From ADV: Henrietta barely survived a brutal attack that killed her family. 'Rescued' by the Social Welfare Agency, her injuries were repaired with robotic components and she was brainwashed. Lost with the memory of her family's deaths was almost every trace of her own humanity. Now, she is an extraordinarily lethal cyborg assassin, obediently working with her handler Giuseppe to carry out her deadly tasks. Despite her conditioning and programming, Henrietta still has the heart of a young girl. She has not completely forgotten how to love, yet the very emotion is contrary to her training and programming. Can the Gunslinger Girl survive? Can she find peace in a struggle against her very nature?
Where did she come from? Just who is she? The female hive Toda mowed down a swarm of powerful cyborgs.
Ichimatsu Kairo's ex-girlfriend, Kusakabe Hiyori, who disappeared 7 years ago appears before him again one day. As someone who was converted into a devout follower of the Hiyori religion, he became unable to live in reality when she left. Reunited, she divulges to him her unreasonable demand, "Ichimatsu-kun, I want my childbirth recorded so give me your sperm."
Mishima, a student at a school in the countryside, is bullied by his classmates. The reason is because he's seemingly gay. In reality, Mishima does like guys so he doesn't resist their bullying, and instead, finds solace in secretly cross-dressing. One day on the rooftop, Mishima finds the lipstick he'd lost before in the hands of Kirino, one of the bullies... and Kirino was about to put on the lipstick that Mishima used on his own lips. This is the story of young boys looking for a place they can really be themselves...
In grade school Juuzou was tortured by his classmates and develops an alter ego. Years later, Juuzou has to work with one of his bullies named Akai, who move into the apartment above his. As time progress Juuzou's revenge minded alter ego takes over and becomes a psychopathic killer. Made into Live action movie in 2005.
Yasuhiro Takagi, a normal high school sophomore, decides to kill a person. Follow his psyche as he ponders about his murder plan.
Saitou is a young doctor who just graduated. Starting his career as a doctor he finds there is a lot more to this profession than one would think. An intense drama about the dark side of the medical world. -- Manga Updates
Compilation of short stories: • Hotel It is the year 2272 A.D. A computer continues to live on in order to complete a mission in a world where all life, including Mankind, has gone extinct. This is a record of those 27 million years of its heroic struggle. • Present Hanako suffers from a terrible disease. After awakening from a deep slumber, Hanako has only three days to live. During those three days, her husband, Takao, must endure a heart-breaking experience, knowing that the person Hanako really loves isn't him. • Subete wa Maguro no Tame da (It Was All for the Tuna) Tuna have become extinct and Jun Shiozaki will do everything possible and imaginable to bring them back. • Stephanos Set in modern-day Japan, our main character Noriko finds out that she is pregnant with her lover Matsumura’s baby. He, however, is an important doctor with a family and everything already. Noriko wants to have the baby, but Matsumura says that it’s actually a rapidly growing cancer and that they have to remove it immediately. It might also be neither of these things… • Diadem A "Diadem" is a word for 'crown' that has its root in Greek. "Stephanos", which appeared in "Mandala" 01, was also a 'crown'. It seems that we could consider this the second work in a continuing series of shorts that should perhaps be called a "Crown series".
College Student Zhao Zhe and classmate Liu Qingyan participated in the concert of an idol group MMC48 but they accidentally broke their identity and landed in trouble. When Zhao Zhe almost lost his life, the mysterious girl Chen Mo suddenly appear to save him. For revenge Zhao Zhe followed Chen Mo to join the mysterious forces that backed her. Follow Zhao Zhe as he embark on a new journey and travel around in order to compete and to kill.
Whether it's "communication disorder" or "aspergers", it seems that Koinumaru can't look people in the eye, can't speak, seems extremely mean, has little self-esteem, and is not very good at her job. Kinoshita-kun is now living with her, but...? A variety of small-animal scare girl observation!
One of Fukumoto's earliest mahjong series depicting a detective called Hirai Ginji (not related to Sawada from Ten).
from KEFI: Meet Mon, a violent killer faithful only to his own eruptive desires, and his timid companion Toshi, a demolition-devil with a fanatical thirst for destruction. Their killing-spree across Japan is destined to intersect the path of the enormous "Higumadon", a mysterious beast on a Godzilla-like rampage from Hokkaido to Tokyo.
