One-shots

Story & Art: Makoto ISSHIKI / 一色まこと
First Published In: Big Comic Spirits Casual #1 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Drama / Slice-of-life
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In order to win the heart of her dream boy, an obese girl joins forces with her cousin to lose weight… — An amusing take on the topic “obesity” and how the right motivation can work wonders from the author of Piano no mori and Hanada shônen-shi.

Story & Art: Tsutomu NIHEI / 弐瓶勉
First Published In: Monthly Afternoon #2004-05 (Kôdansha)
Genre: Sci-fi / Action / Parody
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Adventure-student Killy in the Cyber school quest…

Story & Art: Tatsuyuki TANAKA / 田中達之
First Published In: Comic Cue Vol.9 (East Press)
Genre: Sci-fi / Fantasy
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Boiling Head …or the attempt at a scientific-fantastic metaphor for being in a mental conflict situation.

Story & Art: Tetsu KASABE / 笠辺哲
First Published In: Monthly IKKI #2004-07 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Sci-fi / Fantasy
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What if you could see your own future? For a curious reporter, this question becomes no longer theoretical as he ends up serving as an involuntary guinea pig for a mad scientist who claims to be able to do just that. But is what he sees really the future?

Story & Art: Gô ÔHINATA / おおひなたごう
First Published In: Comic Cue Vol.9 (East Press)
Genre: Gag
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Two girls, two stories…

Story & Art: Q-ta MINAMI / 南Q太
First Published In: Comic Cue Vol.9 (East Press)
Genre: Romance / Drama
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Two lonely souls, who seem to have nothing in common, find to each other…

Story: Shinji OHARA / 小原愼司
Art: Iô KURODA / 黒田硫黄
First Published In: Comic Cue Vol.9 (East Press)
Genre: Drama
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A dead girl’s ghost returns to her school to haunt a female teacher…

Story & Art: Kazuo OGATSU / オガツカズオ
First Published In: Monthly IKKI #2004-09 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Horror
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A man’s nightmares turn out to be anything but…

Story & Art: Tori-Miki / とり・みき
First Published In: Comic Cue Vol.9 (East Press)
Genre: Gag
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“When I woke up, I found I had turned into a fridge and was in an unknown apartment…”

Story & Art: Yôko NIHONBASHI / 日本橋ヨヲコ
First Published In: Comic Cue Vol.9 (East Press)
Genre: Drama / Romance
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A mysterious disease. A young man fated to die. A woman whose love accompanies him to the unavoidable end.

Story & Art: Yuki ASAHI / 朝日有希
First Published In: Monthly Afternoon 2005-02 (Kôdansha)
Genre: Drama
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Story & Art: Rumiko TAKAHASHI / 高橋留美子
First Published In: Big Comic Original #2004-06 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Comedy / Slice-of-life
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A casual trip for two women. If they didn’t mind each other at all, it would be a great trip… If they didn’t mind each other at all.

Story & Art: Usamaru FURUYA / 古屋兎丸
First Published In: Monthly IKKI #2004-12 & #2005-01 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Drama
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The second installment of Usamaru Furuya’s omnibus series Happiness introduces Yuno Yamase, a naive girl who is looked down at by everyone because of her dullness. Exploited and embarrassed by her peers, scorned and let down by her family, she decides to leave her old life behind. Will Yuno be able to find the happiness she’s longing for in this treacherous world?

Story & Art: Hisae IWAOKA / 岩岡ヒサエ
First Published In: Monthly IKKI #2004-09 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Drama
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One day, office worker Kurata encounters a strange girl in the city. The girl, who wears a bear “head mask” all the time, moonlights at her dad’s restaurant. Thus begins an unusual friendship between the lovelorn man and the mature girl…

Story & Art: Hitoshi TOMIZAWA / 富沢ひとし
First Published In: Champion RED #2004-09 (Akita Shoten)
Genre: Sci-fi / Drama
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A tale about people who have to shoulder the burden of mankind’s progress…

Story & Art: Kazutoshi SOYAMA / 曽山一寿
First Published In: Big Comic Spirits #2005-25 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Gag / Nonsense
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As a teacher forgets his student’s name, chaos and hilarity ensue…

Story & Art: Yôko NIHONBASHI / 日本橋ヨヲコ
First Published In: Monthly IKKI #2004-04 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
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This beautifully drawn short story by Yôko Nihonbashi, creator of G senjô Heaven’s Door, introduces the silent, beautiful Yaeko Shimura, a woman who brings new meaning to the words dutiful wife and good friend.

Story & Art: Tetsu KASABE / 笠辺哲
First Published In: Monthly IKKI #2004-12 (Shôgakukan)
Genre: Comedy
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Being stranded on a remote island that is inhabited by a strange hermitical family could be the best thing that happens to you…

Story & Art: Radio WADA / 和田ラヂヲ
First Published In: Comic Cue Vol.9 (East Press)
Genre: Gag
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How the Internet affects our everyday life…

Story & Art: Hitoshi IWAAKI / 岩明均
First Published In: Ace Tokunō Vol. 1 (Kadokawa Shoten)
Genre: Horror
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After getting beaten up by a bunch of thugs, an apathetic man who is afraid of looking other people in the eyes wakes up in the hospital, only to discover to his horror that he literally can’t see other people’s eyes.