Contains 12 chapters: 9 short stories, and 3 Miss China stories. 1. The Universe is so Vast and Wonderful! 2. Leaving One Night by the Light of the Full Moon 3. To Invoke the Stars 4. Little Melancholy 5. The Young Scientists' Club 6. See You Later, God Willing 7. Marsy in the Land of Time 8. Natsuko 9. The Young Scientist Club on Mars 10. The Melancholy of China 11. China's Wish 12. China Strikes Back The Japanese edition collects all 12 chapters in one volume. The Spanish edition from Glénat released the full series in 3 volumes. The English edition from Dark Horse published only the Miss China chapters, first in comic format, then in one trade paperback.

A girl struggles to save her farm of domesticated giant ants.

From Tokyopop: Unfulfilled love always ends tragically… or does it? Through different seasons and different eras in time, two lovers cross paths again and again, trying for that one chance to get it right. Different lives, at different points in history, but one thing remains constant—their love for each other. Spanning the beginning of history, WWII-era Japan, modern-day America, and the far distant future, these love stories remind us that love truly has no boundaries.

1) The Blue-Bird's Whererabouts 2) Breaking Apart The Blue Sky Continuation of the first story. 3) Missing Our Piece Still the contnuation to the first story. 4) If I Hold You 5) Demon-guided Angel Invasion

This award-winning classic story focuses on Marlee, an agent of the space empire sent on a mission to track down the opera singer Eroccus. There are three intertwining narratives which span planets and hurl the readers back 30,000 years in time. The narrative takes place in a non-linear fashion, unfolding across space and time, before folding back upon itself at its culmination. Note: Winner of the Seiun Award (1983).

Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island's young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain peaceful and undisturbed. Or so they have been taught... but the truth is different. The fate of mankind is on the line, and Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile and incomprehensible enemy. At the center of it all, fighting for Humanity's continued existence, is the giant robot Fafner, the dragon that guards this final treasure of mankind.

By a shiny day, the older brother of Shunta, a potter, made a beautiful clay doll looking like a girl and called Nene. She was so cute that Shunta couldn't help wishing that she was a real girl... and then a miracle happened, the next day, Nene was alive, moving and creating living dolls by kissing clay dolls. So begins the life of Nene the doll, a shiny life soon disturbed by a strange inventor, creator of a male android.

Hai hu, is a rich playboy during the day. At night, he is hero for the people, known as the Sea Tiger. He fights a world renown organization lead by Blue Dream. Blue Dream wanted to conquer the world and destroy everything on Earth so that it could be restored into an unpolluted state like it used to be. Full of action, drama and mind-twisting plot.

In the year 2199 a diving mecha gains consciousness, with the help of a Guardian of Atlantis crystal, and declares war on mankind. Believing that if humans are allowed to live, the Earth will die, the robot builds an army to cleanse the Earth of the human race. The robot, who calls himself Absolute, also learned how to use the “Light of Atlantis” power source to raise the city from the depths of the Atlantic ocean, and turn it into a robot city. There are humans that hold crystals as well, but it’s taking all the power they have just to keep themselves alive. For 100 years Absolute did everything in his power to wipe out the human race…until the day the first Guardian of Atlantis, Saturn, returned to Earth to reclaim his city. Upon arriving, Saturn reluctantly teams with the humans to try to defeat the mighty Absolute. Saturn and the other 5 Guardians, must find a way to reach New Atlantis, and destroy Absolute if they are to reclaim the city…and reclaim Earth.

Nissie Hefferson, the World Union's strongest weapon. Kageyawa Shigeharu, the man who's cursed by a mysterious entity. Thysiatus, a being from The Golden Dimension, also known as Hell. Three are on a search to find the Golden Diamonds that opens the portal to the Golden Dimension. While in the dimension, a war is going on...

Pandora 's Box to control disaster and hope ... those who can handle this is only two boys and Pinkeye, a boy aiming for world conquest and a dangerous serial killer. Is it saving or destruction that they bring to mankind?

"I am inside a spaceship...outside is deep space. The name of my spaceship-- Spaceship EE."It is 2038 CE. Noshi Hyoda is a 23-year-old office worker facing existential despair. Will she escape her world of apathetic oppression? Where can she go? What shall she do? Perhaps the answers lie in the stars beyond...perhaps not...

