"I don't want to go home or back to school."

A collection of often-surreal short stories intended to present various messages or morals.

A bittersweet story about an old man and his young friend

The story of two extra-ordinary people in ordinary love.

From Tokyopop:
Welcome to a world divided into 12 Mines - each of them its own land - dominated by a rigid social class structure in which the 'Habit' exists to rule and the 'Spar' exist to serve. Their future dim and seemingly set in stone, the Spar find hope in an unlikely hero: the androgynous child born of a dwarf and hunchback who is prophesied to overthrow the tyrannical rulers!

Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal and few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name: Gantz.

True Calendar (T.C.) 71 - A new age where 70% of the human population lives in space thanks to the development of "Dyson Sphere", a city in space.The world is divided into two main powers: The Dorssia Military Pact Federation, a power which grew out of a military alliance, and the Atlantic Rim United States (ARUS), which grew in power as it expanded its trade agreements. The minor nation of JIOR has declared neutrality between these two forces and maintains its peace through economic prosperity.Within the JIOR's Sphere, Haruto Tokishima lived an ordinary life as a high school student in the division known as "Module 77"—until the Dorssian military begins their sudden invasion!But the whole world will be shaken when Haruto meets the mysterious humanoid weapon, Valvrave!Spin-offs:> Kakumeiki Valvrave - Ryuusei no Valkyrie ( http://mangapark.com/search?q=kakumeiki-valvrave-ryuusei-no-valkyrie )> Kakumeiki Valvrave Anthology Comic( http://mangapark.com/search?q=kakumeiki-valvrave-anthology-comic )> Kakumei Club Valvra-Bu ( http://mangapark.com/search?q=kakumei-club-valvra-bu )

Based on the original song Goumontou wa Nemuranai by monthy.

What do you do when you have lost everything? Lloyd Lowell has found his answer. In Leon City, people are drawn to the torture of tower, Torcia Tower. There, it is rumored, lies treasures which can bring you fortune, fame and, most importantly—eternal life.

However, nothing goes as planned when Lloyd enters the tower...

V.1: 拷問塔は眠らない －拷問卿の三姉妹－
V.2: 拷問塔は眠らない －エメラルドの少女－
V.3: 拷問塔は眠らない －悪の円環－

From the author of Necromancer.

From Paradise Love Scanlations:

Ayase is an orphan who has been held by a mysterious man whom he has never seen. One day he transfers to an academy where there are no rules and where teachers cannot enter the students' dorms. Who is the real person who sets the rules within the academy?

Note: Please stop removing the "shoujo" tag. Asuka is a shoujo magazine.

1. Kuro no Kumikyoku
After Ricardo's death Jess suddenly become so different, he even forgot about a song that he composed for Cathy, his girlfriend. His piano playing become so similar with Ricardo's and he also becomes close with Ricardo's lover.

2. Tenshi wa Yami ni Hohoemu
a. Cole: When someone encounter a person who looks exactly like theirselves, it means those person will die in a near future.
b. Linda: Violet is a girl who longs for a mother, attention, and love.
c. Violet: Short story about the lost of a lover and the happy medicine.

3. Bell ga Nattara
A mysterious phone call from afterlife.

In the eight volumes of the series, the mangaka choses some of the most famous operas of all times to tell their stories. The first two volumes deal withe the operas in Wagner's Ring Cycle, the third contains La Traviata, Rigoletto, Aida and so on, each o the volumes containing various operas, their actions being divided in acts following the staging tradition.

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This is oneshot of Tokyo Ghoul.

The manga consists of nine entirely separate short stories set in World War II, each reimagining a famous fairy tale with the European theater of World War II as a backdrop, often with poignant results.

(Source: Hokuto no Gun)

From Antisense Scanslations:
Lilith is a snow woman who scorns her dead mother's choice to live as a human being and hide her magical abilities after falling in love with a human man. But although Lilith views mortal men as mere sustenance, what will happen when she meets a handsome man who's kind and who claims to love her...?

While hiking a mountain with his friend, Dong-uk stops to take a picture with him on a steep ledge which collapses and leaves them stranded on an isolated cliff. He accidentally drops a chocolate bar and it gets caught in a tree below them. While his friend is descending the cliff to retrieve it, Dong-uk accidently lets go of the makeshift rope and watches him fall to his death...but is he truly dead?

The heroine, Akira, a 2nd year middle school student, lives on an island that being peaceful is its only feature.

Everyone in her class are her childhood friends. they were thinking that this year too like the other years would be a peaceful year with the usual classmates.

But at a time like this a transfer student called “Matsushirou Nishigami” appears, saying: “Anyone who gets close to me dies”.

What is the true meaning of his words…?!

Note: The author died before completing this work.

Sayoko is a newly transferred student: gifted with rare beauty and mysterious and magnetic charm, she captures every student's attention. Among them, the introverted Yuiko and the grumpy Mari become friends with Sayoko, while Ryou, a known womanizer, wastes no time and tries to hit on her, unleashing his girlfriend's rage.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo in 1983.

People differentiate between "normal people" and "strange people." But who decides what can be considered the norm? This story emerged from our world. This story will send your common sense flying.

This new book by Miyazaki comes packed full of sensitivity and wonders. Eight short stories that will rise a rainbow in the heart of people who had lived a life of loneliness.

A part time reporter goes back to his old home to do a special report on part time spirits, only to bring up dark secrets from his past...