The story revolves around the fear of Kugiko-san, an urban legend spread among children. According to rumors, people who have encountered Kugiko-san have had nails (kugi) driven into their eyes. A solitary male shoujo manga creator named "P" follows the truth behind the urban legend. **[Kugiko-san](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=69891)** (クギ子さん) - parent story that Kugiko-chan was based off; included at the end of each volume: - Volume 1: **Fan Letter** (ファンレター; 2 chapters) Nakayoshi, Sep-Oct 2011 - Volume 2: **Kugiko-san Jouhou - First Part** (クギ子さん情報) - Volume 3: **Kugiko-san Jouhou - Last Part**

A rootless wanderer meets the prince of a certain country. This meeting just might be a ray of light in the darkness for the war that's tearing the land apart.

A story of four girls from Hakugin Gymnasium, a boarding school for orphans, and their loves and longings.

To survive a fatal train wreck, Sekai Maihime is thrust back in time where she discovers she has hidden powers that are connected to a doll, 'S.' She is both aided and limited by 'S's' vague (but kind) guardian, Sovieul, who is the cause for Sekai's presence in 17th-century France. Sovieul vows to protect Sekai, but offers little information as to why these strange events are happening. Unfortunately, they encounter Machiavello (also referred to as the Devil) who looks a lot like Sekai's childhood friend and love, Midou. Machiavello covets the powers shared by Sekai and 'S' so he may obtain the power of the Devil R. Sekai only wants to find Midou and return to her time, but she's constantly hindered by her conflicting desires with 'S' and by Machiavello's attempts to obtain her body. To find Midou, Sekai must cooperate with 'S' and Sovieul to traverse through time while avoiding Machiavello.

When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs…over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome-Thermae Romae! --- - **Won the 3rd Manga Taisho** - **Won the Short Story Award at the 14th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2010**

Series of short comics running in Hana to Yume. note: actual chapter numbers are unknown, currently numbered in the order they were scanlated.

Sesekura Kiri, a kindergarten teacher, has a very bad luck in love. He is constantly being abandoned by his boyfriends. One night he is cruelly discarded again, Sesekura Kiri met "he" who is more unfortunate than himself. They found each other in the most unexpected place. A romantic comedy between a lawyer, a teacher and a child.

Miyabi literally lives in an ivory tower. Protected and watched over by servants all her life, she dreams of what's beyond the wall that surrounds and protects the city she lives in. One day, Miyabi finds herself on the other side of the wall. Will she find the monsters everyone speaks of? Or will she find something else…?

Fan colored version Link: [The Doujinshi & Manga Lexicon](https://www.doujinshi.org/book/715151/Boku-wa-Lolicon-Da!/)

After being kidnapped by an "alien woman" Yuuta developed a severe case of gynophobia. Having to be in charge of a bath house, Yuuta couldn't be more inconvienienced by this. Just when he was thinking of trying to cure his phobia no matter what, a beautiful girl called Uni suddenly appears in front of him, and that's not all, that girl says she's the daughter of the alien woman who kidnapped and that her mother won an award by investigating him. Her mother feels truly grateful for this so she sent Uni to repay Yuuta with anything he desires and told her not to come back before she does it. What will happen after Yuuta asks her to cure his phobia in the least painful way possible?

By coincidence, college student Morimoto reunites with his former teacher, Jinno. After having a meal together, Jinno is touched by Morimoto's home cooking, and they end up eating together almost every day! However, sometimes when they're enjoying their meals, Morimoto will have a sad look in his eyes. Jinno may have forgotten, but he'd dismissed Morimoto's confession in the past…

Mika is just a normal high school student who dreams of having a wonderful love. And then one day, she happens to meet Hiro, the guy of her destiny. While experiencing many sad events, and while getting hurt, the time she spends with him is still one of the most happy moments in her life…

A very short, full color manga about 2 hunters trying to find fried tofu. From the Summer 2009 issue of Gelatin.

