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A selection of short stories. The stories deal with the same themes as Parasyte and his other work, and in only one of them is his art style noticeably more primitive.

Kyoko-san likes Kino-sama… maybe a little too much. To the point of stalking him everyday at school. One day She discovers his dirty little secret and uses this to become closer to him through blackmail. Together they will explore all sorts of antics in the search of understanding what it is to be a cat and master in a twisted and funny way.

Rutsu, a novelist, finds herself caught between her boyfriend and another woman.

Collected short stories from Takahashi Shin. The first story is a side story of She, the ultimate weapon. The rest are separated short stories, plus extra artworks of She, The Ultimate Weapon at the end of the volume.

An ordinary, quiet town is shaken by a series of bizarre happenings brought about by the darkness in human hearts. There are no solutions in the real world: Only "Dream Messengers" can find the answers. Dream messengers connect the fabulous with the real and control the power of dreams. Their leader, Toko Mishima, works with 8 other messengers using the powers given by an old spell and a toy made by Toko's father. Toko, her younger sister Rinko, Hajime Tachibana, who loves young girls, and the six other Dream Messengers are given the names of days or stars - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Raff, and Keito.

Cobra is a notorious Space Pirate with a laser gun as his left arm. But, he was tired of being chased by the agency in space and decided to lead a regular life by changing his face & being wiped of his memory. 3 years later, he is a regular person leading a regular life, until an incident recovers his past memories and he's set on the run again into a world of danger and futuristic delights. --- **Links:** - [The 12 issues edition of Cobra on Comic Vine](http://www.comicvine.com/cobra/4050-23937/) [Sega CD Game](https://cdromance.com/sega_cd_isos/space-adventure-usa/) [Atari ST Game](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/cobra-ii-alm) [DOS Game (French)](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/cobra-2g5) [Amstrad CPC Game (French)](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/cobra-2g5#Amstrad%20CPC) --- **Notes:** - In the United States, portions of the manga were published by Viz Media in 1990. - The anime film adaptation was licensed by Tara for its release in US theaters and by Manga Entertainment in British theaters in 1995. Urban Vision and Discotek Media released it for home video market, while Madman Entertainment acquired it for the Australasia region's release. Discotek also released a 4K version of the film. - The anime adaptation was licensed in the Northern American region by Discotek. - A 2nd anime adaptation was done in the late 2000s and early 2010s by the studio Magic Bus. Consisting of OVAs and a short, one cour TV series. It is currently licensed by Sentai for the US market.

Inspector Oogura Amane has just been reassigned to Investigation Division 6, which is considered a graveyard for police detectives transferred there. Disappointed to discover that her only partner is a slacker by the name of Ebisu Kei, she soon finds out that he has the ability to read the slightest change in facial expressions, or "Tells" as he calls it…

Possessing memories of being born, raised, and died in a country called Japan… the young boy Hercule was born in the imperial household of a declining empire. This empire that once was a superpower that reigned over the world… is now a country nearing its end. The public finances are on bankruptcy, the military strength declined to the point that barbarians are able to wreak havoc on their territories and the neighboring countries squeezed the Empire for tribute payments every year. And the young Hercule is forced to take over this empire! Thus, the 12-year-old Hercule ascends to the throne. Using the knowledge from his previous life, Hercule struggles to rebuild the empire… reforming the tax system, revolutionizing the industry, reorganizing the public finances, rebuilding the administration, and reforming the military system. This will later be known as the story of the young emperor who restored the Lemurian empire, which would later carve its name in history as the great monarch of the three continents, the "Divine Light Emperor" Hercule the First. - [WN (Raw)](https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4694ep)

Computer science major Chu Sangwoo is the epitome of an inflexible and strict rule-abiding person. While working on a liberal arts group project with freeloaders who don’t put in any effort, Sangwoo reasonably decides to remove their names from the final presentation. But he didn’t imagine how involved he would become with the person whose study-abroad plans were messed up because of that project. The involved person: the campus star who everyone knows, Department of Design’s Jang Jaeyoung. He has everything from skills, looks, family background and good relationships except for 1 big problem: Chu Sangwoo. What happens when an engineer and an artist whose personalities are like oil and water have to work together? Jang Jaeyoung is like a semantic error in the perfect world of Chu Sangwoo. Will Sangwoo be able to debug this?

A reform school for juvenile delinquents established in 200X is actually a government-sponsored laboratory, which makes ultra-human warriors with genetic modification. Three new kids enter the school. Itsuki, who is actually a girl dressed as a boy so she can get into the school to look for her lost brother; Mei, a very quiet, mysterious boy; and Gentaro, an energetic boy who is easily elated by flattery. The three revolt against the school rules and cause the other students to riot. The school turns into a battlefield. This is a school action manga, depicting the integrity and friendship of young men.

