Collection of inter-linked stories. 1. Kikyo After losing her job, a woman in der mid-twenties returns to her hometown in the countryside and has an unexpected encounter. 2. Large Small World A junior high school girl, who has a cram school teacher for her boyfriend and a delinquent girl for her best friend, keeps skipping class, but still does her homework. What could be her reasoning? 3. Mother Ship The truant girl's mother tells the story of her youth, her love and her life. 4. Sandwich Blues A 32-year-old middle-school teacher leads the same lonesome life she had during her elementary school days. When her cousin from the countryside annouces her marriage, she starts to ponder... 5. Go Slow (continuation of Mother Ship) 6. Manimani

Lilith is a snow woman who scorns her dead mother’s choice to live as a human being and hide her magical abilities after falling in love with a human man. But although Lilith views mortal men as mere sustenance, what will happen when she meets a handsome man who’s kind and who claims to love her…?

Why is that whenever I touch her, my hands seem to be cold? Or is that she doesn't want me to touch her?

1-2+extra) Narushima, an elite detective of the Metropolitan Police Department who is guarding an important person at football stadium happens to meet his old friend, Fujisaki. When they were promising football players in same team, Fujisaki always dominated Narushima and deprived all of Narushima including of his pride and girlfriend. But Narushima realizes that Fujisaki becomes a sniper. He failed to catch Fujisaki and Fujisaki also failed to kill the VIP. They meet again and make love together... 3) An ex-member of swimming club encourages a retired member by fatal injury to tell the ace swimmer his feeling. Ace swimmer accepts it because he loves injured butterflies... 4) A teacher tries to find out the reason why his student acts rebelliously only against him...

Oneshot that appeared in the Shadows of the Damned artbook (which Hayashida contributed designs to), starring George Reed.

From Amazon.com: A volume of four terrifyingly witty novellas. Skin and Bone: Poor Taichi is bullied incessantly at school because of her weight problem, but she undertakes a diet from hell, which leaves her nothing more than skin and bone. The Red Satchel: Haruna's deathly appearance shocks her friends when she returns to school. She disappears again, leaving only her red school satchel and its gruesome contents. Two Sisters: Young, beautiful Ms. Numata is a popluar teacher, but her outer appearance hides a ghastly truth she has kept secret since birth. Caterpillar: No one can understand Mayuko's obsession with caterpillars, but everyone at school hates her for it. She is bullied relentlessly, but knows that her destiny lies in a different place.

An alien armada from Jupiter has amassed enough power to destroy all of Earth's defences. Earth's final hope lies in the Space Battleship Nadesico, a ship created using recently discovered extraterrestrial technology. Can the Nadesico's rag-tag crew overcome their idiosyncrasies and defeat the alien fleet, or will Earth's last hope be lost?

The photography student Akane starts modeling for the famous photographer Kage, but after Kage's secret passion for bondage photography is revealed, their photoshoots lead to deeper sexual relationshi+

A newly hired detective tries to prevent an infamous thief from blowing up a precious diamond.

Working at Kaikarou in the red-light district of Edo Yoshiwara, Ikutarou finds himself among many beautiful women. One in particular, Fuyou, seems to have been gifted with not only beauty but intelligence as well. An intelligence that people from many walks of life secretly turn to when they cannot go to the police. After discovering this secret, Ikutarou is made to be Fuyou's "feet," made to go out to observe crime scenes and evidence to report back to Fuyou so that she may solve the case even while being forbidden from leaving Kaikarou. Will this impromptu partnership work out? Will Fuyou be able to solve the case?

Shouko is still a virgin, and hasn't met a man yet who lives up to her standards. Her friends look up to her -- and would in truth like to give her more than just their respect -- but the only one Shouko looks up to is her famous actress mother, for whom no man is good enough to dedicate herself to. That's when Shouko meets the rumor and reality of her mother's new boyfriend, Ujou. Ujou is different from the others -- an aloof college student 17 years younger than Shouko's mother. The passion that Shouko sees between them becomes what Shouko desires for herself, but while forbidden fruit may be sweeter... it is also more deadly. Vol. 2, Story 2: Angel Night Right before we die, an angel comes to our side and waits for the moment when it can ferry our soul to Heaven. In the case of Rin, a pop singer who has just been dumped by her producer boyfriend, it's because her angel is present that she can't commit suicide. She can see the handsome angel Faye, who won't leave her side until his mission to collect her soul is complete...

To save his terminally ill little sister, Ling Chen enters the newly released virtual game world and joins a small gaming studio comprising entirely of women. From now on walking upon his path towards the pinnacle. An ancient, evil item almost forgotten by history, the “Wrath of the Moon” helps forge his unsurpassable legend, and causes him to unknowingly step upon a path that is destined to be punished by the heavens, the way of the shura.

