Rather more representative of the Nishioka siblings' writing style than Kami no Kodomo, this is a collection of one-shots that explore the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people in an odd, surrealistic manner replete with atypical and symbolic illustrations. More than one reading may be required if you are to completely grasp the core message behind each of these stories.

After attempting suicide due to bullying, Katou acquiressupernatural powers and an indestructible body. Upon seeing his bully,Oda, again, he murders him with his powers. Katou is exhausted, butOda comes back to life and awakens with the ability to hear the innerthoughts of others.Katou, curious about Oda's condition, goes to check on him and finds aweak and frightened Oda, a complete change from h

From Peccatore Sanctuary: Murakami Keisuke possesses beauty which cannot be missed, many people admire him due to his beauty. But he has never accepted any one of these people. One day student council president Masaki, due to some incident started to become close to him...

A collection of nine surreal short stories sharing a theme of water. Chapter 1, Bon: A young boy ponders family affairs around Bon. Chapter 2, We’re Still on Our Way: An astronaut cadet must figure out his motivation if he is to succeed and go into space. Chapter 3, Fusion: When the ultimate form of love is fusion, the government must work to stop a declining population.

It's been 25 years since Mitsuhashi and Itou suddenly disappeared right before the high school graduation ceremony. Sagawa, now in his forties, is working at a dead end job after giving up on his dreams. When he finds out that his coworker Miyabi is being abused by her older brother, he tries to intervene, thinking that he could be like those two were back in the day. However, it backfires hor

Ordinary guy on an ordinary day woke up in an ordinary house next to an... ordinary dead body, what would you do?

A series of loosely-connected vignettes, each lead to the next by a stray thought. A young hit-man chased from his home; a dropped key to a bloody room; a meat-locker to hide a corpse; the watchful eyes of crows; a criminal?s chance at salvation; the sight of music in the air. Where will this story take you, and in what place will it end?

From Aerandria Scans: The story is told as a collection of allegories based in a medieval fantasy setting, but aimed at mature audience. The main character is Helga, a girl who lives completely ostracized from her fellow-villagers, but she seems to enjoy it rather than suffer from it. The people in her life, whose stories we also get to explore, are her best friend Eda, the kind young mayor and

It's the year 2034 and high school student Sasaki Hiiro boards his bus just like any other day. Everything changes, though, when his bus is suddenly attacked by a mysterious girl with red eyes. When Hiiro awakes, he finds himself in "Tokyo," a city which was supposed to have been permanently sealed off after the outbreak of the deadly Pandora Virus ten years ago. Not only that, but it also seems l

"People become unhappy because they only think about the past and the future... not the present.." So-Na, unable to remember a painful event in her past, is living only for her mother's nursery, "The Snowdrop". When she meets Hae-Gi, the intentionally isolated and beautiful model, they instantly click and fall in love. However, a dark secret that connects them, threatens to tear them apart. Like

Shuhei Kurata is stuck. Going to a new school where he doesn’t fit in, standing still as his old friends leave him behind. Watching silently as the woman he loves slips further and further away. He feels detached and out of place, as if maybe it all might be a dream. Perhaps it is…A 1-volume series.

Jooyeon is a guy who wants to put his past of being fat behind him. Upon meeting a model who goes by the name ‘Yeo Soo” by chance, Jooyeon develops a strong desire to emulate the person who gave him hope and decides to follow him to the same university, but…

A battle ensues over life and death, belief and science, ethics and progress. <br><br>Two boys, Sei and Oishi, fall madly in love with Yuko. Her death wreaks havoc on their young lives, bitter memories cease to fade, and their tender hearts cling to the dream of a world where debilitating illness disappears in the face of science. But what would happen if they discovered that all they

A long time ago, a pair of twins were born. Back then, however, multiple births were considered unlucky, so one of the twins, a girl, was... crushed to death with a millstone, buried under the shade of a large mulberry tree. The girl's soul, lacking a fully grown spirit, could not reincarnate, and as such was forced to wander the world. Only after collecting 108 individual sources of human mis

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 th

In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three tee

A romantic story set in showbusiness and modeling world, CRASH reveals the influence played and the links joining the publicity, cinema and TV worlds: as a vector to the image manipulation, that tends too often to dehumanize the top model or actor, reducing him to a simple image in 2-dimension.

Ten stories about the everyday life of Sei, an idealistic songwriter, and Miho, the young woman who struggles to support the both of them. ------------ Miho and Sei are living together. She works at a boutique while he tries to make it as a musician. Even though Miho still can’t forget about Hagio, her ex-lover, she is happy in her relationship with Sei. However, all is not well for the youn

From DrMaster: Goths Cage is an enchanting manga-esque picture book series of three short stories with a malicious twist of love and romance. It is based on Yasushi Suzuki's art series that was previously released online in Japan under the name Phantoms KADAN. Suzuki-san re-adapts his art series and transforms it into a bewitching picture book with entrancing grace and charm. Each of his gothi

The Nightmare of Fabrication is a beautifully drawn full-colour manga from Yoshitoshi ABe. The 18 page short story can be found in the Lain Omnipresence in Wired artbook. It's a bonus story which apparently isn't related with neither the anime nor the PS game. It shows characters who were included in the PS game but not in the TV series (like the psychiatrist), but also determinant charact

[Summary By: Love_Blossom] The people of Kinase Village are protected by god. Kaya and Rin live together because Rin's mom died. So Kaya and Rin are not blood-related siblings. They seem like normal people, but there is a secret they have that no one knows about....

The reaper loves seeing the cries of humans before swinging down his scythe to reap their souls. He lives for the hunt of humans souls before their passing. Yet one night, he encounters a dying girl with flowers blooming in her room looking back at him with a smile.

From Yen Press: The Mad Tea Party…To members of the elite house of Kuonji, a clan whose name has incredible pull all over the world, this monthly gathering is the only tried and true (not to mention mandatory) family tradition. But one such family reunion brings with it some unexpected and horrific news for the nine Kuonji siblings, and it comes straight from the lips of their mother Olga.

As winter draws to a close, German boarding school student Thomas Werner dies one morning. He leaves behind a single letter addressed to his fellow student Juli that reads "Here is my love. Here is the sound of my heart." With his faith shaken to the core by the words, the scholarly Juli sinks to the depths of despair. His cynical roommate Oscar finds himself watching over Juli's fragile mental