Alchemists and onmyoji. Both have existed for millennia—mages who lend their services to the powers that be, and work on cases that cannot be solved by natural means. And on the Japanese Archipelago, their spheres overlap. While Japan has its traditional Bureau of Onmyo, Satsuma, a Catholic count...
Alaska was a frozen wilderness stretching from end to end. There, several tribes lived and struggled against a realm of silence, cold, and hidden dangers. Yet the arrival of Japanese forces invading the Aleutian Islands shattered a quiet that had endured for thousands of years. On that day, fo...
“Hello, Tamashi Ume! I am the Guide. How would you like to be a test subject?” That was the first thing Tamashi heard on an otherwise ordinary morning. An azure, talking smoke had just asked him if he'd volunteer to be a lab rat. Before he knew it, Tamashi's brain was flooded with information...
"Magic Is science we are yet to grasp" --Unknown Though no credible stories survived those days, what remained of the plague spoke of maggots that drove the people insane, deforming their bodies, From adding extra pupils to complete nervous systems. Leaving whatever they once held dear ...
The summer of ninety-six, the citizens of Kyoto would never forget it. Across the city strange, ritualist killing hung a dark cloud over head. But not just over the city, but the Yoshimura clan specifically. When the middle of the three siblings Shinji learned the true nature of the happenings in...
Yamada naoto, a skilled member of a renowned yakuza family known as Tachimagumi was entrusted by his boss to take care of his daughter Tachima kanade who has big attitude, they began to live in a certain countryside since the all out war between Tachimagumi and the arch rival family of a Tachimag...
As third-year begins at Tokyo’s Strategic Leadership Academy, an elite high school/college where students come from business-owning families, Rintarō lives two lives: a good-looking nobody by day, and the faceless viral creator MidnightChef by night. His family sells European chocolates, and his ...
Science. Horror. Magic. A world where the laws of physics can be rewritten — if you survive the backlash. Arion was a young scientist chasing his mother’s dying dream. Exhaustion killed him before failure did. When the lights went out, they didn’t stay out — he woke in a new body, beneath a...
Cy is a burned out rock superstar finding refuge in the business side of the industry. Kiia is a long time rival even though they never met. After a competition to find a new opening act for Cy's old bandmate, Tony, forces Cy and Kiia to meet, they must navigate their own stubbornness, biases, an...
What if the Thirty Years’ War had zombies? This story follows the son of a horse trader fighting for survival in the fictional city of Stratweiler to answer that question.