The near future, the afterworld, and the perfectly normal present day. The five stories in this anthology revolve around the girls who deal with the uncertainties of fate; sometimes happy, other times grim.
In the "Japanese-style fantasy battle" story, mechanical sparrows chase after the girl Nerine on a moonlit night, but a boy and a girl save her. The boy is the older brother Akahiko, who is sullen, stingy, and polite to a fault. The girl is the energetic younger sister Yukio, who can manipulate snow. The pair are supernatural problem-solvers for hire, doing anything from intimidation to exorcisms as the Nihonmatsu siblings.
The personal story of an aspiring mangaka, college dropout who's led a lonesome, unfulfilling life.
DoAh Lee, a seemingly "normal" high-school boy, gets caught in a strange and embarrassing situation. Before he knows it, he is blackmailed into becoming the manager for a team of quirky, unruly, not to mention slightly lazy, heroes. Will he ever go back to his "normal" high-school days?
A tale about the complex matters of love between a young erotic manga artist and a girl in middle school.
Just when Yeonduk thought he was finally going to be free of his tormentor (and family friend and crush, might we add), Seo Skyler – coolest kid in school – saunters his way into the same classroom. Skyler might look blessed (his sister's even in a girl group), but he's got some family issues that only Yeonduk can understand. Yeonduk is more than just star-struck, though, and when Skyler starts acting nice and walking to school with him, he can't help but hope there might finally be more between them. 1st Manhwa King Comic Contest Winner.
'Creepy Side', is a creepy and eerie neighborhood. A series of tragedies mixed with black comedy in this town begins!
In this day and age there are numerous online games you can immerse yourself in, and "Under City" is one of them. Despite the fact that this is a survival game which requires strong guts to survive, with gory scenes and corpses all over the place and hungry players after each other's blood, the "Hallow Man", an indiscriminate killer who slaughters anything and everything he comes across in the virtual world, soon begins to terrify even hardcore fans. Under City is "under siege" now, and the players are wondering...can anyone stop this deranged murderer who is ruining their free time with his bloodthirsty antics?
The manga was released by Kawamura Taku @kawamurataku on Twitter.
Each day is a desperate struggle on the decaying streets of Kansai Core-IV, especially for Amelia and her newborn child. So when a citywide bounty is announced and $1000 given to every able-bodied citizen, she faces a difficult choice: Use the cash to survive another day or race against an entire city for the chance at a new life. Whichever path she chooses, her demons are sure to follow.
Juri Yukawa lives with her NEET father and brother, her retired grandfather, her sister (a single mother) and her young nephew. One day, her nephew and brother are kidnapped for ransom. Having only 30 minutes to meet the demands of the kidnappers, Juri, who realizes there is not enough time to prepare the money, decides to head for their rescue by herself with knife in hand when her grandfather uses a mysterious stone passed on in the Yukawa family to stop time. In a world where everyone and everything are inert, Juri and her father and grandfather run to rescue the two. But at the kidnappers' hideout, they soon realize they are not the only ones who can move about in this still world...
A thousand years before Christ, the last king of an ancient dynasty was seduced by a fox spirit that caused chaos in his land and drove his people to despair, before she killed the king and was finally sealed by an exorcist. During the Heian Period that golden-haired, nine-tailed vixen, known as Daji in China and Kayo in India, reappeared in Japan... In Kyoto, misfortune befalls Mikuzu's family after her father nearly shoots a fox with an arrow. Now Mikuzu, with the help of her neighbour and a childhood friend Oniomaru, is looking for a way to cure him. But once the fox spirit abducts Mikuzu, meaning to recommence her misadventures in a new incarnation, the battle to save the girl and to restore the seal begins.
My little sister and I looked up at a high-rise apartment building, touching the clouds like a castle would. Even if there was a princess living in there, it didn't have anything to do with us, merely an unreachable existence---Or so we thought. With a meeting by pure chance, I ran into Shindou Rei, and realized. The Rei in front of me wasn't a princess, or the untouchable idol at school, but just a cute girl you could find anywhere.
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Tetsu is the son of a Yakuza boss who yearns for a 'sweet love', and meets his exact type of man, Senou. Senou, however, makes his living scamming people, and in turn, attempts to force Tetsu into making an adult video. A strong couple appears; "A no need to hold back" kind of chivalrous love! The story of Tetsu's childhood friend Tomoki and his Mathematics teacher, Sahara, is included.
When twins are born to the Oda household, Karin is tossed aside as an unwanted child. The one person who gave her strength through her childhood was her brother, Oda Nobunaga. Now both adults, Nobunaga sets about his plan for world domination in order to unify the world and create a place of happiness for both his subjects and his sister. However, tragedy strikes as Nobunaga is attacked in his palace and murdered. Beside his death bed, Karin vows to take on her brother's dream and act as his substitute, even if it requires making a deal with a demon to do so...
Igarashi Tohru, a college student, took a 6-month part-time job in a child care facility located deep within the mountains to take care of children for 3 million yen. However, in this remote area, sin runs deep in the work to be done.
"An anthology of an adult puffing at blue smoke quietly" Various well-known mangaka look into the theme of cigarettes and smoking.
