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A deadly menace lurks in Tokyo: man-eating "ghouls" that look exactly like humans and hide among them. Reserved college student Ken Kaneki keeps his head in books and pays no attention to reports of the escalating crisis. But the arrival of a beautiful woman named Rize Kamishiro breaks his solitude when she boldly asks him out on a date. As Kaneki walks Rize home, he realizes she is far from the kind person she seemed—she lured him with malicious intent. After a violent struggle, he wakes up in a hospital to find out his life was saved by having the organs of the now-dead Rize transplanted into his body. Kaneki's body starts changing in terrifying ways, turning him into a human-ghoul hybrid. As he begins his grim new path, Kaneki desperately holds onto his humanity amid the growing bloody war between society's new monsters and the government agents hunting them.

Parasitic aliens suddenly descend upon Earth, infiltrating humanity by burrowing into the brains of vulnerable targets. These insatiable creatures seize complete control of their hosts and can morph into various forms to hunt unsuspecting prey. Sixteen-year-old high school student Shinichi Izumi is attacked by one of these parasites, but it fails to take over his brain, ending up in his right hand instead. Unable to move to its intended location, the parasite, named Migi, must rely on Shinichi to survive. This forces the duo into an uneasy coexistence as they defend themselves against hostile parasites determined to eliminate this new threat to their kind.

Ken Kaneki has finally begun to embrace the monstrous, flesh-hungry side of himself that he once dreaded and loathed. After managing to escape being held captive and tortured, Kaneki decides to align himself with Aogiri Tree—the same violent ghoul group that originally kidnapped him, causing his friends to doubt his true intentions and allegiance. As hostilities between the government and ghouls keep escalating, the Commission of Counter Ghoul, the state's dedicated anti-ghoul task force, has stepped up its campaign to eliminate all ghouls from Tokyo. This endangers the fragile peace enjoyed by Kaneki's friends and former allies—the ghouls of the Anteiku café. Fully aware of the peril, Kaneki endures several fights that test his precious, fleeting humanity.

Lucy belongs to a subspecies of humanity known as Diclonius, characterized by small horns and invisible telekinetic limbs—traits that make her a target for brutal government experimentation. When a chance to flee arises, the years of confinement and torture have twisted her, and she slaughters her way through her captors in a bloody escape. During the breakout, a severe head injury fractures her psyche, creating a second personality resembling a childlike innocent with barely any speech. In this vulnerable state, she crosses paths with Kouta and his cousin Yuka, two college students who take in the wounded fugitive, having no idea of her lethal nature. Their compassion sets off a chain of events that plunges them into a hidden world of government secrets and conspiracy.

It all began without warning: the dead rose from their graves, plunging Japan into utter chaos. When these creatures invade a high school, Takashi Kimuro is forced to kill his best friend after he is bitten and becomes one of the walking dead. Swearing to protect Rei Miyamoto, the girlfriend of the man he just put down, they manage to escape their school-turned-deathtrap, only to find a society that has already collapsed. Takashi and Rei soon join forces with other students, embarking on a journey to locate their families and discover the source of this overwhelming outbreak. Their group includes Saeko Busujima, the refined president of the Kendo Club; Kouta Hirano, an otaku obsessed with firearms; Saya Takagi, the daughter of a powerful politician; and Shizuka Marikawa, their attractive school nurse. Yet even with their combined strength, they must question if it will be enough to survive the undead apocalypse.

Two years have elapsed since the CCG's assault on Anteiku. While the atmosphere in Tokyo has shifted considerably with the CCG's heightened presence, ghouls remain a persistent issue as they have grown more cautious, particularly the terrorist syndicate Aogiri Tree, which recognizes the CCG's escalating danger to their survival. The formation of a specialized unit called the Quinx Squad could give the CCG the advantage needed to eliminate Tokyo's unwanted inhabitants. These are humans who have undergone surgery to harness the unique abilities of ghouls, and they take part in missions to eradicate these perilous creatures. The squad's leader, Haise Sasaki, is a half-ghoul, half-human trained by the renowned special class investigator Kishou Arima. Yet there is more to this young man than appears, as buried memories claw at his mind, gradually recalling the person he once was.

