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Transfer student Kouichi Sakakibara returns to class 3-3 at Yomiyama North Junior High after being absent for the first month of school due to illness. He feels a strange pull toward Mei Misaki, a quiet girl with an eyepatch whom he encountered in the hospital during his leave. However, his classmates refuse to acknowledge her existence and warn him not to get involved with things that do not exist. Ignoring their caution, Kouichi befriends Mei and soon uncovers the dark truth behind their unease. The disturbing rumors center on a former student of class 3-3, but no one will fully explain the tragic event to Kouichi. Drawn into the curse affecting his class, he sets out to understand its link to his new friend. As terrible events begin to unfold around them, Kouichi, Mei, and their classmates must solve the eerie mystery—but doing so will come at a heavy cost.

Makoto Naegi, an ordinary teenager with no special talents, is shocked to discover he has been admitted to Hope's Peak Private Academy, a prestigious school that brings together the most gifted students from every discipline. Even though he believes his acceptance was just luck, Naegi is excited to attend a place famous for guaranteeing success to its graduates. Filled with determination, he steps through the front doors of the elite institution. But after losing consciousness inside, Naegi wakes up in a classroom that looks abandoned. Unable to understand how he got there, he starts searching the building and is surprised to find his classmates gathered in the gym. As everyone tries to make sense of the situation, they are confronted by the principal—Monokuma, a robotic teddy bear. This mysterious creature explains that the students are trapped inside the school, and the only way to escape is to kill a fellow student without getting caught. Anxiety grips Naegi and his classmates as they realize they have only two options: take part in Monokuma's deadly game, or remain trapped together in the school forever.

In the summer of 1983, Keiichi Maebara moves to the peaceful village of Hinamizawa, where he quickly becomes close friends with his schoolmates Rena Ryuuguu, Mion Sonozaki, Satoko Houjou, and Rika Furude. But beneath the surface of their seemingly perfect daily lives, a dark secret lies waiting. As the village gears up for its yearly festival, Keiichi hears about the local folklore tied to the event. To his shock, he learns that a series of murders and disappearances have occurred in the village over the past few years, all seemingly linked to the festival and the village's patron deity, Oyashiro. When Keiichi tries to question his new friends about these incidents, they remain eerily quiet and refuse to give him the information he seeks. As strange events pile up, he begins to wonder what else they might be hiding from him—and whether he can trust them at all. As madness and paranoia creep into Keiichi's mind, he will plunge headlong into the mysteries unfolding in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, a tale told across multiple story arcs.

Around the year 2011, a small portion of humanity began awakening psychokinetic abilities known as Cantus. Over a thousand years later, in the village of Kamisu 66, Saki Watanabe is the last among her friends to manifest her powers and enroll at the Sage Academy, a school for psychics. Although all students there possess Cantus, they are not treated equally; soon after Saki starts, a classmate considered weaker than the rest suddenly disappears. One day while walking home with her friends—the determined Maria Akizuki, the intelligent Shun Aonuma, the observant Satoru Asahina, and the timid Mamoru Itou—she encounters two unfamiliar creatures called Monster Rats. These mole-like beings worship those who wield Cantus as gods. When Saki uses her ability to help one of them out of a predicament, she is met with profound gratitude. Now questioning the Monster Rats' place in society, Saki and her companions discover another disappearance. As time passes, they gradually seek answers to the mysteries surrounding them and begin to realize that this seemingly perfect new world conceals humanity's dark history.

In the quiet village of Sotoba, life is peaceful and everyone knows each other. However, things take a dark turn when Megumi Shimizu, an ambitious young girl, dies suddenly from a mysterious illness. As the hot summer progresses and more unexplained fatalities occur, local physician Toshio Ozaki starts to believe there is a more malevolent force behind the deaths. Toshio joins forces with detached teenager Natsuno Yuuki and siblings Kaori and Akira Tanaka—friends of Megumi—to uncover the truth about the town's deaths. Their collaborative investigation steers them toward a disturbing secret connected to the newly arrived family residing in the Kanemasa mansion.

