"This manga is about the job of cleaning up scenes of death, and discusses the meaning of life and death. Through interactions between the deceased's family and friends with the death sweepers, we understand...

This successor of the long selling Heisei classic "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves...

The Outsider: Extra Works Edition: 1. The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of hu...

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town. He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world. He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back. He wants to find some porn. That’s wha...

Compilation of short stories: • Hotel: Since 2079 (2006) It is the year 2272 A.D. A computer continues to live on in order to complete a mission in a world where all life, including Mankind, has gone exti...

Abara is set in a dystopian world, filled with large structures. The story revolves around creatures known as Gaunas, those who can shape bone like armor and weaponry around themselves by transforming. The t...

A national prosperity law has been passed in a dystopian nation resulting in citizens between the ages of 18-24 being randomly selected to die for the good of the nation. These citizens are given 24-hour not...

Contains two stories: Chapters 1-3 -- Dokusaisha Granada Naruse Kunihiko is an upcoming short film-maker who shares the spotlight with no one. He writes his own scripts, his own music, and uses the one-man...

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...

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. 1. Otoko Ippatsu (男一発, Just a Man) 2. Haittemasu (はいってます, Occupied) 3. Wakaremichi (わかれみち, Forked Road) 4. Sasori (さそり) ...

First issue of a canceled series; collected (in thumbnails) in Blame and So on (Artbook)

In the 80s, Kaze Takashi's parents moved to a quiet area in Tokyo to protect their son from the bad influence of his friends. In class, Takashi doesn't wait to make new friends. Passionate for motorcycle ral...

Something is rotten in Okinawa...the floating stench of death hangs over the island..What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene...so begins Tadashi and Kaori's spiral into the horror (and stench...

High-school student Moon Bin Lee has difficulty sleeping due to a recurring nightmare: he's stranded over a thousand years in the past chasing a dark-haired girl into a deep abyss. Before long, the nightma...

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 ...

The members of the Takashiro family share a terrible curse: only human blood can quench their thirst. Sent away after the death of his mother, Kuzuna Takashiro remained blissfully unaware of his 'condition.'...

DISCLAIMER: graphic sexuality A year and a half at his first jpb, Akira Shoji runs into a student teacher from his high school days, Ryoko. But she, who once had a relationship with him, now has a ring spar...

A huge earthquake centered in Tokyo Bay caused the appearance of the giant kaiju, Ogre! A messenger of doom unleashed by the earth against the haughty human race. He is a beast that appears and disappears, ...

Yasuori Kato, an oni who mastered the art of onmyodo and shugendo, is determined to destroy the Imperial Capital Tokyo to appease the grudges of his ancestors. To accomplish this, he attempts to awaken a pow...

(from ebookjapan): Saburo, a new doctor, met a man in downtown Susukino, Sapporo. Saburo sees the life of a fierce doctor in Tetsuro Kokubu, who has suddenly disappeared after having shown great promise for ...

A former mangaka falls into poverty after becoming disillusioned with life and abandoning his trade. He unsuccessfully attempts to start a business selling rocks by the riverside to feed his family.

This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

Utamaro Kogawa is a travelling salesman, always accompanied by his younger sister Hotaru, his only beacon of light and hope. Going from place to place, he fulfills the needs of his clients for a price. What ...

Tatsuya Kanno, who possesses both the wisdom of God and the soul of the devil , is the child of an escaped prisoner and the wife of a university professor. Eventually, Tatsuya kills his adoptive father and o...

After an unexpected accident, distraught Tsubaki Tsukishiro is left in denial of his sister's death. But after a moment of despair, he has an epiphany,"I don't need to exist if my sister is here." Donning h...