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Full color manga drawn for the purpose of "expressing the beauty of Japan". It is a collection of several slice-of-life stories of girls living in various locations in Japan, set against beautiful man-made and natural scenery that surrounds them.
Anzu and Sumire are half-blooded twins living in a port town. They love their big brother, Fujio, a legendary modeler of figurines. A nice slice of life family story about a brother and his young sisters who turn to be ladies.
Volume 1 : The Laughing Vampire. While a young boy, just resurrected as a vampire, commits acts of awful ferocity, the city around him shows all its perversion. The adults abuse of their power, the boys degenerate and use all the available means to achieve their goal to give vent to their low instincts. Whoever can't understand and make opposition is doomed to change or becoming crazy. So which is the real horror? The vampire who kills in order to feed himself or the crawling disease hidden in the society that slowly corrupts without being noticed? Volume 2 : Paradise. Following the events narrated in the first volume, Luna and Konosuke are now living together with the old woman vampire as fellows, as lovers, in a diabolic innocence, killing to quench their thirst for blood, joining death and love under the dream of the eternal youth. Meanwhile a young boy, named Makoto, is looking for his lost sister Miko, who disappeared years ago under mysterious circumstances. But what has really happened to that girl who liked eating grubs and dreamed to become on of them? And is someone really hiding a terrible secret? The paths of all the characters will dramatically collide, bringing unexpected consequences after the things are gradually revealed. A story suspended between weirdness and decadence, showing a clear nostalgia for the German cinematography and Federico Fellini, where the blood is used to trace a great and only apparent amoral story.
Takashi Suzuki is a young man who dreams of a heartwarming slow life in some other world. When he finally gets reincarnated into a different world, he receives the "unconditional love from all local species" cheat ability, thinking it will allow him to raise cute animals... But the world ends up being a horrible "anything-goes" apocalyptic wasteland reeking of blood, filled with executions, torture, looting, and ruled by the most cruel and brutal demons imaginable?! His only weapon is ultimate, unrivaled cuteness... So he decides to use that to butter the demons up and transform this blood and violence-filled world!
Sanada Akihito, a student from Yotsuho Academy has been haunted by the angry spirit of a dead girl. In the exorcism that a friend was trying to do, the spirit manages to possess a girl from Akihito’s class and now that she has a body, she has worldly desires to satisfy, and Akihito just looks like her previous boyfriend!
They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shinichi is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come? Won the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga and the Seiun Award for Best Comic of the Year in 1996.
Meet Hana and Tohara. Two voluptuous women out to become fully fledged witches for life. To do that they just need to grant one wish to get their license. They see an opportunity in the form of a handsome Bishounen named Touma. But turns out he is a 24 year virgin otaku who is in love. Not only that, He has a not one, not two. But THREE wishes to grant...Can these Bodacious beauties take on the challenge?
Aritake Deigo has decided to move out because he could not stand living with his family anymore and wants to find a place to live a miserly life of self-loathing. While talking to an apartment agent, he encounters a strange blue haired girl carrying a snake statue. He then starts hearing a voice from the statue and after touching it, he gets knocked out. Upon waking up, he finds out that he has been possessed by Lyssa, the Goddess of Madness. Now, if he can't be happy from the bottom of his heart, he will die.
In the title piece, Chiruhi, Orin is a prostitute who works on a boat near the seashore. She falls in love with a young hairdresser, who is one of her customers, even though she knows it is an impossible love. This collection consists of seven historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best in the city of Edo throughout the seasons.
A collection of short stories which feature the mystery of human beings with a seemingly surreal yet pure literature-like style.
One day, Miwa's little brother came home late from playing by the Tama River with one of his friends and an adult man. He convinced Miwa to come meet the man, claiming he looked like Johnny Depp. Miwa and her friend Aya come to meet him after school and discover that was a total lie. However, Miwa finds herself drawn to the goofy young man, whose name is Haruo. To Aya's annoyance, Miwa develops a major crush on him and talks about him constantly. But could anything come of this crush, since Miwa is a first year high school student and Haruo is an adult? Miwa starts to get to know Haruo, meeting him day after day, there by the Tama River.
Kocho, the Tayu of the Yoshiwara red-light district a beautiful and lustrous "prostitute" but behind the scenes is a ninja the time is 1635 in order to condemn the "stray ninjas" who nest in the world of peace. The prostitute, Kocho, becomes a ninja, Ocho, and throws herself into battle. A beautiful "hunter" wields her blade to accomplish an extraordinary "work"!!
