The plot ... takes place in a small town made up of many hills and slopes where Nishiki, a high-school girl, has taken on the title of a Sukuiya ("rescuer") trying to do her best to help the townsfolk and...

A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to be...

Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the...

Rather more representative of the Nishioka siblings' writing style than Kami no Kodomo, this is a collection of one-shots that explore the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people in an odd, surrealistic manner...

On his first day of transferring to a new high school, a loner named Mori Buntarou is cajoled by a classmate into climbing the school building. Despite knowing that one misstep could send him spiraling to his...

A man who wants to escape his boring, repetitive life sets out on a journey. On the way, he comes across unbelievable things, terrible things.

From Delish Scans: My dream of a fairy tale kiss, dashed.

One-shot compilation featuring works written and illustrated by Tezuka between 1968 and 1973, and is very highly regarded in Japan and by Tezuka himself. Spans a variety of genres, from SF to Military to Wild...

Azusa Wakaba, the daughter of Azusa Fumiko, famous film actress, jumps into the film industry with her beauty to find the truth behind her mother's mysterious suicide. Wakaba catches the eye of Murase Takayuki,...

Jean Valjean, a starving man who commits an act that will haunt him for the rest of his life; Cosette, a young orphan girl; Javert, an obsessed policeman; Marius, a revolutionary in love. These and other...

For the sooty industrial town’s lads there’s only one point of light: The Light Club, a secret brotherhood they’ve organized in an abandoned factory. They’re on the verge of booting up their crowning...

Contains 8 stories. Each story possesses different characters, but the theme of love and its different forms of expression is present throughout. Girlfriend in the SkyHow can a girl get her boyfriend to hold...

In the year 2999, only eleven cities still survive on Earth. The climate has changed drastically, and a biochemical apocalypse has made women extinct. For centuries, the male population of Earth has survived by...

A girl makes the acquaintance of a monstrous creature who believes himself to be quite human. Note: Included in the collections:Ishu Renai Monogatarishuu and Nagabe Tanpenshuu: Henteko na Ai

Contains five short stories: 1. Medusa2. Daphne3. Kyoufu no Amai Mono Ikka4. Kago no Naka no Tori5. Kiraigou

Based on the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde and starring Edo period Ukiyo-e painter Utamaro.

Socially-awkward Uehara has wanted to be an entomologist since he was a kid, and he spent all his time chasing that dream. When he failed, he was forced to come back to his home island, where his mother was...

In the near future: A world renowned mathematician / physicist Francis Dullam loses his left brain hemisphere and retires from hard science to study dolphins. Several years later he comes up with the new thesis...

Eri Yukizaki is a girl locked in battle with a chainsaw-wielding incantation of true evil. But, like the demons that boil inside her heart, the 'Chainsaw Man' doesn't seem to die, no matter how much she stabs...

A DECADE-SPANNING JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS. Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumor of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the body...

Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story “The Book of Human Insects.” The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy...

Official English: INKR A beautiful and mature sixth grade girl from Tokyo suddenly has to move out to the country side of Japan with her family. The girl, Natsume, then meets a boy and from then on she begins...

Around the offices of Tozai News, Shiro Yamaoka has a reputation for being over-blunt, under-ambitious, and generally an all-around slacker. So why has he been given the important job of coming up with the...