A collection of short stories:

1. Oral Cavity Infectious Syndrome
On the surreal premise that women's mouths take the often weird shape of their partner's penis, Yoriko starts an investigation to discover with whom her boyfriend is cheating.

2. Local Tourist Information
A guide to an extraterritorial region of Japan.

3. Back Streets in Front of the Station
A girl goes crazy about reverse sides of different things, including streets, cars, and animals.

4. Genesis
Kago Shintarou's rendition of the Book of Genesis.

5. Superglue
What happens when you step on something so disgusting that you never want to uncover it?

6. Akutagawa in Front of the Station
A surreal homage to the writings of Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

7. When All's Said and Done - also included in Hell Season
A gruesome tale of hardened faeces, and a limbless girl.

8. Multiplication
Comic panels are multiplying and create opposing clans.

9. Abstraction
A two dimensional comic about young lovers turns 3D causing the characters' bodies to deform.

10. Blow-Up
What happens when every comic page features exponentionally more panels than the previous one?

11. No Need for Caution
The action of the comic happens outside of the panels--literally--in the white space.

12. The Memories of Others
Everyone's memories become visible via floating comic book panels.

13. Lord of the Ring
An incompetent sumo wrestler uses the powers of a forbidden pair of pants to overcome and shame his competition, until one day someone rises to attempt to crush him and take the pants for himself.

14. Spinning Thoughts
Wearing urinary calculi is the latest fashion trend.

1-3) Seventeen year old Ringo Kinoshita falls in love at first sight with student teacher Yashachi Kai but where are the rose colored days of his first love? Unrequited love is bad enough but it seems like Kai-sensei can't stand him at all. With a prank gone wrong and a series of misunderstandings just how will these two come together or will they just be driven further apart?

4) Happy game: A boss and his subordinates peculiar love.

5) Break you: A selfish young master is going to have an arranged marriage, but he's in love with his caretaker.

6) Love is good: Shiba always gets turned town by girls because they prefer his friend Kitaro. But Kitaro's preferences are...?

Suwa Daisuke is an ordinary, but popular, high school student. One of his classmates, Aikawa Hinako, is somewhat fearful of men and because she ran away from just his attempt to touch her hair, he states to one of his buddies, that she is the only one he wouldn't date, unaware all of the people in his classroom could hear them, including Hinako.
Daisuke's attitude changes after he unintentionally hears a shocking truth that she confesses in an abandoned church. His former annoyance turns to compassion and concern. Hinako is unaware that he knows her 'little' secret. Believing him to have no romantic interest, she becomes more relaxed and comfortable in his company. Their relationship faces a lot of obstacles, including jealous classmates.

Older brother forces younger into a sexual relationship after their parents' death.

1) Training Love
What happens when Tachibana finds out that Aya has a secret hobby, will he tell Fujiki, who Aya likes or will he keep it a secret? Soon Aya starts to have feelings for Tachibana, how will it go?

2) Pale Sacrifice
Yuri's handsome bodyguard Kashiwagi is always there to protect her. But at night he changes into a wolfish guy and Yuri wouldn't mind being eaten up...

3) Midsummer Temptation
Shiori was a substitute teacher when she met Yuu, and now the two have been dating for awhile. But Shiori is trying to find a job and the stress may be too much for their relationship.

4) The Wound
Mayu has just started dating Kazuya, the hardworking guy she sees every day on her way to work. But there's something she's worried about telling him: she was in a car accident when she was three and has a huge scar that runs down her body. But Kazuya won't mind, right?

Fudou Jun is a highschool teacher and takes a trip with a group of students. While there, a group of martial artists staying nearby take a strange interest in the girls.
These men are actually demons and after changing into their true form break into the cabin to rape the girls. One gets Jun and violates her.
She feels her soul being torn apart and transforms into Devilman Lady. With newfound powers and strength she kills all the demons and protects the girls from any further harm.
What are these demons and why did she turn into a hybrid of one? What does this mean for her and for the rest of humanity?

"We can't live without each other. You're my other half."

"I've killed a woman." The domineering voice on the phone was that of a high school classmate, Mitsuo Ichikawa.
Buried memories from the past resurface in the heart of a man with the same name, Mitsuo Ichikawa. It drags him right back into the passions of the past. They reunite as accomplices, yet their relationship as master and servant slowly changes into something new...

"An unknown city in an unknown land. Demons infest the land, madness rules the streets. Money and greed control the people who prey on each other. The young use their flesh, the strong their violence and sly their wits, trying to reign over the city. The weak are raped. Pleasure is only for the strong. That is the law, however cruel. The game has begun. The question is who will bring it to an end."

From Viz:

Ian and Rin used to just see spirits. Now Ian is one. Using the Fairy Cube, Ian must figure out how to stop the lizard-spirit Tokage from taking over his life and destroying any chance he has of resurrection.

V.3 contains an unrelated short story called

• Psycho Knocker
Ashina Tomo is your average school girl who somehow constantly has terrible images of a train accident. One day, on her crush’s birthday, her best friend brings her to an isolated print club machine which is rumored to allow prayers to come true. What would happen when your prayers come true, but not the way you want them to be? By a cursed print club machine nonetheless.

