A collection of short stories telling the tales of peasant farmers in rural pre-modern Japan, and the lives they live.

Original Manga Official English on Coolmic (Webcomic Version)Official English on Book Walker (Manga Version) Nobody would love me only half transformed, but today… I become the King of the Hundred Birds...

To this day "The Tale of Genji," a story written as a picture scroll in Japan's Heian period (794-1185), is regarded as the most important work in ancient Japanese literature. A shining baby boy is born to the...

Matsuri Kazamaki’s job as an exorcist ninja means that his livelihood depends on driving away the ayakashi spirits who endanger humans. He’s been protecting his childhood friend, Suzu Kanade, from the shadows...

Aya and her twin brother Aki thought they were going to a celebration of their sixteenth birthday at their grandfather's home but the funeral-like atmosphere tips them off that something's not right. Their...

Welcome to the Thundercloud Inn, a curious establishment that opens its doors to the troubled masses, human or otherwise. But to pay for the stay, the equally curious innkeeper takes payment only in the form of...

Momo, a girl who doesn't know love. Taro, a boy who is a milksop. There's a great contrast between Momo and Taro, who met on the mystery planet Kikyu. Together, they make mighty works. Based on a well known old...

A boy sits in a room. Alone. Telling tales of horror. One by one. Night by night. The shadows breed terror. Shall we begin? One day, an elementary school child named Yuuma tries to jump out of his classroom...

If you take the midnight train by mistake, take a look around you, is it the same world you are familiar with? If not, hold your breath and face your fears... Original Webcomic Official Translations:English...

An innocent sightseeing trip to Kyoto opens up a magical realm to shy high schooler Chikahito Takamoto. Visiting a legendary shrine, Chikahito finds himself in the mystical world of Hana and her comrades—and...

Youkai are specters who have lived in the human world since the dawn of time. They often rest peacefully in their dwelling places, until humans rouse them by inconsiderate actions. Kitaro is a young youkai boy...

Hikaru Genji (literally "Shining One of the Minamoto Clan" ) is the illegitimate son of Emperor Kiritsubo of Japan, and considered too handsome for his own good. After Genji's mother dies, his father...

From Viz: In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles...

After losing her mother early on, Hotaru, a girl surrounded by warmth and tranquility, finds her life taking a dramatic turn. An unexpected event draws her into the world of “Goze,” setting her on a path...

The demon hunter Izuna is looking to exterminate demons that have been kidnapping girls and in particular he is looking for one girl who resembles Kiri-hime, his dead lover who was kidnapped and then murdered...

Phoenix is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between a...

Tamamo is a fox from the Inari Shrine in Kyoto, who may or may not also be a goddess. She longs to try “high school” and all the fun and drama therein, so she transforms into a human girl—but her technique isn...

Yamato lost his dear childhood friend Shiki, who was sacrificed during a ritual. His unrequited love became an obsession; he refused to believe that Shiki was dead, and many years later he finally managed to...

Ina is the god-child of Fire, born in a small village in the mountains, called Inasa. There, she meets a man who wandered in from another country called Susa, and thus begins their fantastic story of love and...

After the death of her best friend, Mika is determined to follow her into the grave. But her suicide attempt introduces her to a world unlike any she’s ever seen…full of gods and spirits and entities of which...

A monstergirl series running in Comic Ryu that follows Hitomi, a cyclops that works at a school clinic, and the many students that come to her for help with their human (and not-so-human) problems.

Official English: INKR, Azuki In the afterlife, there exists Heaven and Hell. Hell consists of the Eight Greater Hells and the Eight Cold Hells, which are further divided into 272 subdivisions. Spearheading the...

A lone girl, chosen as a sacrifice by the people of her village. It was an attempt to appease a beautiful yet fierce demon god. Our heroine, though prepared to be devoured, suddenly found herself living in the...

In Fushimi, Kyoto, a jr. high school girl named Inari, Fushimi has a crush on a boy and acts a little foolish in trying to tell him her feelings. In a strange turn of events, Inari is able to change shape into...

After falling into an old well and into ancient Japan, Kagome discovers that her destiny is linked to the dog-like half-demon called Inuyasha! As Kagome learns more about her connection to the past and to...

“Hanako-san, Hanako-san are you there?” At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school’s Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third-floor girls’ bathroom in...

