An intelligent toy robot called Gara Q is taking the country by storm; families are captivated by the singing and dancing critters. Meanwhile, a huge meteorite lands in Tokyo and the giant monster Garagon emerges from within. Professor Watarai soon makes the connection between this creature and the monster Garamon who attacked 38 years ago. Electromagnetic waves emanating from Gagagon have a paralyzing effect on our modern technological society, and soon the true nature of the Gara Q becomes clear!
“Please believe me, I’ve seen an alien” Kyoko begs as she enters the Global Magazine office. As the rest of the staff try to have her removed from the office, Sakamoto interjects and offers to listen to her story. Kyoko tells how a mark had been continually graffitied around her neighbourhood, so one night she stayed out late in hope of catching the culprits. But what she witnessed were no ordinary graffiti artists — they were aliens! Realizing they have been caught, the aliens have now begun to stalk her. Their mark is now appearing in her own home. Who are these creatures, and what is the meaning of their mark?
One morning, Yamazaki woke up and felt something was different. He went to work at the barbershop as usual and began talking to a customer. He soon recognized the customer was Yoichiro, one of his classmates from elementary school. However, Yamazaki remembered Yoichiro had died in an accident when they were children. So who was this man? He visited his classmates who were with him at the time of the accident, but they all unanimously confirmed that Yoichiro had died that day. Returning home, Yamazaki opened his old yearbook. Due to the accident, whoever died that day should be abset from their summer school photos. Yoichiro was there. All his friends were there. Then he realized; “I’m not… I’m not there… it’s me… I’m not there!”
A letter with no addressor unexpectedly arrived at Mochizuki’s house, and inside the envelope were a number of pieces from a jigsaw puzzle. He began to assemble it, however when he completed the puzzle it was still unfinished. The puzzle itself depicted a woman wearing a most characteristic anklet. “What… is this?” he asked himself. One by one the puzzle pieces arrived, and Mochizuki would assemble them. Soon he began to sense he was being followed around by the woman from the puzzle. One evening he saw a leg wearing the anklet, and later at night a mysterious woman grabbed him around the neck. Just who is this woman, and what are her intentions towards Mochizuki?
A strange rumor has been going around the interenet, posted by the a user called “The Slave of Hieronymus”. The rumor claims “as the program commences, newscaster Manami Kuwahara will be erased.” The media gathered inside the noisy TV station as the news program was due to air. Yoneda, both the show’s producer and Manami’s husband, was unable to relax. Soon the program began to air, and in accordance with the announcement Manami dissapeared in a flash of light. Who is “The Slave of Hieronymus”? How and why has he done this?
We live in a stressful society. There are many people who desire to cast everything aside and travel far away. One day, an ordinary office worker named Tatsumi disappeared, leaving behind a mysterious letter saying he was “bound for paradise”. Concerned for her father’s saftey, Tatsumi’s daughter requests Goichi to investigate and find the whereabouts of her father. Goichi searched for the “delivery person” that Tatsumi had written about in his journal. In pursuit, Goichi was led into a dark labyrinth beneath the city, where he found a hidden society!
Returning home after an evening performance, jazz bassist Sakaguchi almost hit a young woman with his car. He soon began living together with this mysterious girl, Kiara, who had no identity. One day an old friend working at a record company showed Sakaguchi a rare LP by the legendary black jazz musician Buster Karkland. Soon after, the LP was stolen. Caught on the security camera was Kiara, who was followed by a gang of ghoulish creatures. Just who is this girl?
In Tokusuke’s small factory in the outskirts of town, a strange substance has begun to appear on the machines and equipment. According to Professor Watari, it’s a mysterious substance that’s neither rust nor mold. That evening, as Tokusuke rode his bicycle home in a rather drunken state, he knocked down a strange figure in the dark. Helping the person up, Tokusuke realized it was in fact an alien! With few options available, he brings the alien back home with him. Is there a connection between the alien and the mysterious substance that is appearing? A heartwarming story where human and alien cultures unite!
Hiroko Oshima is employed as the head of the Global Magazine accounts department. She has a long experience in the business and an excellent work record, however she has alienated herself from all the other employees in the office. Her so-called private life is spent alone, eating pre-packaged meals from convenience stores and watching late-night TV shopping channels. Every day for her is lonely. However, one day was quite different; she came to work looking beautiful and being polite to all her co-workers. The secret? As if by magic, a miracle health drink she had purchased from a TV shopping channel the night before. But where is the channel broadcasting from, and what will be Hiroko’s fate?
