Ichikawa Haruko Sakuhinshuu

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

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