1) Sanbika
2) Killing Moon
3) Vita Maquinicalis
4) Monster Prince
5) Farewell, Mizuhara
6) Afterword
Short blurbs by the author on each of the works published in the collection.
7) Secret of the Beehive
A youth decides to leave home once he was able to. What is he running away from? Or is he just pacing in circles?
8) Katsura
Set during the period nearing the end of WWII, youths are still being educated to place their country above their own lives. In their solitude, they question the value of losing their lives for a war that they are losing.
9) Plastic Plasma
Gang wars are rife amongst the high schoolers, but a deeper struggle is brewing underneath all that false bravado.
10) Author's Interview
Short Q & A with Motoni Modoru.
11) Sound Masturbation
Story on the contentious relationship between a right hand man and his master.
From Nakama:
In a future filled with despotic rulers, alternative science and questionable morals a young man named butterfly faces off with his ruler. Both are ruthless, cruel and more then a little uncaring of any other human life. Who will win in this oncoming showdown?
12) Sequel, Monster Prince
The king is on his death bed and his only wish is to see his beloved brother once again. And with a flash of light, an ethereal being appears... Alas! Whilst beautiful, it was not the face he knows.
* The first 5 works were first published in Kaibutsu Ouji.
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