Every year, Lord Nicola A. Bradherley, one of Europe's leading aristocrats, sends his coach round to various orphanges to adopt young girls and trains them to join his opera troupe. But most of these girls never make it onto the stage a far more sinister fate awaits them, sacrificed in the name of the greater good.

Apollo’s Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness to any act of intimacy or affection whether by human or beast. His hate is such that the gods intervene, cursing Shogo to experience love throughout the ages ultimately to have it ripped from his heart every time. From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo loses his heart, in so doing, healing the psychic scars of his childhood hatred.

High-school girl Takamiya Maki is a big fan of the musician 'Shou', so much that she still hasn't found her 'first love'. What happens when she meets Saitou-kun, who turns out to be her much idolized 'Shou'?

This debut work won the 32nd Akatsuka Award.

With the destiny of searching for a bride, the youkai teenage boy came to Tokyo from a small island: Hanzou. A maiden who develops a youkai-attracting constitution at 16: Ichijouji Mei. With the youkai's heaven "Tokyo" as its stage, Girl-Meets-Monster love comedy.

Ajizawa is a renowned master chef, but he doesn’t have a restaurant. He is a “fixer”, a man who travels from place to place fixing menus and restaurants much like Gordon Ramsey, and he charges a fortune to do it. If your menu must be perfect to impress a foreign client, a head of state, or just a neighbor, Ajizawa is the man to do it. But why does he do it? Is it only the money, or is his mission much deeper…

Irresponsible Kiyoshi Iijima, a genius who is working at chinese restaurant, becomes good friend with model student, Shinji Tsuruta.

The story centres on the oddities that appear in the distortions within everyday life.

What destiny awaits them after the screaming?

After abruptly departing from a train in a small town, a couple encounters a “weeping woman”—a professional mourner—sobbing inconsolably at a funeral. Mako changes afterward—she can’t stop crying! In another tale, having decided to die together, a couple enters Aokigahara, the infamous suicide forest. What is the shocking otherworldly torrent that they discover there?

One of horror’s greatest talents, Junji Ito beckons readers to join him in an experience of ultimate terror with four transcendently terrifying tales.

Collection of short stories:

1. Okuyami Moushiagemasu (Please Accept My Condolences)
A rapper pays a visit to the DJ whom his deceased DJ partner has recommended and ends up at a maid café.

2. Waterproof

3. Waterproof the Two of Them After That

4. Underground
After ten years, a photographer is suddenly reunited with his inspiration and role model, a talented fellow student from his college days, only to find out that the object of his admiration has quit. What could have happened?

5. Kanojo wa Shinda (She Died)
One week after she died, her half-brother visits the man whose place she freeloaded at.

6. Les Sciences et les Fantaisies
When salesman Yoroizuka runs into his ex-boyfriend Tatemichi Koreeda, he's uncomfortable. But Koreeda gets Yoroizuka assigned to help him in the lab, and Yoroizuka starts to remember all the good times he had with the unromantic mad scientist. If only he could remember why they broke up...

7. Sakitcho Dakedemo (Even Just the Tip)
A talented art student, despairing with his creativity drying up, spies a ramen shop worker in a street and accidentally catches a glimpse of an intriguing tattoo on the shop worker's nape. This intrigues him to visit the ramen shop next night where he finds himself talking to the shop worker. More often they meet and talk, wilder his fantasies become, blurring a line between reality and fantasy.

8. Afterword

After a traumatic incident, Jun Sakurada refuses to interact with the outside world and return to school--he even shuts out his sister, his closest friend. Jun spends most of his time online buying spiritual items that are obvious rip-offs. One day he finds a website that curiously enough asks him to put his order in his desk drawer. Thinking it's a joke, Jun plays along. The following day a suitcase arrives containing a doll named Shinku... that comes to life before his very eyes! Welcome to the world of Rozen Maiden, where Jun must enter an all-new reality to protect and serve a living doll...

Shimonone Takara, a young weird, healthy boy, has always wanted to be a "Strange Human". "Strange Humans" are people who possess an extraordinary power that can't be used by normal people. One day, Takara meets a woman named Aria who belongs to an organization. What does she want with him? Is Takara succesfully becoming a "Strange Human"?

These boys take a trip! Someone thinks it's a good idea to pretend to be drunk. But was it just pretend?

