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

“Welcome home.”... more>>

This should be a very simple sentence.

But not everyone knows that for some people, this is a sentence they will never hear nor speak.

A sentence out of reach.

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“I killed my mother.”

This was the first thing A-Xiao said to me when he hurriedly got into the passenger seat of the car. <<less