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Collection of short stories: 1-3) Kinjirareta Taion When Detective Moriyasu breaks up a lovers' spat on a street corner, he doesn't expect to know one of the guys. Kazuki is a troubled young man with nowhere to go, so Moriyasu takes him in. But the past has ways of catching up with them. 4) Naisho de Scandal Kenjou is a beautiful model, but he doesn't like being considered girly. So when he gets into a argument on the street and a stranger stands up for him, he loses his cool. But he also loses his cell phone... 5) Kamen wo Hazushite Yamashita is regularly scolded by his boss, Natsume, whom he has a crush on. But when he sees Natsume kissing another man...
Destination is a state of mind. A tale of a person and a bike and the road ahead. Kino wanders around the world on the back of Hermes - an unusual, talking, anthropomorphic motorcycle - only staying in each country for three days. During their adventures, they find happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that because of the world's imperfections, it is actually a thing of beauty. "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."
Destination is a state of mind. A tale of one girl and her bike and the road ahead. Kino wanders around the world on the back of Hermes, her unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle, only staying in each country for three days. During their adventures, they find happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that because of the world's imperfections, is is actually a thing of beauty. "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is." (Source: TokyoPop)
Oneshot published in Gekkan! Spirits.
Hijiri Tomoaki, a university counselor, lives a peaceful yet unfulfilling life. However, his life changes completely after he reunites with an old acquaintance, Amawashi Hajime. The mysterious problems his patients bring to him gradually begin to infringe on his daily life. What is the true nature of the strange phenomena in which they become embroiled, and what is the true purpose of Hajime, who suddenly appears before Tomoaki?
Two young doctors, the passionate and well-liked Osanai and the ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious 'Monmo' disease, found only in one remote village, which causes bizarre bone deformation, making its victims take on a beastlike appearance before their deaths. Osanai, caught between the allure of his urban medical world and the rural peace offered by the remote village, does his best to help the victims retain their humanity in the face of a medical establishment which views them only as guinea pigs and oddities. Meanwhile, Tatsugaura schemes against Osanai and tries to infect his rival with the disease in order to gain fame from researching the results.
Meet Minami Sakura, a girl who’s just started the life she’s always dreamed of with her new job in Tokyo. But it turns out that company’s clean image also has a dark underside… which bewilders Minami and causes her to struggle. And when one of the employees is found murdered, everything goes to hell. This is just the beginning of Kiriko’s party!
Hagakure An, a girl who doesn't know how to play Mahjong at all, was dragged into the world of rep-players by Yakuza, because she was mistaken for the Yakuza's rep-player, Daigo, whose appearance resembles her. A direct sequel of Tetsunaki no Kirinji: Kabukichou Seiatsu Hen.
From TVTRopes: (Game information) After the sudden death of her parents, a young woman named Shiori Kanzaki find a picture of a man that she believes to be her grandfather, and travels to Azaka VIllage, where he was apparently from, in hopes of meeting him. However, when she arrives she instead finds that the tiny village has a museum that she realizes she lived in as a young girl. There she meets Sakuma, a middle school girl who tends to get herself in trouble, and Suga, the strange manager of the museum who only communicates in written memos. Suga grudgingly allows her to stay at the museum for awhile and research her family. But there is a legend in the village of "Kotori Obake", a demon woman who abducts children who go into the nearby forest. How is this story connected to Shiori's past, and why does she hear voices calling her, commanding her to "Come fulfill the promise"?
In a city so over-indulgent and careless, reveling in food and sex and completely unaware of the epidemic of parasites, it's no wonder so many people are infected. Dr. Suzune Arizono isn't exactly a normal doctor. For one, she's actually a veterinarian— but her specialty is parasites, and when those parasites make a habit of nesting inside human genitalia and overriding their senses with lust, her job is bound to get more than a little messy! As the spunky and beautiful heroine of this sexy sci-fi mystery, Suzune searches for infected victims to stop the parasites from driving their hosts literally crazy with lust. However, despite her desire to help people, her reasons aren't completely selfless. The parasites are Suzune's only link to her missing father, but will following these wet and slimy clues really lead her to his whereabouts, or is this voluptuous vet in over her head? --- NOTE This manga started serialization in an adult (18+) magazine and after a hiatus, switched to a seinen magazine.
They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shinichi is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come? Won the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga and the Seiun Award for Best Comic of the Year in 1996.
Oda Yuuma is an odd young man. He can float off the ground. He can see into the future. He scares the crap out of some of his classmates and teachers. There is a physicist trying to understand how he does what he does, but Oda-kun has his own agenda, and it involves a possible future he has seen of a girl from his school…
