Enzo Takaya, character inspired by Jean Reno, is a teacher and the oldest son of his family, as such, he takes care of his siblings like a father. One day, a 5 year-old girl is found on their doorstep with a...

A story about Yan Gui-fei, a beautiful woman from Chinese history.

It all started with the suicide of an up and coming female photographer named Hirose Miki. The autopsy revealed that she may have been raped before she threw herself off of the condo balcony. Her fiancé, Kuremi...

Icaro is the mind-bending, fast-paced adventure of a young man, Icaro, with the ability to fly and a young woman, Yukiko, who risks her life -- and more -- to help Icaro achieve his dream. Best of all, it...

A set of legendary masterpieces drawn by Ikegami Ryouichi and written by four splendid original authors. This collection includes four fantastic works, including the boxing-themed "Gym"!

Five short stories. - Inu wo Kau (Raising a Dog) Soshite Neko wo Kau (And Then, Caring for a Cat)Niwa no Nagame (View of the Backyard)Sannin no Hibi (Three People's Days)Yakusoku no Chi (Promised Land) The...

From Etc: Dr. Katou is an ambitious woman who seeks to revolutionize the corrupt and inefficient Japanese medical system from within by becoming a professor in a teaching hospital. She enlists a maverick...

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as an apprentice (Shikomikka) in an okiya. The house where the...

The story of a mixed couple, a Japanese man named Iwao Shishido and a Filipino named Irene. Foreign wife Irene suddenly appeared in a cold village like a blowing pool.

An estranged aunt names Jayne the inheritor of her estate. The only condition? Continue to employ the servants.

Jotaro Fukamachi is a private detective. Divorced with a woman he can not forget, with whom he had a daughter. He has a reputation for sleuthing, but it is rather stingy and often shows interest. On the other...

Shunsuke Watamune, a talented Japanese engineer with a strong passion for doll-making, has been invited to join the West German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen as an experimental doll maker. Despite the...

A peek at the life at a Shinto shrine (or jinja). Mostly centered around one Satomi Shinjirou, who's more or less forced to choose the path to priesthood after his older brother skipped out on that. Kind of a...

Kyoya Ida is a hard-nosed detective from the Shinjuku Police precinct. He is known in the force as an unreasonable type who would use lethal force to solve cases, making him unpopular with the enlisted and high...

Treating non-successful suicidal patients requires a lot of money and resources. With a low budget and a personal respect argumentation, a doctor will ask a non-successful suicidal patient if they still wants...

Kachou Shima Kousaku is the first in a number of Japanese manga series about a fictional salaryman named Shima Kousaku, a Japanese white-collar worker who devotes his life to his company, Hatsushiba Electric...

"Kacchan" is a guy who has the power (or the disease) to "disperse" in time and space, looking for a place where he can exist...

Originally published in 3 parts in 2009 and collected in 2018 as a 1 volume supplement to the September 2018 issue of Sarai magazine.

The rogue ninja Kamui is struggling to free himself from the iron fist of his own clan. As a ronin, he should not exist. In his flight from his clan he meets another ronin kunoichi named Sugaru. Sugaru, wanting...

A series of short stories detailing the exploits of Dr Imibe Kana, a researcher on Japanese mythology and religion, as she travels around the country becoming involved in various occurrences centred around...

Narumi Rokurou is still adrift in life in his forties, unmarried, and working as an editor at a publishing company while writing hardly lucrative literary fiction. His days enjoying life at his own pace are...