In order to sustain a world on the verge of death, two groups, Blanches and Noires, vie for dreams. Every six months, the group with the fewer dreams has to send a number of members to the human world, where they will eventually die. Heki, a Blanche, fights to get ahead of the game, so he doesn’t have to see his friends shipped off... again. (Source: Storm in Heaven)

Collection of one-shots by various authors.

Part of the Zero-Sum Original Anthology Series. Cover Illustration: Takayama Shinobu Back Cover Illustration: D. Kissan 1. **3-tsu to 3-sha no Jikan** (3つと3者の時間, Time of Three Things & Three Persons) by Mikanagi Touya 2. **Nemureru Mori no Usotsuki Ouji to Nise Bungaku Shoujo** (眠れる森の嘘つき王子と偽文学少女, The Liar Prince & Fake Literature Girl of the Forest That Can Sleep) by Takayama Shinobu 3. **Nekketsu Fan Club** (熱血ファンクラブ, Hot Blood Fan Club) by Saeki Yashirou 4. **Amari no Utsuwa** (あまりの器, The Container of Not Much) by Asa Yoriko 5. **Nisemono Doushi** (似せ者同士) by D. Kissan 6. **Oe! Nazo Senpai** (追え！謎先輩) by Mikawa Verno 7. **Suki na Hito no, Suki na Hito** (好きな人の、好きな人) by Kumeta Natsuo 8. **Aogeba Haru** (仰げば春) by Mitsu Nanae 9. **Gakuran no Senpai** (学ランの先輩) by Naoe Marimo 10. **Senpai wa Vampire** (先輩はヴァンパイア, Senpai is a Vampire) by Kanou Ayumi 11. **Tojita Hana** (綴じた花) by Fuyume Saya 12. **Koroshiya Akagashira Haba: Senpai to no Tadashii Tsukiaihou** (殺し屋 赤頭巾～先輩との正しいつきあい方～) by Igarashi Ran 13. **Koi no Milk Tea** (恋のミルクティー, Love's Milk Tea) by Shirohito Rita

Publisher Hayakawa is celebrating its 70th anniversary with two manga anthology reprints. One collection is dedicated to mystery works while the other compiles sci-fi stories printed over the publisher's long career.

Part of the Zero-Sum Original Anthology Series. Cover Illustration: Mikanagi Touya Back Cover Illustration: Takayama Shinobu 1. **Senpai no Genkou Boxes** (先輩の原稿ボックス, Senpai's Manuscript Boxes) by Takayama Shinobu 2. **Restaurant Bell e Youkoso!** (レストランベルへようこそ！, Welcome to Bell Restaurant!) by Fujiwara Yuu 3. **Chounouryoku Gakuen Messa Ikemens** (超能力学園メッサイケメンズ, ESP Gakuen Messa Ikemens) Mikawa Verno 4. **Mizu no Machi no Douwa** (水の街の童話, Fairy Tale of the City Water) by Kayase Shiki 5. **Ribbon Pleats Otoko no Ko** (リボン・プリーツ・オトコノコ, Ribbon Pleated Otokonoko) by Shindou Arashi 6. **Aozora to Okujou to Kimi** (青空と屋上と君, The sky, the rooftop, and you) by Kamikou Chizu 7. **Boujitsu, Shiren no Hi** (某日、試練の日, Certain Day, Ordeal's Day) by Sano Hibiki 8. **Yashiro no Kettou** (八城の決闘, Yashiro's Duel) by Saeki Yashirou 9. **Hana no Ouji-sama** (花の王子様, The Prince of Flowers) by Hosuka 10. **BBB★Junk** (BBB★Junk) by Serikawa Mame 11. **“Change Friend”** (「チェンジフレンド」, "Change Friends") by Suzumoto Jun 12. **Migawari!** (身代わりっ！, Scapegoat~!) by Ohma 13. **Hana Tsumi Shounen** (花摘み少年, Boy Picking Flowers) by Kawata Kyuusuke 14. **Bikkuri!** (びっくり！, Surprised!) by Ooka Azu

Three classmates, including Mari, a full-time housewife, Sayo, who is in divorce mediation with her husband, and Satoe, a career woman, gather when their high school classmate Hiromi die lonely in an apartment owned her. The will left by Hiromi was accompanied by the names of three people who were not so close to each other for some reason, and included a request for the remaining apartment, Hakurensou, and the mysterious inhabitants afterwards. It is a story about three women born in 1963 who live in a "difficult reality" in an unchanging relationship and changing circumstances. **Note:** The series was serialized in a josei manga magazine, *Josei Seven*, and was made into a book with *major additions and corrections*. The compiled volume is released under adult male (seinen) audience imprint *Big Comics Special*. You can see the series as seinen or josei on various sources. Won Short Story Award at the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in 2022, along with [Ii Toshi o](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=33104068496).

Fukaya began drawing the manga and posting it on Twitter in 2015. The manga centers on a cat who is drawn to the scent of tears, and goes toward anyone who is crying in order to comfort or encourage them. *Note: Won the Short Work Prize of the 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017.*

Motoko is a plain looking girl. Compared to her sister who is beautiful, good at sports and excels at studying, she is nothing. Then one day when she was on the bus she saw a radio, but this radio... can vanish by itself? And the sound coming from the radio is something she remembers from long ago... Ten years ago when Motoko was staying with her grandmother, she met a mysterious boy that she called Pook. When Pook had to leave the town, he told her that surely, if it's what she wants, they would meet again ten years from that very night. Thinking back to her childhood she can remember the promise they made to each other, but how is it significant? Following the incident with the radio she continues to see strange things at random intervals; a radio with legs that that can run, appear, and vanish quickly, a train in the sky, and a mysterious man that can disappear at will. Nobody else seems to see anything -- she's the only one. That same night the radio shows up once again in her room, says that same familiar phrase, and then runs off once again. This time Motoko is certain that it's something Pook used to tell her. Right after that, Motoko sees the train again, running across the night sky. Deciding that the radio wants her to follow it's trail, she sneaks out of the house and starts to follow it...

Haga Ineko stopped being a school teacher for she was about to get married. When she is suddenly dumped by her to-be husband, she loses her way, and starts drinking. One day, an old friend approaches with a job offer. She would be a substitute teacher in a class on which several teachers gave up without an apparent reason. She reluctantly takes the job only to discover that there are several brutal bullying cases inside the class. Even she eventually starts being anonymously threatened due to her opposing posture against such cases. She now has to identify and reprimand them while at the same time protecting weaker students.

Let us begin... Fight for life and regain our joy! This is the prequel story to the game *takt op. Symphony*, featuring the musicart "Joy"! The musicart Joy, who has the power of music in her body, and Franz, an ordinary human soldier, did not get along at first. But they must work together to fight "D2," the entity that brings about disaster... (Source: ComicWalker, translated)

Narushima Nanase has always been perceptive to spirits and notices it every time Tamura Taliho attracts one. The childhood friend and now incredibly cute school girl has always attracted spirits and, even though she can’t see them, she unknowingly exorcises them. Taliho never believed Nanase about the spirits until one night, she breaks the seal holding in a spirit inside their campus. Not a harmful spirit, Amagi Ako, a former student who died years ago but was trapped inside their campus, makes friends with Nanase and Taliho. Ako mistakes Nanase for his dad and they soon realize his parents have something to do with Ako’s spirit being imprisoned. (Source: MangaHelpers)