A little dark, a little bleak, this is a comedy about killers.

The anthology features works by mangaka from Ward and Comic Zero-Sum. A new volume is released every four months. Volume 1 : Butler 1 1. Spider's Nest by Minekura Kazuya 2. Nice to Meet You, Young Lady by Kouga Yun 3. Holly Green and White Little Garden by Takayama Shinobu 4. The Situation of Goshogawa Yuzuru's Magnificant Mansion Creation by Miyamoto Fukusuke 5. Butler of Worry by Higashiyama Kazuko 6. Elevenses by Mikanagi Touya 7. The Incident of the Butler's Birthday Project by Saeki Yashirou 8. Le Droit d'aimer by Haibara Yaku 9. Young Lady's Butler by Yoneyama Setsuko 10. The Melancholy of the Irritable Boy and Butler by Kikuta Yui 11. The Moon and the Visitor by Nanjou Tsugumi

1) Solely S, Absolutely M 2) Jitter Bug 3) My Dear Cat 4) Bet!! 5) Love Planetarium 6) M's Dejection [PL] Zbiór oneshotów autorki Reimei no Arcana. --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Elex Media Komputindo as **Solely S, Absolutely M** (2022)

- Hoshiiro no Okurimono (Star Colored Gift) I have always believed that this meeting was fate. I thought that your smile, everyone’s laughter, and the happy times were going to continue. We wish upon a shooting star, hoping that we would be together always. Thinking that the wish would come true… - Antique Wish e Youkoso (Antique Wish) Nishina has always been in love with Haijima Kaname since the day she saw him cry. One day, she follows him to Antique Wish. What's gonna happen next? Will her wish be granted? - Sleeping Beauty wa Nemurenai (Suriipingu Biyuutei wa Nemurenai) Chiharu's sleeping face was so beautiful that Minori kissed him. But because of that, Minoru teaches Chiharu a lesson in…?!

I'm K, my daughter was raped and killed by dregs but they twisted all the truths and, in the end, my daughter became the one who's to be blamed. The police are afraid of them, the law can't control them, then I'm going to clean those dregs for good. I'm K, you are the next to be terminated! A moving and touching story about a father seeking revenge for his own daughter.

After a heated argument with her mother, Keito runs away from home without knowing where to go. When she helps an old woman to carry her bags home, the woman offers to put her up in one of her rooms. Keito accepts and starts to pick up the pieces of her life. When she’s not drawing her own comic, which features a black jazz singer named Angie, the young woman works at a record shop. That’s where she meets and falls in love with Niki, an attractive trumpeter in a funk band. They become intimate. Unfortunately for Keito, Niki then explains that she’s not interested in a serious relationship, but Keito is not willing to give up that easily…

Koizumi Shintarou is 30 years old, a virgin, and has isolated himself in his room for 15 years. He has become a burden on his father, Koizumi Yasujirou. One day, Shintarou makes a proposition that if Yasujirou gets a girlfriend, Shintarou will come out of his room. It turns out that Yasujirou has already got a girlfriend, a young beautiful woman, Yoshinaga Haruka, who is with Yasujirou for her own personal reasons. Yasujirou and Haruka decide to get married, but Yasujirou dies on their honeymoon. Now Haruka decides to take care of Shintarou, and so this weird "mother and son" duo are now living together.

The year is 2150, and humanity has entered the Space Age of Exploration. The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, in particular is a treasure trove of natural resources. Seeking those resources, humanity has built up numerous biospheres in its vicinity. Those who are born in zero gravity in the Jupiter Zone are known as "Jupiterians". Rico Alberoni is one such person. He lives on Callisto, Jupiter's fourth moon. For him each day was a torment — bullied at school for his peculiar Jupiterian constitution and poked and prodded like a guinea pig at the lab. Until one day he met a man who makes his living recovering wrecked spaceships, a "salvager" named Reiji... This is a story about a boy who couldn't seize today cutting his own path into the unknowable tomorrow. This is an outer space frontier tale for a new generation!

Aoki Kaoru is a 26-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend. Normally unattached and unmotivated in her own life, Kaoru decides to start up a nail salon as a side business in addition to her regular job as a medical clerk. Although having a severe adversity to physical touch, she is forced to confront that fear when she meets a man who can’t help but touch others.

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 six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best in the city of Edo throughout the seasons.

The people and cyborgs of the Scrap Yard live beneath the flying city of Tiphares, whose inhabitants dump their junk in the Scrap Yard and rules above it's inhabitants. One day doc Ido, a former Tipharean citizen, finds the intact head of young cyborg-girl in a vast pile of scrap. He takes her in and gives her a body and the name Alita. Alita then discovers since long forgotten fighting techniques hidden in her body and decides to become a hunter-warrior like Ido.