"In the sky, they are the Bird of Hiyoku. On land, they are the twining branches." In the times of wars, a princess and a vassal fall in love and the two are bound by strong ties of love despite different ranks. Soon they are at the mercy of their fates, and what they decide to do is…? Contains two side stories: - Racing Queen - Chijou 20m De Aimashou Second story was released in Bitter - Nakechau Koi Monogatari

1 - 3) The Youth Yearns for Love Hiding the fact of being gay for years, high school student Kaede has a thing for his friend, Okuda. "I must never let him know about my feelings," decided Kaede deep down in his heart. Where will this mixture of feelings lead to? 4 - 5) Faraway Love

Moriguchi Orito is transferring to a new school, but being lost in the fog he can't find his way to it and end up bumping into a beautiful girl and got struck by a vision of her in a very sexy pose. Seeing him with his cellphone in his hand, she thinks he took a picture of her and runs away crying, "My life has ended!", dropping her own cellphone in the process. Finally finding his way to the school, he realises that it's full of very weird people, and that his new seat is next to an empty desk where a bag is hanging with the same strap as the one on the cellphone the beautiful girl dropped…

Different short stories and early works by the mangaka of Superior including: - **No One Can Do It** (2003) Hajime is a wandering samurai, who carries a musori sword and is aiming for the top. His goal is to have a fight with the famous Muichi, but upon his arrival in a village his sword gets stolen. And to top it all Muichi turns out to be… - **Shenzi** (神子－シェンズ－, 2004) The year is 2007 A.D. The advance of civilization has led to remarkable achievements. Those achievements have paved a way for a project which successfully used neural energy to evoke the latent abilities in humans. Those who gained powers beyond the average humans are called Shenzi. - **Snow-like Cherry Blossoms** (桜雪, 2004) One day problem student Karukami gets off on the wrong train station. There he meets Sakura Kisaragi, a cheerful girl that is waiting for her lost dog. A heartwarming story about trust and life. - **Tower of Babel** (混乱（バベル）の塔, 2002) In the Tower of Babel people live while they are served by robots. But something goes wrong and the robots turn against humans, it is now up to violent princess Reiche and the swordsman Farose to make things right.

Short stories all related through a common medium: Eggplant. Nasu is a collection of stories, focusing on a returning series of characters, such as Takama, a farmer, and a young girl named Aya Takashi, who begins the series abandoned by her father and residing in Tokyo with her two younger siblings, and as the manga progresses to its second volume, leaves the city to reside in the countryside with her relatives, near Takama's farm. Apart from the chapters concerning Takama and Aya, other stories are also featured, such as one telling the chronicles of samurai in the Edo period hunting forbidden eggplant (nasu), another set atop a futuristic Mount Fuji, another tale concerning a truck driver, and also Summer in Andalusia, the story concerning the professional Spanish bicyclist Pepe Benengeli, from which the film was adapted.

Kitou Hijiri, a student, confessed his feelings to a Chemistry teacher named Nakatani Ayano whom he had fallen in love with 8 years ago. Somehow when he was young, he lived beside Ayano and bear feelings for her. Ayano, in turn, could not resist Hijiri’s determination and strong feelings towards her. What will be the ending of their taboo love?

Collection of short stories: - Hajimete, Kudasai. - Idol-sama no Okiniiri Niina is a 3rd rate performer in a school for idols. One day, with all her luck, she manages to hurt the arm of the top of the top idols - Takashiro Asuka. Will her life come to an abrubt end after this mistake, or will it…? (From: Shoujo Love) - Ano Natsu Kara Zutto. "While I went to a certain course, the summer of my third year, by chance I saw the baseball field. And while watching you try to hit the ball, you caught my heart." "One year later, I've found you again…" - Gouriki Ikka no Owarinaki Tousou - Kimi no Tonari de Natsumatsuri - Kimi no Kokoro ni Kaoridzuke

High school student Yukari Fujimaru knows a potential star when she sees one…because she sees the special "aura" they give off, in the form of angelic wings. Yukari's fellow student, the beautiful Ryoko Katsuragi, has a small pair of wings herself, and is one of these aspiring talents. She's so talented, in fact, that no one even knows that "she" is actually a boy in disguise. Now, to make her own down-to-earth dream come true, Yukari must help her new friend become a star.

Though he seems completely indifferent to romance, high-schooler Manabu works part time as a writer for an erotic magazine. One day, right when some classmates were about to pick a fight with him, he was saved by Yamaguma, an underclassman. Apparently Yamaguma, who is popular but unfamiliar with romance, is upset about his older sister working at a nightclub. While trying to desensitize Yamaguma of his excessive reaction to Manabu's erotic writing, they…? The heat of their connected hands is the folly of youth. A bittersweet diary of first love.

A collection of stories.