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Take me to the end of the world... said Blaise Cendrars. Come on, I'll take you, says Keiichi Koike. He takes you on a trip through time and space to the end of the world that is also but the beginning of it all... *Background: An unfinished, text-less narrative that was first published in Gekkan Agama between 1989 and 1991. The first two chapters were then re-published in Art Publisher's Error magazine in 2000, after which the first eleven chapters re-appeared in the initial three issues of MHz magazine published by Magazine Five in 2006. The manga was never collected and released in a tankoubon.*
A boy, who always gets bullied is told by his dad that the day he turns sixteen he is going to get someone that will always be with him. The boy, Kazu-kun, believes it will be a fiancee, since his dad got a wife (his mom) and his grandma a husband (his grandpa) on their sixteen birthday, but oh surprise, it is a boy and he is a ninja. So begins the story between Kazu-kun and Masanaru and their romance. 4. Path To Happiness Single father and jobless Yagami Chiharu is saved from being hit by a car by an old high school friend, Okumura Masakazu, but the latter gets injured. So Yagami becomes Okumura's housekeeper until he recovers from his injury. 5. Project Section 3: Only For Two Yokohama Takashi became a toy maker chasing a childhood dream, but when his project gets the worst selling record, he is demoted in the third section, where all the employees end up quitting... Will Yokohama be able to revive the team with the support of the section manager? 6. Banquet For Two Continuation to the previoous chapter. To celebrate the sales success Yokohama organizes a banquet...
It's July 2016, and the Tadamura family gathers in the Hirasaka village for the funeral of the grandmother and head of the family: the young man Yukito, his step-sister Yue, his father Masashi, his uncles Nobuteru and Tsunemasa, and his cousins Terumi and Teruya, all come to pay their last respects. But on that evening, Yue witnesses an incomprehensible scene: the grandmother's dead body starts to move and disappears into the night! The morning after, the family wakes up in a strange world, seemingly cut off from reality, where two suns shine… (Source: Batoto)
Satoru is a playwright for a theater company, and Itsuki is an actor inspired by Satoru to pursue a career in the theater. They are troubled by their feelings for each other and the self-loathing that comes at the same time, as their mutual attraction grows. When Itsuki is given a major role in the next play, Satoru works on the script as Itsuki concentrates on his performance. Satoru and Itsuki will come to terms with their true feelings, which they cannot hide anymore. (Source: bamB!, translated) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
"Here be monsters": this expression has always been used to speak of the ocean - a dark, impenetrable world that can only conceal unimaginable horrors that the human can't see...often not until it is too late. A series of unexplained accidents happen at a submarine platform 6,000 meters beneath the surface and, in response, a group of scientists and cadres are sent to investigate. Before long, the members of the party start to get haunted by horrifying, elusive visions...and the rash of brutal deaths once again resumes. Is it just a collection of freak accidents and hallucinations caused by sheer paranoia, the claustrophobic environment and dysbarism...or is there really something more lurking in this abyssal station?
Plagued by visions of a psychopath after a slaughter in a busy street in downtown Ikebukuro, Madoka must question her own sanity as to whether what she is seeing is actually happening.
A golf player and a mystical rabbit.
In a nondescript lounge, a blonde-haired man plays a game of pool, unaware of the maddening trial he is about to face. When a voice behind him shouts, "Spinoza!" he is hit in the head with a glass bottle, knocking him out. When he awakens, he finds himself fishing in a rocky valley. A moment later, he catches a monstrous fish which swallows him whole. Coming to again, he awakens on the floor of a ring, now the contestant of a boxing match in a packed arena. Again and again the man finds himself in entirely new locations, each time the center of a different conflict. He has little time to act, however, as he quickly finds himself awakening to a new scenario. With no end in sight, the man moves through time and space across different dimensions with only one recurring word to connect them: Spinoza. *Note: Published in PHOTO JAPON No. 26-32 (December 1985-June 1986). Each chapter is a single page consisting of 53 panels. In the tankoubon, each page is a single of these panels.*
Koike Keiichi's take on the Story of the Navajo People. *This short story was published in a co-authored work with poet Keijirou Suga. 野生哲学 アメリカ・インディアンに学ぶ (Yasei Tetsugaku American Indian ni Manabu)*
Yuki, a girl in a rural town, studies art to become an artist in the city. One day, her sister leaves the town to fulfill her own dreams. Yuki boards the train with her to see her off, but during the journey, she is struck by a strange phenomenon!? Is it reality or an illusion... A chilling horror.