“I’ll protect you with my magic.” I was told those cryptic words by none other than our school's preeminent beauty, albeit a delusional one, Miki Kouzuki. When we started going out, the world surrounding me suddenly began revolving. "Ahh… I want to kill someone." *Clank, clank.* “Chains? I’m not sure I see any chains to speak of…” My delinquent best friend, our straight-laced class representative, not to mention me and Miki… As we all start to break, the place we arrived at was— *Originally released in 2005, Mikage slightly rewrote and re-released the novel in 2016 with illustrations by Yoshitoshi Abe and a new subtitle -There are no facts, only interpretations.-*

"My inheritence is a company that rents out magic users...what!?" The extremely scared Iba Itsuki inherits property left to him by his missing father. That property was the Magic User Rental Company Astral. The magic users become "rental" and solve the requestor's problems. They do and don't...How will Itsuki deal with the fate of being president!?

Student council president and secretary, accounting and general affairs Seishirou Watari and student council vice president Mizutani. Only two student councils. Busy or not. Suggest or try it. Two people, but fun every day.

I believe in that smile. Even if you don't have a soul. 2105 A.D. Japan The humanoid android hiE became part of people's life and was handling the things human could and couldn't do. Endou Arato, unlike his friends Kenko and Ryou who hate hiE, felt sympathy for hiE which are supposed to be just objects. One night, Arato suddenly gets assaulted by mysterious falling cherry blossoms that make hiE and machines run havoc. Will the cornered Arato be saved by the mysterious hiE Lacia... (Source: Tankoubon) *Note: Chapter count includes one extra chapter.*

Set around the year 20xx, where Black Jack is nearly 60 years old.

Anyone who encounters Yoishi dies seven days later. Yoishi is not a living human. Any offline gathering she attends meets a terrifying end... I—"Nagi"—have stumbled upon the beautiful girl, Yoishi Mitsurugi, whose legend is whispered about like an urban legend on the little-known occult website, Ikaigabuchi. That was the beginning of a story that shouldn't have ever been known. (Source: Kodansha, translated)

After the break-up with his girlfriend, Kou is left very upset, which is when he meets Akio, Mai's brother. The two of them don't exactly hit it off, but there's a strange kind of attraction that keeps drawing them together. *Note: Includes one extra and the oneshot "White-Fingered Demon" (白い指の悪魔).*

A young woman returns to her grandfather's village where long ago she met a man afflicted with the "curse of the dragon."

Yukio Sugiri is a mangaka. To be precise, he hasn't won a prize, his work hasn't been published, nor has he had any experience being an assistant. He's a complete newbie. Thus, at the moment, he just spends his days as a househusband! (Source: Shogakukan, translated)

A manga about a young girl who stays at her perverted grandpa's house, who also owns a shop, while her parents are traveling overseas. In at his shop she saw a a ball with horns break and out came- a demon?!....

Collection of 19 short stories, with the theme of pirates, by various Weekly Shounen Jump mangaka that had ongoing serializations in the 2021 #5-6 issue.