Shikiyama is looking to make some easy money when he finds an ad for a university experiment: "$6,000 for a one-week stay." Not even knowing what the work entails, he finds it rather suspicious, but the temp...

Publisher Hayakawa is celebrating its 70th anniversary with two manga anthology reprints. One collection is dedicated to mystery works while the other compiles sci-fi stories printed over the publisher's lon...

The story is set in a dystopian near future where the Japan society is experiencing a crime rampage and in which a powerful and secret religious organization, with mysterious goals, is acting as an invisible...

"The girl group, 'Lily', who was selected by the Global Idol audition, fell into despair due to a voting manipulation scandal right before its debut. Cha Yoo-joo, Korea's best entertainment representative, w...

The seven teenagers who committed crimes had their body parts related to the crime they committed taken away and was sent to a school with a locked room. To return to their normal lives, they have to continu...

Under the curse of Orochi, the great demon serpent reborn every 300 years, Japan has been shrouded in clouds for as long as anyone can remember. The era of the samurai is at an end, and carrying swords has b...

Kazuma is a successful business person whose life is going smoothly, but one day, he bumps into an escaped prisoner, and gets taken hostage; moreover, he happens to be Kazuma's step brother! He assaults Kazum...

In 1994 the mangaka Kazuichi Hanawa was arrested on firearms offences and sentanced to three years in prison. Once released, Hanawa set about creating this autobiographical record of his life behind bars. Th...

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...

"Watch out for the guy with the ponytail," a warning Lee Myung-il heard on his first day in prison. But when he unintentionally rescues the central figure of the rumors, Choi Jingi, it takes an unexpected tu...