Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria, or The Empty Box and the Zeroth Maria, tells the sinister story of Kazuki Hoshino, who is almost madly attached to his everyday life, and his antagonist Aya Otonashi, who suddenly transfers into his class—for the 13,118th time. She majestically announces to “break” him, without paying heed to anyone else around them.... more>>

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This is but the start of a dark roller coaster ride that turns the two against themselves, the people around them and the one who may be god. Read on as their relationship slowly changes as they go against their most basic values in their struggle against the world itself. <<less

Gekkou, or “Moonlight”, is about the peculiar relationship between a cynical boy and a perfect girl.... more>>

Said cynical boy is Nonomiya who spends day in day out in boredom, taking refuge from his dull life in his imagination. One fateful day, he happens upon the notebook of the much-rumored beauty Youko Tsukimori, neglected on the ground. Poking out from it is a scrap of paper with the unexpected title “mu*der Recipe”. His interest ignited, he immediately stuffs it into his pocket, only to find out the promising recipe contains nothing but scenarios that may or may not lead to deadly accidents, not even worthy of being called a plan.

When he tentatively asks her about it the next day, she hasn’t lost anything. But then her father dies. An accident… <<less

Shu Ya-wang is a 28-yr-old landscape architect who is born into a military family. When she was 16 years old, Yawang’s father asked her to take care of 10-yr-old Xia Shu.... more>>

Xia Shu had experienced death during his childhood. He stayed by the body of his dead mother for the whole night. This caused Xia Shu to become withdrawn from the rest of the world. Over time, the warm-hearted Ya-wang slowly got through to Xia Shu.

Ya-wang’s childhood good friend Tang Xiao-tian got enlisted into the army after high school, and she later at the university got to know Qu Wei-ran a classmate who eventually turned into a foe. From then on, the lives of Ya-wang, Xia Shu and Tang Xiao-tian, three of them changed dramatically. <<less

This is the story of the last day of one unfortunate boy’s life.... more>>

Depending on the interpretation, it can be seen as a happy ending. <<less

Reina Kamisu is a friend of loners, a slayer of families, a savior of worlds, and a killer of lovers—and she is absurdly beautiful. Who is she and what are her intentions? The search for her true identity begins with Fumi Saito, a lonely girl student whose only friend and support in life is Reina, as she is accused of things she did not do…... more>>

This is a story of delusions, despair and destructive beauty.

The series consists of two volumes titled “Kamisu Reina wa Koko ni Iru” (Kamisu Reina Is Here) and “Kamisu Reina wa Koko ni Chiru” (Kamisu Reina Disperses Here). <<less

Kara no Kyoukai is a series of stories written by Kinoko Nasu with illustrations by Takashi Takeuchi.... more>>

The first five chapters were posted online on Nasu and Takeuchi's dojin website "Takebouki" starting Oct 1998, and the last two chapters being released at Comiket 56 in 1999. In 2001, part of the story was included in "Tsukihime PLUS-DISK," created by TYPE-MOON, the doujin circle Nasu and Takeuchi joined. The story gained huge popularity, and the doujinshi edition of the stories saw release on December 30, 2001 at Comiket 61.

Note; The cover image is from The Garden of Sinners non-novel volume 1 edition published in 2004. <<less

Pain, Pain, Go Away is a novel by Sugaru Miaki, also known as Fafoo, author of Starting Over and Three Days of Happiness. Unlike Miaki’s previous two books, Pain, Pain, Go Away is not a rewrite of any story posted to 2ch, but an entirely original one. ... more>>

The plot involves a young man who becomes a killer (by accident) – but his victim has the power of “postponement,” temporarily delaying her death. <<less

The once wealthy and powerful Ryuuzen clan has been all but destroyed. Their misfortune began in 1960, when a majority of the family was wiped out when their vacation villa was buried under a landslide. However, search and rescue teams discovered something even more shocking: A majority of the bodies they discovered showed obvious signs of having been mu*dered before the landslide.... more>>

As though it were a trigger, what came to be known as "The Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan" spread throughout the descendants of the family's only survivor. By mu*der, by su*cide, by accident... it seemed none who held the name "Ryuuzen" could live to see the age of 35, and now, the family has been reduced to a single woman, lying in a hospital bed, days away from death.

Kamo Touma was once just another of the endless parade of sleazy tabloid journalists looking to exploit a prominent family's tragedy to sell magazines, but Ryuuzen Rena's kindness melted his frozen heart, driving him to quit his old job and become an investigative journalist specializing in overturning cases of false arrest. Eventually, he and Rena were married, but now, the curse threatens to steal away their happiness.

