Members of the Occult Club suddenly found themselves in a room surrounded by bookshelves with no exits or windows. Amid everyone's confusion, a man with a rabbit mask - the Terror - appears on a monitor. The members are caught up in the maniacal game set up by Terror, and a terrifying game begins.

Hanagami Garyo reigns supreme at the pinnacle of the manga world, a genius author boasting millions of copies sold. An unrenowned rookie, Miyama Shinobu, lurks in the shadows below, consumed by his envy for fame. Their fates intertwine when an unlucky accident leaves Hanagami and Miyama swapped into one another’s bodies. As Hanagami tries to reclaim what is rightfully his and Miyama refuses to yield, the two mangaka enter a fierce battle with their bodies and pride on the line. Authored by a mangaka with both style and substance, Ryo Ishiyama.

ICPO, an institution with a mission to prevent violent crime happening in the invaded nation is the main protagonist of this full-colored Sci-fi human drama. Together with Roy, the former New York police officer, and the serious alien Leonardo, Rika, a new Japanese investigator confronting the crime organization in the bizarre but thrilling “Different Nation,” which past-name we already knew.

Sylph Biebel, the duke's daughter, has just suffered a sinister plot by a friend resulting in her engagement to the prince being called off and her own banishment! But she's not just sent anywhere—she gets exiled to a kingdom where an infamous monster resides. Will her quick wit win this king's favor as she begins a new life as a librarian in a mysterious land?

Her favorite novel was set in the imperial harem. Now she gets to solve its mysteries! When Xiao Ling took a job at a bookstore, she had no idea she'd be working with her favorite author. Arriving at the palace she'd only read about in stories, Xiao Ling finds not the seasoned authoress she expected, but...the Crown Prince, Ryuhou?!

With the advent of the transcontinental railroad, smoke from steam locomotives veils the cities and mercenaries are a thing of the past. Sword, a mercenary, is down on his luck when he accepts a job from the bestselling lady novelist, Verderon. They set out on a journey to a dangerous, uncharted mountain... Only to be caught up in a conspiracy between church and state?! A tale of iron swords and typewriters!

Tateyuki Chono is devastated when his apartment and extensive collection of insect specimens burns to the ground one evening. But his luck turns around when a chance leads him to meet famed entomologist Izumo Kusanagi. Chono is floored by the kind hospitality of Kusanagi and his beautiful daughter Toko. However, the warm atmosphere of the estate belies a sinister secret. What is the true nature of Dr. Kusanagi's research? And is Chono already trapped in a deadly web of terror?

An adaptation of the Faust legend as a samurai period piece. Ichirui Hanri is an ordinary accountant servicing his lord. Though innocent, he is sentenced to death by hara-kiri after being entangled in a power struggle. A witch named Sudama appears and offers Hanri three wishes in exchange for his soul. Hanri accepts. Is it worth it? An enchanting supernatural fable from Osamu Tezuka, known worldwide as the "Godfather of Manga" and the most influential person of the past century in the development of manga and anime.

Everyone in Class 2-D of Kairei Private Middle School receives an e-mail at the beginning of the school year detailing a "class hierarchy." But the number one ranked Tsubaki Himeyama clears away the unrest this causes with her sunny disposition. Normalcy returns to the class... until Himeyama is found to have killed herself on campus. And once her classmates return from her funeral, they find suicide notes addressed to them on their desks! Will these notes expose the darkness class 2-D conceals?!

Three guys and three girls enter a dilapidated amusement park in the hope of finding their missing friend. The Birdcage Castle is supposed to be abandoned... But now they find themselves locked inside and chained together. They'll have to work together to escape in pairs, or they won't escape at all!

Among the elites and criminals, Giichiro Jin is known for his top-notch plastic surgery skill that can transform patients appearance along with their fates. But his service costs an arm and a leg, on top of that, he will never operate the same patient twice. Because he believed what he does is a God's Job, thus should never be taken lightly. He travels around the world and encounters many dangerous cases that would not only change people's lives but also his own.

Hey, have you heard about the infamous "Three sisters"? Rumour said they were murdered together and are still searching for their "Mom" even until now...

James Moriarty, the most fearsome criminal, met his demise after a confrontation with a famous detective at a certain waterfall. He found himself possessed by a beautiful young lady from another world, and what he saw there was the insidious abuse by other noble daughters. He has no memory, but his brain is still the same. He wields the power of his lucid mind and the perfect crime equation to the fullest for the sake of only one girl in a world without a great detective. The bullied young lady dies and is reborn as Moriarty, a villainess without blood or tears.

Shin Baredo, a delusional "MADMAN" arrived in Tomido Citadel to find a job but got chased by the Brokers instead. He was saved by Suisui, a terrorized female MADMAN, and her family. Would his employment as a MADMEN recruiter under Link Toy Family lead him to the better life an "insane" man can have? Or would reality betray him once again?

