This is the story of a man known only as Gen, who used to be an assassin. Nobody knows his past, his real name or his age, only that he is now working at Tsubakiya, a secluded onsen inn. He had put down his...

An autobiographical account detailing French artist Boilet’s infatuation, courtship, affair and break-up with the eponymous Yukiko – a young Japanese woman who never attempts to disguise the fact that, whilst...

Fuguno Masuo is a helpless 24-year-old businessman who is unlucky in love, He's never even had a girlfriend! After consulting a fortune teller, Masuo believes he'll never have a chance in love. All that...

Kase Haruo is something of a workaholic and things aren't going as well as they might with his wife and daughter. One day, when he comes home late to a silent reception from a sleeping household, a ghost...

A story focusing on a group of college friends, and their lives. Each chapter focuses on a different friend, and their relationships with various other characters.

A former Career Consultant, Takanashi, now works for a school as a Guidance Counselor. During Career Guidance meetings, he gives students data and tells them the realities of the world around them, hoping that...

Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her...

In the end, we’re all the same. We just want to be smothered like babies against another human’s beating heart. Through a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in. A...

From MangaHelpers: The year is 2019, and the Japanese government has recently increased their involvement in censorship of the mass media. The upcoming Tokyo Olympics accelerates their efforts. Depictions...

Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she...

In '45, amidst the chaos of surrendering, Yuhi's mother and sister are killed by a Manchurian man. An orphan, he and his brother, Goshi, go to live with a prostitute named Machiko. Now 17, Yuhi embarks on the...

While attending their friend's funeral, Sae and Mei are forced to confront and reflect on their mortality. An existential one-shot with plenty of 90's references courtesy of Asada Nemui!

Inaba Akira, a second year student at Naruyama High School, is a candidate for the next student council president due to his good manners and excellent grades. He was highly trusted by his teachers, and was...

Satomi's mother has left her father, but Satomi still waits for her at the family stationery shop. When Satomi's father, who has become an otaku and given up on life, decides to close the shop, she begs him to...

As the vampire Zach nears the end of his search for his lost love, he finds himself looking upon an old house in the middle of a quiet Japanese town. In it reside 3 people — an old lady and her granddaughters...

From Mohiro Kitoh, the author of Narutaru and Bokurano, comes this wonderful collection of short stories that reinforces his reputation as a skillful story teller. Spanning almost 20 years of the artist’s...