A collection of stories: - The Bang Wall - The App From Hell - Grains of Rice - SM Temptation - The Prison Guard - High Noon - Panda! Go, Panda! - Angel (Tenshi) - New Product - The Dentist - A New Athletic...

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, ...

A high school girl stands atop a building, ready to jump to her death, when she bears unwitting witness to a brutal murder being committed down below. The young man responsible for the crime quickly appears ...

A 21-year-old man, Shinkichi, is employed as assistant by the beautiful ageless shamisen player Toyoshiga. Despite the considerable age difference, they became lovers. But Toyoshiga is a jealous woman who ca...

Kasane's face is so hideous, you couldn't bear to look twice at her—and her ugliness has forced her to walk a harsh path in life. But her mother left her something: a tube of lipstick. The power of this li...

Masahiko Mariyama, a small-time businessman, lives a modest life with his wife, two children, and dementia-stricken mother. Then one day, the people disappeared from the town! In the midst of his confusion,...

A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl. Oneshot that was included in Afternoon’s 2012 Four Seasons Award anthology (v28).