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From AnimeNewsNetwork: She calls herself Sexy Voice. To most of the world, she's just Hayashi Niko, an ordinary schoolgirl - but when time permits, she lives a double life as a hired investigator/spy. To help her, she has recruited the rather unlikely assistant she calls Robo, a geeky lump of a man who doesn't really know why he feels the need to do everything she tells her to. He just does it. Together, the odd team solve a number of cases for Sexy Voice's employer, an aging gangster.

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?

Although a 19th-century philosopher once said that "God is dead" (It was Nietzsche) the Rakia story has God descending to Earth in the 21st century and assuming the form of a girl. ("Rakia" is the Hebrew word for the skies or the firmament.)

From Paradise Love Scanlations:A policeman and Kaitou's chasing love story. In the day, he's a gentle coffee shop owner. At night, he is a big charismatic thief...

In 1986, eleven members of the Ushiromiya family and several of their servants were trapped and mysteriously murdered on Rokkenjima, which the Golden Witch Beatrice claims to be responsible for. While Battler Ushiromiya is unable to defeat her and explain how the murders occurred without magic, he refuses to acknowledge Beatrice, forcing their game to continue with higher stakes. As the events on Rokkenjima are begin again, Eva Ushiromiya succeeds in solving the Epitaph of the Golden Witch in order to become the head of the Ushiromiya family and inherit the family's massive fortune. However, a phantom of Eva's dark side emerges and uncontrollably begins to wreck havoc on the island as Beatrice's successor.

A university professor who specializes in figuring out the mentality of crime suspects is asked to help solve cases. He also has a relationship with his assistant.

Sakura Gari is gorgeous Taishou Era romantic story, ten years in the making. It centers around the 17 year old Tagami Masataka as he is aiming to find his place in life. While attempting to start prep school as a rounin he encounters Saiki Souma, the son of a distinguished noble of the Saiki Koushyaku family and becomes part of the Saiki household .It seems as though this will be the story of Tagami's life, taking us through both him growing up physically and emotionally. Be aware that there is sexual and yaoi (boy x boy) content within this story. The first chapter is only getting us started...-- Manga Updates

Susumu Hayashi, his twin brother Tsutomu and Sakura Toyama are childhood friends. Tsutomu disappeared when he was ten years old. Then two years later, he reappearedthis time only in front of Susumu. And what's more, from inside a mirror! Now, events that no one has ever experienced take place in this bizarre love triangle!!Aoyama's love story starts off with a twist: The twin brothers Susumu and Tsutomu have been friends with the girl Sakura since they were kids. But when Tsutomu mysteriously disappears at the age of ten, Susumu and Sakura begin to drift apart. What Sakura doesn't know: Tsutomu has returned, not as a person, but as the mirror image of Susumu. That is, whenever Susumu looks in a mirror, he sees his brother who talks to him. Thus begins a bizarre love triangle between Sakura, who torments the poor Susumu as much as she is being tormented by her peers, Susumu, who keeps thinking he has to save Sakura because he likes her, and Tsutomu, who despite being stuck in a mirror pulls everyone's strings.Aoyama's lively narrative and her beautifully rich artwork lend this strange story a surprisingly charming touch. Considering that SWWEEET is her first series, it's amazing how well she did her job. From the paneling to the layout to the pacing, everything is excellently executed. If you like unusual and exotic youth love stories, you should definitely give SWWEEET a try.

From Kodanclub:An ordinary, quiet town is shaken by a series of bizarre happenings brought about by the darkness in human hearts. There are no solutions in the real world: Only "Dream Messengers" can find the answers. Dream messengers connect the fabulous with the real and control the power of dreams. Their leader, Toko Mishima, works with 8 other messengers using the powers given by an old spell and a toy made by Toko's father. Toko, her younger sister Rinko, Hajime Tachibana, who loves young girls, and the six other Dream Messengers are given the names of days or stars - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Raff and Keito.

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.

[From Storm in Heaven]: Possessing extraordinary detective skills and even helping out at the police department can't be normal, and anyone who knows Uryuu Nanao knows that she's different from the rest. It is this distinctiveness that draws both Karasuma Nozomi and Sakuragawa Nozomi to her despite Nanao's attempts to distance herself from them both. However, a series of murders take place and Nanao is forced to enlist their help in order to unravel the truth behind her father's murder. Just who is the real mastermind behind the ongoing murders and why are they targeting Nanao? And what is the secret left behind by Nanao's father?

