A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 1
• 2019

Abend is an unorthodox thaumaturgist who operates directly on his patient’s soul to dispel curses. However, his miraculous treatment that can even remove curse impervious to normal procedures is an outlawed technique that has a 100% death rate in case of failures. While working as an underground doctor in secret, he serves as a lecturer in the Seminary, buried in thaumaturgical research for a certain purpose. In the midst of this everyday, he was attacked by genius thaumaturgist, Reimyu. Following that, an incident occurs where the students of the school were turned into stone. In the face of this magical curse which even Abend’s unusual techniques are powerless against, alas the petrification reaches his pupils—. The heretical thaumaturgist’s battle starts now!

• Vol: 9; Ch: 45
• 2010 - 2014

God forsook the world on a Sunday, leaving mankind unable to stop living - even long after they've died. The sole hope left for humanity comes in the form of gravekeepers; only a burial by one of these chosen few will allow the deceased to finally rest in peace. Ai is a young girl who serves as gravekeeper for her sleepy village, taking over the job after her mother’s death five years ago. However the tranquility is shattered when Ai returns from digging graves to find that everyone in town has been slaughtered, and the culprit is a young man going by the same name as her long-lost father: Hampnie Hambart. Forced to lay to rest everyone she's ever known, Ai must now forge her own path into the unfamiliar world in search of answers.

• Vol: 8; Ch: 76
• 2005 - 2011

Akiba Takara, top student and vice-president of Kanou High's student council, has it all going for him. Or so it seems. Cursed by the goddess Kanou to remain in Kanou City until he fulfills a hundred people's wishes, Akiba's dream to control the world is in jeopardy. Then one day, Akiba and his council receive a strange task -- to find the god hidden in their school within one month, or perish together with the rest of the world. Will they find the god in time? Or will they be wiped out, along with Akiba's grand ambitions? Now let the game begin...

• Vol: 1
• 1989 - 1990

Yuuko, a teenage girl, wishes for nicer clothes to impress the boy she likes. Kaori is faced with family problems while feeling lonely. Michiyo's crush transferred schools without ever noticing her, leading her to question her tomboyish looks. These girls seemingly have nothing in common, until all three come into possession of a beautiful one-piece dress. But is the dress just an innocent gift, or is there something more sinister at play?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2017 - 2018

The one-shot pilot of the supernatural exorcist adventure Jujutsu Kaisen! The story takes place a one year before Itadori's time, focusing on his upperclassmen at Jujutsu High--Maki, Panda, Toge and Yuta Okkotsu (the MC). In Jujutsu Kaisen, we don't see Yuta, but other characters often make reference to him and the incidents that occur in this volume. Yuta's been brought in to Jujutsu High by Satoru Gojo because he's been cursed by his childhood friend, Rika. But this is no ordinary curse as she's classified Special Grade. And because of her overwhelming strengh, Yuta doesn't know how to control or use her. Meanwhile, Suguru Geto is out to get Yuta Okkotsu, specifically targeting Rika to add to his own collection of cursed spirits he controls, setting up a showdown with his best friend-turned-enemy, Gojo.

• Vol: 13
• 2012 - 2016

Kanade Amakusa is a high-school student who is suffering from a curse called "Absolute Choices". This curse requires him to select an action from a list of two or three options that appear before him at any time, and has no control over what choices appear. Many of them are weird or perverse and as a result, the curse has tainted his reputation with his classmates and other people around him, making his life very difficult. However, one day, a choice he makes on his way home from school causes a mysterious, beautiful young girl to fall from the sky. Amakusa discovers that she was sent from the God World to assist him in completing a series of missions given to him directly by God himself. After completing these missions, the "Absolute Choices" curse will be lifted from Amakusa; but should he fail in completing any of the missions, he will be stuck with the curse forever.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 15
• 2009

26 years ago, something terrible happened in a middle school’s third year classroom. A popular, talented student named Misaki suddenly died, and the ramifications of that incident have caused each third year class since then to live in fear. It is now 1998, and Kouchi Sakakibara has just transferred into the notorious classroom, curious about the mysterious secret that his peers are hiding from him. He’s drawn to one enigmatic girl named Mei Misaki, a quiet student who wears an eye patch and warns him about getting involved with her, and continues to seek her out against the pleas of his classmates. And that’s when people begin to violently die...

• Vol: 4
• 1996

Arisa is a beautiful, inspired, 15-year-old girl. But there is a history of bad karma for girls born in the Kurumi family since they never live long enough to see their 16th birthday...!?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2010

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2003 - 2005

Aspiring teen dollmaker Kashiwagi Kotoko runs into her favorite doll designer, Fool - and he curses her with a shinshoku kiss. Now Kashiwagi has to make dolls for her or else Fool will turn her into an old lady!