A collection of short stories originally published in Japan between 2000 and 2004:

• Fuyu no Kirin (April 2004)
• Spica (October 2002)
• Midori no Koinu (August 2000)
• Hana no Yurikago (December 2001)
• Yuuhi Candy (June 2000)
• Innocence o Machinagara (February 2004)

Part of a larger series about anthropomorphic cats in a surreal, Ghibli-like fantasy land.

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Stories included in this volume:
1. Mishiranu Machi (見知らぬ街) (Date:1989)
A group of teenagers went on a summer holiday and had a car accident. The woke up and found the whole city was empty. How can they escape the eerie place? But more importantly, can they really all go back?

Note:
It has been suggested that MATSUMOTO Yoko traced some of her panels of this stroy from Birthday Present (MIYAWAKI Akiko).

2. Youkoso Mystery Tour e (ようこそミステリーツアーへ)
In the summer holiday, a 15 year old girl Kana went on a vacation on an island, when a certain hotel giving out invitation to join a treasure hunt event with only a ridiculously impossible map to read. With a group of four along with her cousin Riku who can't handle transportation, her little brother Takashi who likes mystery and her brother's girlfriend Natsuki, the group join the event, meeting suspicious people and witnessing unexplainable occurences. Can they find the treasure? Is there any hidden agenda from the hotel owner by making such an event?

3. A wa Akuma no A (アは悪魔のア)
An almost dead man entrusted a Devil statue to Riku, a 15 year old boy. Before they realized, Kana, Riku, Takashi and Natsuki were already involved in an adventure involving antiques, cops, a devil in disguise, an angel in custody, and a cold blooded killer.

Spinoza has been printed in 7 issues of Photo Japon, from december 1985 to june 1986.

Each issue contains a whole chapter, printed on one page. The format is that of a contact sheet, with the pages shrunk to fit on a single page.

Many years ago, an ancient civilization once ruled Earth. They were known for advanced artifacts and machines, but were destroyed in the end due to the misuse of their creations. Creating indestructible message plates written in Hebrew, these people left messages for later generations, informing them that if they could not find a good use for their creations, they should be destroyed.

Various entities such as paramilitaries, national armies and armed private forces began to secretly search for these "mysterious" artifacts in order to be used for their own good and against their enemies after the end of the Cold War. Only the ARCAM Corporation can stop these forces from destroying themselves with these "advanced" machines. With the help of its military arm, the ARCAM Private Army and their elite secret agents known as Spriggans (or Strikers), ARCAM plans to turn the tides of battle against those who would threaten the safety of humanity by using the dangerous artifacts.

Hika Souma, called Picasso by friends, is 17 and still without a girlfriend after being dumped 13 times. One day, a pretty girl who later introduces herself as Sujata drags him out from a moving train, and with her unwanted assistance, his childhood trauma toward demons (oni) takes the form of a real demon summoned out from his body.

This is oneshot of Tokyo Ghoul.

Adapted from the children's novel Bootleg by the British author Alex Shearer, story centers on two 13-year-old boys who live in a country that has banned chocolate and mandated fruits and vegetables for daily consumption. The boys discover a stash of cocoa and sugar and decide to run a bootleg chocolate factory, in complete defiance of the government run by the oppressive Good for You Party. Their misadventures eventually sparks a revolution in the country.

From Shoujo Crusade:

"If you read a message to the east aloud while you pour hot chocolate into a cup, a fairy of love will appear to fulfill all your desires!" It says so on the heart on a cup that Kaede has just bought. Said and done! Mirumo has arrived to change her life!

This manga series was awarded the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award and the 2004 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.

A series of short stories that take place throughout the Universal Century Era.

A group of thirteen boys join the children's crusades of 1212. Violence ensues.

James C. Wingfield is accidentally, during an archeological excavation in Turkey, sent to another world, filled with dragons, magic, and talking fish.He meets a young girl by the name Victoria, who is bored with her every day life of magic and fantasy, and wishes to see James world of scientific wonders.James and Victoria travels on a flying train by the name 'The Steam Dragon Express', searching for a way to get home to James world.Note : Read from Left to Right

The story of the endless battle between Monsters and Exorcists. Except this time the main characters are the Monsters.Coming soon!---------------------------Author`s comment: I`m AI an independent artist. Check out my other works (TheLastPierrot and Bleak) and my website and facebook:http://www.thedreamcatcherz.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheDreamCatcherzIf you like my stuff please share it with your friends, as I said before I`m an independent artist, I make no money doing this, the readers feedback is really important to me.Thanks

Hero and Mii are two newlywed six year olds. And that's only the beginning!

From Girls' Generation Scanlations:

Enter Weiter Andreon, a young witch with special abilities to communicate with fairies. That day, saddened by her parent’s death, Weiter wanders into her back garden where she finds a wounded young man. Weiter decides to take this young man under her wing despite meeting objections from everyone else but her uncle's friends. In the magical lands of Alma, where Gurens are worshiped as guardians and protectors, Weiter finds herself beginning a new adventure with this mysterious young man who appears to be more than what he seems.

Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a Samurai general in Japan’s Warring States period, promises to offer body parts of his unborn baby to 48 demons in exchange for complete domination of the country. When the baby boy is born, Daigo has him thrown into a river, expecting the boy to die. A kind sage, however, finds him and adopts him. The sage fits out his poor son with prosthetics.

Time goes by and the baby grows into a boy who calls himself Hyakkimaru. Every time Hyakkimaru eliminates a demon, he retrieves one of his body parts. Hyakkimaru rescues a boy thief named Dororo from a band of men whom the young boy tried to rob. Together they travel the countryside in search of the demons who possess Hyakkimaru's parts. Throughout their travels, they face a host of monsters and ghosts.

This is a tale about a floating continent . 6 years ago , a disastrous monster attack marked the beginning of mankind's extinction . This is a story of the remaining survivors who struggle to fight and learn about these mysterious monsters as they prepare for a great counter attack . Will they succeed and regain their rightful rule of the continent? Or perish before these monsters.

"Abnormal" is about people that live in a world that can only be seen by those who live on it, but what happens on this world will save or destroy the future of humanity. A slavery-addicted girl named Seimina Yuri find out that she is an Abnormal and starts to fight in this world for her own survival, until she discovers that the world will need a new god.

A princess who holds a piece of a legendary treasure map known as the "Stone of the Sea" willingly joins a famous pirate in order to avoid becoming the twelveth wife of some 72 year old king...

(~from manga-mania)