A collection of one-shots for each season of the year. The title story focuses on Hotaru, a girl who is lost in a forest in which is said to inhabit many spirits. Appearing before her, Gin, a young boy captivates her at first sight, but she dares not to touch him out of fear that he will disappear. The reprint contains the same main story and three different oneshots than the original printing. Chapter 2 (title story) of the original print corresponds to Chapter 1 of the reprint.

Long ago, in the far reaches of space, there existed a world as pure and blue as the Earth. And on this world, there lived two "Queens" with the power to control it. When the world is thrown into chaos by one of those queens, a young boy and a young girl must stand up to challenge her for the sake of protecting all that they hold dear. Note: TSP is using the tankobon chapter numbering (where ch. 17 in the magazine raws is 12 in the tanks, ch. 13 in the tanks is 18 in the magazines, etc) compared to groups who previously used the magazine raws.

Hachiouji Tarou is an average 2nd year high school student. Since his father died, leaving him as the head of the family, he’s been constantly pulling his brother out of trouble. One night, when he came back home, his mother's head was rolling on the floor, and an evil spirit had hold of his younger brother. Instead of helping him, he hesitated and stood frozen with fear while the spirit got away with his brother. Now Tarou is on a quest to find his brother and exterminate evil spirits. --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Level Comics as **Undead** (2013)

Bazalta is a combat association, in which the combatants, or Rankers, are ranked according to their strength. The higher rank you get, the more wealth, fame and power you get, and you may even get the ability to change the world. In short, in Bazalta, "strength is everything". Zig, a young boy from Cantalera, a wandering tribe where fighting and wanting to become stronger is prohibited; after his father fell victim of some monsters, decides to train against the tribe rules, and seeing how despite his training he couldn't save the inhabitants of the tribe from the monsters, he decides to set off on a journey to join Bazalta and make his way to the top. Based on a video game published by Capcom and developed by Imageepoch Inc.

Rain Jewlitt, known as the Methuselah, is a spaced-out, immortal, 624-year-old man dressed in priest's clothes. He's got eternal youth and a large price on his head… put there by those questing after the secret of his immortality. Machika Balfaltin is a tomboyish, energetic 14-year-old girl who, upon the death of her grandfather, sets out to kill Methuselah, the one bounty her assassin grandfather, Zol the Grim Reaper, couldn't kill. Instead, however, Machika ends up being saved by Rain again and again from other aspiring bounty hunters attacking them both. Sound like the beginnings of an odd relationship? You won't believe where their journey takes them… Note: Some sites say this manga ends on chapter 66 but there's a difference between the magazine and tank chapter numbers. The manga is complete with no chapters missing.

Enter Shokugyo Koroshiya, an underground website that allows hired killers to bid for the lowest amount to take the paying job that they want. Kumo, the top killer of the agency must keep killing to keep a memory hidden. While he continues to kill, along with Megumi the Mantis, and KEI, the 14 year old owner of the website, what dangers await him and the rest of the team at Shokugyo Koroshiya.

There exist familiars who have the power to grant one wish to a chosen girl. However, in return that girl must then become a magical girl and fight against witches, evil creatures born from curses that are responsible for murders and suicides. A schoolgirl named Madoka Kaname and her friend Sayaka Miki are approached by a familiar named Kyubey and a magical girl named Mami Tomoe with offers of becoming magical girls. Another mysterious magical girl named Homura Akemi tries to prevent Madoka from agreeing to the contract.

One cold winter, a young woman appeared near the bridge, and tempted a man. The man accepted her offer, and was found dead the next morning. There has been an unusual number of freezing deaths this year… With unusual ghostly powers, this necromancing fairy goes on to solve the mysteries of Edo and take on challenge after challenge in the 1st issue of this popular series!!

In the fifteenth century, when the French and English were at war, there appeared a woman claiming to be a visionary of God. She was Joan of Arc.

(from ebookjapan): Takeshi Hongo is the most gifted student in Johoku University's Biology Laboratory. His brilliant mind and exceptional physical abilities are noticed by an evil secret society, Shocker, which plans to take over the world! Takeshi is kidnapped and given an operation to transform him into a human being with amazing grasshopper abilities. However, just before his brain is remodeled, he is saved by his mentor, Dr. Midorikawa, and escapes from the enemy hideout just in time. From this moment on, Takeshi Hongo became a righteous warrior whom Mother Nature had summoned...! Kamen Rider, the quintessential transforming hero, is here! [Official English](https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/kamen-rider-the-classic-manga-collection/)

Set in the Edo period, Mononoke tells the story of a supernatural horror that lays siege to an aristocratic household, and of a mysterious apothecary who seeks to uncover the ugly truths that gave rise to the monstrosity in order to vanquish it before it destroys them all. --- Published in 2007 & 2019.

