Oneshot from a 1993 issue of Garo magazine.

Collection of 23 stories about love in the everyday life of the Japanese.... more>>

1. His Scent

A woman reflects upon finding the scent of her lover from two years ago.

2. Heavy and Pop (♂)

A broke youngster starts selling him to an old lady.

Showing the connection between pain and love

4. Holiday

A woman spends a day at home with her depressed boyfriend.

5. Heavy and Pop (♀)

A prostitute thinks about the concept of love.

6. A Place One Likes to Return To

A young woman who meets her ex-boyfriend and has sex with him gets confused about feelings for her current lover and her ex.

7.-8. The Silent Radiance

A girl unexpectedly meets her old womanising crush.

9. Small and Lovely

An Office Lady fed-up with her surroundings looks forward to meeting her darling.

10. At the Park

Two best friends, one of them whose name is Yoko, spends time with each other as they set of fireworks at the park, but there is a meaning behind their get-together. What is the reason for it?

11-12. The Truth Behind Things

13. Almost a Weding Proposal

14. The End of a Friendship

15. My Life - First Example: Chikada

16. Kyoko

17. That Afternoon

18. My Life - Second Example: Sawa

19. My Life - Third Example: She

20. Holiday Part 2

A girl reads a shoujo manga and is left unsatisfied by the ending.

21. Sweet

A girl reflects herself cheating on her boyfriend.

22. Painful Love III

A young man is forced to choose who he loves more. his girlfriend or the girl with whom he's having an affair.

23. The First Time <<less

While walking alone one night, a man runs into a mysterious puppeteer. Soon after the meeting, everyone he knows begins to act oddly.

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A young man wakes up one morning to find himself without a body, and someone else sitting in his bed.

A film crew is searching for Kuniko Tsurita. Everyone they meet has a different story to tell, some true, some just rumors.... more>>

Features cameo apperances from Akira Ogawa, Shigeru Mizuki, Yuu Takita, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Kishin Shinoyama and others

Oneshot from the 1970 Garo Kuniko Tsurita Special issue. <<less

A mysterious planet appears over Earth, bringing with it unparalleled bliss. If you can afford the space trip, that is.

A collection of sixteen early works by Nishioka Kyodai, including their three-part debut series. As always the stories range from the whimsical to the surreal,... more>> with tales of serial killers, bird women, and a man who one day wakes to find himself with a pouch like a kangaroo. <<less

Oneshots created in 'gekiga' style.... more>>

A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. A medical student lives a secret life as a sperm donor, and finds his world turned upside down when his donations are rejected by the fertility clinic. A young couple's marriage is irrevocably affected when a sewer rat takes up residence in their home. The lives of two men become intertwined when one hires the other to observe his sexual escapades through a telescope. An auto mechanic's obsession with a female TV personality turns fatal after a chance meeting between the two.

The volume consists of the short stories: Piranha, Projectionist, Black Smoke, The Burden, Test Tube, Pimp, The Push Man, Sewer, Telescope, The Killer, Traffic Accident, Make-Up, Disinfection, Who Are You?, Bedridden, My Hitler <<less

An anthology of ten short stories, all done in the Nouvelle Manga style. Each story stands alone, the only things linking them all being the... more>> low-key slice-of-life settings and the fact that they all have a female protagonist including a young child facing the break-up of her family and seperation from her friends; a lonely divorcee managing a bar; an elderly art dealer in the process of retiring; a mistress and her lover rehearsing their mutual suicide; an adulterous wife; a teenage girl on the day of her graduation from high school and the author herself (appearing in a couple of autobiographical pieces). <<less

A man moves to Tokyo and writes a letter to his parents describing his experience.

A silent oneshot consisting of seven different stories.

Palepoli goes beyond the framework of standard four-panel manga and views its structure in new ways. Actually, Furuya knew nothing of conventional manga styles and methods when he started Palepoli. As a result, he created something that bore little similarity to other manga. Furuya notes that he selects his subject matter and methods with clear and precise intentions.... more>>

A portion of Palepoli was featured in . <<less

A boy and a girl are frolicking in a forest, looking for dead animals to bury for fun.

The story begins with a scientist, Dr. Yorkshire Bell, noting that dinosaurs flourished and became extinct when they advanced beyond their ability to adapt to... more>> change. Giant mammals, such as the saber-toothed tiger and the mammoth, came and went the same way <<less

Tales of a Charcoal Burner narrates the day to day life of young Ue Toshikatsu, who, following family tradition, devotes himself to the hard labour of the titular profession in Wakayama Prefecture. ... more>>

The protagonist shows the laborious process of manufacturing charcoal in first person and strikes up a conversation with the reader through stories of his daily life and folk tales handed down in the region since antiquity. <<less

The rogue cop Ham Egg is plotting to take over a small town on the border region between New Mexico and Arizona. Only one thing stands in his way: a Native American sharpshooter known as "Monster". Aiding Monster are two other young sharpshooters, Anna and Jim, who combat Ham Egg and his gang to end corruption and liberate the town.... more>>

Cover image shown is from the edition published 1993. <<less

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A man with amnesia wakes up in a strange world.

Good children are not picky about their food.

Laura was abandoned in the forest as a baby and raised by wolves.

The story is set at a beach, where a young boy walks in the sand before sitting down. Crowds come in to enjoy playing in... more>> the ocean, and then leave, with trash scattered all across the sand behind them. Suddenly the scene jumps to a hospital office where an old man with a cigar is telling a younger, thinner guy something about cancer, the amount of money involved, the idea that the money might stay in the family, etc. Then the scene shifts back with the boy standing up, brushing the sand off his seat and walking back home. <<less

A man who sees demons wherever he goes.