A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. **Serialized or otherwise collected:** AKABOSHI Tomo [Shishunki Syndrome](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=10895992058) AKIZUKI Risu [Oku-sama Shinkaron](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=8585) ARAI Hideki [8-gatsu no Hikari](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=48516) ARAMAKI Keiko [GENOMES](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=100366) ASADA Torao [Spoonman 3.18](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7155) ASHINANO Hitoshi [Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=586) Endo Hiroki [Kitto Kawaii Onnanoko Dakara](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=5984) ENOMOTO Shunji [Golden Lucky](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=44334) IGARASHI Daisuke [Obayashi ga Hikoeru Hi, Hoka (collected in Hanashippanashi](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2347) IRIE Kiwa [Haikibun! Sakanahime](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=54246) IRIE Noriko [Neko no Te Kashimasu](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=34406) KIMURA Kon [Koube Zaijuu](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=6616) KITOH Mohiro [Vandemieru no Tsubasa](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2395) KOMAI Yu [Sonna Yatsua Inee!!](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=16844) MATSUMOTO Taiyou [STRAIGHT](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=9964) NIHEI Tsutomu [BLAME! (prototype chapter, included in NOiSE)](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2275) OHARA Shinji [Boku wa Otouto](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=23188) SAMURA Hiroaki [Mugen no Juunin](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1628) SOUJI Hajime [Sanmon Mirai no Katei Houmon](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=95297) TOUME Kei [Kurogane](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1034) TOYODA Minoru [Love Roma](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=5227) TSUCHIDA Seiki [Miseinen](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=65435) URUSHIBARA Yuki [Mushishi prototype chapter, collected in Filament](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=35219) WAKANA Shouhei [Kamen Tenshi](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=38659) **Other:** Hiramatsu Kannosuke [Yume](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=134645) ABE Yoshitoshi [Ame no Furu Basho](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=70439511114) Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy. YAMAZAKI Ren [Like a Laika](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=15464858831) From Atelier du Noir Scans: The daily, average life and interactions of some of a ship’s crew as they depart to explore space. Winner of the Jiro Tanaguchi Special Award for manga in the 2010 Four Seasons Award Anthology. NADEGATA Nazuna [Kokenoshima](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=25320595156) From Atelier du Noir Scans: On a remote island, a skilled swordsman who honed his craft on the local population attempts to atone for his sins and lift a curse by hunting and killing demons. Winner of the Hagio Moto Special Award for manga. KIBA Kouichi [Jagua](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=26870403448) As the protagonist is returning home one night, she runs into a man who had just been in a car crash. As he is dying, he asks her to throw a certain package into the sea. JOUYAMA Yui [Zanuff the Butcher](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=57841268625) A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl. HAYASHIDA Q [Sofa-chan](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=9150331372) Tells the story of a female ghost who lives on a couch and it's the debut work of Q Hayashida as mangaka. KANOU Rie [Kingdom of Stars](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=20282565791) Oneshot about love, religion, and a big misunderstanding that leads to a weird situation...

It's Naoto's tenth birthday. At the celebration are his proud older brother Masaki, the envy of everyone, and his loving parents and siblings. This ordinary, happy family life is shattered in an instant by his father's infidelity and running away from home. In a house where laughter has fallen silent, Naoto, a middle school student, one day overhears his mother and Masaki having an affair. "Naoto, you're a good boy, so you won't tell anyone, right?" Masaki hugs the distraught Naoto and whispers sweetly, almost threateningly!? The forbidden bond and obsession woven by real brothers - the hugely popular series from Chara is now fully adapted into a comic!

*This entry refers to the manga which is only available in a bundle with the artbook.* The manga of this special edition contains 20 new sidestories about the already known protagonists from the main story. The artbook does not include any manga chapter!

In a village that is like the “First Village”, lived the innkeeper’s son, Ruth. In his previous life he had no affinity to women because he was a burly man but since he has become a handsome youth in this life, he is going to do his best (However, he still isn’t popular at all). At that time, he discovered that his childhood best friend, Alec, was a hero. And then, for some strange reason, Alec begged Ruth “Until I come home, please wait for me”… There is a tale in the First Village where the famous people who were involved with the hero, Alec, came along one-by-one to cause trouble and approach Ruth, who was leisurely living out his life in the countryside. A spoiled and infatuated Hero x A dense and broad-minded Innkeeper’s son.

This science fiction human drama is centered on an alien living in Ikebukuro, assigned to explore the Earth. Unable to understand its people, whose only concerns are “money” and “sex,” the alien is on the verge of losing his confidence as a member of a xenoprobe team when one day he meets a man who calls himself “Honda,” an Earth name. The alien begins to respect Honda, who guides him around town as a “space senior"... (Source: Natalie, tranlated) *Published in the Comic Beam in the late 90s, it was releassed in tankoubon format 20 years laters in 2018.*

1. **Sousenkyo no Majo** (総選挙の魔女) 2. **Paper Country** (ペーパーカントリー) 3. **Dungeon to DaiGinkou Goutou** (ダンジョンと大銀行強盗) 4. **Yuusha ga Ikani Shite Shinpai Suru no wo Tomete Corona Virus wo Ai Suru You ni Natta ka** (勇者は如何にして心配するのを止めてコロナウイルスを愛するようになったか) 4. **Aa Senyuu yo, Kudan ni Aou** (あゝ戦友よ、くだんに会おう) 5. **Haka ga Sensha de Yattekuru** (墓が戦車でやって来る) 6. **Gaitou (Original story: Nikolai Gogol** (外套（原作：ニコライ・ゴーゴリ）) 7. **Walpurgis Jikkou Iiin Jikkou Suru** (ワルプルギス実行委員実行する) 8. **Wakarazuya** (わからず屋) 9. **Vseslav Jinroukou no Hanayome** (フセスラフ人狼公の花嫁)

Biography manhua 1. **Sidharta Gautama** by Ie Swe Ching 2. **Julius Caesar** by Ie Fen Lan 3. **Christopher Columbus** by Con Ta Yue 4. **Leonardo Da Vinci** by Lin Jui Hwa 5. **Michelangelo Buonarroti** by U Chen Fang 6. **Galileo Galilei** by Lai Jai Chin 7. **Isaac Newton** by Lin Mei Suen 8. **Johann Sebastian Bach** by Lin Jui Hwa 9. **George Washington** by Kwok Jui Seng 10. **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart** by Ciang Su Chin 11. **Napoleon Bonaparte** by Lai Ie Seng 12. **Ludwig van Beethoven** by Chen Jing Lien 13. **Hans Christian Andersen** by Lie Yung Bin 14. **Abraham Lincoln** by Lie Chin Siu 15. **Florence Nightingale** by Sie Swe Cen 16. **Alfred Bernhard Nobel** by Tan Fe Jau 17. **Thomas Alfa Edison** by Lie Ching Ie 18. **Marie Curie** by Wan Ie So 19. **Wright Brothers** by Lin Jue Hwa 20. **Mahatma Gandhi** by Kwok Yuen Ming 21. **Albert Scheweitzer** by Cho Heng Ye 22. **Isadora Duncan** by Chang Su Ling 23. **Albert Einstein** by Jhen Fe Jau 24. **Helen Keller** by Lin Cau Cing 25. **Walt Disney** by Wang Ie

Konata and her friends continue on with their school life adventures in this anthology comic series.