Kamo prays for a miracle, and his prayers are answered by the Hourglass of Miracles, an artifact spoken of in rumors and urban legends, said to grant one wish to anyone who obtains it.

"Meister Hora", a guide for those who obtain the hourglass, tells Kamo there is only one way to break the curse and save Rena: He must travel back in time to the year 1960 and catch the culprit of the original Ryuuzen Family massacre.

Who was the culprit of the mu*ders that took place almost 60 years ago? Why did they steal away the lives of the Ryuuzen clan? What is the true nature of the "Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan?" And perhaps most mysteriously of all... What is Meister Hora's goal in all this?

Winner of the 29th annual Ayukawa Tetsuya Award. <<less

An antique shop “BEAR” operates late at night. Each item sold there has its own particular significance. Once you step into the shop, you will... more>> find yourself in another world that is as beautiful as a dream. You are enticed there by a mysterious owner. What kind of terrors are trapped in those products is something to look forward to once you have read it. <<less

One day, a "Reality Rift" occurred in the holy city of Akiba!
The invasion of interdimensional people, space-time pirates, and science gangs was about to begin!... more>>

And then a beautiful superheroine stood up to the crisis in Akihabara.
An epic tale of superheroines in Akihabara, the sacred land of Otaku.

The 114th episode of this Young Adult fiction is "The Reason She Wears Fishnet Tights ". Now then, during a popular magic show in Akihabara, a magician disappears and is found dead.

As the magic industry's grudges, a suspicious ex-boyfriend, an even more suspicious magic designers emerge, the Otaku's desire for fame comes to the surface in a hilarious way... <<less

A newlywed couple are mu*dered in their bridal chamber on their wedding night leads to open fighting between Ouyang and Sima Manors. Amazing Constable Shen Ying personally takes on the case.... more>>

A gold hairpin holds the key to finally exposing the truth of this mu*der case…

The Bloody Bridal Chamber is Book #4 of Hong Kong author Ximen Ding’s Amazing Hawk Constables wuxia mystery series. <<less

“Love is a prayer. I pray. I wish for the people I love to all be happy. I wish for all of them to fulfill their wishes. I wish for everyone to live somewhere warm, cool, or whatever they find comfortable, and be surrounded by their loved ones. I want absolute bliss to pour on them like heavy rain. I love every single person in the world.”... more>>

A set of love stories digging into the essence of love and stories. <<less

“If it means suffering, I don’t need to be loved.”... more>>

An explosive journey of the Meta Detective Tsukumojuuku’s soul threading its way on the dance floor scourged by the trumpets sounded by God/Seiryouin Ryuusui, the maestro to serial mitate mu*ders based on Genesis and Revelation to John from the Bible. <<less

(Taken from the author’s own summary)... more>>

Liu An’an, who had been away from her hometown in the county, returned anew, at the news of the demolition of her old house. She left the train station and called a cab to go home. Everything seemed normal. However, what happened next completely exceeded her imagination.

The female cab driver suddenly locked the car doors and said, “I want to die together with you.”

Faced with the sudden threat to her life, Liu An’an had no choice but to put everything she had into it. Who was this unknown woman? Why was she doing this? And what happened in Liu An’an’s past?

In the fierce downpour, where would the fate of these two lead them to?

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This is a baihe RPG-styled story originally posted on a forum. I sorted it out and posted it here.

A short story of just 150K Chinese characters. Genres are suspense and mystery, and it has two endings. Its old title is “Xiao Liu”. <<less

When I suddenly came to my senses, there was a dead body in front of me.

While gathering therapeutic herbs in the highlands, Monica, a pharmacy apprentice, notices a man and a lady who look out of place. The man turned... more>> out to be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as I approached to warn them of a dangerous cliff ahead!? Why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the mountains by himself, without an escort, and with a woman? His Royal Highness was pushed by the woman as she hesitated to approach, and as a result, he fell off a cliff. What ought I to do? What ought I to do? Will Monica's future be bright after she unintentionally became a witness? <<less

"Today is the Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
I will now kill the participants."... more>>

Hanami Mitsui, a 19-year-old girl, will be attending the Coming-of-Age Ceremony that day.
She attended the Coming-of-Age Ceremony wearing a kimono, just like the rest of her classmates.
However, her goal is to kill her classmates. <<less

After his best friend runs off with his fiancee, Seiichi heads for a town where UFOs have been spotted, hoping to escape from reality. Along... more>> the way, he meets a young man named Natori who's hiding his face with a baseball cap, and it seems he has things he wants to keep hidden too. Two wounded people, on a journey to a second life. <<less

What I promised my childhood friend, You-kun.... more>>

I’ll be with you forever……..

