Consists of a volume with various oneshot.

1- Key

2- Alkaloid

3- Breath

4- Night, Midnight

5- Dogs and Summer Clothes

6- Key (epilogue)

Ten stories about the everyday life of Sei, an idealistic songwriter, and Miho, the young woman who struggles to support the both of them.

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Miho and Sei are living together. She works at a boutique while he tries to make it as a songwriter and 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 young couple. Struggling to make ends meet, Miho decides to take a second job as bar hostess. As she becomes increasingly desperate for money, Miho eventually gives in to one of her client’s sexual advances. When Sei finds out about this he begins to distance himself from her. Things get even more complicated for Miho when Hagio suddenly reappears in her life.

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 Uroshima'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 Uroshima, 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...

A selection of short stories. The stories deal with the same themes as Parasyte and his other work, and in only one of them is his art style noticeably more primitive.

The twisted and deeply disturbing tale of a sociopathic serial killer...

When he was young, Kouichi ("Usa") was taken in by his cousin Kaname's family. Usa extremely hates when others touch his neck... But what might be behind his strange behaviour?

Also contains non-shounen ai oneshot "Under the Purple Shade"

Ikagawa Tokage is a boy with a superpower. He has the the ability to change the color of his eyes whenever he closes and reopens the eyes. Kinda useless, right? Regardless, Ikagawa Tokage strives to strengthen his power in an effort to become the strongest and not have his power be nothing more than an arrow to the knee. With that desire in mind, he trains daily in an abandoned building in modern day Tokyo. But on one such day, he comes to what looks to be a scene of a crime and feels the culprit might still be nearby. Will he make it out of the abandoned building with a broken knee? Is there more to his power than meets the eye?

Sari Remington is a funeral manager by day and a banished angel put on Earth as punishment. When a young girl comes in to schedule her own funeral a week in advance, what is a devil to do?

1) Is it wrong to eye your body "As long as Kakuno's willing to look at me, it's okay." Hazumi was helped by his classmate, Kakuno, who saw him being harassed by some upperclassmen. His heart stolen by Kakuno's strong and beautiful body, Hazumi told Kakuno that he wanted to see it all. Kakuno obliged, but as time passed their relationship became no clearer. They started out as strangers, neither lovers nor friends. Which would it be, if any? 2) Night falls Stirred by the rustling sounds of the leaves, the boy awakes to find a stranger in his house. Surprised but undeterred, he tries to befriend the mysterious guy that hangs out in his sister's room after night falls. Time pasts and his sister disappears, trying to go after the guy who decided to leave. Will he see his sister again? What about the stranger of the night? 3) The end result Continuation of the second story.

From Ochibichan:

“Recruiting those who want to finish it and die, but feel sad doing it alone…”
Fed up with everything, Mie posted a notice on an Internet Bulletin Board and found suicide-partners. Four boys and girls were gathered together because of their ties to death. And then…?!

A collection of oneshots dealing with psychological themes like death, suicide and bullying.

One-shot webcomic involving a girl, a train, and another person.

From Operation Boredom:

Ichiko Usami is a fifteen-year-old runaway girl. One day, while she’s loitering around the riverbed with nowhere to go, a masked boy named Kohaku suddenly appears in front of her! Ichiko faints and Kohaku takes her to the mansion he shares with several others. Even while lost in wonderment at the individualistic residents, Ichiko gradually opens up to them. But why is she somehow frightened by the fallen children shoes?

Skyhigh Shinshou presents the stories of those souls who get to the Gate of Grudges. Izuko, keeper of the Gate of Grudges presents each soul with three choices: pass through the Gate of Grudges to heaven and be reborn, refuse to admit death and remain as a ghost on earth, or haunt and kill one person and then proceed to hell and eternal suffering. What does each soul choose and why?

From That Scan Group:

An existence gained from exchange of life.
A world filled with pain and darkness.
At the edge of despair, Writer J starts his solitary struggle.

From Blissful Sin:

Whatever he does, it always backfires, a salaryman who always fails, Saeki Katsuya. Facing restructing, a guy appeared before him when he wanted to give up.

“From the moment you put these on, your life will alter drastically.”

The glasses which were handed to him, seemed to be a forbidden item that will change its wearer into a dominant brute... Having obtained the glasses and on the road to being a beast, will Katsuya obtain real love?

Sarasa is the head of the student council and the step-son of the principal. He is targeted for sadistic sex-play by one of his classmates. Kazunari, the vice-president of the student council, tries to protect Sarasa, but Sarasa tells him not to get involved. Kazunari doesn't listen, but the more he gets involved, the less he is certain - who is really the sadist, and who is the victim? Will Kazunari's love for Sarasa survive? Will Kazunari survive Sarasa's "love"?

Vol. 1 Kyouhansha ni Kuchizuke wo

Vol. 2 Yoru wo Hashiru Emono (Game Runs in the Night)

Vol. 3 Mezametara Soba ni Ite (When I Wake Up, I Wish You are With Me)


English publication via Renta!

A collection of stories: Chapter in order

1. Oboreru Sakana (Drowning Fish)
Living in a house of constant fights, An has learned to drown his feelings in the water. He has never felt love, and doesn't desire it - people call him cold. Usami, the illegitimate son of a wealthy business man, is a player who dumps his girlfriends when they fall in love with him. He doesn't deserve to be loved... How can they love him, when he doesn't love himself? Will the fish be caught by the lonely net, or will each sink to the bottom weighed down by unrequited feelings?

2. Rakuda Tsukai to Ouji no Yoru (Night of the Cameleer and the Prince)
Kamel is the only white skinned boy in the caravan. Because his skin is weak, he often gets fever and feels bad. He has the camel named Sadiku, but still he feels a little lonely. And one day he finds a passed out man in the desert who is...

3. Ibitsu na Kakera (Broken Pieces)
A story about a flame of unexpressed feelings, controlling and eating away into the blood relation. A brothers' forbidden love.

4. Kusatta Rasen (Rotten Spiral)
What is the true relationship between high schooler Ataru Koganei and the famous actor Shuu Kanai?
Koganei appears also in Ienai Itami o Daite Iru.

5. Ayaui Kyouen (Fragile Play)
Chapter extra of characters from Ibitsu na Kakera and Kusatta Rasen.
Features Makino brothers from Ienai Itami o Daite Iru.

6. Rakuda Tsukai ga Kieta Asa (The Morning that the Cameleer was gone)
Chapter extra to Rakuda Tsukai to Ouji no Yoru.

This series follows the story of how Batou and Kusanagi met during a civil war and is also a parallel story to the Arise OVA series with Batou as the lead.