Wouldn’t
it be great to live with the perfect woman or perfect man?
Android butlers and babes are the future. These short stories
are tales from a land beyond, where androids not only protect
humans, but also live and get intimate with them.
Matsumoto-kun
is just about to turn sixteen when he accidentally bumps
into and injures his mysterious high school senpai, Mizushima-kun.
Now, he is bound to make it up to him, but the lines aren’t
clear on just how far this new angst filled steamy relationship
will go.
Café
Renard seems to be your run-of-the-mill establish, but it
is more than meets the eye. When strangers stumble upon the
hidden secret within an average business front, they find
a mysterious woman selling stones with magical properties.
Before they know it they are transported on strange adventures
of science fiction and fantasy.
Saeki
is a girl who loves ramen noodles. At last, she thinks that
she has finally found the perfect ramen shop, but the problem
is the shop is completely full of old regulars and she can’t
get in. Will the timid Saeki ever summon the willpower to
reach out and get the ramen that she desperately wants?
Mystery
is engulfing the face of Yuki’s high school and Yuki is caught
in the middle. As she battles the exhausting crowds during
her daily commute she, like many other young girls in Japan,
is sexually violated. Meanwhile a boy is secretly filming
her and someone is brutally slaughtering cats. What doe it
all mean? Enigma spins into ever darkening chasms.
Seemingly
mundane events twist with an unusual presence of the unreal
as the psyche of ordinary people is explored. Depression,
time and thought are redefined. Alive is a collection of
melancholy love stories saturated with sadness. Characters
struggle to connect with one another but never quite succeed.
They are essentially alone. A world that is dark and disturbing—suicide
is constantly contemplated and feelings of guilt, inadequacy,
and suppressed sexuality surface as identity itself becomes
a terribly fragile thing.
Sorako
lives an ordinary life. And this is an ordinary story. She
has friends and family, loves her dog, thinks about life,
and occasionally looks for work (kinda). These are the adventures
into a typical girl’s life.
Sold out of the back door of an otherwise straight bordello to clientele with a taste for young boys, Wanu is the brothel boy of the famed Kamiki whorehouse. The Japanese aristocrats and samurai who frequent this brothel must be discrete and the despicable owner is much obliged to keep things that way. Meanwhile, Wanu’s soul is trapped in a vessel on loan to the homo-erotic fantasies of important men, until he is visited by the mysterious soul catcher.
A
young woman who invites a stranger in out of the rain is
berated by her overly controlling mother. When the stranger
hears voices coming from a supposedly empty closet they discover
that there may be more to the unused space than meets the
eye. Secrets and forgotten memories that lie deep in the
unconscious manifest themselves in reality in this metaphysical
journey.
Karino
Arisa
Featured GEN
Issues: 01, 02, 03
Wolf
Naoto
heads for the city to find the father who abandoned him as
a child. He is determined to get vengeance. But Noato finds
out it won’t be that easy. Dad is a champion boxer. Naoto
must train to face his own father for the Japan feather weight
champion title match.
Nakamura
Shige
Featured GEN
Issues: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10
Kamen
A
masked man appears to a band of soldiers. He goes quietly
and joins the ranks of prisoners of war. But his mask holds
a secret. His quite demeanor may not be what it seems. The
man in the mask holds powers that unfold just in time to
rescue innocent lives about to be executed at the whims of
a mad ruler.
Mihara
Gunya
Featured GEN
Issues: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10
VS
Aliens
Kitaro
had never really spoken with his classmate, the nice and
proper, Ms. Segawa before. But to his surprise she suddenly
confronts him one day out of the blue. Ms. Segawa exclaims
that she has seen an alien! And that alien is none other
than their mutual classmate, the cute and popular Ms. Sakuma.
Sure, Kitaro thinks, right, an alien. But is she telling
the truth? Is there more to this mystery or is it some elaborate
prank?
