THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE DOWNRIGHT WEIRD. The Ikebukuro district in Tokyo is full of interesting people. A boy longing for the extraordinary. A hotheaded punk. An airheaded pseudo-stalker. An information ...

A hopeless geek, a beautiful woman, and a fast connection--could the Internet be his ticket onto the express train to romance? A real-life thread on an Internet forum sparks a nationwide phenomenon! A nerdy ...

Shinichi Kudo is a high-school student who, by using observation and deduction, is good at solving mysteries. While investigating one, he is caught by the criminals that he was watching and forced to take an...

This is a compilation of oneshots that includes: 1) Untitled 2) Before Dawn 3) Alfalfa 4) 4:30 PM, Sunday//6:30, Afternoon, Sunday Part 1 - Summer Memories Part 2 - A Girl in the Brilliant World of a Boy's ...

Akira arrives in Tokyo from the countryside to start a new job but instead discovers that not only has his company disappeared but also his housing. Unemployed and homeless before he's even started life in t...

Sengawa's day job is as an accountant working for the police. But at night, he transforms into a ruthless assassin bringing death to anyone who deserves it. Those who have been wronged and whose grievances t...

Deep into the 21st 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 co...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the ...

14-year-old Rin Amami is a gifted dancer who has been forced to give up his dream of becoming a singer like his mom because of his deep, frog-like voice. A chance encounter with the idol singing group Beatme...

Isao Komori is a college dropout who spends his days cooped up in his apartment playing video games and masturbating. The highlight of his day is visiting a convenience store where an angel-like high-school ...

A former mangaka falls into poverty after becoming disillusioned with life and abandoning his trade. He unsuccessfully attempts to start a business selling rocks by the riverside to feed his family.

The end of everyone was just the beginning… Returning home by train after a class trip, Teru Aoki takes a most frightening ride inside a mountain tunnel. When the train derails, nearly everyone aboard is k...

A mysterious mansion has towered proudly over the Tokyo district of Numanakarai since the Taisho period. Those who enter either never escape, or leave having experienced horrors untold, and with the desire t...

Back in high school Sono confessed her love to Sato, but she was turned down. Now she lives as a freeloader in an apartment shared with her girlfriend, Hiroko. However, she still hasn't forgotten about Sato...

The Comp is a popular portable game system that also functions as a smartphone. But it suddenly becomes a portal for demons to travel to the human world! Kazuya receives three Comps, from his master programm...

Ponent Mon/Fanfare: This is the book in which nothing happens but everything is consumed! Like 'The Walking Man' at lunch!! What do we learn about Mister Inogashira? He’s a sole, independent trader importi...

A series of cleverly interconnected stories written from multiple POV's, tying together the quirky cast and a number of mysterious (and occasionally hilarious) occurrences in a certain suburb of Tokyo. The ...

Mikado Ryuugamine is just trying to pass his second year of high school peacefully, but that plan is out the window when he gets word that someone within the Dollars gang is causing trouble. Everybody has is...

January, Ikebukuro. It’s the same as usual; Mikado, Masaomi, and Anri have started their third term at Raira Academy, Simon is handing out flyers for Russia Sushi in the street, and Shizuo is throwing vend...

The serial slashings in Ikebukuro have come to an end, and Anri is steadily recovering from her injuries. But life is far from "back to normal" for Kida. Enraged at the random violence that has shattered the...

The setting of Devil Survivor 2 spans the whole country of Japan. It tells the story of Japanese high-school students who receive emails from a website foretelling their friend's deaths. Mysterious creatures...

During the Japanese Asset Price Bubble, everyone, men or women, young or old, lived in a world that was filled with frenzy. In the air where strength overruns weakness, there is a "woman" who tries to avenge...

There are roughly 150,000 illegal immigrants and illegal foreign workers in Tokyo. Those aliens have established a shady Metropolitan Government of the aliens, by the aliens, for the aliens. Public instituti...

Through the ordinary small events of his professional and personal life, a forty-year-old man lets himself go on impromptu escapades at random along the paths that the big city offers. This vagrant impulse s...

Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that any...