From Aerandria Scans: The story is told as a collection of allegories based in a medieval fantasy setting, but aimed at mature audience. The main character is Helga, a girl who lives completely ostracized from her fellow-villagers, but she seems to enjoy it rather than suffer from it. The people in her life, whose stories we also get to explore, are her best friend Eda, the kind young mayor and two of his servants. And in the heart of the village and the story is the bell-tower which changes everything with its chime...
A series of loosely-connected vignettes, each lead to the next by a stray thought. A young hit-man chased from his home; a dropped key to a bloody room; a meat-locker to hide a corpse; the watchful eyes of crows; a criminal?s chance at salvation; the sight of music in the air. Where will this story take you, and in what place will it end?
It's the year 2034 and high school student Sasaki Hiiro boards his bus just like any other day. Everything changes, though, when his bus is suddenly attacked by a mysterious girl with red eyes. When Hiiro awakes, he finds himself in "Tokyo," a city which was supposed to have been permanently sealed off after the outbreak of the deadly Pandora Virus ten years ago. Not only that, but it also seems like all those being gathered in "Tokyo" are developing new inhuman abilities. Now, among the ruins of Shibuya, Hiiro and his friends must discover why they are here and learn all they can about the terrible Malicious Code that is running wild in their bodies before it destroys them all!
A collection of nine surreal short stories sharing a theme of water. Chapter 1, Bon: A young boy ponders family affairs around Bon. Chapter 2, We’re Still on Our Way: An astronaut cadet must figure out his motivation if he is to succeed and go into space. Chapter 3, Fusion: When the ultimate form of love is fusion, the government must work to stop a declining population. Chapter 4, Such Sorrowful Stars: In a near-death experience, a man meets a solitary girl running endlessly. Chapter 5, Salt Damage Season: A young woman is captivated by marine “vortexes”. Chapter 6, Sea Weather: A girl follows a schoolmate home only to realize she lives under the sea. Chapter 7, Squish: A girl can see things she calls “squishes”, transparent blobs all around us. Chapter 8, Meltism: If we are the same as the planet, what separates us? Chapter 9, Season・Time・Water: The world adapts to the changing of the seasons.
Sungyeol loses his mind after stabbing his lover who tried to kill him. It was Jaseong that accidentally saved him. Jaseong allows Sungyeol to stay in his house until the heavy snow stops. That night, Jaseong placed his hands on Sungyeol’s chestnut-like body. Sungyeol seduces Jaseong by telling the man mysterious stories. Here lies the lives of two men whose kept secrets begin to overlap.
"People become unhappy because they only think about the past and the future... not the present.." So-Na, unable to remember a painful event in her past, is living only for her mother's nursery, "The Snowdrop". When she meets Hae-Gi, the intentionally isolated and beautiful model, they instantly click and fall in love. However, a dark secret that connects them, threatens to tear them apart. Like a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, Snowdrop is about two star-crossed teens who fall madly in love. (Warning: Shounen-ai between side characters.)
In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact—they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio’s promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri’s mysterious, carefully tended condition.
The reaper loves seeing the cries of humans before swinging down his scythe to reap their souls. He lives for the hunt of humans souls before their passing. Yet one night, he encounters a dying girl with flowers blooming in her room looking back at him with a smile.
A battle ensues over life and death, belief and science, ethics and progress. <br><br>Two boys, Sei and Oishi, fall madly in love with Yuko. Her death wreaks havoc on their young lives, bitter memories cease to fade, and their tender hearts cling to the dream of a world where debilitating illness disappears in the face of science. But what would happen if they discovered that all they believed was a lie? Is there still a chance that their suffering may end? Will mercy and love prevail?
Shuhei Kurata is stuck. Going to a new school where he doesn’t fit in, standing still as his old friends leave him behind. Watching silently as the woman he loves slips further and further away. He feels detached and out of place, as if maybe it all might be a dream. Perhaps it is…A 1-volume series.
Jooyeon is a guy who wants to put his past of being fat behind him. Upon meeting a model who goes by the name ‘Yeo Soo” by chance, Jooyeon develops a strong desire to emulate the person who gave him hope and decides to follow him to the same university, but…
From Mangascreener: The only common feature running through these stories is a grown-up protagonist somehow coming face-to-face with his childhood past, in a testament to the loss of youth, the disillusionment of growing old, and nostalgia for better times. In the Adachi pantheon, this is a rare diametric view of his eternal theme of "youth," in this case youth as seen through the lens of the past. It's a powerful statement from Adachi that might even be an acknowledgment of his steadily-creeping age. What is impressive about these stories is not the plots or characters themselves, but the absolutely perfect way he tells them, another facet of experience that comes with age. Most of the stories may require multiple readings to fully appreciate the airtightness of the plot and visual motifs."
