ABE Yoshitoshi

From VIZ Media: When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she…

The series follows a young girl named Rakka, a newly arrived haibane (an angelic-looking being), and other characters in the city of Glie (guri), a walled city with one entrance where no one is allowed to leave. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haibane_Renmei for more.) It also contains a side story written after the end of the anime. The story shows the relationships of Reki…

The Nightmare of Fabrication is a beautifully drawn full-colour manga from Yoshitoshi ABe. The 18 page short story can be found in the Lain Omnipresence in Wired artbook. It's a bonus story which apparently isn't related with neither the anime nor the PS game. It shows characters who were included in the PS game but not in the TV series (like the psychiatrist), but also…

A series of vignettes portraying the day-to-day life of a little girl with a very vivid imagination. Ryuushika is infinitely curious, never short of absurd ideas, and always ready to look at the world through a distorting prism of extraordinary freshness.

Welcome to the N.H.K. revolves around the lives of several young-adults all living in or around the city of Tokyo. Many different lifestyles are shown though most of the time the story focuses on the concepts of being a hikikomori, anime otaku, and having most of the characters experience intense feelings of depression and loneliness.

A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. Click here for the full list (.txt). Serialized or otherwise collected: AKABOSHI Tomo Shishunki Syndrome AKIZUKI Risu Oku-sama Shinkaron ARAI Hideki 8-gatsu no Hikari ARAMAKI Keiko GENOMES ASADA Torao Spoonman 3.18…