Collection of short stories including: • Nejishiki A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins... Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories". • Numa (Marsh) A man meets a strange woman while hunting in a marsh. • Chico A couple takes care of a java sparrow. • Hatsutake Gari (Mushroom Hunting) Rain mysteriously falls around a particular place where a boy and his grandfather plan on going mushroom hunting the next morning... • Sanshouuo (Salamander) • Touge no Inu • Uwasa no Bushi • Ondoru Koya (Ondoru House) • Gensenkan Shujin (Master of the Gensenkan Inn) • Chouhachi no Yado • Oba Denki Tokin Kogyosho (Oba's Electroplate Factory) • Yoshiboo no Hanzai • Shounen • Aru Mumei Sakka It DOES NOT contain this story: • Soto no Fukurami (The Outside Inflation) The outside inexplicably threatens to collapse a man's house, leading him out to a world of anxiety and oddness in this minimalist story.
Ji Won is a new Korean literature teacher. High school student Sanha has been her neighbor for many years. To a student, school is his life. But to a teacher, school is just a workplace. They thought that not much would change, but reality begs to differ
Although wedding planner Ikuyama is foul-mouthed and has a terrible personality, he is popular with women due to his deceiving good looks and outward appearance. One day, he goes to a hotel designated by his client for a meeting only to find that the bride isn't there and that he is left alone with the groom, Izumi, who exudes a gloomy aura."Isn't it beautiful? I picked it out because I thought it'd suit you, you know... Ikuyama-san?"In the midst of the meeting, he is suddenly overthrown by a feeling of drowsiness and when he wakes up... for some reason, he's been put in a snow-white dress?!
Ryuuji and his little brother were raised by a woman after their Yakuza parents were killed by a rival Yakuza gang. One day, he comes home and finds that his adopted mother too was also killed by that same gang. In rage and despair, he kills two Yakuza gang members who were still at the house and gets sent to jail. Once in jail, the inevitable happens and he becomes the plaything of fellow inmates; especially peaking the interest of one dangerous convict. After spending time in jail, when everything seems lost, he meets a man by the name of Araki, who claims to be the brother of his deceased adopted mother. A special bond develops between the two; but what will happen once Ryuuji learns that the man, Araki, is the only surviving member of the Kazama gang – the gang that his father used to belong to? Will Araki-san, the dragon, be able to keep Ryuuji safe, or will his enemies the members from the rival gang, use the young man as a pawn against him?
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There’s this school where all the students are criminals. It’s a secret institution where they teach unlawful kids who’ve committed serious crimes. Yuuki Oku was mysteriously taken there and as punishment for his crimes, his memories have been taken away. Along with six other boys who have also had a part of their body taken away from them. However, they have a chance to get back what was theirs and graduate from that school if they find the puppet student who took their body parts.
Ichinose Tsukasa, an elite student at a public school, can't help watching Matsubara Chitose, another student that is his complete opposite. When Matsubara confronts him, Ichinose is drawn into a physical relationship that becomes more than either boy expected.
[From AnimeWaves]: Two kids, Kouhei and Akio, made up an imaginary girl named Hajime to take the blame for destruction of the principal's copper statue. But one day, they meet a girl that is exactly like their description of Hajime, but only they can see her.
After dictatorship and civil war the South Amercian country, Nascencio, has an ambitious project to make jungle into farming land, which is commissioned to the Japanese company Seshimo.The company's chief, Yuji Seshimo, gets kidnapped while on an inspection tour into the land. Kenichi, a New York noir-style private detective, goes to find his brother...
A "what-if" alternate history in which the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) fight a desperate struggle against the Soviet Union after it launches a surprise invasion on Japan during heightened Cold War tensions.*This is the original story ("Tokyo Wars") as published in 1991, not the 2008 re-release under the name "Raid on Tokyo", though there are few differences to note other than the title.
"You got wet from watching other people have sex… You're surprisingly lewd." My sinful body is coming from my sleeping sister's boyfriend's touch…
A bloodstained man stands in front of a terrified girl. He proclaims his love for her and makes this ominous declaration: A year from now, she will either die alone or will be with him forever. Now, rumors abound about the cursed girl that causes any boy who proclaims his love for her to die. Join us to discover the mysteries of Metronome.
