A collection of short stories, most of which are centered in a broken world where nothing is as it seems.
From Tokyopop: Shima and Kaori are two teenage detectives who have their own odd-jobs agency, Anything Inc. If they take your case, you know your satisfaction will be guaranteed! Shima is a smart kid with a knack for solving other people’s problems. He’s recently lost his parents to an arson’s fire. Now the sight of fire makes him cringe, often reducing the super sleuth into a pool of tears. Kaori, a supermodel, seems an unlikely partner for Shima, but they’ve been best friends since Kaori hired the junior Sherlock to rid him of a troublesome stalker. For some reason, Shima is comfortable mourning in front of the handsome Kaori; on his end, Kaori trusts Shima to help him suppress his over-aggressive modeling persona, Kyo.
When Aoko was four, a meteorite struck her town. It then rained for twenty days straight, and the crater became what’s now known as the Twenty Day Lake. Two decades later, Aoko can’t remember the day the meteorite fell, or anything of her life in the town beforehand. And so she dives deep into the lake, searching for that something in her memories that she can’t let go of…
The distorted memory becomes a masquerade. Everyone hides behind a mask and performs the wildest acts with no consequence. But, life is not a masquerade. The main character is a girl who suffers daily from what she accidentally witnessed 15 years ago. She keeps having flashbacks of a gruesome scene. It always starts with her as a little girl following a black kitten, she then looks ahead and a panther appears!!! The panther then joins the rest of the pack. And then, unaware of the presence of the little girl, the group starts having "fun." The girl becomes horrified by the scene. She makes a noise and they notice her. "Hunt her down! Kill her!" the woman says to the panthers. She managed to escape from the pack, but they got to her parents. In her flashbacks, her parents were chased and fell off a cliff. The authorities told her that it was a car accident. She has lived on the edge of illusion and reality until she sees the photo of 4 successful people in a magazine. A photo is all she needs to confirm what her flashbacks tell her. Now, with the help of a young man she is ready to get even.
"The MC is a girl named Ena who wants to be a detective someday like her dad. She finds a gun that can grant wishes if you play Russian Roulette with it."
Side story/prequel to "The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service."Matsuoka Kunio is a writer and anthropologist, but he's much more interested in playing detective. Joined by his long-suffering best friend, a very unorthodox priest, and a boy with the power to raise the dead, he investigates the occult mysteries and murders of early 1900s Japan.
On October 1986, the members of the wealthy Ushiromiya family and a number of their servants mysteriously died. When rumours began to circulate regarding who was responsible, it was said that the Golden Witch Beatrice magically caused the tragic events to occur. To reveal the truth behind what happened, the Witch of Miracles Bernkastel presents an alternate reality where Battler Ushiromiya does not come to Rokkenjima and the Golden Witch does not exist. Instead, the mystery child who was abandoned nineteen years ago has been designated the uncontested heir to the family as Lion Ushiromiya, whose existence holds the source of everything presented thus far. To solve the mystery, Bernkastel brings Willard H. Wright, the reluctant former Head Inquisitor of the SSVD redemption agency, to the island as a detective to solve the mystery of Beatrice, including the origin of the legend of the Golden Witch and her true identity.
A collection of short stories by the author of Ushio and Tora.1. Karakuri no Kimi (The Puppet Princess, 1994)2. Tenohira no Uta (Song of the Open Palm, 1994)3. Renrakusen Kitan (Strange Ferry Tale, 1988)4. Merry-Go-Round e! (To the Merry-Go-Round!, 1988)5-6. Yoru ni Sanpo shinai ka ne (Shall We Go Out Walking by Night?, 1993)
“Give me several years of your life, I’ll help you forget someone.” Thus, numerous people made deals with her, exchanging their life for a peaceful future.. The hairpin of a Royal Consort, the sword of a cultivator… heartbreaking memories were sealed inside those items. “Miss Wang, is there anyone that you want to forget?” “Yes, but I’ve already forget who that person is.”
Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural talent of "noticing things" that forces him to help people.
From MangaCity: Redrum 327, a manhwa by Ko Ya Sung, plunges readers into a world that's a cross between the "Scream" franchise and Stephen King's "The Shining." It tells the tale of a group of friends who plan an impromptu visit to an isolated chalet in the mountains. Their weekend getaway starts out as a pleasant idyll, but as the evening progresses, tensions rise, rifts form and conflicts occur. Soon they start to experience strange disappearances and hallucinations, and that's when their trip turns into a real nightmare.
