From Ablaze: Over the course of his career, legendary mangaka Osamu Tezuka adapted many of Shakespeare's works. Shakespeare Manga Theater collects these adaptations into one volume. The book includes the following: The Merchant of Venice (1959), Robio and Robiette (from Astro Boy, 1965), Macbeth (from Vampire "The Three Fortunetellers", 1966), Hamlet (from Rainbow Parakeet, 1981), The Taming of the Shrew (from Rainbow Parakeet, 1981), and Othello (from Rainbow Parakeet, 1982).

Mei Midorikawa is in an exchange program that has brought her to Taiwan. There, she is introduced to Yongqing, the top student of the academy who is tasked to showing her around campus. Just as Mei is getting to know her classmates and creating a place for herself at the school, she encounters an eerie presence in an empty classroom. That night, a mysterious and beautiful girl called Huijin appears in her room. After interacting with Huijin, an incident breaks out which forces Mei to return to Japan. Years later, Mei is trapped in a tough marriage...and what appears before her is a letter from Yongqing, warning her to "be careful"... The beautiful woman Mei met in the foreign country was not the person she thought she was. This love...will kill. *(Source: Tokyopop)*

Katsuji Matsumoto's representative work. Initially serialized in Shojo no Tomo from January 1938 until December 1940. In the early post-war period, the manga resumed serialization in the manga magazine Shojo, now under the title "Kurumi-chan", from November 1949 to February 1954. Featuring the day-to-day of a little girl named Kurumi (walnut). The chapters are episodic, each being around 4 pages. A gag work, with an emphasis on the everyday.

Emilia remembers her past life as the great saint Emilia, who was overworked by her country and met a brutal end. Desiring to live in peace this life, she resolves to hide her holy powers, but... She's had enough of the evil country! The hectic, heart-pounding slow life of an unaware genius! (Source: Jitsugyou no Nihonsha, translated)

Explanation A new sense short story that depicts the moment when two strangers meet and touch each other's hearts. The stage is a convenience store in the suburbs. At this shop where various people come and go, a heartful omnibus comic that spotlights one person each time and cuts out the moment when "small feeling moves" in everyday life. The characters are customers visiting the same Lawson and the clerk of this store. From each standpoint, the heart of the little things that happened at the store ...

It was a single phone call that drew him back to the town of cherry blossoms, a place he had never intended to return to. “Sumika Takasago has committed suicide.” Sumika—the name of the girl who colored his youth, the name of the girl who deceived his heart, the name of the girl who transformed his hometown into the town of cherry blossoms. Returning to the town of cherry blossoms to confirm Sumika's death, he encounters a doppelgänger who is the spitting image of the Sumika of old. He feels history is about to repeat itself. The difference this time, however, is that he is the deceiver, and she is the deceived. A breathtaking youth mystery depicting the painful, sorrowful sins of a modern age where people can no longer see each other's “truth”! (Source: Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, _Translated_)