Fuuta Okeya can see dead people. Other than that, you might assume he’s a perfectly normal junior high school student. When new transfer student Kouko Ishigami comes to school, Fuuta falls head over heels ...

After recently moving to Onomichi, Hiroshima, high school student Tasuku Kaname is thrown into despair at the possibility that he may have been outed for being gay. Convinced his life is over, his despair tu...

After the body dies, the soul lives on. Many spirits progress toward the world of light, through the levels of the spirit world where they study how to improve their souls. These spirits are sometimes reinca...

Kazusa, a young high-school girl, is killed instantly when a car crashes into her as she was crossing the street. As a ghost, she watches her friends' reactions to her death—keeping a close eye on Miharu, ...

Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pat...

Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like ...

Asako Minami has a "unique constitution." He senses the lingering thoughts of the deceased and experiences the circumstances under which they died with his own body in a reaction similar to stigmata. This pr...

All souls of those murdered arrive at the Gate of Grudges. Izuko, keeper of the Gate of Grudges, presents each soul with three choices: pass through the Gate of Grudges to heaven and be reborn, refuse to ad...

Orphaned on the mean streets of Treasure Town, lost boys Black and White must mug, steal and fight to survive. Around them moves a world of corruption and loneliness, small-time crooks and neurotic police of...

He’s perennially unemployed, his ex-girlfriend has moved on, and he’s just lost all his life savings to a bitcoin scam. Burdened by societal pressures, Yijae Choi decides to take his own life. Insulted b...

The Sorcerers' Guild, in possession of many dangerous grimoires, was condemned as a terrorist organization. To combat it, a chivalric order supported by cutting-edge science and technology was formed. One af...

One day a person awoke with a special ability and an unusual job. The power is to control others' bodies. The job: take control of a designated target's body and lead them to suicide. But it isn't so simple ...

Skyhigh Shinshou presents the stories of those souls who get to the Gate of Grudges. Izuko, keeper of the Gate of Grudges presents each soul with three choices: pass through the Gate of Grudges to heaven and...

A story of a young man who lacks a sense of reality after being dumped by his lover. He was visiting a seminar on cultural anthropology with his fellow classmates when he discoveres an ancient wall painting,...

A woman bad with kids, and a boy bad with people, find themselves living together after losing their "Beloved". Living out in the boonies in a snow-covered village, they only have each other to hold on to in...

28 years ago, Tamura's parent was responsible for a mass indescriminate poisoning case while he was in elementary school, and he grew up branded the son of a criminal. After his wife dies in childbirth, Tamu...

Imagine living in a town where supernatural beings stalk the night for their next prey. Toukei Ibun takes place 29 years after Tokyo was established as the capital of modern Japan. Manzou is the owner of an ...

A collection of stories: Under Execution, Under Jailbreak (1994) A man in jail and his attempts to break out of his cell. Dolce and His Master (1996) A man and his cat are stranded on a sinking yacht, thei...

Death rollback? Predict future? Fang Xiu traveled to his other self in a strange world and gained the ability to “reverse after death.” What gave him an extremely powerful motivation to survive was his d...

When people die, they end up in the Ministry of Death, where they must fill out the necessary forms (the paperwork doesn't end at death!) to be able to ascend to heaven. Depending on the lives these people l...

Beware the red snake! Told from the perspective of a young boy, The Red Snake is a story of the above boy, the house he inhabits, and the forest around his house that stretches on and on. The characters in t...

Soumatou Kabushikigaisha is a company that offers a very peculiar service. Customers, after giving their name and birthdate, are led to a room with a single television. A woman then brings them a DVD that th...

A selection of short stories. The stories deal with the same themes as Parasyte and his other work, and in only one of them is his art style noticeably more primitive.

"Have you heard of Summer Ghost?" Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo are high school students who met through the Internet. The urban legend of the Summer Ghost is that it is a ghost of a young woman who appears when fir...

After an accident, a young man wakes up next to the Sanzu River, only to find himself not alone there.