Yamagishi Ryouko Special Selection

A mysterious boy transfers to a high school famous for its college-admissions rate! He agitates for reform against his classmates, who are all about studying! A school super-romance. (Source: Akita Shoten, translated) *Note: Volume 2 includes the one-shot "Syrinx Pan" (シュリンクス・パーン).*

A boy named Jack moves to his family's historical home in Hokkaido from Tokyo because of an illness. But unbeknownst to Jack this house, and his ancestor has a deep connection to an alternate world of fairies, the land of Nymphidia, populated by creatures from various legends and folklores. This world is under threat from the dark elf Queen Mab and her destructive ambition. It will be up to Jack and his new allies, the hero Cú Chulainn and the little satyr Puck, to save the fairy world of Nymphidia. *Also contains: Ochikubo Monogatari (落窪物語), and Dream (ドリーム)*

*Published in LaLa 1977-03*

Meet with Medusa, a woman with snakes in place of hair who can turn people into stone. The last of her kind in the world.

In this sparse, effective short story, a young girl whose family just moved to an old house deep in the mountains finds herself haunted by a supernatural creature, but everything might not be as it seems. (Source: Shogakukan, translated)

“Hiruko” (1985) is a work of psychological horror in which a young university student befriends a young boy who is her distant relative. She is initially taken in by his beautiful appearance, but slowly starts to realize that strange things are happening around her… (Source: Brickme)

(from ebookjapan): Based on the original story by Takeshi Umehara, the hero Yamato Takeru is portrayed by Ryoko Yamagishi, a master artist. Ko-usunomikoto (later Yamatotakeru) followed his father's orders and went through hardships. He fought against Kumaso and Emishi, and fell in love with Princess Tachibana. In addition to over 300 pages, the book contains color illustrations.

On a southern island there lives a girl caring for her grandmother who lost her. Though both were abused and treated as burdensome, one day a man appeared from across the sea... What country lies beyond the ocean? What fate awaits the girl and her grandmother? A masterpiece historical tale tackling ancient Japan's greatest mystery! *Note: Contains Bokushin no Gogo (牧神の午後)*