The spinoff will focus on Rohan Kishibe, an eccentric mangaka that appeared in Part 4 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable.The story begins with Rohan Kishibe being requested by the cook of the town of Morio, possibly Tonio Trussardi. Rohan is asked by Tonio to retrieve mysterious ingredients lying in the ocean of Morio.

From Shoujo Manga Maniac:Ruri is desperate to see the mysterious jewel thief Kaitou Crow. If she becomes a jewelry model, will she be able to see him again when he robs her?

A collection of short stories, most of which are centered in a broken world where nothing is as it seems.

With the help of a friendly ghost, Masaki, Ono-sensei can examine his young patient's teeth without much fuss. It seems that only Ono-sensei and children can see Masaki. He brings a calming presence, which is convenient for children at the dentist and for Ono-sensei as well. But is he really a ghost? He doesn't remember much about his past but for some reason, he's very attached to Ono-sensei. So much so that Masaki hangs out around the office and even walks Ono-sensei home. Once they reach the entrance to Ono-sensei's apartment however, Masaki is asked to stay out. Ono-sensei doesn't want Masaki to know that something else haunts him behind closed doors.

From Evil Flowers:For Ran, love never goes well. She is having an affair with Tabuchi, her married boss, and once, when they quarreled, she was saved by Kazuya, a man she used to be in love with a long time ago. Kazuya used to be a close friend of Ran's brother, but one day, he just disappeared. Ran had been drawn apart from him since then. After their reunion, Ran's old feelings came back to life. However, there are many dark rumors surrounding Kazuya. Ran tries to find the truth, but a dark shadow is starting to settle over her life as well. What could be the reason for this?!

Hagiri Town is a lonely country town. People have sometimes avoided getting into that topic because of the unusual nature of 56 people missing in the past 30 years. Meanwhile, a male teacher, Gunji has been assigned to a high school in the town. Wherein he is responsible as class deputy and also to take over the floral arrangements club. As head of that club he receives a poisonous red flower from an old man who donates flowers to the school, butthis was the beginning of a nightmare that would change everything!

High school girl Ai had a strange dream about a childhood past in which she was rescued by a little boy who promised to protect her. The dream seems like a fragment of her memory but she does not have any recollection of the past. Things start to get stranger when there is a guy in her class whom she does not recognize at all. It seems that everyone in the class knows about Akizuki Tohru except for her. Sensing something strange about Tohru, Ai went to conduct an investigation on him and found that the school has no records of him. After confronting him, Tohru eventually admits that he is an ESPer who has infiltrated into the school to investigate on the string of drug-overdose deaths that have been happening in school. This begins the story of Ai's involvement in the life of Tohru and the dangerous events behind the investigation...

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 Storm in Heaven:Judges are the messengers of the Central Government, sent out to punish delinquent cities. They have the ability to control programmed "seeds", causing explosive growth. After a disease breaks out among the "Children of Babel", those Judges who're given power through Central's research, Central requires the data of a natural Judge like Sion. However, Central is also interested in the legend of the "Heavenly City", which Sion is named after; what could their true purpose be?

Ayaka has a dear friend named Hiroko. Hiroko suddenly vanishes from Ayaka's life, saying that she must save someone important to her. Since that time, Ayaka hasn't heard anything from Hiroko, until a girl's corpse is washed up on shore, and she's holding a letter from Hiroko which reads: "Come save me." Ayaka sets off to save her best friend, and ends up in a mysterious school where everything seems too good to be true. Is it?

From Inane:Death, Enchantments, Fairies, Spirits...all these elements twist amongst themselves to offer a mysterious World End Fairytale for us. Join Koroku Morisaki as he unravels the truth that lies behind the conscience of several other characters with promising roles.Like a broken stage effect/ Standing in continuous snowfall/ The girl told me... / This is the last winter / A quiet ending../ It is the World End... So begins World End Fairytale, a series with great art, and even more so, Maki Hakoda's distinctive style in both story and presentation

Also known as "Whispers of the Heart." This heart warming manga was made into a world renowned anime by the famous Hayao MIYAZAKI / and Studio Ghibli / . Shizuku Tsukishima loves books. One day, she notices that the name Seiji Amasawa appears on the checkout cards of nearly every book she's borrowed! Before she realizes it, her heart is pounding for a boy she's never met...and that's when a mysterious black cat and Shizuku's sense of wonder guide her to an unusual shop--and introduce her to someone she's been curious to meet! Amazing things can happen...when you listen to your heart.

