Sora, a middle school boy, is afraid of his mom's weird affection for him. She's usually a normal, kind mother, but that completely changes the second a girl comes near her son. Sora comes to suspect that his...

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a...

One day, Jio is horrified to witness his girlfriend, Miho, devouring human flesh. How could this be happening? He's struggling to understand the events that transpired when Miho killed his close buddy. Jio...

Tetsuo Tosu is a typical father whose biggest worries are his job and his rebellious daughter, Reika. That is until he finds a bruise on her face. His worst fears come true when he finds out she has a secret...

Hyun-soo has a good lawyer wife. But when he meet Ju-hee, a company colleague approaching Hyun-soo in the midst of this. The more dangerous secrets hidden behind Juhees deadly temptations shake the life of...

“Corporate wage slave Takahashi has never had a girlfriend — until he tries out a dating app and finds what seems to be the perfect match. Pretty, young, and successful, Nanase’s got it all…except for sanity...

The story could basically be split into two halves. The main story is about Tamai Shiina, who is an energetic middle-school teenage girl. She visits her grandparent's over the summer where she runs into a very...

Collection of short stories including: • NejishikiA man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins.....

Short stories about two white cats who have no respect for others and are just plain cruel. Dark humor warning.

Cat-Eyed Boy is a half-human, half-monster child who mostly resembles a human, who therefore cannot live in the demon world. He lives hidden in the shadows of the human world, hated by both demons and humans...

This is the story of an elderly professor whose theories have been used to modernize and possibly corrupt the world, who is trying to come to grips with his legacy and perhaps attempt to fix a few things. But...

They look like us. They feed on us. They’re parasites – alien creatures with one directive: take human form via a host and destroy the human race from within. First seen in Hiroshi Iwaaki’s classic science...

Translated from the Japanese original, this book combines two of Yokoyama's central themes: fighting and building. One set of stories, entitled Public Works, details massive structures being erected across a...

Nezumi is a girl who was raised as a hitman by the yakuza and grew up not knowing human love. An ordinary young man, Ao, knows nothing. They fall in love and start to live together, but the evil hand is close...

Baeksu’s brother has gone missing. In a manhunt to find him, Baeksu Kang encounters the night fishermen. Their prey isn’t fish, however -- it’s humans! Their favorite fishing spot? The Han River. Their last...

That day the sun set and never rose again... Original NovelOfficial English

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...

Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow...

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...

Set on a frozen planet littered with alien artifacts, Ningyou no Kuni weaves a tale of a young man and small but fateful encounter.

As detective Musubi Susono investigates a series of child kidnappings, her own partner is viciously murdered. But when the investigation takes a brutal turn, she is suddenly confronted by the killer--and his...

What would you do if your neighbor didn’t stop making noise? People think of Si-u Seo as a nice guy, but when his upstairs neighbor refuses to stop making noise, he gradually becomes consumed by his desire for...

In a world that has become 70% harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the International Peace Keeping Forces, a team of super-powered global security guardians, have a growing crisis on their hands. No. 5, one of...

Kazuhiro Oyamada is a college student suffering from insomnia, causing his health to suffer. Kazuhiro decides to use his summer break to go back to his hometown to recuperate. When he arrives, he can't find his...

Eccentric and blunt, the walrus Hiroshi Odokawa lives a relatively normal life. He drives a taxi for a living, and there he meets several unique individuals: the jobless Taichi Kabasawa who is dead-set on going...