Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she doesn’t long for a life of ...

Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But t...

Sana Kurata, a child actress, faces many problems in her classroom, including a major one - her bullying classmate, Akito Hayama. Sana's outgoing and friendly nature leads her to work towards correcting all ...

The beautiful Athanasia was killed at the hands of her own biological father, Claude de Alger Obelia, the cold-blooded emperor! It’s just a silly bedtime story...until one woman wakes up to suddenly find s...

In a world split between the Inside and the Outside, those living in both realms are told never to cross over to the other side, lest they be cursed. A young girl named Shiva lives on the other side, in a va...

The handsome Duke Voreoti is the most terrifying man in the empire, with the coldest of demeanors and a gaze that can kill. But one day, he suddenly says that he wants to...adopt a child?! And that child is ...

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...

Yeon was just an orphan on the streets when a man claiming to be her father brought her to his family home. But the Baengri estate was a den of vipers that swallowed her whole, and it's only when she's stand...

Every little girl dreams about finding her prince charming and becoming a bride! Nursery school-age girl Rino is no exception. Precocious Rino falls in love with the timid and weak but very handsome and kind...

"If there is a next life, I will save you." Aria is the last remaining siren, a monster who bewitches humans with song. Shackled, she is forced to sing to nobles until she coughs blood. By the time the demon...

One's life can be changed in a brace of shakes. And little Asahi is unlucky in that: she suddenly finds herself in a strange world where people worship the mysterious water god. The girl is sure that the who...

A tale of love in all forms: pure like a child's, twisted like that of a scorned, lonely woman, and multi-faceted in between. Kurt, the prince of a faraway kingdom, leaves home to find a way to heal his petr...

A Drunken Dream is a collection of literary short stories by Hagio falling into multiple genres, created between 1971-2007. The stories were selected by translator Matt Thorn to be an introduction to Hagio f...

To avenge his older brother, an orphan named Jongli Chu killed Hwang Jung, a Heaven-slaying sect disciple. Following the death of Hwang-Jung, he joined Imitating Blade killer of Soul-killing Chambers to avoi...

In a quiet rural village, livestock has been dying off in a strange manner. Inugami, a detective of the occult, is summoned from Tokyo to solve the mystery. He meets a boy scorned by the villagers, who call ...

I was an illegitimate daughter abandoned by the promiscuous emperor. From there, I ended up on the street where I learned that I had a knack for the sword. I competed in tournaments, became a mercenary, and ...

While the demons were rising, mankind was about to become extinct. Six temples rose, and protected the last of mankind. A young boy joins the temple as a knight to save his mother. During his journey of wond...

What's so great about being the daughter of a duke anyway? As the youngest child of a crazy duke with no empathy for his kids, Elena wants to live quietly and avoid her family’s bullying. But when she ends...

Heroine has traveled back in time and entered the universe of Lady and the Beast, a 19th century soft porn trashy novel. She finds herself in the body of Anthea, child bride of the Monster Crown Prince Blake...

Ariadna Lereg Ilestri Pre Agrigent. And so my life begins with this ridiculously long name, born to royalty and the center of attention — all because of one dangerous man; the veritably insane tyrant king,...

After Hiroto Amamiya dies on a school trip, the god of reincarnation, Rodocolte, sends the unfortunate student into a second life. There he obtains death attribute magic, but after more than a decade of torm...

When an accident shows Ellie what bullying the male lead, Damian, would do to her in the future, she tries to stay away from him at all costs. But after seeing everyone else mistreat the poor boy, she decide...

After getting revenge on the Thulcaan Empire, Jack Valantier took his last breath. But just when he thinks it's all over, he finds himself transported back to when he was 14! But this time, Jack is arme...

A girl falls into a coma and finds herself at an unusual "convenience store" managed by a talking dog. In the land where dreams are made, suspended somewhere between life and death, she watches and learns fr...

I had my share of working overtime for an evil employer. It's no surprise that I died from it! But as if being reborn as Irene Werber, a minor character in a romance novel, wasn't shocking enough, it turns o...