The Friend, an enigmatic cult leader who plans to destroy the world, declares, "The cosmos has begun choosing those who are true friends." Meanwhile, horrifying incidents are taking place: the emergence of a mysterious virus, the death of a detective, the revelations of a man on the run... Kenji tries to find out who this Friend is, but the answer is still far ahead. The footsteps of doom slowly creep closer and a shadow falls over the city...

It turns out that the Friend's plan to destroy the world was dreamed up long ago by a gang of boys playing "good guys against bad guys" ...And now, the only one who can stop this diabolical plot from succeeding is the one who came up with it: Kenji!

Kenji wrote "The Book of Prophecy" in his boyhood. Now this childish fantasy has become the scenario for the Friend's fiendish plot to destroy mankind. Kenji goes underground and waits for a chance to fight back.

The giant robot has already been built and now awaits the Great Awakening... With the Friend's identity still a mystery, the countdown to the apocalypse continues, day by day, minute by minute - for on December 31, 2000, humanity will meet its final hour.

Fourteen years after "Bloody New Year's Eve" brought the world to the brink of extinction, Neo Tokyo in the year 2014 has fully recovered and become a thriving, multi-ethnic metropolis. Kanna has survived the chaos and is now 17 years old - and has just stumbled upon a terrible truth that may change her destiny.

Out in the middle of Tokyo Bay, a man called Shogun is trying to break out of Umihotaru Prison, a maximum-security island fortress, so he can save the world. Accompanied by a frightened young manga artist, these two men are prepared to risk everything as their daring escape plan grows deadlier by the minute. However, the prison authorities will do whatever it takes to return Shogun and his reluctant companion to custody.

Kenji, Otcho and Maruo have just driven their dynamite-loaded truck under the robot... where they see what a poor relation to the giant robot they dreamed up in their childhoods it actually is: just two legs with caterpillar treads, held together by an enormous hot air balloon, with cloth hanging down to disguise the underside.

Tackling kanji - the system of Japanese writing based on Chinese characters - is the most challenging aspect of learning the Japanese language. 250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters Volume 1 and Volume 2 are time-tested books that have now been enhanced and revised using proven methods from the Kanji Text Research Group at the University of Tokyo.

Tackling kanji - the system of Japanese writing based on Chinese characters - is the most challenging aspect of learning the Japanese language. 250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters Volume 1 and Volume 2 are time-tested books that have now been enhanced and revised using proven methods from the Kanji Text Research Group at the University of Tokyo.

An Obsession: Aoyama explores the dark night of the human soul as a workaholic detective and a homicidal leukemia patient are both driven down the road to destruction. Em Embalming: When an apparent suicide's head is severed and stolen, it leads embalmer Miyako to believe that there may be more to this death than meets the eye. Wild Life: An ex-boxer gets caught up between the yakuza, the police, the hunt for a mysterious package, and his kidnapped boss' daughter.

Humanity's blind arrogance has built a civilization that believes only in itself; however, our sense of security is only preserved by refusing to perceive the dark shadow-world lurking just beneath the surface of our own... Now, one man will be forced to confront this hidden world and discover the curse of immortality. What he finds will force him to embrace the demon world to find its humanity and his own...

Yakumo has finally gained the power to make him worthy to be Pai's guardian, but now she can't remember who she is! How can he help her to become human if she believes she already is one?