The World consist of the upper, the middle, and lower classes. Those who are wealthy live in the Town. Those who are poor live in the Fields. Those below, in the thick and gloomy Forest.... In the Fields, Takaoku Restaurant's show girl, Kiyoko, supports her mother by managing the food preparation. One day, a regular patron named Tanaka, who recruits day laborers for the underground, requests that they bring meals to an assassin from the Forest called "Yorukumo," or "Night Spider." Yorukumo was born in the Forest as a disposable child, raised to be void of emotions, unable to feel pain, and without knowledge of reading and writing. With Tanaka's instructions, he easily handles assassin jobs daily. When Kiyoko and Yorukumo meet, the World begins to come apart a little at a time.
The story follows Hikari, a girl who has mysteriously lost her sense of happiness. As she grapples with her growing sense of dread, her cheerful classmate Kage offers to help her search for her lost happiness.
Miyamoto Musashi is a boy who has come all the way to the city to check out the studio of Matsuma Dan, a longtime director of manga movies (anime films). After having his work evaluated by him, Dan tells Musashi that his work is dead and lifeless: films live on and about. Not long after, Musashi comes across Sasaki Kojiro, a boy from a wealthy family who also aims to do manga movies. No matter how many times the two team up and split off, and no matter how many times they drift off their paths and return to them, their future lies with manga movies.A retelling of the rivalry between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro, but in 1950's Japan, as they venture into the worlds of anime production and manga magazines.---**Volume 55 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
A dark romance story about a high school boy who falls helplessly in love with a beautiful girl who has to eat people to survive.
Nishioka Kyoudai's anti-war epic, told in their signature surrealist style. <br><br>A man wakes up one morning to find the world outside of his house a wasteland. As he searches for signs of life, he finds a fetus in a ditch, which promptly latches onto his thumb and won't let go, and things only get stranger from there…
From Evil Flowers: For Ran, love never goes well. She is having an affair with Tabuchi, her married boss, and once, when they quarreled, she was saved by Kazuya, a man she used to be in love with a long time ago. Kazuya used to be a close friend of Ran’s brother, but one day, he just disappeared. Ran had been drawn apart from him since then. After their reunion, Ran’s old feelings came back to life. However, there are many dark rumors surrounding Kazuya. Ran tries to find the truth, but a dark shadow is starting to settle over her life as well. What could be the reason for this…?!
From Must Be Endless: The popular boy in class and a boy who plays the devil’s advocate (has a girlfriend).
From Wasurenagusa: Wada Tatsuki seems to be an ordinary bus driver, living a simple and peaceful life. However there is a heavy burden he holds in his heart, a terrible thing that he has done in the past. What if one day the man he hurt appears and wants to take revenge?
Love can be obsessive. Like wanting to rip the wings off a butterfly. Chouko has been in love with Taichiro for a long time. Taichiro and Chouko have known each other since childhood. At one point, Taichiro became very candid and told Chouko that he hated her so much that he wanted to kill her. Even so, Chouko's desire toward him never really changed. One day, a senior in her athletics club confessed to her. Filled with burning jealousy, Taichiro also confessed to Chouko. Their insecure, but very obsessive love begins. An extra can be found inside of Yoru Koi.
The aftermath of an "ugly duckling" that turns into a "black swan".
In the world ruled by the clan of the family, “Yamauchi”, the selection was started after the successor Wakamiya. The four princesses who were sent to there to compete against each other had their own thoughts and they were competing in the later seats, and various incidents occurred. And a mysterious letter... who will eventually be chosen by Wakamiya?