An adaptation of eight Ray Bradbury stories. 1. *R is for Rocket* A group of boys dream of one day riding a rocket into space. 2. *The Screaming Woman* "When you're living on a street like I'm living on, you just don't think awful things are going to happen. Like shooting, or stabbing, or burying people under the ground, practically in your back yard. And when it does happen, you don't believe it." 3. *The Fog Horn* The sea is full of ancient wonders, perhaps even beyond human understanding. And once a year, the sounds of a fog horn reach them... 4. *The Lake* Even after years away from the beaches of his childhood, the memories of a young man still remain when he returns. 5. *Come Into My Cellar* It seems innocent enough when Mary's brothers receive in the mail their order of mushrooms to grow in the basement, but as the day goes on her suspicions rise. 6. *Homecoming* Everyone's coming for All Hallow's Eve, which only serves to remind Timothy how much he feels like the family's black sheep. 7. *Jack-in-the-Box* Her house is the world; her deceased father, God. Donna is wildly intrigued by what lies beyond those walls even though her Mother and teacher assure her that there's only death. But... what does "death" mean? 8. *The Rocket Man* Doug's father is a Rocket Man, home at last after a three-month trip. Turns out that working in space isn't as wonderful as it seems, and yet it keeps calling him back.

This is collection of one-shots published in "Big Comic" on the 45th anniversary of the first issue. This collection has 14 stories: 1. Fukushima drive (*Moto Hagio*) 2. Shouwa Torabera Bangai-hen (*Kenichi Kitami*) 3. Kaijuu Oukoku (*Naoki Urasawa*) 4. Mouten no Venus (*Itou Junji*) 5. Hatobouru (*Hidenori Hara*) 6. Yami Tsuna Matsuri (*Daijiro Morohoshi*) 7. Last Fight (*Junichi Noujou*) 8. Sonogo no Gegege no Kakeibo (*Shigeru Mizuki*) 9. Munakata Kyouju Shirizu Susanou Saigonotatakai (*Yukinobu Hoshino*) 10. Kidou Senshi Gandam Thunderbolt Gaiden Suna Nezumi Shoun (*Yasuo Otagaki*) 11. Revenge Doll: Fukushuu Ningyou (*Rumiko Takahashi*) 12. Uta no Monku janai keredo (*Yarou Abe*) 13. Gansaku Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae (*Fujihiko Hosono*) 14. Kogane no Rafu ~ Maito no Sutaetasu ~ (*Tsuyoshi Nakaima*)

Aspiring ballerina, Midori Gosho, has an half-english older stepbrother named Kaoru who lives in London. After a failed performance at a national Ballet competition, Kaoru invites Midori and her ballet friends to participate in the summer camp held every year at the prestigious ballet school he works at as a music teacher. At the camp in faraway London, Midori is not just roped into the preexisting dynamics among the regular students at the school when she's chosen for a role in an upcoming performance, but as she overcomes the challenges thrown at her, a complex web of love and familial relations comes to light, in which her own family plays a significant part.

Kayoko dies mysteriously behind the scenes of a glamorous musical.... The suspense unfolds with 30 songs by Yoshihiro Kai! (Source: Shogakukan, translated)

At the end of the 23rd Century, a girl stares at a red star in the sky. Her name happens to be Red Star, born on Mars. The series tells of Red's adventures at the center of the Milky Way. **Note:** Won Seiun Award 1980 in manga category.

A “psychological sci-fi mystery,” which features an alien appearing in unexpected places in contemporary Japan. While Hagio is characteristically careful in her use of science, these tales, like most of Hagio’s are ultimately more about psychological issues, and individuals overcoming trauma, fear, and insecurity in the process of forming bonds with each other. (source: matt-thorn)

This story is about a girl who has no special talents to speak of, not even cooking, but loved sweets and cakes more than anything in the world, and could turn out terrific pancakes. Her love of cakes leads her to Paris, where she becomes the apprentice of a downtrodden patissier. (source: justhungry.com)

Plato, Buddha, Christ—what brings these men to the far future to witness the end of the world? Ten billion days--that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights--that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha will travel to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth. Named the greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time, Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights is an epic eons in the making. Originally published in 1967, the novel was revised by the author in later years and republished in 1973, then adapted into manga by Moto Hagio in 1977. It was her first and only appearance in Shonen Champion. The manga adaptation of the famous Ryu Mitsuse's sci-fi novel which combines the author's interest in technology and the Buddha. (Source: Haikasoru)

The story is set in Britain during World War 2. While staying in the British countryside Edgar and Allan meet the Jewish girl Blanca and her younger brother who escaped Nazi Germany together. In this long-awaited new entry to the Poe Clan series, the mysterious world of the vampirnella will finally be explored.

Contains the following stories: 1. **Kaizoku to Himegimi** (海賊と姫君) 2. **Aoi Tori: Bluebird** (青い鳥　ブルーバード) The story follows the ballet dancer Asher and his rivalry with the younger up and coming ballet dancer Yan, whom succeeded his role as The Bluebird in the ballet "Sleeping Beauty". 3. **Rothbart** (ロットバルト) 4. **Juliet no Koibito** (ジュリエットの恋人)

Takes place 40 years after the original Poe no Ichizoku.

Mario was born in Rome, but he remembers nothing about it. He grew up in Belgium with his foster parents and he always performed the leading role at the ballet school. Mario joins a modern ballet company in Paris together with Didi, Raffaella and Sylvia. He falls in love with Raffaella, but the secret of his true father's murder haunts his happiness...