Touno Seiji sometimes sees the people around him as monsters. It's a curse that has driven him to a life of despair…but all that changes one evening when he stumbles across a bewitchingly beautiful boy in a...

From Shinnen: The Hachiouji family hunts demons in the darkness. The heiress of the Hachiouji family, Takamichi, lost her older brother at a very young age. She isolates herself, but, one evening, two werewolf...

Two girls start attending a new school and find themselves responsible for the care and feeding of monsters.

Aoi wants to work off her debt to the Tenjin-ya inn but she only has one day to find a position and none of the managers are willing to hire a human! If she can just get someone to see past her family...

Kamakura Monogatari follows the mystery writer Masakazu Isshiki and his young bride, Akiko, on their heart-warming life in Kamakura--but it's not all fun and games! Masakazu and Akiko get caught up in a series...

Natsuki has struck out at speed dating a bunch of times and doesn't know what to do to improve her luck with men. Then, one day, as she's walking home drunk, Natsuki visits a shrine she used to play at as a kid...

Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home...

Troubled writer Chiharu Izunome reluctantly returns to his rural hometown, hoping some R & R will refresh his creative juices. Instead of finding respite, he’s quickly entangled by an old promise to wed a local...

In the world ruled by the clan of the family, “Yamauchi”, the selection was started after the successor Wakamiya. The four princesses who were sent to there to compete against each other had their own thoughts...

Official English Translation One fateful day, the Suzushima Appraisal Research Company recruits Chisa Hirako, an unassuming college student, as a part-timer. Without much thought, Chisa enters the mysterious...

In a quiet rural village, livestock has been dying off in a strange manner. Inugami, a detective of the occult, is summoned from Tokyo to solve the mystery. He meets a boy scorned by the villagers, who call him...

A girl stranded in a small lakeside village deep within the mountains, Mitsuha, and a boy caught up in the oddly orderly chaos of bustling Tokyo, Taki, begin to dream of another, unfamiliar life. Before long...

A girl stranded in a small lakeside village deep within the mountains, Mitsuha, and a boy caught up in the oddly orderly chaos of bustling Tokyo, Taki, begin to dream of another, unfamiliar life. Before long...

Long ago, the gods granted a few animals great powers... but not all those animals used their magical abilities for good! Senzou the Fox Spirit in particular grew too brash and arrogant, abusing his strength...

Miroku-san, the slit-mouth woman, is to marry high school student Kouichi to maintain her existence as his family has been in charge of upkeeping superstitions for generations. To add, there seems to be another...

Both touched by spirits called yokai, Kotoko and Kuro have gained unique superhuman powers. But to gain her powers Kotoko has given up an eye and a leg, and Kuro’s personal life is in shambles. So when Kotoko...

On her sixteenth birthday, orphan Himari Momochi inherits her ancestral estate that she's never seen. Momochi House exists on the barrier between the human and spiritual realms, and Himari is meant to act as...

Yuuki Momozono, a transfer student to Aitan Private School, has an incredible power - He is actually the reincarnation of a Japanese hero, Momotaro. He must break the curse that was set upon him by 7 devils in...

Bakemonogatari centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high-school student who is almost human again after briefly becoming a vampire. One day, a classmate named Hitagi Senjougahara, who infamously never talks...

Munakata is an anthropology professor who studies the relationship between folklore or fairy tales and real historical events. He believes that many of these stories that most presume to be entirely fictional...

In a world where humans and insects are in conflict with each other, Mashiro heads for the mountains to eradicate the insectoid menace. There, he runs into a mysterious girl named Yuren, who lives with her...

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from...

When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to...

Yuta became immortal when he unwittingly ate mermaid flesh, and now he seeks a way to become human again. Hundreds of years later, he encounters a volatile and determined young lady named Mana while searching...

Autobiographical tale in which Mizuki narrates the memories of his childhood in the decade of 1930, in Sakaiminato, a small coastal town at the southwest Japan. With nostalgia and tenderness, the mangaka...

Yato is a homeless god. He doesn't even have a shrine, not to mention worshippers! So to achieve his ambitious goals, he's set up a service to help those in need (for a small fee), hoping he'll eventually raise...

Rikuo grew up in a house full of yokai, so he always thought they were cool. But the kids in his class talk about yokai like they're bad! When his grandfather announces Rikuo as his chosen heir to run the Nura...

