Cast: Shinohara Chie

Soko starts feeling sick soon after moving to a new city, apparently for no reason. As beautiful as she is, a lot of guys start to bother her, especially Kashi. While trying to rape her, Kashi disappears and after a few days another guy shows up pretending to be Kashi. And everyone but Soko believes him!He tells her he is Akira the Byakko, from the family of the West. Because she is the reincarnation of Souryo, the queen of the Oni from the family of the East, a monster that eats humans to stay alive, he must destroy her and erase her genes from Earth. He is the only one who can kill her and the one that must do so. Soko is desperate. Is she really a monster? Why does she have human memories? Why does she have to die? Will she be able to change her destiny and stay alive? 

Nobody know where it is, but it's a place that offers shelter to those who hate their lives or are trapped in the labyrinth of their own hearts... a mysterious hotel. Even now, those who are tired of their lives come to stay in the "Kiri no Mori" Hotel...

It happened in the blink of an eye. Rikka's world turned upside down when her school field trip bus flipped and plummeted into a lake. Everyone inside that bus drowned... except for Rikka, but she wasn't saved by anything as simple as luck. When she was released from the hospital, Rikka was then attacked repeatedly in a series of bizarre incidents all involving water... and a sadistic aquatic beauty whose name is -- Rikka!? What does our heroine have that the sadistic Rikka wants back? What was it that saved her from drowning, and who gave it to her and why...?

Yuri lived the peaceful, average teenage life until Queen Nakia drew Yuri across time and space into the ancient Hittite Empire to use her as a sacrifice! Yuri meets many different friends throughout her journey to find a way home, but when the season of the North Star comes... 

Ryouko Midorikawa is a girl in her first year of high school. One day the cat she had raised and loved for 15 years suddenly dies. Although Pow hated water, he died drowning. Ryouko is lost in questions about the cause of his death. But from that night on, terrible things start happening everywhere around her!

In the history of the Kingdom of Siegerland, there has always been a powerful Shadow Messenger who acted as a guardian for the country. Yet the Shadow Messenger himself doesn’t have a shadow!Every Shadow Messenger chooses a guardian out of all the knights. In order to show his devotion, the knight then offers his own shadow as a gift to the Shadow Messenger and by that becomes a Swordsman.Lisa is a normal girl who leads a happy life like everyone else, when suddenly her father dies a tragic death. From that day onwards, her mother forbids her to leave the house. In the end, she secretly steals away with her childhood friend Louis. They are playing outside, when her playmates die under strange circumstances… Only Lisa survives, but she lost her memories of that day...

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 Story about a mirror princess/demon. It seems that a new condo building was built on a certain location where this princess was housed and worshiped with a stone monument but it was moved due to the new construction. One room in particular seems to have a direct link to the princess who calls herself the owner of the pool of time. Beware when mirrors are placed opposite of each other because you may just be drawn in her world and powers.

「逃亡急行」 - Toubou Kyuukou (Escape Express)「失踪都市」 - Shissou toshi「サルでもできるガーデニング」 - Sarudemo Dekiru GardeningIn the Bunkoban:「逃亡急行」 - Toubou Kyuukou (Escape Express)Magazine reporter Natsumi comes across the scene of a murder and is captured by the youth who seems to have committed it. He insists he's innocent and the two go off to Switzerland together in pursuit of the real murderer!「失踪都市」 - Shissou toshi「死刑台の72時間」 - Shikeidai no 72-jikan - 72 hours of death stand (was also published in Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame)「買って飲んであそんでデンマーク」 - Katte Nonde Asonde Denmark

Collection of mysterious stories by Chie Shinohara, a great artist of suspense manga.Story 01 Part 01 & 02: 海に堕ちるツバメ (Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame - Swallow Falling into the Sea)Masako Minase, a scriptwriter, was murdered by Shiki Morimura, her rival in the same profession. Shiki was sure that she had destroyed evidence completely. However, someone who knew the truth appeared, and tried to get Shiki in his power. Is it a mysterious spot or unhappy desire that lurks in her mind?It was also published in Akatsuki ni Tatsu Lion(bunkoban version)Story 02: 記憶の足音 (Kioku no Ashioto - The Footsteps of Memory) This is the story about Shouko and the almost tragic moment that changed her life and emotions ...It was also published in Akatsuki ni Tatsu Lion(bunkoban version).Story 03: 死刑台の72時間 (Shikeidai no 72-jikan - 72 hours of death stand) Five young people receives a letter saying that they murdered someone and they must go to the address in the letter if they don't want other people to found out. They all find themselves in a old European house, where a crazy lady tells them that one of them is a murder and if that murder don't confess in 72 hours, they will all die.It was also published in Toubou Kyuukou (bunkoban version).

Two twin sisters contracted a mysterious bacteria from a trip and suddenly gained enormous power. One psycho sister began trying to kill the other because they both loved the same man, while the other sister and her boyfriend began to flee as everyone else became innocent victims...

Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people she cares about. What will the powerful magic awakening inside Rinko bring her?In 1987, Purple Eyes in the Dark was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo manga category.

There's 2 versions, one tankoubon and one bunkoban.

The tankoubon includes:
「暁に立つライオン」 - Akatsuki ni Tatsu Lion (published in Betsucomi, 05-07/2003)
「トルコ取材記」 - Turkey Shuzaizakki (Omake, 06/2003)

The bunkoban version also have the one-shots:
「海に墜ちるツバメ」 -Umi ni Ochiru tsubame
「記憶の足音」- Kioku no Ashioto
Both also present in Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame.

Resume from ShoujoMagic:
Izumi Erina is a senior in high school. She only has one living relative - her older brother Takashi. However, Erina receives an arrest notice for Takashi one day, who is supposed to be in Turkey at the time!! In order to look for Takashi, a mysterious man Sinclair came to Japan and brought Erina along with him. What is the "Black Trap" that awaits Erina in a foreign country...?! A shocking romantic suspense work filled with waves of love and hate!!

Yuri lived the peaceful, average teenage life until Queen Nakia drew Yuri across time and space into the ancient Hittite Empire to use her as a sacrifice! Yuri meets many different friends throughout her journey to find a way home, but when the season of the North Star comes, enabling Prince Kail to send Yuri home, can she make it back, or have her growing feelings for Kail become too much? Check out Anatolia Story to find out!

Ryouko Midorikawa is a girl in her first year of high school. One day the cat she had raised and loved for 15 years suddenly dies. Although Pow hated water, he died drowning. Ryouko is lost in questions about the cause of his death. But from that night on, terrible things start happening everywhere around her!

A collection of short stories by the author.

Titles in which they are under:

1) Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni...

• Someone in the Dark (Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni) - A Midnight Visitor : Masami finished summer camp and returned home. However, her mother and brother are nowhere to be seen. Only a mysterious shadow follows Masami...!?

• And the Bell Rings 5 Times

• Kind Killer.

2) Mokugekisha ni Sayounara
3) Nanika ga Yami de Miete Iru
4) 3 Hitome ga Kieta

The second story in the Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu collection.

From Aerandria Scans:
Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people she cares about. What will the powerful magic awakening inside Rinko bring her?