A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. ... more>>

Serialized or otherwise collected:

AKABOSHI Tomo

AKIZUKI Risu

ARAI Hideki

ARAMAKI Keiko

ASADA Torao

ASHINANO Hitoshi

Endo Hiroki

ENOMOTO Shunji

IGARASHI Daisuke

IRIE Kiwa

IRIE Noriko

KIMURA Kon

KITOH Mohiro

KOMAI Yu

MATSUMOTO Taiyou

NIHEI Tsutomu

OHARA Shinji

SAMURA Hiroaki

SOUJI Hajime

TOUME Kei

TOYODA Minoru

TSUCHIDA Seiki

URUSHIBARA Yuki

WAKANA Shouhei

Other:

Hiramatsu Kannosuke

ABE Yoshitoshi

Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy.

YAMAZAKI Ren

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 for manga in the 2010 Four Seasons Award Anthology.

NADEGATA Nazuna

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. Winner of the Hagio Moto Special Award for manga.

KIBA Kouichi

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, he asks her to throw a certain package into the sea.

JOUYAMA Yui

A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl. <<less

The Nightmare of Fabrication is a beautifully drawn full-colour manga from Yoshitoshi ABe. The 18 page short story can be found in the Lain Omnipresence... more>> in Wired artbook. It's a bonus story which apparently isn't related with neither the anime nor the PS game. It shows characters who were included in the PS game but not in the TV series (like the psychiatrist), but also determinant characters from the anime who didn't appear in the videogame (like Deus). <<less

Robot is a series of books containing the art of various Asian artists, created by Range Murata.... more>>

Range Murata's "Robot Volume One"

Chronological Release Order:

1. Sho-u Tajima: Angels at the Planetarium

2. Mami Itou: Carogna

3. Yoshitoshi Abe: Wasteland

4. Miggy: Dream of the Empty Cage

5. Haccan: Eventyr

6. Makoto Kobayashi: Dragon's Heaven

7. Yu Kinutani: Angels

8. Ugetsu Hakua: Primary Color Book

9. Mie Nekoi: Clash! - Revenge of Hunk Kung Fu vs. Ugly Kung Fu - Find a Groom!

10. Okama: Oputon

11. Shigeki Maeshima: Dragon Fly

In an future apocalyptic world the church once again has regained power, but not to do good, but to serve evil. Cloned priests, called "dragon fly" of the kirihito church use their power, however a shinigami has appeared to stop them and reclaim her past...

-MAL

12. Kei Sanbe: Moonlight

13. Yasuto Miura: Biting Summer Play

14. Range Murata: Groundpass Drive

15. Hiroyuki Asada: Pez & Hot Strawberry

16. Sabe: There Goes Suzume Robo!!

17. Shin Nagasawa: Sedouka

18. YUG: Hemohemo

19. Hanaharu Naruco: Picnic

20. Suzuhito Yasuda: Ebony & Ivory

21. Robot Volume One

Volume 2:

1. Dragon Fly Ch.2 – MAESHIMA Shigeki (22 page manga)

2. Ebony & Ivory Ch.2 – YASUDA Suzuhito (10 page manga)

3. There Goes Suzume Robo!! – Sabe (4 page manga)

4. Wasteland Ch.2 – YOSHITOSHI ABe (18 page manga)

5. Flowers – MAEDA Hirotaka (8 page manga)

6. Stars and Blue – Miggy (7 pages of themed illustrations)

7. Pez & Dekosuke – ASADA Hiroyuki (1 short comic and illustration fold-out)

8. “Velvet” Monochrome Version – TAJIMA Sho-U (1 spread illustration)

9. Sedouka Ch.2 – NAGASAWA Shin (10 page manga)

10. Delicious Adventures – YUG (4 page manga)

11. House of Fish – Teikoku Shounen (3 page manga, 1 spread illustration)

12. The Depths of November – MIURA Yasuto (8 page manga)

13. Eventyr -What The Diamond Discovered- – HACCAN (9 page story w/ inset illustrations)

14. The Oni Smiles When You Mention Next Year – NEKOI Mie (6 page manga)

15. Witch’s Stipulation – DOWMAN SAYMAN (8 page manga)

16. Within The Mirror – SANBE Kei (8 page manga)

17. Untitled – MURATA Range (2 illustrations; landing page and exit page) <<less

A series of vignettes portraying the day-to-day life of a little girl with a very vivid imagination.... more>>

Ryuushika is infinitely curious, never short of absurd ideas, and always ready to look at the world through a distorting prism of extraordinary freshness. <<less

Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy.... more>>

ABe's manga debut. <<less

In the 21st century, aliens have arrived on Earth and live among humans. In sleepy Enohana, the dirt-poor student Chigasaki Mayuko finds herself living together with NieA, a low-caste ("Under Seven") alien. While Mayuko struggles diligently to make ends meet, NieA seems to be totally unconcerned with the consequences of her actions.... more>>

Note: An omnibus version was released under the name NieA_7 Recycle <<less

A collection of stories from ABE Yoshitoshi.... more>>

The volume includes the titles Furumachi, Hakuu (White Rain), Haiiki and Jusou.

White Rain

A girl wakes up in an unknown world all alone. In this world she sees another girl who is her exact twin. Their names: 328 and 329. There is only running water; no food anywhere. In their search for food, they find a raft to take them beyond this unknown place, but it becomes evident that only one person will be able to board this raft. The annoying buzzing sounds and voices of a winged insect, the craving for food, and the desire to leave will push them to the brink. One of them will snap... <<less