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.

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...

Two twins, separated by fatal illness and a selective cure. Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim to stone. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to go into a sort of cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the undetermined future, Kasumi awakens to find herself and others who were in suspended animation in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Resolving to unlock the mysteries of her current situation and the fate of her twin sister, Kasumi struggles to survive in a treacherous world.

Miwa confesses his feelings to his friend Katou, but in response, Katou introduces Miwa to his gay friend Hashina. Miwa is shocked, and rejects Hashina, but that just makes Hashina fall in love creating an unrequited love triangle. Miwa finds comfort in Hashina, but will he ever be able to let go of his feelings for Katou?

From Blissful Sin: Whatever he does, it always backfires, a salaryman who always fails, Saeki Katsuya. Facing restructing, a guy appeared before him when he wanted to give up. "From the moment you put these on, your life will alter drastically.” The glasses which were handed to him, seemed to be a forbidden item that will change its wearer into a dominant brute... Having obtained the glasses and on the road to being a beast, will Katsuya obtain real love?

Yotsuya-Sensei likes to tell stories, and his most recent one stems from the mysterious death near the school. Now the question is... was it a suicide or was it something more sinister?

Drawn from the heart, a collection of sketches about the problems of our time. “Recruiting those who want to finish it and die, but feel sad doing it alone…” Fed up with everything, Mie posted a notice on an Internet Bulletin Board and found suicide-partners. Four boys and girls were gathered together because of their ties to death. And then…?!

The twisted and deeply disturbing tale of a psychopathic serial killer...

When he was young, Kouichi ("Usa") was taken in by his cousin Kaname's family. Usa extremely hates when others touch his neck... But what might be behind his strange behaviour? Also contains non shounen ai oneshot "Under the Purple Shade"

1) Sambika: In a far country ruled by a beautiful Duke who seems to have formed a peculiar relationship with his right hand, Lord Yuri, there are cases of unexplained deaths... they would involve a vampire according to the spreading rumour. ~ Pg. 3-35 2) Killing Moon ~ Pg. 37-76 3) Life of the Machine: Koreya Takane, a famous scientist, had enough of the constant obligations required by his position when all he really wants is to be left alone with his work. That's how, in order to satisfy his taste for solitude, he build up a mechanical clone of himself... But what if it becomes impossible to distinguish the replica from the original man in the end? ~ 80-115 4) Prince of Monster: A kind prince with strange red eyes who had been locked up by his uncle decides to end his misery... without knowing the grief it'll cause to his brother. He suddenly reappears 13 years after but what if he really has become the “Prince of Monster” as he used to be called? ~ Pg. 116- 150 5) Bye Bye Mizuhara (From EoP)

When a young master’s father unexpectedly passes away, he knew he wouldn‘t be free from the madness his father left behind. His father’s eccentric tastes led him to buy and raise his very own lover and now that he has died his father’s lover is to be his responsibility. Old wounds are torn open and the painful past resurface once again.

Consists of a volume with various oneshots. Hattori's in love with his best friend Kameda but shuts out his feelings because he doesn't want to destroy their friendship. But what happens to the lock he put on his heart when a girl Kameda likes makes an appearance...?! Aside from "Kagi - Key" this book also contains the one shots "Alkaloid", "Breath", "Night, Midnight" and "Dogs and Summer Clothes".

Ten stories about the everyday life of Sei, an idealistic songwriter, and Miho, the young woman who struggles to support the both of them. ------------ Miho and Sei are living together. She works at a boutique while he tries to make it as a musician. Even though Miho still can’t forget about Hagio, her ex-lover, she is happy in her relationship with Sei. However, all is not well for the young couple. Struggling to make ends meet, Miho decides to take a second job as bar hostess. As she becomes increasingly desperate for money, Miho eventually gives in to one of her client’s sexual advances. When Sei finds out about this he begins to distance himself from her. Things are getting even more complicated for Miho when Hagio suddenly reappears in her life.

The mountain gods have sent down a punishment to the people of Japan. An owl by the name of Minerva. All who fall under this owl's gaze die, their eyes spurting out blood. One man stood up to the owl, a famous hunter by the name of Uhei, however just as he was about to loose the finishing bullet, he was interrupted by the American army taking the owl into their care for study. Thirteen years later, an American warship crashes into a Tokyo harbor, and all the men on board are dead, their eyes bleeding. The owl has been freed, and it now rampages throughout Tokyo, killing at random and in mass amounts. The American government has decided that only Uhei, the man who nearly killed the beast before, can help them. So they send the Delta Force and CIA out to see just how the bird can be brought down...