"Conquer" all the ladies! A sexy and exciting suspense-thriller series! A young man awakes to find that his life has become a video game, and one that he must either win or die. Given the cryptic goal of "conquering" all the female targets, and no guidance of how to do so, he'll have to rely on the game's systems to untangle the web of violence and intrigue he's found himself trapped in.

Chen Ge inherited a haunted house from his missing parents, but the business was failing until he stumbled upon a mobile phone while tidying up the haunted house. This changed everything. The haunted house could be repaired or even expanded by completing daily tasks of varying difficulty assigned by the phone. So Chen Ge started exploring forbidden places to collect materials, incorporating elements from the scenes into his haunted house. With visitors screaming in terror, the haunted house quickly became popular. However, as the mission brought more benefits, hidden dangers began to emerge, and even the clues to his parents' disappearance seemed to be related to it...

Aizawa was relieved that, after twenty years, Suzuki hadn't changed. The two met again at their school reunion, and Suzuki was as spiteful as ever. But little did he know, Aizawa was now a middle school teacher. And his beloved daughter is one of his students…

Saitou Yuuichi is a pariah living on the fringes of society. With the new year looming, he decides to commit suicide. However, after a fateful encounter with a stranger named Mitsumune Sakutarou, Yuuichi finds himself in an entirely new body. Now living as Sakutarou, the playboy investigator, Yuuichi’s got power and beauty. But Sakutarou’s been harboring some dark secrets of his own. Now what?!

Four people try running away from their problems, all for different reasons. Then, they suddenly become invisible?! They’ll have to face the reality from which they ran in order to become visible once more.

On the surface, Ryota Miki, a middle schooler, seems to get along with his adoptive mother. But behind the scenes, she's terrified of her son's every move, and for good reason—he's secretly keeping track of her every mistake. Meanwhile, his classmate Kaoru Kasai is fed up with his helicopter mom, believing that she's the reason for his bullying. One day, Ryota saves Kaoru, and a troublesome friendship is born. Read this psycho-suspense about a boy obsessed with finding the perfect mother!

Osamu Hirota is an ordinary high school student. That is, until Soichi, a student from the next town over, takes him to a mysterious mansion with promises of meeting a seductress. Out walks a voluptuous woman named Miwako, who, as she undresses, reaches inside of Soichi and rips out his heart! The next day, Hirota awakens. Was it all a dream? Or have we just started to pull back the curtains on this dark and suspenseful story?

It's the year 2030, and the end of the world has come. The lone survivors are controlled by an app named “81 Fatal Questions." After answering questions and clearing dungeons, survivors get rewarded through the app. Only by competing against Death will the ultimate winners will have a chance to survive. Thankfully, our genius heroine has had a “bad luck debuff” all her life. Can she and her comrades survive until the end?

When Jian’s friends and family inexplicably start killing each other right in front of him, he and his cybernetic arm are powerless to stop the tragedy. He seeks the one responsible, only to run into the mysteriously powerful Xizhan during his own hunt for answers. Somehow, the affectionate stranger convinces the taciturn Jian to band together to find the enigmatic Quicksilver, who may be the key to both their quests. In a world with gods and spirits where nothing is as it seems, will their journey reveal the answers they seek and reflect their true intentions?

A shocking display of racism ends athletic superstar James Block’s life when the woman he thought he loved admits she only dated him because of his celebrity status—she would never marry someone of his race. His rage and temper lands him in jail where he meets the mysterious “Dr. F,” a man whose invisibility ray gun killed his daughter and led to the continued diminishing visibility of his granddaughter, Ami. Once freed from jail, James tracks down the gun and turns it on himself, but stops right before he’s fatally wounded. James can no longer be discriminated against due to his skin color for he has none! He takes the nom de guerre “Alabaster” and his translucent tyranny begins with two goals: exact his revenge on his ex-girlfriend, and take on the similarly invisible Ami as his own ward. Written in a dark period of Tezuka’s life, Alabaster is a thrilling revenge story that touches on the dark side of humanity and the extent one would go to get even. It shows that not only does it affect the victims, but how destructive it is to be surrounded by such animosity. How far will you go for retribution?

Wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, famous author Yosuke Mikura makes a strange discovery: a ragged hippie who can quote French poetry. Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikura’s shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Barbara is no guardian angel, and Mikura grows obsessed with discovering her secrets—tangling with thugs, sadists, magical curses, and mythical beings—all the while wondering whether he himself is still sane. Written in 1973 and 1974 and inspired by the classic opera Tales of Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach, Barbara may be Tezuka’s most psychological and unsettling work, shattering the fine line between art and madness with masterful precision.

Osamu Tezuka unleashes several creepy suspenseful short stories in this anthology of speculative fiction spanning the years 1968 and 1973. 1) When a Nazi lieutenant is sentenced to death for war crimes, he expects to escape with his life, but hubris is his downfall. 2) A female android marries for love but is soon lost, and she must deal with the consequences. 3) After a married man finds out his city is being experimented on, he tries to save the people while struggling with adulterous thoughts. 4) On a dark and lonely road, a cabby picks up a shady man who threatens him, but little does his passenger know the cabby is not as he seems. 5) An educated man falls in love with an elusive woman who has a life-altering secret. 6) American school kids learn the cruelty of war. 7) A revolutionary fails his revolution, and 8) An interstellar peace conference does not yield the hoped-for results when space hippies defy peace conventions. These eerie stories will leave one wandering the depths of despair and hope against all odds.

