A collection of somewhat surreal oneshots featuring human-like bugs in otherwise normal rural/historical settings.

Kurihara, a young Ninja, catches a disease whose symptom is the appearance of a horn on his head. It takes him to a hostile world.

A collection of stories by Shigeyuki Fukumitsu.

From the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, the "Sakai Incident" depicts the dedication of warriors who risked their lives to uphold their beliefs in the midst of the rapidly changing times, and other quintessential Hirata gekiga are now back in print! Three additional works that were never before published before are collected in this edition! A bibliography and complete list of Hiroshi Hirata's works are also included. (Source: Seirinkogeisha, translated) Included Stories: 1. 大垣藩治水魂 2. 堺事件 3. 鹿島事件 4. 飛騨大名金森家 5. 下僕茂兵 6. 旗本郷右衛門 7. お金改役

From Jakarta to Cameroon, from the Iran-Iraq border to Tokyo, the lives of people summoned across time and space from different places, are played out within the fate of a damaged piano called "Valfaart". The story, which flows freely in a series of thought-provoking pauses and intersections of time, is transformed into a dream that the piano has always seen, entrusted to Traumerei... This is the long-awaited third work of Shimada. Look at the amazing secret! (Source: Seirin Kogeisha, translated) *Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Creative Award in 2008.*

Daguerreotype, the first photographic technique using mercury. —On the back of the silvered glass plate, which is polished like a mirror. The portrait of the subject appears as if it is shimmering, reproduced with astonishing precision, down to the smallest hair. Perhaps the magical power of the noble metal "silver" also helped. People at that time were awed and amazed by these beautiful and fragile silver photographs. The encounter between two brothers and the traveling Daguerreotype photographer. A secret agreement between the two submerged in mercury film... A story of those who lie at the bottom of the liquid mirror of memory. (Source: Gettosha, translated)

Anthology.

A collection of short stories drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the pre-modern Japanese countryside of the author's youth, a slightly magical world where ancestral traditions hold sway over a people in the full vigor of life, struggling to survive the harsh seasons and the difficult life of manual laborers and farmers. While the world they inhabit has faded into memory and myth, the universal fundamental emotions of the human heart prevail at the center of these tender stories. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

Collects three manga by Sakabashira: 1. **Aka Tights Otoko** ( 赤タイツ男) 2. **Hako no Otoko** (箱の男) 3. **Chiteijin Emmanuel** (地底人エマニエル)

The basic plot is that an orphan girl named Midori is taken in (read: enslaved) by a traveling freak show. The freak show includes such unsavory characters as a mummyman, a snake woman, and a drooling man with no limbs. The owner of the freak show, the eponymous Mr. Arashi, is a strict man who allows his freaks very little freedom or joy in life. He is especially cruel to Midori, our heroine. Midori works, not as a freak since she is normal, but as a sort of caretaker of the freaks. (Source: everything2)