A Drunken Dream is a collection of literary short stories by Hagio falling into multiple genres, created between 1971-2007. The stories were selected by translator Matt Thorn to be an introduction to Hagio f...

In reality, an ugly duckling could never become a beautiful swan. However, when a short ugly boy makes a wish to be reborn beautiful, his wish is granted and he becomes a gorgeous young man that all the girl...

“I... want to be friends with you, Matsumoto!” In the present day where humans and werebeast are living in harmony, there is something that has been bothering Matsumoto, a Kishu weredog, who actually li...

1. The Magic of Those Words Miyabi and Fujita are childhood friends that drifted apart since entering high school. Can they confess to each other? 2. Love Letter Kochi finds a girl that cried in front of K...

Koyuki Seri is a high school student who tries to avoid strange people because he knows he will just end up being the straight man to their antics. Enter Hanadori Kabuto, Koyuki's classmate who has chuuuniby...

Yousuke and Shuu became estranged after a small accident during their childhood. Years later, due to some circumstances, Shuu moves into his grandmother’s house which is located at the shopping district wh...

Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness sh...

KNOW THY FATHER The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father's death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of w...

"Doraemon" is a series about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to help a schoolboy named Nobita Nobi. Aside from the normal manga books, their great adventures to d...

My pet dog (best friend) is now a elementary student!? Corporate slave salaryman Tomoki meets a boy named Leo. Suddenly the boy claims that he was Tomoki's pet dog in his past life and that this time it's h...

One fateful day, Ryousuke Kaga, a typical hopeless romantic and hopelessly perverted high school student, has a chance encounter in the rain with a beautiful girl. After graciously offering both his home for...

This is a tale about Tomioka Sakito, a handsome young owner of a Dog Cafe, and Kanade Sakuza who likes small children and animals, but doesn't know how to get along with them, and instead, frightens them. Wh...

Souichi's life is turned upside down when he starts living with the noisy and dog-like Gaku, who on top of being a NEET has zero skills to do household chores. But for some reason, Souichi cannot leave Gaku ...

Ayu, a 17-year-old high-school student, believes neither in a future nor the happiness it could bring her. By selling herself, she tries to justify her existence, which is as bleak as her heart - it’s devo...

Being abandoned by his owners, having his mother die of starvation, a puppy who suffered lifelong separation from his siblings wandered around the city. Meeting and parting with kind people, experiencing bru...

Rookie police detective, Ichiko Hanamori (AKA “Wanko”), is newly assigned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Squad 6 Criminal Investigation First Division. She dresses in strange Lolita fas...

Blossom (Momoko), Bubbles (Miyako) and Buttercup (Kaoru) are three normal girls, living in a peaceful town. Suddenly, a big ice mountain arrives in Tokyo, and when Ken accidentally breaks it, both good and e...

A hopeless geek, a beautiful woman, and a fast connection--could the Internet be his ticket onto the express train to romance? A real-life thread on an Internet forum sparks a nationwide phenomenon! A nerdy ...

Takiko felt inferior over her look and height. She was always envious of her best friend Mika who had what it takes to capture a guy's heart. One day she meets someone who eventually, becomes the love of her...

1-2) Dive Onizawa is a detective who recently got a divorce. One of his colleagues, Honda, is murdered in what seems to be linked to other detectives that have been murdered. Yashiro is another detective tha...

A deeply moving and tragic drama from the father of animal fiction writing! The 19th century America, it was the pioneering era where a wave of change in civilization struck and animals were overhunted. Seto...