Imagine living in a town where supernatural beings stalk the night for their next prey. Toukei Ibun takes place 29 years after Tokyo was established as the capital of Japan. Manzou is the owner of an inn in the town of Asakusa. His friend Hirakawa is a journalist who is investigating the bizarre crimes that keep occurring all over the city in the dead of night.

1) **Kaine** Shinogu awakens from a coma in a hospital only to find out that his black hair has turned red and long. he looked exactly as his famous rock group vocalist twin brother - Kaine. Kaine was part of a group called Endorphines. Apparently someone tried to kill the two brothers off. However in a car accident Kaine died on the spot while Shinogu was in comatose state. in order to let Endorphines continue, their manager forced Shinogu to take over his brother's place, hoping no one will know the difference. Or will they? Kaine's best friend Die already started to suspect the fake-Kaine. meanwhile, one by one the fans of Endorphins began to commit suicide after listening to their latest CD. Die and 'Kaine' decide to investigate and are determined to find the truth. 2) **Magical Mystery Tour** When a normal Japanese high school girl wins an all-expenses-paid trip to LA, it really does seem too good to be true… 3) **Tokei Jikake no Orenji Bakudan (The Orange Time Bomb)** Takumi and Kai are members of the popular band, Orange. When rumors of Kai going solo start to spread, tension rises. Will they be able to stop what's happening? What's the mystery behind Takumi's sunglasses? Who's this strange girl that shows up claiming she wants to marry Takumi? What are Kai's true feelings? 4) **Tokyo Top** A continuation of the 4th chapter: the story of how Gai met his girlfriend, Satsuki.

Ruka is a high-school girl who holds affections for her teacher, Tokio. But one day, a mysterious person shows up and claims that he has come from the past! Not to mention, he calls himself by the same name as her beloved teacher, Tokio. What’s more unbelievable is that both “Tokio” have the exact same scar engraved on their palm… 1. Mysterious Person 2. A Small Love Story 3. The Demon Chroe 4. Alice in Wonderland 5. Sugar-Coat 6. Star and Heart

The locked-room murder case that all other detectives have given up on!

Kuroba Yo is a sadistic detective who enjoys nothing more than destroying his targets emotionally and psychologically through his deductive reasoning. Toiro Arata is a naive and slightly masochistic boy who gets duped by Yo into becoming his assistant, or slave. These two team up to become the "Black & White" detective, solving crimes and chasing after criminals.

The Cleopatra Corns Group, aka Cleopatra DC, is a powerful financial conglomerate controlling most of the United States economy, almost as powerful as the US government itself. At the top of the organization is the beautiful, smart and brave Ms. Cleo, the Group's young and talented Chairman, a blonde African-American who fought her way out of the slums. Good thing she manages her company so well–it means she can handle the repair bill from that airplane crashing into her bedroom. With stolen artifacts, corporate kidnappings, and top-secret cyborg projects gone awry, her luck only gets worse from there.

Detective Agutsu and a high school boy named Shino have recently taken notice of strange occurrences in Shibuya regarding disappearances of high school teenage girls. Shino believes that this may be related to a recent rumor regarding a demon girl named Karuta. The main question is though, is she an ally… or an enemy?

It's said that on a prohibited island called "Dragon's Beak" the "power of the gods" resides. Anyone who obtains the power will have all their wishes fulfilled.

Explore the lives of the famous-yet-not-so-famous people of history; such as Nikola Tesla, Ty Cobb, Typhoid Mary, the woman behind the Winchester Mystery House, Kou Yoshio, and many more. [Series of one-shots](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=33311) published between 1989-2003, released a tanko volume in 2004 and a bunko release in 2012. (Art by Araki Hirohiko and Onikubo Hirohisa; all stories by Araki Hirohiko)

A masterpiece collection of short stories by Jiro Matsumoto, which has a unique art style, a unique world view, and quirky storylines. Kyoko, the class president, reads out her composition in front of the whole class. She writes about her mother, who is into a strange religion, her rebellious sister, who shoplifts, and her father, who is often hunted by his father. But Kyoko loves her father!

Irene is a professional assassin who is able to transform into any type of woman using her 'make-up' power, but instead of killing in cold blood she uses her abilities for good. This also features Araki's debut work 'Poker Under Arms' plus his other early works 'Meet Virginia' and 'Cool Shock B.T.' Some earlier prints also include 'Outlaw Man', but not the one shown here.* ***Note: The current Digital Edition and Bunko both contain Outlaw Man**

A group of students finds themselves on a sinking capsized ship. Together with some zombies. What happened to the ship and why are there zombies aboard? It's a battle against time and the zombies, to save themselves.

