, one of them has decided to take on the mantle of the wolf and has already killed once. Who is the wolf, and can they be stopped before everyone meets a very unpleasant end?

Rion is on a mission to find her missing friend Shihoko. Her only two clues are a card given to her by Shihoko and a confession that her best friend was in love with a vampire. Thus she heads down to a club filled with pretty male escorts whom she insists are vampires. Suou, the owner of the club, insists that he doesn't know a Shihoko at all and claims that they are not vampires. So, he decides to chase her out of the club. In order to obtain the truth, Rion throws a very, very expensive bottle of wine onto the ground to prove that she is not leaving, for now she has to work part-time at the club. Later, she realizes that Suou and gang are not the vampires that kidnapped Shihoko. However, in the nick of life and death for both Shihoko and Rion, another group of vampires comes along to save them. So, who are the real vampires now?

from hp :Onizawa is a detective who recently got a divorce. One of his colleagues, Honda, is murdered in what seems to be linked to other detectives that have been murdered. Yashiro is another detective that Onizawa has taken an interest in, but also seems to have had a close relationship with Honda in some way. Because of how young he is though how did he know Honda and can Onizawa get closer to Yashiro who strongly dislikes him?3) Chuu Ken no SusumeShort story about a boy, his mixed half brother and a dog.4) Kotteru OtokoA dark story on a cheating man with a weird fetish.5) Gakuen TengokuA restless student tries to amuse himself by teasing his classmate.

Description : From Tokyopop: CLAMP School Detectives focuses on the exploits of Akira, Nokoru, and Suoh - 3 pre-teen sleuths - and their quest to make the CLAMP world safe for the girls in their class ...

Two twins, separated by fatal illness and a selective cure. Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim to stone. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to go into a sort of cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the undetermined future, Kasumi awakens to find herself and others who were in suspended animation in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Resolving to unlock the mysteries of her current situation and the fate of her twin sister, Kasumi struggles to survive in a treacherous world.

From Yen Press:Michiru Kita's a weak-spirited girl who has a hard time saying what's on her mind. One day, she notices mysterious, ring-like markings around the necks of two of her classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana two boys who miraculously survived a horrible accident six months before. Michiru, possessing the rare ability to see these rings, knows that they warn of impending death. Thinking that, perhaps, she can do something to save her classmates' lives, she approaches thembut it seems the boys have already made a different kind of deal and garnered themselves a heavy debt.

Akihiko, searching for answers about the early-death curse that afflicted his father, returns to the rural family seat, but when he arrives, he is faced with only more questions. What is the nature of his family's curse, and why does it strike down only male descendants? Who was the Meiji-era ghost that appears in Akihiko's visions? Above all, does his mysterious cousin Ren have the answers that he seeks? Find out in Miyamoto Kano's new Time-skip mystery, Sleeping Moon.(Taken from liquid passion)

The first half of the book is made up by the titular story, a serial killer thriller that gets all kinds of meta and crazy as it progresses. The second half of the book consists of a short interview with Kago (and Ryuichi Kasumi, a Japanese crime fiction writer) and a number of short stories. (from Caterpillar).

An adaptation of the DS-only Kageboushi-hen arc, and a retelling of Onisarashi-hen through the eyes of policewoman Tomoe Minai.Extra:Publishers:Comp Ace (magazine)

Meet Kazahaya and Rikuo. By day, they are two ordinary workers at the Green Drug pharmacy; by night, their boss has them filling 'special prescriptions' for clients with ailments that can't be cured using ordinary elixirs. Note: The original series went on hiatus for many years, and has only recently been picked up again. The continuation is "Drug and Drop" and picks up where the original series left off.

There is a special organization known as "anonymous" which takes children and raises them without names, without feelings, without souls. Then it sends them out to kill. Can emotions get through to these cold-hearted killers?A sequence of stories that deal with a few of the organization's members.

Meet Pamela, a tarot card reader who helps supernatural beings living in the human world. She'll help anyone, whether they're a love-stricken cat, a vampire spending eternal life running from his one true love, an unattractive waitress looking for the man of her dreams, or even a magician who creates a humanoid doll to serve the woman he loves. Although she is good-natured, there is a deep dark secret that she must deal with before she can move on to the next life.

