The intermediate boss of the AAA-game I was developing at work is a villain who's fated to die 999 times out of 1,000. That very boss is now me. "I'm fated to die in almost all routes." Deculein will die no matter what, like a villain should. [Primary Survival Goal: Become necessary to the game.] If I am fated to die, then I'll just twist said fate and survive.
When you thirst for revenge, there's a surefire way to get it: Simply go to the strange website that appears only at midnight, and enter the name of your enemy. The Hell Girl will appear to drag your tormentor to eternal damnation. But you will have to pay a price… your soul!
This is Punpun’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. Punpun has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. He tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really don’t. *Source: VIZ Media*
Taking place a few years after the first Ghost in the Shell manga. The series follows the mysterious Motoko Aramaki as she runs an investigation into an incident at an organ factory and its consequences. She's on the run to clean up the mess and save herself in the process. Meanwhile the former members of Section 9 investigate Motoko to find out who she really is. (Source: Anime News Network)
*Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor* presents the "lost" Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, but never collected until now. Focusing on Section 9 agents in their daily battle against technocrime, Human-Error Processor has all the mind-twisting cybermadness you've come to expect from Ghost in the Shell but set in a more police-procedural context with action and suspense galore. (Source: Dark Horse)
Fall from a building, fall in love. Shinji was a high school guy without a future. He went up to the roof of a building with plans to jump, only to run into his beautiful teacher Shinanoya! Then she made a shocking proposal that would change Shinji's destiny... An exuberant tale of double suicide from the pen of a genius!!
Thirty years ago, Lynn embarked on a quest to destroy the Orb of Evil, but she was betrayed and sacrificed by her companions to seal the orb. Now, she has woken up in the body of a young girl, only to find out that she was framed as a traitor and is now remembered as such in history. To make matters worse, the child whose body she's borrowing appears to have been traumatized by years of abuse. Lynn is determined to set the record straight... But first, she'll avenge this little girl! (Source: Tapas)
For five years, there has been a desperate war against an unknown enemy. The people on the remote island Aoshima hardly know of the terrible conditions on the mainland. But this changes all of a sudden when every friday at the fifth hour, scholars are chosen to fight directly at the frontlines. Both Saku and Miyako are declared unfit for service for undisclosed reasons. However, young Reina, who had just fled Tokyo, is first to be sent to the war zone.
The story centers on a student who is taking an antiquarian tour of New England. He goes to the seaport of Innsmouth and there he interacts with strange people and witnesses disturbing events. (Source: Anime News Network)
Manga adaption of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one.
"I want you to kill him..." Her husband abuses her on a daily basis. Unable to stand it any longer, she asks her lesbian friend to kill her husband for her. And unable to say no to the woman she loves, the lesbian kills him... Only 22 years old when the series began, Ching Nakamura offers up a work carved from flesh, blood, and bone. (Source: Kotonoha)
Tanaka Masashi's submission for the 8th Tetsuya Chiba Awards, published by Dark Horse in issues 40 to 44 of Cheval Noir. **** Note:*** Read L to R **→**