The mysterious immortal entities known as Ajin first appeared in Africa seventeen years ago. Because their indestructible bodies pose a threat to humanity and they could be exploited for malicious purposes, they are immediately detained upon discovery. Kei Nagai, a hardworking high school student with aspirations of becoming a doctor, largely ignores the school curriculum concerning these beings, having only seen them occasionally in the news. Although he is taught that Ajin are not human, his ignorance proves irrelevant when he survives a fatal accident that triggers his transformation into an Ajin, plunging him into intense suffering. As he flees alone from a world that hunts him, Kei learns that other members of his kind might be hiding in plain sight.

Amidst the small village of Hinamizawa, Rika Furude and her companions share a facade of peace. Yet, Rika is fully aware of the sinister reality lurking beneath this calm surface. During this endless summer, she has endured unspeakable terrors. With each reset of the clock, she strives to uncover the culprit behind these senseless murders before history repeats itself. However, attempting to solve a puzzle with only partial information repeatedly leads to catastrophe. Just when she thinks she has turned the tide, she inevitably fails. As the annual festival draws near, Rika spirals from hope into despair while fighting to break the fate that binds them all.

High school senior Yuki Takeya eagerly anticipates each day with the School Living Club. The club is made up of president Yuuri Wakasa, athletic Kurumi Ebisuzawa, mature Miki Naoki, supervising teacher Megumi Sakura, and the club dog Taroumaru. The club takes pride in making the most of school life, with only one rule its members must follow: they must live their entire lives within the school grounds. Gakkougurashi! follows the adventures of the School Living Club as they promote independence and self-determination through their lively time living at Megurigaoka Private High School.

Seikyou Private Academy, a school steeped in the allure of traditional occult legends, conceals a grim history—for six decades, it has been stalked by a ghost named Yuuko, a girl who met an unexplained death in the basement of the old school building. Unable to recall either her life or her passing, Yuuko secretly establishes and leads the Paranormal Investigations Club in her quest for answers. When she encounters the bright freshman Teiichi Niiya, who can see the peculiar specter, Yuuko latches onto him. The two quickly bond, and Teiichi resolves to assist her. Together with Kirie Kanoe, a relative of Yuuko, and the unaware second-year student Momoe Okonogi, they plunge into the notorious Seven Mysteries that haunt the storied campus.

During the day, Saya Kisaragi lives as a quiet high school student, but at night, she becomes a fearsome hunter of monstrous beings. Wielding a sacred blade given to her by her father for ceremonial duties, she destroys any creature that endangers her tranquil village. Yet her understanding of reality is shattered when she hears the monsters speak of a broken pact, a secret she was never told about. Soon after, a mysterious dog appears and challenges her regarding her vow to safeguard the village, questioning what might happen if she were to break it. Haunted by strange visions as her world unravels, Saya sets out to find the truth in a village where nothing is as it seems.

A group of nine high school students gather at night to bid farewell to a friend, carrying out a ritual using small paper doll charms meant to preserve their friendship forever. Unaware of the truth, these charms are connected to Heavenly Host Academy, an elementary school that was destroyed years ago following a series of horrific murders. The haunted school lies beneath the foundations of their own Kisaragi Academy. Now trapped in an alternate dimension with vengeful spirits from the past, the students must work together to find a way out or remain imprisoned with the souls of the damned. This story provides a chilling look at themes of redemption and sacrifice, appealing to mystery lovers, gore enthusiasts, and horror fans, while reminding viewers that the past is always lurking just behind them.

Saya Otonashi leads an ordinary life with her adopted family in Okinawa City, appearing to be a typical high school girl. Her only unusual traits are a tendency toward anemia and a complete lack of memories from before the past year. But Saya's forgotten history resurfaces when she is attacked at school by a blood-drinking creature. A mysterious man named Haji intervenes to drive the monster away. When he forces her to drink his blood, Saya enters a trance and uses her own blood as a weapon to easily kill the beast. Saya discovers the existence of Red Shield, an organization created specifically to combat these monstrous beings. Together with Haji, she must join forces with Red Shield to battle the terrifying creatures and uncover the truth behind her lost memories.

