People differentiate between "normal people" and "strange people." But who decides what can be considered the norm? This story emerged from our world. This story will send your common sense flying. This new book by Miyazaki comes packed full of sensitivity and wonders. Eight short stories that will rise a rainbow in the heart of people who had lived a life of loneliness.

Tia is a fortune-teller who lost her power. Judged no longer useful and expendable, she was sent to a neighboring country to assassinate their own powerful, beloved fortune-teller. Tia recklessly attacks and is quickly caught by a castle guard, Riisu. Instead of executing her, Tia is assigned to assist Riisu. The girl who had resigned herself to death warms to her new surroundings and starts to enjoy working and feeling needed again.

An officially published doujinshi anthology series for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, created by several artists based upon reader submitted stories, and compiled into volumes by Ryukishi07.

*Manga adaptation of the second novel in Kyougoku Natsuhiko's award-winning Kyougokudou Series.* Right after the war, Showa era in Japan. Kusumoto Yoriko and Yuzuki Kanako who attend an all girls school plan to take the last train to go to the lake. However, Kanako ends up getting run over by the train. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Detective Kiba who happened to be there when it happened, is asked to watch the confused Yoriko. Kiba goes with the worried Yoriko to the hospital Kanako is taken to, and there Kiba meets a woman who calls herself Kanako's sister; Yuzuki Youko. That happened to be the actress Kiba had been admiring, Minami Kinuko.

1. **Con Te** (コンテ) 2. **Orso e Intellettuale** (クマとインテリ) 3. **Manifesto** (マニフェスト) 4. **Discorso del Gelato** (ジェラート談義) 5. **Uomo che è stato Inseguito** (追われる男) 6. **La Camera del Primo Pomeriggio** (昼下がりの部屋) 7. **Sigaro** (シーガロ) 8. **Ricco e Riparatore** (金持ちと修理工) 9. **Kuroyama-san no Nioi** (黒山さんのニオイ)

A very powerful industrialist directs his daughter to pick a husband from three candidates he has chosen for her. They are to come into her life, and their uniqueness would cause her to recognize them immediately. The story revolves along the lines of a power political mystery involving a small middle eastern country. One thing that comes to mind is the author’s ability to establish strong moods by a close up of a character’s expression. All three of the candidates are outstanding. Well, it’s actually four. *Note: Includes two prologue and six extra chapters.*

Four cute school romance stories, all having some sort of time theme. In the first story, a girl discovers she can freeze time. In story 2, a girl discovers she can communicate with a boy living 6 years in the past through notes written on her desk. In Story 3, A girl finds herself living the same day over and over again (like the movie Groundhog Day) and finally, a girl who has a crush on a boy 3 years her junior discovers what the world would be like if he were the one who was 3 years older instead.

A collection of short stories which feature the mystery of human beings with a seemingly surreal yet pure literature-like style. 1. **Akahoshi-kun** (赤星くん) 2. **Suiheisen JPG** (水平線JPG, Water Horizon JPG) 3. **Hiruyasumi** (昼休み, Lunch Break) 4. **Dan-kun no Shinpai** (ダンくんの心配, Dan-kun's Concerns) 5. **Juu** (銃, Gun) 6. **Musume no Keikaku** (娘の計画, The Daughter's Plan) 7. **Seijin Bomb Natsu no Hi** (成人ボム 夏の日, Adult Bomb Summer's Day) 8. **Tonda Kuruma** (飛んだ車, The Car That Flew) 9. **Kamimura no Sawayaka na Hentai** (紙村のさわやかな変体, Kamimura's Exhilirating Abnormality)

This is the world of a dating sim. The goal for Izumi Misaki, the best friend of the main character Seita Kihara, is supposedly to help him romance the heroine... but for some reason, Kihara seems to be more interested in Misaki...? Friendship? Or love? A comedy about a boy's true feelings! (Source: Kurage Bunch, translated)

Uemura Takitarou is a Genius Cosplayer who can change himself from head to toe. One day, he finds his only friend, Asami Kusaka, killed by the Night Blindness Man, a serial murderer who gouges out the eyes of his victims. Tominaga Hana, a model, discovers his talent and recruits him for the company, UC, an office that solves mysteries and crimes by manipulating rumors/urban legends. Can Uemura track down the person who killed Kusaka?

A collection of stories done by various artists.

He died, only for a minute. Minakawa Ryo was an ordinary high school student until the day a girl jumped off a building, killing him with her. He miraculously comes back to life but with a new ability to see and hear what ordinary people cannot. Then one day a mysterious girl, Hokuto Shou, appears and tells him that his half has become a resident of the world of the dead. His previous ordinary life has dissipated, and a new life between the "living" and the "dead" begins.