Late at night, in-patients at a hospital succumb to unnatural deaths one by one. Eye-witnesses have spoken of a mysterious black hooded man. Right away, Goichi and Ryo begin an investigation to find the truth behind these incidents. One night, Ryo almost hits a young man with her car. The man, Hitaki, has no friends or relatives, and Ryo invites him to stay with her so she can take care of him. Later, Professor Watarai meets with Goichi and Ryo, and tells of a family with an unusual gift buried in the darkness of history. The mission of this family was the make sure people died in tranquility. Could the black hooded man be the descendant of this family? And what is the secret the mysterious boy Hitaki is concealing?
Tachibana was a young high school student devoted to sports. On the sports grounds she could not bring herself to talk to her crush. For her it was an unrequited love. One day she visited a rather suspicious store, where she obtained a three-eyed totem pole that would grant her wishes. Meanwhile, Professor Watarai meets with his friends to inform them of an email he received from an old archeologist friend. The message read “please dispose of the three-eyed totem”. After leaving behind this message, the archaeologist’s body was discovered, having suffered an unnatural death. What secrets does this three-eyed totem hold, and what will the consequences be once Tachibana is granted her three wishes?
Youhei and Matsubon were two ordinary boys, living in a very ordinary town. One night a meteorite fell in the woods, and the next day a suspicious man moved into town. From that day on, everything started to become very strange. Night after night, the adults would hold a meeting, a private gathering in the outskirts of the town. One evening the adults began to perform a strange ritual around the meteorite, and standing amongst them was Youhei’s own mother! Meanwhile, Goichi remembered a ceremony performed in ancient times surrounding megaliths; when a collective dream materialized, it was alleged that their wish could become reality. So, just what is the the collective dream of the town’s adults?
Would it go unnoticed if those close to you suddenly changed places with someone else? Recently, after receiving an email regarding such an event, Goichi began an investigation. There seemed to be a common feature shared among everyone who had been substituted; they spent most of their days working in front of a mirror. By chance, Goichi became acquainted with a beautiful young woman, Ano, a troupe research student. The “shadows” lead people to the mirror so they can trade places and survey humanity, and it would seem they sometimes kill the person and change places permanently. Furthermore, they have no distinction between good and evil, and do not hesitate to steal or murder.
Trivial items such as toys and accessories were being stolen on a regular basis. As they were not high value goods the importance of the case was deemed low, however strange eyewitness testimony suggested that the items were being stolen by a ghost. Before long, Goichi and Ryo were staying in the neighbourhood where the incidents were occurring, and they began to pay close attention to a lonely young girl named Lily. It seemed clear that the girl’s mother was desperately trying to hide something. Furthermore, as they hastened their investigation, they discovered that the girl’s heresiologist father had made Lily participate in an experiment using special mind separation equipment.
Okada was a middle-age man who had just lost his job and was on the verge of being abandoned by his wife and children. One day, per chance, he met a young man with red-dyed hair floating a model ship in the river. The boy had received this “shining ship” from a strange old man, and seriously believed his life would be reborn if he was able to float the ship out to sea. Okada empathised with these words. Can this ship, riding with the dreams of these two men of two different generations, really make it’s journey out to the distant sea? Filled with humour and pathos, this is a heart warming story filled with hope for the future.
In a park late at night, posessing the silhouette of a woman, the alien being “Cicada Woman” hatched out of her shell. Meanwhile, Ryo requested Professor Watarai to repair the Gara Q, which had been broken ever since the Garagon incident. Meanwhile, there is a successive case of burglaries, and Professor Watari is accused of a computer hacking crime. Goichi soon realizes that the people being targeted as the criminals were all those who helped defeat Garagon. Soon the Cicada Woman summons Garagon II and begins to initiate her revenge! The second chapter for the popular Gara Q!
Wakabayashi was a humble salary man working for a real estate agency. Recently his work record has been droppping, and he has no sweetheart to spend his free time with. Then one day, while slurping down ramen noodles at his local store, he met eyes with Komachi, a part time worker who had just returned from a meal delivery. Perhaps born abroad, her language was rather clumsy, but she was a lovely person by nature. Wakabayashi was taken by her at first sight, but the shopkeeper warned him, “Don’t feel inclined. She’s not an ordinary girl.” Feeling down, Wakabayashi went into town one night, where he happened to encounter Komachi dressed up beautifully. What could be so wrong with this seemingly flawless girl?
Recently there has been a strange rumor going around the town. It was said that everyone who accessed a website called “Kagome Kagome” would suffer a mysterious death. Of course veteran detective Hanada did not believe this rumor, however it was true that there had been a continuing number of unnatural deaths recently. Before long, eyewitness testimony about the suspect, a “golden haired boy”, began to surface. Hanada encountered a sweet young woman named Shiori while standing by the scene of one of the deaths. Meanwhile, Goichi and Ryo pursued the case from a different viewpoint, when they realized there appeared to be a different meaning in the traditional “Kagome Kagome” children’s song.
