Three Super Metroid related shorts that follows our heroine on her adventure through Planet Zebes in a humorous light. Originally published in Shonen Oh! as short 4 panel comics, these are sure to delight any Metroid fan.

A tribe still exists in this outcast planet known as the Aurumoculi. The Aurumoculi are some of the strongest beings on the face of the world and can be spotted for their golden textured eyes. Our main lead "Toki" happens to be a survivor of his tribe and is on the look out for a women to help continue his bloodline.

A mysterious disease. A young man fated to die. A woman whose love accompanies him to the unavoidable end.

A young man wakes up to devastation that could only have been caused by WWIII. Knowing he might be the last man alive, he sets off to see if he can rebuild the world.

Near the end of the 20th century, a truck driver loses control in the Nevada desert, robbing one family of happiness. The sole survivor of this tragedy, a young girl named Luna Hazuki, makes a pact with a mysterious demon in a morgue. Seven years later, she is still living in America…with the family that should have been dead. Little does Luna know that the pact she made will lead to the apocalypse that destroys the human race…

Tales of a Charcoal Burner narrates the day to day life of young Toshikatsu Ue, who, following family tradition, devotes himself to the hard labor of the titular profession in Wakayama Prefecture. The protagonist shows the laborious process of manufacturing charcoal in first person and strikes up a conversation with the reader through stories of his daily life and folk tales handed down in the region since antiquity.

After a generation of warfare, the Gundam boys finally secured a peace between Earth and the colonies by helping to defeat the Oz and White Fang armies. Now, out of the rubble, the surviving soldiers are re-emerging and clustering together into new factions. Heero Yuy has become a vigilante pacifist, tracking down weapons stashes and destroying them, while Relena, former Queen of the Earth Sphere, tries to maintain the peace politically. But an unmanned weapons factory has been discovered somewhere near Mars, and now the boys are going to have to dust off their mechs for one more battle to save the tenuous peace.

A volume of short sci-fi shoujo stories all featuring a new race of humans called Unicorns. The major theme in all of the stories are about human emotions. As the characters in the story try to interact and relate to these Unicorns who lack a lot of the natural emotions humans normally feel. *** The story A, A' raises a troubling question: How would you feel if your lover died - and was replaced by a clone? Could you recreate your relationship with someone who was physically exactly the same but didn't share any memories of your life together? In 4/4, teenaged Mori flunks out of an ESP training program. But when he meets Trill, a beautiful Unicorn, his latent abilities begin to blossom… In X+Y, Hagio uses science fiction to explore questions of gender and sexual identity. Time has passed, and once again, Mori finds himself inexorably attracted to a member of the unicorn race - but this unicorn is male… and so is Mori. Note: X+Y won Seiun Award in manga category in 1985.

In a quiet area of France during WWII, a very young orphan boy was left on the steps of a large mansion on the same day that a daughter was born to the bourgeois family living there. From that day on, Francis and Natalie grew up together and found themselves falling deeply in love. As talk of their marriage began to stir, Natalie suddenly lost her parents to a plane crash, leaving her aunt as her guardian. This aunt, vehemently opposed to Natalie's engagement to a mere orphan, drove Natalie and Francis to run away together. Unfortunately, they were caught. Rather than be torn apart from each other, Natalie and Francis decide to spend eternity together by jumping off a cliff. Through a cruel twist of fate, however, only Natalie survives…Is there even a smidgen of hope that Natalie will somehow be able to find her love once again? An amazingly well-developed, emotional work of art from Ichijo Yukari.

At the turn of the previous century, the earth quaked. The earth's crust began to shift for the fourth time, centering around the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The entire world's land mass was reduced to 3/5 of the planet, and the human population was reduced by a third. Put simply…the earth had gotten old. In 2039, there was only one country that continued to prosper, glaring around at the rest of the dying planet: Japan. Todoroki Jin returns to Tokyo, the city where he was born, in hopes of finding his friend Ryoma. Little does Jin know about how Tokyo's changed since his last visit… The oneshot at the end of volume 3 is called **Warrior of the Holy Flame, Abi**. Recommended for fans of [Riki-Oh](https://mangadex.org/manga/3710/)

Koume Sato and Keisuke Isobe are two teenagers living in a sleepy seaside town. After getting used and dumped by her crush the emotionally damaged Koume decides to start a sexual relationship with Keisuke, without any emotions involved. However, they both soon discover that sex with no strings attached does lead to unexpected complications, not just for themselves but also the people surrounding them.

