A collection of strange horror stories in the vein of authors such as R.L. Stine, from the master of absurdist horror, Takahashi Yousuke.
From the manga habit: A gruff, loner office worker has dreams where he’s part of a team that takes orders from an eccentric leader. They’re given odd tasks such as dirtying the laundry or stealing pudding from the opposing team. Initially annoyed, the older guy begins to enjoy the dreams after an adorable high school boy on the other team worms his way into his heart. Turns out, the others are people who exist in real life and share these dreams–so does he have the guts to meet the cute boy in person?
From The Zero Alliance: Wisdom brings good fortune; but wisdom that is too advanced to humans bring destruction. Ox and Ivan, a pair of “wisemen”, are on a journey to collect wisdoms that are in the wrong hands.
Set in the near-future, a little-understood form of matter known as "Mile One" allows a powerful and influential Japanese family, the Gowa, to produce a bipedal weapon which they refer to as a Tactical Armor (TA). At this time, a war breaks out between the US and the fictional Middle East country of Belgistan, much like the Gulf War. When US military forces attempt to seize the capital, they are systematically wiped out by what appear to be rival TAs. The Gowa Family seizes this opportunity to demonstrate their weapon system, and civilian pilot Yuushiro Gowa and the military squad to which he is attached are deployed to Belgistan. There, he meets rival TA pilot Miharu, with whom he seems to share a deep spiritual bond.
Walkure Romanze's story revolves around Takahiro Mizuno, a student studying at an academy with jousting as its main focus for sport. Takahiro acts as an advisor to the riders of the sport. Takahiro goes through each day tediously until the time of the annual competition draws near. Due to some odd circumstances, his childhood friend Mio Kisaki is enrolled into the competition. As she has never even rode a horse once in her life, Takahiro senses the fear in his friend and becomes Mio's coach. -------------- From MangaHelpers: This manga is based on the adult visual novel of the same name. The characters all go to a school that revolves around the sport of jousting. The main character, Mizuno Takahiro, was once a skilled jouster, but he is now out of the sport due to an injury. Each knight still needs an advisor, however, and many of the cute female knights are asking Takahiro to join them for the upcoming annual school competition. However, before he decides who to advise, a series of events ends up throwing his close friend Kisaki Mio into competition jousting. Mio has never jousted before, and can't even ride a horse, so Takahiro decides he really needs to be her advisor. Will Takahiro be able to get Mio shaped up into a skilled knight in time for her jousting? [tethysdust]
Lemon Kid, the only son of a rancher, decides that he wishes to become an outlaw. When another outlaw, Melon Kid, comes to his home, they flee together. Melon Kid, however, isn't too sure that Lemon Kid should be on this path.Also includes the short serial "Black Canyon"---**Volume 70 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Oda Nobunaga will one day be known as the "Demon King," and go on to become the first of the "Three Great Unifiers." But in 1548, he's still the carefree heir of the Owari Province. His companions are Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the young child-hostage Tokugawa Ieyasu. Meanwhile, Japan is steeped in war and intrigue. This series is about three of Japan's most famous historical figures...when they were teenagers. Mr. Zipangu is a fresh and humourous retelling of Nobunaga's life: read and see!
From Village Idiot: What will happen to an ordinary human teacher who falls into a youkai school, with his only ally(?) a sexy but air-headed nekomata? A slight ecchi and heartwarming read brought to you by the author of “Sore wa Totsuzen, Unmei no Aite ga” A short story about a cat demon and a teacher.
Ryu stows away on a space vessel, only to be found by the crew when it's far to late to return to earth. So they stick him in a spare sleep capsule instead. Things take a turn for the unexpected, however, when Ryu wakes up to find himself the sole survivor of the expedition, the spaceship having crash landed on a grossly mutated and wholly unfamiliar Earth. Joining forces with fellow survivors from a different crash, Ryu and his comrades fight to survive on this new and deadly Earth as they search for any humans that might've made it through the mysterious apocalypse.
11 soldiers who are on demilitarized zone search mission. Shut down General Outpost....They should have never gone there