Imagine, that the roles of whales and humans were swapped. So whales (or whale-like creatures) would be rather small, able to talk and smart. Humans would be large, stupid and hunted by whale-people. Then shake this all in the slightly insane head of Shintaro Kago and you get this peculiar one-shot, making you see how our actions affect nature.

A collection of short stories that look to mankind's exploration of space, and examine the possibilities that we could face when we decide to take those first fateful steps into the unknown.

In a dystopian future in which robots are becoming increasingly commonplace, a young boy named Hogu lives in near poverty with his grandmother and sister. Though he innately possesses a kind soul, he is ostracized by his classmates and frequently bullied. At the beginning of the story, we find Hogu, friendless and alone - until he meets a robot girl...and our story begins.

From here: Growing older is pretty rough and Kenji is finding out just how hard it can be as life starts wearing down on him. On top of trying to make ends meet running a convenience store, he has to care for the niece that his missing sister left in his care. Memories of youth make it easier, until those memories come back to haunt you. Kenji and his old friends are slowly being drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that could threaten the world. Who is the mysterious "friend", and how does he tie into Kenji's youth? Why are there disappearances and deaths tied into Ochanomizu University? The friend's memories hold the keys to the puzzle, but years between cloud the clues. The strange occurances and the reach of the "friend" conspiracy grow by the day. It will all culminate on New Year's Eve 2000. Will Kenji and the rest of the group be able to put together the puzzle and save the world? Note: The last two volumes of the story were serialized under the name 21st Century Boys and are not included here.

Ayame longs to be a hero of justice, while enjoying life in Kyoto. One day, while coming back from dancing, she saves a mysterious man from a dog. The man drops what looks to be a game console. Ayame can't resist playing with it, but sometimes things are better left untouched...

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Taken from Anime News Network: Beautiful People is a manga comprised of six profound and thought-provoking short stories. It includes a tale of a vampire who raises a child as her own, a story of a young man who copes with an alcoholic father amongst other problems with the help of an online friend and four others short stories.

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When an unknown Arm Slave surfaces somewhere in the Taiwan Strait near mainland China, MITHRIL orders Melissa Mao and her team to go into a divided Hong Kong to investigate the perpetrator of the unknown Arm Slave. As the team continues to check into the reports of the unknown Arm Slave, the culprit is believed to be a potential SRT recruit back from Sousuke's training days in Belize when he was not recruited by MITHRIL.

Collection of short stories.

Jin, a mysterious kid with a halo carved in his hand, and extraordinary fighting skills, lives with his grandfather in a beggar's community. In other place, the old scientist Amagi is searching for professor Kanzaki, to ask him for the whereabouts of the "player" -a kind of genetic altered humans- Zet, which they created some years ago. Soon, Jin and his grandfather are attacked by a mysterious man who turns into a monster. The connection between professor Amagi and professor Kanzaki, seems to connect also young Jin to the mystery of the "players" and Zet.

The story behind the day of Full Moon three centuries ago and the day of Full Moon present day. The story is revealed around the gods and people involved in the incident!

Namidare Rekka has a very unusual birthright. After his 16th birthday, he will be drawn into many different stories. Each story has a heroine, and each story depends on him to be the hero. On his first day of high school, a strange uniformed girl that only he can see shows up. She claims to be from the future, and claims that his rescuing of many heroines is going to cause serious trouble for the future. It's not long after this encounter that his troubles begin. His childhood friend Satsuki invites him somewhere, possibly to confess her feelings for him. However, before she can, she's kidnapped! Rekka wants desperately to help her, but he finds himself being tossed into various sci-fi and fantasy worlds, each with their own heroines in trouble. Will he be able to get back to Satsuki? Will he be able to save all the others? How can he really tell the consequences of his well-meaning actions?

The first 2 volumes contain thematically linked but self-contained stories concerning Tomie - a beautiful young woman with the power to seduce and dominate any male, from small boys to elderly men. Later, the series leaves these characters behind and focuses on stand-alone gothic horror pieces. Each volume has its own title: 1. Tomie (Scanlated) Included one-shots: Tomie Photograph Kiss Mansion Revenge The Basin of the Waterfall 2. Tomie - Part 2 (Scanlated) Included one-shots: Tomie Part 2 Basement Painter Murder Hair Orphan Girl 3. Flesh Colored Horror (Scanlated) Included one-shots: Long Hair in the Attic Permission/Forgiveness The Bee Hive Dying Young Headless Statues Flesh Coloured Horror 4. The Face Burglar (Scanlated) Included one-shots: The Face Burglar Scarecrows Falling Red String My Dear Ancestors The Hanging Balloons 5. Souichi's Diary of Delights Included one-shots: Fun Summer Vacation (Scanlated) Fun Winter Vacation (Scanlated) Souichi's Diary of Delights (Scanlated) Souichi's Home Tutor (Scanlated) Cloth Teachers Souichi's Birthday (Scanlated) 6. Souichi's Diary of Curses Included one-shots: Souichi's Selfish Curse (Scanlated) The Silent Room The Coffin Rumours Fashion Model 7. Slug Girl Included one-shots: Slug Girl (Scanlated) Out of Its Element / Thing that Drifted Ashore (Scanlated) Mold Coldness (Scanlated) Ryokan The Groaning Drain (Scanlated) Biohouse (Scanlated) 8. Blood-bubble Bushes (Scanlated) Included one-shots: Blood-bubble Bushes Unbearable Labyrinth Sword of the Re-animator The Will The Bridge Demonology The Conversation Room 9. Hallucinations Included one-shots: Hallucinations Bog of the Living Dead Penpal Further Tales of Oshikiri Further Tales of Oshikiri: The Wall 10. House of the Marionettes Included one-shots: Ice Cream Bus (Scanlated) Gang House The Smoking Club Second-hand Record The Sleeping Room The Gift Bearer (Scanlated) House of the Marionettes (Scanlated) 11. The Town Without Streets Included one-shots: The Town Without Streets (Scanlated) Near Miss! (Scanlated) Maptown Village of the Sirens (Scanlated) The Supernatural Transfer Student 12. The Bully (Scanlated) Included one-shots: The Bully House of the Deserter Father's Heart Memory The Back Alley Love by the Book In the Soil 13. The Circus is Here Included one-shots: The Circus is Here Gravetown The Adjacent Window (Scanlated) Sleuth Kids: The Second Daughter's Lover Sleuth Kids: The Assembly of Fallen Ghost 14. The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel Included one-shots: Long Dream (Scanlated) The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel The Bronze Statue Drifting Spores Blood Sickness of the White Sands Village (Scanlated) 15. Lovesick Dead (Scanlated) Included one-shots: The Beautiful Youth of the Intersections The Anxious Woman Shadows Screams in the Night 16. Frankenstein (Scanlated) Included one-shots: Frankenstein A Doll's Hellish Burial Memories of Real Shit Note: Tomie has its own page because of a third volume that isn't part of this collection. Scanlation Groups: Slug-chicks Titania Daniel.AU iemonsy Neggie