The protagonist of the series is the lecherous Satonaka Ikkou, who transforms into a super-monk (being able to perform mass exorcisms) by his lust for the girls he live with. He lives in the Saien Temple as a Buddhist priest in training with six other nuns: Amanogawa Haruka, Ikuina Sumi, sisters Sugai Sakura & Hinata, Nambu Chitose and Atouda Yuuko, each of whom represents one of the bosatsu of the six lower realms of the traditional Buddhist cosmology. Chitose is the other main character and has a strange relationship with Ikkou; he seems to be in all the wrong places at all the wrong times, but they really care for each other in all actuality. A side effect of Ikkou using his ultimate power is that immediately afterwards he turns into an even bigger pervert that he normally is. The series is about Ikkou's self-destructive power and his attempts to control his own super-sensual sphere/powers. See [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5381) for the season 1 of the anime. See [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6204) for the season 2 of the anime.

Takami has an 'eye power' that causes guys to fall in love with him by looking them in the eye and Ninomiya has a 'pheromone power' that gets both men and women fall in love with him. What happens when these two characters clash together?

Collection of stories: 1. If you Love an Arrogant Flower (1,2) Kazuma, the unruly eldest son at a prestigious dry-goods store, dotes on Koutarou, the son of his father's mistress who was welcomed into the main house after the death of the latter's mother. But Koutarou rejected his confession and slipped through his hands. Then Kazuma is suddently attacked by the accomplished and serious second son, Ibuki! How will Kazuma react to his tenacity!? 2. Lonely Butler (1-3) 3. Loyal Dog Jeremy

Nagakado was a fairly normal boy, albeit a trap genius. He and his father lived comfortably in a small town. However, that innocent family had secrets that Nagakado was only half-aware of. Everyone in the family line interited a strange sword, a black katana that is much heavier than it looks and is only usable by people of Nagakado's bloodline. They also passed on a strange star-shaped mark on their chests, and as Nagakado inherits the mark, the mark on his father's chest fades. Soon after Nagakado learns his family's secrets, his father is accused of treason and is taken away to a larger city. Nagakado follows, carrying along his heavy heirloom. Eventually, Nagakado finds that his father has been murdered and sets out for revenge. Along the way, he meets a beautiful assassin named Natsume. What adventures could the future hold for these two?

Arisue Sei lived as happily as any normal kid would, just him and his mother – a particularly private woman – on an outlying island of Okinawa. There were also his friends Toichi and Moichi. The only unusual things about Sei were his sharp instincts and high intelligence. But everything changed when his mother was killed and he was kidnapped by the people of Neo Genesis. Now, six years after the kidnapping, Arisue Sei has returned to Japan with the title of "Doctor" at only the age of 18, and he's not the Sei that his friends remember. There are bodyguards with him who protect him from others who wish to possess his superb intellect. He says he's come back to assist with the research at Rakuhoku University, where Moichi now works, but here is where the door to Sei's secrets just begins to open… --- - **Won the 47th Shogakukan Manga Award for Best Shojo in 2002**

In the 80s, Kaze Takashi's parents moved to a quiet area in Tokyo to protect their son from the bad influence of his friends. In class, Takashi doesn't wait to make new friends. Passionate for motorcycle rallies, they invite Takashi to join the next event. It became a revelation for the young man and he decides to join a biker gang! Now all that's left is to find a motorbike…

1-3: Love Seminar Shigeta Maki is stuck with the hardest lesson of his life. He is madly in love and the object of his affection, Professor Onodera, is so far out of reach, he has no idea what to do. Lucky for him, there's someone to show him the way: Yoshioka, sex expert and delinquent tenant of the apartment complex Maki lives in and helps run. Will love lessons help Maki snag his unrequited love? Or will he find a new goal to shoot for? 4: Koishitara Mermaid When school and family pressure becomes too much for Hirose Misaki, he jumps off a cliff! He's rescued by an eccentric fisherman, Kaidou Youichi, and before he knows it, Misaki is stranded in the middle of the ocean with a crazy man who thinks he's a mermaid! 5: Mr. Bear Of The Forest Six months ago, Jou got lost on a mountain and was rescued by Ooguma-san, an unfriendly woodsman who lives there. So why is Jou back for a visit?

Your younger sibling is dead. After the funeral, you find out that they had been meeting people in a secret group chat app. Everyone in the chat room is a suspect.

Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashion-obsessed artists who call themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends own exclusive clothing model. In this manga we meet characters from Gokinjo Monogatari like Mikako (and her little sister, Miwako - she's in "ParaKiss" group) and Arashi's father (only poster, but still) and new like Isabella.