*“Nee-san, you're staring too much.”* A first-person perspective shota anthology. You and a love interest. • Start (4 chapters) • Daily Life (4 chapters) • School (4 chapters) • Housework (4 chapters) • 5 Years Later (4 chapters) Cover illustration: Tsubata Nozaki
One day, while walking on the beach, an old man and his dog Fujio came across a baby mermaid. He named it Aki-chan, but the old man had lost his wife early and had no children, so he knew nothing about raising a child. And what's more, it was a baby mermaid! He didn't know what to feed it or even how mermaids lived! So begins the old man's struggle to raise the mermaid on his own!! (source: Kodansha, translated)
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) \[Naritada Shintani\]
*Note: The volume release is incomplete and only includes chapters published up to 1990. The rest didn't received a tankoubon release yet.*
*Note : one shot included in volume 2: **Nottori** (乗っ取り) (Story: Yuuji Shimura)*