Alice waits with her mom in an elevator. All the men look at her mom's breasts. Alice doesn't see the reason in it. Although, for some reason, it doesn't seem right. While pondering the reason why, she realizes she's in another world just like that famous protagonist in that one story. There, strangely enough, she too has the guys' eyes glued to her, for she was an adult woman just like her mother.
Three delusional high school boys weave an intricate tale as they search for the meaning of life, love, and everything in between.
Am I really just a little brother to you? The daily lives of the three adorable Dai brothers.
Collection of short stories by Maruo. It's almost impossible to summarize them, most of them aren't really plot driven but they deal with abnormal states of the mind and are permeated by a general surrealism. As in many of this works, he shows references to the art and culture of 1920s and 1930s Japan and Germany which had inspired his own artistic style.
Lerew lives in a small fishing village on the coast, and trades with a young boy called a witch for medicine for his father. But one day, while attempting to fish in a dangerous area, Lerew is thrown overboard and attacked by sharks. However, even with his body mangled beyond recognition, he still doesn't wish to die…
On a rainy day, when Mai got stood up by the guy she likes, she met a beautiful girl who told her that she was the Rain and that she had come because of her tears. After that Mai's days were filled with the bitterness of betrayal, only the memory of the girl called Rain can somehow ease her heart. A story of a brief love affair under the rainy season.
Since entering university, Izumi has been approached by strangers on campus. It seems like there's another 'Izumi' who wears glasses just like him, and he recklessly takes on other people's requests. In an unexpected turn of events, he got to know this Izumi, so he started following him around to prevent people from mistaking them... A slow, quiet, heartful, twilight romance.
[From Lililicious:] In "The Christmas Eve Couple," by Matsufuji Junko, Aiko is unhappy in her marriage--her husband only married her to get ahead at work, and he's hardly ever home. Luckily, she has Kyouko, a woman she met online one lonely night. But when Aiko's husband suspects she's having an affair, their vision of a happy Christmas Eve together is looking less and less likely.
Ikeda's manga debut. In front of a mansion where roses blossom, Tomoko and her brother Kenichiro meet a mysterious girl. She looks interested in them but vanish each time they see her.
