Cast: Hagio Moto

In the Anywhere But Here series:V.1 - Yama e Iku• Yama e Iku (Going to the Mountains)It's about a sensitive writer with an overactive imagination and intolerance for the banalities of everyday life.• Yanagi Ki (The Willow Tree)A woman stands day to day under a growing willow tree and watches the people who pass by...V.2 - SphinxV.3 - Haru no Ogawa

Conjoined twins Yudy and Yucy are as different as possible. Older Yudy is intelligent but ugly, as her nutrients are used up by her beautiful but simpleminded sister Yucy. Loving and hating so deeply, where does one girl begin and the other end?

As winter draws to a close, German boarding school student Thomas Werner dies one morning. He leaves behind a single letter addressed to his fellow student Juli that reads "Here is my love. Here is the sound of my heart."With his faith shaken to the core by the words, the scholarly Juli sinks to the depths of despair. His cynical roommate Oscar finds himself watching over Juli's fragile mental state while keeping his own feelings for Juli under wraps. Then new student Eric enters the school - and he has an uncanny resemblance to the deceased Thomas...Enter the world of a boy's boarding school in Germany where all will be revealed about the suffering and redemption that comes with love. Even today, this early work of Hagio Moto is still regarded as a brilliant masterpiece.

In the year 2999, only eleven cities still survive on Earth. The climate has changed drastically, and a biochemical apocalypse has made women extinct. For centuries, the male population of Earth has survived by depending on only one woman, called the Holy Mother, whose ova are harvested to create genetically engineered children. By now, any concept of a world in which women exist as ordinary people is long gone. Society has re-structured itself around all-male families, and relationships between men and adolescent boys have become the norm.

Inside the village of Poe a mysterious noble family takes residence with their son Edgar and ill daughter Marybell. Edgar is quickly intrigued by Allan, the heir of a transportation company, who catches his eye by almost running him over with a horse. As the story unfolds a few residents of Poe slowly begin to wonder about the new family...

Comicalization of eight short stories from the great American science fiction master, Ray Bradbury:

A Cruel God Reigns portrays the tale of two step-brothers - Jeremy and Ian, as they strive to discover their separate paths towards redemption.

Description from Viz :
The story A, A' raises a troubling question : How would you feel if your lover died - and was replaced by a clone ? Could you recreate your relationship with someone who was physically exactly the same but didn't share any memories of your life together ? in 4/4, teenaged Mori flunks out of an ESP training program. But when he meets Trill, a beautiful Unicorn, his latent abilities begin to blossom...In X+Y, Hagio uses science fiction to explore questions of gender and sexual identity. Time has passed, and once again, Mori finds himself inexorably attracted to a member of the unicorn race - but this unicorn is male...and so is Mori.

X+Y won Seiun Award in manga category in 1985

Short story collection.
1. Iguana no Musume: A girl develops a complex about herself after her mother thinks of her as a hideous iguana.

The second shounen-ai manga ever published, The November Gymnasium focuses on chaste, yearning love between boys at a prestigious German boys' school.

A young man is being used as a guinea pig in a mysterious experiment…

Beautiful story. Very serene. It's about a woman, a tree and a man and a life passing by. This story shows that you don't always need a lot of words and that manga art can be as strong as any other style!

As winter draws to a close, German boarding school student Thomas Werner dies one morning. He leaves behind a single letter addressed to his fellow student Juli that reads "Here is my love. Here is the sound of my heart."

With his faith shaken to the core by the words, the scholarly Juli sinks to the depths of despair. His cynical roommate Oscar finds himself watching over Juli's fragile mental state while keeping his own feelings for Juli under wraps. Then new student Eric enters the school - and he has an uncanny resemblance to the deceased Thomas...

In the Anywhere But Here series:

V.1 - Yama e Iku
• Yama e Iku (Going to the Mountains)
It's about a sensitive writer with an overactive imagination and intolerance for the banalities of everyday life.

• Yanagi Ki (The Willow Tree)
A woman stands day to day under a growing willow tree and watches the people who pass by...

V.2 - Sphinx

V.3 - Haru no Ogawa