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The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. He is thrown into an eternal, inescapable prison known as the Abyss from which there is no escape. There, he meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, do they lead only to crushing despair for Oz, or is there some shred of hope for him to grasp on to?

A collection of 5 short stories:1) Wild ButterflyIt is wartime, and Oliver takes up a job as an adjutant teacher at a small village school. When an unorthodox new teacher, Mikhail, arrives - the once somber and bleak campus becomes filled with new life. Soon the classrooms formerly stifled under strict imperial rule begin to reverberate with the children's joyful laughter...but will the ray of sunshine known as Mikhail really be able to stay forever?2) Senyoden - Legend of the Demon OracleAbout the meeting between a traveler and a demon who was once human.3) The Strange Tale of ShiramineBased on the legend of Emperor Sutoku, the 75th Emperor of Japan.4) FangsA young man suspects that his vampire lover is cheating on him...5) Tomuraishi - Protector of the DeadSomeone is trying to raise the dead. Enter one truly cool dude to lay them back down.Note -Only the 4th story, 'Fangs' contains BL. The other four are simply short stories with a shoujo flavour.

With the announcement that the world only has a week left before annhilation, what are two teenagers to do?

After their journey to defeat the Demon Lord ends, a group of heroes can finally go back home.

Chapter 3 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 ).

A twisted old man, gifted with extrasensory powers, silently holds sway over an entire block of apartments. The occupants are puppets for him to control. Life is his to give…and to take. But suddenly there is a new voice in his head, and before he knows it, a young girl with her own battery of psychic abilities has arrived to challenge him! Soon, the sprawling complex becomes a battleground between two minds possessing incredible, unimaginable power.

A heart-wrenching single-volume story about the struggles of being an artist, from the creator of Chainsaw Man. The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together. A poignant story of growing up and moving forward that only Tatsuki Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man, could have crafted.

When Hannah gets a high-paying job as a tutor for Eilie, a noble young lady, she expects to start a new, peaceful chapter of her life. However, strange things begin to occur at the mansion, and she quickly realizes there’s more to it than meets the eye. What secrets are the inhabitants of this remote island hiding? In the darkness of mystery, there may be witches playing tricks.

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A lone girl walks in a endless road.

A oneshot by SeNMU about a young girl named Fuyu and her over attachment to her imaginary friend Yuki-chan.

Precious ,a person whose consciousness is still intact after being infected, and Vito his boyfriend are running away from a hoard of zombies but in a bridge accident Precious falls to his doom and falls into an oak forest. Precious gains consciousness to hear another zombie, Si Lan, who's collecting acorns.

Aksara is very close to his sister's assistant, Inara, at the motel where they work. One day, he learns that Inara will soon be leaving for another job. Determined not to lose her, he proposes that he will find her later to experience new things together. On Inara's final day, Aksara takes a bold step and proposes to her, asking her to be his fiancée, believing it is the best way for them to stay together. However, little does Aksara know that he has no idea what he is getting himself into.

Kiyoshi Ryuji the most feared delinquent wishes to confess his feelings to Haruzaki Sayuri the most popular girl in school, his girlfriend whom he forced into a relationship through his fearsome reputation. Despite being in a relationship they've never acted like it due to certain fears but now the clock is ticking, not much time is left,It's up to Ryuji to end it all in one last date...

Chapter 8 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).

