Fall 1987

When Mount Bikkura erupts, an enormous egg is hurled from the volcano and cracks open to reveal Guzura, a round, good-natured young monster with an endless appetite and very little understanding of the human world. Curious about everything he sees, Guzura wanders into everyday life and quickly turns ordinary situations upside down.His unusual body can devour metal, breathe fire, and produce strange mechanical objects, but those gifts rarely work out as neatly as intended. Between new friends, animals, and people startled by his antics, Guzura's innocent attempts to help are usually the beginning of another cheerful disaster.

Akira Fudou's ordinary life ends when his childhood friend Ryou Asuka reveals a terrifying truth: demons once ruled the Earth and are beginning to awaken again. Convinced that humanity cannot defeat them with human strength alone, Ryou proposes a desperate plan to fuse a human mind with a demon's power.At a violent Sabbath meant to draw demons into the open, Akira is possessed by the mighty Amon. Instead of losing himself, his compassion survives the fusion, giving birth to Devilman. With a human heart inside a demonic body, Akira becomes both proof of Ryou's theory and humanity's first weapon against the coming invasion.

Persia Hayami, an energetic 11-year-old raised in Africa, is drawn into the fairy realm of Lovely Dream on her way to Japan. There, she receives a magical baton and a mission to gather the energy of love needed to save the realm, gaining the ability to transform into many different adult professions.Back in Japan, Persia throws herself into other people's problems with boundless confidence and very little restraint. Her magic does not prevent mistakes, misunderstandings, or comic disasters, but every new encounter teaches her something about affection, growing up, and the human feelings that Lovely Dream desperately needs.

An elderly bamboo cutter discovers a tiny radiant girl inside a glowing bamboo stalk and raises her as his daughter. She grows with supernatural speed into the beautiful Kaguya-hime, whose fame draws a succession of powerful suitors eager to win her hand.Kaguya answers their courtship with impossible quests, but the moon exerts a stranger and more intimate pull on her than anyone around her understands. As each full moon awakens desires she cannot simply ignore, her earthly relationships become entangled with the hidden truth of her origin and the fate that will eventually call her back to the Moon.

Kiteretsu’s fascination with a mysterious encyclopedia left by his ancestor turns ordinary days into a chain of impossible experiments. Following the book’s plans, he brings the samurai-like robot Korosuke to life and throws himself into inventions capable of chasing a mirage, taking to the sky, and even piercing the boundaries of time.But Kiteretsu’s machines rarely produce a quiet result. A homemade airline, a one-way time machine, and the strange Kikko Ship pull him and his friends into increasingly wild adventures, where ingenuity gets them into trouble just as often as it gets them out.