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A collection of unique, fantastical short stories featuring quirky, mysterious characters.

A girl in a deep slumber. A boy watching over her. An unusual fantasy spun from their innocent dreaming. This is their story…

A collection of short stories:... more>>

• Shima Ikka (The Islanders) -

A man is stranded on a remote island that is inhabited by a strange hermetical family. Being here could be the best thing that would happen to him.

• Eisei Kashikan

• Bunnies -

What if you could see your own future? For a curious reporter, this question becomes no longer theoretical as he ends up serving as an involuntary guinea pig for a mad scientist who claims to be able to do just that. But is what he sees really the future?

• Locker Boueki (Locker Trade Agreement) -

A scientist from the frozen world of the future discovers a locker which is also a time portal to the past...

• Wataru Seken

• Tora no Mon

• Wasureta Kusa <<less

As boys, they always made fun of the person rumored to live in a quiet, old house, even though they never saw her.... more>>

Now, years later, one of them wonders if that person is still alive and approaches the house. <<less

The year is 1274, and the Mongols are invading Japan! It's Kublai Khan, aiming to conquer the world. But Japan has a secret weapon in... more>> a crack team of killers, known as The Carrion Eaters. Led by the vicious Ranomaru, who wants to take Kublai's head. Not all is well in Kublai's camp, though...a Korean leader might well be dissatisfied with what Kublai plans. This conflict will take them to the ends of the earth. <<less

Nawoki Karasawa is one of the longer-active and more prestigious names in the typically small time, lesser-known world of gag manga. In a genre where art skill is second to just about everything else, Karasawa's dialogue is hilariously sharp and witty.... more>>

A gag parody of Shinji Nagashima's immortal "Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari" (Karasawa's title only differs by adding "Chou" (super) to "Zankoku"), a manga about the dreams, ambitions, and suffering of a group of bright young mangaka. Karasawa brilliantly takes the piss out of just about everything involved with being a mangaka. It's lewd, raunchy, endlessly cynical and laugh-out-loud funny.

Originally published in Ikki and the Big Comic Spirits special issue "Casual" from 2000 to 2003, it was collected into a single book in 2005. <<less

Every night a young woman would try to end her life under the moonlight, on one night she meets a man...... more>>

Note: Original language image is unavailable. <<less

After five years since his last book, “Danny Boy”, Toranosuke Shimada presents an everyday drama about a man going through his daughter's divorce.... more>>

Nothing feels vastly different, as he continues on with his daily routine. However, in his heart, the landscape reflected in his eyes begins to change it's colors just a bit. <<less

A collection of seven humorous oneshots covering a wide range of themes.... more>>

Story 1, A Lad?s Christmas: A jaded Santa has to get through a particularly rough Christmas.

Story 2, Travel Writer: A young couple on their first trip break rule number one: Never leave the tourist route.

Story 3, TUDM: A soldier learns his comrade is a robot while trapped within a mine field.

Story 4, Space War: A young platoon captain fighting on a distant planet has to keep her troops together in the face of unexpected alien developments.

Story 5, Slavakia: A lonely woman meets someone new on a desert planet.

Story 6, Greedy City and Konjac Rock: A backpacking kid comes across an easy way to get money.

Story 7, Latakia the Witch: A boy winds up as a helper to a "witch". <<less

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Set in the dystopic future:... more>>

A girl steals a bag from an old woman, a fellow member of a homeless colony. All the bag contains are volume after volume of shoujo manga. But even after the girl has finished reading all the volumes, our story is still not complete... <<less

In the centuries to come, humankind as we know it will be all but extinct. Tiny fairies become the dominant species on Earth. This series... more>> of laid-back reports follows one of the few surviving humans, a girl who tries to befriend and study the fairies while also digging up relics of our civilization (CDs, etc) to her great wonderment. <<less

Shiro Kamiya, an ordinary boy, transfers into St. Kleio Academy, a school attended by the clones of many well-known figures.... more>>

“Afterschool Charichuma” is drawn by Kumiko Suekane to show a different side of the “Afterschool Charisma” world. <<less

Just an ordinary story about two grade schoolers and a cute little serow…

A collection of warm-hearted short stories about life and its little wonders, interconnected via a certain school and the students and teachers that pass through... more>> its halls. Sweet and delicate, they're like "flower cookies" for the stressful mind. <<less

This beautifully drawn short story by Yōko Nihonbashi, creator of G senjō Heave'’s Door, introduces the silent, beautiful Yaeko Shimura, a woman who brings new meaning to the words dutiful wife and good friend.... more>>

Note: The pilot oneshot has been scanlated, but not the compiled volume. <<less

Includes the following short stories:... more>>

1. Once Upon a Time

A lost little girl wants to find her way home...

