The hikikomori boy and the girl who wants to die want to escape from the rotten reality. This is a story about forbidden love.

There is no glamorization of school bullying with Peter Pan. He's back with a whole new game! He's out to punish bad children! Will there... more>> be a happy ending for anyone involved? (source: tapas.io) <<less

Two immortals make preparations for their death.

He’s perennially unemployed, his ex-girlfriend has moved on, and he’s just lost all his life savings to a bitcoin scam. Burdened by societal pressures, Yijae... more>> Choi decides to take his own life. Insulted by his flippant attitude towards dying, Death comes to punish him with her game: he must experience death over and over again through 13 other lives. But if he can find a way to survive the imminent death coming for these lives, he gets to live out their lifetime. His life was a bust, but what about the lives of others? <<less

Treating non-successful suicidal patients requires a lot of money and resources. With a low budget and a personal respect argumentation, a doctor will ask a... more>> non-successful suicidal patient if he/she still wants to live on or not. If not, the government will respect his/her wish. However, the government doesn't just simply kill them. <<less

A young girl wants to send a letter to herself 10 years later.

Ba Song is the hotshot cop who’s been handed an open-and-shut case: the suicide of a young woman. Except… who commits suicide by stabbing their... more>> own body and strangling themself? There's only one man who can help him with this mystery — Bo Shan, the renowned forensic pathologist with a severe and cold personality. What's more, his body produces bioelectricity, allowing him to acutely sense bodily injury with his touch. There's an electric current between them, and each touch sizzles with energy... (Source: Tapas) <<less

Follows Shishibara Miko, Atou Mutsuki, and their friends as they enjoy their daily lives by trying to understand the true meaning of human life.

A short autobiography by Kobayashi Makoto about his experience serializing 1, 2, no Sanshiro in Weekly Shounen Magazine from 1978 to 1983.... more>>

Note: Nominated for the 2nd Manga Taisho Award in 2009. <<less

Three years have passed since the bombing of a classroom by a boy who rarely came to school. Now, the seven survivors of that incident... more>> have gathered in that classroom. One of the survivors, Takumi Shindou, informed the other survivors that one of them was responsible for giving the bomb to the culprit. With those words, the search for the accomplice began. At the same time, a female student went to a private high school in Tokyo. "All of you will die with me", she said, with a bomb wrapped tightly around her body... Thus continued a chain of terrorism by bullied students, striking fear into classrooms all across the nation! <<less

Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko’s life—and Tomoyo’s too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko’s death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko’s ashes for one final journey together to set free her dear, broken Mariko. [Yen Press]... more>>

Note: Won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards an New Face Award in 2021. <<less

San attends the most elite female school in Okinawa, when WWII aggravated to the point she and her classmates are recruited in order to serve... more>> for the Japanese army as nurses. They will have to deal with a far cruel reality than what they could ever imagined. <<less

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

Decades ago, the tiny town of Hanaizawa was cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible wall, a wall that nothing living... more>> can pass through. The younger residents have grown up only knowing the outside world through what they see and hear in the media. These are the stories of their everyday lives, the good and the bad, as they live out their days in a tiny town that no one can enter and no one can leave -- a town which, by its isolated nature, is destined to fade away. <<less

Due to a harsh experience in life, Haruno eventually becomes a cleaning specialist in the field of clearing the remnants of the deceased.... more>>

After a particular day, Haruno becomes involved in the curious case of 'END'. <<less

In whose hands is your life?... more>>

Feng has a secret: he’s in love with Xiao Zhang. However, fourteen years ago on his birthday, she committed suicide. Every night he used to dream about her, how she died, then he stopped dreaming at all, gone without a trace. Looking for answers on what really happened, he finds a hidden contract with her date of death…and his own.

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A short story about a boy that can't do anything.

A short story about a girl chasing after someone she holds dear.

A short story about a boy and his final wish.

A short story about a boy and a girl on their way to their next life.

The story of two best friends who enter the entertainment industry together. But as time goes on, one young man becomes a star while the... more>> other is left to languish in supporting roles. <<less

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Collection of Toume Kei's oneshot work from 2011-2016. ... more>>

1. ELEMENT 7

2. コビト事情 (Fairy Affairs)

3. Apartment of the Dead

4. 夕闇古書市 (The Twilight Antique Book Market)

5. 天国のドア (Heaven's Door)

6. 青密花 (Blue Secret Flower) <<less

He has been a recluse for the past 10 years in that big house overlooking a bicycle parking lot. One day, a girl approaches and confessed to him, disturbing the world he's been cooping himself up in. A oneshot of their story by the mangaka of Tetsugaku Letra and Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan.... more>>

Published in the oneshot collection Watashi to Watashi. <<less

A story about two people with mental problems protecting everything they left with their only method, playing ping pong.