As a child, Hero's family was attacked and killed by a practitioner of Northern Mantis kung fu. This assassin was tasked by the affluent head of a local triad to retrieve Hero's family heirloom: the legendary Blood Sword. Barely escaping with his life, Hero has now reached adulthood. He's mastered several forms of kung fu to aid him in his one lifelong endeavor: to safeguard the family treasure. But now his enemies turn their gaze to his newborn son.

Hero Hua is well known for his spectacular fighting and sword skills with his legendary Blood Sword. However, he leads a turbulent life. Incurring the wrath of the Black Dragon Gang and other dangerous enemies, Hero struggles to save his friends and family from dying at the hands of his enemies.

Having lost his job and his girlfriend, Kazuo becomes a member of a religious sect after seeing the Guru heal an old woman in a wheelchair. He soon discovers the secrets of success in the sect are much the same as the business world, the power of suggestion playing a larger role than faith. When the Guru unexpectedly dies, Kazuo is nominated to continue the sect as the new Guru.

Sei-Ann, an orphaned girl, decides she'll become the prince's bride. One day, she gets her chance when the prince visits her guardian's residence. Before she knows it, she's invited to work at the Royal Palace as a maid. What's more, one of the Crown Prince's brothers falls in love with her. But suddenly, Sei-Ann learns that she may be the last surviving heir to a family who was close to the Royal Family - but later branded as traitors!

Slowly yet surely, it's becoming evident that each of the three princes has feelings for Sei-Ann. The only question now is which of the three princes Sei-Ann truly loves! The decision becomes harder when each of the three princes won't admit to themselves how they really feel, and their secrets and hidden agendas aren't helping either. To make things worse for Sei-Ann, she now has a rival: a childhood friend of the princes'.

Some among the undead feel that now is the time, in the midst of human complacency, to strike against the mortals, and those in the Catholic Church also feel ready to strike against "evil," with just as little regard for the cost to human life. The power to stave this ultimate, destructive conflict between evil and righteousness rests in two wise and powerful undead brothers. But the only problem is they haven't spoken to each other in a hundred and fifty years.

Reunited under the direst of circumstances, the undead brothers Ein and Leroux DeLaLune rush to get the rest of the immortals out of Paris and away from the pagan magic of the witch Elizabeth Bathory. However, the witch is having doubts about her poisonous role in the peaceful existence the brothers have built for the undead over the past 400 years, which could cause a rift between her and Victor Frankenstein, who is carrying out her plan with fervor.

The Order, under the draconian leadership of Cardinal LaCroix, closes in on Paris to exterminate the undead, and with them is the powerful lunatic Peter Stubbe. But a link between LaCroix and the Brothers DeLaLune might have a deeper effect on the outcome of the looming battle than the scores of soldiers on both sides ready to fight. Elizabeth and Leroux have a lot to talk about, and now that Dahlia knows Ein's secret, will she still love him?

Richard Jordan plays American ex-con Pinky Green, who lands a job, through a series of mishaps by his bumbling parole office, at a prominent London bank. But when an old cohort of Pinky's, Ivan the Terrible (David Niven) realizes that Pinky is working at a bank, Ivan wants in on the action. Before he realizes what is happening, Pinky is getting pulled in to rob the bank with Ivan.

Renei thinks she's going crazy. After many years, she has begun to dream about "Ku's World" all the time, a place beneath the shadow of the mysterious Mount Babiranma which is inhabited by fantastic creatures - Nagizari, God, the little Rey, the lethal teppas - which is where her dead brother, who is going through an identity crisis, may be, as well as her best friend, who committed suicide some time ago and has now returned for her.

Five Letters... Five Chances for Love. George Asakura's five stories of humor, wit, and enough mystery to keep us guessing with each new delivery. You've got mail!

When Araki finds an old fax machine, he starts corresponding with the only girl who can receive his letters. But there's a twist! Also, a brother's dying request: deliver a videotape to his girlfriend... someone his sibling didn't even know existed. And there will be other secrets.