The earth is ruled by the Black Witch. The Black Witch was sealed in the moon and can only be judged once a decade on the night of Hexennacht. The ones who can fight the Black Witch are the chosen magical girls who have won their battles. Horinouchi Mitsuru, the Eastern Japan representative who aims to be the strongest, happens across a girl with strange power who says her name is Kagami Kagami. The girls "clash"! To save the world with their own power!!

A high-tech adventure set in a digital world. Sam Flynn, when he was a child, has been told stories about a different world his father created. After 25 years of not seeing seeing his father, he enters his dad's arcade and finds himself pulled into the digital world of "TRON" where his father has been trapped and living for years. This is a life-and-death journey of an escape across a cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

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A mighty creature manifests itself above the capital of the city-state disrupting the inhabitants means of life. It's up to the nations research team, located in the secluded forests, to determine what this monster is up to and what it wants.

Masaka's just a kid working at a recycle shop... But is he really just a kid and is his job really at a recycle shop?

From Del Rey: In the near-future on planet Earth, a world gone mad where never-ending war is a fact of life, Kirio is the coolest kid at school. Up in the sky, a giant robot is fighting a fleet of gunships, but the brilliant and distant Kirio is far from fazed - until the battling 'bot makes an unexpected landing in Kirio's front yard and rings the bell. But the worst threat for Kirio could be what stands on the other side of the door: an alien invader robot with the face of an adorable girl!

From MangaHelpers: Shibata Youichi is an ordinary highschooler, but one day he runs into a mysterious heroine! The cute girl knows his name, and (as in a stereotypical anime) she's an alien who needs him to help save her people! Soon enough, Youichi finds out that this situation was too good to be true... The girl, named Kyara, does represent aliens, but her people are actually interested in Japanese manga/anime/game culture. They want to use his home as a base and his brain as a measuring tool of the level of appeal of their heroines! [tethysdust]

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Descript. from [PRISMS]: About a robot, Jack, who appears frequently in Shimizu's SF stories. He's a robot with very human-like psyche. He once believed that he was human and he can even consume food, unlike many of the other robots of those times. While performing bounty-hunting duties on a strange planet, he has a flashback to the time he believes he was human... In this flashback, he and his partner are imprisoned and are given scarce food everyday. They share that meager meal, half and half. Yet as the days pass, the delivery of food becomes more scarce. His partner's strength is waining (she's a human being), yet Jack, though he feels the same consuming hunger as his partner, is physically still very apt. They're rescued several months later, but his partner had already died from starvation. Jack, who finds out for the first time that he's not human, still lives. - About a robot, Jack, who appears frequently in Shimizu's SF stories. He's a robot with very human-like psyche and he once believed that he was human and he can even consume food, unlike many of the other robots of those times. However, a cruel incident opened his eyes to the truth and he decided to perform bounty-hunting duties on a strange planet. That's where he meets Ruby, who turns into an innocent-looking youngster and a beautiful and seducing woman at night... she's a Photuris - a human tribe that preys on other humans in order to survive... This bunko volume starts of with the main story "22XX", but also contains science-fiction stories like "To Be Loved At the Ends of Times", "Continuation of the Dream", "A Long Night in August" and "A Robot's Mind (mimicry)."

From Baka-Updates: Kaitai is a science-fiction-ish BL story of bio-engineered humans, sinister policemen and moody scientists with mysterious pasts. Set in a depressing, fictitious London from somewhere in the near future, this manga is representative of Ishihara's earlier, non-yaoi works; rough, sketchy artwork accompanied by an interesting plot the likes of which is rarely seen in the shounen-ai demographic.

Kenichi, a 20-year-old man, took an entrance exam into college, but fails it for the third straight year. That day, he came across a traffic accident where it appeared that a giant robot went crazy and disrupted the flow of traffic. He meets a person by the name of Mitchy who is trying to save the remaining survivors. Who is this Mitchy person and what does this "Red Party" fraction have to do with the giant robot?

Paper people have lived for centuries in the library, maintaining and surveying it. Mulch, a book keeper, has his own doubts and suspicions about the library but was always too afraid to speak up about them until Vredrick, a radical paper person, breaks into his house at night. Vredrick eggs on Mulch's suspicions until the protectors of the people arrest Vredrick. He is sentenced to death by fire. How will Mulch react to Vredrick's execution and is the library what everyone thinks it is?