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As Rohan, a young Japanese manga artist, is drawing, he meets a mysterious, beautiful woman who tells him of a cursed 200-year-old painting. The painting was created using the blackest ink ever known, which came from a 1,000-year-old tree that the painter had cut down without the approval of the Emperor. The painter was executed for this, but the painting was saved from destruction by a curator of the Louvre. A decade later, Rohan visits Paris and asks the museum to unearth the painting from deep within its archives—but he is completely unprepared for the power of the curse he has unleashed. + Ai ore manga + Dragon Girl manga

Playful children invade a young woman’s peaceful apartment… to what end?

General Tokugawa was given 13 sacred swords to bring peace to Japan. However just when Tokugawa started a new dynasty, he was assassinated by his 12 commanders, aka masters of the 12 sacred swords. The last one, Crimson Firebird, was given to Dohran, Tokugawa's naive son . Many years have passed and now, under the cover of a travelling performer, Dohran is seeking revenge and also to bring back the smile in the faces of people.

Meet Chiruha: She lives alone in a small secluded house deep in a mountainous forest, the TV her only connection to the outside world. After years of watching and dreaming of what life must be like in the outside world, she has gathered up her courage to venture out and explore the local village. However, she must be careful not to stand out among the humans, for Chiruha holds a secret... Kisara also holds a secret...and a grudge. He's searching for who--or whatever cursed him, and he may have finally found the answer...

Lost in the mountains on a trip to summer camp, eight-year-old Si-Joon fears he’ll never make it out alive. When a strange girl in a pig mask appears before him, he follows her to a house deep in the woods, where he is told that he must marry the pig-faced girl to atone for the sins of their ancestors. Si-Joon’s not too keen on getting married, but that wedding feast looks so delicious! It’s only afterward that he realizes what he’s done and …wakes up. Now in high school, Si-Joon Lee has been dreaming about the pig bride for as long as he can remember. But it’s all just a dream, right? read from left to right ^_^

Life, death, it is all the same. Think you've heard this before? Skyhigh is back again with this sequel. Another beautiful work done by the author of Alive, Blue Heaven, Jiraishin, and Tetsuwan Girl, among others.

Set in the Taisho era (1912-1926). Two years after the famous author Uro vanishes, his last manuscript is found at the house of competing author Otogai, who seems obsessed with (or is it possessed by?) the dead man, even as Otogai's garden seems haunted by a mysterious cameilla bush.

Atori has an unusual part-time job... she's a demon hunter! After school, she hunts demons for a mysterious organization named N.U.E. To kill her enemies, she unsheathes the saber hidden within her hair. However, Atori is actually half-demon, but she has forgotten her past. Despite this, she's been able to overcome many difficulties as well as befriend those from both species. Unfortunately, her once calm life is beginning to quake as a terrible shadow now looms over her...

From Neptise Scans: Dracul's presence threatens humanity and the only ones who can stop them are the Exorcists, siblings bound by blood and granted the power to purge evil. The story centers around Vincent and Ryan and their struggle to become full-fledged exorcists.

The people have demanded change, Criterion boxes were created for the purpose of the people to leave their complaints in it. The result of this were two changes: the first being the creation of of 'Koishigawa Youjoujo' for the people, the second being an inner-city magistrate office, known as the Mushibugyo. Tsukishima Jinbee is a warrior who aims to be best, under the belief that a weak warrior isn't a warrior at all. He was scouted out by a representative to join the Mushibugyo and told to go to Edo with the instructions that he'd knew what to do once he got there. Shortly after arriving at Edo, he hears a scream and goes to check it out... To find a giant spider-like creature devouring some citizens of Edo. Being a warrior, there's no way he could stand this...

A collection of oneshots: 1) Tokyo Ants - A special security group consisting of highly-skilled people rescues a hostage. 2-3) Enma 1 & 2 - Two different stories about people who can see electricity when someone tells a lie. 4) Butterfly: Swallow Tail - About a boy who can see swallowtail butterflies around people who are going to die.

From Tokyopop: High school student Moon Bin Lee has difficulty sleeping due to a recurring nightmare: he's stranded over a thousand years in the past chasing a dark-haired girl into a deep abyss. Before long, the nightmare overwhelms him, and he is unable to tell whether he is Moon Bin, a Seoul teenager at the end of the second Millennium, or Sa Kyoung Kim, the son of a prominent warrior family in the middle of the first Millennium. People in his present-day life assume roles in his historical life as he struggles to learn exactly who he is and what he's expected to do, straddling a transmigratory portal through time and space. In the present, his school's kendo club battles to stay in the championships...but in the past, Moon Bin finds himself at the threshold of a territorial dispute on the plains of Mongolia ...