Shinohara Chie - The Best Selection

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

Kirie Goshima is a teenager living in Kurouzu-cho, a small coastal town in Japan. Her quiet life begins to change when she notices strange behavior in the people around her, starting with the father of her boyfriend, Shuichi Saito, who becomes obsessed with snail shells and spiral patterns. Shuichi is convinced that the town is cursed by the uzumaki, the spiral shape that appears everywhere: in water, in the air, in plants, and even in the human body. As the obsession spreads among the residents, Kirie and Shuichi witness how the spiral consumes their neighbors, transforming their lives into a nightmare. What begins as a series of disturbing events soon becomes an inescapable descent into

Bastard

Seon Jin is a quiet, sickly high school student who is relentlessly bullied and largely ignored by everyone around him. At home, he lives alone with his father, a man admired by the community as a successful businessman and devoted parent. But Jin knows the truth: his father is a deranged serial killer, and Jin has been forced to help him carry out his crimes for years. When his father takes an interest in a pretty transfer student, Jin must decide whether to keep obeying him or finally defy the man who has made him an unwilling accomplice.

The Voynich Hotel

Kazuki Taizou, a Japanese tourist with a dark past, arrives at the Voynich Hotel, a rundown resort on a nearly deserted island in the South Pacific. The hotel is owned by former Mexican wrestler Kandre Umeda and run by two mysterious maids, Elena and Beluna, along with a homicidal chef named Amelia. Taizou hopes to lie low, but the island proves stranger than anything he left behind. As he gets drawn into the lives of the hotel's unusual residents and the island's supernatural affairs, he tries to help them, often making his own situation worse. When his past finally catches up with him, his new acquaintances are the only ones he can turn to.

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia

At Seikyou Private Academy, legend says the ghost of a student who died there still haunts the grounds. First-year student Teiichi Niiya discovers the rumor is true when he meets Yuuko, a spirit bound to the school with no memories of her previous life. Determined to help her, Teiichi joins Yuuko in founding a paranormal investigations club. Together they explore the academy's strangest cases, searching for clues about her forgotten past and the circumstances of her death.

Magical Girl Apocalypse

Kii Kogami is a high school student bored with his daily routine, wishing for something out of the ordinary to happen. One day, while looking out the classroom window, he sees a small girl strike his teacher, causing the man's head to explode. He rushes to the bathroom to calm down, convinced it must be a dream. When he returns, the same girl is slaughtering his classmates while repeating the word "magical." The victims soon rise again as zombie-like creatures that join her in the massacre. Kii and his childhood friend Tsukune manage to survive and must now endure the chaos alongside other survivors while searching for answers about what has happened to their world.

7 Seeds

Natsu Iwashimizu wakes up on a sinking ship with no memory of how she got there. Rescued by three strangers—Arashi, Semimaru, and Botan—she makes it to a deserted island that turns out to be Japan, transformed beyond recognition. A meteorite struck Earth and wiped out humanity. Anticipating the disaster, the government launched the 7 Seeds project: five teams of seven young people and a guide, kept in cryogenic sleep until the planet became habitable again. Natsu and her companions belong to Summer B, the group made up of those society considered failures. Now awake in a hostile world, they must find one of the seven government shelters, learn to survive, and figure out how to coexist with