Strange fireworks in Tokyo send a group of strangers to a parallel world where they must play life or death games in order to survive. Each game brings new alliances and gut-wrenching choices. Each victory buys them only a few more days of life.
Guts, a former mercenary now known as the Black Swordsman, is out for revenge. After a tumultuous childhood, he finally finds someone he respects and believes he can trust, only to have everything fall apart when this person takes away everything important to Guts for the purpose of fulfilling his own desires. Now marked for death, Guts becomes condemned to a fate in which he is relentlessly pursued by demonic beings.
In an enormous steel labyrinth riddled with horrifying creatures, humanity is forced to isolate itself in small enclaves while living in constant fear of its annihilation. In this dystopia, only a strange young man known as Killy is brave enough to traverse its unforgiving territories.
Seiichi's mother loves him very much, and his days pass with placid regularity. School, friends, and even the attention of his attractive classmate Fukiishi. Until one terrible summer day, that all changes.
Zaha Sanko's body has great and terrible powers -- they say that possessing his bones will grant you any wish, even the desire to become ruler of the universe. But Sanko is still a teenage dude with his own life, and he isn't about to let every monstrous lowlife in the galaxy rip him limb from limb
Caiman is a person who has lost all of his memories after being transformed into a lizard-headed man by a sorcerer. Living in a grim urban region called Hole, he now hunts magic users in search of the one responsible for his metamorphosis in an attempt to recover his past and his face.
Sixth grader Shou Takamatsu is a troublemaker who refuses to grow up. However, one fateful day, his world is turned upside down, forcing him to quickly mature—or die. When Shou arrives at school that morning, an earthquake of mysterious origin strikes, and the campus is teleported to an empty wasteland, far removed from society.
In a land of two kingdoms -- the Outside, where twisted beasts roam, cursing with a touch, and the Inside, where humans live in safety and peace -- a girl and a demonic guardian known only as Teacher share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances.
A homeless man undergoes trepanation for money. Little does he know, this procedure will allow him to see the "homunculi"-- distorted, monstrous versions of people's inner selves. This new ability leads him on his own psychological journey to discover oneself, identity, and confront the dark truths of humanity,
Five students from a Buddhist college in Japan use their unique spiritual and scientific talents to carry out the last wishes of their dead clients. By contacting corpses’ spirits and speaking to them, these students help their souls move on.
Dr. Kenzo Tenma saves the life of Johan, a young boy who grows up to become a serial killer with secret ties to the government, and Tenma, finding himself implicated as the main suspect in a series of murders, sets out to find and stop Johan.
Natsume's Book of Friends is a touching and emotional story about a lonely teenager with supernatural powers. Takashi Natsume can see yokai and other spirits. While some spirits are fun and friendly, most are dangerous. Despite the danger, Natsume feels drawn to the world of spirits and the work of exorcists who alternately help and threaten him, while at the same he is desperate to protect his normal friends and family from the supernatural beings that constantly loom over them unseen. Natsume's Book of Friends is beautiful and frightening, sad and hopeful, nostalgic and spooky.
In childhood, seven children push their classmate down a tunnel to appease a supposed monster that will bring end to the world. A decade later, the now adults remain haunted by their act as children. As their classmate remains in a coma, their lives continue with guilt and new acts of violence.
The popular cell phone game, "Rabbit Doubt," becomes a reality for a group of four. In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, the four must survive the killer wolf player, who watches the four through the hospital's surveillance system.
Yoshiki Tsujinaka can tell that his best friend isn't the same: Something has taken over Hikaru’s body. It may walk, talk, and look like Hikaru, but it’s not Hikaru.
Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality, where humans live alongside ghouls who must eat human flesh to survive. After an accident, an unassuming college student becomes a half-ghoul, thrusting into the secret underworld of Tokyo’s ghouls, as he struggles to maintain his humanity.
A high schooler becomes tied to the ghost of a boy who attended her school over fifty years before her, attempts to resolve the school’s seven mysteries.
She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus.
In the town of Kurouzu-cho, Kirie Goshima lives a fairly normal life with her family. As she walks to the train station one day to meet her boyfriend, Shuuichi Saito, she sees his father staring at a snail shell in an alley. Thinking nothing of it, she mentions the incident to Shuuichi, who says that his father has been acting weird lately. Shuuichi reveals his rising desire to leave the town with Kirie, saying that the town is infected with spirals.
On a visit to a city in the far west of Asia, a British girl named Nicola falls in love. The object of her affection is Mimar, a man who works at the city's bazaar—yet despite her attempts, he turns her down. Upon returning home to England, the ache of her unrequited love festers. After years spent obtaining wealth, fame, and the Secret of the World, Nicola returns to the bazaar to exact her deadly revenge upon Mimar and those he holds dearest.
