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Collection of short stories by Maruo. It's almost impossible to summarize them, most of them aren't really plot driven but they deal with abnormal states of the mind and are permeated by a general surrealism. As in many of this works, he shows references to the art and culture of 1920s and 1930s Japan and Germany which had inspired his own artistic style.
High school junior Wakaba Sakimoto is a normal girl, no matter how you look at her. Everyone around her is thinking about the future, but Wakaba still doesn't know what she wants to do. Then one day, she meets voice actress Touko Hosaka by accident, and Wakaba's future changes in a big way... [from JManga]
It's new year's! Alien visitor? With a question?? Madness!!
The drama club of an all girl high school puts on the play "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov.
Everyone dies. That is an indisputable fact. Until no one did Then everything went to Hell. - Fredrik Nem (1 A.D.) After the Disaster of the Undying, death is now commercialized, with hefty ransoms attached to allow loved ones to pass on. The alternative? Monstrous spirits that wreak havoc on the living. In a world where Reapers serve as assassins and government agents of the natural order there are many that disagree with the current state of things. One of which is Rais, a Reaper student who wishes to change this. But with a growing necromancer army out to destroy all Reapers, it may not be as easy as he'd hoped.
Just some art?
There were two neighbors who had the worst relations Anything and everything disagreeable! The love battle beetwen two of a kind!!
On Earth, pouring boiling water over a bowl of instant Ramen means you're hungry. On Planet Cup-Ramen, the women are human sized and the men are three-inch tall. Instant sized men need to be brought up to human size by, you guessed it, pouring hot water on them! It's also a proposal of marriage. Sumire - a lively 16 year old boy, was only hungry when he bought this peculiar looking cup Ramen from the shop. Little did he know that it was actually the space ship of the pint size Prince Kanmen of the Planet Cup-Ramen! Prince Kanmen is very persistent; and Sumire who is caught in between various fiancées, older brothers, younger brothers, obsessive SM handmaidens and pop stars, he may just end up marrying Prince Kanmen out of sheer exhaustion!
Ayako, a normal high-school girl caught up in the experiment of an enigmatic genius, is divided in two. In the midst of the confusion of sharing her life, she remembers her sister who had died suddenly. What lies beyond the feelings she remembers and the feelings she’s forgotten…
Top student Wang Fei has always dreamt about becoming a Judge, a pillar of light and justice for the people! However fate isn't on his side and he ends up going to a high school for delinquents. How is he going to survive? Will he rise to the top or be gobbled up in the chaos of the hell that is Shiji High School?
The seven-stream killer was reborn in the 21st century. Ye Ban Xia, an ambitious woman with a happy and peaceful life, realized a bitter truth on the first day of her freshman year. What? That handsome student is, in fact, the governor who tormented me in my past life?! I will never be his slave in this life ever again!
From Echochi Scans: Isa is sick and tired of confronting his tenant, Hasegawa-san who is an author, to pick up after himself and pay his rent. With the second last of his tenant leaving, Isa’s suddenly stuck with a dilemma on whether or not to continue renting the place out or sell it. But, a visit to a local bookstore maybe change his perspective and bring more excitement to his mundane daily life…