From mochi*mochi: Morimura Yuuki, concertmaster at Fujimi Citizens Orchestra, loves music and his small, amateurish, but tight-knit group at Fujimi. His world is shaken up when a brilliant, new conductor, Tounoin Kei, is recruited to breathe life into their music and orchestra. Yuuki feels Tounoin's high demands will do nothing but chase away the members, but when he draws more from them than they ever thought possible, Yuuki reconsiders his own motives for staying at Fujimi. Obviously, the newcomer Tounoin understands Fujimi more than Yuuki ever did and even has the girl that Yuuki's been in love with for the past three years, at his feet. Nursing a wounded pride Yuuki resigns from Fujimi, but Tounoin has other ideas...

Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could in fact be a demon hiding in human clothing. Amidst the growing tensions, tragedy strikes Akira causing his mind to snap, retreating into his subconscious, allowing his Devilish alter-ego Amon to break free from Akira's cage of flesh and wreak havoc on both human and demons alike.

Ryo and Akira travel through time in order to eradicate demons that could have changed history. Various periods are visited: from pre-WWII to ancient Greece, middle ages in France meeting Joan of Arc, far-west America, renaissance.

When demons begin taking over the bodies of humans, only the strongest survive. When a practicing young witch named Miki Makimura asks her friend Akira Fudou for help with a ritual, the spell is interrupted and Akira is left on the brink of death. His body is overtaken by a powerful being named Amon. Now torn between his humanity and the demon within him, Akira uses his abilities to fight in the war between demons and humans for the future of the world itself!

These are different stories involving Devilman's world. Some are about Devilman and add to the mythology some are separate stories that don't involve Devilman but take place the same time as the events in the original Devilman manga. They are illustrated by various artists. There are some color pages in the start middle and toward the end. There are some truly amazing art and stories in these volumes. Number one is written and illustrated by Lazy Hagawari, Tatsuya Egawa, Katsuya Terada, Ken Ishikawa, Go Nagai and Shinichi Hiromoto. Number two is written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki, Noriko Nagano, Go Nagai, Akihiko Takadera and Kazuko Yumeno. Number three is written and illustrated by Noburu Miyama, Miki Toro, Shinobu Kaze, Sho-u Tajima, Masaomi Kanzaki, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Iou Kuroda.

After his mother deserted them, senior high school student, Reo was living together with his mother's stern ex-lover, the very imposing uncle Shuuji. But 2 months ago, as he dropped by his home on his way with a friend one evening, an event occurred that changed their relationship forever.
Since the day his uncle forcibly embraced him, the man demands his body time and again and Reo who has been suffering ever since seeks his close friend Kenta's advice but...

Contains another short story: Pretty After ~ After

1-5) Ore no Tenshi wa Mayonaka Akuma
This is about a teacher, Fujiki Tomo, whose class has a new student who is as cute as an angel: Shiina Kazunari. But whenever Fujiki sees something unbelievably cute, he can't help but have an incredibly fierce and scary expression on his face due to nervousness. This scared Shiina a lot... and just when Fujiki is trying hard to fix his problem, a second "Shiina Kazunari" appeared in front of him at night. He stole a kiss from Fujiki, and said, "I fell in love with sensei today, and couldn't help but come and see you." The smiling person in front of him, wasn't the angelic Shiina, but a seductive young demon!

6) My Angel is a Demon

7) Please Lock the Door

8) Homura
When his mother dies Tatsuru moves in with his father and half brother Kotetsu. Tatsuru is faced with Kotetsu's constant abuse, but can't stop himself from being drawn in by Kotetsu's fiery eyes.

Mari Kudoh and his partner Yoichi call themselves 'handymen'. If it needs doing, these guys'll get it done. That's about to change, though. Miyuki (Mari's little brother and Yoichi's lover) asks the two men for a favor: stop the groper who's been hassling his best friend, Yu Kaitoh. But when Mari lays eyes on the beautiful Yu, he falls for him. Seeing as the handymen's next job involves smearing pretty little Yu's reputation, that's definitely not a good thing.

Mano Chiaki is simple-minded, incompetent and clumsy as well, so after eight unsuccessful interviews he's grateful he found a job working with genius architect Murasame. Even if Murasame is a bully and seems to enjoy torturing Mano, he's determined not to give up!

Witness the titular Punpun - who is depicted as a tiny, caricatured bird in an otherwise normal human setting - as he copes with his dysfunctional family and friends, his love interest, his oncoming adolescence and his hyperactive mind.

From Viz:
Phoenix is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between a distant future and a distant past, converging on the present, with characters from one story being reincarnated in another. The 12 stories--over 3000 pages.

Dawn:
The first volume, originally serialized in 1967. This story takes place in 240-270 AD, in the era of Queen Himiko of the Yamataikoku. Using her army, led by feudal general Sarutahiko, to invade Japan, she seeks the Phoenix and eternal youth.

