A one-shot about a strange curse visited on a family after an archaeological dig. One-shot in celebration of 30 years of Itou Junji's career.

“80,000... The number of people that go missing every year. Once you're gone, no one's coming to look for you.” Homicide detective Hiroki Dan, the son of a former police superintendent general, seems to be on the fast track to career success. However, he maintains a hidden identity as a serial killer responsible for more than a hundred murders of people he deems beyond the reach of the law. **Note:** On hiatus due to the author's health since July 2022. ([Comic Zenon](https://comic-zenon.com/episode/3270375685363751707)) ___ **Additional Links:** - Alt Official Raw: [MangaHot](https://mangahot.jp/site/works/t_R0012) - Alt Official English: [Comikey](https://comikey.com/comics/brutal-manga/532/)

Kekkai Sensen: Back 2 Back centers around the crime fighting organization "Libra" and their battles in Hellsalem's Lot, formerly known as New York City. Hellsalem's Lot was created in a single night when a portal to the "Beyond" opened, and now it is a paranormal melting pot of monsters, magic, and the everyday mundane city life. It's up to Libra to prevent the horrors of this city from spreading to the outside world.

In the world of Alcia' where rank is determined by "counts" a young girl named Hina scours the land for the fabled Ace-the legendary hero of the Waste War. With only the last words of her missing mother to guide her search' she wanders from town to town until she meets Licht' a clownish masked vagrant with a count of –999. Girl-crazy and unpredictable' he's the exact opposite of a hero…or at least' that's how he appears…

Battler is approached by Lambdadelta who tasks him with finding her lost magic Konpeitou candy on the gameboard, and equips him with a somewhat questionable ability to aid him with the search. Will Battler manage to find the enchanted confection before the consequences of his actions catch up with him?

After waking up, Mikado Shuhei found himself locked in a cage in a mysterious medical facility. Without his memories Shuhei now has to fight against beasts who can speak like humans. A woman calling herself Akashi Maya then rescued him from this predicament. Super fiction action! --- **Links:** - [Original Novels (on Amazon.co.jp)](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B07G4H25L2)

Hakuba Keijiro doesn't have any interest in girls, until he meets a beautiful girl who is also very unusual. The girl in question is dressed in an old-fashioned style, and seems to have nearly complete amnesia. The only thing she remembers is that her name is "Hiiragi." Keijiro gets his parents to take guardianship of her while they look for her real family, and Hiiragi moves in. But who is she, really? Is she a princess, come through some kind of time-slip? Is she something supernatural? Hiiragi herself would like to know…

The story is about a young pilot named Shin Kazama and his experiences at Area 88, a mercenary air force base secluded in the desert of a war torn country. Shin goes from head of his class at a world renowned aviation school dating the beautiful daughter of an airline president to a mercenary fighter pilot bound to Area 88 by a three-year contract that he was duped into signing by a jealous and competitive childhood friend. Determined to earn $1.5 million dollars to buy his way out of the obligation and return home, killing becomes second nature to Shin as he quickly rises to the top rank at Area 88. Overwrought with shame and self-loathing for what he has become, Shin begins to question whether he is still fighting for survival, or like his fellow mercenaries, for the sheer excitement and camaraderie of battle.

An "Atmospheric Manga" drawn by Abubu taking heavy inspiration from Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg OVA about the journey of a girl in a surreal world carrying with her a precious egg.

White swindlers (shirosagi) are those that cheat people to take their money, red swindlers (akasagi) are those that swindle the opposite sex, and black swindlers (kurosagi) are those that cheat the white and red swindlers. After his family is swindled by white swindlers, Kurosagi sets out to avenge them by becoming a black swindler.

A gray Earth, where humanity was transformed into deformed beings. The curtains open on an action series where the goal is to recover a lost world, with the help of a strange-looking gun! An enormous solar flare caused the planet to lose all of its colors. Humans are deformed and declining in numbers. The key to reclaiming the old world lies within the power hidden in *color*, and one *girl*. Knowing that the few remnants of colors in the world yield a great power, Avidia, who is conducting research while protecting a girl named Chie, uses the colors to expand his own power, and throws himself in a battle against the Cult. --- A cosmic disaster changed the Earth forever, stripping away every last drop of color from the world. Mankind also changed: the familiar human face is almost forgotten in a world now populated wholly by mutants. Against the backdrop of a moody urban landscape, a lone-wolf investigator named Avidia relies on both his wits and extraordinary gun to hunt down the world's last hidden scraps of color. He soon crosses paths with a very special girl -- one who just might hold the key to bringing back what the world has lost.

What would you do if you ran into a woman who looked just like your love doll? A bachelor named Saitou, and his lovedoll "Haru" bought via mail order, live a quiet yet enjoyable life. Then one day, a new person joins Saitou's work. Toujyou—a woman with big eyes and black hair. No matter where I look—she was just like "Haru." The very love doll I embrace all the time. When I look at her, thirst grows like Pavlov's dog. But then—"I want to be with you a bit longer, Saitou-san." An unidentified doll and a beautiful girl. Who am I embracing: the girl, or the doll...?