Our protagonist, Inoue Konoha is still being led around by his senpai, the Literature Club's President, self-acclaimed "Literature Girl" who loves stories so much that she can eat them, Amano Touko. One day, someone put a bunch of paper scraps that have words like "Hate", "Ghost is" and a bunch of puzzling numbers on them in the Literature Club's "Love Consultation Post Box". Calling the act "picking a fight with the Literature Club", Touko once again gets Konoha involved in her investigation; but, when they find the culprit, the girl turned toward them, smiles, and says "I'm already dead." The 2nd arc of the popular bitter & sweet school mystery series.

The "mysterious school comedy" centers on the unusual members of a high school literary club. Tooko Amano, a high school senior who calls herself the "literary girl" as the club president, is actually a supernatural creature (youkai) that devours stories, she tears pages from books to munch on them. Her club subordinate is Konoha Inoue, a second-year high school boy who writes stories every day for Amano to eat. He once wrote an award-winning novel, but he wrote it under the pen name Miu Inoue so readers thought the author was a mysterious 14-year-old bishoujo novelist. The stress from the novel's fame and its movie and television drama plans turned Inoue in an introverted recluse. Adapted from the "Bungaku Shoujo" series of light novels

This is a story about three sisters in search of their lost father, who was a famous artist. They steal his works of art from museums/galleries to make him recognize their presence in the world. The three sisters' gang is called Cat's Eye, and so is the coffee shop they own. This coffee shop is located right in front of the police-headquarters. Hitomi, the middle sister, is betrothed to the police inspector Toshio, who is in charge of the investigating the Cat's Eye. Toshio falls in love with Hitomi, even as a Cat's Eye member.

From KAIDANblog: It's a compilation of oneshots by mangaka Oshikiri Rensuke which have previously appeared in the horror magazine Yuu (幽). Most of them have a similar feel to the stories in Fuan no Tane+ and Kowai Hanashi: short, spooky tales that almost feel like they could happen to you, a perfect fit for this blog!

Twins, separated by fatal illness and a selective cure. Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim to stone. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to go into a sort of cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the undetermined future, Kasumi awakens to find herself and others who were in suspended animation in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Resolving to unlock the mysteries of her current situation and the fate of her twin sister, Kasumi struggles to survive in a treacherous world.

As a child, Kasama Ryuuji watched his parents killed before his eyes by the rival, Yazuka gang. As a teenager, he finds the woman who raised him after the death of his parents, raped and murdered by the same gang. With the lost of his loved ones, Ryuuji wants nothing more to do with the Yazuka. When everything seem lost, the kind and caring, Araki, who claims to be the brother who his adoptive mother appears. Ryuuji develops a special bond with Araki but how will Ryuuji react when he learns that Araki, in fact, is the only surviving member of the Kasama gang, who has devoted his life to protecting Ryuuji. Will Araki-san, the dragon, be able to keep Ryuuji safe, or will his enemies use the young man as a pawn against him?

Ray was bred and raised to be a living, breathing organ donor. After her own eyes were taken from her, a stranger bestows upon her the gift of sight and something extra - she has X-Ray vision! Ten years later, Ray works as a nurse and moonlights as an underground medical doctor performing for-profit, off-the-book medical procedures. But her daily routine is interrupted by a chance encounter with an old friend that triggers Ray's memories of her hellish childhood. Ray will begin a search that will lead her back to the people who stole her eyes-and her childhood!

Teshigawara Saki is a high school girl who lives in Roppongi with her perverted father and grandfather. Though she may seem like an ordinary girl, she has the extraordinary ability to open any kind of lock. Saki uses this ability for whoever asks, regardless of whether they are the police or yakuza. But with the organized crime situation worsening in Roppongi, this openness may end up getting Saki more involved than she would like…

A struggling painter finds a mysterious girl from Japan at his doorsteps. A short, exotic oneshot drawn in pencil.

In a country very much like present-day Japan, governed by an emperor who rules with an iron fist, a dark disease known as "BT" is spreading out-of-control. All those infected with BT will be overtaken by an insatiable desire to kill. The emperor charges a group of skilled men with the responsibility of eliminating all "BT carriers." Among them are two brothers with cursed blood running through their veins. Though they appear fearless, there is one thing even they seem to dread: the Yomizakura, a mark of death which serves as a chain binding them to their traumatic childhoods.

There exist familiars who have the power to grant one wish to a chosen girl. However, in return that girl must then become a magical girl and fight against witches, evil creatures born from curses that are responsible for murders and suicides. A schoolgirl named Madoka Kaname and her friend Sayaka Miki are approached by a familiar named Kyubey and a magical girl named Mami Tomoe with offers of becoming magical girls. Another mysterious magical girl named Homura Akemi tries to prevent Madoka from agreeing to the contract.

A story about beings called "[Kigo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kigo)" and a boy who can see them.