Ito Soma has talent for playing Tsugaru-shamisen. The music is native to Aomori Prefecture and involves the traditional folk instrument Tsugaru-shamisen, which is a plucked three-string instrument. Ito Soma learned…

Wisecracking Makino shows up from Japan and meets Shima, a yakuza living quietly in Taipei. Makino says he knows about the incident that prompted Shima to come to Taiwan. Shima…

A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.

The story concerns a boy called Shuji, growing up in a rural area of Japan where the community is divided into “Shore” and “Offshore” – the latter so-named because it…

When exchanging letters two women discover new things about a deceased man they used to know.

An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning are an accident – or a murder. But when he meets a young…

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by…

It is only at their sister’s and mother’s funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the…

The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for unmarried widowers appearing to re marry. He matches Sayoko Takeuchi and finally chased her. Not longer after his union, Kozo Nakase unexpectedly dies and collapses….