The story of two small-town high school boys and best friends, both striving to escape from their suffocating lives in the close-minded hamlet.

"My eyes were covered by Daddy so I wouldn't know the way. My mouth was gagged and my ears were plugged by Mommy so I would hear and speak no evil. Daddy forbade me from smiling so I wouldn't have dreams and hopes. Mommy spawned me...so I would bear all her sins."

Yumiko Kawahara's disturbing short stories explore the strange and codependent world of dolls and the people who own them.

These cautionary tales must come from some desire to teach people a lesson, for in each one there is a horrible outcome when the doll enters their homes.

From Tokyopop:
In the frontier of the American West, a veil of evil threatens to engulf humanity. Servants of the fallen archangel Temozarela are paving the way for their dark lord's resurrection. One man stands in the way of the apocalypse: Ivan Isaacs, a fallen priest who sold his soul to the devil Belial for the power to fight evil. Armed with a wicked blade and silver bullets, Ivan will give the heretics a baptism of blood in his pilgrimage for humanity's redemption.

A collection of four bizarre and awkward short stories highlighting what happens when weird guys meet even weirder girls.

Story 1, The Lunar Surface & Eye Sockets: Gotou Kosuda takes a job he doesn't want because of the girl who works there, but then finds out she's leaving. Can he make an impression on her before time's up?

Story 2, Flooded City & The Chuo Railway Line: Natsuno Fuda works at a karaoke joint, and every night this girl comes in with a different guy and uses a different name. The thing is, the names she uses are actually the stops on the Chuo Line, and Fuda is a giant train geek.

Story 3, The Cactus-tamer's Apprentice: A high school boy named Susumu Natori discovers a wacky relative who he winds up turning to for advice about a problem at school.

Story 4, The Wasteland of Sugar Fanatics: A man who can mentally fast-forward time is challenged to rewind it.

A group of playground friends meet a strange new kid who fears being bullied by everyone, and do their best to try to include him.

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Transylvania Rose is a bored angel who descends to Earth to clean a few souls. When she witnesses a depressed undertaker slitting his wrists, Rose rips off one of her wings and gives it to the undertaker, trapping them both somewhere between heaven and hell--and life and death!

From Lililicious -

Pure Shadow is a dark story about two girls who consider double suicide together.

He was living a pretty normal life...until he starts to discover the dangerous life he has somehow forgotten...

A girl sees stars in the people and things around her. Some are bigger and shine, others dull and dim like her own. She meets two boys from school one day who show her that all stars can shine brightly, if you see them the right way.

(Part of Nakeru BL Anthology)At the end of the intertwining love triangle...

Based on the game of the same name, a variety of authors and artists write a large offering of short stories starring the various characters featured in the game. The stories range from being lovingly heartfelt, packed full of comedy and gags or being downright evil or messed up sometimes!Note: These are NOT doujin. These are official comic anthologies licensed by Spike Chunsoft, the developers of the Danganronpa series.

From LINE Webtoon:

A few thousand years has passed since an alchemist created Winter. He is now living with Jane learning what it means to be alive as a human.

From Viz:

Shy Chise and nervous Shuji are high school seniors in a small town and have just started dating. But everything changes when Shuji discovers that Chise has been engineered by the Japanese Self Defense Force to transform into the Ultimate Weapon! Soon Chise is torn between realizing her potential as a devastating fighting force and her desire to share a bowl of ramen with her new boyfriend!

Two abandoned boys, Kyou and Toudou, were raised at an appalling orphanage where physical violence was a part of the day to day life. One day Kyou’s real mother came searching for him and took him away from this dreadful existence. The byproduct of a man and his mistress, Kyou’s mother was forced to give him away.

Many years passed and Kyou Sugiura is now a successful prosecutor and pursing an investigation of government corruption involving a young parliamentarian named Tatsuki Toudou – the same Toudou that he grew up with in the orphanage. How the times have changed! Both men growing up in the present of uncertainty; to become, in the future, the height of success, and to stand on the opposite sides of the law. Kyou had never really forgotten Toudou, and Toudou had never really forgiven Kyou.

The meeting between the two ambitious young men results in an unintended consequence that neither had been prepared for. In this stand off between the enforcer and the law maker, there is a past that binds them together. And it is the strength or weakness of this past that will determine the outcome of their duel.

This volume contains the complete works of “The Judged” and “Spring Haze,” a short story involving Toudou’s assistant and ex-lover, Hachiko.


From DramaQueen:
Public prosecutor Kyou Sugiura is pursing an investigation of government corruption involving a young parliamentarian named Tatsuki Toudou. The meeting between the two ambitious young men results in an unintended consequence that neither had been prepared for. In this stand off between the enforcer and the law maker, there is a past that binds them together. And it is the strength or weakness of this past that will determine the outcome of their duel.

From Peccatore Sanctuary:

Kuro Inamori is the heir of a huge industrial group. Because of a traumatic experience in his youth he is impotent. But then he meets Nana.

Yutaka works as a trainer at his father's boxing gym. In a dark alley one day, he runs into Kei, who fights off several thugs. Trying to help a young delinquent get off the street, Yutaka invites Kei to the gym. But Kei is no ordinary delinquent...

In the series:
Vol. 1 - 白い獣の、聞こえぬ声の、見えない温度の、 Shiroi Kemono no, Kikoenu Koe no, Mienai Ondo no,

Vol. 2 - 赤い桎梏の、約束の場所の、望んだ十字架の、Shikkoku no, Yakusoku no Basho no, Nozonda Juujika no,

After making a grave mistake, a military man visits an old friend and says goodbye to his current life.

Two young men vow to transform the destiny of Japan, by any means. As children, they survived the horrors of the Cambodian killing fields together. Now, can they topple the leaders of both the Japanese Parliament and the yakuza crime syndicate?

Although cold and calculating when need be, Hojo and Asami exemplify the traits their colleagues lack: loyalty to friends, compassion for the downtrodden...and an irresistible way with women.

Deputy Police Chief Ishihara sets out to expose their ingenious machinations, but instead falls helplessly in love with Hojo...

Note:
While this was originally 12 volumes in Japanese, when translated into English by Viz it was printed three ways: first in comic book form (each issue had 2 chapters), second in a 5-part 14-vol compilation of the comic books, and finally in a 9 volume manga series. Because the translation is so early, the books were flipped to English left-to-right orientation.

The nine English volumes correspond to these compilation parts, floppy issues, and original chapters:

V1: Part 1, Issues 1-4, Chapters 01-12
V2: Part 1, Issues 5-9, Chapters 13-27
V3: Part 2, Issues 1-5, Chapters 01-13
V4: Part 2, Issues 5-9, Chapters 14-26
V5: Part 3, Issues 1-7, Chapters 01-13
V6: Part 3, Issues 7-8, Chapters 14-16; Part 4, Issues 1-5, Chapters 01-09
V7: Part 4, Issues 5-7, Chapters 10-14; Part 5, Issues 1-3, Chapters 01-05
V8: Part 5, Issues 3-8, Chapters 06-15
V9: Part 5, Issues 8-13, Chapters 16-22