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Heaven's Door

Also known as Heaven's Door.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

A compilation of short stories by Keiichi Koike.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door
3000 Leagues Searching For Mother
Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour
The Fallen Samurai And The Sea
Loopa
Kenbo's Diary
Sponge Generation
By Plane
Horizon
Landed

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Seinen , Body Horror , Anthology , Dystopian , Drugs , Gore

Kakusan

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Katsuhiko Tobe faces an odd dilemma. Losing control of his physical self, his body diffuses into nothingness as his disembodied consciousness flows throughout the world constantly contemplating both the world and his current situation. Meanwhile, his best friend Azami Seshimo waits in their native Japan for Katsuhiko's return.



Note: the 1st edition also includes 2 short-stories.

Tags: Seinen , Travel , Nudity

No. 5

Also known as No. 5.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

A science-fiction thriller set in a powerfully imagined multicultural future landscape that resembles the current Middle East, NO. 5 is the latest work from the acclaimed creator of BLACK & WHITE, Taiyo Matsumoto.

No. 5 battles against the forces of the Rainbow Council. In a world that has become 70% harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the International Peace Keeping Forces, a team of super-powered global security guardians, have a growing crisis on their hands. No. 5, one of their own and known within the council as their top marksman, has left his post and gone rogue.

It's up to the other guardians to track him down--but No. 5, with his mysterious companion Matroshka, won't go down without a fight.



Tags: Revenge , Superhero , Crime , Travel , Politics , Anti-Hero , Military , Post-Apocalyptic , Philosophy , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Super Power , Cult , Seinen , Fugitive , Desert , Twins , Achronological Order , Ensemble Cast , War

Majo

Also known as Witches.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

On a visit to the capital of a small country in the far west of Asia, a British girl named Nicola falls in love. The object of her affections is Mimar, a young man who works at a bazaar–yet despite her attempts, he doesn’t notice her. Back at home in England, the ache of her unrequited love festers. After years spent obtaining wealth, fame, and “the secret of the world,” she returns to the bazaar to exact her deadly revenge upon Mimar and those he holds dearest. This story is just one of many in this dramatic collection, which features tales of witchcraft across the globe and even in the far reaches of outer space.



Note: Won the Excellence Prize in the Manga Division at Japan Media Arts Festival in 2004.

Tags: Anthology , Witch , Magic , Philosophy , Environmental , Seinen , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Mythology , Primarily Female Cast , Gods , Body Horror , Nudity , Denpa

Sora Tobi Tamashii

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

Ubusuna (産土, Birthgrounds)
The story of a mystical creature that makes pottery.

Sora Tobi Tamashii (そらトびタマシイ, Spirits Flying in the Sky)
It's about a girl who is cursed by an owl, and begins to fuse with a chicken spirit she killed by accident. But then she meets a girl just like herself, who helps her become normal again.

Kuma Koroshi Kami Nusumi Tarou no Namida (熊殺し神盗み太郎の涙, The Tears of Bear-Slayer and God-Stealer Tarou)
It's a story about a boy called the "Bear Killer", who meets a girl who has been chosen to become the guardian deity of her village.

Suna-kake (すなかけ, Covered in Sand)
The story of a young girl who meets a girl with a mysterious disease while on a trip to the ocean.

Le Pain et le Chat (The bread and the cat)
The story of a baker who decides to care for a girl whose parents have left her.

Imada Fuyu (未だ冬, Still Winter)
It's about a man who climbs a mountain that belongs to the gods, and is not made for man to climb.

Tags: Seinen , Anthology , Magic , Monster Girl , Mythology , Body Horror , Rural

Blue Hole

Also known as Blue Hole.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

In a village in the Comoros, the young Gaia and her grandfather make a living from fishing for coelacanths, large fish classified as a rare and protected species. But one day, a sea monster attacks them and devours the old man.

After being rescued by a police ship, Gaia agrees to take the captain to a submarine inside the Blue Hole, where the coelacanths come from. They then discover that huge sea creatures make their way through our Ocean: the Blue Hole is actually a temporal rift leading to the Mesozoic. An expedition, under the orders of Doctor Hawk, is led aboard the Chronos to study this extraordinary discovery. But the ship is swept away in the Blue Hole and the survivors are found 65 million years in the past. They then discover Hawk's plan: to eliminate the problem of pollution by installing a huge cylinder between the two worlds, to dump our waste in Prehistory. No matter the consequences...

A second blue hole is discovered in prehistoric times, leading even further into the past. In the meantime, a gigantic asteroid is heading towards Earth...

Tags: Environmental , Dinosaurs , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Manipulation , Survival , Ships , Military , Coastal