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After creating the song that could catapult his band into further success, Alex (leader of the band Noir Bril) wakes up to find his unconscious body bludgeoned on the ground. Stuck in between the worlds of the living and the dead, Alex is running out of time before his chance to return to the living world is gone forever. Desperate to return to his body, he is lead to a medium named Sasha. All Sasha wants is to finally live a life far away from the supernatural world that surrounds her. But, her plans take a turn as soon as Alex comes along.
With no memory of how they arrived, Sei and Renzo begin a journey across distant worlds in search of answers. But what begins as a search for the truth soon becomes a journey that could change the fate of every world.
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.
Shinokawa Shioriko, a young owner of a bookstore in Kamakura, loves old books. Separate from the contents of the book, they each have their own story, slowly built as they pass from one person to another. Shioriko loves learning the stories of each old book that comes her way. Gora Daisuke was just scared off of books by his grandmother, an avid collector. When he got into her library one day as a child, she responded angrily and violently. Now his grandmother is dead, and it's time to deal with her belongings. He comes across the complete works of Natsume Soseki, which appear to be autographed! When he is eventually directed to Shioriko to ask about it, she responds with so much more than a simple answer about the signature. As he sees Shioriko's enthusiasm, it looks like knowing Shioriko might lead Daisuke to a new path toward appreciating books!
Bill Bark, the blacksmith who forged the Hero’s sword, lives a life he’s perfectly content with, enjoying a quiet, ordinary routine at his forge. However, growing unrest and ominous signs spreading throughout the kingdom begin to shake even his peaceful days. As the situation worsens and spirals out of control, a series of unavoidable events pulls Bill ever deeper into the heart of the kingdom’s turmoil, forcing a simple blacksmith to confront dangers and choices far beyond the life he had wanted.
Billy Bat is a comic-in-a-comic and the real protagonist is a Japanese-American artist named Kevin Yamagata who draws Billy Bat for "Marble Comics". Shortly after they transition to the artist in his studio with his assistant, two actual detectives, who look like Laurel and Hardy in Dick Tracy era suits and trench coats, knock on the door and appropriate Kevin's room for the purpose of conducting surveillance on a room in an adjacent building. One of the detectives, the skinny “Laurel”, sees Kevin's work and it turns out he's a Billy Bat fan. The other chubby "Hardy" detective picks up a page and says that the characters look familiar and accuses Kevin of translating an old "Jap" comic. As Hardy remembers the comic he thinks Kevin is ripping off, we make another Urasawaesque time jump to 1949 Tokyo and the chapter ends.
The manga centers on Kanoko and her friend Tsunagu. Their personalities are completely opposite of each other, but they are still very close. But something happens one day while they're playing near a small mountain shrine that they call Nogeyama-sama.
The story centers around the film crew for Idol Survival, the internationally popular television program where swimsuited idols compete in games. The crew arrives on the same isolated South American island that TerraSave member Claire Redfield is visiting on an investigation.