Once upon a time, there existed a giant tree that was the source of mana. A war, however, caused this tree to wither away, and a hero's life was sacrificed in order to take its place. Grieving over the loss, the goddess disappeared unto the heavens. The goddess left the angels with this edict: "You must wake me, for if I should sleep, the world shall be destroyed." The angels bore the Chosen One, who headed towards the tower that reached up unto the heavens. And that marked the beginning of the regeneration of the world.Colette is the next Chosen of Mana to undertake the Journey of Regeneration in order to regenerate the dying world of Sylvarant. On the Day of Prophecy, Colette receives the oracle at the Martel Temple and thus began her journey to heaven. Together with her two childhood friends Lloyd and Genis, her teacher Raine and the mercenary Kratos hired to protect her, they set off on a journey to regenerate the world.

Based on the game of the same name, a variety of authors and artists write a large offering of short stories starring the various characters featured in the game. The stories range from being lovingly heartfelt, packed full of comedy and gags or being downright evil or messed up sometimes!Note: These are NOT doujin. These are official comic anthologies licensed by Spike Chunsoft, the developers of the Danganronpa series.

Kyoya Iida is a hard-nosed detective from the Shinjuku Police precinct. He is known in the force as an unreasonable type who would use lethal force to solve cases, making him unpopular with the enlisted and high-ranking officers in the National Police Agency.Despite this, there are some in the force who admire Iida for his bravery and cleverness in using lethal force to solve criminal cases whenever legal means are met with a dead end.

"Sensei, is this a boy or a girl?""Do you want to know?"Ichijo Mashiro and fellow classmates are enlisted in a mysterious weekly class that takes the form of a shared nightmare. Like most teenagers, Mashiro has a secret.. he's neither fully male nor female!So far, Mashiro's been able to live life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed of a new class he 'must' partake in order to graduate from his elite preparatory school. To pass, he must find the key and the one way to find it is to enter into a nightmare world, where his body and soul are put at the mercy of the worst kind of enemies -- other school students, who are battling to find the key.From renowned author Mizushiro Setona, comes a riveting epic mystery that lies between the students, that will have you engrossed from one page to the next. Happiness, sadness, blood and tears will all be shown, but which one leads to an ending? Take the next step into the world of After School Nightmare!From Go! Comi:Like most teenagers, Mashiro Ichijo has a secret. But Mashiro's secret is that he's neither fully male nor female! So far, Mashiro's been able to live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed of a new class he must take in order to graduate from his elite prep school. To pass, he must find the "Key"and the only way to find it is to enter into a nightmare world where his body and soul are put at the mercy of the worst kind of enemies: his classmates!

Riu Rokugiya is the only daughter of a famous Kabuki theatre house. Since she was small, she had always dreamt the same dream about meeting a man under the red moon. A man she didn't know, until she attended one of the performances of her brothers. The man turns out to be one of the Akatsukiya's heir, Rui.The Akatsukiyas were distant relative of the Rokugiyas. Just recently, its Head, Ashikawa Enjuuro died. The family is on the process of choosing its successor among the three adopted sons, one of which is Rui.What relation will Rui have with Riu? Why was she dreaming of him dying every night?

Tokage, a soul cursed to forever wander the world, unable to rest nor to join the reincarnation cycle, is now looking for its release.This time Tokage enters the body of a newly dead girl named Yuuka, a shrine maiden. This body requires continual recharging from a highly spiritual person, whom the dead person must have had an attachment to. This person is Shinobu, a younger boy, who also lives in that shrine.Thus starts the adventures of Tokage and Shinobu in a world gone mad, amidst the chaos and carnage that gravitates to an unsent soul draw.

[Paradise Love Scanlations]Ayase moves from japan to an academy by an e-mail friend DADDY LONG-LEGGS. This school has a KING. The king has only one precious thing in his life. How can Ayase stop these games played in the school, and can he rescue his friend MARK? The person standing in a rank for himself, Litch, tells him to become king. Where is the KING'S precious one?"the game has already ended"

This is the story of a very smart student called Hirama Ren who is used to always getting the top results in his school, and is the chairman of the student's council. One day, he walks past a group of bullies and asks them to leave--and because of that, they decide to teach him a lesson. They decide to beat up a couple of guys and they reported it to the teachers, blaming him.Hirama on being blamed sees the weakness of humans and so he decides to attain the power that would allow him to change the world into an ideal world...one without such weak and pathetic people...the people who hide from responsibilities and blame others.Coincidentally, his vice-chairperson called him and asked if he was fine with her inviting a hypnotist for some event at school to hype up the school population. He thought it might be THE ability that he was looking for, so he agreed to it. During the "trial" test of the hypnotist's ability, he set up some plan and later on used it to test if hypnosis was able to hypnotise people who were avoiding it. With his new found knowledge, how will Hirama use this new power to reshape the world?- Taken and Edited from Endless Abyss.

