In near-future Japan with ultra-low birthrates, children are treasured but monitored. Santa is banned as dangerous. One snowy December 25th, middle-schooler Kazushige Sanda, descendant of Santa, is attacked by classmate Fuyumura who wants him to find her missing friend, Ono. "Santa, please find my friend." To protect children from adults, Sanda decides to become Santa and fight the adults.
It presents five works that offer diverse perspectives on the meaning and scope of family, alternative families, and other topics for those living in the present age, and sometimes pose diverse questions. It hopes to bring you freshness and profound resonance, and to connect you with new connections.
Ichitaro, the frail yet sharp-minded master of Nagasakiya, rarely leaves his estate—but he’s far from alone. Gifted with the ability to see spirits, he’s protected by ghostly companions like Hakutaku and Inugami. One night, he slips out and witnesses a brutal murder. Soon after, Edo is plagued by a series of eerie murders. As fear grips the city, Ichitaro and his spirits must uncover the culprit.
A fearless warrior is trapped between the world of the living and the afterlife. He must work with a goddess (Nwa Ala) to protect his bride, uncover who killed him, and reclaim his soul — failing which he may be lost forever.
Three underground idol members cover up a murder and face escalating threats from police, detectives, a suspicious manager, and betrayal by a former member, while their lives unravel amid unresolved serial killings, forcing them to fight for survival and stardom.
After losing her memory in battle, skilled archer Fu Yixiao is taken in by a noble family and unexpectedly reunited with her former enemy, Prince Feng Suige—the man she once struck with an arrow. As they face the dangers of Yujing together, trust replaces suspicion and a deep bond begins to form. Caught in a web of past betrayals and political intrigue, the two must confront their shared history while fighting for survival, freedom, and each other.
As crimes by superpowered “special criminals” spiral out of control, two detectives with secrets of their own are forced into a dangerous partnership that could either save the city—or tear it apart.
Nada's return upends Hassan's world, drawing him into a deadly game. Threads intersect, forcing everyone to pay a price for the truth in a journey of violence, pursuit, and regret.
In the One Call bar, anyone can call a deceased loved one by agreeing to a deadly game of Russian roulette. Investigator Andrey Morozov is looking for his missing son, and all the evidence leads to a mysterious bar that appears in different places, leaving behind the bodies of dead visitors.
The story follows college student Gao Ying, who, on his way to university, accidentally stumbles into the Great Qing Hotel in Nanting Village. There, he encounters a series of bizarre events and unexpectedly awakens the long-sealed Prince Zhennan, Yin Ting. He is then dragged into a century-spanning catastrophe involving mysterious forces like the Tai Sui and ancient Shamanic powers.
In 1980s England, Canon Daniel Clement, the Rector of Champton, finds himself unexpectedly entangled in a murder case when a dead body turns up in the church. When Daniel announces a plan to modernize the church, the parish is suddenly divided. And then a body is found dead at the back of the church. As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer.
A man finds a series of damaged VHS tapes about a company named Ultratech Corporation and the reported anomalies surrounding them, so he repairs and views all of the cursed tapes, all on Thanksgiving 1990 while in his basement
Nerea Garcia is having a rough time of it; it’s four years since she was thrown out of the Basque Ertzaintza police force and she now leads a solitary life in her Bilbao home. The appearance of a woman’s corpse, murdered in some kind of ritual, prompts her former boss to ask her for help with the investigation. What Nerea hadn’t realised is that ghosts from the past and present would lead her down into the bowels of the city, where nothing and nobody is what it seems.
Jawto Kando Kathmandute is a Feluda mystery where the detective travels to Kathmandu with Topse and Jatayu to investigate a murder and a fake medicine racket, ultimately confronting Maganlal Meghraj, a familiar antagonist.
Ordinary booze-cruise between Sweden and Finland turns into a terrifying events, when the ferry is suddenly cut off from the outside world. There is no way to contact the mainland and nowhere to escape.