From AQUA Scans:Marie is a shy college student and also a doll maker. Then one day, she is trapped in a gothic mansion by a mysterious young man calling himself "Kahrel." Kahrel demands that she "Creates the "people" that make up the world" for him if she wants to leave. The terrified Marie then has the dolls she's made in past come to life, and are bearing down on her! Gothic Doll Fantasy!!

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!

Opus is Kon's metafictional tale of Chikara Nagai, a creator under pressure to finish his latest graphic novel, Resonance, who finds that the harshest critic of the shock ending he's got planned is the character who'll have to die in it! Nagai's strengths and weaknesses as a creator are tested beyond their limits as his present and his past, and the worlds of the manga and of reality, become the levels of a maze he may never escape... let alone get a chance to resolve the story!

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Deep Black (a superhero reminiscent of Batman) sets out to solve the mystery of the Glory of the Seven Sages paintings. Mystery shrouds the situation and the characters as Deep Black encounters car chases, burglary cases, bomb threats, and meets Ghost, the handsome thief who escapes and slips away from DB.

Prologue of "Cloud Atlas", a movie released in 2012, drawn by SIU, creator of "Tower of God".

Soko starts feeling sick soon after moving to a new city, apparently for no reason. As beautiful as she is, a lot of guys start to bother her, especially Kashi. While trying to rape her, Kashi disappears and after a few days another guy shows up pretending to be Kashi. And everyone but Soko believes him!He tells her he is Akira the Byakko, from the family of the West. Because she is the reincarnation of Souryo, the queen of the Oni from the family of the East, a monster that eats humans to stay alive, he must destroy her and erase her genes from Earth. He is the only one who can kill her and the one that must do so. Soko is desperate. Is she really a monster? Why does she have human memories? Why does she have to die? Will she be able to change her destiny and stay alive? from SIH

A horror-mystery thriller drawn with Mr. Nohman's signature unsettling style makes us question why we live and what makes us human.With seemingly nothing left to live for Kim finds suicide as the only means of escaping the cold reality of the world around her. That is, until one day when a stranger with an even stranger request comes to her for help. Chaos and calamity ensues as the atrocities and heartaches that have created Kim, the stranger and a mysterious Dr. Foster begin to unfold and begin to enlighten us as to how sinister this world truly is.The story investigates the monsters among us, and the monstrous things we do to others and most importantly, to ourselves.

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.

From MangaHelpers: Puzzle fanatic Daimon Kaito has been crazy about solving brain teasers, puzzles and riddles his entire life. He attends the prestigious Root Academy with Nonoha, but spends most of his time creating and solving puzzles. Kaito is one of the few genius teenagers that attend the school who has been given the title Einstein, along with his other just as brilliant classmates who were given the titles Galileo, Edison and Da Vinci. Together, they attempt to solve a puzzle that, since its creation centuries ago, has never been solved. But the genius students soon realize that there are dangerous forces behind the impossible puzzle. [vyc]

From BGscansFive people, 24 years old. Their first memory starts in 1994, and it all revolves around a mysterious crime that occurred... Will they be able to escape the dangers?

From JShoujo Scans:With the ability to see the negative emotions of people, and to see it as if they're monsters, whose character can be different and weird, she is Deng. Because no one can understand how she feels, a wall has been built around her heart. However, after living with her innocent brother and with the help with some good friends and Karas, the person that can consume evil intensions, her world has begun to change

