Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the ...

Takemoto lives in a run-down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on hi...

Five years ago, all but one of the inhabitants of Ootsuka village perished due to the plague. And the sole survivor wished only to follow her two dear friends to the grave. To prevent the deaths of the peopl...

This time, the focus is on the second eldest brother in the family from Mainichi Seiten — the bespectacled Akinobu who wakes up one morning in an unfamiliar bed with someone most familiar and unexpected. ...

Ryouhei Hayabusa, named after the nearly extinct Peregrine Falcon, no longer sings in public after his chorus teacher removed him from the choir, saying he has a "beast-like" voice. But one day when Saino, a...

Phoenix is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between ...

Homosexual university student Haruhi Sakagami has low self-esteem and is tired of people comparing him to his twin brother. Trying to find his own individuality, he ventures into Nichoume, Tokyo's gay distri...

Yuu is a high school kid who doesn't really fit anywhere. To find a place he can belong, be accepted, he will do anything. However one thing leads to another and he is forced to fight to keep his place, his ...

Trepanation is the procedure of drilling a hole in the skull. It is said to increase the blood circulation and improve pressure inside the skull. It is also said to bring out a person's sixth sense, the abil...

"The stars that don't shine in Tokyo surely do shine in a different town..." TSUTSUMI Koutarou, who couldn't be a senior at a college-oriented high school in Tokyo, moves into Himi City, Toyama Prefecture w...

Like most teenagers, Mashiro Ichijo has a secret. But Mashiro's secret is that he’s neither fully male nor female! So far, Mashiro's been able to live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's info...

Straight As, athlete and overall "Ms. Popularity," Yukino, is the perfect student. Or at least that" 's how she appears to the outside world. But when the curtains are drawn, a lazy young egomaniac lurks who...

1) The Leopard and the Faithful Manservant: After getting dumped the most spectacular way at the start of a new year, she calls up her childhood friend for some emotional unloading. And when she thinks thing...