Yuki Tachibana, a withdrawn third grader, is convinced that the fourth floor of his school is home to supernatural creatures that few kids (and no adults) can see and he's worried about a recent influx of new, less friendly creatures and about his ability to perceive the true shape of things waning as he gets older. Most of the other kids mock Yuki - they think he's crazy due to his strange pronouncements and peculiar actions - and, aside from the creatures he sees, his only social interactions are with the school's kindly and open-minded caretaker, a new transfer student named Makoto Suzuki who's allocated the desk next to his and an enigmatic boy named IQ who always wears a box over his head.

February 23rd, 20XX.
Looking for a job in the famous TV station at Odaiba, college senior Jin Mishima attended the recruitment orientation. Not far away from the station, Nanako Okano, a gothic lolita trying to attend a concert, found out that her friends tricked her about the concert ticket because of jealousy. The two bumped into each other and "reunited" -- they were junior high classmates -- moments before an earthquake of Richter Scale 8.1 turned the island (the entire city, in fact) into ruins.

Suppose you were so beautiful that people mistook you for a superstar, a model. So beautiful that strangers went out of their way to catch a glimpse of you and shopkeepers offered you things freely. Kyung-hee Goh is that girl. Trapped by the feelings she evokes in other people, she steers through life alone. Boys are either too intimidated to approach her or think she should reward their compliments with her attention. Then she catches the attention of the baddest boy in the school. And that's when the battle really starts...

Mika has a special relationship with an abused girl who has an extreme fear of men.

On the outskirts of Neo-Hong Kong lies a mysterious Chinese-style garden. Legend has it that anyone who looks upon the fairy of the garden will die before the night is out.

Five years ago, Douglas Pyke was charged with discovering the true nature of this fairy, but when he accidentally killed a woman in the line of duty, he left the police force forever. Now, a cabbie and sometime private eye, he is asked to find a missing scientist and confront the mysteries of the garden once more.

I'm confused, is what many readers will feel, when they read this short story about a guy, his wife, and the long red something!

From Tokyopop:
In these haunting tales, Dolls-- human-like androids-- have an uncanny way of working themselves into the lives of their masters.
DOLL examines the question of what it means to be truly human.

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shinichi is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?

Won the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga and the Seiun Award for Best Comic of the Year in 1996.

Takaomi Matsubue and Arika Togawa are second-year students at the same high school. By some strange quirk of fate, they started dating. Matsubue-kun is a really weird guy (in truth, other people just don't understand him), which causes Togawa-san to ponder: "Why do I like this guy anyway? Why do people fall in love?"

They encounter a baffling mystery: Tsugumi Yoshimoto, a girl who has been sleeping, sleep-eating, and sleep-walking for half a year. According to Touko and Rinko Mishima, sisters who are also well-acquainted with the structure and interpretation of dreams, this is a matter that concerns them all...

Kaname lost his older brother Souta in an accident, too young to die at seventeen. They are so different from each other that the only thing common between them is a book written by Tsujiura Ryousuke. What happens when Kaname meet Tsujiura-san, the author both brothers respect and admire, after Souta’s funeral?

Yamanouchi Kouya, the daughter of a famous author, is a shy young girl just starting middle school. She is named class representative along with Kannatsuki Yuuya, a boy she met on her way to school who frightens her a little bit. They are trying to work together, but he always seems mad at her and she is painfully shy. The thing is, Yuuya knows something that Kouya doesn't know yet—that her famous father is going to marry his mother!

Saya has undertaken plastic surgery, and now is popular with men, however, she seems to be unsatisfied with herself. What exactly was her reason to undertake the plastic surgery...?

Each year, the villagers of a certain mountain village hold a festival to celebrate the harvest. Tominaga Yuuki, a 17-year-old born outside the village, is chosen to play the role of purifier in the Oni exorcism, the festival's most important ritual, opposite 3-year veteran of the dance Kurashina Hana, his female classmate. In the days leading up to the festival, Yuuki gets more and more fru strated with his role, until he starts to see...?

Four spicy stories about lovers, who struggle with their very strong feelings, starting from a confession...

1. Yume Touka End Roll
2-4. Coyote Hita Hita Hita Kousagi Niya Niya Niya Watashitachi Fura Fura Fura Anata dake Niya Niya Niya
5. Kimi Shigure
6. Kimishigure

"If you can get 5 million yen for killing a person, what would you do?" A beautiful woman asks Shiki, a part-time lecturer, that question on their first meeting. Shiki answers "If it's an evil person...," mistaking this for a joke. But then the woman points out the target...

1. Kingyo Sukui (Prequel)
A poor man who hates working is left by his wife. The same day, the god of poverty comes to live with him.

2-4. Derashine no Hana (Sequel)
Based on a Rakugo tale. A man with an incredibly long name is blessed with an equally long lifespan. Fed up, he seeks out and befriends a Shinigami that he'd seen in the past.

5. Komukai-ke no Jijou / The Komukai Household's Circumstances
Souta, an elementary school student living with his father and father's partner, starts to question his family life after a sex education class in school.

It was the roaring 20's, and the country was Japan. Bluecat, or Aoneko, is a debonaire aristocrat with too much money and leisure time. Along with his servant boy Tigerman, he dabbles in private detective work much to the chagrin of the real police detective Mr. Bee-Prince (Hachiouji). Bluecat is handsome--and yes, he knows it--witty, polite, and popular among the rich. However, his deviant libido, as well as his own attractive nature, often land him in danger.

Delve into the depths of a futuristic world that only gets colder and darker with each revelation. He has no name. He has no identity. He walks aimlessly. His only motive... change at the Highest Tier.Website: ujrkingdom.netAlso as a reminder (although it sounds stupid) read this from left to right NOT right to left.

Zankoku na Kami ga Shihaisuru portrays the tale of two step-brothers - Jeremy and Ian, as they strive to discover their separate paths towards redemption.
Jeremy, a sensitive but outgoing 17 year old, is delighted to hear the news of his neurotic and excitable mother's remarriage to a wealthy British man. However, much to his horror, his sweet-talking new step-father Greg, soon begins to exhibit a disturbing trait...he is a sadistic pedophile and loses no time in making Jeremy his target. Months of horrific, systematic abuse drives Jeremy to desperation; he sabotages his step-father's car with the hope of eliminating him. The resulting accident, however, kills his mother along with Greg.
Jeremy's shocked and guilt-stricken behaviour arouses the suspicions of Greg's free-spirited son, Ian. He unearths enough evidence to tie his step-brother to the crime; but in doing so, also discovers the details of Greg's sexual abuse of Jeremy.
Caught in a moral dilemma -- between punishing the criminal and atoning for his father's sins, Ian soon finds himself haunted by lust for Jeremy. Is it lust...or love? He wonders whether he shares his father's proclivities, but finds himself helpless to resist being drawn into a passionate and painful relationship with Jeremy.

Note: Won the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award Excellence prize in 1997.

To fight the increasing number of worldwide terrorist groups and psychopaths, the confederation proposed to have 242 countries hold hands and establishing an organization of geniuses, with at least a score of 180 IQ, with unique skills.

This is "SI", also known as the "Special crime Investigation".