DEATH:topia

Pandora Hearts

Oz Vessalius, the fifteen-year-old heir of a noble family, is celebrating his coming-of-age ceremony when the mysterious Baskerville Clan interrupts the festivities. Accused of a sin he knows nothing about, he is cast into the Abyss, an inescapable prison realm said to be home to monstrous creatures called Chains. There he meets Alice, a strange girl who is not what she seems. To escape, Oz forms a contract with her and returns to his world, only to find that time has passed and everything has changed. Now Oz must unravel the truth behind his sin, the nature of the Abyss, and a tragedy from a hundred years ago. Pursued by the Baskervilles and haunted by ghosts of the past, he and his compa

The Unruly Immortals

Li Huowang is a high schooler who only has to close his eyes to wake somewhere else: a strange, menacing world where he serves as a medicine primer and where his Master may at any moment turn him into pills. When he opens his eyes again, he is back in the real world, living in a mental hospital and unable to continue his schooling. The doctors insist the other world is nothing but a hallucination, and they treat him for it. Li Huowang cannot tell which of the two lives is the real one, or whether the danger that stalks him in one of them can follow him into the other. As both worlds press in on him, his grip on what is true and what is false keeps slipping.

Ryu's Road

A young man named Ryu stows away on a spaceship, only to be discovered mid-journey when a return to Earth is impossible. The crew places him in a spare sleep capsule for the duration of the trip. He awakens to a nightmare: he is the sole survivor of the expedition, and the ship has crash-landed on a terrifying, mutated planet. Ryu soon discovers this hostile world is actually Earth, transformed by a mysterious apocalypse. He joins other survivors from a different crash, and together they must navigate this deadly new landscape. Their journey becomes a desperate struggle for survival and a search for any remnants of human civilization that might have endured the catastrophe.

How to Eat Life

Otogiri Tobi, a withdrawn middle schooler, spends his bleak days searching for his missing older brother, accompanied only by his inhuman companion, Baku. His silent world is disrupted when his classmate Shiratama Ryuuko suddenly approaches him, marking the beginning of an unexpected change. The story unfolds as an adventure centered on the boundary between the 'human' and the 'inhuman.' Tobi's quest pulls him into a mysterious reality where these distinctions blur, forcing him to confront profound psychological and supernatural challenges that challenge his understanding of life itself.

Maris Stella of Doomsday

In a future where space has been destroyed and only a small portion of humanity remains alive, a group of winged girls called angels is created using the wisdom of older times. These angels are entrusted with the future of humanity. They must fight against flying marine monsters that attack from the oceans, battling to protect the last remnants of civilization. As the angels face these relentless creatures, the survival of what remains of the human race hangs in the balance.

The Distant Dawn

A collection of sixteen short stories by Yukinobu Hoshino, spanning genres from science fiction and fantasy to psychological drama and romance. The tales explore a wide range of themes, including adventure, mystery, and the supernatural, often set in imaginative and thought-provoking scenarios. From a distant dawn and a steel queen to escape from wastelands and a funeral convoy, each story presents a unique conflict. Characters face challenges such as a call from afar, a whiteout, amazons of the river, and the Carneades plan, navigating through algae, lightning strikes, and the emperor of winter.