collection of onehsot 3) Blue Cheer Nobuhiro Honjou was, all of a sudden, attacked and kidnapped by two guys. He woke up to find himself tied to a chair in front of a an unfamiliar young man... 27 pages concerning abduction, drugs, death, sex, and torture. "Maybe it was the drugs... or... or because I was already insane... or maybe because I was only looking for body pleasure... or... maybe in that moment, I really did love him..." -- Honjou (summary written by Flamie) The insane love between a drug dealer and the mad man who was in the incest relationship with his younger brother who died from overdose. 4) Betrayal Game The revenge drama of the beautiful employee who is sold to the support company's owner by his lover, the young CEO of the company. 5) Futaba-kun and Futaba-kun The romance of a student who gradually finds many unique points in his transfer classmate with the same name and falls in love with.

[From NetComics]: Ordinary high school girl Jina discovers that she is heir to a terrible legacy handed down from her family's sinister history. Long ago, her ancestors killed a magical serpent known as an Imugi, believing that it would bring them good luck. Unfortunately, the creature cursed them as it died, decreeing that one family member of each generation for that day forth will be killed by two people closely acquainted with that person. One of Jina's relatives has been murdered without fail in every generation, and now, Jina has been informed that she will be next to die.

"When I talk about ‘warped manga from a warping mind’, I’m thinking about this kind of incoherent story. ‘The Human Clock’ is a lot simpler to explain. The hero is Yubi Chizuo again. He’s a student like before, but this time round he’s a dropout. He stays in his house, which is a family shop selling watches and clocks. He gazes and gazes at the clocks. Little by little, he turns into a clock. That is the entire story. It reminds me of Kafka’s Metamorphosis." from Manga Zombie.

From Tokyopop: To what distance would you go for your one true love? In the midst of an alien invasion, Mikako joins the resistance, leaving behind the one young man she loves. As she goes deeper into space, Mikako's only connection with her boyfriend is through cell-phone text messages. The war rages on and years pass, but Mikako barely ages in the timelessness of space while Noboru grows old. How can the love of two people, torn apart by war, survive?

This is an adaptation of the Mirage of Blaze novel, and so far seems to follow the original source material closely. The complex plot incorporates a large number of elements - including romantic melodrama, historical politics and supernatural fantasy. Japanese history predominates the heavily structured story-line, which mainly involves the continued aggression between power-wielding guardians ('possessors'), and the denizens of a 'feudal underworld'- a group of restless souls belonging to long-dead samurai from the Sengoku era who are attempting to re-ignite those age-old wars in present-day Japan.

This is about two siblings with the vampire-like tendency for blood, and at first share the same home alone till their caring aunt decides to move in with her husband to care for them, however their normal life is going to get far crazier as a doctor and other characters become involved in the plot. From Tokyopop: The members of the Takashiro family share a terrible curse: only human blood can slake their thirst. Sent away after the death of his mother, Kuzuna Takashiro remained blissfully unaware of his 'condition.' When Kazuna's teenage hormones begin to rage, his uncontrollable bloodlust suddenly rears its head...

Follows the rather tempestuous relationship of two writers and touches on the lives of those they interact with. Both those that hate and/or envy them and those that love and/or like them. Not a modern story, it seems to be set at least several decades ago, before computers at least. Despite this, it doesn't have a dusty, out-of-date feel to it, more like a slow-tempo modern story. Vol.1 Hitodenashi no Koi (1999) Vol.2 Itooshii Hito (2000) Vol.3 Omoware Bito (2001) Vol.4 Hitori ni Shinai (2002) Vol.5 Aisareru Hito (2004) -officially dropped by Game Over or Continue after finishing up v2-

Nana, an apathetic 24-year-old with nothing much in her life, suffers a car accident and wakes up in her 14-year-old junior high body. As she lives through each day, she starts to remember things she buried deep in her memory, and she can now not remember being involved with her older sister, whom she deeply admires, and her sister's first love, a senior at her school.

Explores the lives of the famous yet not famous people that lived in our world--such as Nikola Tesla, Typhoid Mary, the woman behind the Winchester Mystery House, Kou Yoshio, and much much more. Art by Araki Hirohiko and Onikubo Hirohisa, all stories by Araki Hirohiko.

Hayate and Kusanagi are best friends. They are pretty popular in their high school, and they always attract a lot of "unwanted" attention because of the ambiguous attitude that Kusanagi harbours sometimes torward Hayate. Invited both to a students counsel's sponsored meeting about UFOs, they stumble upon Hayate's little brother, Tatsumi. Hayate gets into an argument with him because he thinks Tatsumi shouldn't be there. And Hayate didn't know ho much he was right, when, after the meeting started: a UFO crashes nearby the student group...