Yuu Watase's Masterpiece Collection Volume 5 consists of four stories. 1) Mint de Kiss Me - There is a legend that if you kiss the man you like with a mint candy in your mouth, you can become one with your love. Misono is a rather superstitious girl who decides to test this out on Tohno-sensei, a young teacher she has a crush on. Unfortunately for her, she makes a mistake in the attempt to surprise him and instead kisses her fellow classmate Shindou. Of course this would be the time for the legend to work quite literally as Misono’s spirit enters Shindou’s body. 2) Genseika - Chiya goes to school with her friends and witnesses one of them die suddenly as a flower bursts out of him. The three friends had been together since elementary school, the death hitting Chiya and Yutaka hard. When other people begin dying from the flowers, they investigate possible reasons for such usual deaths. To her surprise, she finds answers close to home. 3) Furimuke Romance! - The hero of girls targeted by guys peeking into the locker room, Taka has quite the violent tomboy reputation. But all she wants is for some handsome guy to ask her out. A cheerful street vender, Ryouta gives her a special ring with a heart locket pendent to hold pictures. When two photos are enclosed, romance is in the air. 4) Hang in there Nakago (Part I) - Involves the scenario where Fushigi Yuugi was actually done by real actors. Unfortunately, Nakago (stage name) is a lot more unconfident than the character he plays. At least his one main fan, an unnamed woman with flowers, is there to support him through his worries.
From Dark Horse: Something monstrous rises up from the sea and nearly sinks a Japanese fishing boat. The sole survivor tells a tale that no one wants to believe. But when a Russian nuclear submarine is destroyed in the same waters, the world is forced to face the truth: Godzilla has returned! This manga classic was originally published by Dark Horse in black and white in 1988
In a world on the verge of extinction due to an alien invasion, Han Oreum, who continues to lead a military life while raising her daughter Goo Cho-rok alone, is attacked by a strange creature during a civilian rescue operation. She hurriedly evacuated her daughter and her survivors and fought her monstrous creature, but waiting for her to come back alive is the corpse of her brutally murdered children…
The clue to the missing persons case is hidden behind a child who is both beautiful and sinister.
September 11, 197x, In the whole Kantou region a magniture 8-9 violent earthquake occured. Scholars called it the great destruction of the showa era, but the people called it the earthquake from hell! volcanoes errupted, buildings crumbled, tokyo became decimated in a single day. The government, after failing to recover the city, abandons Tokyo and moves the capital. The survivors form a society with no laws. In this harsh lawless world emerges Jack, a 10 foot giant who annilates anyone and anything in his path. The manga details his journey.
A collection of short stories by the author of Ushio and Tora.1. Karakuri no Kimi (The Puppet Princess, 1994)2. Tenohira no Uta (Song of the Open Palm, 1994)3. Renrakusen Kitan (Strange Ferry Tale, 1988)4. Merry-Go-Round e! (To the Merry-Go-Round!, 1988)5-6. Yoru ni Sanpo shinai ka ne (Shall We Go Out Walking by Night?, 1993)
With her parents dead or missing, Azuma has been taken into her uncle's family. However her new family has been harshly abusing her, to the point she has become so mentally unstable she developed the rare syndrome of Alice in Mirrorland, which makes her see things that shouldn't be there reflected on mirrors, water, glass, etc. Everything begins when the things she sees start affecting the real world directly, and the barrier between reality and illusion breaks apart. Welcome to the world at the other side of the mirror. Welcome to wonderland.
After being in an accident a high-school girl ends up with strange visions of horror, deaths and murderer. She is not sure whenever these are nightmares or premonitions so she decide to find out what is the true meaning of the visions.
Hatsune Miku is a young woman seeking to become an actress, but just as it seems her chance has come, everything is thrown upside down when she finds herself hurled into the “world of stage” within a strange mansion. There she meets seven mysterious, and potentially dangerous, characters. Although each comes with their own secrets, they almost all have one goal in common—find the stolen script pages, or be trapped in this false world forever!
「In order to meet you, I…」For Enomoto who's currently a college student there was a person he remembered about about at times. It was his childhood friend Shimura, who was always beside him up until six years ago. Due to a sudden transfer he didn’t get to ask the place Shimura was going to and had heard nothing of him ever since. However, he had a reunion with Shimura in college. Enomoto just felt happy at that reunion, but Shimura seemed to hold some other feelings ——.
Side story/prequel to "The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service."Matsuoka Kunio is a writer and anthropologist, but he's much more interested in playing detective. Joined by his long-suffering best friend, a very unorthodox priest, and a boy with the power to raise the dead, he investigates the occult mysteries and murders of early 1900s Japan.