Volume 1:
1-2. Punch Up (act 1-2)
Motoharu is an openly gay, elite architect whose preference is the athletic, pretty boy type. While checking out the well-built construction workers at his favourite hunting ground?the construction site?he found his missing wayward cat Shinobu. A hot-tempered, sarcastic, bratty iron-worker named Kouta insists Shinobu is Nyata his cat. Will Maki be able to tame the vicious pet(s)? (features Misono from Mayou Otoko)
3. Punch Up (act 3)
Kouta feels uneasy after finding out about Motoharu and Shinobu's one night stand.
4. Sweet Train
Junsuke presents Shinobu a trip to Sapporo by train as a belated birthday gift. (features Shinobu and Junsuke from Play Boy Blues)

Volume 2:
1-2. Punch Up (act 4-5)
Motoharu learns a little bit more about Kouta's past from the youth's ex-classmate.
3. Ohki Kouta's Interview
A little interview detailing Kouta's job.
4. Punch Up (act 6)
Kouta runs into his brother's ex-partner and is made to remember his painful past.
5. Honeymoon
Fukazu Yuya is going out with Kouta's brother who is a cross-dresser. This chapter focuses on Kouta's little known complicated past.

Volume 3
1-3 Punch Up (act 7-9)
Kouta and Maki happily living together. Are they? Maki feels insecurity about sudden re-appearance of Kouta's first love, Yuya. While Maki tried to let confused Kouta sort out his feelings, catastrophe strikes...!
4. Maki Motoharu's Consolation

Volume 4
1-3 Punch Up (act 10-12)
15 years old Kouta is fighting to differentiate himself from his 19-year-old self! Will he ever regain his memories? Does he want to?
4. My Motoharu is not like this XXX
Kouta is worried because Motoharu seems to be less perverted than before.


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Separate extras:
'Punch Up Returns 2015' - oneshot from Pink Gold 6
'Hontoni Atta Kowai Punch↑' - oneshot from Pink Gold 7
'Punch↑×P.B.B.'

Set a couple of years after the ending of Breakfast Club:
Hiroki and Miki have settled down in their respective career paths - now a successful programmer and a researcher - when Hiroki suddenly decides that he wants to open a detective agency woth the help of Matsumoto and Iizuka. How will this self-proclaimed family business go?

From Rainy Sunday:

"Everyday, no matter what, we tell some sort of lie."

Shirose Sayo has always been mildly interested in Saeki Aoi, mainly because he's different from the other guys in her class. However, upon graduating middle school, Sayo's image of Saeki is destroyed and she finds he is not the mature young man she thought he was. A year later, they meet again by chance through a group blind date. They clear up their misunderstanding and become friends... but there's one uncomfortable issue. Saeki is in love with Mina, the girlfriend of Daichi, Sayo's older brother!

Also included are two other short stories:

• Futaba no Totemo Sainan na Hi (with cameo by Warau Kanoko-sama side character)

• Hanayome Kashidashichuu (Bride on Loan)
A wizard's apprentice tries to come up with an excuse to prevent her master from being forced to marry.

[from Nakama]

This is the peaceful surburban city of Yotsuba.

In an apartment where local students gather, uniquely individual residents get in an uproar over something, and in a drag bar in a corner of the shopping district, customers with problems approach Mama* for love advice.

Poor student Asahi, saving up on apartment rent, has accepted Ootsuka's proposal: if he gets along with his lover Tsukimi, who lives in the floor above, his debt will be forgiven -- however ... !?

Passionate conflict unfolds between boys at a certain corner of the city, day and night.
A great compilation of funny, painful, happy stories, including pictures specifically drawn for the occasion.

From Liquid Passion: After a reunion among old high school friends, Kouhei escorts a drunken Tetsu home. This act of kindness turns into a different kind of encounter altogether--and now the two of them must confront both their individual and shared pasts. A new three-part story from Miyamoto Kano, as serialized in Drap magazine.

"To end his eternal suffering, he must slay one thousand enemies!" Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men! His quest begins when a young girl seeks his help in taking revenge on her parents' killers... and his quest won't end until the blood of a thousand has spilled!

The year is 1850. A child with skin and hair as white as the moonlight is born in a Sioux Indian village. Despite the villagers' opposition, the Chieftain decides to keep the child...

From Nakama:

As someone who does things like secretly reading BL manga, Satou finds himself imagining "entanglements" with men on a daily basis. However, since he also has a girlfriend, Satou convinces himself that this is a mere hobby, and he himself is not gay. Suddenly, he then finds himself roommates with his perfect, ideal handyman type, a man called Arihara. Imagining more and more indecent things, after a war with himself, Satou eventually comes to accept the romantic feelings in his heart. A BL story about complicated fudashi tendencies, with slightly tortured and realistic characters. *heart* Also, this compilation includes a pure love story of a librarian with glasses and a flashy high school boy!!