The story is about an odd-looking 12-year-old boy named Fuusuke, who is a powerful warrior from the Ninku school of martial arts, a style that mixes ninjutsu and karate. It is explained that before the pres...

A disturbing one-shot about a starving mother and her son living an impoverished life in U.S.-occupied Tokyo, 1946. One day they meet a mysterious man with dwarfism who offers to assist the woman and her chi...

Normal City is set in the far future where mankind exists on other planets. The existence of ESPs is accepted- but only as a "tool" for the army. The main character's name, "Kitty 101", was given to her by ...

Collection of stories: 1. Rakka (落下) 2. Aibeya (相部屋) 3. Ryokan (旅館) 4. Nunosei Kyoushi (布製教師) 5. Oshikiri Idan: Kabe (押切異談・壁)

In elementary school, Juuzou was tortured by his classmates. Years later, he finds himself working with one of his former bullies, a man named Akai, who has moved into the apartment above his. As time progre...

14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology. To get anything other than the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's San...

A compilation of short stories written from 1987 to 1996.

Asuka, who lived in Hokkaido with her mother, moves to Tokyo to look for her father she has never even met before. When she gets to his house, he is not there, only his children, who claim they have never me...