The saying goes that one who seeks revenge must dig two graves—and this holds especially true for visitors of the Hell Correspondence website. At midnight, this eerie web domain becomes active, and anyone who types the name of a person they resent will receive a visit from Ai Enma, the Hell Girl. Ai explains that she will condemn the target’s soul to hell, but the requester will also be sent to hell after death. For some, this cost is far too great; for others, the fate of their afterlife matters little compared to the torment they endure in their daily lives. But one thing remains certain: the Hell Girl will always be available to those in need of vengeance, as she stoically carries out her duty of transporting souls into the abyss.

When 16-year-old Yuri Honjou sees a man’s skull split open by an axe, she runs in panic only to realize she is trapped inside an abandoned building with all exits mysteriously blocked. Desperate to get out, she makes her way to the rooftop, only to find herself stranded in a barren world of endless high-rises with no sign of life. Despite the crushing despair, Yuri decides to survive and search for her brother after learning he is trapped in this same strange reality. But masked killers who take pleasure in terror and violence make her question whether she will ever escape alive.

After escaping from Hope's Peak Academy, Makoto Naegi and his fellow survivors join the Future Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting despair. But the situation takes a turn when Naegi is arrested for treason after defending the Remnants of Despair. Alongside Kyouko Kirigiri and Aoi Asahina, he appears before the Foundation's executives, facing an uncertain fate. Things worsen when Monokuma infiltrates the organization's supposedly impenetrable security, immediately announcing the start of a new killing game. As the first victim appears as an omen of renewed despair, Naegi, the Super High School-Level Lucky Student, must once again solve the mystery while his comrades fall one by one. However, without class trials, the rules have changed: among the sixteen desperate participants, there is only one killer, and their death will finally bring this hellish game to an end.

The "Medicine Seller" is a deadly and mysterious master of the occult who travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called "mononoke" to slay. When he locates one of these spirits, he cannot simply kill it; he must first learn its Form, its Truth, and its Reason in order to wield the mighty Exorcism Sword and fight against it. He must begin his strange exorcisms with intense psychological analysis and careful investigative work—an extremely dangerous step, as he must first confront and learn about the mononoke before he even has the means to defeat it. The Medicine Seller's journey leads him to an old-fashioned inn where Shino, a pregnant woman, has finally found a place to rest. The owner has reluctantly placed her in the last vacant room; however, as she settles in, it quickly becomes clear that the room is infested by a lethal band of mononoke, the Zashiki Warashi. With his hunter's intuition, the Medicine Seller begins his investigation to discover the Form, the Truth, and the Reason before the Zashiki Warashi can kill again.

The unusual Class 77-B at Hope's Peak Academy gets a new homeroom teacher, Chisa Yukizome, a former student known as the Super High School-Level Housekeeper. Full of energy and skill, she works to heal the broken relationships among her varied students, who include a princess, a nurse, a yakuza member, and an incredibly lucky person. Trusting in the strength of hope, she tries to steer them through their disputes. At the same time, Hajime Hinata, a Reserve Course student who feels he lacks any special ability, meets Chiaki Nanami, the Super High School-Level Gamer. Through their time together, she gives him a new way of looking at life. But without Hajime's knowledge, the school's administration is engineering a dark scheme involving him that could bring down Hope's Peak and devastate the world. Zetsubou-hen follows the daily life at the famous academy while dark forces work in the background. As despair slowly takes over hope, those responsible for the Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History start their plan, marking the start of the end.

Having survived their narrow escape from death, Kei Nagai and his new ally Kou Nakano scheme to take vengeance on Satou, a fellow Ajin obsessed with ruling the world. While Satou carries out a series of public executions, humanity scrambles to find a way to halt the immortal threat. Kei finds unexpected support from former enemies: Yuu Tosaki, a high-ranking government official whose deep knowledge of Ajin provides a strategic edge against Satou, and Tosaki’s Ajin subordinate, Izumi Shimomura. As Kei’s group expands, he must act quickly to halt Satou’s campaign before it destroys civilization.

