Takaaki Seki

Sōten Kōro is a Japanese manga by manga artist King Gonta, adapted from an original story by Hagin Yi. It was serialized by Kodansha in the manga anthology magazine Weekly Morning from 1994 to 2005. After Hagin Yi died of cancer in September 1998, King Gonta picked up the story himself. A total of 409 chapters were published and compiled into 36 separate books. In 1998, it won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award in the general category. There are no published English translations of it, but a color art compilation book released in 2007 has the English subtitle Beyond the Heavens on the cover, suggesting that it is the accepted English translation of the title. In addition, the last chapter of the series is also titled in English Beyond the Heavens. In Japan, Sōten Kōro was advertised by its publisher as "Neo-Sangokushi", which may be translated as "Neo Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In April 2009, the series was made into an anime series by Madhouse.

Ronja, büyük bir ormanın ortasındaki bir kalede yaşayan haydut lideri Mattis'in tek kızıdır. Ronja yeterince büyüdüğünde, orada yaşayan garip ve büyülü yaratıklarla etkileşim kurmak için ormana gider. Ailesinin ara sıra yaptığı kurtarmalarla birlikte, kendi gücüyle ormanda yaşamayı öğrenir. Ancak Ronja'nın hayatı, kendi yaşıtında Birk adında bir çocukla karşılaşmasıyla değişmeye başlayacaktır.

Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.