From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales.
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While crowded in daytime, this London neighborhood has been haunted by a “vampire killer” for many nights. The protagonist wakes up in a residence, with a man calling himself "Holmes" and claiming to have entered the house chasing after a vampire. Unknowingly, the door of the residence has been locked from the outside...
Hina Tsurugi and her family have just moved to a quaint seaside town. Hoping to savor the sight of the peaceful ocean, Hina stumbles upon a girl named Yuuki Kuroiwa—an upperclassman at her new school—who invites Hina to join her in fishing. Hina reels in an octopus, which falls onto her; being afraid of bugs and big creatures, she panics and begs Yuuki to remove it from her. Yuuki sees this as an opportunity to force Hina to join the school's Breakwater Club—a club where members gather, catch, and eat various types of marine life as their main activity. Although her attempts to refuse to join fail, Hina slowly begins to discover the hidden joy in fishing. Her view on the sport changes, now looking forward to all the delightful experiences she can take part in alongside her fellow club members.
𝙰 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚌𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚛'𝚜 𝙵𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙳𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚛. 𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚌𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍. 𝙸𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚏 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 ... 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎, 𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 '𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐' 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 ...
Once upon a time, there was a witch named Elaina. Inspired by her favorite book, Elaina ventures out to see the world she's read so much about. Like a leaf on the wind, she travels from one country to another, looking to sate her inquisitiveness and searching for new experiences. Exploration and curiosity drive her journey. She's confronted by humanity in all its forms, whether strange, bizarre, or emotional and with each meeting, Elaina would become a small part of their story, and her own world would get a little bit bigger.
In the year 2043, Infinite Dendrogram, the world's first successful full-dive VRMMO was released. In addition to its ability to perfectly simulate the five senses, along with its many other amazing features, the game promised to offer players a world full of infinite possibilities. Nearly two years later, soon-to-be college freshman, Reiji Mukudori, is finally able to buy a copy of the game and start playing. With some help from his experienced older brother, Shuu, and his partner Embryo, Reiji embarks on an adventure into the world of Infinite Dendrogram.
Gaurav Tiwari, a paranormal investigator, faces his greatest challenge when his pursuit of the truth behind unexplained phenomena leads him into a deadly spiral. As his mysterious death leaves questions unanswered, a journalist delves into his eerie and celebrated legacy, unearthing secrets that blur the line between reality and the supernatural.
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The young code breaker Karnell works in the Swedish intelligence service during the Cold War. Having cracked a secret code he is drawn into a conspiracy that stretches throughout the Baltic Sea. It turns out that there is a leak codenamed Ramona within the organization and now they have to stop Ramona before it wrecks havoc.
Katsumi Ebata, a high school student, desperately pursues the whereabouts of Sakura Hasegawa, a two-year-old lover who suddenly disappeared. However, her memory of cherry blossoms had disappeared unnaturally from the people around her. In fact, Sakura was the princess of Nagoya Castle, Sakurahime, who lives in a different world "Japan" that is parallel to the real world. Sakura responded to her return according to her long-held promise, but she left a clue to guide her beloved Katsumi to Japan. She relies on it and she goes to another world...
One rainy night, Saki is rushing to a piano lesson when she crashes into a beautiful, long-haired girl, dropping her sheet music in the process. Saki stutters an apology, but the girl simply hands back her sheet music and leaves without a word. Saki begins her first day of high school the following morning, only to find the stranger from the night before sitting at the desk next to hers. She learns that the girl's name is Kanon and that she is not quite completely deaf, but very hard of hearing. Though Kanon needs to be close to people to read their lips, she tends to push people away with her icy demeanor. Through one kind gesture, Saki slowly begins breaking down the walls around Kanon, even as she feels something new blossoming within her.
A close-knit community is sent spinning on its axis following a series of strange and unnatural crimes.
The sale of Paul and Lydia's picture-perfect LA home forces them to face painful family secrets — and hide them from prying eyes and cutthroat buyers.
Short anime based on the 4-koma series illustrating the daily lives of the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club’s members.
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When a third-grader's natural gift for golf is accidentally discovered by a pro player, the boy embarks on a journey to be the world's best golfer.
Gatapishi is the name of the little white dog that lives with the Heino family. But Gatapishi isn't an ordinary dog. He is very smart, does whatever he can to help out his family, and can even look after the little boy named Heita.
Yuichiro Akafuji and Hajime Aoyagi are cast as co-leads in a BL manga adaptation and move in together for publicity, but Akafuji remains distant.
Second Verdict is a six-part 1976 BBC television series, a dramatised documentaries of classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history re-appraised by fictional police officers. Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor reprised for a final time their double-act as Detective Chief Superintendents Barlow and Watt, hugely popular with TV audiences from the long-running series Z-Cars; Softly, Softly; and Barlow at Large.
A tough yankee gets stuck with a prim tutor to fix his grades, but between the bickering and lessons, he’s shocked to find himself falling for him.
A collection of animated horror stories based on the works of Japanese artist Junji Ito.
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A supernatural system allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the services of a mysterious entity and her assistants who implement this system. Revenge, injustice, hatred, and the nature of human emotions are common themes throughout the series.
The story centers on Keitarou Gentouga, who has the ability to be a spirit medium. In junior high school, he got someone else wrapped up in a spirit possession incident, and he has been a shut-in for more than two years. As he reintroduces himself to society as a private tutor, he meets a genius girl named Yayoi Houzuki. Yayoi is instantly able to tell that Keitarou has skill as a spirit medium, and she invites him to go with her to a haunted location. The two then start their journey capturing evil spirits.
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A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.
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Akuma Kun, a boy raised by a demon, works with his half-human partner Mephisto III as paranormal investigators to solve various murder and mysteries.
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A horror/suspense anthology series directed by the biggest horror directors working in feature films.
When a shapeshifting demon with a thirst for human flesh, known as "youma," arrives in Raki's village, a lone woman with silver eyes walks into town with only a sword upon her back. She is a "Claymore," a being manufactured as half-human and half-youma, for the express purpose of exterminating these monsters. After Raki's family is killed, the Claymore saves his life, but he is subsequently banished from his home. With nowhere else to go, Raki finds the Claymore, known as Clare, and decides to follow her on her journeys. As the pair travel from town to town, defeating youma along the way, more about Clare's organization and her fellow warriors comes to light. With every town cleansed and every demon destroyed, they come closer to the youma on which Clare has sought vengeance ever since she chose to become a Claymore.
The beautiful and successful supermodel Jun Fudou meets a woman named Lan Asuka, who confronts her with a werewolf monster, which she calls a devil beast. As a result, unimagined powers awaken in Jun, and she manages to defeat the monster. She, just like this werewolf, is part of the next step in human evolution: humans who can mutate into beast-like monsters and then mercilessly terrorise civilisation. Unlike the other devil beasts, however, she can retain her humanity, which is her undoing because Lan Asuka is a high-ranking employee of the government and of the “Anti-Beast Special Squad”, which wants to abuse her powers and train her to mercilessly hunt down her own species. Caught between these extremes and her weak self, the question arises: what fate will Jun meet? Will she ever be able to decide it for herself?
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Rin Asōgi may look like an ordinary office lady on the outside but she is actually a private investigator taking on any jobs, from finding a stray cat to infiltrating a high-security corporate lab. What's more, she appears literally indestructible, supernaturally healing any injuries and mutilations. Together with her partner Mimi, Rin delves into the darkest secrets of the society but the ones she hides herself are by far more sinister...
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