Oneshot about love, religion, and a big misunderstanding that leads to a weird situation...

To fill the void the death of his son has left, a scientist creates an android who’s the spitting image of his son. When the world gets wind of this, however, their peaceful life will change for good...... more>>

Grand Winner of the Four Seasons Award Summer - 2017 Contest <<less

A blacksmith loses his daughter in an offering and waits 40 years to get his revenge.

A girl sees stars in the people and things around her. Some are bigger and shine, others dull and dim like her own. She meets... more>> two boys from school one day who show her that all stars can shine brightly, if you see them the right way. <<less

The daily, average life and interactions of some of a ship’s crew as they depart to explore space. Winner of the Jiro Tanaguchi Special Award... more>> for manga in the 2010 Four Seasons Award Anthology. <<less

A sudden advent of an enigmatic creature pushes the world and our young heroine, Yuki, into the realm of the surreal.... more>>

Winner of the Grand Prix Award in Kodansha's AFTERNOON SHIKI. <<less

It's a bird, it's a plane - no! It's a young, not-quite-human girl who wants to go to space, even if it means leaving behind... more>> her family. <<less

A girl struggles to save her farm of domesticated giant ants.

After an accident, a young man wakes up next to the Sanzu River, only to find himself not alone there.

Winter 2019 Winner of the Four Seasons Award... more>>

What does your brain conjure up when you're sleepless at night? <<less

As the protagonist is returning home one night, she runs into a man who had just been in a car crash. As he is dying,... more>> he asks her to throw a certain package into the sea. <<less

On a remote island, a skilled swordsman who honed his craft on the local population attempts to atone for his sins and lift a curse by hunting and killing demons.... more>>

Winner of the Hagio Moto Special Award for manga. <<less

She died a year ago. Their grief still raw, her brother and her childhood friend go hiking to look for a snakeskin.

The story of two small-town high school boys and best friends, both striving to escape from their suffocating lives in the close-minded hamlet.

A decaying, old satellite is headed straight for Tokyo, and the city is three citizens shy of total evacuation. Hard-boiled detective Watanabe remains in the... more>> abandoned gotham, searching for a gaunt, desperate Machida, who is wanted for attempted murder; and Chiaki, a stubborn housewife who doesn't believe the burning rubble will hit Tokyo, also remains behind. But Chiaki is wrong. And when the satellite does hit, the three find the city is less abandoned than before. Someone was riding that satellite down from orbit, and that someone wasn't born on earth! <<less

Kengo is overwhelmed. As his wife Ayumi gets hospitalized, he has to take care of his baby daughter Momo. He ends up asking Hitomi, who’s... more>> a little girl herself, for help... <<less

A collection of eggplant-related stories focusing on a returning series of characters, such as Takama, a farmer, and a young girl named Aya Takashi, who... more>> begins the series abandoned by her father and residing in Tokyo with her two younger siblings, and as the manga progresses to its second volume, leaves the city to reside in the countryside with her relatives, near Takama's farm. Apart from the chapters concerning Takama and Aya, other stories are also featured, such as one telling the chronicles of samurai in the Edo period hunting forbidden eggplant, another set atop a futuristic Mount Fuji, another tale concerning a truck driver, and also Summer in Andalusia, the story concerning the professional Spanish bicyclist Pepe Benengeli, from which the film was adapted. <<less

A summer story of 17-year-old Yousuke who has a crush on his teacher Aiko.

Youko has a protector in Shige-san. He has guided her, helped her, and always maintained a respectful propriety since she was a little girl. The difficulty is that Shige-san is a ghost, a poltergeist who only communicates with her by throwing small rocks to signal his disagreement or to show her what to do. But now that Youko is beginning to feel the first stirrings of young love, will Shige-san’s guidance help her find her true happiness?... more>>

Note: Won the Spring 2016 Four Seasons Award (Kodansha) in the one-shot manga category. <<less

A collection of four bizarre and awkward short stories highlighting what happens when weird guys meet even weirder girls.... more>>

Story 1, The Lunar Surface & Eye Sockets: Gotou Kosuda takes a job he doesn't want because of the girl who works there, but then finds out she's leaving. Can he make an impression on her before time's up?

Story 2, Flooded City & The Chuo Railway Line: Natsuno Fuda works at a karaoke joint, and every night this girl comes in with a different guy and uses a different name. The thing is, the names she uses are actually the stops on the Chuo Line, and Fuda is a giant train geek.

Story 3, The Cactus-tamer's Apprentice: A high school boy named Susumu Natori discovers a wacky relative who he winds up turning to for advice about a problem at school.

Story 4, The Wasteland of Sugar Fanatics: A man who can mentally fast-forward time is challenged to rewind it. <<less

Fumi and Haru are two university friends with a shared passion for the swim team, until Fumi's "unique" heritage complicates matters.

A one-shot taking place after the destruction of the world by the Devil Moon. It's about a half-mage who works as the executioner of mages... more>> and a girl-mage who suddenly appears before him. <<less

Kei and Mizuki's quiet lives together in the countryside are shattered when Mizuki collapses and a parasitic plant-like organism is discovered spreading its roots through... more>> her body, leeching away her life. How will Kei and Mizuki spend their last days together? <<less

A couple of wandering ronin are asked to rescue a girl who was kidnapped by bandits. Violence ensues.

Nanako Kobayashi, a 17-year-old teenager, has an ugly face who seems to not have a care for the world. One day, she got a call, only to be given two choices to answer a question. A devil suddenly appears, taking the form of her teddy bear. The devil is willing to grant her three wishes; each based on two options; What wishes will Nanako choose?... more>>

"Once upon a time I dreamed I was a butterfly,

fluttering hither and thither,

to all intents and purposes a butterfly.

I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly,

and was unconscious of my individuality as a man.

Suddenly I woke, and there I lay, myself again.

Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

(Zhuang Zhou Meng Die (庄周梦蝶 )) <<less