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).

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