Asura (George AKIYAMA) - Recommendations

• One Shot
• 2014

2nd Rank Investigator, Hanbee Abara hints that there is darkness lurking in the world, among stories between humans and "mysterious creatures," that plow through the crowd, in the same form as humans to hunt and eat people, and are therefore called ghouls. There are also people that oppose these ghouls, the CCG, which is a group Abara belongs to. He mentions that ghouls use a hunting organ called a kagune. Ghouls are extremely dreadful, and he adds that there are even people like this among his superiors, referring to First Class Investigator Juuzou Suzuya. Abara claims that he never summed up a tenth of the courage Suzuya has and often runs away when surrounded by several ghouls, rendering him a hopeless person.

• Vol: 24+; Ch: 143+
• 2013 - ?

Takahisa and a group of students in a university club head to the remote Kichiku Island in search of ruins, but they're immediately attacked by a large man in a pig mask, and their boat sinks, leaving them stranded. The group quickly discovers that the island is inhabited by bloodthirsty cannibals, but there's more going on at Kichiku Island than meets the eye...

• Vol: 13; Ch: 120
• 2018 - 2021

After the mysterious disappearance of a countryside cop, the role is reassigned to Officer Daigo Agawa. He finds the remote village quaint, and he looks forward to an easygoing post among the warm and welcoming citizenry. Then… He gets a call. The body of a local grandmother has been found. The scene immediately sows doubt for the young policeman. A human bite mark has been left on the corpse, and any voiced suspicion of Agawa's is met with a strange, sudden, and intense hostility. Something dark is lurking under the idyllic façade of the charming mountain village. But can Officer Agawa spare himself and his family from it?

• Vol: 5; Ch: 34
• 2006 - 2008

The Muromachi Period was a time when nightfall brought true darkness. Set in this era of gloom, the tale of GAGOZE, a violent demon feared even by the monsters, is about to begin!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2009 - 2013

Tsubaki has the power to understand mountains. She adventures from one mountain village to another trying to bring peace to mountains that are disturbed by people.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 2010 - 2011

• Vol: 3
• 2017 - 2018

One night, Shou Uraya stumbles upon an eerie creature devouring another person. As he reels in horror, the creature makes eye contact and just as Shou thinks he's next for dinner, he blacks out. The next morning, he wakes up in his own bed, trying to decide whether it was all a dream... but when he arrives to class, he's greeted by a piece of paper stuck to the blackboard that claims one among them is a people-eating monster! As one classmate vanishes after the other, Shou and his classmates are a race against time to figure out the monster's true identity--or they're next!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2004 - 2006

Includes the following chapters:

• 1. Souichi Zensen
• 2. Souichi no Aigan Doubutsu
• 3. Awase Kagamidani nite
• 4. Yuurei ni Naritakunai
• 5. Zousho Genei
• 6. Yami no Zesshou
• 7. Kaidan

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2010

It is a very dark night. Under a heavy rain, a determined man sets out to track his terrified victim. The decision of Kirishima Seiichi is clear: Tonight, he will kill his wife. A year ago, he was a happy man - a successful writer, a contented husband, and a father of a young boy... at that time, everything seemed going well for him. But such happiness had to end. The day his editor put an end to their collaboration, darkness seeped into his life faster than a bullet. A terrifying descent into hell commences, page by page of what it seems to be his last novel...

• One Shot
• 2011