Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he’s falsely...

It's been ten years since the assassination of the Dragon King, the land's most powerful ruler. Off in the corner of the kingdom where tailed dragonfolk dwell, Jio, a human girl, yearns for adventure and an...

Tokyo teens Kei and Masaru are killed by a subway train but awaken in a room with an ominous black orb that gives them weapons, suits and orders. Fighting bizarre alien monstrosities in a deadly game, will they...

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...

Defying the expectations of family and teachers, Yuugo Hachiken chooses to leave the city and enroll at Ooezo Agricultural High School. Having always been at the top of his class, Yuugo assumes a rural school...

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all...

Alita wakes up alone in the sky city of Tiphares, her brain and body reconstructed by the mad scientist Desty Nova. There’s no time to wonder why Alita’s greatest enemy would resurrect her, though – the royal...

Takemoto lives in a run-down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his...

Five years ago, all but one of the inhabitants of Ootsuka village perished due to the plague. And the sole survivor wished only to follow her two dear friends to the grave. To prevent the deaths of the people...

This time, the focus is on the second eldest brother in the family from Mainichi Seiten — the bespectacled Akinobu who wakes up one morning in an unfamiliar bed with someone most familiar and unexpected...

From Entropy: Ryouhei Hayabusa, named after the nearly extinct Peregrine Falcon, no longer sings in public after his chorus teacher removed him from the choir, saying he has a "beast-like" voice. But one day...

Phoenix is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between a...

Homosexual university student Haruhi Sakagami has low self-esteem and is tired of people comparing him to his twin brother. Trying to find his own individuality, he ventures into Nichoume, Tokyo's gay district,...

Yuu is a high school kid who doesn't really fit anywhere. To find a place he can belong, be accepted, he will do anything. However one thing leads to another and he is forced to fight to keep his place, his...

Trepanation is the procedure of drilling a hole in the skull. It is said to increase the blood circulation and improve pressure inside the skull. It is also said to bring out a person's sixth sense, the ability...

"The stars that don't shine in Tokyo surely do shine in a different town..." TSUTSUMI Koutarou, who couldn't be a senior at a college-oriented high school in Tokyo, moves into Himi City, Toyama Prefecture with...

Like most teenagers, Mashiro Ichijo has a secret. But Mashiro's secret is that he’s neither fully male nor female! So far, Mashiro's been able to live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed...

Born into a family of executioners, Charles-Henri Sanson must take up his father's mantle as the Royal Executioner of Paris. Conflicted between his desire to honor the family name and rebelling against the...

Nakabaru Taiyo came to Okinawa in the pursuit of beautiful ladies and the blue sea... But while trying to hit on a cute girl, she told him that her mother hated him... And then a wonderful story of scuba diving...

At the end of the Warring States Period, Ginko, the greatest swordsman of the time, desperately sought a fight to the death with someone stronger than herself. After cutting and cutting and cutting, she finally...

Jio is a young magic user whose goal is to one day become the greatest magic user in the world! He lives a sheltered life with his master Iregaura, until the events of one day leave him to journey out into the...

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...

Before she passed away, Emma's mother told her that she has a wealthy grandfather. Emma gets close to him without revealing her identity, but she meets Conrad, a man mentored by her grandfather. Emma is...

19th century France - Paris. Céline, a girl who "looks like she's from the moon", is 14 years old and has no dreams or ambitions, and doesn't even know what she wants to do. When she arrives in Tokyo, she meets...

This is an autobiography that tells the story of Akiko Hayashi, the author as she was in her third year of high school at the beginning of the story. Through her friend Futami, Akiko starts going to an art...