Before Dawn and the End of the World

Note: One-shot created for an art exhibit that was to be held in August 2020, but was canceled due to COVID-19. Was published in Big Comic Spirits in July 2020.

Inio Asano's debut one-shot

Tribute anthologies to Shigesato Itoi’s famous RPG *MOTHER*. Pollyanna brings together 35 manga artists and creators who love the game to create everything from serious entries to jokes, long-form pieces, drawings, and pixel art. Each creator poured their own unique love for *MOTHER* into the book, creating a truly special result. Shigesato Itoi also contributed to the book himself, creating a hand-drawn map for the overarching *MOTHER* series. The book also includes a bonus sticker sheet attached to the binding. Pollyanna 2 brings together another 40 creators for a 2nd amazing book. ___ Pollyanna 2 Links: - [Official Page](https://www.1101.com/mother_project/items/book_pollyanna2.html) - [Amazon Japan](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/486501604X)

The first collection of independent short stories from Inio Asano. **A compilation of one-shots that include:** - **Before Dawn** (Yoakemae) - **Alfalfa** - **Sunday, Afternoon, 6:30.** (Nichiyou, Gogo, 6-jihan.) - **The Typical Day and Melancholy of Super-Imaginative A-ko** (Chou Mousou A-ko no Nichijou to Yuuutsu) - **How to Spend a Day Off** (Kyuujitsu no Sugoshikata) - **17** - **What a Wonderful World** (Subarashii Sekai) - **Tokyo** - **The End of the World** (Sekai no Owari)

Part of the Inio Asano Short Story Collection.

A story about how two friends tries to stop the antichrist, while the are making efforts to deal with their lives.

Ozanari-kun is a story in the style of traditional gag manga about the titular character's adventures working in the sales promotion department of Murakami Co. A different take on the classic office atmosphere, his boss, section chief Yabusaka has to endure Ozanaris physical and verbal abuse every day. Within his lonely heart, complicated feelings start to bloom. An unusual office romance from the renowned author of Oyasumi Punpun and Dead Dead Demon's Dedededestruction, Asano Inio.

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?

His first series, *What a Wonderful World!*, remains Asano's most representative and successful work to date. Composed of vignettes from the daily lives of a group of people inhabiting an ordinary neighborhood somewhere in Tokyo, the series is actually a comment about modern life itself and how we can survive in it despite all its rigors. Amusing, melancholic, funny, strange, thought-provoking, Asano effortlessly shifts from one mood to another, creating stories and characters that are profoundly human and thus always involving. It's a shame that not everyone will find the subjects the author describes equally appealing since some of them are distinctly Japanese. But overall, it's a great collection that any discerning manga reader should check out.

After graduating from college, Meiko went straight to work as an office lady, but she can't help feeling there should be something more to life. Determined to find a worthier goal, she quits work, but can she actually make her nebulous dreams come true- and how will her sudden decision affect her relationship with her boyfriend Taneda? --- - English release by [Viz Media](https://www.viz.com/read/manga/solanin/product/1889) - Indonesian release by m&c! Comics