Compilation of short stories:

• Hotel: Since 2079 (2006)
It is the year 2272 A.D.
A computer continues to live on in order to complete a mission in a world where all life, including Mankind, has gone extinct. This is a record of those 27 million years of its heroic struggle.
• Present (2006)
Hanako suffers from a terrible disease. After awakening from a deep slumber, Hanako has only three days to live.
• Subete wa Maguro no Tame datta (It Was All for the Tuna) (2008)
Tuna have become extinct and Jun Shiozaki will do everything possible and imaginable to bring them back.
• Stephanos
Set in modern-day Japan, our main character Noriko finds out that she is pregnant with her lover Matsumura’s baby. He, however, is an important doctor with a family and everything already. Noriko wants to have the baby, but Matsumura says that it’s actually a rapidly growing cancer and that they have to remove it immediately. It might also be neither of these things…
• Diadem
A "Diadem" is a word for 'crown' that has its root in Greek. "Stephanos", which appeared in "Mandala" 01, was also a 'crown'. It seems that we could consider this the second work in a continuing series of shorts that should perhaps be called a "Crown series".

Set in early 20th century France, Claudine...! follows the story of a transgender man into adulthood. He struggles through life, being the first child after three older brothers to take after his father, and is constanly misgendered by those around him. He wants only to be able to find true love...

Kazuhiko is a black ops agent who is called on an unusual mission: he must escort Sue, an innocent waif who has lived in isolation for years, to an unknown destination. But there is a dark reason for Sue´s life of captivity, and Kazuhiko discovers that his mission is more dangerous than it looks.

Consists of (Hakusensha bunko ver.) :
- Yumemushi, Hitsujigusa : divorced wife and her little daughter
- Mizumakura Hanemakura
- Kaisoku Hansen
- Summer Time : A young man, about to be married to his childhood love goes to look for his best friend who was supposed to return to the small village for his wedding from Tokyo. When the young man arrives, he finds a note left by his friend and the presents he would have brought. The note refers to a night when there was lightning and rain, cutting off the power in his small village. Was it really lightning?
- Non Regart
- Dahlia no Obi
- Rangiri Ninjin

[From StudioRobb]:

It's the story of a young student named Sahra who comes from a broken home. He has a difficult time getting along with his classmates (or, more precisely, he doesn't *want* to get along with his classmates), until a girl named Mai Omi decides to make her mission to help him feel accepted.

A girl living alone in a city that sank into the sea.

Collection of miscellaneous short stories.

When high school student Tsuruta goes in search of a missing cat, he could never have guessed what lies in store for him on the other side of the tunnel...

From Titania:

A manga about people trying to kill themselves, but weird stuff happens instead.

01 - Group Suicide
02 - Strange Tale of the Pylorus
03 - Paradoxical Night
04 - Dr. Suka's Villa
05 - The Spirit World Project
06 - To The Dazzling Future
07 - The Licking Woman + Mystery Pavillion (Ones-shots)

Special volume of 4 short stories, mostly about Kouji Nanjou's youth: 1) Kouji Nanjou Version 2) Bad Drug 3) Bad Blood 4) Zodiac

A mystery/action plot: in the 13 hours 13 children spent in space, what had happened?? It starts off 8 years after the spaceship incident, centered around one of the 13 children named Bono U. Meyer. He has an IQ of 240 and it seems people who are close to him have [coincidentally, perhaps?] been driven clinically insane. What is going on?

Taken from Anime News Network:
Beautiful People is a manga comprised of six profound and thought-provoking short stories. It includes a tale of a vampire who raises a child as his own, a story of a young man who copes with an alcoholic father amongst other problems with the help of an online friend and four others short stories.


Chapter 1: Princess White Snow
Chapter 2: World’s End
Chapter 3: Electric Angel
Chapter 4: The Lady Stalker
Chapter 5: Beautiful People
Chapter 6: Blue Sky

Yashiro Tenshuu killed 4 people, and is now on death row. However, a secret government organization is willing to take him off death row if he allows himself to become a test subject to an experiment that requires a killer's intent.

From Mangascreener:

The only common feature running through these stories is a grown-up protagonist somehow coming face-to-face with his childhood past, in a testament to the loss of youth, the disillusionment of growing old, and nostalgia for better times.

In the Adachi pantheon, this is a rare diametric view of his eternal theme of "youth," in this case youth as seen through the lens of the past. It's a powerful statement from Adachi that might even be an acknowledgment of his steadily-creeping age.

What is impressive about these stories is not the plots or characters themselves, but the absolutely perfect way he tells them, another facet of experience that comes with age. Most of the stories may require multiple readings to fully appreciate the airtightness of the plot and visual motifs."

Etou Kai may look like a squeaky-clean kid, but the Greater Kanto Narcotics Control Division's new investigator hides a violent alter ego and a dangerous past.

With his stoic partner Kurabayashi Hal, Kai is assigned to track down and stop the distribution of Dragon Speed, a dangerous new drug. But Ryuugen, the syndicate trafficking the drug, is almost impossible to infiltrate. Add street violence and a jurisdiction war with the Meguro Police into the mix, and it looks like Kai's in for some very long days at the office.

From: Easy Going Scans

If you could find out a little something about the future, what would you do? Get rich off of the stock market? Use the media to become famous as a prophet? Or…

Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world.

Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the category "Best General Manga" in 2001.
Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2008.

From Anime News Network:

A collection of short stories that look to mankind's exploration of space, and examine the possibilities that we could face when we decide to take those first fateful steps into the unknown.

A collection of stories:

1-3. 2 Shuukan no Adventure

4. Himeko-chan

5. His Left Eye
A story detailing an encounter between Gerry and Eugene from Barairo no Hoo no Koro, as adults.

6. Belgian Waffle
Andrew, from Barairo no Hoo no Koro, takes a stroll with his old father, bringing about some surprising discoveries, aside from the fact that Belgian Waffles can be sweet.

Timeline (from Oriolidae & Sparviero):

01 Barairo no Hoo no Koro v01 ch01-05
02 J no Subete v01 ch01-05
03 2 Shuukan no Adventure v01 ch05-06
04 J no Subete v02-03
05 Barairo no Hoo no Koro v01 Extra

There is a mysterious group of people who inflict cruel and fatal games on people for their own amusement. Tatsuya and Misa are out on a date in an amusement park when they wander into one of these horrific competitions on the tallest roller coaster on earth. The seats fall out of their 12-person roller coaster car, and they are told that the game will end when all but one person has fallen to their death. Will the passengers be able to find a way to escape the competition? Will there be any retribution against the orchestrators of this sick crime?