Yoko Chosokabe

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss."

Asako, who has been married for eight years and has no children, is dissatisfied with her husband who comes home late every night, but she lives peacefully with him after he stops his unfaithful habit. However, a man she meets at a bowling alley with her neighbor Michiko and a beautiful woman who Asako's husband is interested in, cause changes in their lives.

The villa where Uehara repeatedly met his mistress, Naomi, and where Naomi and his wife met tragic deaths. Saeko, a female editor, visits Uehara, who has taken up residence there, to handle his next novel, "Evil Spirit," following the publication of "The Mistress's Ghost." Saeko, who has always admired the author, stays at his villa and begins to take care of his needs. The distraught Uehara is bewildered by Saeko, who wears the same perfume as his deceased wife, but gradually begins to open up to her... But when the two, drawn to each other, desire each other physically, Naomi's vengeful spirit awakens! Naomi will never allow love. Strange phenomena occur one after another, and their minds and bodies are consumed.

A man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past.

The second instalment depicting the fateful confrontation of Takizawa.

A lone wolf hits the sneaky plot of a lone organization that is aiming to expand it's power over traces of Ninryukai!

Takizawa joins a professional thief and carries out an assault.

Only one person challenges the final battle against the corrupt state power.

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since the crimes are in the same vicinity, by the same method. However, as evidence points towards the detective, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins questioning his identity. His realization of what seems to be reality results in something far larger and more sinister.

Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the death of her beloved mother and joins forces with a mysterious rebel leader.

Nikkari works for a small tailor in a small town and supports her younger sister Yuki. Yuki has a boyfriend named Oshima, who works for an estate agency, but after learning of her illness, Oshima has been gradually pulling away from Yuki of late. Just then, the story comes to a startling conclusion when Yuki discovers that she is pregnant.

Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.

The story follows a college student who discovers that he can see and communicate with the germs all around him — germs that appear as super-deformed characters.

This anthology-style mystery series is part of the D‑5 PROJECT, centered around Detective Office 5 - a long-running private detective agency in Kawasaki. Each detective is known only by a number rather than a name (e.g., Detective 596, 532), with standalone stories featuring different characters and surreal, quirky cases.

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