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.

Following the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation, the Commission of Counter Ghouls (CCG) has become significantly stronger and continues its mission to wipe out all ghouls in Japan. Having left the Quinx Squad, the now apparently emotionless Haise Sasaki takes on increasingly difficult assignments from the CCG without concern for their danger. Despite his blank expression, Ken Kaneki's memories are slowly resurfacing within Haise, causing him inner turmoil. At the same time, his newly cold demeanor affects those around him. The Quinx Squad is left in disarray, struggling to cope with the loss of one of their members while lacking their former mentor's support. Amid this chaos, both the Quinx Squad and Haise must continue carrying out their duties for the CCG, whether they want to or not. However, Haise has become aware of a mysterious group operating behind the CCG, and the Quinx Squad has also caught wind of certain whispers about corruption.

In the age of the industrial revolution, a strange virus gives rise to monstrous beings known as Kabane, which attack humans to feed. The only way to defeat them is to shatter their iron-coated hearts. Anyone bitten by a Kabane is cursed to become one of the undead themselves. Only the most heavily guarded settlements have managed to survive, such as the island of Hinomoto, where huge walls protect humanity from the endless swarms. Entry to these enormous fortresses is limited to armored trains, which are built and run by young men like Ikoma. Ikoma has created a powerful weapon designed to pierce the hearts of Kabane, and he is eager to test it in battle. Yet his opportunity to fight arrives much sooner than he ever expected.

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.

J-pop idol group CHAM! has been entertaining its fans for the past two years. However, all good things must eventually come to an end, and one of its members, Mima Kirigoe, decides to leave the group to pursue acting. Although her decision receives mixed reactions, Mima hopes her fans will continue to support her. But after leaving the group, Mima's life starts to change dramatically. Determined to shake off her pop-idol image, she accepts a role in a crime drama series, and her acting career becomes increasingly demanding and stressful for both her and her manager, Rumi Hidaka. Adding to Mima's growing anxiety, an obsessed fan who cannot accept that she has quit being an innocent idol begins stalking her, a mysterious new website starts impersonating her life with precise details, and CHAM! seems to be doing better without her. Each disturbing development pushes Mima further toward instability, making it harder for her to tell reality from fantasy.

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.

Rachel Gardner, her eyes hollow and empty, wishes only for death. She regains consciousness in the basement of a building with no recollection of how she got there. There, she meets Zack, a killer wrapped in bandages who is trying to escape. He vows to end her life once he obtains his freedom, and the two form an agreement to ascend the building floor by floor in search of an exit. As they climb higher, they face increasingly unhinged individuals who all appear to recognize Rachel. The puzzle deepens around her link to the facility and why she is held captive. Facing a new boss on every level, Rachel and Zack must figure out whether both of them can achieve their respective goals.

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.

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.

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.

After giving his life to rescue a homeless man from a speeding train, Kei Kurono regains consciousness in a peculiar room alongside several other freshly dead individuals and a mysterious black orb. While they attempt to make sense of their situation, the sphere unveils a collection of weapons and black bodysuits, then orders them to eliminate an alien before teleporting them to an unfamiliar destination. With few explanations, Kei teams up with his childhood friend Masaru Katou and an unnamed woman. As they explore their surroundings, they soon understand that they have entered a grim and treacherous realm filled with constant threats.

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.

Satou Matsuzaka is a beautiful high school student known for being easygoing with guys. But a chance meeting with a young girl named Shio Koube makes Satou realize this is her first ever true feeling of love. While telling others she lives with her aunt, Satou secretly shares an apartment with Shio. Despite her innocent looks, Satou will do anything to protect her beloved, going to desperate lengths to keep their "happy sugar life" intact.

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.