A renegade television producer strikes out on his own to produce a variety show and hires a gifted singer – one who is very ugly but turns beautiful if she fasts. Now add an undead boyfriend (made that way by the television producer) and an international singing star.

One of the original gag manga, this collection of shorts features talking crotches, a comedian’s audience made of robots, a man with a turtle attached to his nose, the Goddess of Defeat, and a religious order that wants to ban clothing… 1. Time Machine no Mikoto (タイムマシンのみこと) 2. Shinagawa Chuushin (品川中心) 3. Suppon Monogatari 4. Sexodus (セクソダス) 5. Make Jorou (負け女郎) 6. Nudian Archipelago (ヌーディアン列島, Nudian Rettou)

It tells the story of Tenka Taihei, a thin little Japanese man, docile but easily manipulable, whose sperm have two flagellums and gives birth to a third human gender: neither male nor female. These “third sex” humans, born inside test tubes and mass-produced, will be used for servile purposes. (Source: FLBLB Edition, translated)

After the end of World War II, as the Cold War intensifies, an anti-Communist purge breaks out in the United States. The American government is denouncing some of the most famous Hollywood personalities. This manga tells the story of how the Hollywood film community fights the ruthless oppression of power. (Source: VEGA, translated) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*

Neuro Hard is a story set in the year 2300 when humans are drifting in the mechanized planet Hurema Hiyuto and space exploration is the order of the day. Intelligent lifeforms were detected in the fifth planet and a team of explorers decided to investigate. By mistake, the expedition administrators stupidly brought in a rowdy bunch of space pirates who proceeded to blow up the main ship and crashing them into the strange Planet Anthea. The Planet of the Bees - where a colony of aggressive wasps dominate the land. (Source: takotech.net)

For Tetsuya, being in a gang is his identity. Being an Osaka boy, he speaks his mind and oftentimes, it gets him into trouble. After dropping out of school without a job in sight, he spends his days screwing around and doing as he pleases. Several sequences of events leads Tetsuya deeper into the culture and the more he sinks in, the harder it will be to get out alive. (Source: MangaHelpers)

Short stories set in decadent years of World War II, and in the subsequent postwar period. (Source: AnimeClick, translated)

Collecting six years' worth of the column he has run in the pages of serial novel and culture critique magazine Da Vinci since 1997, Donki Korin employs a unique structural format. On the right page of every spread is a short essay sent in by a reader and chosen by Furuya, and on the left page is a four-panel comic drawn by Furuya relating to the essay. (Source: robots never sleep)

This is the story of a girl in China in 1900 who kills a tax collector from a corrupt government and finds herself hiding amongst guerrilla soldiers.

Hideo Kagenuma, 4th year middle school private university. Currently struggling with job hunting. The only hobby of Kagenuma is to follow the cute woman he saw in town. On the best day of his life, Kagenuma vows that "this is the last" in the heart and follows the tipsy beauty, but the cause and effect go into the worst! ! "End of Life" Emergency, Shocking Stalker Suspens. https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/episode/13932016480029270383

Anthology of short stories created by Kodansha authors to celebrate the release of the Hollywood Ghost in the Shell movie adaptation.

A manga essay about Sakae Kusama's work mixed with a classical BL office romance.