Ripples - Recommendations

• Ch: 11
• 2008 - 2020

Mikaze-chan returns home from a festival with a goldfish. She soon learns that the world isn’t fair.

• One Shot
• 2015

After an accident, a young man wakes up next to the Sanzu River, only to find himself not alone there.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 15
• 2003 - 2004

Skyhigh Shinshou presents the stories of those souls who get to the Gate of Grudges. Izuko, keeper of the Gate of Grudges presents each soul with three choices: pass through the Gate of Grudges to heaven and be reborn, refuse to admit death and remain as a ghost on earth, or haunt and kill one person and then proceed to hell and eternal suffering. What does each soul choose and why?

• Vol: 8; Ch: 84
• 2011 - 2013

After the body dies, the soul lives on. Many spirits progress toward the world of light, through the levels of the spirit world where they study how to improve their souls. These spirits are sometimes reincarnated into the physical world, and sometimes they are sent back as guardian spirits for other living people. Guardian spirits must protect their charge's souls from the blackness that oozes up from the world of darkness below. Riyon is a very laid-back spirit, who often skips her spirit classes to fool around. To train her further, she is sent back to the physical world as a guardian spirit. Instead of following a human from birth, she is helping a beleaguered man, the Japanese Prime Minister Kasuga Soichiro, in the last year and a half of his life. After an unexpected close call with death, Kasuga gains some unusual talents, including the ability to see Riyon. Will Riyon and Kasuga together be able to protect his battered soul?

• One Shot
• 2021

One day, Nanase-kun died. He was not satisfied with his life. In order to change himself, he stayed in the other world and started a job to take people to and from the Sanzu River, but his days weren't going so well. Then, his former teacher from the past comes to the other world...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 1986 - 1987

Middle-aged housewife Tatsuko dies after being hit by a runaway taxi, but before moving on she gets to return to life for one week by borrowing the body of Akihiko, a high school girl who survived the same accident.

• Vol: 2
• 2006 - 2008

For reasons unknown, former samurai Imanoturugi is obsessed with leaving the afterlife. To die in battle is a samurai's greatest honor, yet he is determinted to claim 1,000 swords from the fallen warriors who now share his residence in the dark underworld. By these means alone this highly skilled blades master will be allowed admittance back into the living world. But to what end? Upon what stone purpose does he sharpen his edge? 

• Vol: 2; Ch: 22
• 2012 - 2013

The borderline between living and death. Who would be there… and where would it be.

• One Shot
• 2015

A young boy comes to an understanding about death.

• Vol: 1
• 2006

My name is Jesuido Namazuko. I sing every night at The Pool Of Blood, a pub frequented by disgusting demons after work. One day I was about to fall victim to their weapons when, just as I thought my time, the time of my death, had come, I suddenly started singing a song that I liked. I touched the strings of their hearts and, for this reason, they spared my life. Thus I became the singer of the riverbed.