Drawn from the heart, a collection of sketches about the problems of our time. “Recruiting those who want to finish it and die, but feel sad doing it alone…” Fed up with everything, Mie posted a notice on an Internet Bulletin Board and found suicide-partners. Four boys and girls were gathered together because of their ties to death. And then…?!
The story centers around Keiichirou, a young man who lives alone in his house. He went through a lot of pain in his life, ever since an accident that happened three years ago. One rainy day, he finds a little girl, drenched from the rain, inside his home. She is named Flower, and so begins the life for these two unlikely protagonists.
A collection of short-stories. - Beloved Goldfish: Ai and Jin are childhood friends and neighbours. When they were kids, Ai got a goldfish from Jin and she took care of it since then, but one day, Jin decides to leave for a reason Ai has yet to know. - Real intentions: Mizuho is a high-school girl who doesn't get that her friend Ootsuka is obsessed with UFOs. But when Niizaka, the popular girl, starts taking a liking to Ootsuka and his interest, Mizuho has no choice but to admit her feelings for her friend. - Star Romance: Michiaki is a rebellious high-school student, which his friend Miyo is worried about. Playing his play pretend since his mother's death, will Michiaki be able to go back to his senses? - Life is white: it's a bad luck day for the Capricorns. Unfortunately, Yae-chan and Sou-chan are both capricorns. Add to that a mystery box and here's a white adventure! - Your eyes: Yuika, a colorful high-school girl yearns for her beloved boyfriend Yuuya to look at her, but his true love is football. The day Yuika meets a mysterious stranger, everything changes.
Midorimaru Matsunoki, the only son of lord Matsunoki Mumeharu, retainer of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, becomes involved in his father's secret plans about construction of a new castle. Soon after encounters a female peasant school teacher, Tae, who becomes his lover. Circumstances even come to affect the beautiful female noble Yayoi, who hates (and loves) him, and his beloved sensei, samurai Fujinosuke Murasaki, the main constructer of the castle, in ways no one would have anticipated... This is a fast-paced story with overt characterization that reflects on the fairness of love and war.
From the Animeraider: Japan is a seismically active country, so the occasional trembler isn't anything that people get too worked up about. They happen and it's unfortunate, but in general Japan is prepared. But there is one scientist who believes that he has found proof that a recent quake has triggered a cataclysmic event, and that within a year Japan will sink into the sea. Now if he can get anyone to believe him before it’s too late… Also known as Japan Sinks, this is based on the award-winning novel and movie of the same name. It's a well-written and complex story, and will seem like it's about something else before it gets into the meat of things. Well worth the effort.
No matter how much time passes, and no matter who they are, the love one has for their parents does not change. A heartbreaking tragedy about the memories a son has of his late father.
From Midnight Scans: Chacha, a girl who rushes through life during the Warring States era, is a daughter of a military commander. Even though the men who rule over the country decide her fate, she will never lose her pride, no matter the situation. When her beloved family is taken away from her, and her feelings for her loved-one is trampled, she starts her battle in order to fulfill her only wish!
A touching story of a doctor who wanted to help people even though he became a vampire.
Ootemachi Tokio is an elite businessman. When a bizarre dream forces him to pay attention to temp worker Takebashi, are Ootemachi's days of being self absorbed over?
Short story collection of a variety of more mature Tezuka work. The story "Clockwork Apple" was borrowed from the book, before the movie was made, but has very little to do with the book either as Tezuka admits to writing it without reading Clockwork Orange.
