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A collection of widely varied short stories with tongue-in-cheek humor and irreverent social commentary.Story 1, A Lad's Christmas: A jaded Santa has to get through a particularly rough Christmas.Story 2, Travel Writer: A young couple on their first trip break rule number one: Never leave the sightseeing route.� Story 3, TUDM.

The plot is a monster who came from the future to change the past. One woman must be removed to change the past. The name of the target to remove is Jung Eunji. In order to approach Eunji who is a hero, Tae-gwu is also a prospective hero. Will Taegu remove the threat and change the future?

Yuuma is summoned back to his home island after the death of his mother and asked to become the next head of the wealthy Nuenaki family. He has certain misgivings though and rejects the offer. However after the current head dies not a day after his arrival, he has no choice but to become involved.

Each of the high school students in the small dance club is there for a different reason. Natsu joined due to her love of hip-hop dance, and Haba Takahiro's presence is all thanks to some relentless bullies. Whatever brought them all to the club, they're now learning about the different styles of social dance from the skillful vice president Kazumi and the hesitant president Hajime. As they learn the joys of dancing, they will also grow closer to each other...

The day started as any other day for the three sisters, Tsumugi, Momo, and Rin, and their father. But they soon learn that everyone has disappeared and they appear to be the only humans left on earth. How will they survive?

The protagonist is a girl with the ability to visit a surreal alternate dimension full of monsters in her dreams. One day, she encounters another human girl there and receives a plea for help.

The second in the line of official Touhou Spell Card printworks, featuring a traditional comic story drawn by Aya Azuma and a danmaku fireworks competition that takes a wrong turn right in the middle.

Himeno is a sweet, shy little centaur girl. In her world, everyone seems to be a supernatural creature, and all her classmates have some kind of horns, wings, tails, halos, or other visible supernatural body part. Despite their supernatural elements, Himeno and her best friends, Nozomi and Kyoko, have a fun and mostly normal daily school life!

Mary and Eli, a same-sex couple, gave birth to Ichabod who became convinced at a young age that his father was Magic Monsieur, a notorious bandit. When Eli disappears, Mary must raise Ichabod alone, leading to struggles. Feeling unwanted as a son, Ichabod ends up hospitalized where he meets Guns, a member of The Red Rose Friend's Club, a bandit group. Guns' sibling is the gang's leader and Monsieur's romantic partner. Ichabod helps Guns escape, forming a strong bond with the gang. Through his association with them, Ichabod learns the harsh reality of Monsieur's true nature. Along comes Kirico, a striking woman who claims to be Monsieur's daughter, leading Ichabod to dig deeper into his past.

14 year old Kimigawa Kento lives separated from his stepfather after his mothers death. A woman visits with a will sayings it's from his biological father. He refuses the will and she tells him the inheritance is approximately 1 trillion yen. He still doesn't what it and threatened with his friends family's jobs at the line he agrees to meet his relatives. But all isn't as it seems. When he arrives at the house they are attacked. And he finds out the true meaning of the will...

From Mangascreener: The only common feature running through these stories is a grown-up protagonist somehow coming face-to-face with his childhood past, in a testament to the loss of youth, the disillusionment of growing old, and nostalgia for better times. In the Adachi pantheon, this is a rare diametric view of his eternal theme of "youth," in this case youth as seen through the lens of the past. It's a powerful statement from Adachi that might even be an acknowledgment of his steadily-creeping age. What is impressive about these stories is not the plots or characters themselves, but the absolutely perfect way he tells them, another facet of experience that comes with age. Most of the stories may require multiple readings to fully appreciate the airtightness of the plot and visual motifs."

The world-renown Louvre museum in Paris contains much more than famous works of art. Within its hallowed halls lies an unseen, surreal world that only a family of French felines can see!