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Every year, Lord Nicola A. Bradherley, one of Europe’s leading aristocrats, sends his coach round to various orphanges to adopt little girls and trains them to join his opera troupe. But most of these girls never make it onto the stage — a far more sinister fate awaits them, sacrificed in the name of the greater good.
Are you ready for BRAIN Anthology? From mind-bending stories, to disturbing tales of our most primal fears, this anthology is designed to make you think and keep you up at night! New stories released every Saturday. Featuring stories from the 2020 Short Story Contest.
Four terrifying and surreal stories from the mind of Shintaro Kago. In "4 Labyrinth", four identical girls struggle to escape from a horrific labyrinth while solving mysteries and fleeing from a killer. In "Curse Room", a young girl faces the torments of mysterious paranormal phenomena in her apartment. "Portrait of Family" is a dark story about the unexplained disappearances of people in a neighborhood. Finally, "Blood Harvest" explores mysterious deaths that occurred in used cars.
From Tokyopop: The discovery of an alien organic vessel submerged in the ocean reveals a plot to unleash planetary destruction ... a collective of evil scientists called the Reclaimers works to hasten mankind's extinction. As one of Earth's defenders, Hime Utsumiya fights on a team of mecha called Brain Powered's to combat them. Unfortunately the Reclaimers also have these mecha, and mankind's fate hangs in the balance ...
Eitoku High School Freshmen Ganya Sho and his classmate, Ryukawa Yuu, who is also a pretty boy, neither of them can stop quarreling with each other. However, Sho's twin sister has a crush on Ryukawa. A track runner and a film star. How will Sho and Yuu's friendship and dreams progress?
Twig and Briar never knew the world outside their forest was so big. And the world believed that these two friends no longer existed – they thought the legendary Hexabeto warriors and their super-powered scarab companions went extinct in the last great war. With Twig and Briar and all their family exposed, dangerous threats descend on their home, and the Swamp Queen demands a violent end to their lives. Twig may have the power to right ancient wrongs – but can this peace-loving kid use it?
Mii, a second-year middle school student has no experience with men. She’s determined to get a boyfriend this year! However, there is a war between the males and females in her class, and dating is forbidden! Mii likes a boy from her class, Yashiro, but will this cause more problems for her…?
Shinjou wants to enter high school as a new man, since he had not been very popular back in Middle School. As he's trying to edge his way into society with his new look and personality, he happens to bump into Kurai Kako, a classmate from Middle School who had been just as invisible as he was. With her new look and personality, has arrived for just the same reason he has, and she's looking forward to snagging a boyfriend for high school. They'll just have to make a bet -- who'll get a boyfriend/girlfriend first?
Because his beloved was killed by a silat master, KOLOMENJENG returns to the silat world to find the culprit!
Handsome, tall, and charming bachelor Fin Deitory that every woman wanted just made the most regretfully and stupidest mistake of his life. It also changed his whole career which he imagined to be an awesome agent in the SDF, abbreviated for Special Dispatch Force. On the day he was supposed to be starting his job though, he enters the wrong room mistaking the plate name sign to be "SDF: Special Dispatch Force" but instead, it was "SDF: Special Doll Force". He learns that the group was a secret to the real SDF and was only consists of doll collectors. But the handsome people trap him there because he was also handsome making him also a doll collector. Being a little bit conceited and such, Fin can't think of himself as a doll collector but he later realizes the importance of it..... From Baka-Updates: Fen has just been assigned a position in the Special Dispatch Force (a.k.a. the "SDF") protecting the King of Vera Morgan. When he arrives at the office for the SDF he discovers he's been accidentally enrolled in the Special Doll Force instead! Fen discovers to his dismay that his new job is to search out and retrieve "bran dolls" with the help of four strange but beautiful men - who have more than just the job on their minds!
It may have been the music that attracted her to band class, but it was love that made her stay…even if she doesn't have any musical talent whatsoever. But what high schooler Camilla lacks in ability, she makes up for in passion – especially when it comes to Victor, the handsome musician who’s caught her eye. Will love rule the day, even when your crush-of-choice is a real brass-hole? Read on to find out!
Kotohara Sui was touched by the National Music Competition performances; and this prompted her to apply to study at the school which Sou Tsukasa attends. Though the school’s orchestra club rejected her application, after much recommendation from Tsukasa, she was admitted into the brass band… Will they be able to beat the Orchestra Club…?! Includes two other stories
