Caught in the conflict between the Mikogami Family and the Kuroe Family, twin sisters Maiko and Shouko will need to use the full extent of their supernatural abilities and investigational skills to uncover the truth behind a bizarre demonic ritual disguised as a murder in Wakayama Prefecture.

A collection of one-shots done during the 1970s, all regarding some aspect of Tezuka's early life. Includes a reflection of his time at the famous Tokiwa-so. - **Record of the Life of Gachaboy** (がちゃぼい一代記, Gachaboy Ichidaiki, ALT. ENG. - The God of Manga): A reflection on Tezuka's career up to that point. Tezuka encounters the God of Manga right after the war, who nicknames Tezuka "Gachaboy". He is determined to see Tezuka become a great mangaka, no matter what - and restore manga's presence in Japan. - **Paper Fortress** (紙の砦, Kami no Toride): Right at the end of the war, Tezuka is doing manga in private in high school. He meets a girl who fully understands his situation, and they get along well. In a society where manga, dancing, and even informal relationships are forbidden, how will Tezuka, crazy about manga, keep on? - **Hungry Blues** (すきっ腹のブルース, Sukippara no Blues): Directly following *Paper Fortress*, Tezuka is now a hungry, desperate student with little luck on his path in manga. Things change when he comes across a young lady who works for a newspaper, and he manages to land a serial for it. However, in an era rife with turmoil and starvation, Tezuka's own stomach may prove to be a serious intrusion in not just his manga-making career, but his very life. - **Tokiwa-so Monogatari** (トキワ荘物語, ENG. - The Tale of Tokiwa-so): Part of a series recounting memories within the famous apartment complex, Tezuka showcases its history through commentary from the building itself! - **The Letter that Came** (という手紙がきた, Toiu Tegami ga Kita): Tezuka receives an ominous letter that may put him in hot water. - **Animal Tsurezuregusa** (動物つれづれ草, Doubutsu Tsurezuregusa): Two reflections on animals Tezuka had encountered in his early years - the first a horse, the second two tanuki. An excerpt of *Dotsuitare* featuring Tezuka is also included at the end. This excerpt is a compilation of scenes/segments of Tezuka's scenes. --- - **Animal Tsurezuregusa won the 21st Bungeishunju Manga Award in 1975, along with Tezuka's, very famous, Buddha** --- **Volume 274 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter? [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/ayako/) --- **Volumes 197-199 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

This manga is about the job of cleaning up scenes of death, and discusses the meaning of life and death. Through interactions between the deceased's family and friends with the death sweepers, we understand the meaning of death. No matter is it is a peaceful death at the ends of one's life, murder, suicide, death from illnesses, when death comes, who would be able to predict it, or prevent it? That is why we have to try our best to live on.

Sugar .... personified?

*A work of two parts: the second never finished due to the magazine suspending publication.* **Part 1 (Vol 1-3)**: **"Long, long ago, humans lived almost the same as beasts… If you got hungry, you could just find something to kill and eat it. If someone attacked you, kill them too. Everything was kill to survive, kill to survive. Then people started acting smart and making laws. The laws kept them from doing pretty much everything they wanted to do. Beasts, on the other hand, still have no laws, or etiquette. I predict the day will come when an almost mutant breed of humans will appear, sinking to the level of beasts for freedom… Here, I will call them *Vampires…*"** A young boy, Toppei, visits Osamu Tezuka at his anime studio, Mushi Pro, one morning imploring Tezuka to hire him. Tezuka hires Toppei, who makes himself an active part of the team, but as time goes on, the Mushi Pro staff begin to pick up on Toppei's bizarre tendencies... **Part 2 (Vol 4)**: A certain fellow has made it out of the events of Part 1, now set on using a newly introduced species, the Weko, to attain domination. The Weko, the natural foil to the Vampires, are a dying species. Past and present are interweaved, explaining the history and sightings of the Weko, as one of them finds himself wrapped up in that man's scheme... Tezuka's parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth. --- **Volumes 142-144, 320 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Ichiro Kitamura ("Icchi") is a young man who, due to a near-death experience he had when he was little, has to attend night school. On his way back from school one night, Ichiro encounters something truly out of this world - a procession of ghosts! A conversation with a reporter in the city reveals that Ichiro is not the only one to have come across paranormal encounters as of late. Then, Ichiro happens to see a girl at the train station, but she, too, has ties to the ghosts... --- **Volume 247 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A boy is taken to a nightmarish world, where he stumbles upon twisted visions of humanity's inner demons. What will his trip entail? Will he be able to return to his former self, or is his new form in the world he now inhabits irreversible?

