Usotoki Rhetoric

Fire Punch

The world is buried under ice and snow, and humanity survives in scattered settlements, fearing the Blessed, people born with supernatural powers. Among them are Agni and Luna, two orphaned siblings with the ability to regenerate, who live quietly in a small village of elders. Their bond keeps them going despite the freezing wasteland around them. That fragile peace ends when Doma, an army commander with unquenchable flames, burns the village to the ground. Luna dies in the fire, but Agni's regeneration keeps him alive, trapped in endless agony as the flames never go out. After years of enduring the pain, he sets out across the frozen world with one goal: to find Doma and take revenge for h

Death Note

Light Yagami is a brilliant high school student who is bored with his life. One day he finds a strange notebook dropped by Ryuk, a shinigami. The Death Note has a simple rule: any human whose name is written in it dies. Light tests the notebook by writing the name of a criminal, and the criminal dies immediately. Convinced that the world is rotten, he decides to use the Death Note to kill criminals and create a perfect society free of evil. Under the pseudonym Kira, he begins a series of murders that soon attract the attention of the police. The authorities turn to L, an eccentric and brilliant detective, to identify and stop the culprit. What follows is a battle of minds between Light, wh

Billy Bat

In 1949 Los Angeles, Japanese American cartoonist Kevin Yamagata enjoys success with his popular detective series starring Billy Bat, a sharp-witted cartoon bat. His comfortable life is upended when he realizes he may have unconsciously copied the character from an image he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the possibility of plagiarism, Kevin travels to postwar Japan to find the original artist and seek permission. But his search reveals that the bat symbol is far older than he imagined, appearing throughout history at moments of upheaval and violence. As Kevin traces the origins of the drawing, he is drawn into a dark and twisted mystery that blurs the line between fiction and reality, wh

Erased

Satoru Fujinuma is a 29-year-old struggling manga artist who works part-time delivering pizzas. He possesses a mysterious ability he calls "Revival," which rewinds time to just before a life-threatening incident occurs. This phenomenon forces him to relive moments repeatedly until he can prevent the danger and save the lives of those involved. His life takes a drastic turn when a loved one is murdered by an unknown assailant, and Satoru is framed for the crime. In a desperate moment, his Revival sends him eighteen years into the past. He finds himself in his elementary school days, just before the kidnapping and murder of his classmate, Kayo Hinazuki. Now in his younger body, Satoru must n

Summertime Rendering

Shinpei Ajiro returns to the remote island of Hitogashima for the funeral of his childhood friend Ushio, who drowned while trying to save a young girl. He grew up alongside Ushio and her sister Mio, and the sudden loss draws him back to the place he once called home. During the funeral, Shinpei notices suspicious bruises around Ushio's neck and begins to suspect that her death was not a simple accident. Strange occurrences soon follow, and he receives a warning from a vision of Ushio urging him to protect Mio. As Shinpei digs deeper, he uncovers dangerous entities lurking among the islanders and finds himself trapped in a repeating cycle of events that defies life and death. He must unrave

Talentless Nana

On a remote island stands an academy for the Talented, students with superhuman abilities who train to fight the Enemies of Humanity. Among them arrives Nana Hiiragi, a transfer student who claims to read minds and quickly wins over her classmates with her charm. Beneath her friendly exterior, Nana harbors a hidden agenda. She takes a particular interest in Nanao Nakajima, a quiet boy ridiculed for his lack of a visible power. As she draws closer to him, the island becomes the stage for a tense game of deception where trust is a weapon and every interaction may hide a deadly purpose.