Yomawari Sensei

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.

8.1 Yamada Yuusuke Gekijou

There is a mysterious group of people who inflict cruel and fatal games on people for their own amusement. Tatsuya and Misa are out on a date in an amusement park when they wander into one of these horrific competitions on the tallest roller coaster on earth. The seats fall out of their 12-person roller […]

Self

Youichi is a very serious, stoic young man with a girlfriend and a regular sex life. However, he has never experienced sexual self-gratification. Recently, he’s become aware of a book called « Masturbation » at the library he works at — an educated discourse into the history of the sin of Onan and related practices. Finding himself […]

Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo

Aida Shizuka is three days from being executed for cruelly murdering his family when a shinigami comes to visit him. It’s his little sister Hibiki, who has come to make sure his soul goes to hell! Hibiki has another job on this trip as well, granting the final wish of a girl with heart disease, […]

Utsukushii Otoko

Welcome to the future. In tried-and-true sci-fi fashion, the date is given in a time system that we have no reference for, so I can’t tell you how far into the future we are beyond saying that it is S.E. 156. Thirty years before our story begins, an ace space pilot by the name of […]

SKY

Compilation edition of four Rokuda’s One-shots published between 1992 and 1995 about the relationship between man and sky. The stories are collected in the following order: 1. Return of the Heroes [ 勇者達の帰還 ]; Young Sunday Shinjinoo (02 October 1992) 2. The plaything of the orphans [ 孤児達の玩具 ]; Monthly Big Gold #1 (17 December […]

Death Sweeper

This manga is about the job of cleaning up scenes of death, and discusses the meaning of life and death. Through interactions between the deceased’s family and friends with the death sweepers, we understand the meaning of death. No matter is it is a peaceful death at the ends of one’s life, murder, suicide, death […]

Toriniku Club

Lust, sex, and symbolism. Deep joy and horrific fear. It could be anything. Bizarre and haunting, this collection of dream-like short stories are pivotal moments in time, fleeting, intense, forever changing our ways of seeing. You’ll want to read them more than once. (Source: Juné Manga)