One Day in the Life of Ivan Dejavu manga summary: A collection of short stories:1. One Day In The Life of Ivan Dejavu - Business Jump (Shueisha) 1986 March2. Fangs of the Sea - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1979 January 25th Extra Edition3. Emperor of Winter - Young Magazine (Kodansha) 1996 July4. Alice (Part 1) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 August5. Alice (Part 2) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 September6. Alice (Part 3) - Comic Tom (Shio Shuppansha) 1985 October7. Hunters at Dawn - Weekly Shonen Jump (Shueisha) 1976 Issue 288. Lightning Strike - Monthly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1975 August9. A Tale of Seven Cities, Battle of Pell Strait, Extra Chapter - Tanaka Yoshiki Doku-hon (Hayakawa Shobo), 1994 September 30th

From Project Bite Me! Scanlations: The creator of Baoh and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure presents a manga about magic and mysteries! You'll meet him at 13:13 pm, on Friday the 13th. He'll do an uncanny intro where he plays a trick on you! And wherever he goes, trouble seems to always follows. Who is this person that creates such incidents? None other than Cool Shock BT!

In the midst of a female-kidnapping serial killer incident, Makoto's best friend Hinano has vanished completely. Desperate to find her before it's too late, Makoto will try anything-- even invoking the resident phantom student of her middle school, Yotsuya-sempai!Surprisingly, Yotsuya-sempai appears to be an actual person. He's obsessed with creating the scariest stories ever, using the people and situations in Makoto's middle school to stage them. Though Yotsuya is mostly just interested making scary stories, Makoto finds that his stories tend to contain a kernel of truth and that they can reveal their terrible truth in the telling. But as Makoto helps Yotsuya stage his tales, can she convince him to tell the story of the whereabouts of her best friend?

From Nagareboshi Manga:Kitazono Meiko falls asleep in the library one day, only to be awakened by a kiss! She is unsure of who it was that kissed her, however, since there are multiple boys still in the library. Could it be the popular boy Shinoda-senpai? Or the super-cool Mikoshiba-senpai? The boy-next-door type Mogami? Or the cute underclassman Hachiya? Who could it be? They're all possible candidates, but which one does Meiko like the best...?Oneshot in volume 1:Soprano (released by Ouiratsuike)Oneshots in volume 2:Anna no kami ga nagai riyuu (released by Sound of Jewels)Hakka drops (released by Sound of Jewels)

Normal City is set in the far future where mankind exists on other planets. The existence of ESPs is accepted- but only as a "tool" for the army.The main character's name, "Kitty 101", was given to her by a scientist named Troll. Kitty 101 was biologically created by combining several strings of DNA with man-made DNA. She was also given an XY chromosome which turns her into a male on a regular basis.When she was a baby, Kitty 101 was stolen by one of Troll's scientists, Jason Haven, who wanted to save her from the experiments. He named her Mars Haven and brought her up as his own daughter because she reminded him of his lost daughter.Time passes, and Troll proceeds with his experiments on the ESPs under his disposal.

A scientist finds a brain in an alley and implants it into the body of his beloved, Nina. It turns out the brain belonged to a boy, Misumi Yutaka, and he is none too happy to find himself in a female body. What happened to Yutaka's body and why was his brain in the middle of an alley? What will happen to "Nina" when the female parts of "her" body start to have an effect on "his" mind? You'll have to read to find out.

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Chaos;Head's story is set in 2008 in Shibuya and is centered around Takumi Nishij?, a high school student at the private Suimei Academy, and the strange and brutal murders that have recently occurred in the Shibuya area, known as the "New Generation" (????????????) Madness. The story begins on September 28 with Takumi talking to an online friend called Grim (??? Gurimu?). Grim is trying to bring Takumi up to speed about the recent New Generation events since Takumi is not interested in local or international news. A person named Shogun (???) joins the chat room midway through Grim and Takumi's conversation. After Grim leaves the chat room, Sh?gun begins to talk. He speaks in a very cryptic and confusing manner, leaving Takumi nervous. He then sends Takumi a barrage of image links, one of which appears to be of a brutal murder of a man being pinned by stakes to a wall.The next day, Takumi comes across a real life murder scene. Witnessing a mysterious pink-haired girl pinning a man up by stakes in an alleyway, he immediately realizes he is witnessing the very murder detailed in the pictures he received the day before. Convinced Shogun is targeting him and the girl he saw committing the murder is somehow connected to him, Takumi tries to avoid getting involved with other New Generation events. However, as Takumi begins attempting to distance himself from the crime he witnessed, he soon catches interest of the police.With the police suspecting him, and himself convinced that he is being targeted by Shogun, Takumi finds himself caught in a spiral of delusions and paranoia, as he desperately tries to keep himself safe and figure out why he is apparently being targeted. He eventually comes into contact with several other people related to the events, including the girl he saw committing the murder herself. Unsure of what is real or who he can trust, Takumi finds himself thrust into a much larger scheme than he ever thought possible, as the mysterious company NOZOMI carefully plots something from behind the scenes.From Baka-Updates:Takumi is a high school student. He is withdrawn and is not interested in 3D things. In his town, a mysterious serial murder case happens and people get panicked. One day, when he chats on the internet, a man suddenly contacts him and gives him an URL. He goes to the website and finds a blog image that suggests a next murder case... On the next day, it really happens... Could he be really the one responsible? And where is the D-sword that he is supposed to find?

