Raten - Birth

Gantz

Kei Kurono is a cynical high school student who keeps to himself, tired of the cruelty people are capable of. One day at the subway station, his classmate Masaru Katou jumps onto the tracks to save a drunk man who has fallen. On impulse, Kei follows him. They manage to pull the man to safety, but both boys are struck and killed by the oncoming train. Instead of dying, Kei and Masaru wake up in an apartment full of strangers, all of whom have recently died. In the center of the room is a large black sphere called Gantz. It gives them high-tech suits and strange weapons, then sends them out to hunt and kill bizarre alien creatures hidden on Earth. Each mission is brutal and often deadly. Sur

Killing Bites

College student Nomoto Yuuya is dragged into a dangerous world when a casual outing turns violent. The girl his acquaintances try to kidnap, Hitomi, is a human-animal hybrid known as a honey badger, and she brutally eliminates her captors. Yuuya survives, and Hitomi is assigned to stay with him for his protection. Hitomi is a participant in Killing Bites, an underground fighting circuit where powerful corporations wager on brutal duels between hybrids—beings that combine human intelligence with the fangs and instincts of beasts. Thrown into this hidden arena, Yuuya must navigate a world where survival is the only rule and the fighters are anything but human.

BLAME! Academy and So On

This collection brings together a series of short stories set within the vast and enigmatic 'City' of Tsutomu Nihei's universe. It features the comedic 'Blame Academy!' series, where characters like Killy and Cibo are reimagined in a parody of traditional Japanese school life. Other tales expand the lore in different directions. 'Zeb-noid' depicts a brutal, millennia-spanning war between two soldiers from opposing species. 'Netsphere Engineer' follows a Dismantler tasked with deconstructing nexus towers to protect humans from the Safeguard. The anthology also includes various other vignettes, from a man searching for his brother in 'Kozutsumi' to the far-future adventures of a silicon crea

Devilman Lady

Jun Fudou is a high school teacher who takes her students on a trip. During the outing, they are targeted by a group of martial artists who harbor a sinister interest in the girls. These men are, in fact, demons who reveal their monstrous forms and assault the cabin with the intent to violate the students. Jun herself is brutally attacked. In that moment of violation, Jun feels her soul tearing apart and undergoes a horrific transformation, emerging as the powerful hybrid known as the Devilman Lady. Armed with newfound strength, she fights back to protect the girls. This traumatic event forces Jun to confront the nature of the demons now emerging in the world and the terrifying truth behind

Apocalypse Zero

In the aftermath of a series of natural disasters that have reduced the world to rubble, the survivors do whatever they must to stay alive. Kakugo is a young boy trained in martial arts and gifted with a powerful suit of armor by his late father, and he is charged with making the world around him, or at least his school, a safer place. The armor, called Zero, was built from the souls of dead warriors, and Kakugo is not the only one who wears it. His brother Harara received a matching set of skills and equipment, and he has turned against humanity: his own plan for peace is to wipe people out entirely. Demons and monsters roam what is left of the cities, and Kakugo is the one person alive w

Castration: Rebirth

Anezaki Satoru loses the person dearest to him when his childhood friend, Ichinose Yuna, is killed by a gang of rapists. Consumed by rage and a thirst for revenge, he hunts down and murders fifteen of them, mutilating their bodies, and is sentenced to death for it. After dying, Satoru wakes in another world, a parallel universe where a solar flare has shattered humanity and reduced every man to a mindless beast driven only by the urge to assault women. Wandering through the ruins, he falls in with a group of survivors who fight back against the hordes. Then he learns something impossible: Yuna is apparently alive in this world. To find her, Satoru throws himself into the survivors' war aga