While struggling with a grandmother who's starting to forget him and a family who already have forgotten him, middle school student Sakamoto Toki meets substitute art teacher Itsuya Tsuruda and her housemate, Kon. Itsuya-san has no artistic skill whatsoever, but she does have a different kind of ability...

A collection of short stories which feature the mystery of human beings with a seemingly surreal yet pure literature-like style.

This 4-koma tells the story of Kurihara Nagisa, a high-school girl who loves eating and cooking. Together with her friends Kanako and Chiaki, the three girls bond over recipes and delicious food.

We are criticized just because we're women and hurt each other just because we're women. This is the story of women bound by the pressure of womanhood in love, work, and childbirth, who continue to live on, ragged and ungraceful. Miki Aoki is 31, single, and sick of life, but her slowly building savings balance keeps her going. She's surrounded by people like her old-fashioned boss who tosses off things like “This is why I hate women” (shut your face) and her fossil of a mother who puts pressure on her, saying things like “So when are you going to get married and have children?” (please stop talking). And then there's a younger staff member at work with whom she only has superficial relationships (just do your jobs). She could really care less about the lot of it. This is the bitter and sad story of women who live like that, an anthem to cheer on all women.

Hakuyou is considered a heretic in his clan because of his white hair. At eighteen, he fled into the human world in search of freedom. There he met Shouji, a newspaper reporter, and while spending time with him, he got attracted steadily.

But it’s between a demon and human! What will be the outcome of a demon and human love story—?

An autobiographical short from 1978.Students of the Kazuo Koike manga school were given a graduation assignment with the topic of "My 24 Hours".The short originally ran in "Koike Kazuo Gekika Sonjuku".Kemo Kobiru is Takahashi Rumiko's college era psudonym...Kobiru is a Japanese anagram of "Rumiko".留(Ru) 美(Mi) � �(Ko) ====> � �　(Ko) 美(Bi) 留(Ru)http://www2j.biglobe.ne.jp/~k_asuka/sakuhin/kemono24.html

1-3) Shiranu wa Omae Bakari & Kare no Mizo Shiru (from Echochi Scans)
Yoshikawa Taiki and Komiya Kazuyuki had sex once almost every week, but they were neither lovers nor friends. What started off as a drunken escapade back during a university get-together scaled into something bigger than either of them could have imagined. Though he wished for more, Kazuyuki felt that there was no hope for something deeper between the two of them, because Taiki was as straight as a ruler. For someone like Kazuyuki, who knew that his sexual orientation wasn't generally accepted by society, he planned to give up and stop whatever sexual relationship he had with Taiki. But what’s Taiki’s say in all this?

4-5) Dakara Kao mo Mitakunai & Nano ni Te wo Furarenai
After getting dumped, Kataoka Takeru's best friend Yui confesses to him. But Takeru doesn't know how to cope with this situation. What will become of their friendship?

Kamiyoshi Hina is a new transfer student. She was looking forward to spending her school days with peace and ease. Unfortunately, that thought flew out the window when she was appointed class representative and seated next to the school's infamous delinquent, Mikuni Satoshi.

According to rumors, Mikuni Satoshi gets into fights and spends the nights working as a gigolo. Are there any truths to the rumors? What will happen when the two meet? Is there more to Kamiyoshi Hina's cheerful demeanor and Mikuni Satoshi's delinquent behavior? Read to find out!

After a fairly futile attempt at capturing the heart of Jinnai, Kijima finds himself dealt with a lucky hand once again.

One day, dazzled by the pattern of a beautiful kimono, he suddenly finds himself enchanted by the talent behind its simple genius. Just how far will he go for such a lovely masterpiece?

A cat falls in love with a human who once took care of him. Wanting to stay by the young man's side, he agrees to a deal that would allow him to take human form--except in the eyes of the one he has feelings for! What will become of this love?

Yukinari was abandoned as an infant, but fortunately a loving family adopted him. Perhaps because of this, he has an affinity for helpless, abandoned creatures and goes out of his way to help them. One night, Yukinari and his friends witness a falling star hit the ground and rush to the spot where it hit, only to find a child cradled in the meteorite, surrounded by a field of roses?!