On the eve of the Russian revolution, a young student named Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker over a pocket watch. Although an innocent man is quickly arrested for the crime, Raskolnikov's own published essay—suggesting that people who are "extra-ordinary" are above such things as "right" and "wrong"—draws the suspicion of judge Porfiry. Who will catch up to Raskolnikov first? Porfiry...or his own guilty conscience?

Amidst the chaos of World War II, two Japanese soldiers hear of Zephyrus, an utterly captivating woman rumored to exist on an island in the South Pacific. The tales of this bold enchantress seducing men to their dooms are both chilling and fascinating. Over twenty years pass and Zephyrus resurfaces in Japan, seemingly unchanged, to wield her mysterious power over men once more. The one man immune to Zephyrus’ charms is a simple drunkard, Gohonmatsu Seki, son of one of the wartime soldiers. Employed to spy on Zephyrus, what will Gohonmatsu uncover about her ultimate plot to create international discord and consume the world of men? What brought this woman to conspire for decades against patriarchal society—against an entire gender—and can anything be done to stop her plans?

Life and death, twists and turns, Tezuka Osamu combines classic heart with the depth and mystery of The Twilight Zone in this beautiful, startling collection. The Crater is a series of horror-inspired, self-containing short stories that show the depravity of mankind in a way only the “god of manga” can. Tales range from the world of nymphs and interdimensional adventures, to deadly spiders on planes and depictions of apocalyptic futures. While some stories loosely connect, each story is its own carefully laid experience. Tezuka will chill readers with dark visages of the world counterpointed with his amazing art style that has influenced fans for decades.

An injured white supremacist struggles with the fact that he was brought back to life by a black organ donor; a young man in the wild west seeks revenge for his father’s murder; an escaped convict holds a family hostage in a cave that causes hallucinations; the only two survivors of a nuclear apocalypse dare to explore the outside world—Tezuka’s characters are put to the test when the delicate balance of their minds are disrupted, discovering something dark hidden deep within themselves. Don’t miss this uncommon, unheard, unusual, out-of-the-ordinary collection of short stories by the late, great Osamu Tezuka.

According to legend, grim reapers and angels started a war upon discovering an ultra-powerful genesis piano—destroying it and scattering the keys throughout the cosmos in the process. No one has seen a grim reaper or an angel since. Enter Xiaochao, a cursed human girl just trying to make it through high school in one piece. One day, she stumbles upon Michael, an angel hiding in plain sight, playing a gorgeous tune on the piano in the school's music room. When she later sneaks into the music room and plays a single note, the windows shatter, and in walks a grim reaper, masked as a teacher. They say two's company, but three's a crowd. Will these three find harmony in romance? Or will they just crowd each other out?

A centuries-old eatery named "The Bait" entices guests with warm, welcoming lights and a massive spread of delicious treats. Inside, the beautiful shopkeeper offers up delicacies. But, unbeknownst to the diners, the restaurant masks a door to the spirit world, both fantastical and frightening. Once lured in, the customers take the bait...transforming into food shaped as little creatures. Humans have been preyed on here for hundreds of years... That is, until Yuan Youtao wanders in and changes everything.

For high school student Grant Lee, luck was like a clean pair of socks: never there when you need it the most. But when he finds a mysterious book that can tell the future, he’s sure it’s all about to change. For starters, he saves the life of Hannah Lin, the prettiest girl in school! But things take a turn for the worse when he gets swept up by powerful forces vying for control of Willow City. In order to survive and win Hannah’s heart, he’s going to need a lot more than luck.

Akkun has finally gotten into his dream high school. He can't help but attribute his success to the only teacher who supported him, Chizuru-san. When Akkun visits her to say thanks, he discovers that the doting and beautiful Chizuru-san is no longer a teacher, but is now living the life of a recluse. And after witnessing her lust for blood, he finds out she's a vampire, too!

The witch’s descent, David Sun, has decided to join the modern society after learning all the witchery and vermin from his master. He doesn’t have any goals other than his family’s well-being and earn some extra money by saving people from illness. He did not expect trouble to come to find him. While facing all the temptation and evil, watch how a fatty hides from others’ sight and promotes witchery...

Dragons, sky demons, zombies, and immortality. Mo Chuan is a Taoist priest who lives on the mountainside with his sect. One day, he accidentally undoes the seal on a sky demon from the Qing Dynasty?! Now, this is no ordinary sky demon. It can bring about calamities and plagues the likes of which the world has never seen. The only thing that can help restrict its actions? A blood pact that binds the fates of the two together for all time. Will it blossom into romance? Or till death do they part?

An artist who has a split personality and a policeman were oddly paired up to solve strange cases. As the two solve anomalous occurrences, they slowly know the truth of the disaster twenty years ago.