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Filled with gorgeous illustrations and concept art from the hit Netflix series, The Art and Making of Arcane is an immersive journey behind the scenes of the Emmy Award-winning Animated Series! --- The Art and Making of Arcane takes readers through the visual journey of Riot Games’ and Fortiche's revolutionary animated series. Featuring early art styles, evolving character designs, and jaw-dropping worldbuilding artwork, this volume is the definitive compendium of Arcane’s creative process and vision. Arcane and League of Legends fans alike will be amazed by the visual development of fan-favorite champions, the breathtaking cityscapes of Piltover and Zaun, and the riveting inventions of hextech and Shimmer. This book includes early designs showing how characters evolved visually, gorgeous vistas of sprawling background and setting art, and interviews with over 20 key animators, writers, directors, artists, game designers, musicians, and other creators. EXCLUSIVE ACETATE COVER: The Art and Making of Arcane comes with an acetate jacket exclusive to this edition. IN-WORLD EXTRAS: This stunning tome will also come with a trove of in-world extras. All editions of the book will include a Jinx poster, a removable map of Piltover, an in-world blueprint, a Vander Letter, fold-out spreads showcasing content from seasons one and two, and more. ORIGINAL ART: Features beautiful, never-before-seen concept art that helped adapt the global blockbuster video game into a critically acclaimed animated series. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Hear from the development teams at Riot Games and Fortiche on the groundbreaking process that brought the world of Runeterra into the cinematic limelight. GO BEHIND THE SCENES: Filled with both behind-the-scenes looks at the inspiration and iteration of the people and places in Arcane, breakdowns of key scenes, and a deep dive into Fortiche’s artisanal animation style, The Art and Making of Arcane chronicles the incredible work and talent that went into crafting such a dynamic and instantly iconic series.

I met my annoying ex-girlfriend again during the zombie apocalypse?!

Unexpectedly, he has reached an agreement to murder someone in exchange with a "psycho". He is afraid, scared, threatened but unable to escape. It's as if he's addicted or in love with that "psycho". Collapsed, crazy, mysterious. Characters: Scheming tsundere psycho X cold hearted college student. This is a dark, pure, sweet(?) and sadistic story.

Little Tetsuo is a wimpy mess. His parents don’t love him. He meets the beautiful Kimiko, an ailing teenage girl obsessed with movies and mayhem in equal amounts. She doesn’t love Tetsuo either, or anyone other than herself. But she needs him. So Tetsuo becomes the man she wants—the monster she wants. He becomes HER FRANKENSTEIN! Originally published in 1986, Kawashima Norikazu’s HER FRANKENSTEIN marks the bizarre and sadomasochistic finale to a cult era in Japanese horror comics. A few years after it was published, the author burned all of his artwork and abandoned Tokyo, never to be heard from again! HER FRANKENSTEIN is the inaugural volume of SMUDGE, a line of pulp, horror, and dark mystery manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.

The classic LGBT+ story by the creative master of Rose of Versailles! *** Born as “Claudine” in a female-assigned body that doesn’t reflect the man inside, this heart-wrenching story follows Claudine through life, pain, and the love of several women. Master shoujo mangaka Riyoko Ikeda, considered part of the influential Year 24 Group, explores gender and sexuality in early twentieth century France in this powerful tale about identity. Riyoko Ikeda’s career of over forty years is most defined by her epic The Rose of Versailles, and she was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2009.

Living a self-destructive lifestyle, young Aoi finds her room visited by various symbols of spring - cherry blossoms and butterflies - all silently watching over her days. A new tale of love and life from the unique mind.

A History Of Violence follows the story of a small town soda shop owner by the name of Tom Mckenna. In an unfortunate turn of events, two wanted killers stumble into Tom’s shop demanding money and have every intention of killing Tom. A couple of seconds later one of the killers is dead and the other is intensive care. Tom becomes an instant hero and is thrown into the public eye. Too bad for Tom the past never dies, and his deep dark past is revealed, and the law-abiding, mild mannered Tom Mckenney turns out to be some much more…

After Batman meets a young boy whose parents were murdered, he reflects on his own life and examines the nature of crime in Gotham City.

The Maxx - a homeless superhero who lives in a box. Both Maxx and his social worker friend, Julie, share adventures in both the real world and in "the Outback," a fantasy realm inhabited by their jungle-inspired totems. In this new edition, each page has been scanned from the original art, remastered, and completely recolored under the watchful eye of Sam Kieth.

One of the greatest Batman stories ever told, Batman: Arkham Asylum is back in a new edition of the classic hardcover! The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over and are demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to endure the personal hells of The Joker, the Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the asylum.

A reporter in 2012 stumbles on a secret that leads him down the darkest path imaginable... to a seductive woman who's been on the run since 1935, a mobster who may be an immortal demon monster, and the stories of all the doomed men who've been caught in their decades-long struggle. Including his father...

