Torch Song Ecology

Mob Psycho 100

Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama is an eighth-grade student with extraordinary psychic powers. Fearing their destructive and conspicuous nature, he suppresses his abilities in public, keeping a tight lock on his emotions. To keep his powers honed, he works as an assistant to Arataka Reigen, a self-proclaimed psychic who runs a cheap exorcism business. Reigen is a fraud who exploits Mob's real abilities, paying him less than minimum wage while posing as his mentor. Despite this, Mob spends his days exorcising evil spirits at Reigen's behest, all while harboring a simple wish: to impress his childhood friend Tsubomi Takane. As troubles keep bombarding his daily life, Mob's repressed emotions slowly beg

Three Days of Happiness

Kusunoki is a twenty-year-old college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After years of believing a great future awaited him, he discovers just how little his remaining life is worth when he is offered the chance to sell his lifespan. Deciding he would rather have a few meaningful months than decades of mediocrity, he sells all but his last three months. Now, with a clerk named Miyagi assigned to monitor his every move, Kusunoki sets out to find a purpose to his existence before his time runs out.

Mushishi

Mushi are the most fundamental forms of life, existing since the dawn of creation. They are neither plants nor animals, neither good nor evil. They inhabit the shadows behind closed eyelids, the silence of deep forests, and the spaces between life and death. Most people cannot see them, but their influence shapes the world in ways both subtle and devastating. Ginko is a mushishi, a rare individual who can perceive these creatures. He travels from village to village, drawn by rumors of strange occurrences. With a calm demeanor and a sardonic smile, he investigates the mysterious afflictions and wonders that follow in the wake of the mushi. Each encounter brings him face to face with people

The Ancient Magus' Bride

Chise Hatori has spent her fifteen years unwanted and unloved. Abandoned by her father and orphaned by her mother, she has been passed between relatives who never wanted her, until desperation drives her to a slave auction. There, she is presented as a rare Sleigh Beggy, a being with an unusual affinity for magical energies, and sold to the highest bidder. Her buyer is Elias Ainsworth, a mysterious magus with a beast's skull for a head and powers beyond her understanding. He takes her to the English countryside and declares that she will not be his slave, but his apprentice—and his bride. Thrust into a world of fairies, dragons, and ancient magic, Chise begins to learn the ways of a mage.

The Sound of Magic: Annarasumanara

Yoon Ah-ee is a high school student weighed down by poverty. She spends her days studying, working, and caring for her younger sister in the absence of their parents. The dreams she once had, like becoming a magician, have been buried under the harsh demands of reality. A rumor spreads about a magician living in a tent at an abandoned theme park, someone whose magic is said to be real. Before each show, he asks a simple question: "Do you believe in magic?" When Ah-ee stumbles into the park and meets him, her carefully ordered life begins to shift. Drawn to his impossible world, she must confront what she truly wants and what it means to grow into the person she hopes to become.

Even If You Slit My Mouth

Miroku is the slit-mouthed woman, an urban legend whose terrifying smile once made her the self-proclaimed Queen of Folklore. But times have changed, and the public's belief in her has faded so much that her very existence is at risk. To survive, she enters into a contractual engagement with Kouichi Sano, a seventeen-year-old high schooler whose family has managed supernatural beings for generations. Kouichi is surprisingly eager to marry her, but Miroku refuses to depend on anyone else. They make a deal: for one year, they will act as a married couple. If Miroku can scare Kouichi even once before he turns eighteen, the engagement is off. But Kouichi has a condition of his own: he must mak