A Collection of short stories by newcomer tomo_kobone 1. Kami-sama Onegai2. Fujita no Namakubi3. Aburazemi4. Sumo-chan ni Sayonara5. Fāsutoarubamu

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 on...

She is my best friend – we hardly see each other, but she always tags along when I go home. She is my hateful nemesis – she slaughtered my family and she's going to pay for it.She is my fellow partner...

A plain office worker, fascinated by isekai stories and reincarnation, finds herself reborn into the world of her favorite manga. Even better, she's now the daughter of the assassin family she's always admired....

Ryota Yamane sets out to steal a girl's panties and creeps into her room only to find her dead body. Why doesn't he go to the police? Because he is holding another girl captive in his room. The next day, police...

A bride has reservations about wearing white on her wedding day.

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. As...

In the near future, it is possible to instantaneously measure a person's mental state, personality, and the probability that a person will commit crimes with technology called the Dominator. Just thinking about...

Yumiko Kawahara's disturbing short stories explore the strange and codependent world of dolls and the people who own them. These cautionary tales must come from some desire to teach people a lesson, for in each...

Takezou, wearing rose perfumes belonging to his brother's wife, sneaks into Shinobu's bedroom. Invisible for Shinobu he caresses his brother's body. The story of Shinobu and his stepbrother Takezou's adulthood....

Yasuhiro Takagi, a normal high-school sophomore, decides to kill a person. Follow his psyche as he ponders about his murder plan.

Published in Young Comic 1971-12. This is Jiro Taniguchi's debut work in a commercial magazine.

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 can't...

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...

Serge Battour is the son of a French viscount and a Romani prostitute, and despite his kind nature and academic talent, is shunned by his family and his peers due to the color of his skin. He begins to attend...

Masahiko Mariyama, a small-time businessman, lives a modest life with his wife, two children, and dementia-stricken mother. Then one day, the people disappeared from the town! In the midst of his confusion, he...

Airi Hirakawa, a model in a popular woman magazine, is suddenly hit by someone in front of her house and wakes up in a room full of garbage. Airi is confused when she is suddenly proposed by Hirokazu Imai, the...

A mystery murder case shatters Lan Zhiqing's serene and blissful life into pieces. The past she has long forgotten returns in the form of a nightmarish case, encroaching ever the closer... Shocked, Lan Zhiqing...

Ichiro Akitaka, framed for a crime most heinous—child molestation and murder. Engulfed by despair and contemplating the final release of suicide, he is pulled back from the brink by the young, earnest priest...

Inspector Oogura Amane has just been reassigned to Investigation Division 6, which is considered a graveyard for police detectives transferred there. Disappointed to discover that her only partner is a slacker...

From the outside, Dr. Cha Hanjoo has the perfect life. He’s handsome, loaded, and the head of a famous dermatology clinic in Seoul’s richest neighborhood. If that wasn’t enough, he also has the perfect wife...

In a future postwar Japan poverty and crime have created a new breed of criminal. A new police division is formed with the resources and firepower to deal with the threat: the Hellhounds! To the government...