2. See You Next Time

A girl calmly reminisces about her dead friend.

3. Imp in the Night

A little imp wonders why he's afraid of the night.

4. Sakura Antique Store

The story of an old watch sitting in the window display of the Sakura Antique Store.

5. Shiroi Kumo (White Clouds)

A beautiful and touching story about life, death, and the heartening belief that we will all arrive at the same place when our time has come.

6. Molehill

The story of a young mole who decides to become human so that he can see his girlfriend's face...

7. The Lands of Dreams

A girl is trapped in an endless dream...

8. Grape Picking

Two teachers discuss the godliness of children.

9. Let's Go Home

An elderly couple's reminiscences as they pay a visit to the village from their shared childhood.

10. The Story of a Flower

They don't have a mother, but...

11. The Road Where Flowers Bloom

A careworn man whose life stuck in a rut, a book with Sakura blossoms stuck in the pages, a mysterious woman who claims to have been killed by him, a childhood best friend's mysterious reappearance...

12. Egg Water

The taste of the water bubbling up from a well in the backyard of a little old lady's house...

13. Hoppie's Bear

The unlikely friendship between a lovelorn office worker and a strange -- and strangely mature -- girl.

14. To A Certain Place...

Returning home. <<less

After his bibliophile father passed away, the boy Lucas sees a beautifully decorated book in a shop window in Paris. The book decorator there, Stefan... more>> Bosch, takes him to his publishing house, and he wanders into the atelier of Stefan Louis. Lucas is enchanted by the bookbinding world of the two Stefans, and he takes up training at their atelier. To find the place where he belongs—- <<less

A treasure of 14 charming stories about family, friends, couples and unexpected bonds. Written by Natsume Ono over ten years, here is the long-awaited collection of her early work, including numerous illustrations and previously unpublished stories! [Viz]... more>>

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Ometura (Inside Out)

Moyashi Fuufu (Moyashi Couple)

Three Short Stories About Bento

Eva's Memory

Froom Family

Christmas Morning

Padre

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Galleria di illustrazione <<less

In the Noramimi universe, most families own a 'mascot'. These strange and amusing creatures live at home and act as companions for younger children. ... more>>

Noramimi is one such mascot. Unfortunately for him, he is an ogre type and thus not popular with children, who prefer 'cuter' alternatives. Unwillingly, he decides to 'home stay' at "Hello Kids" - an agency that organizes matters between mascots and humans.

But, like all mascots, his heartfelt wish is to one day be adopted by a family... <<less

Dragon of the Beginning and Dragon of the End is a series of interconnected oneshots in a high fantasy setting which take place millennia apart and portray the evolution of dragon-human interaction through the point of view of different characters.... more>>

Story 1: Three people cross paths, united by a flood and a dragon. A man who lost his village. An old man who lost his child. A young woman who lost her people.

Story 2: The king is ill. In their quest to find a cure, a priest and his band of soldiers enter barbarian territory. But the herb they need belongs to the dragons.

Story 3: Dragonswood is home to dragons and the people who care for them. When a mage and his dragon are captured, however, war looms ever closer.

Story 4: After a ritual gone wrong, a dry spell hits a village once abundant in rain. The arrival of a rainmaker promises salvation, but first he must get to the bottom of a well-kept secret. <<less

The tale begins on January 1965, Vietnam. Hikaru Minami, a newbie reporter, lands in Saigon to begin photographing the war. Thus does his story of war, growth, life, and a tragic love begin.... more>>

Drawn in a simple and light style that belies its subject matter, complementing the writing very well. <<less

She calls herself Sexy Voice. To most of the world, she's just Hayashi Niko, an ordinary schoolgirl - but when time permits, she lives a double life as a hired investigator/spy. To help her, she has recruited the rather unlikely assistant she calls Robo, a geeky lump of a man who doesn't really know why he feels the need to do everything she tells him to. He just does it. Together, the odd team solve a number of cases for Sexy Voice's employer, an aging gangster.... more>>

Currently on Hiatus after 2 volumes (2003) <<less

Benzo and Soji witnessed the death of Tatsugoro, leader of the Akame Gang. Tatsugoro's last words to them were "I'm leaving you two in charge",... more>> but it was Jinzaburo, the former leader's friend, who was chosen instead. Displeased with Tatsugoro's wife's decision, the two left the gang. They then set off on an aimless journey, vowing to accomplish something big. [Stiletto Heels] <<less