Tetsuya Kokubu, a student yakuza who made a name for himself in the Ginza/Yurakucho area, graduated from university with the aim of realizing his dreams. At the same time, he left the group and was assigned to a high school in Aomori as a teacher. However, the high school is a veritable chaos ruled by a mysterious group of delinquents known as the Blood Alliance, who use ninjutsu skills. Kokubu sees a piece of his dream in their cohesiveness, and tries to ask for their cooperation, sometimes confronting them head-on, and sometimes using psychological warfare! Eventually, he realizes the existence of a mastermind manipulating the Blood Pact behind the scenes... What is the true identity of the mastermind? What is the "dream" that Kokubun continues to burn with passion?!?

Collection of the author's short works, which have appeared in various magazines. The first volume contains works from 1997 to 2007: 1) 小さな世界 (Small World) 2) 7.5Ｈｚ 3) kurutare 4) イレイザー・ヘッド (Eraser Head) 5) 運命の人 (Fated Person) 6) 十代の潜水生活 (The Teenage Diving Life) The title story, "Small World", is about a girl who has a dwarf on her shoulder. The second volume is titled Lovely. 1) Lovely 2) 宇宙企画 (Alien Project) 3) カゲ切り男をめぐる冒険 4) 夢見るうさぎ (Dreaming Rabbit) 5) 殺しのライセンス (License to Kill) 6) 落殺者達のバラッド "License to Kill" was the author's debut work.

This installment in Chikuma Bunko's contemporary manga anthology series focuses on Horror, SF, and dark comedy from the 1960's to the present day and is curated by Tokushige Kawakatsu 1. **Nurarinuma** (ぬらり沼) \[Yuuhei Youki\] 2. **Tako** (蛸) \[Shouhei Kusunoki\] 3. **Akumakko** (悪魔っ子) \[Shigeyoshi Iwanami\] 4. **Yubiwa** (指輪) \[Souji Yamakawa\] 5. **Kantou Daishinsai** (関東大震災) \[Shigeru Komatsuzaki\] 6. **Muteikoutoshi** (無抵抗都市) \[Suehiro Maruo\] 7. **Onna wo Nerae** (女を狙え) \[Shouji Hashimoto\] 8. **Kappa** (河童) \[Taro Bonten\] 9. **Akai Trunk** (赤いトランク) \[Noroi Michiru\] 10. **Houmon** (訪問) \[Tarou Kanafuro\] 11. **Voice/Koe no Sonzai** (voice／声の存在) \[Naritada Shintani\]

One day, a witch appears in a Japanese high school and grants the wishes the students wrote in their middle school graduation book. This results in the entire grade being transported to a fantasy world because of somebody's wish to “escape” the world. As the students come to terms with the wishes they made, they have to fight to survive in a dangerous world completely unlike their own. The book is written like a documentary, following the story of hundreds of students instead of a single protagonist. Grand Prize winner of the 24th Dengeki Novel Prize. (Source: Anime News Network)