Twenty year old Ogawa Akira is taking the medical school entrance exam for the third time when he is overwhelmed by anxiety and flees the testing room. He soon finds himself wandering the streets of Tokyo lost and exhausted. Then by chance a woman drops her earring, and he picks it up and returns it...
The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787. It was one of the most important novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature,...
" Victim - using the latest and greatest technological advances, you can now enter the game world; a revolution in gaming experience!...." What does it feel like to be a game character? Why are massacres in the game world considered enjoyable? Amusing? Relaxing? Come and read this short, full-color ...
If you've ever had a guy steal your girl through the use of a squid-related judo move, this oneshot will definitely speak to you!It straddles the line between being comedic and just plain odd. If I had to give it some deep meaning, I'd say it speaks to the futility of life. Sometimes the bad guys ju...
This is a two story anthology, about three generations of the Higashimoto family. Murakami Takashi's story about the loss and rebirth of families. The first story is about a young family, while the second story is about a couple dealing with old age. It's a work that confronts life with sincerity, T...