PANORAMA OF HELL is a shocking, tortuous journey into the depths of one man's postnuclear Hell. Through the confessions of a fiendish Hell painter born in the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, Hideshi H...

Asahi Sonorama (2000): 1. Kinpatsu no Sougen : Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes u...

There's 2 stories: The first is about a 14 year old girl, Yumiko, whose father dies under supposedly unsuspicious circumstances, but she sees her mother laughing the day he dies, and almost immediately she...

A collection of oneshots. Takano´s debut manga. Later 1982 in the award-winning antology of Takano short shojo mangas with the same title (by Hakusensha).

The story A, A' raises a troubling question: How would you feel if your lover died - and was replaced by a clone? Could you recreate your relationship with someone who was physically exactly the same but did...

Collection of short stories : - Rose tea ceremony - Kyabetsu Choucho - Page one - Shigatsu Kaidan - Hinagiku Monogatari - Sakura Jikan - Kinpatsu no sougen

Oneshot from Natsu no Owari no Totanchou.

Chibi-Neko is a young kitten who has been abandoned. She doesn’t know she has been abandoned, and doesn’t know the difference between cats and humans. Indeed, she imagines herself as a human girl and bel...

Deimos was once a handsome god. He loved a beautiful goddess who returns his sentiments. The problem, well, she is his sister. For their crime against nature they were struck down out of Olympus. The brother...

A collection of rather gothic short stories by Hagio in her early career days. The title story is about Lucas, who seems like any ordinary boy except for the fact that he has not accepted the death of his tw...

The first of two early works one-shot compilations by Kimura, this collects works from her latter half of high school through college, with one one-shot from her 20's at the end. Common themes include waitin...