A shady bus tour of young men and women is headed to an elusive village called Nanakimura. A destination where people can partake in a utopian existence, free of the world's obstacles... or so goes the rumor.Heading deep into the mountains, the bus is carrying 30 different individuals, each harboring their own expectations and troubled hearts...What they had arrived to was an uninhabited village with faint, lingering scents of life as it was falling apart.Just what is the secret of Nanakimura?
A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause. ---- **Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1986, shared with Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael?**---**Volumes 372-376 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
A manga anthology released by ASCII Media Works about the popular Atlus game Persona 4. Includes stories by 16 authors including Tooyama Ema and Kasukabe Akira.
Ritsu inherited his sixth sense from his grandfather, along with a demon guardian named Blue Storm. Strange things just seem to happen around these two, and it's left to them to get to the bottom of all these mysterious events. Each story is independent but features recurring characters you'll come to know and appreciate as they, each in their own way, try to deal with things 'not of this world'. Note: Won the Excellence Prize of manga section of Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006.
“As Yuki-onna-sama’s living sacrifice, you shall call upon the arrival of Spring.”<br><br>In Fuji Village where the legend of Yuki-onna remains, preparations begin on the morning of New Year’s Day for the ritual to be held on the coldest day of the year. The young men who have inherited the blood of Yuki-onna thus named the Three Houses of the Gokusho, spend their days until the ritual aiding the living sacrifice, the Revelation of Spring. In this enclosed world bound by laws and tradition, the young men uncover mysteries of the village and its rituals. Before long, the village is faced with a situation never before seen.
A wealthy man, Kurosu Tokimune, meets an unnatural end.With his death, his family joins together to grieve, only to become suspects of a police investigation as to whether he was murdered.Their primary suspect: the adopted daughter of the Kurosu family and first to discover his body, Kurosu Tokiko. The girl who shows no distress at her father's death. And as all suspicions point to her, the second unnatural death occurs...It's always been this way.Wherever Tokiko goes, people tend to die.
The heroine, Akira, a 2nd year middle school student, lives on an island that being peaceful is its only feature. Everyone in her class are her childhood friends. they were thinking that this year too like the other years would be a peaceful year with the usual classmates. But at a time like this a transfer student called “Matsushirou Nishigami” appears, saying: “Anyone who gets close to me dies”. What is the true meaning of his words…?!
Asahi, a shy girl who is being bullied at school, goes to the ghost girl Kiyo and a female teacher who wait in the abandoned school building every day after school. The straight distortion of the girls sheds a small light at night. There is nothing scary. If you are near and far.
Series is cancelled due to author's death For his beloved younger sister's treatment, Shinomiya Ryouma is working frantically to raise a billion yen while going to high school. One day, a mysterious woman asks him, "Can you put your life on the line for what you desire?" and after receiving a ticket from her, an accident befalls him! When he wakes up, he finds he's turned into a girl and what's more, he's participating in a "game" where a win means he can reverse his fate but a loss means he'll die instantly!
Hao is a courageous hero who has saved a hundred different realms. Nevertheless, he has to cross dimensions once again to rescue one last realm that belongs to the cultivators. Exhausted, he decides to make his weak disciple, Chen Junan, the next hero. Junan is timid and extremely lazy. Will Hao succeed in training him? Meanwhile, the real reason why Hao was summoned to the Cultivation Realm was to compete for the role as the cultivators’ leader. How will they overcome the strange adventures? For unknown reasons, there seems to be a bigger secret hidden beneath the realm...
Gian Carlo Bourbon Del Monte, a young member of the mafia, is better known by his nickname "Lucky Dog" due to his incredible good luck. Despite knowing that he can escape with just a little effort, Gian decides to take a break from the fast-and-furious lifestyle while being imprisoned in a maximum-security jail. But when four young mafia captains are captured and brought to the same prison, the Boss of their syndicate makes a certain request of Gian...
From ADV: Private Investigator Loki is certainly an extraordinary fellow with an incredibly demanding profession. While his boyish good looks disguise his true nature, no challenge is too tough for Loki. Not only is it Loki's job to solve mysteries, but he must also protect his own interests, namely his family, especially when those who want him rubbed-out enter the picture. Loki must dig up evidence surrounding kidnappings, murders, suicides, and the like. When old adversaries strike too close to home, Loki must prepare, not only to solve the crime, but to survive the vicious attacks! If the action's hot, you can count on Loki being there!
