Suzuka and Fuusuke live in a snowy village. Both having lost their "Beloved", it is "Blood" that connects them—. Drawn by a talented newcomer, comes a tale of two in dissonance. A woman bad with kids, and a boy bad with people, find themselves living together after losing their "Beloved". Living out in the boonies in a snow-covered village, they only have each other to hold on to in their comisery, despite the friction between them. And when the boy, Fuusuke, asks Suzuka for "Blood"…

Aida Shizuka was sentenced to death for murdering his whole family. As he waited for his execution to come, he was one day visited by his sister who was no longer of the living and had become a grim reaper. The two of them set up to perform the grim reaper's job of granting the "final wish", but they would soon realise that Shizuka was not the culprit behind their family's murder. What lies before them is a revenge suspense story basked in the ever-changing lies and truth.

The World at the Brink of Self-Annihilation (from ebookjapan): Joe, a young boy, was kidnapped by mysterious men and turned into a cyborg through surgery at a secret base. He was called 009 (zero zero nine). At the base, there are fellow cyborgs with amazing abilities from 001 to 008. They were all created as prototypes for a revolutionary new product of the "Black Ghosts," merchants of death! From the war-mongering gang, the nine cyborgs and their developer, Dr. Gilmore, escape to X Island, but...? A milestone in the history of Japanese SF manga begins! --- - **Won the 7th Kodansha Children's Manga Award in 1966, which it shared with Ishinomori's other work, Mutant Sabu**

Junichiro Koizumi. Prime Minister of Japan, or God of Mahjong incarnate? Watch him clash with other world titans such as George W. Bush, Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin in the one force that matters in the political world: mahjong.

"Which will come first: my resignation as a teacher or burning out past my limit?" Through the day-in and day-out responsibilities of his work, Nishiya is a teacher trying his best to be kind and caring to his students. However, as the days of long, grueling work hours, complaints from parents and guardians, and attempts to guide students falls on deaf ears pass, he finds himself gradually succumbing to fatigue no matter how much he reminds himself that this is the path that he chose. Sometimes...he even loses sight of who's sake he's living for. It is on one of those days, when the school district is rocked by a string of incidents, in which stray cats are slaughtered by human hands. And among the parents and guardians, a rumor is spreading that the culprit isa student who only attends school during exam week, a student named Hayasaka--.

A mysterious being named Goa makes his intentions of dominating the Earth known to newspaper reporter Murakami and his son Mamoru. Mamoru takes a photo of Goa. Later, Mamoru acquaints himself with Magma, a self-proclaimed 'rocket man'. However, Magma was actually created to protect the Earth, and destroy Goa. --- **Volumes 186-188 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

"There is another 'me' in this world". Futaba Rio from the science club turned into two person for some mysterious reason. Sakuta hid one of them in his house, not only that, Sakurajima-senpai said she would move into his house as well. Sakuta's vacation was completely messed up. "I hate myself" What's the secret deep in Rio's heart? --- **Links:** - [ Official Twitter](https://twitter.com/aobuta_anime) - [Official Page (JP)](https://dengekibunko.jp/special/aobuta/#comic) - [Official Anime (JP)](https://ao-buta.com/tv/) - [Official Anime Movie (JP)](https://ao-buta.com/)

End of the 20th century. Japan GNP became number one to lead the world economy. However, do not think Japan is easily enjoying prosperity. Far-left forces and a communist terrorist group are in Japan trying to bring down Japan's economy and take over the government. Japanese government was concerned about this, the Metropolitan Police Department Ministry of Public Security has established a new special public security service, which specializes in terrorist countermeasures. License to kill is given to the investigators to protect the security of Japan in shadows. Angel is a tough, beautiful cop in this special force, assigned to protect the country. Link: [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=511) (OVA)

Shunta and Tamaki are childhood friends with a year of difference, but Shunta feels something different towards his friend, an impure, not correct, dirty feeling. As this feeling grows stronger, will the relationship between the two friends also change …?

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…

It follows Tooru Takenotsuka, a 22 year old freeter comes to the city to follow his dreams. Thanks to his status, he is unable to find an apartment to live in until a seedy real estate agent introduces him to Gregory House.

An ordinary college student finds a strange creature injured and weakened. Afraid of attracting unwanted attention, he decides to take her home to care for her.

This is a collection of short stories that Tezuka wrote about transformation and its many forms. (from DMP): The world is nothing but a series of metamorphoses, from changing who you are internally to be a better person to the actual act of growing from a baby to an adult to the elderly. In the world of Osamu Tezuka, transformations show the darkness of humanity. One machine turns humanity's cast-offs into easily-hunted prey. A dancing farmer is turned into a put-upon vagrant only supported by his cat. A giant oaf turns out to be the sweetest and effeminate best friend you could hope for. --- **Volume 88 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

It’s not that studio 13 is haunted. It’s that there is a small cat-like creature living there who wants to be left alone, and will only respond to the requests of a small girl, which means that the producer who uses the studio needs to keep them both happy… Also includes the short work "Kibando" in volume 2. --- **Volumes 307 and 308 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

This is the story of three high school students who discover a tree of knowledge on a small island in the Sea of Japan, who eat the fruit of the tree and then return to the mainland and attempt to return to their lives! --- **Volume 255 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A plane crashes and 8 people survive – and they shouldn’t have save for the fact that the mountain has an unusual magical property and the survivors were all hit with rocks from the mountain during the crash. As long as they keep those rocks, they stay alive. But the guardian of the mountain sends two people after the survivors to get the rocks back, in the disguise of two children killed in the crash. Originally under the title "Dust 18" (and was meant to be 18 chapters). It was not popular during serialization, and thus was not able to properly conclude. It was later reworked and touched up as "Dust 8" when it was collected in the Tezuka 400. (Tezuka's afterword) --- **Volumes 91 and 92 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A sapient rabbit named Mimio is born in an university lab experiment. However, Mimio thinks he is human. So he escapes and finds refuge under John, an orphan kid scientist who is constructing a train capable of penetrating the earth's core, thus allowing for safe transportation. Initially, the train runs fine but it stops at the Earth's core. When they get out, they are swept away by groundwater... What lurks below the surface? Will Mimio and John survive? --- **Volume 253 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

As a child, Amasawa Rei had attended Shirohato Park Institution. After her parents were killed in a car accident, she lived at the institution and befriended a boy. She doesn't remember anything from the time she spent at the institution, not names, not faces, nothing, only that she and the boy shared a secret–a secret much darker than she thinks it is. Now, as a new student at Shirohato Academy with her old classmates from the Park, she is assailed by fragmented memories of the past. What was the secret? Why does she feel driven to find that nameless boy? And most importantly, why doesn't Rei remember anything from her past?

Nagaki is a wife whose relationship with her husband isn’t going well, especially on the aspect of her sexual desires not being met. One day she is visited by a representative of City Hall asking her to take part in an 'experiment' of a Special Zone (Ward) created in the city where behaviors and boundaries are non existent...!

Michio has liked his close friend Kyoichi ever since their school days. Having never confessed his feelings, their platonic relationship continues as he turns 21. When Michio awakens one morning, he finds the world around him unfamiliar. He is 29, and the sleeping face next to his is… From Okuda Waku comes a lovely, heartrending, post-midnight countdown love story.

Togari Shiro continues the story of Tobei as he continues to rid of 108 sins to free himself from hell.

A oneshot published in Garo '69 from avant-garde mangaka Sasaki Maki.