Rori Lane is trying to start a new life when she reunites with her mother in Japan, but ancient creatures lurking in the shadows sense something hidden deep within her, threatening everything she holds dear. Can she unlock the secrets of her power before it's too late? JIM ZUB (Conan the Barbarian) and STEVEN CUMMINGS (Star Wars: Hidden Empire) unleashed a supernatural spectacle set against Japan's engaging culture and mythic monsters, and the story is now collected in a single stellar vol...

Beware the housebound kitty-cat.Japanese lore tells us that if you keep a cat as a pet for too long, its tail will split, it will begin walking on its hind legs, and that beloved kitty may just hunt you down. Japanese mythology teems with tales of supernatural cats, which have in turn inspired generations of artists.Beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched, folklore expert Zack Davisson illuminates the vast realm of legendary cats, celebrating bo...

Bookworm Akira has read about the conniving ways of Yokai, but when he trips over one along a forest path, he decides to help the creature back to its murky water home. A challenge ensues involving Akira’s beloved grandmother, a pizza-producing hammer, and a crunchy cucumber. Haunting illustrations of the Yokai accompany 17 original stories.

**An ordinary Japanese high school student takes home an abandoned supernatural cat left in a cardboard box.Maybe he shouldn't have meddled with kitties beyond human comprehension—after all, it had tentacles where its whiskers should have been! But it’s too late!**With no Elder Sign on the cat door, soon the pick of the Mythos litter starts to invade his house, as furry and feline versions of Hastur, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, and other adorable Lovecraftian horrors blast h...

"I lived in a haunted apartment." Zack Davisson opens this definitive work on Japan's ghosts, or yurei, with a personal tale about the spirit world. Eerie red marks on the apartment's ceiling kept Zack and his wife on edge. The landlord warned them not to open a door in the apartment that led to nowhere. "Our Japanese visitors had no problem putting a name to it . . . they would sense the vibes of the place, look around a bit and inevitably say 'Ahhh . . . yurei ga de...

Japanese video game designer and artist Takaya Imamura’s (F-Zero, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask) debut manga OMEGA 6 comes to print in English for the first time!After awakening from a rejuvenating months-long stasis, bounty-hunting androids Thunder and Kyla are ready to spring back into action! With the aid of some peculiar magic fruits, the pair are able to enter a nearly invincible berserker state, but with a catch—once the effect...

"A modern day Lafcadio Hearn is picking up his ghostly torch. Zack Davisson is the author, translator, and folklorist following in Hearn's footsteps." —tofugu.comMysterious demons, ghosts and monsters have haunted Japan for centuries! The Ultimate Guide to Japanese Yokai presents 100 of the strangest creatures you have ever seen—from evil demons and terrifying monsters to mythical ghosts and enchanted beasts.In this book, Yokai expert Zack Davisson...

The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from its misty origins up to the present day. Epic battles, noble Samurai and duplicitous leaders are all portrayed in modern manga fashion! The lively stories in this book include:The Dawn of Japan: The Birth of Buddhism and the transition from hunters—gatherers to agricultural socie...

Since time immemorial, Japan has been inhabited by supernatural creatures, spirits, monsters and demons…Here's your chance to meet them up close and personal!Strange Japanese Yokai assembles an extraordinary collection of mysterious creatures in every possible shape and size, each with their own unique back story. Some are well-known, others obscure. The one thing they share in common is that they are creepy and weird!The 122 different Yoka...

A fascinating period in Japanese history recounted by manga’s most distinguished authorShowa 1926–1939: A History of Japan lays the groundwork for Eisner award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki’s historical and autobiographical series about Japanese life in the twentieth century. Depicted against his trademark photorealistic backdrops, Mizuki effortlessly portrays a nation forced into a period of upheaval and brings history into the realm of the personal. Inde...

*Meet one of Japan's most popular characters of all time-Kitaro, the One-Eyed Monster BoyThe Birth of Kitaro* collects seven of Shigeru Mizuki's early, and beloved, Kitaro stories, making them available for the first time in English, in an all-new, kid-friendly format. These stories are from the golden era of the late 1960s, when Gegege no Kitaro truly hit its stride as an all-ages supernatural series. Mizuki's Kitaro stories are both timelessly relevant and undeni...

Welcome to the wonderful and scary and silly world of Yokai!The Definitive Yokai Field Guide introduces young readers to the fantastically fascinating world of Japanese folklore. Universally beloved cartoonist and Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Shigeru Mizuki’s passion for researching and writing about Japan’s yokai knows no bounds. In this perfect companion to Mizuki’s Kitaro comics and art books, kids and kids at heart can now discover this magical world and its many peculiar creat...