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A man suddenly gets off the train at some rural station, and soon comes to realize that this town can't be found on any map. Even stranger are the manners of Urushima's townspeople - because over there people are doing it openly on the street, in broad daylight, just like you'd say "hello" to somebody elsewhere. And there are many other things being weird about this little town Urushima, seasons are randomly coming and going, and our protagonist meets the woman of his life. Shouldn't be hard to get her given the prevalent manners...
From Storm in Heaven:The local gods are out of followers, and only have one yokai to give them power! Can Mizuchi, the yokai, bring any more into the fold?
A bitter, washed up manga artist receives a mysterious gift from a fan... A one-shot by Takahashi Rumiko to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Japanese semimonthly seinen anthology, Big Comic.
What would be your first thought if someone killed your parents? Certainly REVENGE... That being the case for Yoshi, who is a thief that wanders from place to place searching to find his parent's murderer, that were killed in a bloody attack his village was under years ago. His only companions.. His instinct, his memories and a rose which was given by his father shortly before he died. Follow Yoshi as he searches for his parent's murderer full of hate and rage!
Lead character is a naive boy who's fallen in love with an older girl who everyone considers a genius writer. He's so in love in fact, that he has forgotten about his secret hobby for the last 2 months. His secret hobby is that for the past 10 years he has been writing the "character profile" of a single girl. Her birthdate, personality, hobbies, conversations, etc.... is all recorded in a large pile of notebooks. All this time this fictional girl has been his friend and lover, but now that he is in love with a real girl he decided to throw them all away. In order to "purify" the notebooks, he decided to burn them at a nearby shrine. To his surprise, the senpai he's in love with was also there. It starts to rain and as they talk the girl confesses she's having trouble writing her novel due to inexperience. As the storm gets even stronger, the lead character believes that since she confessed her "weakness" to him it is ok for him to show her his own "secret". Filled with courage, the boy opens the bag where he brought all the notebooks... except that instead of notebooks, the bag now contains the girl (naked of course) he's been creating for the past 10 years!!
Satomi wakes up late one morning and starts running to school, but she crashes onto Keshi. They both stare at each other for a moment and noticed they switched bodies! Now Keshi is in Satomi's body and Satomi is in Keshi's body. They have to continue the other's life until they fix their problem. But things get complicated when Mariko, Satomi's best friend, confesses that she likes Naoshige to Keshi, in Satomi's body, and he doesn't know what to do. Includes two other stories: • Mushibana After graduating from middle school, HIRAI Yuka hopes to gain many new friends and a handsome boyfriend in high school. But during her days before entering high school she manages to get a major tooth ache which totally ruins her class introduction and kills her chances of gaining new friends and boyfriend. Forced to go to the dentist and feeling like her life couldn't get any worse, she makes a chance meeting with a bishounen, Yuuki Yuuta-kun at the dental clinic, Yuka's life is suddenly starting to look better!? - Intercross • Tomodachi Sando
From Intercross: Riko's dream is to write picture books for children. However, she has no confidence in her drawings, so she never shows them to anyone, especially because then children said they suck in her dreams. One day, she happens to meet Akane, a spirit from a sakura tree. With his help, Riko remembers her first intentions of wanting to write picture books and starts to have more confidence in her drawings.
Based on the visual novel of the same name. In 1986, between October 4th and 5th, members of the Ushiromiya family gather on the secluded island of Rokkenjima to discuss the division of the family's massive fortune upon the impending death of the family's head, Kinzo. However, when a typhoon traps the eighteen people present on the island, six people are mysteriously murdered. The remaining people struggle to survive as the murders continue, supposedly by the will of the legendary Golden Witch, Beatrice. Other manga: + Triage X manga + Sidonia no Kishi manga
A short story published in the October 2011 issue of the fashion magazine Spur, in which the mangaka mixes advertising for Gucci products with a little supernatural flavour courtesy of Kishibe Rohan and his grandmother's old traveling bag.
From Boku-Tachi: For the past 500 years, a certain country has spent day and night fighting countless wars. However, the appearance of General Kyoutaka Kuroda seemed to foretell the end of this war-torn world with eighty percent of the country already under his rule. His followers are the People Hunters, indiscriminate murderers who suddenly started killing under Kuroda's orders 15 years earlier. In foreign countries, in their own villages, men, women, children and the old...there were no distinctions made. Kuroda's followers simply murdered...and enjoyed it. Happening upon a lone priest with the eyes of his dead sister, a displaced you man named Kazuma struggles against the demons of his past and present. In this strife ridden land how will he fare?
Dark fantasy story follows a boy named Muoru who has been falsely arrested and sent to a cemetery to perform forced labor. There, he calls himself the "grave keeper" and meets a beautiful girl named Meria. Muoru becomes fascinated with Meria as he spends his days digging a hole containing the undead monster named "The Dark."
A strange woman’s video message made me miss my girlfriend’s date. Has my father who died in the fire reappeared? Retired firefighters are infected with the “otherworldly virus”. Could it be an evolution or mutation catalyst? The mysterious Solomon girl, the stunning assassin demon hunter, as well as ghouls, Taoist priests, and immortals. The major sects and factions are ready to move, and the mysterious Creator is planning to rule the world again… Who is plotting all of this?
