The closing stages of Sengoku (Warring States) Japan. A setting commonly explored in Japanese manga through vivid scenes of gory battles, samurai, and feats of bravery, honour, and loyalty. Iwaaki Hitoshi dares to go against the popular grain by not focusing on the 3 famous unifiers, but by depicting stories of a society in transition. Rapidly changing cultural norms and class…
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Tousuke Rokudou is a loser, and everyone knows it. He gets picked on at school, gets snide looks from passersby, and can only muster up the courage to complain in secret with his equally hapless friends. Looking to turn his life around, he desperately uses an ancestral artifact passed down in his family for generations: a scroll that is capable of subduing all demons. However…
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From Aerandria Scans:
Legend has it that when the heart of a demon dies, his body changes into silver… When a woman, betrayed by her lover, and a demon who does not trust humans meet, the wheel of life and death begins to turn for their fatal love...!
A collection of very short and mostly atmospheric stories dealing with urban legends, ghosts, and superstitions all organized around a specific theme (school, visitors, etc.). Some are just two pages long.
High School student Usami Touru bumped into his classmate Ayabe Reri, one day while taking a stroll. Ayabe is like an idol in their School. She is a usually a quiet and honest beautiful teenage girl. But by chance that night, Touru caught a glimpse of her skipping on top of a rail. The next day, Touru was asked by Ayabe to keep what he saw a secret. How will the relationship…
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Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a Samurai general in Japan’s Warring States period, promises to offer the body parts of his unborn baby to 48 demons in exchange for complete domination of the country. When the baby boy is born, Daigo has him thrown into a river, expecting the boy to die. A kind sage, however, finds him and adopts him. The sage fits out his poor…
A newly ordained priest named Theo Camming visits a rural town somewhere in Germany. However, his congregation gets attacked by Demoniacs and some of them had been humans.
After being wounded, a female Blassreiter fighter arrives to save him and the rest of the village. However, she finds out that the priest was about to die.