Detective Akira Yusa sees his brother Shinichi killed before his very eyes. He spots a young girl, Kilico Sakaki, at the scene of the crime and instinctively knows that she did it. After a bloody fight, Akira arrests her. Trained as a professional assassin by her stepfather, Toshio Sakaki, in everyday life, Kilico acts like an ordinary college student. Her arrest is treated as a mistake when she manages to hide all evidence of Shinichi's murder. Akira's subsequent investigation of Kilico runs into difficulty when he finds that it's too big for a police detective to handle. Her encounter with Akira makes Kilico remember her terrible past and have doubts about being an assassin. Kilico goes to Taiwan to train as a jewel connoisseur, the Sakaki family's legitimate business, behind which they hide all their illegitimate business. Fired for taking his investigation too far, Akira follows Kilico to Taiwan. The two meet again and become very close, as they get involved in the internal conflicts within the Tenrenban gang, Taiwan's biggest Mafia group.

Despondent over the death of his best friend, Takeru wishes on a shooting star to meet Takuya one last time. A glimmer of light leads him to an ancient tree stump with a giant hole in it; a hole that impossibly leads to an entire city. It’s the same city as his - the same people and places - but, with a key difference: the Takuya in that world is alive and well...while Takeru is not.

Stories in this volume:

• Kigi no Yukue
Juri has always been saying to herself that she has done everything that she wanted to do, and has lived to her own satisfaction. Plus, she's always been skipping class and coming in late in the mornings, only to be confronted by her class rep, Yoh. Aware of her own situation, she knows that she shouldn't leave any remaining desires and feelings behind...

• Santa ni Naritai (I Want to Become Santa)

• Koe ni Naru
Ever since something that frightened her as a child, Suzune hasn't spoken to anyone ever since. For a long time, she always thought to herself that she didn't need a voice, and that there were other ways of expressing her feelings. However, all of that changes when she meets the energetic and talkative Takuya.

There exists a horrific newspaper called the Fear Newspaper that foretells of people’s extreme misfortunes. Kagata Mei, a male high-school student, has been cursed with this evil spirit and has to fight against it on a daily basis. He is forced by the Fear Newspaper to stop the events on the paper from occurring or face the consequences of his life being shortened by 100 days for every article he is unable to prevent. What makes this horrific situation even worse is that no one else but Mei can see the cursed newspaper and so he is left to undertake this task alone.

Collection of short stories by Kaori Ozaki ("Immortal Rain"), including her debut story. The earliest story in the volume was written when she was sixteen, and the last one when she was nineteen.

1-2) Mahoroba no Hibi
Taka is depressed over the loss of his cat, and his best friend Tetsu is at a loss as to what he can do to make things return to normal. Then he meets Hana, a ditzy but adorable "Denpa Onna"...

3) Mahoroba no Nagori

4) Kitan
From Echochi Scans:
He’s been meeting up with the boy annually for the last 7 years in an onsen his grandfather first brought him to. Will he finally confess the truth to the boy that he had been keeping secret of?

5-6) Hana no Ke

A One-Shot by Yamada Akihiro the illustrator behind Twelve Kingdoms and Record of Lodoss War.

From Aerandria Scans

At that time, it was a crime for young girls to love...Set in the Taisho era, this is a story about the forbidden love between a young girl and a student.
Tamaki is the only daughter of a wealthy family, but she's been lonely since she was small, because her parents do not care about her at all. One day, Kuroda Kageaki came to her house as a student. Gradually, Tamaki started to harbor a liking for him. And yet her mother, Satoko, caused harm to Kageaki...!? Hidden there is a dreadful past! This is a sad and painful love story set in the Taisho era.

Included is the oneshot Rakuyouju to Koi no Hana.

*Contains a short story called Pollyanna no Kishi (Pollyanna's Knight).

A collection of short stories published in the 40 year anniversary edition of Kodansha's Afternoon magazine, Go-Chan Magazine.

from Sound of Jewels:

One day, Yukino received a weird message
from her best friend Saho.
Then when she came to school she heard about
her death. Truth is, she killed herself because
she was persecuted by her schoolmates...
So why is her last message "run"...?

(2) I’d Rather be Killed Under the Cherry Tree
Sasagawa is not the type who can easily make friends, yet Saho opens to her and they slowly end up to be the best of friends. When Yukino enters their group the balance is somehow broken. A short oneshot about friendship, love and betrayal. This is Sasagawa’s version of the story: Dead Friend’s Love Letter.
From Evil Flowers

A One-Shot by Yamada Akihiro the illustrator behind Twelve Kingdoms and Record of Lodoss War.

A man who wants to escape his boring, repetitive life sets out on a journey. On the way, he comes across unbelievable things, terrible things.

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As a child, Princess Taira Chiyo escaped from being captured by the Minamoto army due to the the sacrifice of her mother. Now at the age of 15, she travels the land searching for immortality. Following the rumors about an immortal named Kijin-sama, Chiyo actually finds him! But all he wants is to die?

Da-ae’s past and present is filled with dirty little secrets. It was about time someone noticed. The only problem is Gitae, the minister’s son, is not your ordinary someone. He gathers all the people that suffered from Da-ae’s dirty acts and starts the road to her redemption.

Winner of LEZHIN's 1st BIG 4 Comic Contest

Dimitri Lewandowski is a celebrated tenor in early 1900s Vienna. When he is killed in an accident, his corpse is colonized by the seeds of a vampire master. At first, Dimitri denies that anything has changed, but as the people around him start dying, he is forced to accept the ghastly truth.

Flash-forward to 2008. In Tokyo, Azusa Kikukawa’s troubled love life comes to an end with a fatal accident. Dimitri appears in her dying dreams with a diabolic proposal—he will save her lover if she agrees to become the breeding ground for the next generation of vampire seeds…

Izumi suddenly finds a 10 yen coin she swore she had lost in a cabinet that wouldn’t open before. Soon after, strange things start happening and she enlists the help of their school counselor who also takes care of matters of the supernatural. But then, she finds even he wasn’t as he seemed…

A collection of sci-fi short stories.

1) Legend of Giants:
A sci-fi drama about humans, inspired by Prometheus, struggling against their given fate by using fire to end the ice age.

2) Icarus Asteroid:
A sci-fi drama about a smog-covered world and a daring plan to transmit enough energy from the Sun so humanity can survive.

3) Horizon Patrol:
A sci-fi action/comedy about a futuristic Earth covered by a sprawling mess of highways, and two loose-cannon officers who help keep the roads safe.