The year is 2036. The 50th president, Patrick Gates, made it his administration’s main goal to make America united once again. Everybody felt annoyed by the notion. One side said he was a fascist sympathizer, the other side said he was a groomer who would silence Americans that thought differentl...

Kuala Lumpur, August 2003. The city is draped in Jalur Gemilang flags, but for Darin, a freshman from the quiet hills of Sabah, KL feels like a battlefield. Darin arrives at his local college with a heart as hardened as a sun-dried cocoa bean. To him, women are like "rumput semalu"—fickle, shal...

"But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay." -Dante's Inferno The City, The last remaining bastion of humanity away from the danger that lurks outside its premise. A place where corporations lay amok and t...

I awoke in a room with a clouded mind. A mysterious bartender stated that this place was a rift, a void between universes; I did not comprehend much of it. He led me to a mission where he remarked that the rabbits were cute and that I was required to kill them. He cautioned me that these rabbits ...

The god of death brings some guys into a room where he makes them play to redeem themselves.

A married man reaches out from a lonely hotel room to a younger family friend who has always trusted him. What begins as harmless reassurance deepens into late-night confessions, until one hypothetical changes everything: “If I were single…” Her reply lingers. So does the silence that follows....

To Mahiro transfers schools with one simple goal: To meet his childhood friend again. That’s it. But his first day turns into a disaster, he collapses, embarrasses himself, gets misunderstood, and somehow ends up surrounded by rumors, weird classmates, and his own overactive imagination....

"Is love really worth the trouble?" This story follows Sato Hiroshi as he visits his mother's hometown for the first time and is met with an unexpected surprise. He meets Chiyoko, a sheltered girl who doesn't know all that much about the world, strangely enough she is also supposedly waiti...

Harumasa Kengo has been rejected often enough to reach a firm conclusion: true love only exists in dramas and anime. In real life, confessions fail, feelings go unanswered, and everything ends with an awkward “let’s just stay friends.” Determined to avoid further embarrassment, he decides to s...

Everyone Is Gone, So I’m Opening a Café in My Former Bank —Jean was a ruthless bank manager and the world was at her feet, until one day everyone was gone and she was left behind. Jobless and confused, Jean has to forge a different slice of life for herself. With no one around but the care...