Mushi to Uta - Ichikawa Haruko Sakuhinshū

Two volumes of the author's best one-shots. Volume 1: **Mushi to Uta** (虫と歌, *Insects and Songs*) 1) **Hoshi no Koibito** (星の恋人, Star Lover); *Afternoon 2007-12* The odd relationship between a teenage boy and his uncle's "daughter." 2) **Violight** (ヴァイオライト); *Afternoon 2008-07* A boy wakes up in an unfamiliar land, with only a strange, ethereal young man to accompany him on his journey to safety. 3) **Kusaka Kyoudai** (日下兄妹, The Kusaka Siblings); *Afternoon 2009-12* A baseball player who's just quit the school team due to a shoulder injury and the adorable robot he adopts as his little sister. 4) **Mushi to Uta** (虫と歌); *Summer 2006 Afternoon Four Seasons Award winner work; 2006-10 Appendix* The story of a young man who builds models of insects for odd clients, and his siblings. Winner of the Shikitaishou award. 5) **Secret**; *kakioroshi* A two-page oneshot. Volume 2: **25-Ji no Vacances** (25時のバカンス, *25-Hour Vacation*) 1-2) **25-ji no Vacances** (25時のバカンス, 25-Hour Vacation ); *Afternoon 2010-09, 10* Marine biologist Nishi Otome takes time off and reunites with her brother, Kotaro, for the first time in a while. 3) **Pandora nite** (パンドラにて, On Pandora); *Afternoon 2010-01* The meeting between a delinquent named Nana and a strange transfer student at Pandora Women’s College, located on one of Saturn's satellites. 4) **Tsuki no Soushiki** (月の葬式, The Funeral of the Moon); *Afternoon 2011-10* A genius high school student begins living with a lonely man in the isolated snowy mountains of the north. *Note: Winner of the Tezuka Osamu New Artist Prize (2010).*