UFO Robot Grendizer is the third entry in the Mazinger Trilogy by Go Nagai, following Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger. This particular incarnation was illustrated by Gosaku Ota and published in Boken Oh, Otomodachi from October 1975 – March 1977. It follows the adventures of Duke Fleed, the sole survivor of an attack on the Vegan Empire, who defends his second home, the Earth, from the Vegan attack, together with the giant robot Grendizer.

As is the case with much of Tezuka’s work, the main plot of Nextworld deals with Earth in the Atomic Age. Radiation and nuclear testing has led to the creation of many strange, almost supernatural species of animals, and it seems that every major nation on the planet wants to discover the secrets of these creatures and how to best harness atomic energy for their own purposes. Tensions rise as political conflicts escalate, and it seems that a third World War is inevitable. A strange mix of scientists, politicians, and young adventurers may be Earth’s last, best hope against corrupt government officials, armed forces, robots, and secret societies. Meanwhile, the boy detective Kenichi, the young Rock Holmes, Shunsaku Ban (Mustachio) and others discover the Fumoon, a race of tiny, telekinetic humanoids who evolved in Australia, and have their own plans for dealing with the impending apocalypse.

From MangaHelpers: Even though the war has already ended, the sky has always been full of fighter planes for Iono Akatsuki. But he never really cared why. He just went to school and carried on with his life. Akatsuki has always had better vision and body movements than the average human, but the most he got out of it was never losing a fist fight. His adopted brother, Seibu Tsubasa, who he met five years ago when they were both 9 years old and who has been like a real brother to him, on the other hand, is a genius who got his doctorate at the age of 9, and teaches Akatsuki’s class at the middle school. But Akatsuki’s life changes when he learns about his Kigan or machine eyes, an ability only a handful of people in the world posses that allows the body to not have any limits. For example, one would be able to see at almost 360 degrees and process all the visual information available, while making decisions faster than an average human can even begin to imagine. Now as a pilot for the Warbird jets that he saw in the sky everyday, he has become the military’s secret weapon against the impending restart of the world war. [vyc]

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A couple of decades have passed since Ultraman last was seen in Tokyo, and his kaiju nemeses seem to have gone back into outer space. Former Ultraman Shin Hayata has forgotten that he ever wore the metal suit, though as Minister of Defense he still takes a keen interest in protecting Japan. His young son Shinjiro knows that his dad once worked with the SSSP (Science Special Search Party), but not that that explains how he came to have amazing strength and other seemingly supernatural abilities; as a moody teen he just thinks they make him weird. But then one day a dangerous alien comes back to Earth, and everything starts to become clear. Will Shinjiro don the suit and become the new Ultraman?

Ryuuko Matoi is a girl who travels with a single red scissor blade, searching for the wielder of the other blade who killed her father. She arrives at Honouji Academy, a high school that lives in fear. It is ruled over by the fearsome student council, led by the student council president, Satsuki Kiryuuin, who use powerful uniforms to crush anyone in their path. After suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of Satsuki, Ryuuko comes accross a possessed school uniform named Senketsu, who puts himself on Ryuuko, granting her special abilities. Teaming up with Senketsu, Ryuuko stands up against Satsuki and the student council to liberate Honnouji Academy from their iron grip and find out the truth behind her father's murder. Source: Wikipedia +

A side story of Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei that focuses on Shiba Tatsuya's younger sister's viewpoint and experiences of the events taking place in the main story.

For those who haven't read Petshop of Horrors, Count D's Petshop is a place where one can find animals from the most ordinary housepets to savage predators to mystical beasts that should belong only in legends. Customers often find that their new pets change their lives more than they expect, fulfilling their dreams, or realizing their nightmares.

This 4koma follows the unusual life of a grade school girl genius named Hatsume and her invention: a box robot called "Hako".

Meet a , cowardly reploid named Zero, who's lost his memories! With the help of Lito-chan, Zero's new friend and sidekick, Zero goes on a journey to find them and recover his past. Of course, he needs to fight his new enemies some of the time-- but you have to get him to stop hiding behind Lito-chan first.