Seiichi Osabe is just a normal if not insular 14-year-old boy with a beautiful, loving mother and a hardworking father. The bond between him and his mother is iron-clad, but when an accident involving his cousin sows the seeds of doubt in his head, Seiichi begins to question whether his mother's doting nature is normal, or something more sinister and abnormal. Where do you draw the line between motherly love and unhealthy adoration? And how can you tell where that line is when your mother's love is all you've ever known?... more>>

(Source: Anime-Planet) <<less

Omnibus of short stories from the famous science-fiction author Hoshi Shin'ichi:... more>>

Volume 1: Afternoon Dinosaur

- Perfect Girl (JUN)

- Golden Pin (KAWAGUCHI Madoka)

- A Study of Angels (KIKI)

- I am an Assassin (KAZUHASHI Tomo)

- Come Out (SABA Tamayumi)

- Afternoon Dinosaur (SHIRAI Hiroko)

- Modern Life (ARITA Kei)

- Living Maintenance (SHIMURA Takako)

- Incident of the Night (ODA Hideji)

- Box (ODA Hideji)

Volume 2: The Gate to Space

- The Gate to Space (KITOH Mohiro)

- The Mirror (HANEO)

- The Patient (TOYAMA Mutsuki)

- The Butterfly of Winter (ABE Jun)

- Execution (ABE Jun)

- The Problem of Level (HITOMI Akane)

- Fate (KAWAGUCHI Madoka)

- Wonderful Life (SUZUKI Shiho)

Volume 3: Short Short Shoutaiseki

A compilation of selected stories from the first two volumes.

Volume 4: The Friendly Demon

- A Device (SHIRAI Yumiko)

ISHIGURO Masakazu

NANAMAKI Kanako

TAKESHIMA Nami

KUJIRA

WATANABE Peco

- Doubt (DOUMAN Seiman)

AOKI Toshinao

NISHIMURA Tsuchika

SUZUKI Shiho

TESHIROGI Shiori

HIKOCHI Sakuya

TSURIMAKI Nodoka

OSHIMI Shuzo

AOKI Tomo

IWAOKA Hisae

IMAMURA Yoko

ASADA Nikki

SUDOU Masumi <<less

Yua Hayakawa used to love playing with Chi, a mysterious girl with a murky family life who likes collecting dead insects, but it's been years... more>> since they've spoken. Now, Chi hardly ever even comes to school. One day, Chi shows up to class in beat-up gym clothes with a handful of dead bugs and starts a commotion that gives Yua's classmate, golden boy Koudai, an idea: he's going to save Chi, and he needs Yua's help to do it. But clean-cut exteriors don't always promise good intentions, and the darkness in Chi may be more dangerous than Yua had ever imagined. <<less

Short story about boy.