A collection of short stories with a diverse range of topics.

The first batch of short stories was serialized from 1956 to 1957 in Omoshiro Book, the second batch 1972 to 1973 in Shuukan Shounen Jump.

Only the strongest can survive in the abyss. If you want to live, give me your body in exchange. Hey hey, why are you taking your clothes off! I meant that I want your loyalty!

An amazing high-school soccer player, Amagai Rihito, is making his debut! He intended to enter a high school famed across Japan for its elite soccer team, but a little mix-up with the school name has left him at a school with an incredibly weak team. After the initial shock of discovering this, Rihito decides that he's willing to work to help his weak team become the best in Japan. The only problem is the rest of the existing team is cold and unenthusiastic. Will his challenge to take on the whole team single-handedly break them out of their apathy?

Includes the story Q Bu!! in vol.2. and Dodge Ball in vol.3.

From MangaHelpers:
Kousuke has a boring high-school life, but he sits next to his crush--the really popular, cute Tsukahara Meguru, who has a cool, stoic personality. One day, his parents announce that they're moving, but that he'll still be able to attend the same school. The new apartment building has a lovely river and friendly neighbors... and it is next door to where Tsukahara lives! Outside of school, she seems to have a completely different personality, friendly and a little quirky. She makes him promise not to tell the others at school how she acts at home, but why does she put on such an act for her classmates?

Ibuki, returning to his childhood town for his grandmother's funeral, is not at all shocked to find that nothing in the little town has changed. Except that he finds out that his grandmother had remarried and that he is now succeeding her as the "Mononokemono."

A CD comic consisting of two short stories: Last Song and the 4-Koma

To learn about his roots, Sharaku must investigate the mysterious ruins that a long-lost civilization called the Three-Eyed Ones bequeathed to him. In his worldwide search, which takes both him and Chiyoko Wato to locations like Arizona, Easter Island, and Mexico, Sharaku deciphers ancient scriptures and uses gadgets he invents to help solve (or start) problems and mysteries.

Sharaku is frequently bullied for his childishness, and as such the story is also about how he fights back when the x-shaped bandage that covers his third eye is removed. Behind the bandage is hidden Sharaku's malicious third eye, and the boy's hidden evil genius emerges when it can see. Sharaku's rivalries with teachers or students are occasionally developed into major plot points.

Winner of the 1st Kondansha Manga Awards (1977) in the shounen category (tied with Black Jack).

Ragna the Bloodedge is a wanted criminal with an extraordinarily large bounty on his head (well in the trillions) for attempting to destroy the Novus Orbis Librarium, and is Jin and Saya's older brother. In December AD 2199, several years after the Second War of Magic, a branch of the NOL was utterly destroyed by an SS-class rebel named "Ragna" also known as the "Grim Reaper", in an attempt to destroy the Librarium. The NOL, hoping to stop him, immediately announced the largest bounty ever, available to anyone who could capture him. Interestingly, Ragna possesses a powerful form of Ars Magus known as the "Azure Grimoire." This led the NOL, as well as the other fighters, to hunt Ragna not just for his bounty, but also his Azure Grimoire.

A girl joins the 'White Labcoat and Glasses' club to get closer to the upperclassman she's fallen for. She's then coerced into conducting an experiment in love with said upperclassman's younger brother...

From DrCoke at MangaHelpers:
Set in the fantasy world of Material Puzzle, a manga done by the same author, Berji, Shuga, and Chrim live peacefully on a sparsely populated island. Berji and Shuga have unique talents that allow them to tame animals called Deathleon. On one peaceful day, an uninvited large ship arrives at their island. The ship belongs to the "Ironclad Giant" Suppression Team, and with them, they brought a piece of an Ironclad Giant. What this ship and its crew brings to the inhabitants of the island may change the world forever.

A boy goes looking for the legendary magicians who can save his village from a giant fungus, but he finds more than he bargained for.

Why me? It was to be the last thought a young prostitute, Rune Balot, would ever have…as a human anyway. Taken in by a devious gambler named Shell, she became a slave to his cruel desires and would have been killed by his hand if not for a private investigator and his self-aware Universal Tool, Œufcoque. Now a cyborg, Balot has not only physical powers, but the ability to disrupt social environments. She chases after Shell, his partner-in-crime Boiled, and faces down a variety of insane villains in this pulse-pounding cyberpunk noir adventure.

After seeing a picture of Naotora Kusunoki as a kid, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Urunei in Southeast Asia fell in love at first sight. The only problem is that Naotora is the son of a bureaucrat in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Eager to please the prince, Naotora's father forces him to cross-dress and fly to Urunei to get married to the prince as "Nao". Once in Urunei, he unintentionally captures the hearts of the populace who see Nao as the return of Putri Harimau, the Tiger Girl of legend who had a hand in the founding of Urunei with the Dragon Prince long ago. However, there are some in Urunei who are not so happy about Nao's arrival.

From Easy Going Scans:

Look for him in the boulevard full of sorrow and desires called Slum Street and you shall find yourself at the place of the Necromancer. He has the power and knowledge to resurrect all your loved ones—at the price of your soul or years of your life. Oh! There is one caveat... But no one willing to part with life or soul would listen to such warnings, anyway.

Make a contract with him and you’ll be swept away by a tale of life and death.

The comedic life of two young cats and their surroundings.

Based on the game by Age, sequel to the original MuvLuv game, taking place in an alternate universe where the Earth is invaded by aliens.


One day boarding school student Takeshi awakes to find himself in another world, one threatened by mysterious invaders. He soon learns that his only chance of returning home is to join forces with a group of beautiful female warriors, most of them mirror images of classmates and friends.