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On a rainy day almost a month ago, Kumo Shirasagi disappeared without a trace. In hopes of finding her, a group of six classmates convenes to search the Bird Forest, an abandoned amusement park on a remote hill in the countryside. Among these students is Gin Kurobe, a boy whose reasons for coming are as mysterious as his habit of muttering under his breath. The group's search takes them to the foreboding structure looming over the park known as the Birdcage Castle. In an instant, they are knocked unconscious—and when they awaken, they find metal collars around their necks, each connected to another person. The game they unwittingly entered is simple: they cannot turn back from any chosen path, and they must always move in pairs. The punishment for breaking either of these rules is certain death. With their lives on the line, Gin and his classmates must ascend through the bloody castle, battling the mind games thrown at them while searching for Kumo.
Susumu Nakoshi is a middle-aged man who spends his days between a lavish first-class hotel and a park full of homeless people. One day, an eccentric young man approaches Nakoshi in search of subjects willing to partake in trepanation—the procedure of drilling a hole in the skull. This mysterious person claims that Nakoshi is the perfect man for the experiment. Initially rejecting the offer, he doubles back on his decision after his car gets towed off. Nakoshi agrees to let Manabu Ito, a 22-year-old medical student, drill a hole in his skull in exchange for 700,000 yen. The procedure bears no results at first, with Nakoshi showing no abnormalities. This normalcy comes to an abrupt end, however, when Nakoshi begins seeing the homunculus in every person. With his perception distorted, how will Nakoshi face these homunculi?
In his youth, Kurosu Keisuke starred in a televised program called "Esper Shounen," which featured children with extraordinary abilities. After the show's seven-year run came to an end, a murderer begins to target the former Esper participants, whom he views as monstrous. Can Keisuke and his former co-stars uncover the killer's identity and evade becoming their next prey?
The Suzunari detective club, comprised of three high school students - Suzaku Tachibana, Kouhei Hiba, and Soutaro Tsubaki - and their feline companion, Boo-chan, is an all-male group due to Boo-chan's stringent female membership criteria. However, Suzaku's intuition found their perfect female member in the form of Aoi Kaidou. Although Aoi appeared serious and unsmiling, she passed Boo-chan's tests and joined the team. Together, they solve mysteries on their school campus. Volume five features "Itsumademo Issho ni" and volume nine presents "Anata wo Shiritakute" as additional stories.
Born a faerie, Jack Flash runs a detective agency in New York with her brother, Larry, who is human. Specializing in solving crimes on the borderline between the human and faerie worlds, they are taken aback when they receive an unforeseen missive from Echos, a skilled mage who safeguards dragons. Echos entrusts them with a particular task, catching them unawares.
This work is set in the Showa era during the mid-1960s and early '70s. Yukinojo, the protagonist, was abandoned on the grounds of a Tokyo temple soon after his birth. He meets and marries Asahi, the daughter of an Aomori apple farmer, and after being adopted into her family, moves to the deep, snow-covered apple country of northern Japan. Far from the social turmoil of the period, Yukinojo lives a quiet family life that warms his heart and fills the void of never having known his parents. But one winter everything changes when he brings his wife, who has fallen ill, a forbidden apple. Reviving a rite that should have died out some 60 years earlier, Asahi becomes the consort of a local deity known as Obosuna-sama. Delicately yet boldly, with richly expressive touches, this continuing series depicts villagers who hold fast to the traditional customs they have inherited, and the natural environment of a bygone Japan.
In modern-day Korea, Park Eunha is suddenly thrust into the body of Raeliana McMillan - a wealthy baron's daughter in a world akin to a novel she once read - following her passing. The idyllic facade surrounding Raeliana shatters when it becomes clear that she is a tool in a larger scheme. Her impending murder by her betrothed is meant to catalyze events that will shape the narrative. Determined to change fate, Raeliana turns her attention to Duke Noah Volstaire Wynknight - a potent figure - to steer the story in a different direction. Raeliana is willing to provide Noah with insights into the future in exchange for him posing as her fake fiancé. However, her plans go awry when it comes to light that Noah is not as dependable as she thought, throwing a wrench in her strategies.
After losing everything, the Nakata brothers find a mysterious app that offers a chance to make large sums of money. But are they ready for the danger they must now face, the deadly monsters known as WORLDs...?
After breaking the chains of fate and achieving the ultimate world, Rika Furude and her comrades can finally enjoy ordinary lives in Hinamizawa's mountain village. Rika believes her hardships and heartaches are over until she is involved in an accident that proves her wrong. Upon waking up, Rika realizes she's in a different world than the one she knows. This new reality contrasts her original world, with her once loyal friend Satoko Houjou becoming cold towards her, her longtime friend Keiichi Maebara never moving to Hinamizawa, and her parents still alive. Though this world may not be perfect, it still appeals to Rika, leaving her with a tough decision: stay in this new world or return to the world that she struggled to improve.
Traveling in-between the world of the living and the twilight world of the dead, Akamushi, the shaman, priest, demon-hunter, or specifically, the Red Spider Exorcist, is one that’ll never refuse a request for help from lost souls falling prey to evil spirits and demons of the underworld. With the strength and regeneration powers of a giant spider, and the ability to command his swarm of arachnids to his will, he combats the malevolent supernatural and is a force to be reckoned with. When career woman Megumi is suddenly pursued and attacked by the unholy demons of the afterlife, she seeks the help from the phlegmatic shaman to eradicate the infestation of unholy beasts seeking to take her soul and turn her into a vindictive minion. But as it seems, these demons are more than persistent—everywhere Megumi tries to hide, they follow. With Megumi’s cry for help, is this more than what Akamushi can handle—as he too collapses to the will of their malicious powers? But why are these creatures of twilight after her? What does she know, or doesn’t know, that’ll unravel the truths about her true self and everyone around her? And what of Akamushi—can he use his unique shamanic spider-like powers to cast out and purify himself from the demon scourge?
Various creators have contributed numerous manga shorts for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou.
At 25 years old, Shizuka Yamauchi works as a housekeeper while Makiko Mitarai, who is 46 years old, is an amateur model and impeccable homemaker. Despite their unfamiliarity, the two have a history that Shizuka seeks to rectify in order to vindicate her mother. However, Makiko harbors her own secrets, and Shizuka must be cautious in her pursuit of the truth to avoid being harmed.
