Oneshot from the author of Cross Game and Touch.

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. But this story has countless plot twists, characters and secrets… --- - **Kisho Tenyo received the 1983 Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo Manga**

A tale of unrequited love.

In the future (1998), Japan has fallen under military control. As young men are conscripted to help with the war efforts for longer and longer periods, Risa waits anxiously for her boyfriend's return…

Three Super Metroid related shorts that follows our heroine on her adventure through Planet Zebes in a humorous light. Originally published in Shonen Oh! as short 4 panel comics, these are sure to delight any Metroid fan.

A boy receives an apple from a fellow student. 8 pages.

Now that Ira's older sister is getting married, who will take her to the bathroom after 10 p.m. and sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" outside the bathroom door in order to protect her from the beautiful, androgynous, child-eating clown? Will marrying a closeted gay man help? Considered by many fans to be Ooshima's best work.

A mysterious disease. A young man fated to die. A woman whose love accompanies him to the unavoidable end.

A young man wakes up to devastation that could only have been caused by WWIII. Knowing he might be the last man alive, he sets off to see if he can rebuild the world.

Wakamiya Hikaru, an otaku, wants a boy who will protect her. One day, she gets kissed by a beautiful, perverted boy whom she calls the "Perverted Prince." Later on, she meets a guy who looks exactly like him, but their eyes are different. What's happening?! A manga full of twists and turns that will surely leave you wanting more!

Near the end of the 20th century, a truck driver loses control in the Nevada desert, robbing one family of happiness. The sole survivor of this tragedy, a young girl named Luna Hazuki, makes a pact with a mysterious demon in a morgue. Seven years later, she is still living in America…with the family that should have been dead. Little does Luna know that the pact she made will lead to the apocalypse that destroys the human race…

When Yuuki first meets Akihisa she is less than impressed. Not only is he stalking her, but he also tries to seduce her knowing full well she's a high school student who already has a boyfriend. She can't stand him at all so why is she so drawn to him? On the surface Akihisa seems like the worst kind of man… Is he just toying with Yuuki or does he really care about her?

Tales of a Charcoal Burner narrates the day to day life of young Toshikatsu Ue, who, following family tradition, devotes himself to the hard labor of the titular profession in Wakayama Prefecture. The protagonist shows the laborious process of manufacturing charcoal in first person and strikes up a conversation with the reader through stories of his daily life and folk tales handed down in the region since antiquity.

Kinoshita Sumire… Does not participate in any co-curriculum activity and does not even like her own name. She first saw Makimura Daichi in the library. For some reason, she was very attracted to the way he twirls his pencil, and from then on, she started taking interest in him. Makimura Daichi… Part of a famous ice hockey team and is secretly in love with his childhood friend, Shouji… These two people have nothing in common at all, yet they are slowly getting closer to each other…!

After a generation of warfare, the Gundam boys finally secured a peace between Earth and the colonies by helping to defeat the Oz and White Fang armies. Now, out of the rubble, the surviving soldiers are re-emerging and clustering together into new factions. Heero Yuy has become a vigilante pacifist, tracking down weapons stashes and destroying them, while Relena, former Queen of the Earth Sphere, tries to maintain the peace politically. But an unmanned weapons factory has been discovered somewhere near Mars, and now the boys are going to have to dust off their mechs for one more battle to save the tenuous peace.

After breaking up with his boyfriend, a depressed Asuka propositions the first man he comes across. Tamamura, who has a secret foot fetish, rejects him initially but gets turned on by the sight if Asuka's bare feet and succumbs to his desires. The next day, Asuka thinks his encounter with Tamamura is best forgotten as a one night stand, but it seems Tamamura, enamoured with Asuka's feet, is not willing to let go…?

Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the Earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the Earth, thirty-five kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the various living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments. Won the 15th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga.

Meno Yuko just starting as a ceremony assistant in a funeral home. Every day, she tends to fall asleep during the funerals. Her boss, "Meme" always scolds her with an "I'll kill you". Holding on the the memories of her dead brother, Yuko tries to work as best as she can while constantly being reminded of his death.

The drama club at Ouka Academy has a yearly tradition of putting Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard every year for the school's founding day festival. These four interwoven tales of love and friendship focus on four girls in the drama club as they prepare for this year's presentation.

A volume of short sci-fi shoujo stories all featuring a new race of humans called Unicorns. The major theme in all of the stories are about human emotions. As the characters in the story try to interact and relate to these Unicorns who lack a lot of the natural emotions humans normally feel. *** The story A, A' raises a troubling question: How would you feel if your lover died - and was replaced by a clone? Could you recreate your relationship with someone who was physically exactly the same but didn't share any memories of your life together? In 4/4, teenaged Mori flunks out of an ESP training program. But when he meets Trill, a beautiful Unicorn, his latent abilities begin to blossom… In X+Y, Hagio uses science fiction to explore questions of gender and sexual identity. Time has passed, and once again, Mori finds himself inexorably attracted to a member of the unicorn race - but this unicorn is male… and so is Mori. Note: X+Y won Seiun Award in manga category in 1985.

In a quiet area of France during WWII, a very young orphan boy was left on the steps of a large mansion on the same day that a daughter was born to the bourgeois family living there. From that day on, Francis and Natalie grew up together and found themselves falling deeply in love. As talk of their marriage began to stir, Natalie suddenly lost her parents to a plane crash, leaving her aunt as her guardian. This aunt, vehemently opposed to Natalie's engagement to a mere orphan, drove Natalie and Francis to run away together. Unfortunately, they were caught. Rather than be torn apart from each other, Natalie and Francis decide to spend eternity together by jumping off a cliff. Through a cruel twist of fate, however, only Natalie survives…Is there even a smidgen of hope that Natalie will somehow be able to find her love once again? An amazingly well-developed, emotional work of art from Ichijo Yukari.

Nagai Junpei, a high school freshman, wakes up one day to find all of humanity in a deep sleep. In a free world, overflowing with desires, his strange survival days begin. Wikipedia [Japanese](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9C%A0%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B%E6%83%91%E6%98%9F) [Korean](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%A0%EC%9E%90%EB%8A%94_%ED%98%B9%EC%84%B1)

- Chiko's Wish Chiko is a young female sparrow in love with a human boy named Shuu. One day, the Grim Reaper suddenly shows up at Shuu's house and shocks Chiko by announcing that he's come to collect Shuu's soul. What can one little sparrow do to save a human life...? - Crybaby Yukimushi - Reverse Storm Warning - The Rainbow's Fugue - Spring Game - A Half-Bitter Present

The scene is of a heart forgetting and a body learning. When there’s a lot piled up, it’s time to resurrect the figure of the lascivious older brother…?! Other stories include baseball players playing a different game in the locker room, the love/hate disaster of soldiers left behind on a deserted island, and more. With three non-serialized stories plus the sequel to “Koihime”, there are over 100 pages of previously unpublished work in this gorgeous masterpiece collection!!