Ryohgo Narita

The bestselling paranormal action adventure manga series Bleach continues in novel form as an all-new threat arises! The Quincies’s Thousand Year Blood War is over, but the embers of turmoil still smoulder in the Soul Society. Tokinada Tsunayashiro, elevated to head of his clan after a slew of assassinations take out every other claimant to the title, has a grand...

The bestselling paranormal action adventure manga series Bleach continues in novel form as an all-new threat arises! The Quincies’ Thousand Year Blood War is over, but the embers of turmoil still smoulder in the Soul Society… Hikone Ubuginu’s mysterious origin story, and the secrets behind the very existence of the Soul Reapers and all their allies and adversaries, could be...

Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World, Vol. 3 is a continuation of the bestselling paranormal action-adventure manga series Bleach, now in novel form as an all-new threat arises! The Quincies’ Thousand Year Blood War is over, but the embers of turmoil still smoulder in the Soul Society... As the Soul Society’s secrets are brought to light through the mysterious figure...

As the werewolf arc comes to a spectacular conclusion, the secrets revealed in the basements of the hospital will change everything. A Dragon Scale otherworldly fragment, whose very presence connects disparate worlds and strains the bonds of reality, emerges, and the world rips asunder. With some of the most powerful beings in two dimensions converging upon it, you won’t want...

The year 1707 was the start of it all, when Maiza introduced playwright Jean-Pierre to an alchemist named Fermet who, in turn, introduced Maiza to the study of alchemy. Two years later, Huey finds himself opening his heart more than he ever expected to Elmer and Monica about his troubled past. The relative peace is interrupted, though, by the arrival...

Catch the manga edition of the novel following a certain delightfully devious criminal! This astonishing autobiography written by I, Tena Sorimura, follows my rise to the top, as well as how I became known as Phantom Solitaire in an adventure the likes of which you've never seen before! If you read closely, you'll find some familiar names, including our friends...

As Polka ascends the stairs to the abandoned hospital's rooftop, he hears voices crying out in pain. He soon learns that these voices belong to the spirits of long-deceased patients, bound to this world by their lingering regrets. More specifically, the basement seems to be the primary source of their discomfort. With no way of getting any further answers from...

Ryohgo Narita is one of Japan's most prolific light novel authors with titles like Durarara!! and Baccano! listed among his credits. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks. Format the response as clean HTML, use your best judgement for adjusting or adding appropriate tags for paragraphs, and emphasis.

When Polka returns home, he is greeted by a crowd of familiar and not particularly welcome faces. A new internet trend for corpse hunting has drawn the attention of Majiri Agakura, who invites Polka to join her investigation. Several streamers have gone missing at an abandoned hospital, though Polka senses the site may not be as vacant as they believed,...

Solitaire's latest stunt—filling the sky over Tokyo with a fleet of dirigibles—has the whole town talking, but no one is as shocked as Polka. Emblazoned across each airship is the emblem of the empire he served in his previous life. Could other vestiges of that world be crossing over into this one? However dear to him, the symbol of his...

The Corpse God makes his final stand against Civil, but he is not alone. Joined by his fallen comrades from the other world, the Corpse God summons a power strong enough to oppose even the formidable might of Sabaramond. However, Civil is merely the product of a greater threat, one whose connections to the other world could destroy what the...

The Ikebukuro district in Tokyo is full of interesting people. A boy longing for the extraordinary. A hotheaded punk. An airheaded pseudo stalker. An information broker who works for kicks. An underground doctor who specialises in truly desperate patients. A high school student infatuated with a monster. And a headless rider on a pitch-black motorcycle. Their story may not be...

The success of Polka's fortune-telling business has attracted its share of shady characters. First, there's Solitaire, still seeking to draw out information about Sabaramond. And now, a trio of visitors with a menacing aura unlike anything the Corpse God has felt before in this world, at least. Discover the unfolding drama in Dead Mount Death Play, Vol. 8 by Shinta...

Polka’s low profile—such as it is—takes a hit when his explosive battle with Solitaire and Lemmings goes viral and attracts the attention of a young gossip reporter. The group is compromised further when two new arrivals, who have connections to and beef with Xiaoyu and Takumi, start stirring up trouble. The shadows of the past have converged in Shibuya, and...

In a city full of people, yet feeling completely alone... Tucked away in Ikebukuro is a little shop of curios called Sonohara-dou. While there are many intriguing items to be had at this store, one person in particular visits for Saika, the cursed sword in Anri's possession. Although the visitor leaves empty-handed, Sonohara-dou is broken into in the middle of...

The year is 1931. The Flying Pussyfoot incident is over, but it's still making waves. Where did it start? When Chane carved her message on the roof of the transcontinental express? When Graham's idol, Ladd, fell from the train? When immortals chose to climb aboard? Or was it due to Chane's unusual friendship with the delinquents? Whatever the case may...

The year 1931. As the Flying Pussyfoot races toward New York with a shocking incident transpiring onboard, another ruckus is afoot behind the scenes. As dawn approaches, various factions congregate near the river and wait for the train to cross the bridge. Among them are Lemures standing by for contact from the train, and Jacuzzi's friends preparing to retrieve the...

The year is 1934. After the incident at the Mist Wall, the Martillo Family's youngest capo finds himself on his way to prison to protect the one he loves. The rest are there for their own reasons—the homicidal maniac wants to taste the thrill of killing an immortal, the thief simply got himself caught, the hitman is there on a...

