Collection of horror stories by author Misaki Kairi.

Rikako has doubts about the smiling faces of her bullied classmates. It turns out that it is because their brains have undergone surgery to release happy substances no matter how much they're bullied.

There was a time when mages were feared. In the Kingdom of Fulgund a female spellsword called Alfiris travels in hope to become a "person who can save others". However, those who manipulate magic are shunned even by the mercenary guild. If one day she finds a travel companion and her "curse brand" is seen... When one day she is reunited with Sister Anorn, a drunk who considers her a "friend", and gathers other companions to slay an archfiend― When overwhelming despair strikes them, Alfiris's right arm bursts into flames and a different persona emerges!

The house of the Mitarai family, who operate a hospital, burned down in an unfortunate incident. The wife who caused the fire in an act of carelessness prostrated herself, apologizing in front of the flames. 13 years later, Murata Anzu is hired as a housekeeper for the Mitarai house. The woman who greets her is the second wife, Makiko. Despite her high standards, Anzu manages to secure a contract for work. However, her true goal is to infiltrate the house.

The girl who changed my life is for those who never return. It is his left hand that rescues Shu in despair… ⁉︎

Asahi, a shy girl who is being bullied at school, goes to the ghost girl Kiyo and a female teacher who wait in the abandoned school building every day after school. The straight distortion of the girls sheds a small light at night. There is nothing scary. If you are near and far.

A manga adaptation of the drama CD, Steins;Gate: Aishin Meizu no Babel, told from Kurisu's perspective.

Hunters are a special breed, dedicated to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other men. But such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a hundred thousand can pass the grueling qualification exam. Those who do pass gain access to restricted areas, amazing stores of information, and the right to call themselves Hunters.

With each of their lives on the line, the desperate battle for revenge begins!

The setting is 15th century Poland. It was a time when heretical ideas lead those to who possessed such a mindset to being burned at the stake for their beliefs. Rafal, a child prodigy, is expected to major in theology, the most important subject at the time, at the university. One day, however, he comes across a mysterious man, and is now studying a possible "truth" in the midst of heretical thought!

Note: Won the Grand Prize in the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in 2022.

Ostracized and attacked by his home village after the death of his mother, the half-human half-demon Elliot establishes himself as a dungeon lord with the help of his father's succubus.

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The story begins in 1420, right as what would be known as the Bohemian War began. A young girl named Sharka is raped and left for dead among the corpses of her whole town, but she manages to survive. She is picked up by the Bohemian forces, who put a gun in her hands and take her on board as a soldier. Will Sharka be able to fight and take her vengeance?

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming.

In the spring of her second year of high school, Sendawara Ichika was told by her doctor that she had two years left to live. Three years later, now in her second year of university, Ichika spends her days not knowing when the end will come.

One day, by chance, she is reunited with Yurugi Akifumi -- her former philosophy professor, who quit the university. Once in love with Yurugi-sensei, Ichika has her feelings rekindled upon meeting him again, but...

A story of the fleeting love between Ichika, whose life is growing shorter, and a man quietly trying to disappear.

The protagonist, subjected to school violence, falls from the rooftop. After barely waking up from six months of unconsciousness, he refuses the help of his old childhood friend and chooses to transfer. He, who started martial arts by chance, is already growing enough to be ahead of the championship final and wants to show her changed appearance, but he hears the news that she was murdered by the bullies the day after he transferred. After reaching the finals in shock, he surprisingly takes a time warp on the first day of unconsciousness and tries to save her by getting a 30-day opportunity.

Tsukimiya is a dutiful kid who has been looking after his family since his mother's passing, and a popular pretty boy at school, but he rejects all those who confess to him due to an unrequited love he holds for one of his teachers. However he suddenly finds himself kidnapped by a group of beautiful women, who promise him a life of daily torture from now on.

This work is a story about a boy, Rwanda, whose mother is a vicious murderer, set in England at the end of the 19th century. Rwanda, who has long been confined in the basement, grew up and left the house after a certain incident. Eventually, he arrived at the town and was picked up by a staff member of the nursing home and decided to live in the facility. But peaceful everyday life is only boring for Rwanda…

Noel was an abandoned orphan, adopted by a nearby kingdom with a prophet-king that has some very strange plans in mind for his subjects! Noel's journey is full of suffering, pain, humiliation and bloody battles, but she endures as she wants her revenge!

NOTE: Some will find the content hard to digest, warning given!

The story follows an average, albeit untidy guy named Hajime Tsukiyoda. Hajime's peaceful everyday life comes to an end when a man-eating goldfish overtake Shibuya. The fish are everywhere, filling the famous scramble crossing, hanging near the Hachiko statue, and even floating through the city center all the while eating as many humans as they can. The unprecedented crisis marks the "worst survival competition in history."

Jealousy, fear, and love...where does it all lead? Let Satonaka Machiko take you on a journey into the true heart of women in this sometimes dark, sometimes comedic short story collection!

The terrorist organization known as the Animal Liberation Alliance (ALA) attacked a biological research institute and rescued a pregnant chimpanzee. That chimpanzee gave birth to a "humanzee" (half-human, half-chimpanzee) who was named Charlie. After being raised by human parents for fifteen years, Charlie enters his first year of high school. There, he meets the intelligent but socially misunderstood Lucy.

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- Won the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award in 2022
- Won the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.