Once again, Orochi stalks some people whose lives are falling to pieces, occasionally using her supernatural powers of telekinesis and healing to intervene slightly, but mostly just observing. These stories are not good, and I'm reading them as historical artifacts from a well-known manga creator's career rather than for pleasure.

Prodigy ~ 2 stars ~

A desperate man tries to rob the Watanabe family, but things go awry and the infant son of the family, Yu, ends up getting stabbed. Years later, the robber is in prison, and Mrs. Watanabe bullies and abuses Yu to study harder and harder so he can surpass his aloof father in intellect. No one acts like a normal person, but everyone's crazy motivations get explained in the end, though it's quite a slog through multiple outlandish developments getting there.

Home ~ 1 star ~

A man learns you can't go home again in this dull mishmash of the "It's a Good Life" episode of The Twilight Zone and The Children of the Corn with a godawful "It was all a dream" ending.

Key ~ 2 stars ~

A little boy who lies all the time gets himself into "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" trouble. Too long, too dull. ( )