This story set in the Edo period, tells the love story of a young samurai who is in search for his beloved girlfriend.
A few days ago the eighth Tokugawa had inherited the shogunate in the midst of an unstable political situation, a striking man entered Edo. He had a shocking beauty eyes, and was so handsome that seemed to have come from an engraving. It was Kainage Mondo, the new poison taster newly employed by the family of the shogun. However, some Koga ninja had hatched a plot to attack the lives of Yoshimune and Mondo.
Based on the popular Japanese film series, Kazuo Koike and Shotaro Ishinomori's manga pays homage to Bannai Tarao, a famous detective who can take on seven different faces to catch and outwit his foe. Published after the success of Kazuo Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub, this manga tells the story of an aging Bannai Tarao desperately seeking a young and worthy man to become his successor.
Anthology of short stories created by Kodansha authors to celebrate the release of the Hollywood Ghost in the Shell movie adaptation.
Using Tezuka's characters, the very best artists were allowed to let loose and adapt his characters into short stories.
This is a tempestuous and heartbreaking love story about Ayuta, a rounin who aspires to attend an art university, who, in a jam-packed train, falls in love with Haruhi, a psychiatrist eight years his senior.
The story examines a period of depression and psychological recovery in the life of the university student Yoko. For the first time we are faced with a story with an emotionally sensitive content, where Ikeda is able to analyze the heart of a young woman in a contemporary context. (Source: shoujo-manga.net)