Sait Yu'ichi, a boy without prospects, decides to kill himself at the turn of the year. However, a fateful meeting with a stranger, Mitsumune Sakutar, who is his complete opposite, changes Yu'ichi's future in a way he could never have imagined.

The first collection of volumized short stories by the author of "For You in Full Blossom" / ("Hanazakari no Kimitachi e").1) The Dreaming Leaf (Yume Miru Happa) -Futaba (Two Leaves) departs for Tokyo to attend high school there. In order to relieve the financial burden slightly and achieve independence, she finds a live-in work situation at an old mansion. She becomes (fighting) friends with one of three good-looking fortune-telling employees there, Masato, who attends her same high school and is even in her same class. But then one day, Futaba discovers the secret of the old mansion... which is--!?2) 17 Romance (17 [Juunana] Romansu) -Natsume, now in high school, was raised like the son her father never had, and so she's determined never to lose out to any man. Homare Misono has been her guy friend for 17 years. Despite their closeness, Natsume always feels the disadvantage her gender places her at. Homare is stronger and better than her at a lot of things. And after saving her from a pervert on the streets, he kisses her...!?3) The Law of Couples (Futari no Housoku) -The Law of Couples states that all things happen in pairs -- including people. Sakiko seems to have found her missing half in Akio, a boy in her same class who always seems to say exactly what she's thinking. But who is she falling in love with? Akio, or the part of herself that she sees in him...?4) 3) Heat Fruit (Haato no Kajitsu) -Meron and her best friend, Chiho, both have a crush on Uchiyama! Meron finds out after she's already told Chiho that she has a crush, so she needs to lie about who she likes in order to protect Chiho's feelings. She chooses... Ryou! The scariest, coldest guy in school, rumored to be an underground ring leader! If anyone will reject her love confession, it'll be him! It works, but then Chiho begins to cry for Meron's sake, and Meron turns to mush... she tells Chiho that she'll try harder to win Ryou's love...!? How deep is she going to dig her grave?? But... for some reason, Ryou really doesn't seem that scary to Meron...

A collection of oneshots some which are related with a final chapter linking all the dashing guys together.1)Prisoner of the Desert- Businessman lackey Hibiki thought his one night stand with Prince Zyad in Japan would be the last time he would see the handsome sheik. But when he visits Zyad's country and is falsely imprisoned as a spy, there's only one man he can turn to.2)Embraced by Guiltiness- When there's a press leak at the ministry, everyone falls under suspicion. When ladies man Yura discovers Shirase's lover is a man and a member of the press he decides to use the information to get Shirase into bed. But Shirase still has a much more damaging secret...3)The Long Night- Policeman Kayano is investigating the spy in the ministry. His no. one suspect: ex-college friend and current lover Takashina. Can there be a relationship without trust? What is Takashina hiding?4)Escort- With frequent violent attacks on his person, analyst Asami Shinobu is assigned a 24 hour bodyguard to keep him safe. Unfortunatly his bodyguard is a former one night stand named Saeki Yuuji. With Saeki in his personal space at all times, Asami's feelings are getting more tangled up.5)Suite Love- Hotel attendant Kuga is assigned to serve Japanese-American businessman Touno. But this isn't the first time they've met, they have a past together as college students in America that Touno isn't about to let Kuga forget about.6)The Morning Scene- Each couple is observed at 6 a.m. from Kayano and Takashina in Tokyo, to Kuga and Touno in Los Angeles.