A poignant and intelligent collection of short stories linked to the progression of the seasons.:

1. Soft Shell
A voluntary shut-in suddenly meets the woman who lived in her apartment until a year ago.

2. Falling In Love With The Sky
The tale of a young woman who has found her soulmate.

3. One-Piece (The Dress)
A university student is overjoyed when her first boyfriend buys her a one-piece dress.

4. The Name Of Water
A handmodel is troubled by her anonymity.

5. Tough
A graphic designer is stressed by her boyfriend's absence and lets her frustration out at work.

6. Wind Grass Child
Like its Biblical equivalent, Salome, this oneshot tells a tale of desire and obsession.

A coda to the OVA and novel of the same name, this six-chapter manga gives us a deeper glimpse into the back-stories of Rei Fukai, James Bukhar, Tomahawk John, and other members of the F.A.F.

However, some of the details about the characters' pasts and relationships appear to deviate from the sequence of events as seen in the anime. Therefore, this manga should only be read after having first watched the anime or read the novel, and treated as an alternate story of sorts.

The story starts with unknown death cases in the parallel universe in Scandinavian countries focused in Urvland. Urvland as a Scandinavian country, has the highest ratio of self-killing. But who knows the mystery of these death cases? What is the reason behind? Creatures whom call themselves as Afreet begin to reveal themseşves. Main character Oleg Fjerdssan and his kitten found at street are about to go into a deep tragedy and we will see How they are going to be affected by this calamity.

From Hoshi Kuzuu:
1-7) Yume Yume Shinjuu
For someone who has no recollection of their childhood, Yuzuru's been having the same dream over and over again. One where he and another boy are playing in a small shrine. But he can never figure out who the other boy is. Then one day, his brother Ryosuke brings home a classmate of his, named Takumi. Within the memories that Yuzura can not remember, he realizes that Takumi was his childhood friend and first love. Takumi reveals that he is ecstatic that Yuzuru remembers. Happy to meet his first love again, Yuzuru once again becomes attracted to him, but...

8) Hitsuji no Rakuen: Unscanlated

A girl falls into a coma and finds herself at an unusual "convenience store" managed by a talking dog. In the land where dreams are made, suspended somewhere between life and death, she watches and learns from the various souls she encounters.

Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother’s grave. Then for reasons he can’t explain, Hiroshi is transported back in time, and discovers that he’s an 8th grader again, but with all of his adult memories intact.

Can he, or should he try to change the decisions he made before? But more importantly, can he find his way back to the present day, or is he stuck in the past?

Conjoined twins Yudy and Yucy are as different as possible. Older Yudy is intelligent but ugly, as her nutrients are used up by her beautiful but simpleminded sister Yucy. Loving and hating so deeply, where does one girl begin and the other end?

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In the year 2000, a Chinese nuclear experiment went wrong mid-transit, resulting in Japan falling into ruin. Those who survived were housed in Japanese based American military facilities to escape from the deadly radiation and learned to live following regimented lives of labor and learning.
To relieve the boredom, a recreational drug called "Zero" was created and sold illegally. Taking the drug induced a dream filled sleep where people saw their lives as they were in the year 2000. And in the cases of those who hadn't been born before 2000? The most they could surmise is that they saw who they were in their past lives.
But it seems something is brewing below the surface, and those past lives may just hold the answer.

One night, mild-mannered college student Mori Hiroshi bumps into a woman visiting his next-door neighbour, Yamamoto. Abnormally tall and dirty-looking, the woman has long, straggly hair, wears a man's coat and carries shopping bags in both hands. But then, without warning, she abandons her dogged pursuit of Yamamoto and shifts her attentions to Hiroshi himself. Who is this woman, what is she after, and will Hiroshi ever be able to shake her off?

Note: Originally published in 1993 - before the term "stalker" was acknowledged by Japanese society - Zashiki Onna became an unexpected hit despite being serialised only for ten weeks. Regularly chosen as "the scariest manga ever" in magazine horror specials.

From Iskultrip Scans:

It is a very dark night. Under a heavy rain, a determined man sets out to track his terrified victim. The decision of Kirishima Seiichi is clear: Tonight, he will kill his wife.

A year ago, he was a happy man - a successful writer, a contented husband, and a father of a young boy... at that time, everything seemed going well for him. But such happiness had to end. The day his editor put an end to their collaboration, darkness seeped into his life faster than a bullet. A terrifying descent into hell commences, page by page of what it seems to be his last novel...

From Manga Freak:
Fumiki Shimazaki has only one dream: to become a poet. Spending more time in his poems than in the preparation of it his studies, he faces dissaproval from his professors and his best friend Mika... To escape from the harsh reality, he seeks refuge in an abandoned factory.

There, he stumbles upon a mysterious dog, who saves his life from an attacking monsterous feline. Their friendship is immediately created thereafter.

Questions arise then. From which does this gifted dog come from capacities paranormaux and overflowing of thirst for knowledge? How can it speak? What does the number 23 on its ear stand for? The Appearance and arrival of this dog causes an increaingly number of extraordinary events all revolving around the number 23...

The Japanese government has launched a brand new law: because of the laziness and apathy of Japan's people it was decided that someone, daily and randomly, will be chosen and killed with a poisoned capsule in order to "bring to life again" and wake up the others.
The person elected will be warned with an ikigami (or death notice) and after this he/she will have only 24 hours left to live.
What will those condemned think and do during this short time?

Note: Was nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2009.

Kan-chan and Yumi just graduated from high school and are living together. Full of enthusiasm Kan-chan starts working to support his familly.... but there is something seriously strange about his new company?

From huamulan03.blogspot.com:

3 January 2011. ER doctor Matsuoka Tsuyoshi examines a patient presenting influenza symptoms. The next day, the patient dies from multiple-organ failure, followed by others who had shown the same symptoms. As the death toll rises, even the high-tech Japanese are at a loss over how to check the further spread of the deadly virus

From Asclepias Scans:

Eden, a captured servant and bodyguard to the prolific Count Ricardo, is forced to take part in a gladiatorial competition for his master while dreaming of his own freedom.

From Nagareboshi Manga:

Saki has always hated liars, ever since her father left her family when she was young. Now a student in high school, Saki nearly dies in a car crash, and wakes up to find that she has a new ability... the ability to see when people are lying. Saki comes to realize that there are liars all around her...

In the panic surrounding a worldwide pandemic which kills 15 percent of the population and cripples many more, a secret organization, the Propater, topples the UN and seizes control of much of the world. A boy and a girl, raised in an abandoned virology research center, immune to the virus, are attacked by the Propater and escape.

Based strongly on Gnostic mythology, all major characters are named after gnostic deities, and have analogous roles.

A two-faced god decides to mess with the lives of two people. He grants invincibility to an arrogant and hot-blooded detective who was on the verge of death after a run-in with gangsters, and makes a former company CEO who became destitute after his company went bankrupt, rich! The God makes a bet with himself, and sits back to watch how those two people deal with their new lives...

After witnessing her secret girlfriend's murder, normally calm and cool-headed police detective Seolah becomes obsessed with finding him and taking revenge.