In 205X, armed forces and conflicts are a thing of the past and people live safe, peaceful lives, all thanks to a cheap, inexhaustible source of energy. One day, something strange is discovered on the moon: an ancient corpse in a spacesuit. The corpse is undeniably human, but it appears to be about 50,000 years old! What does this mean about the history of our species and what effect will this discovery have on current human society? Won the Seiun Award in 2013
A group of friends wanders into an abandoned hospital unaware of the horrors awaiting them inside. The hospital harbors terrifying creatures, and the group can only do so much to survive. A horrific suspense story following a group of friends in a fight to survive the Hospital of Hell
From Twee Quidam Scans: Iku have always wanted to become a detective, that's why he's so happy when he had been accepted in Aketomo's Detective Agency. But wait! It isn't just your plain old detective agency! And they aren't simply just detectives! From Kurosainosa: Kobayashi, who since childhood dreams of becoming a detective, knocked on the a Aketomo's detective office door. But waiting inside is a collection of handsome men! Apparently, this office also opened a side-job as host club!
Chapter 5 - "Firefly Inn of Horror": hapless Meiji-era man stumbles into a Western-style mansion. Does hilarity or hotness ensue? Mayhaps BOTH?
In June of the year Shouwa 58, Takano Miyo comes to investigate the Hirasaka village, which is hit by a strange disaster and where the inhabitants struggle to survive.Published in the Monthly Action.
Compilation of short stories: • Hotel It is the year 2272 A.D. A computer continues to live on in order to complete a mission in a world where all life, including Mankind, has gone extinct. This is a record of those 27 million years of its heroic struggle. • Present Hanako suffers from a terrible disease. After awakening from a deep slumber, Hanako has only three days to live. During those three days, her husband, Takao, must endure a heart-breaking experience, knowing that the person Hanako really loves isn't him. • Subete wa Maguro no Tame da (It Was All for the Tuna) Tuna have become extinct and Jun Shiozaki will do everything possible and imaginable to bring them back. • Stephanos Set in modern-day Japan, our main character Noriko finds out that she is pregnant with her lover Matsumura’s baby. He, however, is an important doctor with a family and everything already. Noriko wants to have the baby, but Matsumura says that it’s actually a rapidly growing cancer and that they have to remove it immediately. It might also be neither of these things… • Diadem A "Diadem" is a word for 'crown' that has its root in Greek. "Stephanos", which appeared in "Mandala" 01, was also a 'crown'. It seems that we could consider this the second work in a continuing series of shorts that should perhaps be called a "Crown series".
[From Manga-Sketchbook]: Female assassins mix sex and death in a pair of hard-boiled well-drawn film-noir stories of love and murder. From Baka-Updates: Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.
A series of stories featuring the exploits of Doll, a highly skilled and extremely reliable detective for the hotel mega-chain, The Sunrise.
Someone is trying to kill Maejima, the unassuming Archery club adviser and Math teacher at Seika Women's High School. What appears to be pure, dumb luck has gotten him through several attempts unscathed, but he has no clue as to the perpetrator and the Principal would rather not involve the police in what's "surely just a student acting out". With the entire faculty and student body as his suspects, Maejima struggles to discover the culprit before his luck runs out.
From Go! Comi: Like most teenagers, Mashiro Ichijo has a secret. But Mashiro's secret is that he’s neither fully male nor female! So far, Mashiro's been able to live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed of a new class he must take in order to graduate from his elite prep school. To pass, he must find the “Keyâ€â€¦and the only way to find it is to enter into a nightmare world where his body and soul are put at the mercy of the worst kind of enemies: his classmates!
St. Kleio Academy is a very exclusive school: all of the students are clones of famous historical figures such as Beethoven, Queen Elizabeth I, Napoleon, Mozart, and Freud. All of them, that is, except for Shiro Kamiya. As Shiro struggles to adapt to this unusual campus, St. Kleio's first graduate, a clone of John F. Kennedy, is killed. Are the clones doomed to repeat the fate of their genetic progenitors, or can they create their own destinies? And how does a normal boy like Shiro fit in?