So I’m going there too. <<less

There exist in this world a set of six daggers that carry a terrible curse: the ability to inflict a death beyond time. Those under the daggers' curse shall reincarnate without end, never able to know happiness and always drawn to die once more by the dagger. This is the story of "Raine" and "Marie", two souls bound by the daggers' curse to kill one another, over and over again.... more>>

France, 1243. Lapis Lazuli Castle is the name of an insignificant relay fort nestled away in a forest east of Carcassonne. Its ruler, Count Geoffroy, and his only daughter, Marie, are both believed to be insane. The root cause of their shared madness is the mysterious disappearance of Geoffroy's wife three years ago, which caused Geoffroy to grow detached from humanity and cast Marie into a deep depression. After three years of wandering in a state halfway to nonexistence, Marie works up the nerve to ask her chief bodyguard, Sir Raine, to investigate her mother's death, confiding that on the night of her mother's disappearance, she had witnessed something impossible. However, her investigation only prompts a new tragedy.

The French-German border, 1916. As World War I rages on, Raine and Marie's latest reincarnations live the life of a sub-lieutenant in the French army and a medic with the Red Cross, respectively. The two lovers are reunited at the site of the Battle of Verdun, but no sooner have they met then Raine finds himself faced with a barrage of impossible circumstances. An enemy soldier's head suddenly vanishes, right before his eyes. One of his subordinates reports the same thing happening to an ally. Four more headless bodies vanish from a flooded bunker in the minute he looks away. These baffling events are a prelude to the return of their old tragedy.

Northern Hokkaido, 1989. Kimiyo, age eighteen, is already dying, an inoperable tumor in her hypothalamus leaving her with less than a year to live. Refusing to despair in the face of her tragic circumstances, she spends her remaining days with her friends at "The Library at the End of the World", a private library so called due to its isolated nature. One day, a man named Kito approaches her out of the blue, regaling her with a story about a set of cursed daggers, knights in the 13th century, and the two of them being cursed, fated lovers. Naturally, Kimiyo is intensely skeptical, but the events that come next don't require her to believe in them.

Arriving at the scene of these three tragedies is Snowy, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who claims to be "a detective charged with managing the world's chaos". <<less

The youth, a seminary student, one day saw a prostitute with a tattoo of a blue flower on her arm in a back alley. From... more>> that day on, his happiness was shattered. <<less

The teenage boy, who didn’t have a good relationship with his family other than his younger sister, often caused trouble. One day, he unexpectedly stumbled upon his girlfriend engaged in questionable activities with another man. Fueled by anger, the boy punched the man until his face was unrecognizable and kicked him with all his might, although the root of the problem remained intact. The man testified that he was suddenly attacked while interacting normally with the girl. The girl affirmed his words.... more>>

With his history of mischief, the boy ended up in a juvenile detention center after this incident…

After completing his sentence, the boy was finally released. Waiting for him was his older sister, wearing a somewhat displeased expression, possibly because she lost in rock-paper-scissors or for some other reason.

However you look at it, this seems like an intense drama or a Tuesday Suspense Theater. <<less

In the remote Oak Town, a broken corpse lay in the bushes. The person who reported this crime was the dream man of the town’s ladies—Mr. Arthur. His graceful and expensive-looking gray coat was dyed with striking stains of blood. The day after the mu*der, Sheriff Lynn’s records, along with the corpse, disappeared without a trace, only leaving behind the man’s memories which were filled with the smell of blood…... more>>

A year later, the details of the crime sank into the dense fog as time passed, but the daughters of the two single fathers grew closer and closer with each passing day. Although Arthur seemed impeccably perfect, his overly forceful actions to conceal something and his great loathing of anyone digging into his secrets made Lynn feel that the other person hated him like he was a reptile.

What Lynn didn’t know was that he and Arthur were unexpectedly very similar—both of them were runaway desperadoes who had given up everything to protect their loved ones. <<less

Lin Wen had a secret. And ever since a certain point, he started feeling like he was being watched.

You are a single father living alone with your 16 year old daughter.... more>>

But one day —

Your daughter dies.

su*cide.

A month later, an extra game APP appears on your phone. The main character of the game is your daughter, who is being abused, violated, and ravaged.

The APP suggests that you have the chance to reset her life. <<less