Poppoya: Satou Otomatsu is a lonely station master of a small station in Hokkaido, situated at the end of the line in a small village with an aging population. The station is due to close in the coming spring, and he will retire with it. One night in his last winter manning the station, an encounter with a young girl marks the beginning of the events that will see him reflect on his working life - performing his duty as a railroad man, whilst enduring the pain of its cost to his personal life. Love Letter: Goro just got out from jail, but a police officer wants to talk to him right away. He announces to him that Goro's wife is dead and that he has to go to Chiba and take her body. Goro has no recollection of having a wife, but then he remembers he married a Chinese woman a long time ago. He married her for her money, and had she married him because she needed a Japanese visa to work. In fact, she's a prostitute who came to Japan hoping to find better life. At first, Goro can't be bothered by this situation, but he goes to Chiba just because he can earn a lot of money. Later on, during his trip, Goro finds a letter she wrote him and through it he discovers the pure person that lies beneath this common prostitute. She is a woman of such kindness and love that Goro is moved to learn something about the woman he married. With those few words of love and tenderness, he understands her fears, her goals, and her hopes for the future – a future that he knows will never come.

From on high, the gods make sport of the mortals who toil below them. None know the cruelty of these beings better than Ganymede, a beautiful prince who was torn away from his family by the gods’ divine hands. Granted immortality, Ganymede now whiles away his days in an inescapable miniature garden for the amusement of the gods, particularly Apollo. But the gods themselves are no strangers to the boredom of eternal life, and as Ganymede quickly discovers, they will do anything to keep themselves entertained, both at his expense and at one another’s…

Everyone knows that Yugi Nonoka is crazy. Her classmates have ostracized her and her teachers have given up on her. Yet, while Yugi may seem messed to the world, she has a disturbing knack for knowing the messed up crap that other people are hiding. And she has the power to do something about it…

From [Storm in Heaven](https://mangadex.org/group/366/storm-in-heaven): A collection of short stories: **Our Vast Loneliness:** For a long while now, I've been prone to losing things. It's the things most important to me that I lose, and it's always after I lose them that I realize it. And then, they're suddenly returned to me. **Love Letter:** A woman has just been discharged from hospital due to her successful eye surgery. As she steps out into the world, she sees her blind self… **All of Sully/Lily:** A man believes that people he loves should have spare bodies. His daughter happens to have one… **Airport:** A man drops off a pregnant woman to the airport… **Fetish:** An injured girl meets a man that thought her appearance was "cool"…

Ten years ago, there was an explosion at Hisano's apartment building. She would have been there, but she'd been hit by a bike ridden by a boy in blood-stained clothes. He dropped a toy scale when it happened, and she's been hanging on to it as a good-luck charm ever since. Now Hisano's in high school. One of her teachers was murdered, and the police are investigating. A young man suddenly appears carrying the toy that scale belonged to. And perhaps… can he also see the hallucinations Hisano has always been plagued with? Everything is connected as the pattern slowly rises to the surface.

Ostracism and mistreatment at school. How can one stand alone against the all-too-powerful group? Sawako finds a way and she starts drawing manga.

**"Then I stood up and began my life. To get revenge on the world."** **"This is where my story begins. I am the child of blood and excrement. I am the Child of God."** The latest work by the Nishioka Siblings depicts the gruesome life story of a ruthless and brilliant serial killer as he grows up from a sociopathic child to a messiah-like figure.

Some time before the June of summer. One day, she suddenly died… "I" and the corpse of the girl who should have died, "Makoto", spent those false summer days in that apartment. The relationship between these two sad, distorted people slowly becomes clearer…

panpanya’s debut one-volume work. Ashizuri Suizokukan is a recompilation of panpanya’s shorter Ashizuri Suizokukan and ASOVACE series, which were independently published in 2010 and 2011, respectively. It includes a collection of newly written travelogues and an abundance of color pages. Ashizuri Suizokukan was published by Ichigatsu to Shichigatsu on August 30, 2013. (Source: <https://natalie.mu/comic/news/97494>) --- Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award.

Based off of Rerulili's song of the same name, along with the sequel [Noushou Sakuretsu Girl (Spinal Fluid Explosion Girl)](http://vocadb.net/S/17189). Welcome to the Human Zoo of Hell — where failures of society come to be ridiculed.

The twin brothers Susumu and Tsutomu have been friends with the girl Sakura since they were kids. But when Tsutomu mysteriously disappears at the age of ten, Susumu and Sakura begin to drift apart. What Sakura doesn’t know: Tsutomu has returned, not as a person, but as the mirror image of Susumu. That is, whenever Susumu looks in a mirror, he sees his brother who talks to him. Thus begins a bizarre love triangle between Sakura, who torments the poor Susumu as much as she is being tormented by her peers, Susumu, who keeps thinking he has to save Sakura because he likes her, and Tsutomu, who despite being stuck in a mirror pulls everyone's strings.

