A selection of short stories. The stories deal with the same themes as Parasyte and his other work, and in only one of them is his art style noticeably more primitive.

Takai Sena, a victim of relentless bullying at her high school, wishes she could die and reincarnate into another world. One morning, after pushing a neighborhood cat out of the way of an oncoming truck, she gets her wish, and wakes up as a ghost.Accompanied by Familia, her so-called spirit guide, Sena is tasked with scaring the living and collecting the fear-essence they release when frightened. In doing so, she quickly discovers an extraordinary aptitude as a ghost, and finds a newfound sense of power and purpose in the afterlife.Vowing to only scare those who she considers "evil," from abusive bosses to her own past abusers, Sena soon finds that confronting her own trauma may be the scariest thing of all.

In a forest on a mountain, a class is out on excursion. A girl strays from her group and meets a witch. She escapes, but when she groups up with her classmates no one believes her, except for her best friend. After the class returns to the mountain for a reunion after graduating, old memories resurface. Why does the girl still insist she saw a witch? Does she really believe it herself? From solelo: A witch named Baba-yaga lives deep in the forest. If you’re a good kid, she might save you on a whim. If you’re a bad kid, she’ll devour you.

From Liquid Passion: There're many reasons 28 year old performer Tagashira Shinichi wants to die but mostly he just stopped caring about life. Then he bumps into Yuu, a former classmate and friend. When Yuu pushes Shinichi to see his little brother again things get more complicated. Can Shinichi find something to live for?

(From StarryHeaven) There's the affectionless father and the overly affectionate mother, and then there's the beautiful 18 year old high schooler Rina. "Friends are just meant to be used," is what Rina says when she is caught having sex with one of her friends' boyfriends. Rina has such a low opinion of friends, but when she is hospitalized her classmate from elementary school, Maki, appears before her, wanting to continue their free-of-charge friendship from long ago. In this day and age, just what is the meaning of friendship? A tale of friendship based on a true story, as retold by Yoshi (the same author as Deep Love).

Fish is the sequel to Pet, it picks where both the ending of Pet manga and anime left, and focuses on the future lives of the story's "pets", in particular Hiroki, Tsukasa and Satoru.

Quiet, sweet story of an emotionally shuttered university sempai and his conversationally clumsy junior. Sharing the same last name and a love for classical music brings them together a little. But will this be enough to bridge the gap between the sempai's secret sorrow and the junior's awkward naivete?

A Chibi manga of Kugiko-san.

Story 1: Satsuki have a boy who want to fulfill all of her wish, even from afterlife.Story 2: About a haunted house.Story 3: Why a boy who was supposed to die still moving around and the teachers seems to hold a secret?

About a junior high school English teacher, Craig, who falls in love at first sight with a beautiful, young doctor from the local clinic. Inexperienced and short of help, the doctor, Fuyuki, recruits Craig to help him at the clinic. The two grow close quickly, but soon Craig notices some mysterious patients that visit the clinic and leave a drained and exhausted Fuyuki. -- Note: In the kanzenban (completed) version, ch.1 to ch.3 (old version) is now ch.1 to ch.4. One new chapter was also included.

Due to his lack of talent, Seong-hyeon gave up acting and became a writer. Seong-hyeon is a genius author with a natural talent for screenplays, but he still misses acting. Then one day, he got into a truck accident on set.

[From AnimeWaves]: Two kids, Kouhei and Akio, made up an imaginary girl named Hajime to take the blame for destruction of the principal's copper statue. But one day, they meet a girl that is exactly like their description of Hajime, but only they can see her.

The universe is invaded by destructive forces. An organization determined to control such forces; An investigator committed to seek the truth behind his childhood nightmares; A cold-faced woman shouldering her family's curse... A terrifying tale has unfolded in the mysterious town.

A collection of surreal one-shots with a garden theme.<br><br>Story 1: Mansion Aquarium: A sick boy finds himself in an unusual situation. <br>Story 2: Eureka Garden: A girl with a wild imagination is enchanted by a garden. <br>Story 3: The Garden of Me: A young wife copes with a troubled marriage. <br>Story 4: Two Guys in a Garden. <br>Story 5: A Gardener’s Day Off.

Fujishima is living in a cheap apartment complex because he has a small budget. The walls of the apartment are very thin and he can hear everything that happens next door, even the calls of "Izumi" during his neighbor's sex. The overheard sex eventually turns into over heard fighting which gets so out of hand that Fujishima has to go next door and interfere. To his suprize, Izumi was not the female he suspected to live next door, but the unsociable male he saw from time to time. Helpfulness turns into a crush and problems arise... (From Nanala3)

First story: "Magic" is set in the futuristic 2200's at the edge of the galaxy. Super model Kana has died in a space ship accident when she traveled to a planet on the edge of the galaxy. Her daughter was found 3 years after the magnetic storm has rested. A distant relative of Kana's adopted the young child, who was a former boyfriend of Kana's. Years later, Kana's child has grown up to be a teenager.

New Japan Airlines, flight 179 from Narita to Osaka, has been hijacked by terrorists. Inside the plane, everyone is panicky, experiencing terrible violence and fear. Under such hopeless circumstances, a young negotiator happens to be on board the plane, among the 230 passengers. The lives of all are in his hands.

The aftermath of an "ugly duckling" that turns into a "black swan".

Collection of short stories including: • Nejishiki A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins... Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories". • Numa (Marsh) A man meets a strange woman while hunting in a marsh. • Chico A couple takes care of a java sparrow. • Hatsutake Gari (Mushroom Hunting) Rain mysteriously falls around a particular place where a boy and his grandfather plan on going mushroom hunting the next morning... • Sanshouuo (Salamander) • Touge no Inu • Uwasa no Bushi • Ondoru Koya (Ondoru House) • Gensenkan Shujin (Master of the Gensenkan Inn) • Chouhachi no Yado • Oba Denki Tokin Kogyosho (Oba's Electroplate Factory) • Yoshiboo no Hanzai • Shounen • Aru Mumei Sakka It DOES NOT contain this story: • Soto no Fukurami (The Outside Inflation) The outside inexplicably threatens to collapse a man's house, leading him out to a world of anxiety and oddness in this minimalist story.

They took his family, they took his face, and they took his soul. Locked between the lethal but gorgeous assassin Maria and the mutant Spider Man, the Skull Man digs into the conspiracy that gave birth to his powers and those of his partner, Garo. Haunted by his past, he will not let them stand in the way of his revenge. ( from Tokyopop )

Janitor-Chan: I was a custodian at an elite magic high school

The Shouko arc of "Rascal" series, Dengeki Bunko's popular works, serialized as manga! Just before summer vacation starts, Makinohara Shouko, a middle school second year student, met a high school student named Azusagawa Sakuta. Sakuta gave Shouko a desire to live, then... Experience the love story, with Shouko as the main character, in a way only possible through manga. *From ComicWalker, translated*

Hatori, a high school teacher leading an ordinary life, notices one day that his student, Spica Tsumugi, is being bullied. On a rainy day after school, Hatori finds himself alone with Tsumugi by chance. Hatori tells her, "I'll do something about it!" but Tsumugi gently takes his hand and says with a smile, "Hatori-sensei, you're such a liar." Teacher and student… two people who should not get too close. This somewhat bewitching girl will dramatically change Hatori's ordinary life.

Originally published in the Towako series. Towako Volume 2: The Anthropovore's Chocolate Cake