Six months have passed since Yoshiki Tsujinaka’s best friend, Hikaru Indou, vanished into the mountains and returned a week later with no memory of the event. Sensing that the returning Hikaru is not the person he knows, Yoshiki confronts him, prompting the entity to reveal its true monstrous form and plead for silence to avoid killing Yoshiki. Despite being paranormal, the imposter displays a childlike innocence and eagerness to experience human sensations, such as the summer heat and rural life. For Yoshiki, whose grief drives him to cling desperately to his friend, it hardly matters if this Hikaru is a fake built on stolen memories, provided he never leaves again. As their bond deepens, it becomes increasingly evident that a dangerous supernatural force has descended from the mountains into their village.

Rika Furude and her friends reside in the secluded mountain hamlet of Hinamizawa. In June 1983, they accept transfer student Keiichi Maebara, who becomes the sole male among them. They spend their afternoons enjoying games and making the most of each day. Yet, beneath this ordinary facade, Keiichi detects odd conduct from his peers, who appear to conceal the village’s grim mysteries. From afar, an observer tracks these disturbing developments and recalls every instance where this narrative, or similar ones, has occurred. Armed with this memory, they resolve to repair these fractured realities. But when specific factors shift, the individual encounters a terrifying truth: they are completely unaware of what will happen next or how to prevent the looming disaster.

Adjusting to a new school can be tough, especially when you have no interest in making friends, as is the case with Nobuaki Kanazawa. The reason behind his standoffish behavior becomes apparent when his entire class receives a text from an unknown sender calling themselves "The King." The message outlines the rules of the "King's Game," which all students are forced to participate in. Anyone who refuses, drops out, or fails to complete an order within 24 hours faces a lethal consequence. Having experienced this game before and witnessed the deaths of those around him, Nobuaki tries to warn his unsuspecting classmates. However, they only take him seriously after the King's Game claims its first victims. Trapped in a nightmarish scenario with no way out, Nobuaki must decide whether to prioritize his own survival or attempt to rescue his classmates—something he failed to do in the past.

Years ago, a student managed to drive all the ghosts out of a haunted schoolhouse. Now, those spirits have returned—and they're out for payback. Siblings Satsuki and Keiichirou Miyanoshita are still grieving the death of their mother. When they move to her old hometown, they find out that the school they've enrolled in is an ancient building rumored to be full of ghosts. At first, they dismiss the stories as nonsense, but they soon realize the spirits are real—and they have a personal grudge against them. Gakkou no Kaidan follows the terrifying ordeal of the brother and sister, along with their new friends, as they struggle to survive the school's vengeful apparitions—with some help from their pet cat.

Quiet rumors circulate among the female students at Shinyo Academy about a mysterious supernatural being. This being is Boogiepop, a shinigami said to kill people at the peak of their beauty before their charm fades. Few know his true identity: a protector who, after periods of inactivity, emerges as the alternate personality of high school girl Touka Miyashita to battle "the enemies of the world." Now, a series of unexplained disappearances—dismissed by the school as mere runaways—has roused Boogiepop. But somewhere on the campus, a dangerous creature lurks, waiting for the right moment to strike. Boogiepop wa Warawanai gently examines the deep connections between human beings and their experience of time, while exploring the intricate relationships, emotions, memories, and pasts of its characters.

At school, Mai Taniyama and her friends enjoy sharing ghost stories, with many revolving around an abandoned school building on campus. Their storytelling is interrupted by a mysterious young man, later revealed to be Kazuya Shibuya, the 17-year-old president of the Shibuya Psychic Research Company. He has been summoned by the principal to investigate the rumors about the abandoned building. The next day, on her way to school, Mai passes the building. While examining an unusual camera she spots inside, she is startled by Kazuya's assistant, inadvertently interfering with the investigation. Mai breaks the camera, and Kazuya's assistant gets injured. Kazuya forcefully hires Mai to cover the cost of the camera and replace his injured assistant. From then on, Mai begins to learn about the paranormal world and the ghost hunting profession.