越村友一

Four years before Silent Parade (2022), Yukawa and Kusanagi investigate the murder of a writer after a video found in his possession piques Yukawa's interest.

A 25 years old homeless girl, Shiho, living in an internet cafe, runs into a blind fortune teller, who insists that they had met 25 years ago. Figuring out who that actually was, turns out to be a journey in search for her identity.

Shiratori Tatsuhiko erre sans le sou dans les rues de Shinjuku lorsque son chemin croise par hasard celui de Mako, un influent recruteur travaillant pour la société Burst qui s'occupe de placer des filles dans des bars à hôtesses, des salons de massage ou des maisons closes. Sous l'aile de Mako, Tatsuiko fait ses premiers pas dans le milieu malgré sa réticence initiale. Manque de chance pour lui, il arrive en pleine période de rivalité exacerbée entre sa boite et un concurrent, la société Harlem. La situation dégénère rapidement, d'autant que Hideyoshi, un des meneurs de Harlem, semble avoir une rancœur personnelle vis-à-vis de Tatsuhiko.

Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.

Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.

Des morts sont ramenés à la vie par une mystérieuse sphère noire, GANTZ, qui les somme de combattre d'étranges créatures pour racheter leur liberté. Moyennant 100 points, chaque participant peut gagner sa résurrection ou ressusciter un proche. Mais GANTZ, menacé de mourir, décide de complexifier encore les règles.

Le monde est tourmenté par Shocker, une mystérieuse organisation terroriste, qui recrute ses agents en kidnappant des personnes qu'ils transforment en mutants cyborgs. Takeshi Hongo, l'une des victimes, se rebelle juste avant la phase finale de sa transformation. A l'aide de ses nouveaux pouvoirs, il décide de combattre Shocker...

Une histoire parentale étrange, stupide et douce entre un ancien jeune Yang, Honest Higurashi, qui tient une taverne dans une ville balnéaire, et une fille solitaire, Kanahana, qui "entend le cœur des gens".

Dans un quartier résidentiel, un homme est assassiné par un autre homme qui a cassé son appartement. Le sergent Kizaki, qui travaille près de la zone, entend un coup de feu et court vers l'appartement. L'inspecteur Oomura est déjà sur les lieux du crime. Pendant leur enquête, ils se rapprochent de l'identité du tueur. Bientôt, le sergent Kizaki pense que quelqu'un est derrière l'affaire. Une fille sort alors de l'ombre. Le sergent Kizaki pense qu'elle est liée aux meurtres.