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

A collection of stories.... more>>

1.) ガルーダ Garuda

2.) 鰐 Crocodile

3.) 魚 Fish

4.) 鬼、来襲 The oni assaults

5.) ツチノコ Tsuchinoko

6.) ダンコンダラスコ Dankon Darasuko

7.) よかったね雨男 Good for you, rain man

8.) マサヨシとバアちゃん Masayoshi and Grandma

9.) ムーン・チャイルド Moon · Child

10.) ウムヴェルト Umwelt - (Prequel to Designs) A genetically engineered girl escapes from her home and the doctor that created her must pursue her with the help of military personnel. <<less

A wildly imaginative trek into the deepest realms of human beliefs and the mysteries of the universe. Daisuke Igarashi's amazing pen can recreate anything he can imagine on paper, resulting in beautifully chaotic, maddeningly detailed scrawls of pure wonder. A true celebration of the human imagination.... more>>

When deep emotions come to the head, the witch that dwells in the heart awakens - the gorgeous and literary illusory tales begin. <<less

One summer vacation, Ruka meets two boys, “Umi“ and “Sora,“ whose upbringing contains strange and wonderful secrets. Drawn to their beautiful swimming, almost more like flying, Ruka and the adults who know them are intertwined in a complex mesh...... more>>

Meanwhile, an unexplained anomaly is occurring all over the world: fish are disappearing. Thus begins a marine adventure of boys and girls to captivate all the senses!

Children of the Sea won the Excellence Prize in the Manga Division at Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009 <<less

The daily life of Ichiko, a young woman who lives alone near a small village called Komori (lit., "Little Forest"). Each chapter features a dish or meal scavenged from the forests and mountains around Ichiko's home or harvested from fields she cultivates herself.... more>>

While there are no wild flights of fancy as in or , the organic artwork and majesty of nature featured within this short series taps into that same source of magic. Little Forest is a very acquired taste, but it's also another piece of the stunning tapestry Igarashi Daisuke continues to weave today. <<less

A collection of short stories about supernatural occurrences that take place in our everyday…

The story centres on so-called "Humanized Animals" (HA), genetically engineered hybrids of man and animal who possess extraordinary physical abilities. They show their worth when... more>> they are sent to the scenes of massacres to enact the ambitions of other people. The purpose of their creation is tied to a grand plan for humanity's future. <<less

A young man and his calico cat move to the countryside. This is a chronicle of the day-to-day adventures of Kabocha and her owner, perfect... more>> for cat lovers. <<less

The first chapter, Birthgrounds, is about a mystical creature that makes pottery. ... more>>

The second chapter, Spirits flying in the sky, is about a girl who is cursed by an owl, and begins to fuse with a chicken spirit she killed by accident. But then she meets a girl just like herself, who helps her become normal again.

The third chapter, The tears of Tarou, is a story about a boy called the „Bear Killer“, who meets a girl who has been chosen to become the guardian deity of her village.

The fourth story, Covered in sand, is about a young girl who meets a girl with a mysterious disease while on a trip to the ocean.

The fifth chapter, le pain et le chat (The bread and the cat), is about a baker who decides to care for a girl whose parents have left her.

The last chapter, Still winter, is about a man who climbs a mountain that belongs to the gods, and is not made for man to climb. (Savino) <<less