From Dragon Voice Project: The word "Lore" means rumors, urban legends. That is, stories spread by word of mouth. The only ones who can reach "The Forest of Lore," a site that collects these stories, are the invited and all who have anything to do with this mys-terious site are visited by misfortune. Eiko, after getting lost in the Forest of Lore, is now looking to see if there are any rumors about her school... Are they real, or are they fake?

From Tokyopop: Eiri Kurahashi is an art school student, with a job at a local antique store. It's there that he develops a strange obsession. He finds himself entranced by a portrait of a Victorian-era girl named Cossette. It's a portrait with a strange history--everyone who has owned it has been murdered in a bizarre fashion. But the story runs much deeper than that. Cossette was savagely murdered by her lover, who also happens to be the artist who painted the portrait. When the new owner of the portrait nearly kills himself, Eiri decides to get involved. And that's when Cossette begins speaking to him...

When the clock strikes midnight, the door opens. This is when the phantom awakens, wandering, looking for the most beautiful dancer. Loosely based on "The Phantom of the Opera."

The Ribika are a race of cats possessing ears and tails. Their bodies are lithe and nimble, and they live in the land of Shisa. However, a curse called the "Void" is spreading through the forests... One of the Ribika, Konoe, lives in a small village called Karou. One morning, he wakes up to find that his ears and tail have turned black. There is also a symbol on his body; the mark of the curse. Konoe embarks on a journey through the forest to find the truth.

From Within Silence Scans: Mia was just an average girl.. thinking that she has lived a normal life. That all changes one day when she meets a strange child with yellow hair, yellow eyes, and cat ears. Hearing the name "Laika," she wonders at the strange name and brings the child home. Will she ever regain the dark memories that she had lost?

The newly opened Suehiro Detective Agency is comprised of laid-back manager Hisago, dog-loving chief investigator Shimeki and administrator Tsukumo. With very few paying customers, the three protagonists are free to spend their time bickering with and teasing one another, setting each other up in matchmaking schemes and looking for lost pets. Shimeki also has to contend with his knife-wielding ex-wife and the overly dependent little brother he's just been re-united with.

Another work by Reiko Shimizu, or rather her newest. This series is a disturbing manga about solving murder cases by applying the newly developed method of viewing the memory of dead people's brains. And as in every manga done by this mangaka, weird supernatural forces are of course included. The first chapter is actually a prologue and is concentrated on the first case where this method was used. Chapter 2 is when the two main characters are introduced, so hang on! NOTE: There is a related anime with episodes based on selective chapters from the manga.

Hachi Inugami es un estudiante de 14 años y tiene un sentido excesivamente desarrollado del olfato. Un día, siente un fuerte olor a sangre y a serpiente. Al llegar al sitio, se encontró un cadáver. Otro día, vuelve a sentir el mismo olor. Sube a la azotea de la escuela, y ve a su amiga, Makoto Tetsugawa cubierta de sangre. Junto a ella, hay un hombre. Al principio se hace pasar por un detective, pero pronto muestra su verdadera forma: una especie de serpiente. Hachi no entiende lo que está pasando. Después, el anciano le dice que él no es humano. Él es un semidiós, mitad humano. Hachi entra en estado de shock. El viejo está a punto de matar a Makoto pero al verlo, Hachi monta en cólera, y se convierte en un perro demoníaco. Se enfrenta al viejo y acaba con él. Pero éste no era el único de su tipo. Parece que pronto aparecerá el terror en la ciudad de Tokyo...

Cys Beckett learns of the sudden death of his brother he didn't see for 10 years. His only legacy: a disk and a son, Kai. Kai now lives with Sis and every night, comes to his bed. Sequel: Jin to Neko wa Yobu to Konai

No crime is prefect... Or is it? Read to find out. In the Kogan no Mouten - Okonogi Outarou no Jikenbo series: V.1 - Mondaihen V.2 - Kaitouhen

In order to protect the world from the virus “Torikago” that has infected humanity, having fulfilled the condition of living as a normal human being, the young girl, Kiri, conceals the “World’s Memory” within her body. The world loved by the Torikago. The world that continues to reject the Torikago. Over the course of time, while the world erodes the memories of the girl who does not possess a free heart, she proceeds to fall in love…

Two young doctors, the passionate and well-liked Osanai and the ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious 'Monmo' disease, found only in one remote village, which causes bizarre bone deformation, making its victims take on a beastlike appearance before their deaths. Osanai, caught between the allure of his urban medical world and the rural peace offered by the remote village, does his best to help the victims retain their humanity in the face of a medical establishment which views them only as guinea pigs and oddities. Meanwhile, Tatsugaura schemes against Osanai and tries to infect his rival with the disease in order to gain fame from researching the results.

