Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story “The Book of Human Insects.” The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy...

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Plagued by maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and...

Mizushima, a yakuza, was fascinated by a Maitreya Buddha statue as a boy and developed a nasty habit of lusting only for non-human things. One night, Mizushima encounters a mermaid in the dark sea. Mizushima...

A mysterious doll maker grants "Plain Jane" Seika Hosokawa a new life as a pretty girl. Her new found beauty gives Seika the courage to ask her crush, Asai, out to the school 's cultural festival. However...

Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine transports many of Batman's worst enemies to feudal Japan - along with the Dark Knight and a few of his allies. The villains take over the forms of the feudal lords...

The classic, long ninja saga. Many intertwined themes and many characters. It is a series that is as well a traditional samurai tale as an attempt of Shirato to uncover the role of revolting peasants in feudal...

The Neo Saitama of the future is a sprawling urban landscape constantly flooded by neon light. And in its shadows lurks a vast criminal world filled with all sorts of shady characters. Among them are the...

In the gritty, futuristic city of Neo-Saitama, the streets run slick with acid rain and blood. Here, an army of cybernetics-clad ninjas runs amok under the menacing rule of the Soukai Syndicate. As incessant...

The story is about an odd-looking 12-year-old boy named Fuusuke, who is a powerful warrior from the Ninku school of martial arts, a style that mixes ninjutsu and karate. It is explained that before the present...

Since his childhood, Kiomaru has been formed by master Sadamitsu of the Gassan forge so that he could later become a specialist in sword making. One day, when he learns of the brutal death of a young man to...

Some staircases are not meant to be traipsed upon.

Exorcists Gotsuji and Uruka spend their days exorcising evil spirits on request, inching ever closer to their goal: to cut down a specific spirit as a means of mourning the woman it killed. Uruka, mystified by...

When a fellow Extended showed up in Inui’s office on the run from the Security Bureau with a kidnapped child in tow and asking for help Inui almost throws the guy out. But Inui’s loyalty to a brother Extended...

From Lezhin: Hyesol, a dom, is looking for a new “friend” for her sub partner. At a party, she spots Sunhwee, who’s recently returned to college after taking a 3-year break. While Sunhwee is eager to get with...

Lisa Cheon used to be the nation’s favorite on-screen idol, but swiftly falls from grace after being framed as a drug addict. She is offered the opportunity to turn it all around by starring on a new TV show...

Do Jung-hoon is powerful, ruthless, and...fond of a lovely face. So, when pretty-boy Yoo Hyunjae joins the Sung Jin gang, Jung-hoon finds it hard to believe the rumors about this supposedly dangerous and...

When Baek Cheon-ho confronts Shin Je-hee for raping his sister, he takes revenge by forcing him to have sex with him. However, Cheon-ho soon realizes that it was all a misunderstanding and fearfully goes to Je...

Set in Northern Europe where supernatural powers are attributed through a person's name, given to everyone by the government. A man fighting with wolf companions & a werebear girl investigate a missing child's...

Miura Kentaro's second published one-shot. A short story about survival in a post-apocalyptic era.

Rai wakes up from an 820-year-long sleep and starts his new life as a student in a high school founded by his loyal servant, Frankenstein. But his peaceful days with other human students are soon interrupted by...

The story starts in 1560, before an impressive battle where Nobunaga's forces were severely outnumbered by his enemies, the Imagawa clan. The story then begins to jump back to earlier times in his life, in the...

Ken is a modern-day chef who wakes up one morning in war-torn 16th century Japan. Faced with an impossible situation, he does what he does best – he cooks. Soon, word of his wonderful food reaches the capital...

Out of all Japanese historical figures, Oda Nobunaga is probably the one with the widest range of interpretations. But what was the real Nobunaga like, and why was he really betrayed and murdered? While a lot...