Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story "The Book of Human Insects." The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy Award, before which she was the lead actress of an established theatrical troupe. Yet, while the media go abuzz, the woman in the limelight slips away from the metropolis; what the sole paparazzo who manages to trail her to an abandoned country house witnesses is an immobile figure of an old woman and the star herself, naked, in a reverie as bizarre as it is erotic...
Collection of short stories: - Hard Triangle- Mutiple personalities, murder, rape and a shady past between a doctor and his teenage patient. - Doll - Crystal Game- Playboy Gaku is in love with his stern best friend, Takayuki. But the jeweler only seems to notice the crystals he works with. When Takayuki offers to give Gaku a crystal treatment, Gaku has his own ideas of how he wants to be treated. - The Rusty Swamp - Silent Voice
From ShoujoMagic: A series of non-linear and interrelated stories filled with bishies and angst! Houjou Academy is a private school, isolated from the rest of the world and attended by the heirs of rich and noble bloodlines. At the center of everything is the first son of the Hanabusa family, Kinu. Through direct or indirect involvement, he is responsible for the scars carried by the students of Houjou Academy--he is like their God. The cycle of base desire and higher love begins with the introduction of an unsullied girl named Nanaha, whose denial of Kinu's casual touch causes him to reevaluate his perception of women, and he cannot help but leave a scar on her as well...
[From ShoujoMagic]: Kahara Hitomi met Nagatsuki Atsuya when she was a child, and they made a promise to see each other again, but Atsuya never showed up. Because of that unkept promise, Hitomi hasn't been able to trust any guy ever since. Although Atsuya broke Hitomi's heart, she can't stop thinking or dreaming about him--even now that she's a college student--and she secretly wants to find her first love again. Then one night at a club, a man named Nagatsuki Atsuya appears before her! But is he the same Nagatsuki Atsuya...?
Mii is an innocent girl, and she thinks that the act of sex should be romantic, tender, and beautiful. One day, however, her boyfriend Renji adopted a provocative attitude, and kissed her. The moment Mii experienced that kiss, it gave her a pleasant shock. The works by Yuna Sasaki, a new star of Comic Monthly Cheese, that describe girls' real feelings are collected.
The people of Earth live in a society where vampires aren’t just real but dangerous. Although humanity has been able to keep them under control and even take the night away as the vampire’s natural habitat, some of them have adapted. Hesperides, a relatively new breed of vampires, have adapted over hundreds of years in order to be able to go outside during dusk when the sunlight is at its weakest and feast on humans. Aburaya Shiro, a high school kid, lives in a town where there has not been a vampire attack in years, but adults keep warning them of going outside at dusk. Shiro and his classmates take this warning lightly and head out at dusk only to find out one of their classmates who they thought they knew well turnz out to be a Hesperides. With all his classmates violently murdered, the only way Shiro was able to survive was with the help of a different classmate, Ichijoji Eruka, who doesn’t seem to be human herself.
Maria is a witch living during the Hundred Years' War between England and France. Our young heroine hates war, so to keep the people of the village she protects safe, Maria will use all the power at her disposal to stop the fighting, whether that means conjuring giant dragons or sending her succubus familiar out to mesmerize the warring generals with her charms. But what do the villagers think of her "help"? And what will happen if Heaven notices her interference into human affairs? This story has a funny touch with a little history thrown in!
A Collection of stories. 1. UZAKOI: Shuuji thinks girlfriends become troublesome when they start saying annoying things... which is why he always breaks up with them in a few days. The only girl that lasts longer is Risa... but she is 'just' his 'lover'. 2. SUKI DESU ONIICHAN 3. DOUBLE BOOKING 4. ANATA NO KIOKU 5. SAKURA NO SHITA DE KISS WO SHITE 6. ATOGAKI
Hae Jun is obsessed with Sae Young. He wants her to be his, but he also wants her to come freely to him so he targets her sister instead. Wanting to protect her, Sae Young finally gives in to Jun’s pressure and agrees to be “his woman”. She expects him to threat her horrible, but from time to time she starts to see a gentle side of him. Her sister is also not the victim who she poses to be and little by little Sae Young finds herself trapped in some very twisted “love games”. Is what Hae Jun claims to feel for her really love?
Ever since Hasegawa moved into a new apartment, he has been bothered by recurring dreams “of having sex with an unknown man”...! Worried that his sleeplessness might affect his productivity at work, he reaches out to the previous resident of his new place. Once he realizes the dreams seem to be a glimpse into a future, he decides to go ahead and get it over with! He ends up asking Kuramochi, his colleague and rival at work, to lend him a hand. But he certainly did not expect the real thing to be more intense than his dreams! A love comedy between an experienced bossy extreme sadist and a serious office worker tormented by lewd visions!
In the late-medieval land of Barnard, between the mountains and sea, the peaceful lifestyle of the people has been shattered by fear. Monsters known as the Dark Ones roam the land, killing indiscriminately. The townsfolk fear to venture out from their homes, and travel from town to town has become a risk to life and limb. To protect the people from this terror, several guilds have sprung up, including the Guild of Assassins and the Guild of Mercenaries. To go out into the world, or travel across the wilderness, hired mercenaries are essential. One man has built a reputation as an especially fierce monster-killer — a man known as Leroy Schwartzer. A former high-ranking member of the Guild of Mercenaries, Leroy has struck out on his own. Many try to hire him for his superior skills, but Leroy has his own agenda. He has a mission to accomplish, a vow to fulfill. This vow is known only to himself, and his one companion: his sentient long-sword Ragnarok.
