Eita Mizuno – illustratör

When one of Ayumu's teachers promises to give him a few clues about the Blade Children, the deceptively cute Rio, one of the Blade Children herself, ruthlessly murders the man in broad daylight. Faced with another brutal murder to solve and one step closer to finding out what the Blade Children really are, Ayumu and Hiyono find themselves the direct targets of Rio's malice. When her murderous plot backfires and Rio finds herself in the hospital, she challenges the visiting Ayumu to a life-and-death gamble, only to find herself face-to-face with Hiyono, who call's Rio's bet and raises her one!

The showdown between Ayumu Narumi and the Blade Children duo of Rio and Asazuki enters stage two when Hiyono is kidnapped and an intricate challenge involving perfectly-timed bombs and blackmail is set before our unlikely hero. Ayumu must deal with the ultimate question: can he measure up to his genius brother Kiyotaka after all?

The dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside—where urban legends roam—calls to two women!In search of escape from her dreary existence, amateur explorer, depressed college student, and all-around loner Sorawo stumbles upon a portal to a curious destination—the Otherside, a mysterious realm just next door to the real world that is haunted by urban legends come to life and rife with danger. Following a close call with a creature both repulsive and mesmerizing in this parallel world, Sorawo is rescued by the beautiful Toriko, and the two girls form a tenuous friendship. As they venture into the unknown time and again for research money, and to locate a dear friend, what horrors await them in their struggle to navigate and survive the extraordinary and bizarre Otherside?!

The dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside—where urban legends roam—calls to two women!When Sorawo and Toriko undertake another foray into the Otherside via a Shinjuku pub and lose their way, Kisaragi Station awaits them. The unarmed pair gets into trouble, only to be saved by a mysterious band of soldiers. As the girls soon discover, these American marines stumbled into the Otherside from their Okinawan base and have been making camp at Kisaragi ever since, unable to make it back home. Will Sorawo and Toriko be able to escape the eerie station themselves?!

The dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside—where urban legends roam—calls to two women!The hunt for Satsuki continues, but a heated argument brews between Sorawo and Toriko when Sorawo begins to have second thoughts in the face of Toriko's heedless urgency. Sorawo heads to Toriko's place to apologize, only to stumble into a liminal space between reality and the Otherside. That's where she discovers another strange, ominous entity—the Time-Space Man—and realizes that Toriko's crossed to the Otherside without her!Unable to locate Toriko, Sorawo must put her feelings about Satsuki aside and enlist Kozakura's help in finding their missing friend...

The dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside—where urban legends roam—calls to two women!In search of Toriko, Sorawo and Kozakura make their way to the Otherside...at night! In the dark, the place overflows with danger and ill will. Every little rustle seems sinister, every shadow worth jumping at...But things get even more complicated when, upon approaching a ruined building, the women come face-to-face with a doppelganger...and it's none other than Satsuki herself!Her dear friend may have been located at last, but Toriko herself is still nowhere to be found...

The dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside—where urban legends roam—calls to two women!Sorawo and Toriko head deep into one of the most sinister and terrifying corners of the Otherside to save some old friends—none other than the American Marines who wandered into Kisaragi Station and got stuck in what they call the Beyond!The pair, dubbed "the girls" by the Okinawa base troops, hatch a plan to rescue the trapped soldiers. Will everyone make it out alive and unscathed? Or will the Otherside claim new victims along the way?

The dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside—where urban legends roam—calls to two women!With the American Marines who were stranded in the Otherside at Kisaragi Station safely rescued, Sorawo and Toriko turn their focus to enjoying the summer together at an island resort on Okinawa. The sight of Toriko in a bikini has Sorawo sweating for reasons besides the hot temperatures!But fun in the sun turns deadly and dangerous when they stumble into the resort’s portal to the Otherside...

In this sci-fi/fantasy survival thriller, the dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside - where urban legends roam - calls to two women, both in search of something. As they set out to sate their curiosity and explore this other world, will the most earth-shattering thing they discover on the Otherside be their feelings for each other? When Sorawo and Toriko escaped from the Farthest Beach in the Okinawan Otherside, watching them go was none other than Satsuki Uruma - Toriko's precious, vanished friend. Back in real life, the adventurous pair come across Akari Seto, a younger student at Sorawo's university and a karate user who's being targeted by - cat ninjas?! Can the three girls escape the attacks?