It‘s a mysterious and haunting series about a man (?) who is tossed about in time and space, never knowing who he is or why he's fated to be a perpetual voyager. His name is Facade, and he shares his body with four other entities- Wolf Face, a male wolf who has mastered human speech; Twin, a female swan with a double pair of wings; the Professor, who is pure personality without a body of his own; Naaku, a dragon (sex evidently unknown- maybe dragons don't have them); and a fifth person who has yet to appear and about whom nothing is known. Sometimes Facade's co-tenants manifest in their own bodies, sometimes they merely change part of Facade's body into their own. This allows Facade, for instance, to fly with Twin's wings or, in one unusually happy tale in the first volume, to manifest as the god Anubis to a number of ancient Egyptians by grafting Wolf Face's head onto his own human body.

In a world where dead people turn into books and are stored in the Bantorra Library where anyone who reads a book can learn their past. Bantorra Library is maintained by Armed Librarians who wield psychic powers and their enemy is a religious society known as Sindeki Kyoudan.

Folie is a cheerful and energetic gypsy who dreams of becoming a famous pianist in Vienna, the city of music. One day, she meets the charming Count Frederich Branche, who seems seems very stunned by the discovery of a pendant belonging to Folie. It seems that the pendant hides a great secret which Folie is not even aware of.

This volume contains three one-shots by Shinohara Chie. 1. **Toubou Kyuukou** (逃亡急行) Natsumi is a young journalist who aspires to get that one big scoop that will put her on the map. Searching for something that might make a good story, she drives around at night and comes upon a murder scene. Wanting to find out more, she stops to ask questions of the investigators, but is taken hostage by a guy covered in blood! Is this story worth risking her own life?? 2. **Shissou Toshi** (失踪都市) Keiko wakes up one morning naked and with a huge hangover in a hotel room next to a guy that she had only met the night before. Horrified as she realized what she had done, she rushed back to her home, worried about what might happen if her strict husband ever found out. However, she discovers her husband dead at her house and she is now the prime suspect! Can Keiko prove her innocence? 3. **Shikeidai no 72jikan** (死刑台の72時間) Natsuki Kiriko has received a mysterious invitation to spend a few days at a fancy lodge called "The Orchard House". When she arrives, she finds 4 other young people there who had also been invited. After welcoming them, the hostess declares that the 5 of them had been chosen b/c they were all suspects of her son's murder 4 years ago. If one of them did not confess his/her guilt, they would all 5 die by the end of their stay! Kiriko knows she did not kill the hostess's son, but everyone else says the same. Can she find the real killer before she loses her life?? (Note: This story was published also in Shinohara Chie's "Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame")

The story is a spin-off prequel to the original Hokuto no Ken. It centers around Garuda who practices the Nanto Shinchou Ken style of martial arts. In the manga he will fight the five Nanto Goshasei members, impress Rihaku and provide a chance for Kenshirou and Yuria to unite.

What is my wife all mad about…? A husband thought he was living a peaceful life as a family of four with his wife, daughter, and son. But three days, then two weeks pass, and soon they have been living together without speaking to each other for six years. He does his fair share of the childcare and household chores, and he does not remember any major fights. The only difference is that his wife no longer speaks to him except for the barest minimum of words… (Source: Shueisha, translated) *Note: Winner of the 25th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in the Short Story category.*

Based on the life of Naoe Kanetsugu, best friend of Maeda Keiji.

Keicho era, with the Toyotomi and Tokugawa armies poised to clash at the edges of Sekigahara .... Jirosaburo, a wandering warrior, is by Tokugawa Ieyasu's side at the head of the army as his shadow. The two men are so similar that few can tell them apart -- save for the sharp eye of an assassin, lurking among the troops. When the real Tokugawa Ieyasu falls to the assassin's blade, Jirosaburo throws away his identity and assumes Ieyasu's destiny of conquest and unification.

Hayama can't handle looking directly into people's eyes. This leads to a misunderstanding with one of her classmates, Yoshida.

As if having giant monsters and robots threatening to destroy it wasn't bad enough, Japan now faces another crisis: demons. Kijimutan tells the story of Yuna, a young samurai woman seeking to feed her own ambitions as well as to fulfill her own sense of self. As Yuna and her faithful friend, Musashi, go on their journey, they come face to face with the Shouki, the evil spirits seeking to destroy the very hearts of the people. Faced with the possibility that there might be an enemy within every person they encounter, the two warriors will have to struggle in order to succeed. The Shouki may be a great threat, but the greatest peril to their quest might lie within the heart of Yuna herself.

Eighty Six anthology by various mangaka.

Hina has just moved into her own place to start university, in a town that's livable but rather dull and boring. She figured, “Well, it's just for four years of college, so I'll just put up with it...” until one day when she meets Kage, a young man taking photos of seemingly ordinary spots around town. Intrigued by Kage's photos, Hina decides to join him on a stroll through the city! Suddenly, her impression of this boring town begins to shift...!? (Source: Kadokawa, translated)