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Crescent Moon Academy is still standing. Barely. After a supernatural siege that shattered its defenses and exposed the fragile rules holding its world together, the school is left picking up the pieces. The official story is a chemical fire. The truth is something far worse. A necromancer returned. Students died. And the cost of surviving is only just beginning to unfold. Now, life continues… because it has to. Ryu Kazeyama is back at Shin’yume-sou, juggling a broken school, a crumbling onsen, and relationships that have only grown more complicated. His ghost girlfriend still can’t ...

What if the girl of your dreams wasn’t alive—and never was? I was forty-four years old the last time I checked. Then I blinked—and woke up in a high school uniform, half my age, in a town that doesn’t exist on any map. Crescent Moon Academy is a gothic nightmare hidden behind mist and memory. The students aren’t all human. The teachers might not even be alive. And the school motto? Until all are one. Now I’m being watched by a ghost who doesn’t want to be alone anymore, stalked by a vampire who drank from my neck and apologized, and apparently I’m pretending to be someone ...

Step back into the neon-lit chaos of Crescent Moon Academy, where the studio is cramped, the guests are supernatural, and the host is one bad decision away from a complete emotional collapse. Inego Fallensworth wanted an educational radio show about yōkai. What he got instead? A vampire with an ego, an oni with zero sense of volume control, shape-shifters who refuse to stay on topic, a ghost who may be too honest for her own good, and a werewolf who reminds everyone that being a monster isn’t nearly as fun as the movies make it look. And, of course… Azuki. The tanuki who refuses to ...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born – Volume 5 Ryu Kazeyama wanted a second chance at life. What he got instead was Crescent Moon Academy. Once a burned-out man from West Virginia, Ryu now lives in the body of a teenager on a hidden island where ghosts attend school, demons flirt in the hallways, and the local hot spring doubles as a supernatural dormitory. Between fixing broken plumbing at Shin’yume-sou and surviving classes with monsters, Ryu’s new life is strange… but it’s starting to feel real. Too real. The fragile balance holding the island together is...

Other Worlds, Some Better A Crescent Moon Academy Collection Shin’yume is a city caught between neon and decay. Between the living and the dead. Between staying and leaving. In this collection of interconnected stories, Ryu walks that in-between line again and again. In Other Worlds, Some Better, a runaway vampire drags him into twilight streets and asks the kind of question that doesn’t have a safe answer: Are there better worlds somewhere else… or are we stuck in this one? In All Work and No Play at Shin’yume-sou, a blizzard traps the onsen in silence while responsibility piles ...

The dance is over. The night isn’t. Ryu Kazeyama never asked to be fifteen again. He never asked for a ghost girl’s love, a vampire’s hunger, or the black-dragon spirit coiled behind his ribs. He especially didn’t ask to become the most wanted student on the forgotten island of Shin’yume. But fate doesn’t care what he asked for. Shion has vanished into the dark with emotions she can’t control. Yuki’s borrowed body is running out of time. Murasaki has stolen something dangerous in Ryu’s name. Azuki’s smiles are hiding cracks. And something old beneath the island is waking...

He’s alive. She’s not. But death is just the start of the weirdness. Kazeyama Ryu’s life is anything but normal now that he attends Crescent Moon Academy—a haunted boarding school full of yokai, ghosts, and secrets. He’s barely survived demon attacks, eldritch lectures, and supernatural field trips. But none of that prepared him for this. Yuki, the ghost girl he loves, is becoming something more. Azuki, the chaotic tanuki girl with a huge heart (and a bigger mouth), may have accidentally declared Ryu a literal dragon. And now the local tanuki elders want his wisdom—just as long ...

Crescent Moon Academy is falling apart, literally and emotionally. Paint is peeling, secrets are cracking, and the weight of the past is pressing in on everyone who still dares to call it home. Ryu thought things couldn’t get more complicated than loving a ghost. He was wrong. Shion, the sharp-tongued vampire who hides her trembling heart behind smirks and threats, is demanding a place in his life. Yuki, the ghost who first reached him, is slipping further into silence. And Ryu himself is caught between longing, guilt, and the terrifying possibility that he might actually deserve love. In...

Welcome back to Shin’yume—where ghosts flirt, succubi fight over you, and your only job as a janitor might accidentally kick off the apocalypse. In Vol. 3 Part 1, Ryu’s life somehow gets even more chaotic. He’s finally settling into Crescent Moon Academy, but that illusion crumbles fast when he finds himself in the middle of a supernatural love triangle (quadrangle?) featuring a ghost girl, a possessive succubus, a buxom oni manager, and a teasing nekomata who may or may not have just made him her husband. Meanwhile, Ryu's accidental display of wisdom at a tanuki dinner turns him ...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born – Volume 4, Part 4 By Daniel Ryu Kazeyama Crescent Moon Academy is shifting again, and this time, Ryu Kazeyama can feel the change humming in his bones. Yuki’s borrowed body is learning how to live, how to breathe, how to stay… but nothing on Shin’yume Island lasts without a cost. Shion, more delinquent vampire than elegant monster, is wrestling with emotions she refuses to name. Azuki spirals between chaos and sincerity, carrying secrets she doesn’t fully understand. And Hotaru… Hotaru burns bright enough to scorch the ...

