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Chibi-Neko is a young kitten who has been abandoned. She doesn’t know she has been abandoned, and doesn’t know the difference between cats and humans. Indeed, she imagines herself as a human girl and believes she will become human someday. She is found and rescued by a boy named Tokio, who has just graduated from high school. However, he flunked the entrance exams and now is not sure of his future or what he will do. Chibi-Neko soon begins to love Tokio and wants to become a human and marry him someday. But then she sees Tokio with another girl in the park, and sees that he is in love with this girl. She also... more>> keeps getting visited by Raphael, a mysterious male cat who tries to tell her that cats cannot become human, they are always cats. What will Chibi-Neko do?

Won the 3rd Kodansha Manga Award for Shoujo in 1979. <<less

Asahi Sonorama (2000): ... more>>

1. Kinpatsu no Sougen :

Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again.

Enter KODAI Narisu, an 18 year-old home-care worker who is newly assigned to look after Ayumu. To his great surprise, Narisu looks exactly like the girl he had fallen for when he was twenty and he immediately mistakes Narisu for her.

Narisu, on the other hand, is trying to deal with her own secret love. She is living amidst the uncertainties of youth, struggling to find her way.

Ayumu's happy dream. Narisu's fragile and sometimes painful reality. The story takes place in an old house, where these two contradicting worlds intertwine with each other through their words and exchanges. Ayumu gradually begins to realize what is real, until one day, he decides to find out whether what he believes to be his life is in fact a dream.

2. Yumemushi Hitsujigusa

3. Mizumakura Hanemakura

4. Ama no kaguyama

5. Non Regaato

6. Dahlia no Obi <<less

Consists of (Hakusensha bunko ver.) :... more>>

- Yumemushi, Hitsujigusa : divorced wife and her little daughter

- Mizumakura Hanemakura

- Kaisoku Hansen

- : A young man, about to be married to his childhood love goes to look for his best friend who was supposed to return to the small village for his wedding from Tokyo. When the young man arrives, he finds a note left by his friend and the presents he would have brought. The note refers to a night when there was lightning and rain, cutting off the power in his small village. Was it really lightning?

- Non Regart

- Dahlia no Obi

- Rangiri Ninjin <<less

Manga about a boy who is transformed into a girl through a freak accident and is caught into a love triangle.

Four short stories:... more>>

- Kusakan no Hime: The varid speculations concerning Kiriko: Evil Spirit, Demon, Ghost, Witch.

Gossiping concerning Kifune: Stupid, Bisexual, Male-whore.

She defends him so he decides to ask her out.

Is there truth behind these words of malice?

- Haine Yonde

- Yohane Gasuki

- Itai Natsume Itakunai Natsume <<less

Contains three stories:... more>>

1. Tanjou! (誕生！)

When strictly raised teenage girl Asami becomes pregnant, she and her boyfriend decide to keep the child despite the disapproval of their parents. Meanwhile, Asami's best friend Rei discovers some secrets concerning her own background that make her feel especially connected to Asami's situation.

This manga caused controversy in its day since it dealt with the pregnancy of a high school girl.

2. Utako to Yonde Mou Ichido (詩子とよんでもういちど)

The story of a young leukemia patient and her fiancé.

3. Danshi Shikkaku (男性失格)

After surviving a strange accident, a young man starts gradually turning into a woman. <<less