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Souma Kenichi is in a bit of a pickle. A group of thugs has cornered him on the side of the road and seem very intent on his life. Desperately fighting them off with the longsword he can summon at will, he is saved when a famous teacher of the Miyazaki School and his student intervene on Souma's behalf.Confused but grateful, Souma learns that the sword he wields is called a "shinbuki", or true weapon. Stronger than any steel blade, a shinbuki is created by channeling inner energy into your surroundings and materializing it into a weapon. Normally, learning to wield these supernatural weapons takes years of training under a master. However, a coveted few like Souma are born with the ability to wield shinbuki at birth, and master its use at a startling rate. These rare prodigies are called "Tensaiji".Hunted by a mysterious organization intent on eliminating him before he can become a threat, Souma has little choice but to accept his benefactor's offer of free admission into the Miyazaki School.Note : This manga read from Left to Right
2011, Seta Souji moves to the countryside to his uncle's house due to his parents working abroad. Not very friendly, he however managed to make a few friends there, and they all decide to solve the mystery behind the sudden cases of serial murders that strikes the area.
Ever since she was a little girl, Hatsuse Nanao has had trouble making friends because she can see ghosts and demons that others can't. She thought things might improve in high school with new classmates, but the rumors have somehow started up there, too. Finding all the stares and whispers uncomfortable, she feigns being sick to skip school for a few days, and runs into a strange little boy at the park who knows her name and demands to spend the day with her. While trying to figure out who he is, she's discovered by Yatou Kaname, her class rep, who lets them stay at his place for the night. Who is this strange little boy and why does Yatou seem to so strongly hate even the idea of sprits and demons? Nanao finds these answers in both her own past and Yatou's.
Some time before the June of summer. One day, she suddenly died... "I" and the corpse of the girl who should have died, "Makoto", spent those false summer days in that apartment. The relationship between these two sad, distorted people slowly becomes clearer...
Tina, a homeless girl, is ill-treated by her village and is left to be a sacrifice to a lamenting vampire.
Part of a collection (fourth story) of a larger volume of itself, Vampire☆Vampire. [From ShoujoMagic]: 15-year-old Hina is about to share her first kiss with her boyfriend Natsuki and all of a sudden he transforms into... a vampire named Hibiki!?
From ADV: With demonic possession on the rise, you can count on Dr. Taima to needle it out! Dr. Taima possesses an arcane ability to adeptly wield the taimashin, needles used to banish malefic and parasitic spirits. Together with his assistant, the lovely Maki Togetsu, Dr. Taima investigates the outbreak of demonic possessions around town that have turned ordinary and unassuming citizens into ravenous monsters that devour anything within their grasp - dogs, cats...even other people! Taima's investigation leads him to Dunwich, Massachusetts, where he meets another needle wielder, Kyogo Ayakashi. As they encounter ancient evils that are best kept secret, how will these taimashin masters bait their prey?
Yukimaru and his friends investigate the Shiroyashiki as they look for their missing friends and run into the strange Room 303.
From Storm in Heaven: Last year, Taichi nearly died on a snowy mountain, but was saved by his best friend, Shinobu. The only problem is that Taichi doesn't remember a thing about this so-called childhood friend of his! Assuming his memories will return, Taichi keeps this little secret to himself until, a year later, he suddenly finds himself with a much bigger secret. You see, Shinobu is more than he seems, and Taichi might not have actually survived that night on the snowy mountain!
A story about a girl who sends demons who have taken a life back to the underworld. She does this with the aid of a shape shifting cat demon and a ghost?
Yuusuke's senior, Ichijou, tells him an old horror story of an ill-fated lover who, rumor has it, was left to die in what is now the present-day basement of one of the school's buildings. Sent on an errand inbetween classes, Yusuke can't help but recall the story as he makes his way through the eerie surroundings, when suddenly...he blacks out... Released in volume 1 of the Finder series, Target in the Viewfinder.
This is the first character book for the Shaman King series. It is very text heavy, and focuses alot of the characters.