As Ryo’s junior, Chuu dreamed of becoming a photographer, however his father is urging him to take up employment at the family’s photo studio and eventually become his successor. One day Chuu finds his grandfather’s traditional-style camera and immediately begins taking photographs. However, he soon comes to notice the image of a young wartime girl through the lens, even while the camera is not being aimed at anyone. As he begins to talk to the girl, it seems she believes he is actually his grandfather. It appears she and his grandfather had planned to marry, but in reality this couldn’t have happened, as his grandfather had married his grandmother. Could the reason this girl never married his grandfather be due to the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945, the anniversary of which will occur in two days? Putting his own personal history at risk, Chuu resolves to warn the girl to find shelter. A love story crossing space and time!
The pharmaceutical industry is competing ruthlessly to develop a new kind of medicine. At the Makotohone Pharmaceutical College, the genius genetic researcher Yumiko Yamase is leading the research team day and night, unlocking the mysteries of the human genome. On one eventful night six researchers disappeared, leaving Yumiko as the lone survivor, saved at the hands of her colleague Kouhei Kawano. Before long the experiments had resumed, and the ultimate life-form was created. But what fate awaits them? A science horror, depicting a dreaded not-too-distant future where biotechnology runs wild!
Ryo and Goichi arrived in a mountain village to cover a missing persons case. After splitting up, Ryo soon found her path obstructed by a deep fog, and eventually found her way to an old mountain villa. With night fall already approaching she sought a night’s lodging in the villa. Beginning to feel uneasy in her room, she began to explore the old building. However, what she saw she could not believe; the master of the mansion, Hecate, joined by an assembly of strange-looking people. They were all aliens! Disappointed in the lack of consideration the Earthlings held with their destruction towards nature, Hecate formulated a plan to otherthrow humanity. Ryo’s life, Japan, and the entire planet is at stake! A new gothic-horror sci-fi interpretation to the ancient myth of the moon goddess Hecate.
Hanae was always a bright, energetic young girl. Neither her mother nor older sister paid any interest their her father’s old stories, and were merely interested in talking about fashion and brand goods. One day at second-hand market, Hanae discovered her father’s favorite vase that he had left at their old house 4 years ago. One night, after having put a single coin in the old vase, she awoke to find the vase overflowing with money like a waterfall, and soon found herself emotionally attached to shopping. Then one morning, Hanae awoke to find herself transformed into the coin monster Kanegoneh, to whom money is essential for it’s survival! Unsure what to do, she consulted a fortuneteller, who merely told her; “If you meet the person who you truly love, you will turn back into a human.” Will Hanae’s true love ever appear?
Professor Watarai teaches a creative university course in which he discusses quantum mechanics. His abstruse seminars lose more students every week until only two diligent pupils remain; a young woman named Sora and a young man named Yoshiyasu. Although they did not speak at first, Sora soon came to realize how passionately Yoshiyasu listened to these lectures. He was in fact seeking his own place, a fictional “365 degree world” from quantum mechanics in which he could immerse himself. One day Yoshiyasu disappeared. Soon after, he visited Sora, and with the activation of a mysterious rainbow she was taken to another world. Here, with the total freedom inside her own personal world, Sora sought out her innermost thoughts and desires. What will she find, and will she be able to return to the real world?
Kadono was an isolated philosopher possessing a nihilistic view on life. One day, he discovered a old man collapsed in the street with a case beside him. Walking away with the case, Kadono discovered within an exquisitely made life-size female doll. The old man was in fact the great professor Magara of the imperial capital. While directing his maid Kyoko to investigate the connection between the professor and this doll, Kadono became strongly attracted to it. Before long, he began to hear the doll talking to him in his mind. But how can an inanimate object be alive? Captivated by the doll’s suspicious charm, Kadono’s mind was gradually destroyed. Before long Kyoko had finished her investigation, but what terrible secret did she uncover?
A press TV crew set up a relay station within remote ruins, where they are to shoot a news segment called “Ruin Search”. However, throughout the day, there was an increasingly eerie atmosphere. These ruins were the former studio of an artist, in which everyone was killed following a complicated love-triangle. Before long strange accidents begin amongst the staff, and one-by-one bizarre phenomena occur causing the failure of their equipment, with the technical staff beginning to feel distrust in the producer.
The newly constructed Tokyo Tower II is a digital broadcasting fortress transmitting to the entire Kanto district. While covering the event, Ryo unexpectedly overhears of an illegal high-powered radio wave being transmitted from the tower. Moreover, it’s effect seems to be causing children and adults alike to be parted with their imaginations, with the exception of a lone cartoonist, Sasayama. In reality, everyone’s imagination had been taken away by a creature called Rekyum, who was manipulating Sasayama, after coming to realize a very convenient future for itself. As Goichi and the team grow nearer to completing their secret plan, the Rekyum creature transforms into a giant and begins its attack. Can the imagination of humanity save the world in this final episode?!