Haiba Sumio is a student at a Tokyo High School with an interesting ability... He occasionally falls asleep and wakes up with premonitions of the future written out on his "Dream Diary." With this ability, Sumio helps out people in trouble before anything bad happens, until one day when his peaceful life completely changes.

The story starts off with a bunch of high-school students, taking the dare to go up to this abandoned building that has been half destroyed by a fire. It was rumoured to be haunted. Just a rumour, right? Not when real corpses start showing up, and they start feeling things grabbing them, and finally zombies going after them! Shikabane Hime is there to save the day. The immortal girl, "Shikabane Hime," has the mission to "kill" 108 corpses. It's a contract she has between herself and the Buddhist monk, Keisei. After 108 corpses, she will finally get her happiness and go to heaven.

From Bliss:Takashi is haunted at night by visions of a woman begging for her child not to be taken away. He sometimes sees strange shadows outside his window, but tries his best to simply ignore them. As his seventeenth birthday approaches, the shadow becomes more and more clear, and the vision more vivid. Slowly, the once kind and caring Takashi becomes indifferent, and eventually cold and biting towards everyone around him. What does this sudden change in attitude have to do with his seventeenth birthday?

From Entropy:Set in 1809, this story involves Carl Czerny, Franz Peter Schubert, and Ludwig van Beethoven as they attempt to investigate the mystery surrounding Mozart's piece "Mozart's Lullabies," driven by the death of a storeowner. Want to know more? Want to unravel the mystery? Read it!

Yashima Kashiwagi is a freshman who has transferred to the elite Kusushu Gakuen High School. He quickly became friends with Hasebe Yuki living next door and Kimi Miyazaki. He tries to adapt to his new environment and being friendly with everyone but apparently the class has some "rules" that everyone must obey otherwise there will be consequences! What does this mean though? A reason for bullying or something more sinister is happening?

Himeko, an heiress of the largest company in Japan, however she always falls in love for the "violent" type of man.Shuu-chan her kouhai and only friend hates violence but has vowed to protect her, Just what is their real relationship?

For years the rash tomboyish Tsubasa had communicated with her twin through letters. She had formed the idea that the gentle Arisa led a joyful school life. But upon Arisa's sudden suicide attempt, Tsubasa vows to find the reason behind her twin's actions by taking her place at school. But will this supposed joyful life be too much for Tsubasa to handle? What does it have to do with the people disappearing from Arisa's school...

The four books contains five horror stories related to a primary school kid named Sou. Sou has an ability to foresee supernatural events in his dreams and even to make changes that will eventually happen in reality. The five stories are the Eroded Scissors, the Disappeared Rubber, the Tongue of the Spider Queen, the Black Picture-book, and Shadow Dead. All of the scary stories are linked by his unique experience.Spanish: Narracin de los 5 horrores de un nio de primaria llamado Sou. Sou tiene la habilidad de prever eventos sobrenaturales en sus sueos e incluso cambiar ciertas cosas que cambiarn la realidad. Estas cinco historias son las Tijeras Oxidadas, el Borrador Borrado, la Lengua de la Reina Araa, el Libro Negro de Ilustraciones y Sombras del Pasado. Todas estas horrorificas historias estan unidas mediante esta nica experiencia.

SERIES 4: Diamond is Unbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable follows Josuke Higashikata and his good friend Koichi Hirose as they protect their town from the influx of Stand users. Jotaro Kujo arrives to warn Josuke about the Bow and Arrow a mysterious man is using to bring out a person's Stand abilities, but it is up to Josuke, Koichi and their allies to defeat those who would use their Stand abilities for evil - most notably Yoshikage Kira.

Several stories, part of Miamoto Kano's "Moony Trilogy" that revolves around men's dormitory in a regional university:1.) Story about student who is suffering from leukaemia.2-4.) Romantic story between Suwa and English literature assistant professor5.) When Akihito takes out his trash, he hardly expects to find a stack of gay porno by the bin, much less to meet the proud ex-owner, Ryouichi. To Ryouichi, however, it seems that Akihito has taken the bait. A game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to some of Miyamoto Kano's steamiest sex scenes!6.) Story about boy who lost his parents at childhood and was sexually abused by his uncle.7.) A story about a guy who was fired because of his homosexuality and a boy who was kicked out of his house for the same reason.

