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Gekkoukan High School's SEES club appears ordinary on the surface, but their true purpose is to investigate the emergence of Shadows during the enigmatic Dark Hour, which only those with the potential to recall can experience. Those who are unable to recall the Dark Hour are afflicted with Apathy Syndrome. Unbeknownst to himself, transfer student Minato Arisato has the ability to remember. On his arrival, a stranger asks him to sign a contract, and SEES begins to monitor him, believing his potential surpasses that of any current member. During an attack, Minato's "Persona" is awakened, and he joins SEES in their mission to uncover the truth behind the Dark Hour.
Satou Matsuzaka has a reputation for being approachable and friendly, earning her the nickname "New Guy Every Three Days" Satou, thanks to her good looks. However, her carefree ways come to a sudden end when she falls deeply in love with Shio Koube, an eight-year-old child. Despite the purity of their feelings, society is quick to condemn their relationship, putting their happiness at risk. Determined to preserve their idyllic existence, Satou abandons her cheerful facade and fights tooth and nail to keep their love alive. Included in the volume is the one-shot titled "White Sugar Garden, Black Salt Cage" which serves as a pilot.
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.
The Communication Player (COMP) is a portable gaming system that can send and receive emails and surf the web. Kazuya Minegishi and his friends are each given a COMP by Kazuya's ominous hacker cousin, Naoya, who tells them they will need the devices to survive. Confused, the three think nothing of Naoya's warning and proceed to open up a strange "Laplace Email" in their inboxes. The email claims that someone will be brutally murdered, followed by a large explosion and a blackout that will take the entirety of Tokyo offline. They believe it to be a joke until the terrifying events unfold in front of their eyes. Shaken, the three soon learn that Naoya has loaded a demon summoning program onto their COMPs, which causes powerful demons to crawl out of their devices and attack them. When defeated, the same demons forge contracts with them and become their partners. Armed with the ability to summon demons and predict the future via email, the three friends fight to survive in their new, demon-infested reality. Along the way, they must uncover the truth behind the summoning program and what happens when they change their fates.
Middle schooler Seigi, skilled in martial arts, has an instinctual need to protect the vulnerable. One day, he comes to the defense of a homeless man against a group of troublemakers, and in gratitude, the man marks his palm with an enigmatic tattoo. This tattoo is a classified weapon developed during the arms race between the Serinistan Kingdom and America. Seigi's life takes a perilous turn when an influential girl, who also bears the same tattoo, viciously pursues him to obtain his. Despite his martial arts proficiency, Seigi is in danger. Can he unlock the full potential of his tattoo in time before it's too late?
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 story centers on Su Bai, who utilizes the “Clock of All Things” to strengthen his skills and cultivate equipment, continuously breaking records in a global player-versus-player tower-climbing competition. The plot encompasses professional advancement, contention for “first kills,” and inter-species warfare. By clearing the dungeons on each floor of the tower, he builds his power system and unveils the world’s setting, where the “Tower of God” connects a myriad of realms. The protagonist gradually unlocks abilities such as the power of time and necromancy, driving forward the main storyline of the Blue Star (Earth) human race’s struggle for survival against higher-level civilizations.
Shizuku Kanzaki is the only son of world-renowned wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki. From a young age, Shizuku has been subjected to strange education from his father all for the sake of wine. From learning to gracefully decant a drink to intently remembering the smell of leather belts and pencils, the training causes him to grow resentful of everything related to wine. Discontent with his father, he leaves home to become an average sales representative for a beer company, refusing to ever touch wine again. When his father suddenly passes away, Shizuku finds himself being dragged back into the world he hates so much. As part of his father's will, the one who will inherit his prized wine collection and estate will go to the person who can correctly identify the "12 Apostles" of wines as well as the legendary "Drops of God." In order to inherit the assets, Shizuku has one year to complete the task, but he finds the proposition ridiculous when he is the only living relative of Yutaka. What Yutaka failed to tell his son before his death was that he had adopted Issei Tomine into the family a week prior to his passing. Issei is a famous veteran wine critic competing against Shizuku to claim the estate for himself. With no formal training in wine tasting, Shizuku stands no chance against "The Prince of Wine" and is at risk of losing everything in this competition. Will he be able to correctly identify the elusive "Drops of God" before he runs out of time?
An Eldritch being disguises itself as a convenience store worker to understand the meaning of life.
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?
After losing their mother to an illness at a young age, two young and talented alchemists, brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric, attempt the forbidden act of human transmutation to bring her back. But little did they know there was a heavy price to pay for breaking the ultimate taboo in alchemy. Edward loses his left leg after the transmutation fails, and his only remaining family, Alphonse, is taken from him. Desperate to bring his precious brother back, Edward sacrifices his right arm in exchange for Alphonse’s soul and successfully binds him into a suit of armor. The brothers must now embark on a journey to regain everything they have lost. ⓒHiromu Arakawa/SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
One day, Doppo, the high school protagonist, suddenly heard a voice from his phone saying "The game has begun" and that the "chosen challengers" have been taken to another world. If they complete their mission, they can return to their original world. However, this new world is filled with terrifying monsters... Can they survive and return to their original world?! The survival game for humanity's salvation on the line has begun...!
