A collection of short stories based on Japanese folklore.

Aya and her twin brother Aki thought they were going to a celebration of their sixteenth birthday at their grandfather's home, but the funeral-like atmosphere tips them off that something's not right. Their ...

Momo, a girl who doesn't know love. Taro, a boy who is a milksop. There's a great contrast between Momo and Taro, who met on the mystery planet Kikyu. Together, they make mighty works. Based on a well known...

"If nothing changes whether one laughs or cries, then in this lifetime, I refuse to cry." This collection consists of six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best i...

Welcome to the labyrinth of stories...authored by Mimei Ogawa, whose works stand alongside Grimm and Anderson. In this work, Tsurimaki Nodoka has drawn our generation and all future generations into the auth...

Around 1691-92: The land is ruled by the Satomi clan. Inue Shimbē Masashi and his twin younger sister, Fuse, had lost their parents, so they become the new clan heads. Inue also becomes leader of the Hakken...

Phoenix is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between ...

Official English: INKR, Azuki In the afterlife, there exists Heaven and Hell. Hell consists of the Eight Greater Hells and the Eight Cold Hells, which are further divided into 272 subdivisions. Spearheading...

Ritsu inherited his sixth sense from his grandfather, along with a demon guardian named Blue Storm. Strange things just seem to happen around these two, and it's left to them to get to the bottom of all thes...

Troubled writer Chiharu Izunome reluctantly returns to his rural hometown, hoping some R & R will refresh his creative juices. Instead of finding respite, he’s quickly entangled by an old promise to wed a ...

Kukuri is one of twins "binding" Miko who inherit accursed blood from her ancestor. After ran away from Himekami village and got separated from her twin, she lives in peace for 11 years in Kamiya temple toge...

Otohime-sama of the undersea Dragon Palace is looking for her destined mate. One day, Otohime falls in love at first sight with a "kind-hearted young man" brought to her by a turtle. She says to him, "You've...

A man is reading a newspaper and is excited by a recent archaeological discovery of a series of metal artifacts in Shimane prefecture. It is Shigeru Mizuki himself, who rushes into the museum to see that dis...

Munakata is an anthropology professor who studies the relationship between folklore or fairy tales and real historical events. He believes that many of these stories that most presume to be entirely fictiona...

Japan is being invaded by parasitic gods. The only one left to stop them is Nakua, the spider god. She enlists the help of Taromaru, an otherwise normal boy who has the Nakua's spider familiar resting inside...

Takashi Natsume has always been aware of the supernatural world, but after he inherits a magical book from his grandmother, the supernatural world is aware of him! Takashi Natsume can see the spirits and de...

Legend has it that if a human eats a mermaid's flesh, they will be granted eternal life. But is that a blessing or a curse? Immortal lovers Yuta and Mana travel through Japan and the centuries longing for a ...

A demon boy who lacks horns on his head wields the cursed blade "Onikirimaru", the one weapon that can slay a demon, in a never-ending battle with the demons that haunt Japan during the age of the samurai. B...

Average schoolgirl Nanami is excited about only one thing — getting closer to her crush during the new school year. Little does she know that there’s an ancient power running through her veins, which is ...

Meet the Urumas, a slightly dysfunctional family of four sorcerers. Mom, being the most powerful sorceress around, works away from home keeping the world safe. Dad picks up the slack and takes care of the fa...

With selfishness as the reason, thirty-something office lady Mitake Noriko has been dumped by her boyfriend. As for where she's heading for a little heartbreak travel, it's a mountain of Tokyo: Takao, which ...

This is the story of Kosumo, a 100th generation miko from a line of the highest class of miko in Japan, who was given healing powers by the gods! A story about the 99th generation miko is also included. Six...

Returning from school, third-grader Ryunosuke is introduced to a young girl. His father tells him that she will be his little sister starting that day. Her name is Koharu. She is blind and her arms and legs ...

Ataru Moroboshi is the unluckiest man alive... and the most lecherous. In a race deciding whether alien oni will take over the Earth, he ends up representing Earth. His opponent? Lum, an oni girl! Despite th...