Genre - Seinen

A strange silver-hair man, Ameya, helps a young boy, Norio. But no-one seems to see this weird man... A murder takes place in a locked room, with only one clue : a piece of paper filled with an incomprehensible warning « Within three days I will steal the equivalent value of the life of the person who will be in this room» Two inspectors working for Sircam insurance, Isa et Senjô, think that the culprit is Paper Cut. But who is this enigmatic murderer ?

From MangaHelpers: A thick mist covers the city of Faith-Dehli constantly. In the mist and smoke of this metropolis, demons known as "Pagans" lurk in the shadows. Pagans are born when humans fail to join the other souls in the path to reincarnation. There is a group known as the "Twanbach Funeral Service Company" who specializes in hunting these Pagans. Reginald, a 100+-year-old vampire that looks like he's 20 years old, gets hired by the Twanbach company by the mysterious twins, Vanessa and Veroinica Twanbach. [DrCoke]

China 2A.D.: the corrupting Han Dynasty has thrown the entire country into chaos. Peasants revolt against the government. Into such an age, the ruthless and infamous hero, Cao Cao Mengde is born. Destroying old customs and values, he tries to unite China, with a band of promising and intellectual followers, handpicked for their individual talents and potential. Generally thought a villain, Cao Cao Mengde is portrayed as a hero in this story, which focuses on what kind of person he actually was. There are two other protagonists: Liu Bei Xuande and Sun Quan Zhongmou. Liu is a man of high morals and infinite potential. His servant, Zhuge Kongming is a mysterious man, who helps Liu to become a king who is loved by millions. Sun is the third descendant of the Sun family. A young and immature king also comes into the picture, creating more chaos. This is a Tale of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) in which these three men rage war throughout China.

A kid from the empire named Thor Regus was exiled by his father, the Duke, to the realm of the Demon Lord. The reason was that he lacked any combat skills and could only employ [Alchemy]. Because the empire was a military nation, people without combat experience faced discrimination. The Empire chose to take him as a hostage and sacrifice him to the Demon Territory for this reason. An exiled youngster in this tale rises above empires and heroes to establish a civilized power in the Demon Territory.

With his carthorse as his only companion, the young merchant Kraft Lawrence slowly wends his way through dusty back roads in search of profitable trade. But this monotony screeches to a halt when, one night, he encounters a harvest goddess in the guise of a beautiful young girl…with wolf ears and a tail! Longing for the northern lands of her birth, Holo the Wisewolf joins Lawrence as he follows the ebb and flow of trade through the countryside. And when the two come across a compelling but suspicious opportunity for profit, will Lawrence with his mercantile chops and Holo with her ancient instincts be able to separate the truth from the lies — and make some coin while they’re at it?!

This is a spin off story that occurs about 3 years before Spiral. One of the main characters is Imari, who is in love with the kid who wants to be a detective, and which also quit school running after Kiyotaka, and it seems he's dating a murderer without knowing it...? But how is it all connected to the blade children? Not long after, our favorite blade children from Spiral appear for the rescue, all manipulated by Kiyotaka.

Fuuta Okeya is a normal 14-year-old boy, except for the fact that he has the ability to see ghosts. A cute girl transfers into his class one day, but acts particularly aggressive towards him. This girl called Kouko Ishigami is followed around by a ghost called East. Fuuta tries to get along with her but ends up failing after she sees the birthmark he usually keeps covered. She then declares him as her enemy, his birthmark as a cursed brand and claims they have a long history, while talking about reincarnation. Who is this girl and how are they connected?

Volume one consists of mostly unrelated short stories of mad scientists and quiet sci-fi drama. Volume 2 and on (?): Miss China is a nice woman who rents a place to the ingenious Professor Breckenridge and his assistant Jim Floyd. While Jim can't pay the rent for his room, he's spending his money to all kinds of crazy inventions, be it to please miss China, and to win her heart. Note: there appears to be a lot of conflicting information about this series (number of volumes , synopsis, and so on). I've only found one website, a Spanish publisher, that acknowledges that there are three volumes as opposed to one or two. English websites only seem to acknowledge the Miss China story arc, which is, admittedly, the most well known due to being adapted into an anime OVA. Volume 1 stories: *The Universe is so Vast and Wonderful! *Leaving One Night by the Light of the Full Moon *To Invoke the Stars *Little Melancholy *The Young Scientists' Club *See You Later, God Willing *Marsy in the Land of Time *Natsuko *The Young Scientist Club on Mars

Yoshiko a hard working high school student is always taking care of others. Despite studying hard for herself, she still finds the time to take class notes everyday and deliver them to her home bound, video game playing, childhood best friend who has not appeared in school for quite awhile. One day on her way back from delivering the notes to her friend, she notices "black snow" falling from the sky. Confused she asks her friends Miki and Kiriko if they had seen the snow too and having not seen anything, her friends assume she has been overworking herself. Yoshiko who also regularly helps out a reclusive uncle, will one day bring her friends along to help planning on a doing some karaoke afterward. Thanks to the appearance of the black snow an ominous event happens and things keep getting stranger and stranger...

a world where spies are used to fight wars. The remarkable and difficult-to-deal-with spy Klaus has a 100% success rate on missions, and the agency has given him a mission that is almost impossible and has a crazy 90% chance of failure and death—involving eight inexperienced girls?!

On the most exceedingly awful day of my life, I got a marvel as a present from the 'genuine universe'. ***** I poured all my riches and stirred to trackers. Correspondence, persistence, and game telant without a solitary battle ability? "I need to quit carrying on with my life as a salesman at Hunter's Office. If you earnestly wish for it, will it work out? On the most exceedingly awful day of my life, I got the most grounded ability from the universe! The karma game that topples the class starts. "SSS-class tracker who became more grounded by drawing parcels.

A reclusive, disfigured man stalks a pretty, good-natured housewife. One day, he witnesses this woman's daughter being kidnapped.

Vlad was a transient offspring of the ghettos who generally respected knights. After an occurrence where he was struck by dark lightning, he started hearing a voice. A knight of blue twilight seemed one day, and Vlad's back-rear entryway life was flipped around… Even a dark star that doesn't sparkle in the most elevated pinnacles of the night sky is as yet a star on the off chance that it wishes to sparkle.

Stardust Memories is a short story compilation of human beings in the distant future where we have traveled deep into space. Each story describes a moral dilemma that people traveling in space may experience which is something that we have yet to determine in the current world. Stardust Memories talk about such problems as the implications of having people travel for years, even decades, in the cold, quiet and endless universe. A different story tells on how human presence in a foreign galaxy will affect the environment. The topics the author decides to write about are interesting and makes you wonder about the future.