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Naruse Kazuki and Koutake Haruki are on the advanced track of Seitoukou Academy. Though they are not connected by blood, these two whose faces are so similar coincidentally have their 16th birthdays on November 11th. However, on that fateful anniversary, the cogs of fate have begun to turn. A game involving both their destinies has now begun!-Please note the first set of chapters have been deleted at Entropy's request if you would like to read the please visit their site

Eighth story arc of JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken series.Following the Great East Japan earthquake, Morioh has been stricken by vast earthen protrusions known by the locals as Wall Eyes. Despite investigation, professional estimations are left empty. Meanwhile, the young girl Yasuho Hirose discovers a man buried within the ground, he possesses a distinctive star-shaped birthmark together with deeply penetrating bite marks. The man, who has contracted a staple case of amnesia is taken in by a local family and given the name Jousuke Higashikata, however mysterious events cannot stop from piling one upon the other and soon that enigma known as stand emerges to complement the great cloud of confusion.

Folklore detective Asou Daisuke would rather deal with normal, everyday, things like cheating spouses, embezzling partners and the like. (That and his huge collection of ero-manga.) Because whenever he deals with the supernatural, he gets the hiccups. But no matter, an endless stream of desperate people come to him troubled by what he calls allegories. Those are stories, usually urban legends, that one believes to be true and if one believes strong enough can cause them to become true. His first case involves "The Man Under The Bed." Can he stop this creepy man with an axe before he chops up kawaii Hiranuma Kanae? Why does Asou count his hiccups, and just who is that strange girl in his bathroom?

Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The manga presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the serial killer and hacker known only as "The Laughing Man."

Mizushima, a florist shop staff, wanders into a big mansion's garden because he's attracted to the flowers there. Fujisawa, who lives alone in that mansion, suddenly came to request for a flower arrangement from him. Upon arriving at Fujisawa's mansion again, Mizushima is caressed by himIs he only playing around with Mizushima? What are his true intentions?

Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed...transformed himself into something else...something hard...something lethal.Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life...and what's left is revenge.Manga that inspired hit Korean movie Old Boy!

The father of high school student, Katsuragi Yako, has been brutally murdered. The incident filled with mysteries drives Yako's daily life into confusion... As the investigation progresses slowly, a man named Nougami Neuro appears before Yako saying that he wants to eat the ultimate "riddle"...!The Demon Neuro has a raging hunger for mysteries.' Being dissatisfied with his current regime in hell, he's come into the mortal realm in order to satiate his ever-growing appetite. The murder case of a young girl's father seems to be sufficiently enticing for the Demon's needs... But what else might happen between these two?

A desolate town thought a new chemical facility would bring economic revival but instead chaos breaks loose after a gas leak. It causes a mysterious and toxic fog to consume the town, leaving behind a trail of death and mutation. The fearful townspeople begin their fight to survive while the government tries to hide the truth behind the event.

Death is usually the end, but for Erik, it's just the beginning. Though he can't remember anything before he died, he remembers that he wants revenge and a reason why he was killed. Together with Moll, the mysterious girl who brought him back, the two embark on a journey to find out who they are and what circumstances put them in their current predicament.

Becoming part of a family... Bohm(Spring in Korean), on his way to give his dad, Detective Kim,(who's been working for 10-days-straight) some underpants at the police station, sees a girl by a vending machine and wishes to see her again... Mahnsoo, the only witness to an important criminal case must undergo a disguise as a girl and stay together with Detective Kim's family until the investigation is over and the case ends. So he meets Bohm again, and apparently he looks awfully similar to a girl that Bohm misses when in disguise... Will they get along?

Their city is filled with criminals and three incredible high schoolers. Yugo, Rikiya and Tusk are determined to clean up the city with whatever means necessary, even if that means using violence. During a typical night of wiping out gangs, Tusk comes across a beautiful girl held prisoner. She helps him survive what would have been a mortal wound by allowing him to see the future. Tusk takes her home where he finds that her name is Noah, she doesn't speak at all, and has no memory. Even more fascinating to Tusk, she bears the same tattoo as the person he has been searching for, for years.