A demon boy who lacks horns on his head wields the cursed blade "Onikirimaru", the one weapon that can slay a demon, in a never-ending battle with the demons that haunt Japan during the age of the samurai...

From Yen Press: Average schoolgirl Nanami is excited about only one thing — getting closer to her crush during the new school year. Little does she know that there’s an ancient power running through her veins...

Official English Translation A romantic comedy where Tomoyuki is married to a demon for a wife, a literal honest to goodness demon.

By ZnF: An encounter between a kitsune who runs an udon stall and a man who sells tofu. When the man compliments the deliciousness of the udon, the stall owner is so ecstatic that the tail he was hiding pops...

From Storm in Heaven: Meet the Urumas, a slightly dysfunctional family of four sorcerers. Mom, being the most powerful sorceress around, works away from home keeping the world safe. Dad picks up the slack and...

It's Yuika's first time, and it's with the boy she loves... Except, he's possessed!? She never wanted her first time to be like this, but she can't help losing herself in the pleasure...! Yuika is secretly in...

The world is divided into two factions: humans and monsters called katawara. Despite being a katawara, Tama loves humans and vows to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting her own kind. Her brother...

Legends say that when it snows, it is because the snow princess is crying. A collection of five tragic tales, all connected by the bond of snow. Shirahime-syo is CLAMP's tribute to traditional Japanese form and...

In the 21st century, just when the human race needs new heroes, the Lucifer Hawks enter Earth's dimension. The members of the A.M.P., six young women with incredible powers, are set to defend the human race...

From Yen Press: Maka is a weapon meister, determined to turn her partner, a living scythe named Soul Eater, into a powerful death scythe — the ultimate weapon of Death himself! Charged with the task of...

The world has been annihilated and an evil bestial deity must be appeased. Saki, a young girl, trying to escape destiny, finds refuge in an unusual and rough line of work. But she has been chosen for an...

Returning from school, third-grader Ryunosuke is introduced to a young girl. His father tells him that she will be his little sister starting that day. Her name is Koharu. She is blind and her arms and legs are...

From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has felt connected to outer space. Whether he likes it or not. His efforts to outperform the space program veer off course when an accident introduces him to...

In ancient times, there existed the land of Wa, split between the reign of the gods and the world of man. It was an age when gods and men existed together. Miyo, an orphan girl, spent her days trying to accept...

Ichinose Shiki, an inheritor of the blood of Oni had lived out his entire childhood oblivious to this fact. However, when an unknown man comes rushing into his home in attempts to assassinate him, his foster...

Marisa Kirisame runs into Hieda no Akyuu on her way through the Human Village, and notices that she's carrying a strange book - a youma book, said to be indecipherable. Afterwards she makes her way to the...

An introspective, character-driven series, Tokyo Babylon reads like a manga version of The X-Files. Its story -- a modern-day fantasy -- follows a young onmyouji (spiritual medium) on his quest to protect Tokyo...

Nekokado is an extremely straight-laced high school teacher who has lived alone since the death of his sister. But one day, he discovers a photo of her in a maid costume. He goes to a concept café in order to...

Mameda is a tanuki who was born in the wrong era - all she wants is to trick humans, but that age of tanuki shenanigans is over. But one woman, a rakugo master named Bunko, shows Mameda that it's still possible...

In a high-stakes game of tag, Ataru must touch Lum’s horns in ten days or aliens will take over the earth! The fact that Lum can fly doesn’t make Ataru’s job any easier. As it turns out, the game of tag is only...

Usagi Yojimbo is the story of a fictional, idealized, totemic, and somewhat historical Japan. It is a story told by following (primarily) a single wandering ronin as he follows the way of the samurai, seeking...

Kimihiro Watanuki is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. He seeks help from a mysterious woman named Yuko, who claims she can help. However, Watanuki must work for Yuko in order to pay for her aid. Soon...

Upon enrolling in school, Yaiba quickly crosses swords with his soon-to-be rival, Onimaru. When Onimaru is transformed into a demon by the cursed power of Fujinken, the Wind God’s Sword, Yaiba embarks on a...

A young man named Hiiragi has recently learned that he has a half-brother. Seeking him out, he not only finds the brother he never knew, but discovers he is a mysterious individual covered in bandages who runs...

The elite and beautiful Ririchiyo Shirakiin has a bad habit—she can’t help but lash out at people with her vicious tongue, all while hiding behind a mask of haughty cool. This attitude has a lot to do with...