Back in high school, Iori and Mayumi were close, and they always used to eat lunch together. Years later, Mayumi's a master chef and expert in the culinary arts. During a signing for his new cookbook, Iori lines up quietly, not expecting Mayumi to remember him. So when he finds out that Mayumi hasn't forgotten him at all, his heart beats so fast from excitement, he literally blacks out! When he comes to, he sees Mayumi, who invites him over for dinner! However, things don't go as planned during the night. After having gotten quite drunk, Iori's bad habit shows its ugly teeth

Undercover investigator Matsuzawa Tomoya has a blood-stained past and hidden abilities. His new suspect, Kiryuu Yuuki, is one who looks exactly the same as the bloody man who has been in Matsuzawa Tomoya's mind for the past 15 years.

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Paraphrase is a series of stand-alone short stories. Each story has a different emotion to it, normally towards the end. 1) Paraphrase Yukito is a promiscuous young man who earns money with his body. He also has a lover, Teruaki, an innocent student he keeps completely in the dark about his "job". When Teruaki's beloved older brother finds out about Yukito they start a dark game of blackmail and manipulation... 2) Full Throttle to the Top (Doteppen made Masshigura)- Satoru and Yuusuke are childhood friends who recently started a band together. Satoru is pretty clueless, especially when it comes to Yuusuke's feelings! They still need a songwriter though, and when they find a famous one that's willing to work for Satoru's body, will he give in? Or will Yuusuke finally speak up? 3) Cross Road Watching a gay AV with his friends, high school student Tsukaharu notices the one actor looks a lot like his best friend, Ren. Tsukaharu brushes off the thought that his friend might be gay, then he hears Ren having sex with his father. A young man who is confused and betrayed is unpredictable in his anger. 4) Sympathetic Pins - Telepathy of Love (Koi suru ishindenshin A horny acupuncture doctor is sick and tired of treating old hags, so the appearance of the American hunk at this sexual peak is a welcome surprise! 5) Gataiyoihanshinkaku A stage performer comes to a mannequin maker to acquire a doll for his show, only to become intrigued with the man's beautiful but emotionally scarred apprentice. 6) On the Otherside of the Fog (Kemuri no Mukou gawa) An possessive, obsessed classmate with an unrequited love is frustrated that he is being ignored. At what lengths will he go to force his crush to look his way?

Shuichi comes back after a long absence from school to find his old friend Kura. No one else remembers Kura though. After searching Shuichi ends up at an old western style house where he finds Kura in the basement, in a coffin!?

University student Aoi Yamamoto joins the Sake Research society hoping to get a girlfriend and lose his virginity, despite being unable to tolerate alcohol. At a club event, he gets wasted on liquor chocolates and is taken care of by Kobayashi-kun, a member of the same club. Despite being very handsome, Kobayashi-kun confesses that he is also a virgin... because of his enormous di**! How will the drunken Yamamoto deal with coming face to face with the Anaconda'?+

Unlike other Omegas, mercenary Nox can't give off a scent and has a nice, strong body.He accepts a request from the Wizard Tower then goes to catch Lucian, the wizard who is living secluded in the forest.But he ends up being bewitched by Lucian's strong pheromones and entrusting to this man his body, which has grown hot..."Oh, you are an Omega? You give off a nice scent." Lucian weirdly feels a strong excitation to Nox's scent while Nox is hit by an heat cycle though he hasn't had one for 11 years.Lucian, full of curiosity, offers a big reward and proposes a "research contract".Their cohabitation starts for the "pheromone research contract" but is this... really only for the purpose of research?+

“Very well. I’ll give you a whiff. I am the demon Roselia, and I’ve come to grant your wish.” Takai Tsukasa is obsessed with the female body, but what he longs for more than anything is to find the perfect armpits. One day, an elegant, blonde demon appears before him, and she has exactly what he craves. A bold, uncensored fetish fantasy unfurls between Tsukasa, his neighbor Chika, the demon Roselia, and a cast of demon girls who are hungry for more than just souls and power!

Two women deal with modern themes of s**, relationships, and fetishism inthis erotic romantic comedy. So beware all who enter, because, to quote a fewhundred thousand readers on DeviantArt: "I'm not into BDSM...but this story...Iget it."+

A dark chronicle of intrigue and betrayal set in the royal palace of a crumbling kingdom. A chronicle that will make you laugh the second before dropping you into a pit of despair. A chronicle without pretense, a strike straight to the heart.

Almost all humans are born with a divine blessing from G**. However, in rare cases, a human being without a divine blessing is born ? a "cursed child". Aya Matsukata is such a "curse child". Because her divine blessing did not manifest, her father almost kicked her out of the house when she was young. Ever since, she has been nothing more than a servant in the Matsukata family. Every day she is abused by her family, especially her younger brother, Itsuki, who has a powerful divine blessing. One day, the clairvoyant Togo family approached the Matsukata family about a marriage proposal. Everyone thought it was a proposal for a marriage between the eldest daughter of the Togo family and Itsuki, but on that destined day, the Togo family's eldest son, Masaharu, came over???+

In the dismal backdrop of New York City, Southern-belle-turned-prostitute Sunny meets the college-educated Lou, who makes a living by out-drinking people at bars. What first starts as a night of drunken passion quickly spirals into unexpected love, as together they begin to search for meaning in a world that has all but deserted them... This manga also contains two one shots, Funeral and Peggy.