The year is 5012. A sudden invasion of aliens and their Mechanical Living Beings almost wipes out humanity entirely. The few survivors take refuge on the moon, organizing a counterattack to retake the planet, but come to a standstill due to the infinite multiplication capacity of the Mechanical Living Creatures. To break the deadlock, humanity creates YoRHa, a unit of android soldiers. 2B, an android, is sent to Earth to meet 9S and analyze the mysterious phenomena they find there.
One day, Mitsuha falls off a cliff and is transported to a medieval European-type world! After a near-death encounter with a pack of wolves, she realizes that she is able to transport herself between two worlds - this one and her own. Taking advantage of this ability, Mitsuha decides to live in both worlds and calculates that she will need 80,000 gold coins to be able to retire! Mitsuha now has to find different ways to collect her gold coins!
After learning that his orphanage is about to close due to financial problems, Finn Oldman goes to a casino to win a fortune. There, Finn finds himself embroiled in an intense chase and even shootout triggered by one man's "lucky card". Finn eventually discovers that the world order is controlled by whoever has a deck of 52 "X" cards, which can grant superhuman abilities. The King of Fourland has directly commissioned a secret group of players called "High Card" to collect these cards, which are scattered all over the world. This group works under the guise of employees of the luxury car manufacturer Pinochle. Now, chosen as the fifth member of the group, Finn is about to embark with the rest of the staff on a dangerous quest in search of these powerful letters!
The story begins with Nick, an experienced adventurer whose group is led by his mentor and father figure Argus. Upon completion of his latest job, Nick discovers that some of the money has gone missing and realizes that one of the group members is to blame. To his surprise, Argus pardons the member and instead expels Nick after being accused of also embezzling funds.
One night, after several weeks on a downward spiral, Nick ends up in a local tavern where fate leads him to meet three other adventurers. After a night of drinking, the four bond over their own betrayals and their shattered ability to trust anyone. That's when Nick comes up with the idea of the four of them forming a group.
So the story begins with a group of adventurers united in their belief that humans are bastards and wish to make some honest coin....
When spirits pass into the human world, they can possess old objects and gain a physical form: a tsukumogami. Tsukumogami can be kind, violent or something in between, so the Saenome clan quietly helps send them back to the spirit world to avoid destruction.
Kunato Hyouma is a member of the clan, but is... less peaceful, as he holds a grudge from when a tsukumogami stole something important from him. Fearing that Hyouma's impetuous anger in dealing with these spirits will lead to supernatural catastrophes, Hyouma's grandfather sends him to live in Kyoto with Nagatsuki Botan, an unusual young woman who actually lives with tsukumogami as if they were family! Can Hyouma control her emotions when dealing with tsukumogami or is her own spirit doomed to be possessed by rage forever?
Japan may be teeming with mysterious monsters known as 'ayakashi', but there's also a ninja force of exorcists to contain the threat! Young ninja exorcist Matsuri spends his days fighting ayakashi to protect his childhood friend Suzu. However, one day, an ayakashi cat named Shirogane appeared before them and things turned upside down! Legendary illustrator Kentaro Yabuki returns to Shonen Jump with this new fantasy series full of monsters and romance!
From his deathbed, the king-hero Inglis, the divine knight and master of all he surveys, contemplates the empire he has built with his mighty hand. Having dedicated his life to politics and the welfare of his subjects, his only unfulfilled wish is to live again, this time for himself: the life of a warrior to which he dedicated himself before rising to power.
His patron goddess, Alistia, hears his plea and smiles at him, casting his soul into the distant future. Goddesses work in mysterious ways - not only is Inglis now the daughter of a minor noble family, but at her first coming of age ceremony at age 6, she was deemed ineligible to begin her knighthood!
Mukouda Tsuyoshi was never anyone special, so when he was summoned to a fantasy world as one of the great heroes, he believed it was his chance to live an adventure.
However, his summoning was a mistake, and his statuses are far below the other heroes who were brought in with him, plus his only major ability is being able to buy modern goods from his old world.
Realizing he was in a typical situation where he would only be used, Tsuyoshi decides to abandon his duties and find his own way, choosing to live by selling the food he can bring with his ability.
However, Tsuyoshi soon realizes that the products brought from his old world come with an absurd extra effect, making his business much more promising and impactful than he imagined.
A world covered by an endless and growing ocean of snow. People survive with difficulty, huddled around the roots of the huge trees that dot the surface, or high in the canopy that spreads over the planet's atmosphere. A chance meeting between Kaina, a young man from the Sky Vault, and Liliha, a young woman from the surface, sets off a chain of events that will change the fate of the world.
After the last Great War, the world is covered by a black forest inhabited by fire demons. The survivors of the war, living in small areas protected by barriers, have been infected by a pathogen that causes them to spontaneously combust in the presence of ordinary fire. The only safe "fire", the only source of light and heat they can use, comes from the demons captured in the forest. And when the paths of a country girl and a young man from the capital cross, a new destiny opens up for them.
A selection of the most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying stories by Junji Ito, master of horror manga.
On a distant, icy planet, prisoners forced to excavate a rare energy source make a terrifying discovery.
