HAGIO Moto

Contains 11-gatsu no Gymnasium (11月のギムナジウム); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic 1971-11 When a tough, rebellious Eric arrives at a German boarding school, there is one fellow student he hates: Thoma. Thoma bears a striking resemblance to Eric, but is gentle, delicate, and idolized by his classmates. Scanslated in English under the name ''The November Gymnasium'' Yuki no Ko (雪の子); Bessatsu…

In the Anywhere But Here series: V.1 - Yama e Iku • Yama e Iku (Going to the Mountains) It's about a sensitive writer with an overactive imagination and intolerance for the banalities of everyday life. • Yanagi Ki (The Willow Tree) A woman stands day to day under a growing willow tree and watches the people who pass by... V.2 - Sphinx V.3 - Haru no Ogawa

An anthology of oneshots. Story 1: Promise by NISHI Keiko Story 2: They Were Eleven by HAGIO Moto Story 3: The Changeling by SATO Shio Story 4: Since You've Been Gone by NISHI Keiko The two stories by NISHI Keiko were also published as a separate book in English called "Promise." Those stories were originally taken from "Mizu ga Kooru ni Naru Toki." Read this to find out why…

A Drunken Dream is a collection of literary short stories by Hagio falling into multiple genres, created between 1971-2007. The stories were selected by translator Matt Thorn to be an introduction to Hagio for English speakers. This time travels through several of Hagio's most revolutionary and poignant tales that span over the years of her lush career. • Bianca (1970, 16…

From Fantagraphics: The Poe Clan: a race of undead that feeds on the energy of the living, whiling away the centuries in a village of roses where time and geography have no meaning. Circumstances lead to a brother and sister, Edgar and Marybelle, being initiated into the clan too young, and therefore doomed to live out eternity forever on the brink of adulthood, until a wooden…

The story A, A' raises a troubling question: How would you feel if your lover died - and was replaced by a clone? Could you recreate your relationship with someone who was physically exactly the same but didn't share any memories of your life together? In 4/4, teenaged Mori flunks out of an ESP training program. But when he meets Trill, a beautiful Unicorn, his latent…

The elite Cosmo Academy attracts applicants from every stellar nation in the galaxy. One young hopeful is Tadatos Lane, an orphan esper from Terra. The final stage of the academy's entrance exam is a perilous mission simulation aboard an actual derelict starship. The applicants depart for the ships in groups of ten, but when Tada's crew arrives on the Esperanza, they are…

In the year 2999, only eleven cities still survive on Earth. The climate has changed drastically, and a biochemical apocalypse has made women extinct. For centuries, the male population of Earth has survived by depending on only one woman, called the Holy Mother, whose ova are harvested to create genetically engineered children. By now, any concept of a world in which women…

The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th century. One winter day, fourteen-year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after mailing a single, brief letter to another boy at the school: To Juli, one last time. This is my love. This is the sound of my heart. Surely you must understand. Thus begins…

Conjoined twins Yudy and Yucy are as different as possible. Older Yudy is intelligent but ugly, as her nutrients are used up by her beautiful but simpleminded sister Yucy. Loving and hating so deeply, where does one girl begin and the other end? Included works Half-Blood The Laguini Slow Down Drunken Dream Herbal Beauty The False King. The Greenhouse. Izzan the Leftovers A…