Near the end of the 20th century, a truck driver loses control in the Nevada desert, robbing one family of happiness. The sole survivor of this tragedy, a young girl named Luna Hazuki, makes a pact with a mysterious demon in a morgue. Seven years later, she is still living in America...with the family that should have been dead. Little does Luna know that the pact she made will lead to the apocalypse that destroys the human race...
The manga is about a series of unrelated short stories of people's lives and their lessons in life. *Note: It received the 1985 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general's manga.*
From nici: Cruise is the story of Yamada Kohei, a doctor who gives up a landlubber medical career to serve as a ship's physician, and the people he meets on board Japan's largest luxury liner, the Phoenix. He rejects a university colleague's insistence that he turn to teaching instead, preferring to stay and learn about life as it happens from the ship's passengers.
After having vivid daydreams of a barren and far off world, a teenage delinquent finds himself transported to this world after a near fatal accident.
"Rashoumon" is the last gate for humans to pass in life. Detectives of Toto Police Station have an urge to fight against something beyond crimes.
Hoshino Sora is a flight attendant who is very curious about other people, easily involving herself on other people's problems, and loves her job very much. She likes to help all people she meets through each flight; and while helping the people, she also learn a lot of things and becomes more mature in the process. Stories about Sora's beloved job: being a flight attendant, meeting different kinds of people, and helping them.
A woman and a man stop and stare at each other in a crowd of people coming and going. In the hot air, they find each other in the pack, even though it's been eight years... A sad story of a man and a woman is being told somewhere in the city today. (Source: Akita Shoten, translated) Included One-shots: Obasan wa Lesbian Shirauo no Kawa
Mineo Mutsu, an irreverencious reporter works for the Maiasa newspaper. He refuses to accept the misdoings of his job. He keeps on fighting and searching on how to reveal affairs everyone wants to kept quiet. But by making such a racket, wouldn't Mineo risk his own career?
Young Keiko has just graduated from university with great ambitions of becoming a movie producer. But once she enters the professional world she faces countless challenges and setbacks. Some due to her own inexperience, others as a consequence of sexism in the industry and society at large.

