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Andou gets an envelope passed to him in class that contains an erotic picture belonging to Kagaya Jin, the mysterious half French transfer student. A short, bittersweet tale from the Meiji era.

A direct sequel/side story to Himitsu no Kaidan.

A collection of oneshots.
• 777

• demande
About the worth of an object.

• Love Magnet / Koi-Onna
About the woman from "Multiplying Lights," "Infinite 20 Minutes," and ".925."

• the OL cafe

• Roulette
Two women find a way to pass the time while waiting to cross the street.

• Mio Post
The protagonist wants to find out more about a woman she sees on the train.

• Parfum
A woman distracts her lover.

• P. V.
About an indecisive woman.

• Mannequin
An artist who makes mannequins seems too closely attached to her work.

• Baby You
A woman considers whether to date her co-worker.

• To Meet
A sumptuous story of the relationship of two women. What is it “to meet”? What does “each other” mean?

• Topaze
Two women remember a certain dessert.

• Infinite 20 Minutes
A woman has a lover who comes very infrequently. When the woman finds out that the lover loves Marlboros, she stocks up on them in an attempt to make her lover visit more frequently.

• Multiplying Lights
A simple lighter sheds light on a relationship between two women.

• .925
A woman proposes to her lover, but?

• Up and Down
A college student gets to know her new neighbor.

• helter-skelter
A sequel to "Up and Down." The neighbors decide to go to a public bath.

From Kawaii Corner:

On the first day of high school, because of a conditioned response, Kunie Hokuto injured Yachigusa Shissa, the disciplinary committee chairman feared by students throughout the school. He listens to Shissa's remarks and agrees to be appointed to stay with him as his servant, in compensation for the injury. In addition, without knowing why, he is designated as a first-year representative to the disciplinary committee, but the disciplinary committee vice chairman, Shissa's younger brother, Zento, declares, "I do not approve"...!?

From Shinnen:

Isezaki, a second year from Kamiyama Boy's High, has had his heart captured by a girl he saw in the window of the neighbouring girls' school. A school route madonna!! After two months, it's time for her to graduate...?! It's a 17-year-old's summer starting from spring, chockful of idiocy and friendship enough to make you cry.

Also include is an extra story called Fuyu Hodoki in volume one.

• Adorable to Me
A girl stumbles onto her school's art club and decides to join so the club won't be shut down, only to find herself falling in love with the club's one other member.

• Delicious Time

• Spike Girls

• Seiippai no Suki to Uso to (All My Love and Lies)
About two girls who are interested in the same upperclassman.

• Always
Retells the events of "All My Love and Lies" from Rinko's perspective.

• Sweet Sweet Sweet

• Worrying is an extra for Adorable to Me.

A series of slice of life oneshots involving families and relationships. One story is about a man who can see birds around unfortunate people.

A girl who, despite her boyish appearance, is secretly in love with ballet dancing...

1. Kingyo Sukui (Prequel)
A poor man who hates working is left by his wife. The same day, the god of poverty comes to live with him.

2-4. Derashine no Hana (Sequel)
Based on a Rakugo tale. A man with an incredibly long name is blessed with an equally long lifespan. Fed up, he seeks out and befriends a Shinigami that he'd seen in the past.

5. Komukai-ke no Jijou / The Komukai Household's Circumstances
Souta, an elementary school student living with his father and father's partner, starts to question his family life after a sex education class in school.

1-3) To Hold Someone Dear
Kayama Tomoaki is a handsome and reserved employee of a major company. One day, the efficient and reliable junior on his team, Saiki Keiichi, gets sick and Kayama goes to visit him at home. At work, Saiki is always stylish and nearly perfect, but unexpectedly, at home he is the complete opposite! The events of that evening change the superior and subordinate relationship between the two. Kayama is scared of loss and never lets strangers get close to him but when he realizes that Saiki only has eyes for him, his feelings waver...

4) Summer Contrail
Shuusuke is a business man who loves books... but he never gets a chance to look around since there's no bookstore around and he's so busy. One day, he walks around a corner and accidentally knocks over a high school student who's entering... a bookstore?! Shuusuke is thrilled to discover the little bookstore... but soon he discovers something (or someone) much more precious.

5) Weekend Melancholy
Continuation of the couple from Summer Contrail

6) Passion Carved by the Tyrant
Set in the early Taisho era, this is a story of two men who used to be classmates in an Imperial university. Eight years later, Fuyutsuki is an author and Sano is the son of nobility and a lieutenant in the army. Can winter camellias somehow bond these two men together?

