Toshihiko is a cram school teacher whose strikingly handsome features drive men and women alike to obsession. Though he has grown used to the strange behavior his looks inspire, his life takes a frightening turn when an unsettling woman begins to stalk him, leaving threatening letters at his door and following his every move. After his pursuer’s actions escalate into attacking one of his students, Toshihiko seeks the help of the Sasaki Agency, an investigative firm specializing in the para...

THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM…Nozome and Nieno’s catalogs are chock-full of handy, fantastical items: Just-What-I-Need Vending Machines, Body Clock Pills, and Voice Changer Dials, among many others. However, the despair these products can bring is very real, too. Why is this mysterious duo collecting despair? What do this strange girl and her shadowy partner have in store for their unsuspecting customers…?

One day when Mashiro flunks a test in school, she decides to run away from home. If only her bad test grade could be wiped from her parents’ memories… As she fantasizes about the impossible, a girl in an eyepatch and a neon pink hoodie pops up out of nowhere with a suitcase in tow. This strange girl vanishes just as quickly as she appears, and she leaves behind a small box and a black book full of bizarre products: an Instant Grim Reaper, a Friend Raffle, an Execution Kit…and a Memory Eras...

After a few months of relative calm, the Sasaki Agency is inundated with requests to solve a series of unnerving cases that appear to have arisen from a single incident. According to eyewitness reports, a man in black has been showing up at a Tokyo hospital and miraculously healing children of incurable diseases and genetic conditions. Yet the recipients of his “treatment” quickly become unrecognizable, exhibiting strange shifts in personality and heralding the arrival of a deity known as ...

SEEING DOUBLE!Nozome and Nieno have yet another catalog to offer, although this one looks especially old and shabby. It’s full of curious and wondrous items, such as Illusion Incense, Surefire Stamps, Onlooker Tickets…and a particularly strange product called “Nozomi.” Plus, Nieno recently saw a girl on the street who looked exactly like Nozome . That couldn’t have anything to do with the real Nozome, could it…?

THERE’S MORE TO THIS CATALOG THAN MEETS THE EYE! A marker that can make storybook items real, a sign that brings your favorite stores straight to you, and much more! Nozome and her partner, Nieno, have introduced so many fantastic products to all sorts of people. But their motive? Turn their customers’ hopes into despair! Plus, it seems that collecting six Despair Marks will net the mysterious duo some kind of special prize…

Nozome and Nieno have been working together for a long time, gathering despair from humans through curious items like Extra Days, Secret Seasonings, and Read-It-Before Bookmarks. But how exactly did these two Inhumans first meet, and how did they get involved with these peculiar catalogs? Just like the goods they peddle, there’s more to this story than meets the eye!

In this world, there are mysterious spiritual beings called ayakashi. Several of them look after a young girl named Yoshino, who was abandoned at a local shrine, and life there is anything but boring. There are scuffles between cursed dolls, and even a ghost who’s training to become a ninja! But if Yoshino is intent on being the shrine’s next priestess, she’ll have to accept that not all ayakashi are so harmless. What valuable and bittersweet lessons about life and loss will her quirky spi...

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! Perfect Prize Postcards that get you the exact number of prizes you ask for. Road Seeds that create a path just for you. Labels that change any book’s ending to an unhappy one. All these and many more astonishing items from the catalog of the mysterious girl Nozome can be yours! But buyer beware: No matter how smart or how clever you are, there’s no telling what these amazing products have in store…