This volume includes ten of Junji Ito’s short stories, as selected exclusively from the Shōgakukan publisher catalog and presented and accompanied with a gallery of six color illustrations. Stories:1: Army of...

Opening the front door, Carmen holds her breath. Farooq is looking down at her with hate-filled eyes. A year and a half ago, she met the desert prince, Farooq, at an international conference. They fell in love,...

Since childhood Nana has been dreaming of becoming a caretaker at the Japari Park, all because "Friends," unique human-like animals, live there. And today her dream finally came true! But will she be able to...

Ten-year-old Elin loves her brave and beautiful mother, a gifted beast doctor charged with the care of the Toda. The fearsome giant serpents that the kingdom's warriors ride into battle. Their modest but happy...

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly...

Mamoru Kitaoji is so popular in the company that he is called “the prince of the sales department". In contrast, Ms. Kurone is a quiet colleague who is isolated from everyone around her. One day, on his way...

If Madoka Kaname had known of the tragic transformation that would mark the end of her magical-girl journey, how would her story have unfolded? In this telling of her story, Madoka remembers the outcomes of her...

From Yen Press: Oriko's ability to see into the future led her to commit bloody acts in her efforts to forestall an even greater tragedy later on. But what if Oriko had met Yuma Chitose before she predicted the...

From Yen Press: After becoming a magical girl, Oriko Mikuni befriends other magical girls at her school-and not always on initially positive terms! Complications arise when Oriko's friends, unaware they both...

An unemployed otaku has just reached the lowest point in his life. He wants nothing more than the ability to start over, but just as he thinks it may be possible. He gets hit by a truck and dies! Shockingly, he...

"Virgin support lesson!?" A new national policy has declared that when a man turns 18, he will receive three brides. Souta, who has experienced tragedy, is looking forward to this. But, on his birthday, to his...

By ZnF: An encounter between a kitsune who runs an udon stall and a man who sells tofu. When the man compliments the deliciousness of the udon, the stall owner is so ecstatic that the tail he was hiding pops...

How far would you go to get what you most desire? For Guren Ichinose, a fifteen-year-old magic user born into a lowly clan, that journey begins when he is forced to enroll at an academy run by his order’s...

This is a story about a piano, pitifully abandoned in the woods, and a young boy, Kai, who grew up playing it as his favorite toy. While Kai cannot even read sheet music, one day, he meets Shuhei Amamiya, an...

“One day, I realized that the pinnacle of magic is not something that just anyone can reach.” "The Sage of Wind, Ephtal is a reincarnated human, coming from modern Earth. Reincarnated in a new world where magic...

She fell into the nasty plot of her sister and was humiliated. After many twists and turns, the misunderstandings passed by, one by one... When all the truth was revealed, when the plot was punctured, what...

My name is Natsuki and I'm an average high school girl. My sister Mizuki Ogura, on the other hand, is a top celebrity adored for her serene charisma. It's a struggle to attend to her eccentric whims. My secret...

Sequel to Shokuryou Jinrui: Starving Anonymous, this new story takes place in a normal school, in a normal classroom, with normal classmates. But something is off, and there is an unidentifiable anxiety in the...

Three short stories set after Utena’s revolution. Utena has saved Anthy by defeating Akio in the final duel, but in doing so she has vanished from the world. Now the student council members at Ohtori Academy...

Koji Tsukino returns to his old high school as its new math teacher. From his long hair to his cold, aggressive nature, Koji looks nothing like your usual teacher and everything like the former delinquent he...

“We shall fight till there's only one of us left standing!” "Have you ever experienced the feeling of being pushed into the abyss by the love of your life?" Nangong Yue was from a famous and noble famous in her...

"It is Leia Organa's sixteenth birthday and she participates in the traditional ceremony where she declares her intention to one day take the throne of Alderaan. But she's much more concerned about the way her...

Cammy, an amnesiac MI6 agent, fights the forces of Shadowlaw, whilst trying to regain her shattered memories. Note: Nakahira released an extra chapter for Cammy Gaiden in the SF2 Movie film book "Gekijouyou...

Suddenly told she was going to inherit all her grandmother's kimonos, Hotori needs to learn kimono dressing in a hurry. But with her intense stranger anxiety, there's no way she can go take a class for it! Just...

Aoshima and Shijima—one star on the fall and one on the rise, and both only in high school. Both know the rush that fame can provide, and both know how easy it is to rip away. But what neither knows is the...