While Iwanome and Arase find themselves defending the betrayer from Fire-breathing Bug back at the police station, a new player has just set foot on the streets of Shinjuku. He and his companions have a personal score of their own to settle with the chief superintendent, one that can only be resolved through bloodshed. Dead Mount Death Play, Vol. 7...

“I'm not doing anything. All the Dollars did that together...” The holiday isn't over yet. The day after Izaya was stabbed, the scars of the recent incident are still fresh on the city. A pair of classmates wander the town together. A sister keeps an eye on the girl hanging around her brother. A girl tries to strengthen herself to...

Solitaire's side antics continue in the second volume of his phenomenal, stupendous, outrageous adventure! The stakes have been raised as Solitaire plans his next grand illusion—making the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building...disappear! But his antics haven’t gone unnoticed by the dangerous denizens of Shibuya. With the Firstrans group hunting him and all manner of troublemakers popping up, the number of those...

The year 2002. Firo and Ennis are finally on their very belated honeymoon—and for some reason, Czes has been invited to join them on the cruise to Japan. The ship is as luxurious as they come, even crossing paths with its sister ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in a one-of-a-kind event. But with movie stars, stuntmen, hijackers,...

Far from the peaceful life he imagined, the Corpse God, now inhabiting the body of Polka Shinomiya, has fallen in with the very hit men who were hired to kill his new vessel. His association with the darker side of Shibuya brings him face-to-face with Lemmings, whose masked facade cannot hide his fearsome, inhuman nature from the Corpse God's Evil...

The family of Polka Shinoyama can't help noticing he's not quite himself, but discovering the young heir has been taken over by a necromancer from another world...?! Rozan Shinoyama isn't sure what to make of his son's transformation, but there's no denying this usurper is responsible for saving his twin grandchildren. The fire that would have claimed their lives has...

In a single warehouse in Shinjuku, members of the Shinjuku Mediators, the Agakura family, the Shinoyama clan, and the former leader of Sons of the Styx have converged over Takumi's kidnapping. Misaki's vampiric abilities saved her in their last bout, but she'll need Xiaoyu to back her up if they're going to get Takumi and themselves out in one piece!...

Powerful forces, supernatural and otherwise, have converged in the streets of Shinjuku. The police are on the trail of Fire-breathing Bug, who has a vendetta against the Bastard Children of Sabaramond—a group now face-to-face with Solitaire! The Corpse God was not the first to arrive from the world beyond, and not all who preceded him shared his desire for peace......

A year and a half after the fall of the Dollars, a new breeze blows through Ikebukuro... Celty hasn't been seen in Ikebukuro for some time, but her influence remains strong. After being treated like a monster in his hometown, Yahiro Mizuchi has come to Tokyo in hopes of meeting another so-called monster. Meanwhile, Kuon Kotonami wants to turn the...

As shadow envelops the city, all hell's about to break loose. The chaos of Ikebukuro, Tokyo, has ensnared everyone who lives there, and all the people connected to the Headless Rider are about to come together. Two boys who used to stand side by side as close friends now face each other, at an impasse. Two men who have been...

"I love people. Who do I love, you ask? No, no! I love everyone—all of humanity! What do I love about them? Don't ask such rude questions! I love everything about them. Everything! But I cannot love you. And you—you should love me." Ikebukuro, Tokyo. A place where the clumsy and inept at love gather. A high school girl worried...

After being framed by Izaya and forced to become a fugitive on the run, Shizuo finds himself in a precarious situation. Forced to rethink his position and circumstances, Mikado struggles with newfound challenges. Only now realising the predicaments of his friends, Masaomi faces difficult decisions. Unaware of everything going on as she flees her house, Anri is caught up in...

The Wyvern scale calls forth an alternate dimension past and memory no longer hidden behind the veil! A new chapter of mischievous crime unfolds, as Katashiro, Clarissa, Civil, Andalucia, and Rouge follow their intertwining paths! Don't miss the fifteenth volume of this tale of unexpected reincarnations in Dead Mount Death Play, Vol. 15!

Mikado Ryuugamine is just trying to pass his second year of high school peacefully, but when he gets word that someone within the Dollars gang is causing trouble, that's out the window. Everybody's in trouble: Izaya is scheming, Mikado's classmate knows his secret, and Shizuo's being targeted by a mysterious girl—just another day in Ikebukuro!

The serial slashings in Ikebukuro have come to an end, and Anri is steadily recovering from her injuries. But life is far from back to normal for Kida. Enraged at the random violence that has shattered the peace of his neighbourhood, Kida and his middle school crew, the Yellow Scarves, reunite to address the rise of organised gangs in town...

It's a showdown for the ages as the legendary hero takes on the corpse god necromancer, but when the dust settles, something isn't quite right... In the final moments of their epic confrontation, the corpse god's final gambit shot was wholly unexpected — reincarnation magic! Across space and time, a boy named Polka Shinoyama awakens feeling...not quite himself... Who could've...

Durarara!! Side Stories?! (light novel) by Ryohgo Narita, Stephen Paul, and Suzuhito Yasuda offers a glimpse into the (relatively) quiet days of Ikebukuro. This collection features nine tales of not-so-ordinary life in Ikebukuro. Highlights include some reminiscing at Celty and Shinra's big hot-pot party, a Shizuo impostor, the older Raira gang's coming-of-age ceremony, and another supernatural visitor to Tokyo! Don't...