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After their journey to defeat the Demon Lord ends, a group of heroes can finally go back home.

Housen is a painter of erotic art in the Edo period, who stumbles into a murder mystery involving women who have hooked up with one of his patrons. With the help of Tsubaki, a girl he runs into on the street who seems to know more about him than he does and is an artist herself, they start unraveling mysteries involving sex, murder, and occasionally the occult.

Sou and Hazumi were raised like brother and sister. Then, one night, a strange light flashed in Sou's eyes, and he disappeared. Four years later, Hazumi spots someone who looks just like Sou in a magazine. Determined to solve the mystery, Hazumi takes her fox puppet and heads to Tokyo... Get ready for a magical, suspenseful love story! From Manga Reborn

A fallen angel finds himself infatuated with a human, and despite knowing the consequences, he decides to indulge himself... if only for a little while.

As far as the public is concerned, Rocopon—earth's only alien—hasn't done much but loaf around in the 8 years since he crash-landed in Tokyo with no memory of his past. Granted, that is what he likes to do, and he does spend a lot of time playing video games. But as an alien to whom earth laws technically do not apply, he's been hard at work in a top-secret capacity: government-sanctioned extrajudicial assassin, cleaning up the worst of society that the law is either too slow or too powerless to confront. After years of dispatching hapless crime lords and their goons, things have gotten comfortable. But Rocopon is about to meet his match in more ways than one—fed up with his sloppy ways, headquarters has assigned him a straight-laced partner, and the criminal underground has enlisted the help of those who are a little more than human…

Before Return by Death, a Fateful Tale Woven by Girl and Spirit Deep within the isolated Great Elior Forest, a freezing land covered in snow and ice, lives a girl feared for her resemblance to the legendary Witch of Jealousy. She is the half-elf Emilia, her only company a cat-like spirit named Puck. Both are similarly spurred by duty and guilt, yet the two never grow closer. In this world, the days seem as if they’re an unchanging eternity, but the trials awaiting them are merciless like hellfire…

Alien stage short stories

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From Ochibichan:“Recruiting those who want to finish it and die, but feel sad doing it alone…”Fed up with everything, Mie posted a notice on an Internet Bulletin Board and found suicide-partners. Four boys and girls were gathered together because of their ties to death. And then…?! A collection of oneshots dealing with psychological themes like death, suicide and bullying.

The intertwined love story between three friends and one friend's brother.

"I want to be by my sister's side until the last moment..."In the fall of her twenties, Rachel married her childhood friend Noah, who had been her longtime crush.She knows that the person Noah really loves is Alicia, his older sister and Rachel's best friend...Noah and Rachel live a married life full of deceit while Alicia has only a short time left to live.Rachel feels as much guilt and heartache as she does happiness, but who is the real 'bystander' in this love?The long-awaited first volume of the comic adaptation of the pinnacle of ``a fake marriage of unrequited love'' that wrenches the heart with hidden love, irreplaceable friendship, and the sadness of passing each other!

Volume 11. Kootta Natsu no Hi2. Yasashii Satsujinsha (Kind Killer)3. Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni... (Someone in the Dark...)4. Mokugekisha ni Sayounara5. Weekend no Joutaijou6. Nemuru MachiVolume 21. Jisatsushitsu Room Number 4042. Soshite 5-kai no Suzu ga Naru (The Bell Rings 5 Times - When the Bell Rings)3. Crystal Dollu 2.4. Fuyu no Hana wa Chinkon Hana5. Akai Densetsu

An epic story focused on Yuyuko, Youmu and Yukari, expanding on the events known from the game Perfect Cherry Blossom and their aftermath. The Beginning and Middle chapters are split into two parts each and the final chapter will be split into four parts, so there is going to be a total of eight releases.The Beginning chapter is told from Youmu's perspective. The half-ghost girl cannot help but notice the strange tension between her mistress and her old associate, the youkai of boundaries...In the Middle chapter, we switch to Yukari's point of view as more and more details from her and Yuyuko's past are disclosed.-WB

Hello again it is nice to meet you again in this life? “This is a story of a genius master and a girl he must keep.“

Spin-off of the Knight Run series.AE-1, published (physically) after original Pray Arc.

