For the sooty industrial town's lads there's only one point of light: the Light Club, a secret brotherhood they've organized in an abandoned factory. They're on the verge of booting up their crowning achievement, a "thinking machine" fueled by lychee fruits. At the same time, the middle schoolers' cooties-fearing solidarity is devolving into a downright National Socialist muck of murderous paranoia, perverse aestheticism, and (not always) suppressed homosexuality. (Source: Kodansha USA)

Short Cuts is a manga series by Usamaru Furuya, released in two volumes and originally published in Young Sunday magazine. Each volume contains approximately one hundred 'cuts', short comics which typically span only one or two pages. The primary theme of Short Cuts is Japanese kogal and youth culture, which is tackled with a heavy use of visual jokes, black humor and sex comedy.

A collection of short stories by Usamaru Furuya. 1. Teased and Stepped On, What Blooms is a Passionate Flower Describes the relationship between a girl and her teacher. 2. Lolita #7 Features the relationship between two cousins, an older male and a younger girl. One is a teacher, while the other is a student -- both at the same school. When the elder cousin doesn’t come to class for several days, the school administrators send the younger cousin to the elder cousin's home to investigate further. 3. Song of the Devil 4. What If? 5. Happiness 6. A Room of Clouds 1 7. A Room of Clouds 2 Yuno Yamase is a naive girl who is looked down at by everyone because of her dullness. Exploited and embarrassed by her peers, scorned and let down by her family, she decides to leave her old life behind. Will Yuno be able to find the happiness she’s longing for in this treacherous world? 8. Indigo Elegy 9. Underground Doll

Pi is a constant that defines a circle. It is never-ending, and to Sawaki Yumeto, it is a majestic number that has a direct relationship to his other favorite thing, boobs. One day, he realizes that there is a mystic relationship between pi and the perfect breasts. He conducted research and did calculations to determine what the perfect breasts are but he needed more raw data. Yumeto used to be unpopular and ugly, but to further his quest, he shed blood, sweat and tears to change his appearance and style to that of a handsome young man. When Tamura Jun, a classmate that has been absent for the majority of the school year, returns, Yumeto realizes that she might have the perfect boobs that he has been searching for. But getting to them is going to be harder than he could possibly imagine. (Source: MU)

Collecting six years' worth of the column he has run in the pages of serial novel and culture critique magazine Da Vinci since 1997, Donki Korin employs a unique structural format. On the right page of every spread is a short essay sent in by a reader and chosen by Furuya, and on the left page is a four-panel comic drawn by Furuya relating to the essay. (Source: robots never sleep)

A collection of the latest unpublished short stories from 2015-2021 The book contains the autobiographical story "Sodom 1985 (Parts 1 and 2, 2020-2021), which depicts the author's encounter with "Lychee Light Club" Grand Guignol Theatre play, plus other works filled with the struggles and growth of impressionable boys and girls. The other chapters are homages to great works of literature and cinema: "Youth" (2015), originally by Tanizaki, "Death in Azabu-juban" (2018), in reference to "Death in Venice", "Female Student" (2018), originally by Osamu Dazai, & "Soma Kill Trailer" (2020)

Pirito is a utopia protected by the mechanical goddess Marie, who looms large as she orbits the skies above. Down in the factory town of Gil, Pipi’s heart yearns for Kai, but as the only one who can hear Marie’s ever-present music, will he be able to accept Pipi’s affection? (Source: One Peace Books) *Note: Includes a prologue and epilogue.*

Set in modern day Tokyo, Dazai's tale details the life of a young man originally from a well-off family from Japan's far north. Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity since high school. The series is composed of three parts, referred to in the novel as "memorandums," which chronicle the life of Oba from his teens to late twenties. (Source: Kodansha USA) *Adaptation of the original work of Dazai Osamu.*

Hikari Hamura, nicknamed Picasso because of his natural artistic abilities, survived a horrible accident, but his friend Chiaki wasn't so lucky. Suddenly, Chiaki appears in front of him and tells him in order to keep living he must help the people around him. Can Hikari save people with his sketchbook and a 2B pencil? (Source: VIZ Media)

February 23rd, 20XX. Looking for a job in the famous TV station at Odaiba, college senior Jin Mishima attended the recruitment orientation. Not far away from the station, Nanako Okano, a gothic lolita trying to attend a concert, found out that her friends tricked her about the concert ticket because of jealousy. The two bumped into each other and "reunited" -- they were junior high classmates -- moments before an earthquake of Richter Scale 8.1 turned the island (the entire city, in fact) into ruins.

Prequel to the series Litchi Hikari Club by Furuya Usamaru, Bokura no Hikari Club follows the lives of the nine club members before the events of Litchi Hikari Club.

Palepoli goes beyond the framework of standard four-panel manga and views its structure in new ways. Actually, Furuya knew nothing of conventional manga styles and methods when he started Palepoli. As a result, he created something that bore little similarity to other manga. *Note: A portion of Palepoli (26 pages) was featured in Secret Comics Japan by VIZ Media on July 6, 2000.*