From Baka Updates: 在那個地方… 死者追尋生命的陽光, 生者追求死亡的安息。 而那裡就是地獄! At that place... The dead yearn for the life of light The ones alive yearn for the solace of death That place is Hell!

"When I talk about ‘warped manga from a warping mind’, I’m thinking about this kind of incoherent story. ‘The Human Clock’ is a lot simpler to explain. The hero is Yubi Chizuo again. He’s a student like before, but this time round he’s a dropout. He stays in his house, which is a family shop selling watches and clocks. He gazes and gazes at the clocks. Little by little, he turns into a clock. That is the entire story. It reminds me of Kafka’s Metamorphosis." from Manga Zombie.

What happens when one encounters strange things happening in the modern world?

This manga consists of three stories:

1) First Love.

2) Sleeping Beauty.

3) Ghost Ship.

28 years earlier, there was a plane crash in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture. The barrier that the Kobo Daishi, Kukai had created to seal away the demons was destroyed in crimson flames... Present day, Oniwakamaru, King of the Yokai, appears inside the body of pure and innocent Tachibana Hitori!!

Four years ago, a large scale disaster in Tokyo claimed two million lives. The remaining thirteen districts of the city were isolated into the Tokyo Barricade Zone. Morisaki Harumi, an unruly kid with great fighting strength, is his family's sole survivor from the incident.

One day, in a traffic accident, Haru gets pulled into a world of violence and meets Mana, the girl who turned herself into an ancient sword.

From Shoujo Manga Maniac:
Yugao's grandfather privately owned library stands on a precipice. In this library there is a special room which filled with occult-related books. It is rumored that the room is cursed. Kiryu, a serious man, works alone in this mysterious room. He is crazy about giving lessons to people. Yugao is very fond of him, so she one day she kissed him and he becomes a different person in his attitudes about sex.

From Vampire Knights:

Xu Min takes care of the family because her parents go to work early every morning. On the first day of high school, on a crowded train, she accidentally kisses the annoying and humourous Buay Fan. From then on, her normally peaceful life is disrupted...

Icaro is the mind-bending, fast-paced adventure of a young man, Icaro, with the ability to fly and a young woman, Yukiko, who risks her life -- and more -- to help Icaro achieve his dream. Best of all, it capitalizes on Taniguchi's ability to depict a vast and oppressive advanced science laboratory that has made Icaro its guinea pig and will use all its resources to keep him imprisoned for study.
Icaro's fight for freedom and Yukiko's sacrifice to aid him make this one of the most inspiring manga stories as well as a pioneering collaboration between East and West with originality.

Mikage has just arrived at a new school. But why can't he remember anything about his life before the moment he set foot in the school grounds? His classmates, while appearing ordinary enough, all possess strange habits and weird personalities.

Soon after, our bewildered protagonist is summoned by one of his teachers, who claims that Mikage has the power to influence a 'parallel universe' - and that his interactions with his classmates will decide the fates of the inhabitants of that universe. Though initially fascinated, he soon finds out that these 'powers' do not bode well for his new school life...

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From Tokyopop:
Nightmares are bad enough when asleep, but In Dream World, nightmares are real, physical monsters!
Drake, Hanee, and Kyle fight these Nightmares with not only weapons, but "In Dream Cards". These cards have different elemental powers, and those who wield the cards are masters of their elements. Hanee and her friends must battle their way through the land of Nightmares to find their way home.

From Midnight Scans:

Ever since the school entrance ceremony, Sayako, a high-school student, has been wary of her classmate Rou who is in the same committee. However, Rou harbors the secret of his true identity. Sayako's body began to change, and she realizes that her peaceful days are over. As the gears quietly turn, the frightening door of fate opens!

Collection of short stories:

1) Coward's Happiness or Ikujinashi no Shiawase
The owner of a rice shop, Kawada feeds a poor student, Mori, after he tried to steal food from his shop, saying 'The duty of a student is to study'; and starts to look after him. But Mori starts harboring deeper feelings towards Kawada, not just gratitude...

2) Slave of Love
Mitsuo is the manager of a host club owned by his cousin, the violent and ruthless Eito. Eito raised Mitsuo from a very young age, but they've grown apart, despite still living together. When Mitsuo decides to help a younger coworker quit the business, he runs the risk of making Eito very angry...

3) Revenge of Love
The drama continues with a twist.
(This is continuation of story #2.)

4) Homemade Vampire
Letting his oversized half-Japanese nephew live with him is one thing, but a man will soon discover that the nephew is keeping a dark secret...

5) Child's Secert or Kodomo no Himitsu
Mori and Kaname are cousins with secrets. Mori is harbouring a crush on his older cousin and is plagued by erotic dreams at night. Kaname, on the other hand, likes to tease Mori by giving him alcohol and 'playing' with him after he passes out.

Extra - A Coward's Blunder
Rice shop love continues.

The story of a normal guy in a ?normal? dorm! http://comic.naver.com/bestChallenge/list.nhn?titleId=349085

They exist in the most unexpected places—be it within your eyes and ears, under the floor and roof of your house, or in the trees and flowers in your garden. They are everywhere, and yet nowhere, at the same time. Are they alive or not? Perhaps it is more apt to say they are beings who transcend the concept of life and death itself...

They are mushi.

Some wreak havoc in the lives of humans; others bring them deliverance from suffering. Mushi are neither good, nor evil: for just like any other creature, they are merely striving to survive in this harsh, competitive world.

Ginko, a lone wanderer with a reclusive personality, offers help and guidance to those plagued by mushi. This is the tale of his travels and exploits in a wondrous world populated by these mysterious entities.

Awards
- Excellence Prize for Manga at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival (2003)
- Kodansha Manga Award - General Manga (2006)
- 9th place on Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs List of Best Manga.
- The anime adaptation further won grand prizes in the categories of Television Series and Best Art Direction (for Takashi Waki) at the 5th Tokyo Anime Awards held at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in 2006.

From Solaris-SVU:
Though his name may mean good luck, Daikichi is far from lucky. Losing his home and his job, he narrowly avoids being homeless when he finds an old abandoned apartment building. But the apartment isn't nearly as abandoned as it first appeared, as it's being occupied by the ghost of a girl who committed suicide there many years prior.

Nagase Kazuya's homeroom teacher, Katsuragi sensei, is not much of a teacher- he would rather be working on weird and dangerous experiments in the lab instead of teaching class. He's bossy, selfish, likes to tease Kazuya and order him around... he also happens to be Kazuya's lover. Kazuya is in love with Katsuragi but how does his beloved tyrant feel about him?

Ordinary high school girl Ji Na discovers that she is heir to a terrible legacy handed down from her family's sinister history. Long ago, her ancestors killed a magical serpent known as an Imugi, believing that it would bring them good luck. Unfortunately, the creature cursed them as it died, decreeing that one family member of each generation for that day forth will be killed by two people closely acquainted with that person. One of Ji Na's relatives has been murdered without fail in every generation, and now, Ji Na has been informed that she will be next to die.

English Web Publication

At a Shinto shrine in Shimoda, there is a large rock. It is said that if four close friends gather around the rock and all wish for the same thing, that wish will come true. As four friends, Natsumi, Saki, Yuka and Rinko, gather around the rock like they used to in their childhood, they soon find the rock can indeed grant people's wishes. With only a short amount of time before Saki is due to transfer schools, the girls spend a summer filled with magic.