I dared to fall in love with him. A lone house perched on the cliff of a miserable little island, and the man who was dethroned and exiled there. I watched him on behalf of my sickly father... and I dared t...

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...

Collection of five short stories revolving around mermaids and mermen. 1) Hikari no Umi 2) Nami no Ue no Tsuki 3) Kawamo no Familiar 4) Sayonara Spangles Natsuki and Ec-chan are friends with a mermaid who ...

"What kind of person do you think I am?” "……a stranger." Lee Soo-ha, who has been locked up in an unidentified facility for a long time, is dragged by strangers and meets a man one day. Lee Soo-ha, t...

Mary, a suicide prevention AI

When the hand that used to so lovingly hold Annette Rozenberg ends up being the one that causes the downfall of her family, Annette demands that Heiner Waldemar give her a divorce. But Heiner refuses, statin...

Dooshik is in a bind. After making off with the takings from the gay bar where he worked, he seeks refuge in a small, coastal town. As his funds dwindle, he desperately needs a way to make ends meet. Still, ...

"Hey, why did you appear in front of me again...?" Shunya is haunted by the death of his childhood friend Ryousuke, who died in an accident, when a stranger, Tsukasa, a high school student, appears before h...

The development of <Marigold in a Box>, a virtual reality game, is stopped after an unfortunate accident. Sun-ah can't help but be sad and disappointed as the manager of the development team. She decides to ...

A middle-aged man goes to the mountain to commit suicide. On the way he finds a sealed youkai black fox girl in a small cave and she ask him to free her, and he does it without a second thought and goes on t...

The Prince of Commander of the North has a crush on the daughter of the Shen family, and wants to take their daughter as a concubine. In order to give his adoptive mother a better life in her old age, the mu...