IC in a Sunflower

All You Need Is Kill

Keiji Kiriya is a new recruit in the United Defense Force, fighting against the alien Mimics that have invaded Earth. Equipped with a powered combat suit called a Jacket, he is sent to the battlefield with little training and dies on his very first deployment. Instead of staying dead, he wakes up the day before the battle, forced to relive the same fight and his own death over and over. Trapped in a time loop triggered by his demise, Keiji must use each repetition to sharpen his skills and find a way to break the cycle. His only lead is Rita Vrataski, an elite soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch, whose own experience with the loop may hold the key to survival. Together, they face the rel

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Naho Takamiya is sixteen and starting her second year of high school when she receives a letter that seems to be from herself ten years in the future. At first she dismisses it as a prank, but the letter predicts events that soon come true, including the arrival of a new transfer student named Kakeru Naruse. The letter asks Naho to watch over Kakeru and warns that her future self carries deep regrets about him. As she reads on, she realizes that the choices she makes now could change not only her own future, but Kakeru's as well.

Btooom!

Ryouta Sakamoto is a 22-year-old unemployed young man who still lives with his mother. In the real world, he is a nobody, but online he is one of the top players of the combat game Btooom!, a title he has mastered to perfection. His uneventful life is blown to pieces when he wakes up on a tropical island with no memory of how he got there. He soon discovers that he has been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game, where the bombs are no longer virtual and the only way out is to kill seven other players. Forced to fight for his life in a hellish free-for-all, Ryouta must use all his skills to survive long enough to figure out who is behind this deadly game and why he was chosen.

7 Seeds

Natsu Iwashimizu wakes up on a sinking ship with no memory of how she got there. Rescued by three strangers—Arashi, Semimaru, and Botan—she makes it to a deserted island that turns out to be Japan, transformed beyond recognition. A meteorite struck Earth and wiped out humanity. Anticipating the disaster, the government launched the 7 Seeds project: five teams of seven young people and a guide, kept in cryogenic sleep until the planet became habitable again. Natsu and her companions belong to Summer B, the group made up of those society considered failures. Now awake in a hostile world, they must find one of the seven government shelters, learn to survive, and figure out how to coexist with

Hotel

In a future where humanity has vanished, a lone computer persists for 27 million years to fulfill its mission. Elsewhere, Hanako awakens from a deep sleep with only three days left to live, while her husband Takao grapples with the knowledge that her heart belongs to another. In another tale, Jun Shiozaki dedicates himself to resurrecting the extinct tuna by any means imaginable. Noriko discovers she is pregnant by her lover Matsumura, a prominent doctor with a family of his own. He insists the pregnancy is a rapidly growing cancer that must be removed immediately, leaving Noriko torn between his diagnosis and her own desires. These stories explore the boundaries of science, emotion, and su

Clover

In a technologically advanced but tightly controlled future, Kazuhiko is a former black ops agent pulled back into service by General Ko. His mission seems simple: escort a mysterious girl named Suu to a destination she alone knows, a place called Fairy Park. Suu has spent her entire life in isolation, her only contact the distant voices of General Ko and a woman connected to Kazuhiko's past. She is a Clover, a child born with magical abilities and marked with a tattoo indicating her power. As the only four-leaf Clover in existence, she is considered the most dangerous person in the world. As Kazuhiko and Suu set out, their transport is intercepted and they are pursued by Bols, a familiar