The story is about a young pilot named Shin Kazama and his experiences at Area 88, a mercenary air force base secluded in the desert of a war torn country. Shin goes from head of his class at a world renowned aviation school dating the beautiful daughter of an airline president to a mercenary fighter pilot bound to Area 88 by a three-year contract that he was duped into signing by a jealous and competitive childhood friend. Determined to earn $1.5 million dollars to buy his way out of the obligation and return home, killing becomes second nature to Shin as he quickly rises to the top rank at Area 88. Overwrought with shame and... more>> self-loathing for what he has become, Shin begins to question whether he is still fighting for survival, or like his fellow mercenaries, for the sheer excitement and camaraderie of battle.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1985.

Viz published up to v5. c7 of the bunkoban. <<less

Wakamatsu Masato lives with his step-sister, Miyuki, whom he does not have blood relationship with. Their father is always working oversea (in fact, he has not appeared in the manga at all...) and left the two of them living by themselves in Toukyou. Miyuki is cute, nice, sensitive and very popular among guys around Masato. Masato has a girlfriend at school whose name is Kajima Miyuki, who is pretty and gentle, the ideal dream of every high school boy. It took years for Masato and his sister to realize whom they love and care most after a lot of events.... more>>

This manga was very popular in Japan and was one of the winners of the 1982 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen or shōjo manga, along with Adachi's . <<less

The next instalment of Alien 9.

This collection, titled simply Short Program, collected stories by Adachi published between 1985 and now.... more>>

1. Kinkyou "Recent Times" [1987]

2. Kousaten mae (Before the junction) "The Intersection" [1986]

3. Shooto Puroguramu "Short Program" [1987]

4. Teiku ofu (Take off) [1988]

5. Chenji (Change) [1985]

6. Purasu 1 (Plus one) [1986]

7. Murasaki (1985)

8. Nani ga nandaka (What is what?) Part 1 [1985]

9. Nani ga nandaka (What is what?) Part 2

Story 1 - Change

Story 2 - Take Off

Story 3 - Short Program

Story 4 - What's Going On!? (Part 1)

Story 5 - What's Going On!? (Part 2)

Story 6 - At the Intersection

Story 7 - The Current State of Affairs

Story 8 - Plus 1

Story 9 - Purple

Volume 2:

Story 1 - Before Spring Comes

Petit Comic April 1992

Story 2 - Subject - Wakaba

Weekly Young Sunday January 1995

Story 3 - A Stop on the Way

Shōnen Sunday September 1994

Story 4 - 5X4P

Big Comic Superior July 1992 - September 1992

Story 5 - 4 on the Richter Scale

Shōnen Sunday July 1988

Story 6 - Aim At the Ace

Shōgaku Shinen Sei June 1986

Story 7 - Spring Call

Shōnen Sunday April 1993

Story 8 - Spring Passes

Big Comic Spirits May 1993

Story 9 - The Road Home

Young Sunday October 1989 - November 1989

Story 10 - Sayonara Game

Big Comic 1991 Summer Special

Volume 3:

Story 1 - Clogs and Diamond

Story 2 - Where the Wind Blows

Story 3 - Angel's Hammer

Story 4 - Memory Off (part1)

Story 5 - Memory Off (part2)

Story 6 - White Summer

Story 7 - Square Ocean

Story 8 - Idol A (part 1)

Story 9 - Idol A (part 2)

Story 10 - Idol A (part 3)

Story 11 - Running God

Story 12 - Short Mail

Volume 4: Girl's type

1. Short story of a parasite (part 1)

2. Short story of a parasite (part 2)

3. Harsh life of a parasite

4. Love confession

5. Season

6. Two champions

7. Capricious Punch Kimagure Punch <<less

A dramatic story set in contemporary Japan, about a guy with amnesia, who finds out he was turned into a super-cyborg in a corporate weapon... more>> research program. He goes on a mission of revenge. A little shallow, perhaps, but a good example of shounen SF/action manga. The manga ended abruptly, because the magazine it was being serialized in changed its target public and it was decided that Xenon didn't fit in anymore. <<less

One day Mami realizes that she has magical powers. Her mother also had those powers, as well as her grandmother. Mami slowly has to learn... more>> to live with her abilities, and she gets into a lot of trouble. <<less

This is the tale of how Adachi Mitsuru went from being an assistant artist on a weekly manga to the superstar manga-ka we know him... more>> to be today. But it’s told (and written by) Mitsuru’s older brother Tsutomu, who was also an assistant artist early on in their careers… <<less