Kasane's face is so hideous, you couldn't bear to look twice at her—and her ugliness has forced her to walk a harsh path in life. But her mother left her something: a tube of lipstick. The power of this li...

In his second collection of short stories, Mohiro Kitoh recounts the tragic fates of people living in a half-futuristic, half-fantasy city whose inexorable structural decay seems to be mirrored in its citize...

A high school girl stands atop a building, ready to jump to her death, when she bears unwitting witness to a brutal murder being committed down below. The young man responsible for the crime quickly appears ...

3 January 2011. ER doctor Matsuoka Tsuyoshi examines a patient presenting influenza symptoms. The next day, the patient dies from multiple-organ failure, followed by others who had shown the same symptoms. A...

A 21-year-old man, Shinkichi, is employed as assistant by the beautiful ageless shamisen player Toyoshiga. Despite the considerable age difference, they became lovers. But Toyoshiga is a jealous woman who ca...

A collection of stories: - The Bang Wall - The App From Hell - Grains of Rice - SM Temptation - The Prison Guard - High Noon - Panda! Go, Panda! - Angel (Tenshi) - New Product - The Dentist - A New Athletic...

Gen Suzuki, a young man who grew up in an orphanage, is trying to live an honest life. But when the cruel reality of a 10 million yen debt from his sister hits him, he decides to rob a Dark Casino. What awai...

A huge earthquake centered in Tokyo Bay caused the appearance of the giant kaiju, Ogre! A messenger of doom unleashed by the earth against the haughty human race. He is a beast that appears and disappears, ...