Genre - Drama

Hijiki (a girl with an unusual name) has just entered a new school, and on the way there she encounters a mysterious boy alongside a beautiful lake. Hijiki has some secrets of her own, and will this boy be able to listen to her silent pleas for help...?

Lawrence is a young male prostitute whose actual aim was to look for his brother. Unknowingly, he did find his brother - the owner of the young boys prostitute club. However, his life was about to change when he witnessed the killing of one of the biggest serial killers - Dr. Wolfgang Adrain Cray. Instead of running away, he searches for the murderer and falls in love with him. Adrian, who is basically a nice person (he is a school teacher) takes in Lawrence and reciprocates Lawrence s love. but Lawrence s brother was not too happy about losing a possible money tree and sends out his gang in search of Lawrence.

Ema Hinata (or later known as Ema Asahina) is the girl of the well known expat, Rintaro Hinata. One day, Ema discovers that her father is going to remarry a fruitful attire creator named Miwa Asahina. As opposed to annoying them, she chooses to move into the Sunrise Residence complex that is claimed by Miwa. From that point, she finds that she has 13 stepbrothers.

Sakamoto Ryuuta is an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there may be nothing really special about him, but online, he's one of the world's top players of the combat game "BTOOOM"! One day, he awakes in what appears to be a tropical island, though he has no memory of how or why he has come to be there. While wandering around, Ryuuta sees someone and calls out for help. The stranger responds by throwing a bomb at him! Now Ryuuta realizes both that his life is in danger and that he has somehow been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game! Will Ryuuta be able to survive long enough to figure out how and why he ended up here?

The time is several millennia ago; the place is India. Droughts and famine plague the country, and its people are forced into a strict caste system that rewards only the elite cream of the crop. Across the land animals and Brahmin alike rejoice, for the blessed child with a birthright to become a god is about to be born. His name is Siddhartha Gautama, later to be known as the Buddha. However, Siddhartha's life will not be an easy one. He will experience love and loss, learn about the value of life and influence the lives of many, including Tatta and Pariah, Bandaka the bandit and countless others. The complete biography of Buddha, as seen by Osamu Tezuka. Received the Bungei Shunju Manga Award in 1975 and ended in 1984.

In Japan, there are additional users of skills besides those connected to the Armed Detective Agency or the Port Mafia. Among them is Yukito Ayatsuji, a private investigator who has the power to kill the criminal whose crimes he solves. Osamu Dazai's old buddy Ango Sakaguchi leads the Military Police's Skills User division, which closely monitors Ayatsuji because to his extreme threat. The agent tasked with tracking him, Mizuki Tsujimura, is going to dislike her work even more because Ayatsuji has started a rivalry with Natsuhiko Kyougoku, an unaffiliated Skill user, and the bodies are starting to pile up.

The story revolves around Kudo Gai, a mischievous 13 year old all alone in the world. He despises his classmates who live by their free will, although supported by parents, but taking it for granted. Gai soon finds out he is contradicting himself for he is being raised at an orphanage as well, and makes an attempt for independence. His actions lands him in trouble, where he is framed for murder and sent to a place in an unknown location called the human institute.

There is an island where both Japan and Korea unload their most dangerous and violent criminals. It's said that the island has become hell on earth, and anyone left alive there have become demons. The latest drop-off at the island is a very strong, very violent murderer. Will he be able to overcome whatever he might find on this hell island?

Of Shaman King fame, here's another series by Hiroyuki Takei about a buddha with the 1,000 arms armor. Sennju, an emissary of the buddha Kannon, appears in the human world to find and protect the reincarnation of the buddha Mirokou. The emissary arrives on Earth just in time to save a young girl from being bullied by some rough looking men. Just who is this girl and will she believe that he's a buddha who was sent by Kannon? * Also included are three oneshots; two of them are called Death Zero and Itako no Anna. • Death Zero - A WWII pilot was shot done and killed, but he still had a promise to keep, that not even death could stop him. • Itako no Anna - Anna is an Itako, a priestess who can call upon spirits, learning the trade with her grandmother. One day, they run into a temple to find the master of the temple quarreling with a sword collector over whether the sword may be removed from the temple or not. And she and her grandmother decide to call upon the original owner of the sword and aid the temple master.

She has no desire to be married and has never experienced love. But once her mother was admitted to the hospital, she started thinking about her future and made the decision to be married. Despite the fact that she has never experienced love, she thinks that marriage is possible even in the absence of love. She enters the marital activities market based on a variety of data and information, but it is not an easy one! As she uses a variety of services, Kohaku encounters a number of issues pertaining to marital activities, such as marriage activity parties and matching applications. How would her marital activities turn out?

The spread of a virus of the national disaster proportion has shut down Seoul! Haebin, who lost all of his classmates in the incident a year ago, left home in order to avoid being alone again. What is the unexpected truth awaiting him that keeps him from regaining his normal daily life?!

Akira and his classmates are travelling on a plane when it crashes onto an island inhabited by species thought to have been extinct. The situation becomes increasingly desperate as some of Akira's classmates are eaten alive, while some kill others in desperation. Now Akira and a few other survivors are trying to survive what seems to be a horrible nightmare.

Keiko Kurakake is a scientist in the Shibasato research institute. One day she gets a call from Professor Yamazashi, who tried to preform human cloning a year ago. She accepts his invitation and goes to meet him. When she arrives she is shocked to see that the professor is now a young man, the secret to his new youth is due to the Cambrian factor. Professor Yamazashi aims to recreate the unprecedented leap in evolution called the Cambrian explosion with modern humanity, hoping to rule the world as their creator!

The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay To look down to Camelot. But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror’s magic sights: A funeral, with plumes and lights And music, came from Camelot. “I am half-sick of shadows,” said The Lady of Shalott. “Tirra lirra, tirra lirra,” Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web: she left the loom: She looked down to Camelot.