The young man's new apartment is haunted, but as it turns out, even the dead have their own personal shortcomings… issues of the flesh included. For the dead have lingering desires, and are more susceptible to the world of the living than what one may think. There's anger, there's hate, there's curiosity… and there's love too. Here he finds a ghastly girl who observes him quietly, certainly desiring *something*… (No wonder the rent is cheap!) Note: this is the serialized version of the Pixiv webcomic.
Saudi Arabia, Morocco, India, and Japan. A series of short stories staring at "because she's a girl" of 10-year-old girls with different countries, religions, cultures, and values.
Koushi Inuzuka is heir to an ancient family tradition of powerful martial arts. Unfortunately for his father, Koushi wants absolutely nothing to do with such dangerous things. His goal is to become an avenging prosecuting attorney, turning him into a bookworm that his father simply can't understand. Still, Koushi finds a great deal of comfort both in his studies and in the structure of law. Until the day that Momoko Kuzuryu, daughter of another great house, drops into his life and demands that he, the last scion of the strongest family of bushido martial arts, sire a baby with her. From that moment on, Koushi is forced to think and act faster than ever before as ever-stronger opponents appear to challenge him. The race to stay alive hinges on unlocking memories from his suppressed past and, possibly, unleashing his forgotten physical courage. And somehow, at the center of all those memories, stands Momoko. How can a wimpy bookworm survive the attention of skilled assassins for long? Then again, his opponents are discovering that some forms of strength have nothing at all to do with muscles or techniques...
A feeling of emptiness that never seems to know fullness. A never ending cycle of despair that resembles the birth of life. It only knows the everlasting torture of life. Never wasting away and always being there to witness it all to the very end. Immortality? Godlike status? No. It’s a much more worse case than that. It’s always being in the start but never feeling the satisfaction of crossing the finish line. It’s having all the power in the world but never knowing when or how to use it. It’s a case we call “Yoyokuu Hosts”.
(From MAL) The stage is set when Ichirou Gomen, a newbie producer of the record company Gaia loses yet another production opportunity to inexperience. Wanting to pass on his childhood dreams of stardom to a fledgling singer, he toils learning the process day by day through failure.However, his life is sent into a loop when he follows a beautiful performing voice, the voice of Jam Hiiragi, playing live to a group of homeless people at a streetside. Wrangling the prodigy talent and her bratty complications, together they face off and challenge the professional world of the music industry.
Maruo, failed in his debut in high school and has become a bit of an outcast. He earns some extra money by taking spy photos of girls at school and selling them to boys. Recently, Maruo is concerned about Tabe, a girl who is always covered in scars and being bullied. He wants to help her, but he is afraid of being bullied. In addition, Tabe is also a target of his voyeurism, and Maruo feels self-loathing. Maruo's days are filled with worries, but a fact comes to light that brings him to the brink of despair.
Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story "The Book of Human Insects." The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy Award, before which she was the lead actress of an established theatrical troupe. Yet, while the media go abuzz, the woman in the limelight slips away from the metropolis; what the sole paparazzo who manages to trail her to an abandoned country house witnesses is an immobile figure of an old woman and the star herself, naked, in a reverie as bizarre as it is erotic...
The author, a high-school teacher, recounts his 12 years on "night patrol" in Yokohama City, where he comes face to face with youth dealing with issues ranging from self-mutilation to drug abuse.
A geta-sandals wearing girl from Kumamoto at a high school cheerleading club.
It's the year 305 of the Alcian calendar, and the world is currently controlled by "numbers." Every human born is branded with a "Count." This Count can be anything; the amount of kilometers walked, or the amount of people who have said your food is tasty. If your Count drops to 0, you will be sent into the Abyss. After Hina's mother's Count dropped to 0, her last request was for Hina to look for the Legendary Flying Ace.
Tokyo Butei High school--- It was a special school where armed detectives, also known as "Butei" are being brought up. Tohyama Kinji is a sophomore student who has the unique body which activates a "super mode" when it was stimulated by "something". He tries to hide it to others in order to live a peaceful life. But trouble came to find him when he became a victim of a bombing incident, where he met the Butei high "Assault" department elite, Aria H. Kanzaki.
The Mist Industrial Revolution ushered in the "Age of the Air."As people move their lives from the ground to the skies, "air pirates" appear, forming cliques and roaming the skies. Among them, there was a pirate who disliked herds and roamed the skies freely, and his name was Huck, an air pirate. The adventures of Huck and his crew in search of treasure and romance begin now!