Published in 1980 in Shounen/Shoujo Sf Kyousaku Daizenshuu A rare, 4-page one-shot that’s never been reprinted!

A touching oneshot about a man who buys cake every Friday for his wife and the sweets shop attendant who is in love with him.

(from ebookjapan): The battlefield, a place where life and death go hand in hand, a place of extreme risk to one's sanity. This is a gem of a lyrical work depicting the sorrows and woes of people who dream of peace!

Garouden is the story of a muscular man named Bunshichi Tanba who trained hard for five years to get his revenge on Kajiwara, the only man to have defeated him in a fight.

Who takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet to rescue a child’s toy? To stop and observe the birds? To play in the puddles after a storm? To go down to the sea to put a shell back? The Walking Man does as he strolls at random through urban Japan – often silent, often alone – with his vivid dreams that let time stand still.

Shinji Ikari attends the NERV Foundation Academy and lives a life of relative normality. One night he encounters Rei Ayanami and Kaworu Nagisa fleeing the scene of a violent explosion and is eventually recruited to assist them and Asuka Sohryuu Langely in fighting the Angels, who have taken on human form, in order to retrieve their cores to support the world tree, Yggdrasil. Should the Yggdrasil die, their world would be thrown into a chaotic state where parallel streams of existence collide, eventually bringing about the destruction of all things

Oneshot published in Gekkan! Spirits. A war is brewing between the 'Mushroom Land' and the 'Bamboovians'. What will be the dark outcome of all the horrid violence? How will some pacifists show their non-cooperation in this bloodplay?

1: Sayonara Bye-bye Mata Au Hi Made (Goodbye Until Time to Meet You Again) – Konjiki Runa 2: Ore wa Wasurenai (I'll Never Forget You) – London Pariko 3: Anemone (アネモネ) – Kizuki Jin (story) × Yamamoto Kotetsuko (art) 4: Kotori wa Tottemo Uta ga Suki (The Small Bird Likes The Song Very Much) – Takahashi Mako 5: Amnesia: Kioku Kaizan (アムネジア～記憶改竄～) – Rokusei Mitsumi (story) / Takagi Shigeyoshi (art) 6: I Will Be With You Forever – SHOOWA 7: Gesu to Abazure (下衆とあばずれ) – Takumi You 8: Houraku (崩落) – Ooshima Akiko 9: Taigan no Koi (対岸の恋) – Kuroda Kuz 10: Aoi Karte (青いカルテ) – Asou Mitsuaki

A series of dark, atmospheric stories that explore the twisted condition of the human soul, interconnected only by the enigmatic Orochi: a perpetually young-looking woman with mysterious abilities who takes it upon herself to observe the lives of different individuals who catch her fancy, from afar. [Now available in English from Viz Media.](https://www.viz.com/orochi)

Consists of 6 short stories spanning 14 years of Masanori's career. Contents: 1. A MESSAGE TO YOU, RUDY 2. ALL THE WAY DOWN 3.-4. Shiba Inu 5. Gang Age 6. Sand - SABAKU - Desert 7. Hitmen Laugh Too

In this story, we’re treated to a twisted, gothic-horror remix of the classic Cinderella story as re-imagined by a shounen author for a shoujo audience, where we find, in the end, that nothing comes free, and if it sounds too good to be true, well, there’s usually a catch. (You’ve never seen Cinderella like this!)

A man is on a research expedition in an underwater city, when he suddenly discovers a holographic recording of a ballerina.

Sixteen-year old Kaoru, who cannot be exposed to sunlight, can only experience “life” at night, when she’s in front of the train station, singing. There begins a love that has blossomed for the first time in her life.