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From DrMaster: Goths Cage is an enchanting manga-esque picture book series of three short stories with a malicious twist of love and romance. It is based on Yasushi Suzuki's art series that was previously released online in Japan under the name Phantoms KADAN. Suzuki-san re-adapts his art series and transforms it into a bewitching picture book with entrancing grace and charm. Each of his gothic tales is exquisitely crafted with elegant detailed illustrations that transport readers into an enchanted world of gothic glory. In his first story, Glass Magic, Suzuki-san does a twisted take on the classic Cinderella tale. An ugly corpse-like servant girl wishes to fall in love with a prince and become a beautiful princess. Then a sinister old witch offers her a magic potion that can grant her heart's desires, but in order for the magic to work, she must abandon her soul. She gets rid of her memories, her face, and her master to become a cruelly beautiful glass princess. In another of Suzuki's splendidly dark tales, the shop keeper of an enchanted barbershop attends to his beautiful victim under the moonlight. He snips away at her thoughts and memories, mystically cutting away all her painful memories that scar her heart. However, because she is sapped of her thoughts and memories, all that is left is her pitiful vacuous body. Prepare to be mesmerized by Yasushi Suzuki's spine-chilling tales of love and entrancement this fall 2008, because this enchanting collection of spellbinding illustrations and twisted tales is a must-have! Note: 32 page hardcover volume, all in color
Summary by Hyper Parfait: Kuchiki, a flutist, was plagued by nightmares every night that forced her to seek the help of counselor Matsuzaki. Ishikura, a police inspector, unexpectedly discovered a headless mummified body in an empty apartment and is now on the case. When Kuchiki regains her lost memories, the curtains also opens to a tragedy!
From Aestheticism: The story happens in a circus in Paris in the 1970's. (...) Much is made of the romance of the circus atmosphere, of flying through the air on a trapeze, etc etc. Think cirque here, not circus. We're doing Old World riffs on the romance and tawdriness of the ring. There are no elephants in tutus walking on their hind legs; it's slit-eyed jugglers and daring death-loving trapeze artists and sad Pierrot clowns, even if the Pierrot clown - our hero, Torinosu, 'Bird's Nest' - has a false red nose. The tawdriness comes from the circus master pimping out his performers to anyone willing to pay. (...) And there's tanbi decadence - ghosts who wander into the action looking like teenaged girls even if they're the hero's brother, and abandoned neurotic women with a thing for inflicting pain, and buracon and possible murder and unspoken pining and a hero who looks about to perish at any moment from terminal angst.
1) Dreamy Pavilion Like the famous Chinese beauty he played on the stage in the Peking opera "Farewell My Concubine", Hien longed for a love worth dying for. Will Seijo, a foster son of an eunuch, fulfill Hien's wish? 2) Harem for Two Upon founding their nation, Genko-sama suddenly declared of building his own harem, what will Josei do? 3-4) Resigned Decision Comedic one about a yakuza-wannabe and a policeman. 5) Pavilion of Destruction Prequel oneshot of the merchant Saimon (Cimen in this manga) of Kinpeibai Kinden Honoo no Kuchizuke
A beautiful young lady knocks on the door. She claims to have amnesia and begs the man who opens the door to let her stay until he dies.
In a world where time consists of two kinds of clocks, the Clock of Eternity, which indicates the life span of the universe, and the Silver Clock, which indicates the life span of a person, lived Mu, a carefree girl who despises the contradiction between eternity and the Clocks. Then she meets a boy who’s Silver Clock runs faster than any other person she’s met…
In the panic surrounding a worldwide pandemic which kills 15 percent of the population and cripples many more, a secret organization, the Propater, topples the UN and seizes control of much of the world. A boy and a girl, raised in an abandoned virology research center, immune to the virus, are attacked by the Propater and escape. Based strongly on Gnostic mythology, all major characters are named after gnostic deities, and have analogous roles.
1) Sunny Spots Typhoon: Kusakabe Kaoru is the prince of the school that all the girls want. But he has a secret that he doesn't want any one to know: Since his mom's death he's been a house-husband and takes care of his three younger siblings and dad. 2) Dawn of Eden: During the summer, Hibiya Madoka, Azuma Tatsuki, Mizuse Miwa and Nakayama Kotaro must go to cram school. Knowing that Miwa and Tatsuki both have mutual love, Madoka liking Tatsuki (but they are only partners) and Madoka and Tatsuki both hating Kotarou. How will they manage to survive on an inhabited island that they just have been stranded on? 3) Empty Boy: Asagi Ao has a secret power that he inherited from his mom: Everytime he touches a living thing with his bare hands, their memories of him will disappear. But what will he do when he gets closer to Akane? Knowing he can't touch her is rather painful to him... 4) Pinocchio Dreams: Fubuki's dog, Chloe, gets hit by a car. Kio spots her and tells her to come with him to save Chloe. After Toba Daisuke, who is famous to weirdo, saves Chloe, Fubuki finds out Kio is a robot! She is shocked and creeped out but they eventually become friends.
The special focus on the meeting of Shishio Makoto and and his significant other, Yumi Komagata. The manga also details how Shishio formed the Juppongatana, his organization of warriors and assassins that he recruits in an attempt to overthrow the Japanese government in the original Rurouni Kenshin manga.
A collection of eight Zombie related oneshots by several authors. And I Love Her by Katsuya Terada Dead and Fail to Die by Hitoshi Kino Children Living with Corpses by Uguisu Sachiko Zombie by Shimada Toranosuke Forest of Spirits by Hokazono Masaya Zombie Boy by Hiromoto Shinichi Fight of of the Living Dead by Koizumi Tomohiro Organic Human Solution Organogel by Fukao Atsushi Includes illustrations by Hiroe Rei (Black Lagoon), Samura Hiroaki (Blade of the Immortal) and Matsumoto Jiro (Freesia)
Two twins, separated by fatal illness and a selective cure. Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim to stone. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to go into a sort of cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the undetermined future, Kasumi awakens to find herself and others who were in suspended animation in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Resolving to unlock the mysteries of her current situation and the fate of her twin sister, Kasumi struggles to survive in a treacherous world.
From huamulan03.blogspot.com: 3 January 2011. ER doctor Matsuoka Tsuyoshi examines a patient presenting influenza symptoms. The next day, the patient dies from multiple-organ failure, followed by others who had shown the same symptoms. As the death toll rises, even the high-tech Japanese are at a loss over how to check the further spread of the deadly virus
