Yoshio is thirty years old, and his life is a mess. A shut-in living with his parents, he has no job, no relationship, and no prospects. When he receives a new sim computer game that boasts characters created...

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from...

A girl, Mayowa Kusunoki, has moved to a city called "Ungaura" where you can see the sea. A record of dazzling and dim days spelled out in a mysterious city centered on her.

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a...

Her marriage life was enviable, at least it seemed to be. But deep in her heart, she knew it clearly that this man would never love her. The marriage was not built on the foundation of love, but a contract...

Love comes in many forms. A magnificent bird comforts a struggling girl; a vampire waltzes with a young lady at night; a blind girl lives with a monster of whom there is more than meets the eye. This six-story...

When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to...

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...

Ian, a young man with a fractured family history, travels from Australia to England to America in the hope of realizing his dreams and reuniting with his beloved sister. His story unfolds backwards through the...

"We are no different from gods." Hyunhee starts a new job as a server developer at a budding game company. As she digs deeper into a mysterious bug where if a player makes the character jump 65,536 times, the...

Eccentric and blunt, the walrus Hiroshi Odokawa lives a relatively normal life. He drives a taxi for a living, and there he meets several unique individuals: the jobless Taichi Kabasawa who is dead-set on going...

A captivating collection of short stories by Ryoichiro Kezuka that explores the quiet, powerful intersections of music, memory, and everyday life. At the heart of these stories is a young woman working at a...

Wolves, mummies, and a haunted café, oh my! College student Ryousuke Akaishi is desperately seeking work and housing when he manages to land an interview with a quaint café near his campus. Rumors abound that...

On the day that Naho begins 11th grade, she receives a letter from herself ten years in the future. At first, she writes it off as a prank, but as the letter’s predictions come true one by one Naho realizes...

Experience the world of orange from a whole new perspective, as the fate of the present and future timelines unfolds from the point of view of the ever-cheerful third wheel, Suwa Hiroto. Reuniting years later...

Gorou is an ob-gyn with a life far removed from the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry - the world of his favorite idol, rising star Ai Hoshino. But when the two are unexpectedly brought together...

Help me escape from this place. Nokram is a utopia, its citizens happy and smiling… except for Juri, who sees a paradox in the facade of happiness. At her school’s graduation, she stumbles upon a dark secret,...

On his daughter’s wedding day, a father dies and mysteriously reincarnates as the family dog in her new home. As he adjusts to his canine form, he uncovers a shocking secret: his seemingly perfect son-in-law...

The absolute loser Ping Dan; is a failure in life. Everything in his life is a mess, but then one day he spent his entire fortune to buy an exorbitant inflatable doll, and miraculously the doll came to life...

Richard asks the street painter Pascal for a portrait on the spot. As soon as he sat down on a chair and took off his hat, Pascal ran away. The word he uttered while being caught was 'Richard'. Richard invites...

Kyoungjin's new job is writing fake product reviews as the fictional blogger, "Lady Chatterley." And she's good at it. But one day, she receives a letter reading: “B's disinfectant spray poisoned my children...

From Storm in Heaven: Meet the Urumas, a slightly dysfunctional family of four sorcerers. Mom, being the most powerful sorceress around, works away from home keeping the world safe. Dad picks up the slack and...

The main character, Jong-Seok Lee used to be your average, run of the mill person. The only thing remotely interesting about him is the fact that he’s always at local book stores. All of that changes when he...

“Someday, I wish I could stumble across the memories of certain people that exist in the abyss by gazing at their pain, their sorrow, and the movements of their souls…” This dream-like work dwells on memory and...

Rising Stars of Manga (RSoM) was an annual comic anthology published in English by TOKYOPOP from 2002 to 2008, as well as the name of a contest. It was originally semi-annual, but switched to annual beginning...