Two volumes of the author's best one-shots. Volume 1: Mushi to Uta (虫と歌, Insects and Songs) 1) Hoshi no Koibito (星の恋人, Star Lover); Afternoon 2007-12 The odd relationship between a teenage boy and his uncle's "daughter." 2) Violight (ヴァイオライト); Afternoon 2008-07 A boy wakes up in an unfamiliar land, with only a strange, ethereal young man to accompany him on his journey to safety. 3) Kusaka Kyoudai (日下兄妹, The Kusaka Siblings); Afternoon 2009-12 A baseball player who's just quit the school team due to a shoulder injury and the adorable robot he adopts as his little sister. 4) Mushi to Uta (虫と歌); Summer 2006 Afternoon Four Seasons Award winner work; 2006-10 Appendix The story of a young man who builds models of insects for odd clients, and his siblings. Winner of the Shikitaishou award. 5) Secret; kakioroshi A two-page oneshot. Volume 2: 25-Ji no Vacances (25時のバカンス, 25-Hour Vacation) 1-2) 25-ji no Vacances (25時のバカンス, 25-Hour Vacation ); Afternoon 2010-09, 10 Marine biologist Nishi Otome takes time off and reunites with her brother, Kotaro, for the first time in a while. 3) Pandora nite (パンドラにて, On Pandora); Afternoon 2010-01 The meeting between a delinquent named Nana and a strange transfer student at Pandora Women’s College, located on one of Saturn's satellites. 4) Tsuki no Soushiki (月の葬式, The Funeral of the Moon); Afternoon 2011-10 A genius high school student begins living with a lonely man in the isolated snowy mountains of the north. Note: Winner of the Tezuka Osamu New Artist Prize (2010).
Haruko Ichikawa
