Nippon Mukashibanashi

Record of Ragnarok

The gods of every pantheon gather to decide the fate of humanity. After centuries of watching humans wage war and destroy their own world, the divine council votes unanimously to wipe them out. But Brunhilde, one of the Valkyries, proposes a final alternative: Ragnarök, a tournament pitting thirteen gods against thirteen human champions in one-on-one battles. If humanity can claim seven victories, it will be spared. To stand a chance against the might of the heavens, Brunhilde must gather the strongest warriors in human history and lead them into a battle where the price of defeat is extinction.

SSS-Class Revival Hunter

Confucius Kim is an F-class hunter with no skills, living a mundane life at the bottom of the mysterious Tower while envying the star hunters who rise to fame and glory. His days are spent watching the exploits of the legendary Flame Emperor, the number one hunter, from a distance. One day, Confucius receives a legendary skill that lets him copy another person's ability, but only after that person kills him. Before he can fully understand what this means, he is killed by the Flame Emperor himself. His new skill activates, and he copies the ability to travel back in time upon death. Now Confucius must use these intertwined skills to survive, outmaneuver the competition, and find a way to ri

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

To Your Eternity

A mysterious immortal being is sent to Earth without emotions or identity. It can take the shape of anything around it, but only when the impetus is strong enough. It begins as a sphere, then a rock, then moss, and finally a wolf. In this form, it meets a lonely boy living alone in a ghost town in the Arctic tundra. The boy was abandoned by adults who left in search of a paradise beyond the endless snow. Now he is in a critical state, and the being inherits his form after his death. From that moment, the immortal being sets off on a never-ending journey, seeking new experiences, places, and people. As it travels through time, it encounters joy, sorrow, pain, and love, slowly developing its

Tomie

Tomie Kawakami is a beautiful high school student with long black hair and a distinctive beauty mark under her left eye. She has an almost supernatural ability to seduce nearly any man she meets, inspiring obsessive devotion and desire. But Tomie is not human. When her lovers inevitably succumb to a dark impulse to kill and dismember her, she always returns from the dead, reborn to continue toying with men. Each new encounter leaves a trail of obsession, madness, and violence, and those who fall for her soon realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.

The Case Study of Vanitas

In a steampunk version of 19th-century Paris, Noé Archiviste, a young vampire, arrives searching for the Book of Vanitas, a legendary grimoire said to hold the power to save a friend. His quest takes an unexpected turn when he meets Vanitas, a human who claims to be a doctor specializing in vampires and who now possesses the very book Noé seeks. Vanitas uses the tome to cure vampires afflicted by the curse of the blue moon, a malady that transforms them into mindless predators against their will. Though wary of the doctor's methods and motives, Noé agrees to accompany him, drawn into a world of hidden conflicts and ancient secrets. As they work together to heal the afflicted, they uncover