It is the story of two boys, Machizo and Tetsuo, who create manga together. Machizo's father is a successful mangaka (manga artist). Machizo feels he's living under his father's shadow, and resents his father's...

It's spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara has a difficult dilemma. Should he declare his love for manga and anime fandom by joining an otaku club, like he has always wanted to? Is he prepared to deal...

A new academic year means new members for the lovably misfit Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture! Club president Chika Ogiue now has to manage a freshfaced trio of yaoi fans (one of...

Akio and Yoshino believed all there was left for them was to graduate. But life had different plans for them. Yoshino moves on while Akio stays behind, and something between them begins to change. The story of...

Great Teacher Onizuka is back, and the next stage for his legend is prison?! The trouble magnet of a teacher reveals that this stint behind bars is thanks to a certain incident with the class he became...

A super voluminous collection of works, including the debut work of Hideki Arai of ``Shinsetsu The World is Mine''! A super-volume collection of works that includes Hideki Arai's debut work "August Light...

Miyuki Umino was a senior in high school. Although Miyuki, her two younger brothers and her younger sister were poor, they were happy living together. But, one day all of a sudden her older brother's debt of...

Takashi Sone is living on his own while he is attending college. Out of the blue, his parents tell him that his sister, Mafuyu, is moving in to live with him and that she will be attending a high school in his...

In this new spinoff of the hit manga, a newbie Red Blood Cell is one of 37 trillion working to keep this body running. But something’s wrong! Stress hormones keep yelling at him to go faster. The blood vessels...

Author and editor, man and woman, a "heart-pounding" story. In his seventh year as a manga editor, Tateyama became in charge of Yokozawa, the magazine's signature author. "I'm going to make a big hit!" he said...

Momoi Kampachi, as a child, loved the manga Ashita no Joe and followed his dream to become a professional boxer, but at the age of 24, he was diagnosed with a career ending injury. As hard as it was to turn...

This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kyulten", "Sensual Nights", "Lord...

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his...

The sun rays enter the city of light, as various stories unfold: Bright, dark and harsh; a story filled with people from whom you’d want to avert your eyes. Yet, it is close to reality; so maybe it’s true to...

The protagonist, Okada, is in his mid-twenties and works part-time for a building cleaning company. He lives his life feeling anxious and dissatisfied with his unremarkable days. What will he do when he can’t...

"Hirudora" - Main Story This slice of life comedy depicts four housewives playing mahjong against each other in the late afternoon, gambling on store stamp cards, beer coupons, and other items. Other scenes...

The story takes place in Iceland, at land’s end, 64°N. Kei Miyama is a 17-year-old with three secrets: he can talk to cars, he can’t handle pretty girls, and he works as a private investigator. One case has...

A selection of short stories. The stories deal with the same themes as Parasyte and his other work, and in only one of them is his art style noticeably more primitive.

Reiko finds a starving mysterious animal that looks like a cat with wings. To the girl's surprise this cute animal names itself a space salesman that would sell advanced technology to humans for just a bit of...

"100 days left, and I'm still a virgin" Kun-hee, is a 21 years old universitary student, he have a girlfriend, but still virgin. Because my girlfriend Goo-i said that she will be a virgin until marriage...

Itabashi Kurumi was a regular, everyday high-school student... until she got pregnant by none other than her teacher, Oomiya Ichigo-sensei. Now pregnant, Kurumi dropped out of school and Oomiya got fired from...