High-schooler Matsuzaka Satou has a reputation for being easy, but one day her lifestyle of sleeping with one boy after another comes to an end. It happens when she meets the child Shio, for whom she is convinced she feels true love for the first time. Satou may seem sweet and innocent, but there is nothing she won't do to protect their life together, including committing murder. But from where did she acquire the little girl, and how long can their "Happy Sugar Life" together last? *Note: Includes extra chapters and the oneshot "White Sugar Garden, Black Salt Cage"*

When highly evolved AIs set out to eradicate mankind, the carnage that ensues fills the air with the stench of fresh blood and burning bodies. In a desperate bid to prevent the calamity from ever occurring, a scientist bets everything on a remnant from the past. Turning the clock back a hundred years, AIs are already an integral part of human society, programmed with specific missions meant to be carried out for their entire course of operation. Vivy, the first ever autonomous AI, is a songstress tasked with spreading happiness through her voice. In a theme park where she hardly ever gets a proper audience, she strives to pour her heart out into her performances, bound to repeat it day after day—that is, until an advanced AI from the future appears before her and enlists her help in stopping a devastating war a hundred years in the making. With no time to process the revelation that flips her world upside down, Vivy is catapulted into a century-long journey to avert the violent history yet to come.

Follows the Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo franchise character Akechi Kengo and his partner, rookie detective Kobayashi Ryuutarou, as they solve various baffling murder mysteries.

When the villainess Honey Trap defeats the superheroine Rapid Rabbit, she sees her nemesis’ face for the first time…and falls head over heels in love! Refusing to kill Rapid Rabbit, Honey Trap is cast out of Antinoid, an evil organization with plans of world domination. Luckily, a kind soul takes her in: Rapid Rabbit herself! Now Honey Trap and Rapid Rabbit have teamed up to take on Antinoid. Can Honey Trap defeat her old colleagues and seduce the heroine at the same time? --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/sometime1209)

The strange adventures of two English friends who get themselves caught up in odd occurances. Rudy, the owner of a furniture store, comes to his friend Em, an eccentric freelance detective, with help for a situation he's roped himself into. Em makes things difficult, but the mystery is solved through his genius. Rudy can't shake his prices off though, and ends up relying on him for future shenanigans.

Right after the war, Showa era in Japan. Kusumoto Yoriko and Yuzuki Kanako who attend an all girls school plan to take the last train to go to the lake. However, Kanako ends up getting run over by the train. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Detective Kiba who happened to be there when it happened, is asked to watch the confused Yoriko. Kiba goes with the worried Yoriko to the hostpital Kanako is taken to, and there Kiba meets a woman who calls herself Kanako's sister; Yuzuki Youko. That happened to be the actress Kiba had been admiring, Minami Kinuko. An adaptation of Kyougoku Natsuhiko's novel. - Part 1: Ubume no Natsu - Part 2: Mouryou no Hako - Part 3: Kyoukotsu no Yume - Part 4: Jorougumo no Kotowari - Side Story: Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro

For Nusutto, every day is a new opportunity to be his name, a thief. With his partner Scotts and surrogate daughter Chiko, Nusutto gets into far-out gag-filled situations and hijinks. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, it ceased publication after 17 chapters, likely due to plagiarism of characters, style, and overall premise from Monkey Punch's Lupin III.

The story follows Tohno Shiki, a teenage boy who, after a near-fatal accident in his childhood, gained the mysterious power to perceive lines covering everything around him. When he cuts along these lines, whatever it was immediately falls apart with a clean cut; in other words, killing it. He would have quickly gone insane from living in a world that could fall apart so easily, had it not been for a wandering self-proclaimed magician who gave him a pair of glasses that blocked his unnatural perception when worn. Soon afterwards, he was disinherited from his family and sent to live with some relatives. For eight years he lived a normal life, hiding his special eyes, until one day he receives a letter inviting him to come back home. Shiki suddenly becomes caught up in a strange and life-threatening series of events, ones that are somehow linked to his childhood accident and a forgotten past… Adaptation of the visual novel Tsukihime by Type-Moon.

Maeda Jun is an author who likes peace and tranquility. While walking through a cemetery at night, thinking about the 'cute love' that his readers are after, he was possessed by a spirit. Kawakami Yukio is a deliveryman who noticed the spirit possessing Maeda but kept quiet thinking it had nothing to do with him. Maeda, still unaware of his spirit passenger, goes out into the night for a walk once again. There in the darkness his gaze is caught by a woman dancing alone. But she has a secret…

George and Mr. Sandwich go on location to film in the ruins of a kingdom in Africa that existed 3,000 years ago. Also includes ["The Secret Base of the Shari River"](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/12n8t9c/chari-gawa-no-himitsu-kichi): Frank Allen and his nephew John Holcan go in search of a golden statue located in the upper reaches of the Shari River. --- **Volume 138 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

On the 15th of October 1990, World War III breaks out. It only lasts for 40 minutes, but industrial establishments were nearly wiped out by the 1000 megatons of nuclear weapons used in the war. The Earth was then cloaked by in a nuclear winter which lasted for 6 months, and all the grain plants died. Each government fell into anarchy and transport and communication networks could not be restored easily. Soon, declarations of state establishment from the citizens in various areas came one after another, and America was split into 6 parts, adding other unapproved small states, it was divided into more than 20 countries. The story is set in 2021, 31 years after World War III. Filicia Epstein, a bionics genius, came to Sabano and Sergent Mutou was ordered to protect her. Searching for her only brother, Lyon, Filicia encountered with 1019, a cybernoid, who directed them to the phantom city, OZ, which is a shelter created by Lyon. As the story unfolds, they gradually realised what 'OZ' actually was… Very loosely based on some parts of *The Wizard of Oz*. Two OVAs were made. --- - **Won the 24th Seiun Award for Best Comic in 1993**

This story is a spin-off to the Persona 2 duology of games by Atlus starring a young man named Kazumi Kiba. Kazumi thought he was good friends with a boy he had known for ten years, Rihito. One day, while they were out in town together looking for a shop selling masks for their school's masquerade ball, Rihito suddenly disappears. Kazumi drops out of school and starts looking for him, and will soon set foot in a totally new world.