Welcome back to Shin’yume. The holidays have arrived. The rules haven’t changed. The decorations… have. Holidays Special 1 is a collection of three seasonal side stories set in the world of I Fell in Love With a Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born. As Christmas lights clash violently with Halloween decorations, the island of Shin’yume settles into an uneasy, half-celebratory calm. The hot springs are still steaming. The neon signs still flicker. Crescent Moon Academy still looms above the city like it always has. Life goes on, even when the calendar makes no sense. These companion ...

Welcome back to Crescent Moon Academy—a half-haunted hellhole where friendships are forged in fire, breakfast smells like mango vape, and the POS computer might be possessed by an ancient AI that really, really wants to talk about boobs. In Volume 2, Part 3 of I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born, Ryu isn’t just juggling ghost girls and wing training—he’s spiraling headfirst into existential dreamscapes, spiritual revelations, and emotionally loaded hallway drama. Yuki is slipping between worlds. Natsumi is slipping out of her clothes. And Murasaki? She’s ...

On a forgotten island off the coast of Japan, Crescent Moon Academy rots between eras—half-buried in the 1980s, half-haunted by what refuses to stay dead. The paint peels, the onsen steams, and the students aren’t quite human. Ryu never meant to end up here. He wanted an escape, maybe even a new beginning. What he found instead were fractured classrooms full of yokai, ghosts with unfinished stories, and a vampire girl with sharp teeth and sharper secrets. The deeper he sinks into Shin’yume’s strange rhythms, the more he learns that love and terror often blur together. At Crescent ...

A haunted boy. A beautiful ghost. A love story that refuses to stay buried. Ryu thought surviving Crescent Moon Academy was hard enough—then he found out the girl haunting him died decades before he was born. In Volume 3, Part 2 of this emotionally charged supernatural saga, Ryu’s fragile peace is shattered as he dives deeper into the truth behind Yuki’s death—and the nightmare that still clings to her soul. With secrets unraveling, new allies emerging, and old enemies drawing closer, Ryu must face the one question he’s been avoiding: What happens if he saves her? And what if he ...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born — Vol. 4, Part 1 The ghosts of Shin’yume aren’t quiet anymore. Ryu thought he understood Crescent Moon Academy, its crumbling dorms, its dying lightbulbs, the smell of dust and rain that never leaves the halls. But things are shifting. The dead are restless, and the living are starting to act like they know it. Shion’s loyalty is bending, Yuki’s warmth feels colder than it should, and the lines between love, memory, and madness are starting to blur. As the Academy prepares for its spring dance, strange dreams spill into ...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born — Volume 4 By Daniel Ryu Kazeyama Shin’yume is a city that looks alive in photographs and slightly cursed in person. Crescent Moon Academy looms over everything like a beautiful mistake, its stone towers watching the island the way a ghost watches the last person who still remembers her name. Ryu Kazeyama is just trying to survive the year without being haunted, devoured, emotionally destroyed, or forced to fill out more paperwork. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans. Yuki is growing more powerful and more fragile at the...

Crescent Moon Academy was never safe. It was just very good at pretending. The barrier has fallen. The dead are walking the halls. And the past has come back to reclaim what it believes was always its own. As faceless noppera-bō march openly across campus and ancient systems grind back into motion, Ryu Kazeyama learns the cost of being noticed by powers that do not forgive mistakes. Emily Withers, a necromancer long presumed dead, is moving pieces into place—and she’s not acting alone. Shion, torn between hunger and loyalty, has become something terrifyingly unstable. Murasaki is ...

When a clean-cut British-Spanish exchange student named Inego Fallensworth accidentally ends up running a late-night radio show at Crescent Moon Academy, things spiral out of control faster than you can say “dead air.” Armed with nothing but charm, caffeine, and a questionable sense of professionalism, Inego tries to host a series of interviews with the local supernatural population. Unfortunately for him, his co-host Azuki Konami—a flirtatious chaos gremlin with a red plaid skirt and no concept of “PG”—has other plans. What starts as a quiet talk show quickly becomes a ...

Welcome to Crescent Moon Academy. It’s haunted, cursed, understaffed, and smells like expired soy milk. But for Ryu, a quiet teenage boy just trying to survive the school year, it’s also home. Unfortunately, it’s home to other things too. Like: A barefoot tanuki girl who starts a dairy cult in the freezer aisle A ninja cheerleader with glittery lockpicks A literal ghost who insists on sitting in his lap A new transfer student who may or may not be an emissary of Inari And one very tiny yokai with a tofu tray and way too much power After a routine field trip to the local Piggly Wiggly ...

Welcome to Crescent Moon Academy—where the vending machines are cursed, the chicken is haunted, and your childhood crush might be a vampire. This isn’t your average magical high school. This is Shin’yume, a decaying dream caught between 1983 and a fever dream, where the halls smell like bad decisions and the lockers whisper old secrets. Everything’s falling apart—emotionally, spiritually, and definitely architecturally. Inside this collection of short stories: A boy and a vampire-girl bond over Paul Reubens and shared grief A girl turns into a teapot (it’s complicated) A chicken...