Houdzuki Maika is a high school girl who, in a sense, is never alone. Her twin brother Maito, who could not survive birth, lives inside of her and shares her body. They switch between who gets to live each day and they share most of their memories. However, the only times they get to see and talk to each other is when they are both asleep, where they share the same dream. Perhaps as a result of this supernatural existence, they are able to see ghosts. There will surely be many mysterious incidents ahead for these twins to face! [Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%8E%E4%BF%97%E9%9C%8AMONOPHOBIA)

(from ebookjapan): Dr. Augustus S. F. X. van Dozen is the world's greatest detective. His precise mind is called a "thinking machine", and he declares that there is nothing in this world that cannot be solved by logic, and he successfully escapes from an impossible prison! From the detective stories of Dr. van Dozen, the same famous detective as Holmes, "The Perfect Jailbreak" and "The Extra Finger" have been carefully selected. In addition to them, "The Maracot Deep" a masterpiece from Conan Doyle's later years, and "Face in the Hand", a horror short story by Jiro Kuwata, are also included in this volume.

Seinen (and one Josei) One-shot compilation focusing on insincerity, revenge, and the two-faced nature of men. Includes the following: - **The Record of Peter Kürten** (ペーター・キュルテンの記録, Peter Kürten no Kiroku, ALT. ENG. - The Tale of Peter Kürten) - Manga biography on the infamous serial killer also known by the moniker *"The Vampire of Düsseldorf"*. Peter Kürten, a former prisoner-of-war, forms an idealistic couple with his wife and is a devoted unionist at meetings. In actuality he is a sexually perverted serial killer nicknamed the Vampire of Düsseldorf who taunts the police with escalating murders. After one of the murders, the police force a fake confession from another man, causing Peter to angrily reveal the truth to his wife, who gives him up to the police. At trial it is revealed that Peter is actually a criminal with a history of incest, bestiality, arson, and murder. When his lawyer tries to defend him by claiming madness, Peter angrily exclaims that his actions are revenge against the bourgeois. Peter is executed by guillotine. (Tezuka based the story on the work of Shunsuke Tsurumi) - **Sensual Nights** (もの憂げな夜, Monouge na Yoru) - A wealthy Japanese playboy visits Vietnam to seduce a woman who has supposedly stopped aging while waiting for her sweetheart who was taken away by soldiers. As he is in the middle of preparing to have sex with her, his contact tells him that the woman's man was taken away by the Japanese army during the Pacific War, causing a deep hatred of Japanese people in her. He panics, but recovers when the woman reacts by offering him her body. When she fights back against his attempts at intimacy, he tells her that her lover is likely dead and forces himself on her. The man then sees a sight of a wrinkled old woman that startles him so much he jumps out of the window. The woman he had seduced was actually the daughter of the unaging woman and her sweetheart, and his contact was her fiancé. - **Lord Iechika Mogami** (最上殿始末, Mogami-dono Shimatsu) - Piipii, a meager farmer, dreams of being a samurai so he can support his wife and their four children. One day he is employed by a lord to be his double, and Piipii's family is secretly killed. Piipii trains to be a lord, grooming and dressing himself to be the spitting image of the lord. As a test, the lord tells him to give the order to open the castle gates. Piipii rides back to visit his family, only to learn about their deaths. On the lord's wedding day, his double is supposed to replace him during the wedding ceremony to protect him from any attempts on his life. During the switch, Piipii murders the lord and consummates the marriage with the lady Sasa instead. When she learns of his identity, the lady has an affair with a syphilitic beggar, and kills herself. The disease spreads to Piipii and Sasa gets her revenge. - **The Lady of the Rhine** (ラインの館にて, Rhine no Yakata nite) - A Japanese woman accompanies her husband on a business trip to Düsseldorf. She catches him having an affair, and when she confronts him, he leaves her. As she desperately searches for him in the streets, the woman is hit by a car and is hospitalized for a month. When she recovers, she visits her benefactor Lady Rathwood, the owner of a castle they had visited earlier. As she lives with Lady Rathwood, the woman learns of her hatred for men and her hatred for her husband is kindled. One day she discovers that the car she was hit with belongs to Lady Rathwood and she witnesses Lady Rathwood taking off the disguise of the woman who seduced her husband. Lady Rathwood calls her husband to the castle and gives the woman a knife, telling her to take her revenge. The woman refuses and goes back to her husband. - **Fire Mountain** (火の山, Hi no Yama, ALT. ENG. - The Thief Akikazu Inoue) - Time is during the Second World War. The ruffian Akikazu Inoue (whose first name could also be read as Showa) went to the Sobetsu village in Hokkaido, became an assistant of Mr. Masao Mimatsu, an observer of Showa Shinzan, which rapidly generated. The description that Mikami lived for the observation and protection of Showa Shinzan was based on a true story. --- **Volume 265 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Living the high school life, being admired by all the other species in his school, Rurikawa (Wolf. Alpha. Male.) meets a lower species, Kyougokuin (Rabbit. Beta. Male.) As soon as their eyes meet, Rurikawa thinks, "I want to breed this beautiful creature." He's suddenly unable to control his urges as he's turned on. In a world where men can also become pregnant, this series tells the story of high school boys being led around by their instincts and fate.

