Set after the events of Queen's Blade, this is the story of the Princess Knight Annelotte, and how she gathered comrades to stop the tiranny... more>> of the Queen.
Published originally in the Hobby Channel website. <<less

In the darkness stands a girl draped in pure white. Don't let her innocent appearance fool you; her hands grip a glistening scythe. Momo is... more>> the dark messenger of death who, along with her wisecracking cat named Daniel, is tasked with releasing humans from their mortal bonds and delivering their souls to the great beyond. First encounters with Momo always end in farewells. <<less

Three Short Stories:... more>>

Calling You
A girl creates an imaginary cell phone...which one day rings. The boy on the other end claims to be calling from his own imaginary cell phone...

Kiz/Kids
Two damaged children bond over one's ability to heal wounds.

Singing Flower
A patient at a hospital finds a flower with the face of a girl, that hums a beautiful melody. <<less

A collection of short stories based on Vampire Knight... more>>

Deranged Love

A dying Rido reflects on his obsessive love for Juri.

Gifts for Yuki

Kaname wants to reward Yuki for doing well on her studies with tutor Aido.

Hidden Love

This is the story of Sara’s first love.

Queen of the Abyss

After Zero parts ways with Yuki and returns to being a vampire hunter, he encounters a vampire named Shien.

A Maiden’s Melancholy

White Lily reveals her true sentiments for Zero.

In a Thousand Years

A year after the final battle, the Day and Night Classes find themselves on a hunt at Cross Academy. <<less

A collection of short stories by Otsuichi which resembles a Zoo with its many short stories covering different topics, settings, and genre.... more>>

Identical twins brought up in the same household where one is treated like dirt and the other a princess.

The last man on the planet builds a robot to bury him as he muses about his own impending doom.

A family tries to find their father’s spare blood as he bleeds to death after having been stabbed by a kitchen knife.

And many others. <<less

There are twenty independent stories written by twenty different authors, sharing the common theme of “April”. ... more>>

An anthology that is considered a rare item as it has never hit the shelves as a standalone book. There is no ISBN and it is an unbuyable except in online auctions. The anthology was published as a bonus gift to Dengeki Magazine readers in 2009.

It now has a Kindle release. <<less

The Square is an anthology of three stories, each unique in its way, and yet united by one incident: The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. Spanning across three different decades and showcasing three different couples who fight for their right to live their lives the way they want to, The Square is a touching collection of wonderfully written and touchingly portrayed characters.... more>>

It is set in three different locations: Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. And features the fight for the basic right of Freedom of Speech and Democracy.

It’s a story of tears, bloodshed and a fight that tore people into two. It’s a celebration of dissent, life, and love. It’s a story that is inspiring millions of youngsters to fight for what belongs to them. It’s a story that has to be told and had to be heard.

The story of the Square that changed the world. <<less

Short stories set in the Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai universe.

A collection of some of Lee Yong Do’s short stories about science fiction.
Lee Yong Do is an author of novels such as Dragon Raja, The Bird That Drinks Tears, and Polaris Rhapsody. ... more>>

1. About The Translation of Khaliafanden

2. About The Robot That Became A Messiah

3. About The Art of Stitching Stars

4. About The Mother of Revenge <<less

During an excursion with an eccentric acquaintance, I am accused of breaking the Gion Festival Ordinance by a burly posse. Seized and taken on a whirlwind tour through Yoiyama, I come face-to-face with a gallery of exotic, grotesque characters. But who's this "Lord Yoiyama" that they all seem to revere? (Yoiyama Goldfish)... more>>

I wake up, only to find that today is Yoiyama... just like yesterday was, and the day before that. How in the world am I going to find a way to escape this loop? (Yoiyama Maze)

A collection of strange and wonderful short stories, weaving in and out through the backdrop of the Gion Festival's Yoiyama. Morimi takes you into a fantastical world where the colors of fantasy and reality blur into each other like a kaleidoscope. <<less

Short stories contained in the special edition CD .

An anthology of short stories from several authors.

A collection of boy-meets-girl stories centered around the theme of time.

