A collection of short stories that look to mankind's exploration of space, and examine the possibilities that we could face when we decide to take those first fateful steps into the unknown.
In his second to last year of high school, the dispassionate but studious, Yataro Yaguchi finally finds a calling in art. With no prior art experience, he decides to work towards to applying to an art university. A decision with potentially disastrous results.
A feeling of emptiness that never seems to know fullness. A never ending cycle of despair that resembles the birth of life. It only knows the everlasting torture of life. Never wasting away and always being there to witness it all to the very end. Immortality? Godlike status? No. It’s a much more worse case than that. It’s always being in the start but never feeling the satisfaction of crossing the finish line. It’s having all the power in the world but never knowing when or how to use it. It’s a case we call “Yoyokuu Hosts”.
Ju Ingong (which literally translates to Main character) has been terrifying all his schoolmates in every school he has been so far. He has one extremely scary face type and whoever lays his eyes on him thinks he is a BAMF. Although… is he really?
Nick Spade is a detective in a city where super heroes exist. However, his work consists of walking dogs and investigating cheating cases. One day, a former well-known super villain becomes a prospective client of his. What request would a super villain make to an ordinary detective?
Douden Moee doesn't care much about things. Whether she gets a winning popsicle stick, or a million yen fell right in front of her, or it's just ten seconds before the world ends, for sure her expression would not change, and would always go about with her own pace with composure. And surrounding Moee-chan, unbelievable things have been mysteriously happening!?
Spring has arrived, and at this school, a teacher and young budding girls. What will be their fate?
Lin Mu Yu is one of the top players in Conquest the game before Destiny. He decides to delete his account due to a promise with his father. Before he deletes his account he sells of all of his equipment and deletes all of his skills. After deleting his account he suddenly gets his deletion overwritten by a mysterious source and ends up getting trapped in the game itself. Without anything except for 3 of his skill how will he survive?
Kogane is a socially clueless, glasses-wearing girl who works at a convenience store. She has a huge crush on her manager, Fuuta, but he doesn't seem to return her feelings at all. Luckily, Kogane has a little sister, Akane, who is much more fashion conscious and adept at social situations. Akane is determined to help her awkward big sister get the boy she wants!
From Tokyopop: Eiri Kurahashi is an art school student, with a job at a local antique store. It's there that he develops a strange obsession. He finds himself entranced by a portrait of a Victorian-era girl named Cossette. It's a portrait with a strange history--everyone who has owned it has been murdered in a bizarre fashion. But the story runs much deeper than that. Cossette was savagely murdered by her lover, who also happens to be the artist who painted the portrait. When the new owner of the portrait nearly kills himself, Eiri decides to get involved. And that's when Cossette begins speaking to him...
Shimazaki Sanpo loves mountains. He loves them so much he calls himself a mountain-man and lives in the alpines, lending his hand as a volunteer in a rescue team, finding people, dead or alive, in the Japanese alpines. The alpines can be a beautiful place, but it's also a dangerous, dangerous place. Gaku: Minna no Yama received the 2008 Manga Taisho ("Cartoon Grand Prize") and the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.
From Furinkazan: If you like +anima and are over 18, this manga is for you. X-gene is about a few chosen people, whose DNA contains genes from certain unique animals that can turn them into that animal and receive its attributes. What makes this game even more deadly is that they can kill and consume other X-genes?(as they are referred as in the manga) powers and use it for themselves. But they need to hurry, for only one can enter the ark.