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In 30 B.C., Cleopatra fell into eternal darkness--or so it should have been. However, she was drawn from the underworld by the gods of Ancient Egypt, gaining eternal youth. She lurked underground in North Africa until she resurfaced in 1942, during World War II. Along with the Lieutenant Antonio, whom she fatefully encountered, she heads for the base of the general of the German army. However...After more than two thousand years, the curtain rises on the reconquest of Egypt!

After an unexpected accident, distraught Tsubaki Tsukishiro is left in denial of his sister's death. But after a moment of despair, he has an epiphany,"I don't need to exist if my sister is here."Donning his sister's clothes, he adventures out with the resolve to erase the existence of "Tsubaki" in favor of reviving "Chika". But while passing through the streets the day of her funeral, a man calls out to him with a single word,"Chika?"A short story about two men desperately clinging onto the image of someone they so dearly love.

"Him and I live in two different worlds." At least, that's what she thought until that day... Morino is a 2nd year middle schooler who tends to have a shy personality. One day, she sees Hasumi, one of the popular guys at school, crying all by himself. Morino tries to encourage him, but she also had a deep secret... (Source: Shueisha, translated)

A short story about a girl who always thinks of her friend.

Enjoy this special side story to celebrate the launch of the Hell's Paradise anime series! The children of a small village try to take down the stranger who's started living nearby, but he won't die no matter what they do to him!

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Will anyone answer love's distress call? Find out in this funny and poignant collection of short stories!1) SOS2) Organ -A pipe organ is discovered in the debris after the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. What does that have to do with the dreams of two young people in the Taisho era?3) The Easy Life

‘Remember’. ‘One, two, three, four, five, six, seven’ ‘I have to remember till the end… till the end…’ The day when my wife Julia was killed by these bastards, my whole life was filled with boiling rage. That’s right. I have to kill those bastards. “The day I get my revenge, bury me next to her.” Until then I have to survive. I bet my life on this survival game…

Hirofumi returns home when his father dies. Will he meet his high school friend Jin who confessed to him when they were teenagers and was part of the reason Hirofumi hasn't returned home for 15 years?

At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom...but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!

During the prefecture tournament competition, in the midst of the cheering in the gymnasium, the scream of Aoba who collapsed echoed through it. Aoba, who was terribly injured who only lived life as an athlete went into despair. In the midst of that, a classmate, Gin, who is a little strange, nominated Aoba as a volleyball member for the ball tournament. “I want to play with you”… is how the two of them met and now, they are discovering the reason why them met and the real love. A sweet and painful, miraculous pure love story.

"How did know? I’ve been doing so well that no one knows.” Adrian Caesar von der Palatgraf. Heir to the Palatgraf family. He was praised as an angel in the world, but only I knew. The serial murders and attempted murders that have made a lot of noise these days are all the work of that good-looking master. “Adrian’s murderous intent rises.” “Convince Adrian to lower his murderous intent. Otherwise, you will die.” “92% of Adrian’s flesh ” Only I knew ...Because I was the only one who entered this crazy horror game world.

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An unlikely pair and their adventures in the mythical past. Burly ronin Kusanagi looks after the physical well-being of various characters the two come across, while the slight, "blind" Sensai attends to their spiritual predicaments, granting wishes in exchange for souls. Note: This series is comprised of two volumes with three episodes each, plus a self-published ~50-page book with two shorter episodes. All chapters can stand alone, but the two protagonists are the same.

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Dai gets brutally bullied at school. One day, his mother gets killed. Although he may be weak, Dai seeks for revenge.