A short collection of stories about various characters in an underground brothel.... more>>

Room 1 - Nightingale
Room 2 - White Snow
Room 3 - Fleshpot
Room 4 - Lapis Lazuli <<less

http://1pagestory.com is an online compilation of short stories by different authors, which was started by a publisher called dae-an. Short stories were collected from volunteers... more>> from April 2003 to December 2016 and then published in a magazine. Unfortunately, the project is on hiatus as of January 1st, 2017. However, there are several hundred of these stories already available on the previously mentioned site with genres ranging from horror and action to romance and slice of life. <<less

After breaking the city “rule”, the girl’s life gradually broken, and finally she pass across the forbidden white line──.... more>>

Along with Ayasato Keishi’s spine-chilling 『Nekono Tenoko』, there are Sasaki Ichiro’s 『Vertical』, Tao Noritake’s WEB published work 『Kobito no Geemuya』, Maisaka Kou’s story of a man experiencing the worse fear in the middle of test courage with the popular girl in class 『The Two in the Test of Courage at Night』, Takeoka Hazuki’s 『Ainosainou』, and state-of-the-art Nishino Sego’s newly written 『Ghost Tunnel』.

Presenting these six stories, this is the first volume of the summer night light novel horror! <<less

What is love?... more>>

Love is a wound that is unable to be exposed merely from pictures;

Love is a sorrow that is unable to be expressed solely by words;

But love consists of more than just pain and despair,

Love can be exhilarating, it can also be blissful.

Even if it’s ambiguous, it can still be mutually protected for life.

In this novel, there are many stories; some maybe vague, others perhaps clear. <<less

The Story of a Macaron-Loving Girl Who Lived a Thousand Years Somehow. is a compilation of four stories.... more>>

The Story of a Macaron-Loving Girl Who Lived a Thousand Years Somehow.

A whimsical girl who loves macarons learns her best friend has ended up a thousand years in the future, so she lives a thousand years to meet her and watches the world change around her. (A rewrite of the original with more detail and extra scenes.)

She Can Talk To Concrete

A boy with a terminal illness doesn’t tell his mother about it, and instead enjoys having no responsibilities. Then he meets a girl from middle school who’s changed considerably since then, and shares with her the mysteries of cardboard and building secret bases.

Paraporopurun Peroporoparapon

An alien finds he’s in love with another alien, but knows that, her being royalty, he can never hope to compete with her thirty-five trillion fiancés… or can he?

The Lying Cicada and the Blue Sky

A boy is visited one night by an unusual girl initially claiming to be a cicada. Eventually, she reveals her intention to “repay the favor” of him once saving her life. <<less

Short stories written by Koyama Hidekazu (aka Vocaloid producer, Nanou), which were compiled in the “Distorted Agape” booklet that came with the Lyu:Lyu’s first live... more>> concert DVD. <<less

A collection of short stories based on Vocaloid songs.... more>>

The Stories

1. Your Absence was for me an Unbearable Pain

2. The Collapse Creeps upon us Bringing Silence

3. A Dream Flower Bloomed in the Roadside

4. A Sound Fading in the Interlude of an Act

The Myths

1. The Mercy of the Bearer – An Origin Myth that Circulates Throughout the World

2. Notes from an Unknown Author – A Document that Sleeps in the Depths of the Empire

3. Summary Report on High-Dimensional Phase Form Sealing Methods Research – Examination and Considerations Regarding the Restraining of Dragon Types <<less

A compilation of 20 detective stories and 6 essays and miscellaneous writings by Japan's first female detective writer, Ookura Teruko.

Because I have you, my life is sweet.

A collection of seven stories of set in the world of Hidan no Aria. It was released in the Blu-Ray & DVD limited edition volumes of the anime. ... more>>

I – Strip Mahjong, II – Strip Billards, III – Princess Kaguya’s Electric Railway, IV – Dice, V – Roulette, VI – Poker, and VII – The Game of Life

It also contains the short stories The Case of Naruse Yukari and The Case of the Lost Peachbuns. <<less

The young man Huey took over the old mansion of his deceased bibliomanic grand father as well as the book collection that's stored in there. But there was a condition: he also had to inherit the "Bibliotheca".... more>>

When he inspects the mansion, Huey discovers a cellar filled with piled up books. In the midst of them he comes across a black-dressed girl who's silently reading a book. She's called Dalian and has a big lock hanging in front of her. She herself is the entrance to the "Bibliotheca of Dantalian" which contains the prohibited "Phantom Books". <<less

‘3 Minutes Boy Meets Girl’ is an anthology of short stories produced by the authors working at Famitsu Bunko. There are 19 chapters from 19... more>> different authors. <<less