A compilation of short stories

When Hana falls in love with a young interloper she encounters in her college class, the last thing she expects to learn is that he is part wolf. Instead of rejecting her lover upon learning his secret, she ...

Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old bo...

Ulises, a brilliant but inflexible soldier, is shunned by the top brass and demoted to a station in a rural area where he meets his new wife Lea. The demotion that should've been a terrible thing turns into ...

Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, “Sensei” in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him “Sensei” (�...

Kousuke's father was an accomplished chef who died young, leaving behind his son, and leaving his restaurant to his wife of three days, Yuuko. Now, Kousuke has become a chef at his father's restaurant, and ...

Consists of six short stories spanning 14 years of Masanori's career. • A MESSAGE TO YOU, RUDY • ALL THE WAY DOWN • Shiba Inu • Gyangueiji • Sand - SABAKU - Desert • Even assassins laug...

“A prodigy at ten, a genius at fifteen, a common man past twenty.” This is a story of the struggle of an ordinary guy like me who is a “reincarnator” and a reckless and promising girl who is a “ge...

Infirmary, cat, and girl - SANSHOKU Amido Time passed, but nothing changed - NOJI Takanichi The old man who wants to be popular and the stalker girl - Mottsuo I won't forgive you, Nii-chan! - AOKAWA Nana But...

The woman Tsutomu encounters in college was older and smaller than he is, and for some reason, looks like the same girl in his dreams. The heart-pounding love affair between him and the "older woman" begins....

Koume Sato and Kosuke Isobe are two teenagers living in a sleepy seaside town. After getting used and dumped by her crush, the emotionally damaged Koume decides to start a sexual relationship with Kosuke, wi...

“I've come to eat you.” So softly utters the mermaid Shiori as she emerges from the sea and takes high school girl Hinako by the hand. Hinako lives alone in a town by the sea and possesses an unusually d...

"I have something I don't want to lose. So much so that these terrible feelings have grown." A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed in...