Icoro is the princess of a country of eternal night. Her kingdom is surrounded on all sides by huge mountain walls. Snow falls constantly, yet without the warmth of the sun's daylight, it will never melt, only pile up higher and higher. Her people are destined to die out. While she is a member of the ruling royal family, her parents have both disappeared, leaving her alone with her blind younger brother, and crafty politicians hold all the power behind the scenes, leaving her sovereign in name only. Her life has been an endless cycle of hardship, and she has never smiled, not once. In fact, she is missing that part of all humans that knows happiness. Enter Shiro, a mysterious young boy whose identity is an enigma, even to himself. He is able to forget all but the most vital of information within seconds. All he knows is that he is looking for something called a "Hitogata." After Icoro and Shiro's chance meeting, they end up on a desperate search for the sun that will melt the snow and bring happiness to the kingdom once more. Will they ever escape the grasp of the corrupt authorities? Will they even recognize what they're looking for, if they come across it? Will this "Hitogata" be the key to finding a sun to save their home? The answers lie ahead.

Story is based on three childhood friends. A girl who lost her memory, Miyuki. A girl who is a currently a super idol, Fumika. And Shuichi, a childhood friend of Miyuki and Fumika, who likes to take photographs. Two years ago, Miyuki lost her memory by an accident and she kept a distance from people but somehow she begins to open her heart to Shuichi. Their relationship seems like more than just friends but less than lovers, but in five years, Fumika came back from Tokyo to see Shuichi. Their feelings overlap and their childhood times slowly begin to move.

The story of Nogi Wakaba is a Hero takes place 300 years in the past, in the first days of the Divine Era. There are six main characters who form the very first Hero Team: Nogi Wakaba, Uesato Hinata, Takashima Yuuna, Koori Chikage, Doi Tamako and Iyojima Anzu. Manga spin-off of Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru.

Sent to track down and exterminate a monstrous man with the Mosaic Organ Operation., Asimov soon finds himself fighting an old friend.

Omaezaki Sanemichi was born into a near-perfect existence. His family is wealthy and powerful, and he's good-natured, smart, and athletic as well! All the girls at his high-school dream of having a Cinderella-style romance with him, and, though they are desperately jealous of him, none of the boys can come up with a legitimate reason to publicly hate him. But one day the unthinkable happens: Sanemichi's family's flagship company collapses and his father flees. Sanemichi and his former servants, the teenage siblings Natsuno and Asasuzu and the absent-minded old man Furukawa, are left without a dime. Will Sanemichi be able to maintain his gentlemanly behavior despite the humiliation and many hardships that face him?

A 4-koma drawn up for the game Valkyria Revolution by SEGA. Sadly the artist and author were not posted on the website.

This manga is loosely adapted from the game "Valkyria Chronicles". Related: Valkyria Chronicles: Wish Your Smile Valkyria Chronicles: Anthology Comic

He died, only for a minute. Minakawa Ryo was an ordinary high school student until the day a girl jumped off a building, killing him with her. He miraculously comes back to life but with a new ability to see and hear what ordinary people cannot. Then one day a mysterious girl, Hokuto Shou, appears and tells him that his half has become a resident of the world of the dead. His previous ordinary life has dissipated, and a new life between the "living" and the "dead" begins.

A compilation of short stories by Keiichi Koike. - **Knockin' on Heaven's Door** - **3,000 Leagues in Search of Mother** - **Lazarus Franco's 4 A.M.** - **The Ronin and the Sea** - **Looper** - **Kenbo's Diary** - **Sponge Generation** - **Airway** - **Stereo Scope** - **Horizon** - **Landed** An astronaut sent on a space mission promises his wife and child that he will come back to them. Published in English in Epic Illustrated #26, October 1984 [Official English](https://lastgasp.com/products/heavens-door-extra-works)

This series takes place in a fantasy world with famous composers' music, magic, friendship and dark secrets. Our main character of this story is a young ambitious, energetic boy named Schel. (Scale, as in the musical term) Because of the general of the MagiCorps saved Schel from a Mozoku (Monsters of this world) he has a dream to become the greatest magician ever. So he travels to the capital Sforzando the magic city and enters the MagiCorps School of Magic. There he meets Great, a violin magical music user, who is also the son of the great hero Hamel, who defeated the Demon King Chestra. As Schel tries to become the greatest magician, he also holds some secrets of his own. But how will Schel survive magic school with so many rivals to compete against?

Set during the One Year War, Leopold Fieseler, a detective with the Zeon Public Peace Department/Zeon Public Safety Department based in Zum city in Side 3, is charged with investigating terrorist attacks against Principality of Zeon government officials led by an anti-Zabi group called Valkyrie.

Reo and Meiko were friends in high school. However, now Reo is serving as Meiko's slave, doing whatever Meiko requests. The story uncovers why their relationship turned out this way.

Set in the Soviet Union, the mysterious girl named Berka and the quiet boy Shchenok help a Socialist Party member to escape from the secret police. Their aim is to infiltrate into a certain mansion that holds what they seek, but the secret police immediately capture the two. Will they be able to find what they seek and endure the torture of the secret police? --- - **Won the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award in 2014**