The first of two early works one-shot compilations by Kimura, this collects works from her latter half of high school through college, with one one-shot from her 20's at the end.- **Rain** (雨, Ame) - A boy is falsely accused of tearing a classmate's photo, but things don't seem to favor his truth. This boy is no stranger to lies and falsehoods, however...- **Tommy** (トミィ) - Tommy is a boy whose father perished during the war. Though the truth is hidden from him, Tommy begins to notice something is off....- **Balloon** (風船, Fuusen) - A largely silent one-shot about a girl who longs for the embodiment of joy: balloons.- **Tunnel** (トンネル)- **Carrot** (にんじん, Ninjin)- **Mamoru-kun's Dead** (まもる君が死んだ, Mamoru-kun ga Shinda)- **A Joyful Tale** (こうふくな話, Koufuku na Hanashi)- **The Wingless Bird** (翼のない鳥, Tsubasa no Nai Tori)
In the era of cavemen, a boy with white skin is born on the night of a storm. He is immediately outcast as a cursed child, doomed to bring disaster to whoever he comes across. This boy is set to be sacrificed to the Dragon King (a tyrannosaurus), but is saved by an ape woman, Kitty, and is given the name Ryu. Ryu grows up as her child, and soon encounters the world of the cavemen again - with Kitty dying in a skirmish between them and the Dragon King. Ryu soon learns that Kitty is not his birth mother, though she is somewhere out in the world. Faced with this mystery, Ryu ventures on a journey to seek her - all while dealing with discrimination from other cavemen, and the ever-present danger of the prehistoric era.The first part of the Ryu Trilogy.**Links:** - (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1463)
In U.C. 0096, a ceremony to commemorate the end of the One Year War is held in Side 7. The Aonbarr, built to resemble the famous White Base is present at the ceremony, having transported junior high school students from Earth for the ceremony. Sun Place, one of the students who quickly becomes bored with the ceremony, enters a restricted access area, and encounters the three MS built for the ceremony, the G-First, Cannongan, and GF-Tank. At the same time, Zeon remnants on the Musai-class "Mailmer" attack, hoping to secure the Aonbharr as a trophy and join the Neo Zeon remnants known as "The Sleeves".
Maruo's newest work, a story of twins being forced to join a travelling freak show.
Kyouko (21) and Jirou (23) live together in Tokyo without being maried. She is graphist in an advertisement agency, he just starts to be an illustrator. Their love struggle and daily life with friends and family in a world where sexual revolution is about to start.
Matsuoka Renna, who has just transferred to Fuyou Girl's Academy, is reunited with Mayuzumi Kyouko, a friend from her elementary school days. Known as "Black Rose-sama" and the object of admiration among the students, Kyouko says that she had been worried about Renna ever since she moved out of town due to a certain incident. However...there is something bothering Renna...?In the midst of all that, it is announced that Black Rose is dead.As Renna is stunned by this news, she receives an invitation to a suicide matching website known as "Black Black Lotus"...
Mitsuki is a high school student who works hard to support his sick sister. However, without parents, money, or any form of specialty, he falls into working for an illegal business, ends up getting devoured by the strong as someone who is weak, and is ultimately mugged. Deep in despair from the cruelty of this world, a beautiful women who calls herself a detective appears. With her help, it's possible Mitsuki can turn his life around...!
The story focuses on Mame Himekawa, a plain girl lacking in self-confidence, but nevertheless dreams of being a top model. While she succeeds in getting herself scouted for modeling auditions, she keeps bombing auditions due to being from the country and not knowing city etiquette. Her life makes huge turn when she meets a strange but passionate manager.
A wealthy man, Kurosu Tokimune, meets an unnatural end.With his death, his family joins together to grieve, only to become suspects of a police investigation as to whether he was murdered.Their primary suspect: the adopted daughter of the Kurosu family and first to discover his body, Kurosu Tokiko. The girl who shows no distress at her father's death. And as all suspicions point to her, the second unnatural death occurs...It's always been this way.Wherever Tokiko goes, people tend to die.
From Yen Press: Everyone knows about the story of Scheherazade and her wonderful tales of the Arabian nights. For one thousand and one nights, she entertained the mad Sultan with the adventures of Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad, genies, and many other mystical creatures. But what if Scheherazade was actually a boy desperate to save his sister’s life? What kind of strange things would he do to make sure that he survives to tell the tale? This new twist on one of the greatest classical folk tales just might keep you awake for another One Thousand and One Nights.
Due to an unidentified virus, which has affected the world, many people have turned into man-eating monsters and the screams of dying people have been swallowed by the cries of monsters.'Kim Jongdo,' a boy who lived a grim life because he didn't receive the attention of those around him due to his inherent lack of presence, survived the apocalypse because he didn't receive attention from the monsters either, and for some reason, Kim Jongdo was also able to speak with some monsters.While soothing loneliness by communicating with the monsters, he meets a girl 'Jo Myeong' who was in the same class as him during high school by chance.Unlike the indifference around him, she was one of the few people who treated Kim Jongdo with interest, and that's how Kim Jongdo's "no presence" began to shake.
