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...

This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kyulten", "Sensual Nights", "Lord...

Sell me! I'll be the most expensive lady to obtain. While scheming to get out of an arranged marriage, Cesare runs into Adele, a shoeshine girl from the slums. The two make a 3-month deal to help Cesare elude...

On the surface, Satoko has it all she’s beautiful, the daughter of a nobleman, and at a prime age for marriage. Unfortunately, she is also quite ill and only has a short time left to live. Before she can secure...

1945, Tokushima. Yodono's a cameraman visiting the base to photograph the special unit pilots. He's photographing them with only one motif in mind: "Young and admirable soldiers." During his time seeking to...

Late 19th Century, Tokyo. Namiko, born as the daughter of an army lieutenant, loses her mother, and finds herself suffering at the hands of her new stepmother. Soon, her kindly aunt introduces her to Navy...

The Hybrid Child is an amazing 'doll' that can grow if it is lavished with enough love and care from its owner. Neither fully machine nor fully human, the various Hybrid Child models develop strong emotional...

Orphaned at a young age and drowning in her father's debts, Anastasia spent her days starving despite being a noble. One day, her uncle, Count Everdeen, proposed to pay off her family's debts if she agreed to...

Why do people seek the presence of a god? About twelve thousand years ago, there was a world in ancient Japan where people was able to make contact with the divine. One day, a boy named Takaya picked up an...

In the aftermath of the Crusades, two travelling Arabic minstrels - Farhad and Saud - arrive at the castle of the melancholic Baron Victor. Over a series of four connected short stories, Victor reveals the...

English Web Publication An epic fantasy and vivid re-imagination of ancient Korean history, made possible by painstaking historical research combined with breathtaking mythological visualization! Kingdom of...

This successor of the long selling Heisei classic "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves...

One-shot compilation featuring works written and illustrated by Tezuka between 1968 and 1973, and is very highly regarded in Japan and by Tezuka himself. Spans a variety of genres, from SF to Military to Wild...

"Devil, I don't want to marry him." In hopes to escape a forced marriage, Giovinetta makes a wish to the devil to save her, but what she doesn't know are the consequences of her actions. Original Novel Original...

Jean Valjean, a starving man who commits an act that will haunt him for the rest of his life; Cosette, a young orphan girl; Javert, an obsessed policeman; Marius, a revolutionary in love. These and other...

In a land of magical spirits and northern lights, two wounded souls find rest and healing in each other. Rieta Tristi has known nothing but hardship: her husband died of the plague, her young daughter was...

From Manta: Lost souls seeking their true selves.Wen Xiaoliu is a local physician. When he stumbles upon a man on the verge of death, he treats him and gradually nurses him back to health. The grateful...

The story begins when Wendy, a normal modern girl, is attending the birthday party of a schoolmate. That night, Wendy, while viewing her schoolmate's family heirloom, a golden necklace, is teleported to the...

On that night, she lost her purity as an innocent woman and turned into the most desolate being in the cold palace. What she asks for is only a simple, normal life but she is instead forced to fight to survive...

History of the Mad Bavarian King, Ludwig II and his loyal servant - stable boy Hornig. It is the mid-19th century, and a remarkably beautiful 18-year-old has been crowned King Ludwig II of Bavaria… In the...

Tanabe and Kouno from Hyuga, Miyazaki, both are accepted to attend "Seventh High School," one of the most prestigious schools under the old education system. What the two freshmen did not expect, though, was...

In the Taisho Era, a young girl, Yayoi, moved to Tokyo with her mother from the Tohoku countryside. They were poor, but one day she was scouted to become a model. As a model of an art school, Yayoi’s mysterious...

A genius talisman practitioner is reborn as a seven-year-old girl! However, her innocent appearance belies her vicious personality. In the remote countryside, the Crown Prince runs into her, beating up her...

This story describes the lives of gods and monsters living together. There are two Masters and three Disciples living together on Mount Nirvana. Master Guan, who is sometimes a man and sometimes a woman; Master...

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women...