In the month since she transferred to a new school, Misao hasn't made any friends. Instead, she's been teased and bullied by some of the more aggressive girls in class. This all changes on the day Sae returns to school. Sae is good at everything, and everyone at school adores her--but Sae seems to want only to be friends with Misao. All the bullying stops immediately, and Misao is thrilled to be best friends with the most popular girl in school. Sadly, things really are too good to be true. Sae starts to become more and more domineering, preventing Misao from making other friends and insisting on controlling how she spends all her time. As Sae's friendship becomes more and more nightmarish, someone reaches out to Misao to try to help her break free. But is it already too late?

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!

After school, Sensei tutors me in secret. My classmates think we have some sort of relationship, but they've got it all wrong. Sensei is a serial killer, and I am his apprentice. "Sensei, please teach me how to murder." A dark love unfolds between a serial killer Sensei and his devoted apprentice!

Arisu is a high school student who faces bullying at school and abuse at home by her uncle. One day, she witnesses her uncle being killed by an assassin called "Arachnid." Thinking that she'll be killed next, Arisu has no choice but to fight back. Soon after, she wakes up at Arachnid's house, and he takes her in as his deadly apprentice.

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…

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?

Adachi Miharu has an affair with a married man, Ito Teru, who happens to be her boss. However the affair is anything but normal. Unlike what you would normally expect, Ito's wife, Yuno, is fully aware of the situation and seems to embrace it. And yet, Miharu quickly grows dissatisfied with this three-way relationship and begins to wish that Yuno weren't there...

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?

There are two men who will start fighting once they see each other. They won’t be friends anyway. So what kind of relationship will they have? The cold and proud high-class boy meets with a rebellious and edgy lad. They got an unsolved grudge during high school. Just when they thought they would never see each other again, they became neighbors who would meet every day at university! What will happen to them this time? What stories will they create?

Ling Ling, a psychiatry student, seems to be a straight-laced goody-two-shoes at first, but she's actually a biker girl with a rebellious streak. For her internship, she happens to be placed with Jiu Wu, one of the best in the field of psychology, and they're forced to work together after a disaster of a first meeting. What kind of sparks will fly between the rebellious girl and the cold and cunning man?

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?

In the Glass Mansion, a family has been frozen in cryosleep for 20 years under the orders of their patriarch. When the oldest son Ichirou awakes, he struggles to accept the reality that he has slept away 20 years of his life. Ichirou plans to exact revenge on those in his family that stole his life from him. As Shirou—the youngest brother—attempts to stop Ichirou, he becomes aware of the dangerous side effect of cryosleep that led to its national ban years ago. How far will Ichirou fall, and will Shirou be able to stop him?

When Dan Takuya’s sister marries into the mob, he is also thrown into the dark underworld of organized crime. Breaking the family’s code of silence, Dan is brutally tortured, arms severed, and left for dead as punishment. He somehow manages to survive, and with the help of an eccentric doctor, he makes his journey to recovery. But there is a catch! He must tap into his psychic powers to move his new limbs: metal prosthetic arms. Through the use of mind over matter, he trains to make use of his new arms and vows revenge on those who did him wrong. Two short stories are also included.

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.

A clumsy romantically inexperienced teenage girl, Asahina Wakaba, is the most hated girl at her school. Wakaba gets bullied into asking out the school’s biggest Otaku, Iruma Haruto. However, this changed her pitch-black high school years into the ultimate young-love experience.

She faces depression, plastic surgery, shopaholicism, a gaming addiction, insomnia, unscoiability, anxiety, psychiatrist appointments, self-harm, and more... She's a frail spirit, so try not to get her too worked up...

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.

Anezaki Satoru had a precious childhood friend, Ichinose Yuna, who was killed by a gang of rapists. Blinded by rage and thirst for revenge, Satoru gruesomely murdered 15 rapists and cut off their genitals, for which he was sentenced to capital punishment. After his death, Satoru regains consciousness in another world where all men have become mindless beasts. Finding himself lost in this world, he meets some of the struggling survivors fighting the hordes of beasts. What he learns is shocking... Yuna is apparently still alive in this world! Satoru chooses to join the fight in order to find his precious friend.

Zoas are monstrous beasts who disguise themselves and live amongst the humans. They were once feared for their physical talent and hideous form, but now, they are the hunted. Randa, a single mother who concealed her identity as a Zoa, has now been caught in a mass murder case suspected to be the work of a sinister Zoa…

Akira Shiroyanagi is a high schooler who loves challenging games and Konpeito candy. One day, while heading to school, he encounters an enigmatic woman called Mion. After that, Akira and a host of other individuals are kidnapped and forced to become test pilots for a mysterious organization. They are given unique abilities and pitted against each other. Armed with his newfound, special ability, Akira becomes determined to take down this sinister group and beat their game. He has to rely on his guile to overcome all sorts of obstacles in a captivating battle of wits!

Suzuki Ryuto is an introverted, timid college student. Every day he puts on a fake smile, trying his best to blend into a group of outgoing students even despite cruel teasing over his virginity. One day he comes to a drinking party where he meets a beautiful girl, Kokoa. Per her request, he pretends to be her boyfriend to ward off the stalker who has been harassing the girl. Their tender love lead to great tragedy.