Oku Hiroya

"One of us will become a young girl." A shared house full of six old otakus nearing their sixtieth birthday. Having resigned themselves to dying without a single woman in their lives, they decide to play a game of Russian roulette using a suspicious new cosmetic drug called NEOTYPE-16. As the days pass, one of the men begins experiencing strange changes to his body. Until, at last, the transformation is complete… And from among them, a princess is born.

A trio of teenage boys taken straight from a classic retro-looking gag manga jump through dimensions to a hyper realistic modern sci-fi world Gantz-style in order to save one of the boy's little sister.Additional Links:Official X

Book compiling art and oneshots showcased at the "Moshimo, Tokyo" exhibition. Contains a different oneshot by Inio Asano to the one titled "Moshimo, Tokyo".

Rei Yokoyamada, a high school boy who has a movie producer father. One day, while out with friends to shoot a film that he plans to enter into a film festival, a poster of Papiko, an adult video actress with big breasts, catches his eye.

Inuyashiki has a family, a wife and two kids, none of whom care about him. When he learns that he has only three months to live he realizes that the only one who will miss him is his dog. Shortly after this realization he is killed in a crash landing by aliens. He is rebuilt by them as a machine with a human exterior. How will his life change now that he isn't human? Alternate Official English

She is popular and has a hunk for a boyfriend, but there is that boy in her class who always stares at her, but never talks to anybody. On the way home that boy loses his phone, she picks it up, but he runs away before she can return it. Inside she finds article on lucid dreaming, and this is where it all begins…

How long will you stay in the game?The last thing Kei and Masaru remember was being struck dead by a subway train while saving the life of a drunken bum. What a waste! And yet somehow they're still . . . alive? Or semi-alive? Maybe it's reanimated . . . by some kind of alien orb with a nasty message . . . "Your lives are over. What you do with your new lives is up to me!" And what this orb called "Gantz" intends to do with their lives is make them play games of death, hunting all kinds of odd aliens, along with a bunch of other ordinary citizens who've recently met a tragic semi-end. The missions they embark upon are often dangerous. Many die-and die again.Links:Alternative official raw

Koizumi Shintarou is 30 years old, a virgin, and has isolated himself in his room for 15 years. He has become a burden on his father, Koizumi Yasujirou. One day, Shintarou makes a proposition that if Yasujirou gets a girlfriend, Shintarou will come out of his room. It turns out that Yasujirou has already got a girlfriend, a young beautiful woman, Yoshinaga Haruka, who is with Yasujirou for her own personal reasons. Yasujirou and Haruka decide to get married, but Yasujirou dies on their honeymoon. Now Haruka decides to take care of Shintarou, and so this weird "mother and son" duo are now living together.

Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal–few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots, and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name… Gantz.

Collection of short stories by Hiroya Oku.

The year is 2028, location in New Koshigaya. A young boy, Isurugi Neru, lives in a poor family and is forced to quit school so that he can find his own way in life. Neru on the other hand, only thinks of one thing: to take revenge on Yagami, a classmate, who's especially gifted and has humiliated Neru numerous times.

Chizuru Yoshida is not your typical high schooler and she's all too aware of it! She has a talent with getting what she wants from her male lovers and often comes across as cold and manipulative…In truth, despite her experiences with guys, she has never been in love. That's until the fateful arrival of newly-trasferred student, Azumi Yamada, at her school. It was love at first sight for Chizuru–indeed an unexpected turn of events for the story's vixen!Not only was she in love, but with all things…another girl. Chizuru goes through a brief stage of anger and denial and tries to convince herself that she couldn't possibly be attracted to such a simple-looking, shy, and naive girl! To her despair she finds herself constantly thinking of Azumi, so she finally resolves to become friends with her, but it's not too long when she starts to push things along with Azumi…Hen (1993) - PrequelHEN (1988) - Prototype

A fortune-teller predicts that Suzuki will have a life-changing encounter. Confident that he checks every box for being a "cool guy," Suzuki sets out to meet his destined soulmate… Only to discover that fate has paired him with Sato--a beautiful boy who could easily pass for a girl.Undeterred, Suzuki even transfers schools and launches an all-out romantic assault, but Sato keeps him at arm's length. Just when things couldn't get more strange, a formidable rival named Saeki appears .HEN (1997) - SequelHEN (1988) - Prototype

Ichiro Suzuki, a straight young man who becomes besotted with another guy, Yuki Sato, convinced his bishounen love is a girl trapped in a boy's body. Interestingly, author Hiroya Oku is one of the characters in the story, the best friend of Sato.The first three volumes of this series collect Oku's early short stories, including prototype versions of both Hen series.Hen (1993) - Suzuki & SatoHEN (1997) - Chizuru & Azumi

The manga's story begins when a peasant named Hanbē asks a girl named O-haru for her hand in marriage, but O-haru confesses that she is already thinking of another man named Masakichi from a neighboring village. When Hanbē seeks out Masakichi, he finds that Masakichi possesses a sword and the skills to use it, despite being a peasant.

A group of high-school students had an accident on their way to a trip and died but they find themselves in a classroom with a black sphere.