Orphaned teenager Rei dreams of becoming the greatest fighter in the world. Rei's trainer takes the form of various animals and, much to Rei's disappointment, strives to develop his student's mind, heart, and spirit more than his fighting technique! Rei's pride and ambition set him up for many a fall, but his good heart makes him inable to walk away from those in need. This volume focuses on poverty.

Orphaned teenager Rei dreams of becoming the greatest fighter in the world. Rei's trainer takes the form of various animals and, much to Rei's disappointment, strives to develop his student's mind, heart, and spirit more than his fighting technique! Rei's pride and ambition set him up for many a fall, but his good heart makes him inable to walk away from those in need. This volume focuses on HIV and AIDS.

Orphaned teenager Rei dreams of becoming the greatest fighter in the world. Rei's trainer takes the form of various animals and, much to Rei's disappointment, strives to develop his student's mind, heart, and spirit more than his fighting technique! Rei's pride and ambition set him up for many a fall, but his good heart makes him inable to walk away from those in need. This volume focuses on global warming.

Since mankind has acquired the technology to travel vast distances through space, lives and loves have been sacrificed to the thrill of space exploration! And now humanity must reckon with the responsibility that accompanies such awesome power. Due to greed, the first steps to colonize other planets end in violent confrontation.

Humanity has colonized the stars, but will people's dream of finding or creating the utopia everyone longs for ever be realized? Is peace and fulfillment obtainable, or is it folly to think that we can ever leave the savage side of human nature behind?

Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world.

The Friend, an enigmatic cult leader who plans to destroy the world, declares, "The cosmos has begun choosing those who are true friends." Meanwhile, horrifying incidents are taking place: the emergence of a mysterious virus, the death of a detective, the revelations of a man on the run... Kenji tries to find out who this Friend is, but the answer is still far ahead. The footsteps of doom slowly creep closer and a shadow falls over the city...

It turns out that the Friend's plan to destroy the world was dreamed up long ago by a gang of boys playing "good guys against bad guys" ...And now, the only one who can stop this diabolical plot from succeeding is the one who came up with it: Kenji!

Kenji wrote "The Book of Prophecy" in his boyhood. Now this childish fantasy has become the scenario for the Friend's fiendish plot to destroy mankind. Kenji goes underground and waits for a chance to fight back.

The giant robot has already been built and now awaits the Great Awakening... With the Friend's identity still a mystery, the countdown to the apocalypse continues, day by day, minute by minute - for on December 31, 2000, humanity will meet its final hour.

Fourteen years after "Bloody New Year's Eve" brought the world to the brink of extinction, Neo Tokyo in the year 2014 has fully recovered and become a thriving, multi-ethnic metropolis. Kanna has survived the chaos and is now 17 years old - and has just stumbled upon a terrible truth that may change her destiny.

Out in the middle of Tokyo Bay, a man called Shogun is trying to break out of Umihotaru Prison, a maximum-security island fortress, so he can save the world. Accompanied by a frightened young manga artist, these two men are prepared to risk everything as their daring escape plan grows deadlier by the minute. However, the prison authorities will do whatever it takes to return Shogun and his reluctant companion to custody.