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A cyber-punkish collection of stories revolving around the theme of the "DOLL." 1. **Gum no Iranai Kodomo-tachi** (Keep Those Condoms Away From Our Kids) The tale of boys and girls who have lost their sexual desire. 2. **Rissa no Tetsu no Hitsugi** (The Iron Maiden) The tale of the strain a girl experiences from having grown up in a home without love. 3. **Shuuseki Kairo no Himawari** (The Sunflower Quality Of An Integrated Circuit) Vanilla is a maidroid in the home of an elderly master and his younger wife. The atmosphere in the house is cold and stiff because the wife is having an affair with a younger man. The lonely master comes to look upon Vanilla as his own dear child. He suggests that when the sunflowers bloom, they go outside together to watch them. "Is that a command, sir?" asks Vanilla. "It is not a command," he replies. "It is a promise." And so forms the piercing and painful integrated circuit—the alternating current of intercourse—between a lonely old man and the emotionless Vanilla. 4. **Bara Tessen no Mukougawa** (The Other Side of the Rose Wire) What was the thing a girl like an angel endlessly carried? 5. **Kago no Sakana** (Fish Out of Water) A mermaid is brought out of her dream. 6. **Koubutsu-kun** (Mister Mineral) Inside the body of a cute girl who's just like a doll... are internal organs, and blood, and... 7. **Anata wa Ikiteiru** (Alive) The sad tale of a human and a clone who pass right by each other.
Alice has been whisked to the Country of Clover, but at least her home-Hatter Mansion-came along for the move. Her intimate friendship with Elliot gives her strength to face the new challenges, but he’s a man of contradictions, and she’s uneasy about his hard mobster interior lurking behind the grinning goofball exterior. When she starts to fall for him, however, memories of her past world resurface that begin to sway her. Clover is a dangerous place for hesitation. Beware the talking doors! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Transylvania Rose is a bored angel who descends to Earth to clean a few souls. When she witnesses a depressed undertaker slitting his wrists, Rose rips off one of her wings and gives it to the undertaker, trapping them both somewhere between heaven and hell -- and life and death! (Source: TOKYOPOP)
Samataro has it all: a loving family, two adorable sisters, a great best friend and even a guardian angel. It's always clear sailing, never a cloud in the sky… but that's life when you're the son of a god! Poor Samataro is bored to tears, since his loving mother and father always use their powers to make everything easy for him... but can he make it on his own when he finally tells them to back off? (Source: Go Comi)
**Two roommates struggle to make ends meet until an opportunity changes everything—the manga that inspired the hit live-action film Nemurubaka: Hypnic Jerks!** From Masakazu Ishiguro, the acclaimed author of Heavenly Delusion, comes a lighthearted slice-of-life story about two broke college roommates pathing out their futures. While Yumi, an aimless bookstore worker, watches her talented musician upperclassman, Ruka, strive to achieve her dreams, she finds herself wondering what it even means to have dreams in the first place. *Source: Seven Seas Entertainment, License Announcement*
It started with a brutal beating at a pachinko parlor, and now Bakune Young -- maniac, moron or mastermind -- has taken Japan's biggest crime boss as a hostage as Step One of his plan to rule the world! Soon, yakuza, police, hapless detectives and Bakune's former gym teacher collide as Bakune holes up with his hostage in Osaka Castle, and the manly men of the Japanese mob vow to do anything to rescue their boss! Can Russian-roulette-playing police chief Sorigami salvage the situation with his highly trained army of human robots? Will Johnson Membodeath, the ninja, stop the madness by killing everyone in sight? Savage satire of the action-violence manga genre!
May 2003. An icy planet from distant space crashes into Venus, changing its qualities completely. These qualities prove to present some habitability for humans, enticing men to eventually colonize it for themselves... 80 years later, Venus is home to many people who call it home. However, an ever-present tension between the two major continents, Aphrodia and Ishtar, points to an ominous fate for Venus. Hiroki Senoo is a rather rebellious member of a motorsport popular within Aphrodia's capital. One day, members of Aphrodia's military approach Hiroki, and, impressed by his skills, invite him to join. Thus, Hiroki finds himself enveloped in Venus's political landscape... **Note:** *Chapter count resets with Volume 3 to correspond with the second part.*
Hana Yamada was all set for her big Tokyo debut--She'd just moved from Osaka, and finally thought she had her rather unusual "condition" under control. As long as she's got her beloved green tea by her side, she can totally cure the hives she gets whenever she bumps into a cute boy! But her first day starts off disastrous and only gets worse, culminating in Hana's sister bartering her into indentured servitude at a local relaxation room run by two particularly good-looking young men! Can Hana keep her cool around the flamboyant Shinnosuke and, even worse, the hot but prickly Haru? How do you reach out to someone who you can never actually touch? (Source: VIZ Media)
From the creator of Doll and Beautiful People comes a biting black comedy that shows us nothing is scarier than family. Haunted House follows the misadventures of Sabato, a hapless young teen trying to find himself, which is made all but impossible by his flamboyant family (who look like the Addams Family by way of Tim Burton). Scaring away every girl he brings home, Sabato's family seem to revel in his misery, but could there be more to their torment than meets the eye? Rest assured, Mihara-sensei keeps you guessing and giggling every step of the way. (Source: TOKYOPOP)
Nagai, a detective at the Metropolitan Police Department, is currently living with his high school classmate, Kitahara. The extremely stubborn Nagai and the fickle, elusive Kitahara weren't close friends back in the day, but when they met by chance, Kitahara shamelessly invited himself to go live with Nagai saying that he got chased out by his roommate. Although he was messy, Kitahara was actually good at cooking and acting all spoiled, so he was kind of both like a bride and a pet. Nagai felt unexpectedly comfortably living with him, but Kitahara suddenly announced that he was getting back together with his ex and put an end to their cohabitation. However, it seems that Kitahara has many more secrets... Source: My Anime List Included one-shots: **Upper Hand (UPPER HAND)**; *Shousetsu Chocolat 2010-11* **Defeat (defeat)**; *Guilty XX Vol.17 (2009/9)***
