In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburgh: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his mill. Bellboy Barry admits to have done it - in self defense. Chief Ruhle interrogates him and Sugito's young wife and business partners, but it takes a while, until he gets through the maze of apparently contradictory statements.
Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as Captain Kuhio a pilot for an American Special Unit. He also boasts that he is the offspring of Kamehameha I and a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth of England. In actuality, the man is a marriage swindler looking for his next big score.
Based on the Japanese legend of 15th century adventurer, Oguri Hangan Daisukeshige, Toyoda places us in a surreal world of tattooed Japanese slave workers whose real life roles serve more as symbols than actual characters. After being hired by a local despot, Daizen, to massage away a nasty venereal disease, Oguri is viley betrayed after refusing to stay longer.
Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora’s fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
故事描述一場非核世界大戰落幕後，自然生存環境破殆盡，人類以頂尖基因工程創造出情緒更為穩定的生化複製人，並將戰爭中受傷的人重整為生化機械人，企圖創造了一個嶄新的烏托邦「奧林帕斯」。 西元2133年，奧林帕斯連續發生多起機械恐怖分子的攻擊行動，特殊部隊隊員布里艾諾斯也在一場戰鬥中，為了掩護搭檔迪娜而身受重傷，他雖保住了性命，卻無法行動。為了繼續抗戰，上級安排了一個新搭檔特雷斯－布里艾諾斯的複製人給迪娜。各國首領召開世界和平高峰會，由迪娜、特雷斯、復原的布里艾諾斯及其新搭檔負責維持會場安全，不料，當日除機械人外、連複製人及人類都開始失控展開攻擊，隨著越演越烈的失控事件，演變為遍及整個國度的詭異集體暴動後，迪娜和布里艾諾斯亦在抽絲剝繭中，逐漸揭開背後的恐怖陰謀…。
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
2131年，地球爆發大規模的世界大戰，各大主要城市盡成廢墟，人們流離失所。諷刺的是，這場摧毀人類文明的大戰最終沒有任何戰勝國。幸存的人類將原來的綜合管理機構改造成名為奧林帕斯的基地，以此作為幸存者的理想國。 少女琉南•納茲在一座廢棄城市與火力強大的人造人展開激烈戰斗，危急時刻，她的前男友布裏亞留斯和美麗女孩瞳帶領奧林帕斯的小分隊趕來營救。布裏亞留斯之前在北非戰場失去大部分身體，如今也被改造成機械加身的人造人。結束了枕戈待旦的日子，琉南開始迎來平靜祥和的生活。她發現奧林帕斯的科技極為發達，而這裏相當數量的人類是人造人。這座過分祥和的理想國讓琉南心有不安，它的背後似乎隱藏著不為人知的秘密……
Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.