A series of oneshots.

1. Traces
After his roommate left, Katsumi feels a presence in the room that tries to violate him.

2-3. Midori no Himitsu & The Day After
Mizuki and Fumiaki are cousins that haven't seen each other for nine years. Now that Fumiaki transfered to Mizuki's school and stays at his home they should get closer but Fumiaki doesn't talk about his home and distants himself from his classmates. Moreover, the plants around Fumiaki act strange.

4. Traces 2
Continuation of relationship from chapter one (timeline after second story).

The gods once planted seeds of grace known as "Spirits" in our land. Humans were eternally grateful to have the blessings of these Spirits. However, even they cannot escape mortality. The moment their time runs out, their bodies are enveloped in darkness and their surroundings with them. The only ones that can send these accursed spirits to their final resting place are "Soul Senders." This is the tale of a young Soul Sender name Alpi. Through great sorrow and pain, she wields her blade.

Takasugi Gen deeply regrets the day he killed his adoptive father. He dies at the age of 46, only to find himself as a teenager trapped in a world between heaven and hell that nonetheless feels like paradise. Takasugi's fight to regain his family and friends begins!

What if there was a save point in my life? A man that turns back the time several hundred times per day.

1-4) Hungry Monster
Kabutani is a “man-eater” who lives off human energy. One day, he becomes “in-heat” for his classmate, Kiriyama. Though he didn’t believe when his kindred said, “…Nothing compares to the taste of the ‘human’ you love!”, he couldn’t resist a “taste” of Kiriyama… And once he had, he became addicted to that tantalizing taste only Kiriyama can provide. What would a hungry and ruthless Kabutani do to curb his craving…!?

5-6) Love & Kiss!
University student and track and field club member, Haruta Mimatsumori, has had a crush on the track star, Yuichi Adachi, who has since retired due to injury. Now, Adachi-san is coaching Haruta's track club! What an opportunity! Too bad Haruta is rather shy...

Extra) Selfish Monster
More of Kabutani and Kiriyama.

"In exchange for your life, I'll grant you one wish.""Ushiro: the Somber God of Death" is what you get when Japanese horror meets Beetlejuice! Based on a cancelled Level Five game and a series of now popular horror novels written by Gotou Ryu, the manga adapts stories from the novels as faithfully as possible.Ushiro spends his days looking for people desperate enough to die so he can approach them to convince them to die, so he can eat their souls. Despite how it seems though, he is not completely heartless, offering to grant the people a single wish to come true in exchange for it. However, much to Ushiro's dismay, an upbeat high school girl can actually see him, and on top of that she goes out of her way to convince people not to die.Being drawn together through some kind of string of fate, the two go on to meet several different people who are struggling with hurtful pasts, perverted presents and foul futures, both doing what they can to help.

You would think getting hit by a truck on your way back from school should change your life forever, right? Well for Saya Takahashi it did, but not in the way you would think. After a miraculous recovery, Takahashi is on her way to get her life back on track. Unfortunately, life doesn’t seem to have that planned for her. Hapiel, an angel that for some reason only she can see, has brought her news: the accident she “miraculously” survived has painted her a target for unworldly creatures of evil. Fortunately (or unfortunately) for her, Hapiel wants to protect her! But not without making her life hell of course.

Ruka, who never had a boyfriend in 17 years due to her shyness, keeps dreaming of a silver knight calling her name. One day, she hears a rumor about a stone that can make its owner have sweet dreams while sleeping. Followed by a strange event, Ruka tries the stone and is brought into the dream. However, what she finds in that dream isn't something that she had expected. She wakes up neither in her bed nor in her own world, but in a world where Valkyries rule.

The manga centers around first-year high school student Minoru Suzuki, who sometimes sees visions of his own mother's past as a high school student.

High school freshman Hodaka Morishima leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but immediately becomes broke because he lacks the identification card and experience to find a job. He faces abuse and difficulty every day, the only bright spot a chance kindness by a girl working at a fast food restaurant. Finally, he finds a job as an assistant to an editor he met on the ferry from his home island. Soon after, he has another chance meeting with the girl who had shown him kindness, and a shady character who had abused him at his lowest. Hodaka rescues the girl, Hina Amano, and they run away together. Due to certain circumstances, Hina and her younger brother live together, but have a cheerful and sturdy life. This bright and strong willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky, but at a cost that she does not yet realize.

The MC is a really poor student that loves playing games. One of his friends is a popular student detective that convinces him into helping with a murder case. After viewing the last moments of an old man being held at gun point, the scene forces the MC into a virtual reality game, dropping him off at a desert landscape with some pyramids. The MC goes with the flow, and the first thing he sees is a BOSS sand monster and a quest option. Like any MC, he expects to defeat the Boss to win, right? No, it turns out he's the last Gravekeeper and he's supposed to protect the treasure against the Tomb Raiders. That old man? He was his grandfather, and they meet in virtual reality.

A man, heartbroken over the death of the wife he never got to say goodbye to, is killed in a drunken hit-and-run accident. He wakes up in a place somewhere between life and death where other recently deceased souls stay before moving on to the afterlife. When he realizes that his wife may still be in this place, he races to find her before it's too late.

The romantic comedy manga centers on Kōta Nakamichi, who ever since he was a kid he has had female spirits obsessed with him. Kōta is searching for a job and he has a final interview, but the scantily-clad spirits surrounding him make the interview a total failure. However, his interviewer, the company president Karen Suguri, has a secret of her own.

Shiro and Kuroh are not the only ones who go to high school. Instead, the members of Homra (including their leader Suoh) and the members of Scepter 4 attend school together. The students are sometimes lax, but at other times, they are hot-headed.

Welcome to the Lunar Eclipse Circus!

In the 27th year of an alternate Meiji era (where the kanji used for "Meiji" mean "maze"). A self-proclaimed samurai named Naguri travels from the countryside to the capital Asakusa to achieve his dream, and he moves into a share house. In Asakusa spirits, samurai, and technology coexist.

Yoake Itaru, 38, divorced. Profession: Investigator and confidential informant for an insurance agency. Speciality: Cases others tend to avoid.

Everyday there are mysterious "accidents" that are actually clever cover-ups of suicides and murders. And the parties concerned will appeal to him. And so, the colourless days of this man will continue...

Ah-Li is the apprentice of the Daoist Qiu Jue and they roam the country exercising demons. It is not until they reach the capital that they hear of the suspicious ghost mansion owned by the seemingly richest man in the capital! Just what is going on in there? Ah-Li will not rest until she finds out (though her master really doesn't want to bother about it?!)

The story revolves around Suzunoki Hatsune, a normal high school girl... or so she strongly wishes, because she has no desire to succeed her stepfather as the strongest onmyouji in modern Japan. Still, she has the ability to see spirits, and as luck would have it, her emerging abilities are pointing her to a terrifying truth behind the deaths of her parents... and her stepfather may be involved!?

A collection of short stories from Kaneko Atsushi