Future:
The second volume, originally serialized in 1967-68. In Phoenix's chronology, this is the final story; it takes place near the end of mankind. In 3404 AD, the world has become super-modernized, but humanity has reached its peak and shows decline. A young man named Masato Yamanobe is living with his girlfriend, Tamami, a shapeshifting alien. Pursued by Masato's boss, Rock, they eventually take shelter at the isolated base of mad scientist Dr. Saruta, who attempts to preserve life on Earth with the assistance of his robot, Robita. Eventually, nuclear war breaks out.

Yamato:
The third volume, originally serialized in 1968-69. This story takes place in 320-350 AD (Kofun period), and is based on the Yamato-takeru-no-mikoto legend. The decadent king of Yamato is trying to have his own version of Japan's history written. Meanwhile, a "barbarian" tribe, the Kumaso, is writing an unbiased history. The king of Yamato sends his youngest son, Oguna, to murder the barbarian chief, Takeru. On his journey, Oguna encounters the Phoenix.

Universe:
The fourth volume, originally serialized in 1969; also known as Space. The story takes place in 2577 AD, where four astronauts must escape their ruined spaceship in escape pods. The survivors eventually crash into a mysterious planet. Among them is Saruta, who contends with Makimura for the heart of their female companion, Nana. On this strange planet, they eventually meet the Phoenix.

Hō-ō:
The fifth volume, originally serialized in 1969-1970. The story occurs in 720-752 AD. (the period in which the Daibutsu of Todaiji was built), during the Nara period. One-eyed and one-armed young man Gao, an ancestor of Saruta, turns into a murderous bandit when he is rejected by his village. He attacks a sculptor, Akanemaru, and the two men's paths diverge, but their fates remain linked. Akanemaru becomes obsessed with the Phoenix to the point that he loses sight of his original dreams, while Gao eventually finds a state of grace despite his continuing hardships. Ho-ō is widely considered the masterpiece of the Phoenix series. This became the basis of a Famicom game, in which Gao is the playable character.

Resurrection:
The sixth volume, originally serialized in 1970-1971. The story takes place in 2482-3344 AD. In an age of robotics, technology and science, young Leon dies in a car accident. He is returned to life by scientific surgery, but his now mostly-artificial brain makes him see living things -- including humans -- as distorted clay figures, while he sees machines and robots as beauties. Leon falls in love with a worker robot, Chihiro, whom he sees as a beautiful girl, and will fight for this forbidden love. He will also find out the secret behind his accident. A side plot features the robot Robita, who previously appeared in Future.

Robe of Feathers:
Serialized in COM, 1971. Published in English by Viz as an appendix to the second volume of Civil War (Turbulent Times). Based on the story of the Hagoromo.

Nostalgia:
Published in COM, 1971; continued in Manga Shōnen, 1976-1978. A science fiction epic about the rise & fall of civilization on the deceptively named desert planet of Eden & one boy's universe-spanning search for the planet of his ancestors: Earth. Features numerous cameos from other Science-fiction based Phoenix stories, including the shape-shifting alien "Moopies" first seen in Future, Makimura from Universe & an early model Chihiro Robot from Resurrection.

Turbulent Times:
Published in Manga Shōnen, 1978-1980. The story is about a woodcutter named Benta and his childhood sweetheart, Obu, who are separated and caught up in the events of the Genpei War. Various historical figures, such as Taira no Kiyomori, appear as major and minor characters. The character of Gao (from Ho-ō) appears as a 400-year-old hermit.

The Viz (English) edition is entitled Civil War and is split into two volumes, with Robe of Feathers included as an appendix to the second volume.

Life:
Published in Manga Shōnen, 1980. A TV producer who attempts to procure human clones to use in a The Most Dangerous Game-style reality TV program learns the error of his ways when he is mistaken for a clone himself. This episode is notable for only featuring the Phoenix in flashbacks and also for introducing her half-human daughter who does not appear again after this episode.

Strange Beings:
Published in Manga Shōnen, 1981. The story of a female samurai who is imprisoned in a time-warp by the Phoenix as punishment for her sins along with her faithful retainer & forced to become a healer treating the victims of wars from all over time and space including humans, youkai and various extraterrestrials. This chapter was loosely based on the Hyakki Yakō emakimono by the famous Japanese artist Tosa Mitsunobu (although in the context of the story it's the complete reverse).

Sun:
Published in The Wild Age, 1986-1988. This is the longest story, and was the final volume completed before Tezuka's death.6 It centres around Harima, a young Korean soldier from the Baekje Kingdom whose head is replaced with that of a wolf by Tang Dynasty soldiers following the defeat of the joint Baekje-Yamato force at the Battle of Baekgang. He then escapes to Japan where he becomes the feudal lord Inukami and becomes caught in the middle of the Jinshin War, as well as joining a greater battle between supernatural forces and time-travelling to a bleak future world ruled by a theocracy that claim to have captured the Phoenix. This chapter stands in stark contrast to the earlier historical Phoenix stories, which tended to de-mythologize the mythical characters therein, for instance in Dawn, many Shinto gods are portrayed as mere humans. In this chapter, however, various Youkai, Oni, Tengu and other mythical creatures are shown fighting against Bodhisattva.

Early Works:
Covers the prototype version of the series from the 1950s.