「In order to meet you, I…」For Enomoto who's currently a college student there was a person he remembered about about at times. It was his childhood friend Shimura, who was always beside him up until six years ago. Due to a sudden transfer he didn’t get to ask the place Shimura was going to and had heard nothing of him ever since. However, he had a reunion with Shimura in college. Enomoto just felt happy at that reunion, but Shimura seemed to hold some other feelings ——.
Shigure Konno is getting bullied in class. One day, however, she leaves her physical body and is able to enter the world of spirit. Shigure can now look inside people's minds, discover their innermost secrets and even manipulate them.... When the seeds of trouble sown in the hearts of good citizens blossom, bizarre incidents will happen... "Six Consciousnesses Thought Changing Ataraxia" marked Kago's third version of the concept of a girl entering a cyberspace-like psychic realm wherein she can "hack" people. He first utilized it in "Soul Diver Saga: Nirvana" (1992), only three chapters of which were published before the magazine serializing it (Bandai's Cyber Comix) stopped publication. In 1995, Kago published a much less sexually explicit one-shot simply titled "ataraxia" in Young Jump (later collected in "Hannya Haramita") before this expanded and much kinkier version followed in 2000/2001. Additionally, various characters from this manga appear in other stories by Kago, some of them collected in "Super-Dimensional Love Gun".+
A new “Duel Masters” story begins! Kirifuda Win, who has lost all memories of his past, is now living alone in Tokyo. In the midst of his ordinary daily life, the footsteps of the world’s end gradually begin to draw near. The secret of Win’s hidden past is…?
Yamada is a boy looking for work to survive in the Edo era where food is scarce and people are forced to eat anything, even human flesh. Suddenly while saving a girl named Mugi, Yamada and other people find themselves caught up in a wave of zombies trying to kill them. Will they be able to survive this imminent danger?
A collection of six stories from master of horror Hideshi Hino. In the first story, "Unusual Fetus: My Baby", a horror writer jokes with his pregnant wife about her giving birth to a baby lizard, much to her annoyance. But his joke ends up coming true and alizard baby is born. The writer is horrified and tries to get rid of it, but his wife insists on raising it. From there, an unfortunate and bizarre story begins. The second story, "Flower of Flesh and Blood", was turned into a direct-to-video film in the Guinea Pig series of movies with Hideshi Hino himself directing. American actor Charlie Sheen one day saw a copy of this film on VHS and contacted the FBI, believing it to be a genuine snuff film... Contains stories of tragedies and dark comedy.
A mysterious serial killer could be silently hiding in the darkness, observing their prey! Or, they could be completely indifferent, passing by innocent civilians... They could be displaying a smile filled with goodwill but within a moment, be holding a knife! Or another possibility is... You are the killer...
Six fantastic tales from classic Japanese literature as interpreted by horror manga master Hideshi Hino. The narrative power of these tales, and in particular the frightening scenery of Rashomon, has inspired, and continues to inspire, artists from the most diverse disciplines of art such as the celebrated writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa and the great director Akira Kurosawa. "The Demon of Rashomon" represents one of the pinnacles of auteur manga capable of combining two seemingly irreconcilable elements: the formal sophistication of traditional Japanese storytelling and the violence of the horror genre.
"The Great Dark Circus descends from a rotten, cursed, demon-related lineage. Every sin, every flaw and every torment from men are represented in our show. Come and watch, meet the tragedy of the ventriloquist mother, the secret of the butterfly princess and the angst of the mist-man… Going into the roaming black tent of the Great Dark Circus is acceding to the magic of its phenomena, and that magic will be the source of our misfortune, because we are all of them."
A shady undercover police officer x an innocent university student. In an accident, university student Song Xiao An is kidnapped and brought deep into the mountains, ripping her away from her peaceful and happy life. There, an undercover police officer named Zhou Si Han secretly takes care of her, and Xiao An thinks she can escape through her. However, she discovers that the policewoman is hiding a dark secret...
Six classic chilling stories populated with yokai, ghosts and demons. A work that enchants with aesthetic refinement and imaginative suggestion. Inspired by Lafcadio Hearn's celebrated Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) and other famous legends from Japanese mythology such as the fascinating and frightening Snow Woman. An unforgettable journey into the mysterious Japanese spectral realm.
The mask of Hannya, a jealous she-devil located in an old antique store, scrutinizes the darkness of men's hearts and knows the secrets of all the objects that have been accumulating there since time immemorial. Prepare well because certain death comes at odd times, and whether you are a young man or a tired old man, whatever she finds you, she will take you with her to hell.
