Novels

An abusive playboy dumps his pregnant girlfriend on an abandoned island. A callous husband who can't figure out why his fishing boat won't run properly will check the pipes and face the horror of his own behavior. A conniving couple will take their unassuming friend out on a yacht to rope him into a pyramid scheme, but the murky waters won't let them succeed.

In a military training mission gone tragically wrong, 210 soldiers ascend Mount Hakkoda in the dead of winter and only eleven return. This fictionalized account of a true incident remains one of Japan's most poignant stories about soldiers' courage and the dangers of reckless leadership.

There's a serial killer loose in Los Angeles and the local authorities need help fast. For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene. Each of these clues, it seems, is an indecipherable roadmap to the next murder.

In an alternative continuity in the Death Note setting, ace detective L's name has been placed in a Death Note. He has twenty-three days to bring a terrorist group to justice, or they will use a deadly new virus to change the world... by killing off most of humanity.

Kyoya Izayoi is no ordinary high school student - he's one of the few trained in the martial art of Nenpo, and wields a sword known as "Ashura." Little does he know, the walls between this world and the world of the spirits are getting thinner by day... and when the fault line separating these two worlds collapses, the city of Shinjuku faces the biggest horror and a devastating effect. Kyoya is waiting - can he stop the demons?

In Japanese Buddhism, twelve generals - the Juni Jinsho - stood guard over the cosmos at the points of the zodiac. But now they have vanished, and nothing stands between us and the forces of darkness except Deva Zan, a samurai without a memory. To restore order to existence, he must marshal not only his own fighting skill, but find companions that can cross the boundaries of time and space to join him in a battle that will stretch from the fields of ancient Japan, to the streets of modern New York City, and to dimensions beyond human comprehension!

Dante, the giant sword, two-gun toting devil hunter has earned the nickname "Devil May Cry" after mercilessly killing any and every undead creature in his path. Now he is on a mission for an evil idol known as The Beast Head. But little does Dante know that this mission brings him closer to his eternal enemy...

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's nextdoor neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step.

When a miner on the industrial planet Chakra is attacked by an unknown animal, Trouble Consultants Kei and Yuri are called in to investigate. How did the miner survive his wounds, and what are the ulterior motives of the company-town's superiors: the enigmatic religious leader, the town mayor, and the owner of the mining facilities?

From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.

Goku and Master R- er, Jackie Chun are still at it! Seems there's nothing the old guy can dish out that Goku can't take. Well, almost nothing... But wait! What's that up in the sky? Could it be a full moon?