Tommy Monaghan, a hitman in Gotham City who acquires superpowers after an alien encounter

the entire dramatic story of Batman's first year fighting crime

Welcome to the world of Stardew valley, where Derek start to take his grandfather's place,we will see his fears,anger, happiness and marriage!

In ten or so years, in a future where resurrecting the dead is an everyday occurrence, the moon will collide with the Earth, bringing with it the end. Before the apocalypse happens, Nekuro confesses to her best friend Kiri, who, seeing no hope for the future, takes her admirer's confession half-joklingly, until one day, Nekuro dies.

Get inside the mind of a professional assassin, a man of few scruples, nerves of steel, and a steady trigger finger. A man whose crimes might be catching up with him. A man on the verge of cracking… After misadventures in Central and South America and having earned enough money to retire comfortably, the Killer retires to Mexico, but his colleagues are still in need of his irreplaceable skills… and before long he’s drawn back into the great geopolitical game between Cuba, Venezuela, and the United States.

Jonah Hex (2006–2011) is a gritty, violent, and beautifully told Western that doesn’t try to romanticize the Old West—it drags it through the mud and blood where it belongs. Each issue is a mostly self-contained tale following Jonah Hex, a scarred, sharp-shooting bounty hunter with a code of honor buried under layers of cynicism and gun smoke. Writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, along with standout artists like Darwyn Cooke and Jordi Bernet, deliver everything from brutal showdowns to tragic morality plays, painting the frontier as a lawless place where justice is often just another name for revenge. If you like your stories hard-boiled, your protagonists morally complex, and your violence unflinching, this run of Jonah Hex is a criminally underrated gem.

[Fan translated by Lilith Scanlations] In a world where humans and androids live side by side… A doctor who treats human patients comes across an android one day.

A little extra from "Yatamomo" about Momo's and Suda's past.

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Two high school boys struggle to survive in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

In a town filled with the most beautiful of beings, Tinker is the ugly freak who lives on the fringes of society. One day, one of these beings visits his workshop in order to have a trinket fixed, and it is this seemingly innocuous occurrence that sets into motion a series of unfortunate events...

Garth Ennis (PUNISHER MAX, Preacher) and Goran Parlov (PUNISHER MAX) reunite to bring you the life of Marvel’s hardest soldier like no one else could. In the wake of WWII, Nick Fury is fast running out of battles to fight. But the world’s superpowers are gearing up for a new kind of war, and they’ll need a man like Fury to win it. Knee deep in the messy quagmire of 1950s French Indochina, Fury faces a war unlike any he has ever seen. Witness the most brutal battle ever put on a comic-book page! Then, it’s 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion has begun, and Fury gets a new assignment: assassinate Fidel Castro! But when Fury and his team are captured in Cuba, find out just how far Nick Fury will go for his country.

Chapter 29 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).

For those who suffer nightmares, help awaits at the Ginseikan Tea House, where patrons can order much more than just Darjeeling. Hiruko is a special kind of a private investigator. He's a dream eater. And he'll rid you of your darkest visions... for a price.

Chapter 30 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).

Starting from that day, he walked into my life... It's the roaring twenties and thirties, and Shanghai is undergoing a rapid wave of westernization. The young master of a mafia family, Du Yinghong, encounters the street hooligan Shen Xiuhai. This fateful encounter changes the lives of both these young men. In these turbulent times, amidst complicated relationships, the two of them forge a true bond of selfless sacrifice. This is the story of a sincere friendship born during the tempestuous Republic Era.

Starting from that day, he walked into my life... It's the roaring twenties and thirties, and Shanghai is undergoing a rapid wave of westernization. The young master of a mafia family, Du Yinghong, encounters the street hooligan Shen Xiuhai. This fateful encounter changes the lives of both these young men. In these turbulent times, amidst complicated relationships, the two of them forge a true bond of selfless sacrifice. This is the story of a sincere friendship born during the tempestuous Republic Era.