It all started with the suicide of an up and coming female photographer named Hirose Miki. The autopsy revealed that she may have been raped before she threw herself off of the condo balcony. Her fiancé, Ku...

The story is set around shimatsuya (person who collects unpaid debts for prostitute houses) Saitou Ritsuke who is asked to look into ghost rumours surrounding one prostitute house.

Actresses, musicians, and models. A scary old man has wandered into the secret garden of the stars of tomorrow?! Kazutora Mayama, the man who was once called the fighting tiger, has accepted the job of becom...

Crime lord Yoonshik takes a little boy named Jiwoon as collateral when the child's father hangs himself from debt. Eight years later, the boy is working as Yoonshik's bodyguard. When the boss gets locked beh...

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as an apprentice (Shikomikka) in an okiya. The house where the g...

"You are beautiful and kind... you are my mermaid." Umi, a tattoo artist who carries a mermaid's curse, was born with a jet black right eye, and hid the right side of his body which carried an ugly birthmar...

1. Bakumatsu: Outbreed (The Outbreeding of an Era) 2. Bakumatsu: Inbreeding of an Era 3. Bakumatsu: Mother Breed (End of an Era: Mother Breed) 4. Zoku Bakumatsu: Mother Breed (End of an Era: Mother Breed ...

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 ...

A prostitute's service in the red light district is coming to an end. Will she be able to return to a regular life? Note: Published in the December 2007 issue of Melody on October 27, 2007.