"Today Kanai-kun is absent from school.
Kanai-kun has passed away.
Who was Kanai-kun?
Was he actually here?"

A quiet story about one of the great existential questions in life.

The story of two extra-ordinary people in ordinary love.

A nameless high school dropout teenager turns into an assassin for hire. He is a complete loner who uses his knife to kill his targets without any emotion or hesitation. He kills anyone who gets in his way whether they be a complete stranger or even the client that hired him in the first place. He meets a man named Iwanishi after one of his jobs goes bad. Iwanishi nicknames him Semi (Cicada) because he apparently talks too much and offers to become his manager, handling the business side of assassination. But it seems like Iwanishi has some secret agenda Semi isn’t aware of.

In a post nuclear holocaust world,it has become a truly sinister dog-eat-dog world where only the strong survive. few humans are left and are easy pickings for mutated creatures but now here comes the mutated humans...

Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal and few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name: Gantz.

Life can be so wonderful as terrible.
The young Umeno, bullied since she started high school, decided to put an end to her life, but her suicide attempt failed and she survives. And it's precisely in the hospital that fate seems to provide her a new beginning, she'll know people who would show her a different meaning of life, above all a boy her own age in a terminal illness ...Can hope germinate even in the coldest of winters?

From Paradise Love Scanlations:

Ayase is an orphan who has been held by a mysterious man whom he has never seen. One day he transfers to an academy where there are no rules and where teachers cannot enter the students' dorms. Who is the real person who sets the rules within the academy?

Note: Please stop removing the "shoujo" tag. Asuka is a shoujo magazine.

Tadanori Takamura is a failure in everything he does. His job, his marriage, his life. One day, he is offered a way out of his hell (by a 3-fingered woman): A gambling game called "cowarDICE". Shady characters and dark moods abound in this intense gambling drama by Noboru Takahashi.

(Warning: contains sex and adult content)

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.

A collection of short stories.

I. Tody.
II. The Last Bus.
III. Family.
IV. Evil Spirit.
V. Inviting Darkness. Also called Soshite Yami wa Yomigaeru/And the Darkness Will Return/Coming Dark.

1. Kuro no Kumikyoku
After Ricardo's death Jess suddenly become so different, he even forgot about a song that he composed for Cathy, his girlfriend. His piano playing become so similar with Ricardo's and he also becomes close with Ricardo's lover.

2. Tenshi wa Yami ni Hohoemu
a. Cole: When someone encounter a person who looks exactly like theirselves, it means those person will die in a near future.
b. Linda: Violet is a girl who longs for a mother, attention, and love.
c. Violet: Short story about the lost of a lover and the happy medicine.

3. Bell ga Nattara
A mysterious phone call from afterlife.

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.

A collection of illustrations and short stories set in various dystopian futures. They are fairly disjointed and difficult to follow.

1-2. BEAUTIFUL WORLD
3. one self
4. Hane
5. Shabon
6-7. Necroman
8. Toshima-ku Seibu Sensen -West Side Street-
9. S -song of sapphire star-

This is oneshot of Tokyo Ghoul.

From Antisense Scanslations:
In this lavishly illustrated–and very short–tale, we follow a mysterious girl through a series of strange landscapes. What is she seeking? What will she do when she finds it? The only way you’ll know for sure is to read … The Tale of the Thirteenth.

Tsukino frequents the rabbit hutch ever since Mimi went missing.

From Must Be Endless: The popular boy in class and a boy who plays the devil’s advocate (has a girlfriend).

While hiking a mountain with his friend, Dong-uk stops to take a picture with him on a steep ledge which collapses and leaves them stranded on an isolated cliff. He accidentally drops a chocolate bar and it gets caught in a tree below them. While his friend is descending the cliff to retrieve it, Dong-uk accidently lets go of the makeshift rope and watches him fall to his death...but is he truly dead?

Sayoko is a newly transferred student: gifted with rare beauty and mysterious and magnetic charm, she captures every student's attention. Among them, the introverted Yuiko and the grumpy Mari become friends with Sayoko, while Ryou, a known womanizer, wastes no time and tries to hit on her, unleashing his girlfriend's rage.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo in 1983.

A collection of stories:

1-4. Yakozen
Although Monji (a student) is having a sexual relationship with Chiba, a friend from his circle, he's starting to doubt if he really loves him...?!
- Yaoi Is Life

5-6. Chishiryoubun no Ai o Komete (Insert a Lethal Dose of Love)
Uchida's never ever been in love. He doesn't know what it's like to be restless and uneasy, to have his body heat up like it's on fire, to feel that tight pain in his chest. And then he meets Takahashi, and everything changes.
- Vices and Devices