A collection of short stories:

1 - Pineapple Girl

2 - Kamakurian
Sci-Fi story about building kamakuras after the weather warms further globally providing less snow for local customs.

3 - A Happy Birthday from Paradise
Hoshihiro is a 40-year-old virgin who desperately wants a girlfriend. But thanks to his "chastity", he has been chosen as the next fairy king. But in the two weeks until the wedding...

4 - Tsutsu-Izutsu
Itagua and Kagua are two aliens whose spaceship broke down while they were visiting Earth, leaving them stranded and hiding in a dried water well. Due to the distance to their planet, they took 13 years to ask for help. And now finally...

5 - Cops and Robbers
A petty robber learns of the existence of the "Village of Honesty", where they only tell the truth, and he goes with the purpose of rip off all the townfolk. At the entrance of the village he finds a fork with two beautiful women, one who tells the truth and one who tells lies, and he could make only one question to find the right way.

6 - New Century Godslayer
God decides to destroy the world because of mankind's behavior and entrust the creation of a new world to his son.

From NOIR:

This is the story of two siblings, Joo-won and Hee-won, and one man determined to take Hee-won's heart. Both Joo-won and Hee-won feel isolated after their parents separate due to infidelity and remarriage, placing both of them in new families. However, Hee-won's new step-brother, In-hyuk, notices Hee-won's suffering. Is he determined to take care of her, or is there something more?

1. Romance no Hakoniwa (A Miniature Garden of Romance)
Masataka Chiyo is a Cultivation Art student whose latest submission has been rejected for being 'dispassionate and uncreative'. He struggles to find inspiration, which arrives unexpectedly in the form of his brilliantly innovative roommate, Kunitachi Hiromi.

2. Sensei no Shokubutsu-gaku (The Professor's Botany)
A reclusive artist renowned as "The Professor" lives in a secluded house that appears, at first glance, to be as bare and as empty as its occupant's heart. Knowing The Professor to be a difficult man, the company in charge of mass-producing his designs delegates the task of dealing with him to their newest employee.

3. Utsushigami (Tracing Paper)

4. Kousoku Kyori (Visible Distance)

5-6. Majutsu no Atosaki (Consequences of Sorcery)

from Renta!

Living in the boonies, one must give great consideration to how they will get around when they turn 16. Isaki has just turned 16 and his choice of transportation is his neighbor's Piper Cub. It might be old, but it flies well, and so...

When the national idol Kusakabe Yuka suddenly retired from the entertainment business, it shocked the world and it devastated teenager Hata Kosaku. Kosaku was Yuka's biggest fan and her departure left him depressed. His classmates at the Tamo Agriculture School finally are able to get him to leave his room and attend his class, but to everyone's amazement, Kusakabe Yuka (her stage name) comes into the class under the name Kinoshita Ringo as a transfer student. Kosaku realizes he has the once in a lifetime opportunity to get to personally know his dream girl and, together with his group of friends, try to find out why she is here and become closer than just classmates.

From Easy Going Scans

A man who isolated himself from the world for thousand years in the hope that he will become a human. A mountain spirit who deceived him for his own good. Now that they meet again after thousand years, the spirit finally tells him the real way to become human. While the man continues his struggle for becoming a human, the spirit tells him stories...

The year is 1949. Japan had been defeated in World War II and was occupied by Allied Forces consisting of American, Australian, British, Indian and New Zealander troops.

A young woman meets a young man. Both have lost everything because of the war. Tome Kano, a barmaid, and Katsuya Ranzaki, a wealthy investor. The two are fed up with their lives and want to live "real lives" for once. Katsuya's starting up an all-girls baseball team with Tome on it allows them to do this. In this dramatic story, the dreams of a nation come alive. Through the determination and strength of Katsuya and Tome, girls baseball becomes a sensation, and Tome a superstar.

From Yuri Project:

Youko has a complex from being compared to her older sister her entire life, so middle school is off to a bad start when the tennis club is trying to recruit "Aiko-senpai's younger sister" and her best friend Maki. She is shocked to find out that Maki is interested in both the club and its leader Keita, whom Youko immediately disliked, and unfamiliar feelings of jealousy soon threaten to cause a rift between them.