The Star of Cottonland

On a boat trip, dormmates Simon and Arvy are fighting over their mutual love, Anne. Despite warnings, Simon jumps into the water to impress Anne. Moments later a nuclear test blast occurs, leaving Simon supposedly lost at sea. After a funeral ceremony held at school, Arvy comes back to his dorm room and unexpectedly finds Simon in his bed. But Simon looks strangely different...

Consists of (Hakusensha bunko ver.) : - Yumemushi, Hitsujigusa : divorced wife and her little daughter - Mizumakura Hanemakura - Kaisoku Hansen - Summer Time : A young man, about to be married to his childhood love goes to look for his best friend who was supposed to return to the small village for his wedding from Tokyo. When the young man arrives, he finds a note left by his friend and the presents he would have brought. The note refers to a night when there was lightning and rain, cutting off the power in his small village. Was it really lightning? - Non Regart - Dahlia no Obi - Rangiri Ninjin

Contains three stories: - **Birth!** (誕生！, Tanjou!) When strictly raised teenage girl Asami becomes pregnant, she and her boyfriend decide to keep the child despite the disapproval of their parents. Meanwhile, Asami's best friend Rei discovers some secrets concerning her own background that make her feel especially connected to Asami's situation. This manga caused controversy in its day since it dealt with the pregnancy of a high school girl. - **Utako to Yonde Mou Ichido** (詩子とよんでもういちど) The story of a young leukemia patient and her fiancé. - **Danshi Shikkaku** (男性失格) After surviving a strange accident, a young man starts gradually turning into a woman

Illustrated poem published in September 1979 issue of Mimi.

Chibi-Neko is a young kitten who has been abandoned. She doesn’t know she has been abandoned, and doesn’t know the difference between cats and humans. Indeed, she imagines herself as a human girl and believes she will become human someday. She is found and rescued by a boy named Tokio, who has just graduated from high school. However, he flunked the entrance exams and now is not sure of his future or what he will do. Chibi-Neko soon begins to love Tokio and wants to become a human and marry him someday. But then she sees Tokio with another girl in the park, and sees that he is in love with this girl. She also keeps getting visited by Raphael, a mysterious male cat who tries to tell her that cats cannot become human, they are always cats. What will Chibi-Neko do? --- - **Won the 3rd Kodansha Manga Award for Shojo in 1979**

(from ebookjapan): Oo, an alien, appears in front of Kotaro when he wakes up from a mysterious dream. He is transformed into a beautiful woman through a pseudo transformation...? The title story, in which dreams and reality intersect, and six other stories are included. Note: The first one-shot of the bunko is an adaptation of a story by Kenji Miyazawa.

Now that Ira's older sister is getting married, who will take her to the bathroom after 10 p.m. and sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" outside the bathroom door in order to protect her from the beautiful, androgynous, child-eating clown? Will marrying a closeted gay man help? Considered by many fans to be Ooshima's best work.

(from wikipedia.ja): Simon was taken in by his uncle, Gilles, an ecologist, after his parents died, but he ended up fighting with his rival Jean-Claude over his cousin Joca, his uncle's daughter. Joca, worried about Simon's weak fighting spirit, gives him a medicine developed by his father that makes him stronger, but it turns out to be a sex-transforming drug. Simon is placed in the care of his uncle's friend in England, and when his uncle shows Simon his own chromosomes, Simon is forced to accept. A month later, Simon was pronounced dead in England. Seven years later, after the death of his mother-in-law, Simon, now named Solange, was taken in again by his uncle and sent to live with Joca. Jean-Claude, who is engaged to Joca, becomes disturbed by Solange as a woman.

Short oneshot published in issue no. 2 of Grapefruit (1981).