Elitesoldaten Deunan Knute tager til den utopiske by Olympus. Olympus er den perfekte by hvor mennesker og Biorider lever i fuld harmoni med hinanden og hvor menneskenes ondskab er forsvundet. Men byen trues af terrorister. Menneskelige terrorister. Deunan er den perfekte og inkarnerede elitesoldat. Hende og hendes eks-partner Briaros' opgave er at få Olympus' livsvigtige serum: Applessed fra terroristerne. Men hvem har egentlig retten til det - terroristerne eller byen?
Elitesoldaterne Deunan, Briareos og Tereus kæmper for at bevare freden i by-nationen Olympus, indtil et snigangreb, foretaget af fanatikere, forvandler byen til en farefuld krigszone. I dette fantastiske eventyr, hvor mennesket står over for maskinerne i en kamp om overlevelse, kan man opleve revolutionerende computerskabt teknologi, forbløffende action og en fremragende historie.
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.
Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.
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.
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.
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.