Fujishima is living in a cheap apartment complex because he has a small budget. The walls of the apartment are very thin and he can hear everything that happens next door, even the calls of "Izumi" during his neighbor's sex. The overheard sex eventually turns into over heard fighting which gets so out of hand that Fujishima has to go next door and interfere. To his suprize, Izumi was not the female he suspected to live next door, but the unsociable male he saw from time to time. Helpfulness turns into a crush and problems arise... (From Nanala3)
First story: "Magic" is set in the futuristic 2200's at the edge of the galaxy. Super model Kana has died in a space ship accident when she traveled to a planet on the edge of the galaxy. Her daughter was found 3 years after the magnetic storm has rested. A distant relative of Kana's adopted the young child, who was a former boyfriend of Kana's. Years later, Kana's child has grown up to be a teenager.
New Japan Airlines, flight 179 from Narita to Osaka, has been hijacked by terrorists. Inside the plane, everyone is panicky, experiencing terrible violence and fear. Under such hopeless circumstances, a young negotiator happens to be on board the plane, among the 230 passengers. The lives of all are in his hands.
The aftermath of an "ugly duckling" that turns into a "black swan".
Collection of short stories including: • Nejishiki A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins... Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories". • Numa (Marsh) A man meets a strange woman while hunting in a marsh. • Chico A couple takes care of a java sparrow. • Hatsutake Gari (Mushroom Hunting) Rain mysteriously falls around a particular place where a boy and his grandfather plan on going mushroom hunting the next morning... • Sanshouuo (Salamander) • Touge no Inu • Uwasa no Bushi • Ondoru Koya (Ondoru House) • Gensenkan Shujin (Master of the Gensenkan Inn) • Chouhachi no Yado • Oba Denki Tokin Kogyosho (Oba's Electroplate Factory) • Yoshiboo no Hanzai • Shounen • Aru Mumei Sakka It DOES NOT contain this story: • Soto no Fukurami (The Outside Inflation) The outside inexplicably threatens to collapse a man's house, leading him out to a world of anxiety and oddness in this minimalist story.
They took his family, they took his face, and they took his soul. Locked between the lethal but gorgeous assassin Maria and the mutant Spider Man, the Skull Man digs into the conspiracy that gave birth to his powers and those of his partner, Garo. Haunted by his past, he will not let them stand in the way of his revenge. ( from Tokyopop )
Janitor-Chan: I was a custodian at an elite magic high school
Due to his lack of talent, Seong-hyeon gave up acting and became a writer. Seong-hyeon is a genius author with a natural talent for screenplays, but he still misses acting. Then one day, he got into a truck accident on set.
Originally published in the Towako series. Towako Volume 2: The Anthropovore's Chocolate Cake
From Aerandria: "The moment you open the letter, you will be cursed. After reading the letter, you have to make two copies and send it to a close friend within 24 hours." Everyone knows what it's like to pass notes in class. People carelessly write about things like love or gossip. One day, everything suddenly turns out evil...
From Tokyopop: Kotarou Oohira is a boy with the clueless touch--he has an unusual type of ESP that is transmitted via physical contact. When he accidentally gives his cousin Tatsuki the "gift", he comes to realize that there is much more to his powers than he ever imagined!