After Yuuta and Shuu reconciled and the children returned home, new trouble is on its way. This time it involves the quiet second eldest brother, Akinobu, and the hot-blooded head of the house, Taiga. Maini...

Living in the boonies, one must give great consideration to how they will get around when they turn 16. Isaki has just turned 16 and his choice of transportation is his neighbor's Piper Cub. It might be old,...

In his second collection of short stories, Mohiro Kitoh recounts the tragic fates of people living in a half-futuristic, half-fantasy city whose inexorable structural decay seems to be mirrored in its citize...

Vlad is a vampire who lives in the mountains surrounding a certain town in Japan, and during his hundred years of residing there has come to be regarded as a god of the land. As he protects his territory and...

"Today Kanai-kun is absent from school. Kanai-kun has passed away. Who was Kanai-kun? Was he actually here?" A quiet story about one of the great existential questions in life.

An anthology of ten short stories, all done in the Nouvelle Manga style. Each story stands alone, the only things linking them all being the low-key slice-of-life settings and the fact that they all have a f...

Axel and Roxas talk on the clock tower about days passed before Roxas disappears.

Destination is a state of mind. This is the tale of a person and a bike and the never-ending road ahead. Kino wanders the world on the back of Hermes - an intelligent, talking motorcycle - only staying in on...

Rather more representative of the Nishioka siblings' writing style than Kami no Kodomo, this is a collection of one-shots that explore the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people in an odd, surrealistic man...

A man who wants to escape his boring, repetitive life sets out on a journey. On the way, he comes across unbelievable things, terrible things.

Mazda Hun is a soldier caught in a web of political and military struggles beyond his comprehension. Captured by the government, they sentence him to Lethe. Society doesn't believe in the death penalty anymo...

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...

Ichiko Izumiya is a young student of English who would like to walk in the footsteps of her father as a translator of trendy American novels. She finally decides to confess to him that she is in love with Er...

Makoto has long been ostracized because of his odd hobbies and a sexual kink others would see as disgusting. One day he finds a book on summoning demons and manages to summon the intimidatingly beautiful and...

A story about a girl being kept in isolation in a world that appears to have experienced an earthquake and nuclear disaster.

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged fro...

From on high, the gods make sport of the mortals who toil below them. None know the cruelty of these beings better than Ganymede, a beautiful prince who was torn away from his family by the gods’ divine ha...

Her name is Orange. She's a young girl in high school, coming of age in the heart of the city. And she has decided she has nothing to live for. Not her shallow friends. Not her parents. Not school. Not even ...

Anthology of short stories, for adults, from the king of manga. 15 stories, published between 1968 and 1976, that combine eroticism, grotesque and normally a fair amount of sci-fi.

In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to...

Ryu stows away on a space vessel, only to be found by the crew when it's far to late to return to earth. So they stick him in a spare sleep capsule instead. Things take a turn for the unexpected, however, wh...

Through the ordinary small events of his professional and personal life, a forty-year-old man lets himself go on impromptu escapades at random along the paths that the big city offers. This vagrant impulse s...

A short, coming-of-age story of a middle school student named Yu. From the mangaka of Kuzu no Honkai.

This is the mysterious story of Futaba Kazuma's first patient. At 18, Futaba Kazuma went to school to get his qualification in clinical psychology. While attending school, he boards at a creepy mansion which...