The series follows the adventures of Sabu, a young Edo bakufu investigator, aided by the blind master swordsman Ichi. They deal with a wild variety of macabre mysteries and sordid crimes. Sabu is engaged to Midori, the daughter of his boss, who works as a police officer for the Tokugawa shogunate. The situations they deal with often shine a mournful and cynical light on the human condition, but the staunch friendship between Sabu and Ichi helps them cope. The manga gives a strong portrait of life in Tokugawa Edo, enhanced by the artwork which draws on Japanese traditional art. **Note**: From 1966-1967, the manga was serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday. From 1968-1972, the serialization was moved to Big Comic, causing a shift in demographic. Periodic one-shots with the two leads were still published after in different magazines. --- - **Won the 13th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 1967**

Saitou Shinji is a high-school student with a knack of playing pranks in order to cure his boredom. One day, following an altercation with his closest friends, he receives an e-mail teaching him "how to make an invisible person". What follows is an encounter that threatens to tear him away from Sodegi Kana, a girl who reciprocates his feelings for her. It is this meeting with another girl, who shares a deep, yet unknown connection with Shinji, that beckons in his inevitable transformation into one of the "invisible people" himself.

Yuuri and Miu had always been best friends. They tried hard together to become fashion models. However, Miu got to debut first, and their relationship started to break down. Surging dark feelings and jealousy what is there beyond Yuuri's agony ?!

Billy is the guitarist for a relatively unknown band called The Idiots. On a fateful Wednesday, two perceived unrelated events occurred: (1) his idol passed away, and (2) his roommate stole both his money and guitar. Surrounding these two events is a series of chance meetings, painful realizations, excessive alcoholism, listlessness, flashbacks, and love. This is a terribly poignant story defining the unyielding love found between a vocalist and his guitarist.

The metropolitan police have a special squad of negotiators for talking down violent criminals in hostage situations and so forth. The two top negotiators have great knowledge of human psychology and experience in dealing with criminals, but they are missing something important. They are searching for someone who is capable of agape love– unconditional and selfless love for all people. Such a person would be able to develop rapport easily with criminals, and therefore be a natural negotiator. Instead of finding a person like this on the police force, they find her in the form of the teenage girl Haruka. Will they be able to persuade her to become a negotiator for the police?

A boy is forced to dress as a girl to be a mannequin for his sister's fashion designs.

On an idyllic vacation island in the southern seas, a young couple is trying to overcome the death of their only son. But for Kirishima Seiichi, the husband, the trip has a different purpose altogether. He plans to kill his wife and dispose of her body deep inside the forest. However, when his plan goes awry and his wife manages to escape, Seiichi follows her into a dark cave, only to find himself trapped inside and soon hunted by a savage creature with an insatiable hunger for human flesh… --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Level Comics as **Hideout**

Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed…transformed himself into something else…something hard…something lethal. Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life…and what's left is revenge. Manga that inspired hit Korean movie *Old Boy*!

In the late 1990s, society is descending into ecological collapse and totalitarianism. Saiga Riki-Oh, 21, finds himself in jail. Set in the near future, at the privately-owned Tokyo State Prison. Like the chilling wind of the end of a century, a mysterious man with a six-pointed star on his fist entered the pen. Saiga Riki-Oh–serving a term of three years, due to assault, his first offense. Riki-Oh openly antagonizes The Four Emperors, four powerful prisoners that control the prison and keep the rest of the inmates in line.

In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo. Tetsuo is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower, and he wants Taichi to be his partner. Taichi, whose life has mostly consisted of poverty, loneliness, and pornography, is enticed by the idea of gaining extreme wealth. He's further convinced when a house fire leaves him without a home and depends on Tetsuo's charity. The adventure is going to be very dangerous, since the same 'enemies' who attacked Taichi before seem certain to try something again! Not to mention, Taichi really knows very little about his new partner, especially while regarding his true identity!

Haru has been living with her stepfather, Seiji, ever since she lost her mother at a young age. However, on the heels of Seiji's grandfather's funeral and with news that their apartment is scheduled to be demolished, she begins to take a fresh look at her circumstances.

Fumiki Shimazaki has only one dream: to become a poet. Spending more time in his poems than in the preparation of it his studies, he faces dissaproval from his professors and his best friend Mika… To escape from the harsh reality, he seeks refuge in an abandoned factory. There, he stumbles upon a mysterious dog, who saves his life from an attacking monsterous feline. Their friendship is immediately created thereafter. Questions arise then. From which does this gifted dog come from capacities paranormaux and overflowing of thirst for knowledge? How can it speak? What does the number 23 on its ear stand for? The Appearance and arrival of this dog causes an increasingly number of extraordinary events all revolving around the number 23…

G takes place at these points we call boundaries. Boundaries between times, dimensions, destinies, life and death, … It tells the story of young Tomak through his initiatic journey. The Death Grass Spirit is never far… This story is related to the short story "Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour" published in Heaven's Door.