From DGT: When Asano Arisu was little she was badly bullied by the local boys, now a high school student she's famous for her vehement hatred of men and boards an all girls school. When stunning Fujimi Kira enters and becomes her dorm-mate, proclaiming that she also hates men, Arisu thinks that it must be a fated meeting. However, they both have secrets that they need to keep from the Dorm Head, strict Kamitani-Sensei: Arisu keeping a pet ferret in the dorm, and Kira the fact that she's actually a BOY--much to Arisu's horror. It appears that he's at the school to uncover the mystery of his older half-sister's supposed suicide 2 years before. Will Arisu be able to cope with having to share a room with a boy, let alone help him with his investigations? And just how dangerous will it be to solve the mystery?

Two twins, separated by fatal illness and a selective cure. Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim to stone. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to go into a sort of cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the undetermined future, Kasumi awakens to find herself and others who were in suspended animation in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Resolving to unlock the mysteries of her current situation and the fate of her twin sister, Kasumi struggles to survive in a treacherous world.

Lazy, unmotivated and sometimes pervertic kindaichi is a high school student with an IQ of 180! His grandfather was one of the best and most famous detectives in his time and kindaichi carries with him the responsibility of living up to his grandfather's name. In this series he takes on several mystery/ murder cases, accompanied by his best friend/ childhood friend miyuki. Keep your eyes open for subtle clues and hidden meanings and try to solve them before kindaichi does! One of the most iconic mystery manga the rest of us grew up with.

The two volumes contain one long case, "Murder Committed by Inspector Kenmochi", as well as two short stories in the second volume. The first one-shot, "Evil Spirit at the Diving Pool / Diving Pool's Evil Spirit" was first published in the July 2009 edition of Shounen Rival and is about an evil spirit at the diving pool at Kindaichi's junior high school. The second one-shot is titled "The Campsite's Mysterious Event." Both short stories feature Kindaichi in junior high school.

Summary taken from the back of Cover: What will happen when a human has extra power? What will happen when that power is used to fulfill all of his will? Masami, who often looks like an innocent little boy, apparently has the power that he uses as a killer weapon. He even dares to hurt his own mother in order to reach his goal. What will shogo do as his best friend?

Yotsuya-Sensei likes to tell stories, and his most recent one stems from the mysterious death near the school. Now the question is... was it a suicide or was it something more sinister?

Touu, a half-human youkai with a fondness for sweets, manages a pawnshop in a secluded part of town. Wan Lon, the bad-tempered young man who has become Touu's manservant in return for his help preserving his beloved sister's 'memories', gets all the troublesome jobs pushed on to him. The shop deals in human emotions. Any forbidden or irrepressible emotion that is tormenting the customers will, with their permission, be turned into crystal and pawned. Of course, it doesn't hurt that these beautiful crystals happen to be the sweet-toothed youkai's favourite food...

2050, Tokyo. The sixteen year old, special gifted police detective Kyouko Karasuma works for a special devision in the Asakusa Police Department. Her rather abnormal cases involve: she's fighting against Oni, Tengu and other monsters from the Asian myths and legends. The modern art by the character designer of Speed Grapher works very good with the action-heavy story line and the overall art improves with each volume. -Bakaupdates

From Baka-Updates: Kaitai is a science-fiction-ish BL story of bio-engineered humans, sinister policemen and moody scientists with mysterious pasts. Set in a depressing, fictitious London from somewhere in the near future, this manga is representative of Ishihara's earlier, non-yaoi works; rough, sketchy artwork accompanied by an interesting plot the likes of which is rarely seen in the shounen-ai demographic.

What happens when one encounters strange things happening in the modern world? This manga consists of three stories: 1) First Love. Kubodera once again saw his first love, Sae, after several years while waiting for the train. They thought about meeting again but when he reached the meeting place, he heard Sae's voice but she was nowhere to be found... 2) Sleeping Beauty. Shoichi is a reporter.He went to a mountain to find a missing brother.Suddenly,he met a beautiful foreign girl.And then he fell off the cliff,the rain start heavily and he found a house. 3) Ghost Ship. In August,80 of us,the student from the Naval Academy were going on board for practical training.The Taiyo Maru.We were getting ready for a great voyage on that ship.. And.......

From Viz: After a escaping the unwanted attentions of some bored soldiers with the help of a handsome stranger, Sophie returns home only to be accosted by the infamous Witch of the Waste! The Witch lays a curse on her, turning Sophie into a creaky old woman. Sophie knows she has to leave town, and soon finds herself taking shelter in the moving castle of the dread wizard Howl...who is rumored to eat women's hearts!

[From Manga-Sketchbook]: Female assassins mix sex and death in a pair of hard-boiled well-drawn film-noir stories of love and murder. From Baka-Updates: Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.