A small performer named Anning, and a famous female star named Malin. They have identical looks but different identities. The appearance of a mysterious person forces Anning to use Malin’s identity; whilst slowly being dragged into a dark conspiracy.
Gu Ning tried to stop a murder she foresaw but the victim did not heed her advice. Hence, she rushed to lodge a police report. However, she ended up being suspected by the police because she reported the case before it happened. Captain Zhan Ming began to pay attention to the strange woman. Even though Zhan Ming did not believe in her so-called death predictions, Gu Ning repeatedly surprised him. By staring into the eyes of the dead, Gu Ning would know details that only the medical examiner should have known. She could even draw the scene of the crime with an ink brush on the spot. By sitting on a chair from the crime scene, she would be able to see the crime unfold from the other side...
Mariel Imari is a private detective trying to become a first-rate detective to be able inherit her late father's estate. By some strange reason the mysterious thief Vecchio is taking an interest in her. If that's not enough her old friends at Interpol and her siblings makes life more troubling for her.
The hostess was possessed by a mysterious creature in a car accident, and woke up to another world full of demons. Just when she was puzzled, feared, and hopeless, a teenager appeared to save her. It was learned from his mouth that there had always been a demon spirit in this world. The creature inside her was a demon spirit named "Human". She could not take it out in a short time and was forced to live with the teenager. Then he embarked on the no return path to catch a demon
Tezuka, poet Kodama Tanima, and reporter Rock visit Fossil Island, tended to by Gansaku, the elderly owner of the only inn on the island. On the night of their stay, they are visited by curious and fantastical dreams of all sorts relating to the rocks on the island. What worlds will these dreams bring them to?Also includes two shojo short serials:- **Robin-chan** (ロビンちゃん): Ruri is a girl who resides with a baron, longing for the return of her missing brother. One day, a young man named Robin comes by ship to the baron's mansion. This young man could very well be the key to finding her brother...- **The Maidens of Tatsugafuchi** (龍が淵の乙女, Tatsugafuchi no Otome): The tale of two sisters who disguise themselves as samurai in their search for the Munen no Tama, the crest of their family.---**Volume 73 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Jaeshin sees dead people, and Officer Han can sniff out evil. Literally. Their search for a missing friend leads them and professional stuntwoman Yuhyeon into a tangled web of vile cover-ups and twisted violence. Can they handle the overpowering stench of evil? Starting from a few days ago, a rotten smell started to come from a lower floor apartment. A few days later my friend disappeared. The girl who lives in that apartment as well. Who's next....? This is the story of those that disappeared and those seeking to find them!
Growing up, Eun Hae-il is unable to forget the boy he had his very first crush on. This year, he gets accepted into his dream college after retaking the entry test 4 times. However, one day he saves a child from drowning in the ocean but, attempting to save him, he submits to exhaustion and drowns. Right before he stops breathing, he closes his eyes and thinks of the boy he has longed had a crush on, but when then he opens his eyes again he's no longer drowning in the ocean, but on a bus. Hae-il, a man who has crossed between time and has survived death, now stands in front of the man he has longed loved, Yoon Pado. “Has God really given me a second chance?”
A pair of twin brothers were raised in poverty - but in reality, they're princes, being raised as such to protect them from a witch's curse... Contains other gag one-shots in the second half. --- **Volume 323 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Taken from Baka-updates: An anthology of oneshots. Story 1: Promise by NISHI Keiko Story 2: They were Eleven by HAGIO Moto Story 3: The Changeling by SATO Shio Story 4: Since You've Been Gone by NISHI Keiko The two stories by NISHI Keiko were also published as a separate book in English called "Promise." Those stories were originally taken from "Mizu ga Kooru ni Naru Toki."
Park Onew has been living an ordinary life until she meets a “pretty girl“ named Shin Chaeri who immediately becomes her bestfriend. When the two go to a prestigious high school in Seoul, they meet the “Foxes of Sangmok High School“ and get caught up in a dangerous game with the foxes. This is a story of love and friendship about teenage girls who have ’desires’.
In the future, the world is managed by a network called the Fractale System. A boy named Crane is living an aimless life with his parents, who are actually computer-generated "Doppels". One day, he runs into a pretty girl named Furyune, who is being pursued by someone. When he rescues her and helps to keep her hidden from her pursuers, he is pulled into her troubles as well. After meeting her, his life will never be the same!
The first half of the book is made up by the titular story, a serial killer thriller that gets all kinds of meta and crazy as it progresses. The second half of the book consists of a short interview with Kago (and Ryuichi Kasumi, a Japanese crime fiction writer) and a number of short stories. (from Caterpillar).
