Mazda Hun is a soldier caught in a web of political and military struggles beyond his comprehension. Captured by the government, they sentence him to Lethe. Society doesn't believe in the death penalty anymore. They've modernized the paradigm of punishment. ... more>>

Lethe has many names: mercy, treatment, repair, reformation and rehabilitation. Some even call it justice. The Lethe procedure inflicts no pain and is over quickly, but its victims consider it a fate worse than death.

Lethe is the execution of a person's soul. They make room for a new personality that will remember nothing of the old. Those who undergo the process don't seem quite human ever again. And Mazda Hun's time is running out fast. <<less

A story about the humble marriage of a corporate slave salaryman and a housework robot.

"Ethics" is the path of humanity, a principle that becomes the norm of morality. Learning is not a problem in the future. But this class is filled with the truth of life. Cool ethics teachers Takayanagi confronts the problems of students and their own stance.... more>>

New Age, teacher story!! <<less

An immortal being was sent to the surface of the earth and met a boy living alone in the middle of tundra. The being can... more>> take the shape of dying things, but only if the "impetus" is stronger than the previous one. What sort of experiences and meetings will the being encounter while living forever? <<less

Atelier "Paraiso".... more>>

A place which is protected by God and where people study painting.

As the war worsens, they seek their own heaven, not to be entangled in the harsh reality. <<less

Kurushima Akira is a member of the Japanese Society of Thanatology, which offers illegal euthanasia services to those who "desire a worthy death." People who... more>> wish to die come to Kurushima, asking him to keep watch over them in their final moments. <<less

This is a 5-volume manga series comprised of individual short stories that all have to do with coffee one way or other. Each of them... more>> is bittersweet with a philosophical bent. <<less

A man, heartbroken over the death of the wife he never got to say goodbye to, is killed in a drunken hit-and-run accident. He wakes... more>> up in a place somewhere between life and death where other recently deceased souls stay before moving on to the afterlife. When he realizes that his wife may still be in this place, he races to find her before it's too late. <<less

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

In these haunting tales, Dolls-- human-like androids-- have an uncanny way of working themselves into the lives of their masters.... more>>

DOLL examines the question of what it means to be truly human. <<less