The "bittersweet, mysterious story" revolves around Chocolat Aikawa, a chocolatière who runs a shop called Chocolat Noir. She can grant wishes to the troubled people who visit her shop -- if they give her s...

Su Sheng was born with the Character Yin. A fortune teller came to her house and told her parents that she must marry a dead man or she wouldn't live over 18 years old. A few months before her 18th birthday,...

The renowned detective Lucien found himself drawn to a strange, brutal murder case. However, the scene of the crime was destroyed in a fire. Scarlett, a maker of dollhouses, was the last person to reach the ...

Aya has the ability to see other people's emotion. One day, a man moves next door to her and there is something mysterious about the man as Aya senses weird visions from the past and future from him. What is...

1) Mint de Kiss Me There is a legend that if you kiss the man you like with a mint candy in your mouth, you can become one with your love. Misono is a rather superstitious girl who decides to test this out o...

Stories included in this volume: 1. Mishiranu Machi (見知らぬ街) (Date:1989) A group of teenagers went on a summer holiday and had a car accident. The woke up and found the whole city was empty. How can...

1) Mizu no Yakata (Published in Ribon in '99) A 14-year-old boy, after the loss of his parents, starts researching his older brother, who has mysteriously disappeared several years before. He finds him in a...

Mayumi is a girl who lost her parents in a car accident; unable to deal with the overwhelming sadness, hatred and anger, she wishes only to be able to stop feeling altogether. Five years later, the now 18-y...

In response to a decrease in population, human corpses have become a major resource for society's labor pool. Necromancers are needed to animate corpses for various jobs. These corpses work reliably unless t...

There is a strange cross on the top roof of a church in Adell's village. One day, the priest died in an accident with dying message "Don't touch that black cross.."

A collection of short stories by the author. These are the tankoubon version, there are also the bunkobans, called: Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru (bunkoban of vol. 1 and 2) Kootta Natsu no Hi (bunkoban o...

Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people...