Volume 1: Shingo Volume 2: Masker Blue Volume 3: Prisoner Ship (囚人船, Shuujin Fune) Volume 4: Kurayami no Me Volume 5: Daimakyou Volume 6: Interi Goemon Volume 7: Hyouman

A series of Higurashi When They Cry anthology manga published by Ichijinsha with 10 total volumes. --- **Volume 1** **Cover Illustration**: [Houjou Yutori](https://mangadex.org/author/a2625b28-1340-4516-9e66-45d448625823) **Title Page**: [Yoneda Kazusa](https://mangadex.org/author/905dea3e-e77c-4b12-833a-c5ebcadd5736) 1. **Collecting Happening** by Yoneda Kazusa 2. **White Light** by Sakura Tasuke 3. **The Law of Relative Victory** by Yukiri Aron 4. **Satoshyndrome** by Hano Haruka 5. **After School Crisis+** by Kuriyama Renji 6. **A Sudden Tradigy** by Wakaru Kana 7. **Club Curry** by Shigure Mira 8. **Girlfriend** by Mochizuki Kako 9. **Our Little House** by Taira Kosaka 10. **L'Oiseau bleu** by Itagaki Hako

A pretty girl, Tamura Nagisaki, appears before an ordinary high school boy. When she says, "Will you protect me?", his ordinary life is thrown into a tailspin. The pleasure killer, Dimensional Rider, kills Nagisaki without a motive. With Nagisaki's death, time between the two loops back and forth. Can the two escape the carnage and infinite loops…?

Bizarre corpses are being found at various locations in the city. These bodies look like their skin has been turned inside out. Various rumors and legends arise. Some say these deaths were caused by an infection, while others believe the mafia has their own black market for human organs. The only one that knows the truth is a school girl, who has the ability to store machine guns inside her body! Her name is Luna, and she is determined to seek revenge for her sister's brutal murder by the perpetrators of these "reversing" incidents.

Yuko Natsuki, a rookie reporter for an occult magazine, sees a girl's spirit in a "cursed apartment" she visited for coverage. Rei Aiko, the spirit of a girl who massacres humans who step into the apartment. In a curse stretched like a spider web, Aiko continues to grow on the death of humans. Is there any way for Yuko to survive the curse!? The manga adaptation of the popular suspense horror novel from the novel posting site estar!

13-year old Rachel awakens to find herself trapped in the basement of an abandoned building. Without any memories, or even a clue as to where she could be, she wanders the building, lost and dizzy. In her search, she comes across a man covered in bandages. He introduces himself as Zack and he wields a grim-reaper like sickle. A strange bond is struck between them, strengthened by strange, crazy promises… These two, trapped in this strange building, don't know why fate has placed them there. But they will work together desperately to find a way out…

A collection of stories featuring students of the unorthodox archaeologist Hieda Reijiro and their encounters with the unknown.