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From Atelier du Noir Scans:

Youko has a protector in Shige-san. He has guided her, helped her, and always maintained a respectful propriety since she was a little girl. The difficulty is that Shige-san is a ghost, a poltergeist who only communicates with her by throwing small rocks to signal his disagreement or to show her what to do. But now that Youko is beginning to feel the first stirrings of young love, will Shige-san’s guidance help her find her true happiness?

Note: Won the Spring 2016 Four Seasons Award (Kodansha) in the one-shot manga category.

Nanami Kousaka wants to be an idol, but he keeps getting turned down at auditions because of his overly cute appearance. He is approached by a producer, Kouichi Kitami, who gets him to debut as Mi-Na while crossdressing.

An ex-couple meets again for a single day after a year to bury the boyfriend's cat. A short story.

Kuginashi Bon is a middle school boy suffering from severe gynophobia. One day, a group of weirdos suddenly move into the apartment next door and declare they want to help him overcome his condition...

From Storm in Heaven:

This volume contains two parts, Bus Hashiru and Nanairo Sekai. Bus Hashiru is a collection of five short stories centered around bus stops. In all your encounters with strangers that take place there, isn't there a chance you might discover something you hadn't had before...? A new take on life, or a lost love - nothing is beyond you.

#1: Sky-Winding Bus Stop
(Karamagari Teiryuujo)
A salesman disinterested in his job meets a high school girl and after chatting with her, his viewpoint about his job changes...

#2: Sakura Street Bus Stop
(Sakurachou Teiryuujo)
A day before graduating from high school, Hikaru confessed her love to Makihara-sensei, the Biology teacher of their school. She promised to meet him at the bus stop after she graduates from college and that she'll marry him then. Five years have passed by since then...

#3: Wasurena Hill Bus Stop
(Wasurenagaoka Teiryuujo)
Yuka gets a postcard from her high school crush informing her of his marriage. She recollects how she couldn't even face him directly and confess her true feelings back then...

#4: Weather Forecast (Tenki Yomi)
His weather prediction is often wrong. He repeatedly fails his exams. But still, in his despair-filled life, there's someone who'll wait for him at the bus stop on rainy days...

#5: Dudleya Road (Dudleya no Michi)
A boy loved a girl of his neighbouring country. Only a road connected both the countries and a bus ran on it. One day, the two countries started fighting and a war was impending. The bus stopped running between their countries and the connecting road was demolished. Can the two lovers' connected hearts bridge the gap between their nations?

#6: The Glasses Thief (Megane Dorobou)
see Nanairo Sekai

#7: Adult-Uniform (Otona no Seifuku)
see Nanairo Sekai

From Hachimitsu Scans:
A boy who wonders why his younger brother Yuuki started dressing like a girl, and decides to see what all the fun is about by trying on some of Yuuki's clothes.

In future Japan, bigamy is legalized! Specifically, each person may legally marry two spouses, a simple legal change that brings up a lot of questions about serious romantic relationships. What would long-term relationships be like if they didn't remove you from the dating pool? Would people be more willing to commit if they knew they could also pick someone else later? Would society really jump to accept this as a new social norm, even if it had become legal?

Ikuta Naosuke, a married man, bumps into a classmate from middle school, Itou Yuko, who's had a crush on him. Yuko has grown up to be a pretty nurse, and Naosuke begins to have an affair with her. With the new bigamy laws, Naosuke wants to marry Yuko, too. But how badly would that hurt his first wife? And how will he deal with it if Yuko also finds another man to marry? Naosuke and the people around him are starting to shift towards the new and approved 'double marriage' lifestyle, but they may not be ready for the complicated problems that can arise...

In a post apocalyptic world devoid of seasons, where man's "golden age of technology" ruined earth and caused science to run amok, there live four individuals looking for a door to the hell far below the surface. Through a series of coincidences, the ex-hitman-now-bartender Mihai, the deranged and psychopathic Haine, the vengeful yet kind Naoto, and the freelancer Badou meet one another.

Follows Swiss Army recruit Sophie during basic training.

Minori Takasaki is a lesbian who plans on having a lovely time surrounded by young girls in her new high school. However, she gets involved with a trap, Yuuki Toudou, the student council president.

G takes place at these points we call boundaries. Boundaries between times, dimensions, destinies, life and death, …
It tells the story of young Tomak through his initiatic journey.
The Death Grass Spirit is never far...

This story is related to the short story "Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour" published in Heaven's Door.

one of those rich person-servant type dynamics that drives the crossdressing

The Muromachi Period was a time when nightfall brought true darkness. Set in this era of gloom, the tale of GAGOZE, a violent demon feared even by the monsters, is about to begin!

The story follows a family of mask-makers and their reclusive son who has completely shut himself off from the world...

An anthology of stories from the 80's.

From Japanzai:

To protect the earth from the "eques" and save the human race from an alien menace, the young Akira has to fight to the death. Even if that requires sacrifices...

This collection is an amalgamation of work reflecting Hiroki Endo's philosophy and his outstanding ability to draw and to tell stories.

Volume 1:

"The Crows, the Girl, and the Yakuza"(カラスと少女とヤクザ)
A long, heavily philosophical piece about a homeless girl who lives among the crows in an empty warehouse and a wounded yakuza who hides from his enemies with her (86 pages long)

"Because You're Definitely a Cute Girl" (きっとかわいい女の子だから)
This short story is about a girl who is into Jungian psychology, and she regrets the loss of her mother and elder sister as well as her invalid grandfather.

"For Those of Us Who Don't Believe in God" (神様なんて信じていない僕らのために)
A story about a group of college students putting on a play about a serial murderer in prison who holds a discussion with the sister of one of his victims. This story is heavy on philosophy and existential dialogue interspersed with bits of humor (Endo's typical short-story formula). This is a long story, weighing in at about 90 pages.


Volume 2:

"Hang"
A young girl asks her boyfriend to "take her to the end of the world." Here especially are overtones of EDEN--reality hangs on a silken thread.

"High School Girl 2000" (女子高生2000)
This is about Master Endo himself. He shares his midlife-crisis at 30 with us, and the situations in an artist's life back at the beginning of his mangaka career...

"Platform"
The two-parter Platform tells of Takaguki, son of a powerful yakuza clan, who hates nothing more than his father's overwhelming power and his heritage...

"Boys Don't Cry"
This one-shot talks about sexuality issues.