April! Sawaya Doji's college life at his dream school of Seio University starts with an encounter with the beautiful Kaede Hoshimi during the club recruiting fair. Sawaya believes that if he goes to Tokyo... if he joins a university... if he joins a club, he can get a girlfriend! It's a great way to meet new people, but what kind of club has he gotten himself into?

When Mina was a child her home was burnt to ashes by cultivators. Her family slaughtered brutally and her face ruined. Then raised by a demonic cultivator, she vowed to destroy the sect that killed her family and also attain her own happiness. But she's a succubus?

Based on the game by Age, sequel to MuvLuv Unlimited, taking place in an alternate universe where the Earth is invaded by aliens. From Wikipedia: In Alternative, Takeru wakes up three years after the end of Unlimited to find himself back in his room. Although he first thinks that everything that had happened to him was a dream, he soon feels that something is wrong, and leaves the house to find that he has been sent back in time to the beginning of the events in Unlimited. Unwilling to accept something like Alternative V, he decides to help professor Kouduki to complete Alternative IV and save mankind.

Ouka Namae, a magician's pupil, is incapable of feeling emotion. That is...he's almost incapable. One circumstance in particular does bring his feelings to the surface, but the result of such an occasion is unimaginably sinister...

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"My name is Gen Kurosu, and as long as I stand, the Victory Flag will never fly over the heads of the Red Army! The machines roar and blood sprays! My name is Gen Kurosu!" Motocross is a sport in which contestants race for fame on steel horses through rugged, rough terrain. The essence of motocross is the struggle against the harsh nature and oneself. This is the story of a lone warrior who, despite being called "Stupid Don Quixote," stands in the way of the "Red Army," the most powerful motocross team in Japan, which has achieved an undefeated record of 150 victories in a single year. This is the memorable first serial publication of manga master Tetsuo Hara!

The temptations of three hormone-fueled boys, space detectives, robots, fairies, and a series of mysterious murders—though seemingly unconnected, the common thread between them is the maze-like apartment complex known as the Skygrazer. To unravel this enigma, a spunky rookie detective named Saeko Sakuraba is on the case, but she may just find all the twists and turns of this labyrinthian dwelling to be a real pain in the neck…

Mikado High School trains the best students to be the best mercenary bodyguards. But Morito Hayama, a merc escort student with no rank whatsoever, is suddenly assigned to guard a person so highly valued that no escort has ever survived before. After protecting her from a kidnapping attempt, Morito discovers that she is the target of a conspiracy which involves many of his old enemies and allies.

This story follows a man with no name who has been punished to a seemingly endless cycle of rebirth. Whereas at the end of each life he is forced to fight and die at the hands of an eater of worlds. Read and march with him on an adventure to make this life his last.

Matthias, a child abused continuously by his mother, having committed her murder finds refuge in a church where he meets a seemingly helpful, young priest and Hans, a fellow resident. Not much time passes, however, until Matthias realizes that there's something suspicious going on behind the facade of a peaceful shelter... [summary taken from Aarinfantasy's website]

Accidentally stumbling across a hidden attic after moving back to a house in his hometown, Yeoh-Ho finds a 10-year-old diary which makes him recall the memory he most wanted to erase: the day his friend Jae-Ha died!

A boy x a summer x an adventure = "Boy Meets Climb"! Shocking juvenile suspense! One day during the summer vacation, a young boy called Isshin, Kazuma Inui, leaves with his friends who attend the same junior high school to meet again with "that girl" who disappeared several years ago. And all the truths lead to child kidnapping cases that are rampant in the land. Depicting the darkness of society!

From Kodansha Comics:From the mind of Japan's “queen of horror manga” comes a short story collection sure to put a grin on your face and send a chill down your spine. Survive six of the author's hand-picked scares, plus original commentary from the author. For more than 30 years, Inuki Kananko has been terrorizing girls and boys with twisted catch-22s and ghoulish monsters. Discover one of the best-kept secrets of global horror with this selection of some of Inuki's most popular short comics.

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