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from Renta!

Ryuuhei promised his father to protect Nao even though Nao is almost ten years older. Nao is almost thirty now and wants space. Can Ryuuhei really give Nao space?

The N°1 dream of every woman in the whole country, Charisma's model Shinsato Yui. Yanada Aki was scouted as a future model in the rural Do. Aki admires Yui, the cool Yui... Even if they're about totally opposites, the two become close friends. However, Yui very quickly seems to be part of Aki's work, love and a threat?!

Contains the one-shot "Dear M Star" in the first volume.

Artist Lorenz Dinkel is commissioned to paint a store's wall. Little does he know that the angels in the painting, Julius and Marion, come alive at night. The two enjoy exploring the human world, but then Julius meets Lorenz...

Zankoku na Kami ga Shihaisuru portrays the tale of two step-brothers - Jeremy and Ian, as they strive to discover their separate paths towards redemption.
Jeremy, a sensitive but outgoing 17 year old, is delighted to hear the news of his neurotic and excitable mother's remarriage to a wealthy British man. However, much to his horror, his sweet-talking new step-father Greg, soon begins to exhibit a disturbing trait...he is a sadistic pedophile and loses no time in making Jeremy his target. Months of horrific, systematic abuse drives Jeremy to desperation; he sabotages his step-father's car with the hope of eliminating him. The resulting accident, however, kills his mother along with Greg.
Jeremy's shocked and guilt-stricken behaviour arouses the suspicions of Greg's free-spirited son, Ian. He unearths enough evidence to tie his step-brother to the crime; but in doing so, also discovers the details of Greg's sexual abuse of Jeremy.
Caught in a moral dilemma -- between punishing the criminal and atoning for his father's sins, Ian soon finds himself haunted by lust for Jeremy. Is it lust...or love? He wonders whether he shares his father's proclivities, but finds himself helpless to resist being drawn into a passionate and painful relationship with Jeremy.

Note: Won the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award Excellence prize in 1997.

In the Mimurake no Musuko series:

V.1 - Mimurake no Musuko (Son of the Mimura Family)
A story set in countryside, about two childhood friends Yumi and Toshi. While going through puberty Toshi developes unresolved feelings for Yumi. One day Toshi meets Yumi’s older brother Sumi and is lured into a sexual relationship with him. And so the love triangle begins...

V.2 - Deki no Waruiko (Clumsy Child)
The second son of the established rural Mimura family, Yumi, and Toshi are the closest of friends. Then one day, Yumi comes to know of Toshi's intimate relationship with Yumi's older brother, Sumi. After hearing Toshi confess that he likes Sumi, a shocked Yumi makes a plan to tear them apart, but...

V.3 - Umareboshi (Newborn Star)
The second son of the established rural Mimura family, Yumi, and Toshi are the closest of friends. Even though their mutual feelings emerged as they held each other, the couple had a misunderstanding.... A heartbroken Yumi goes back alone to their hometown for the holidays, where the cherry blossoms flutter. But then, though he was able to separate himself quickly, all he can think about is Toshi. Yumi and Toshi’s story in the “Son of Mimura Family” series is at its exciting climax!

English publication via Renta!

From Shoujo Manga Maniac:
Amateur photographer Makoto and the homely but endearing Shizuru meet during university orientation and become instant friends. Shy by nature, Makoto finds himself opening up around Shizuru, and the two often go to a forest together to take photographs. Shizuru secretly likes Makoto, but he only has eyes for classmate Miyuki.

Summary refers to the Ohzora Shuppan re-print, 2007:

1. Lovers and Souls
Shinomiya is a beautiful college art student who lacks the morals common to most people. After agreeing to be a nude model for Matsuoka, a photography student, he also agrees to sleep with him for money even though he is straight. However, what started as a small taste of the forbidden soon spirals out of control when Shinomiya begins selling his body to other guys as a prostitute in a male brothel. Can Matsuoka save Shinomiya from himself?

2. Vanity
After the events of Lovers and Souls, Tooru is still deeply heartbroken. Trying to find solace in Hikaru, Tooru challenges the terms of their friendship. But can he handle the consequences?

3. Sleeping Beauty
Matsuoka sees Tooru for the first time.

4. A Moon in Name Only
In their last year of high school, Akihiko Nozaki admits to his best friend Kai that he's gay. Kai is stunned but it doesn't change their friendship, but Kai's curiosity is aroused and he begins to see Nozaki differently.

5. The Name of that Sky
Sequel to "A Moon in Name Only", told more from Nozaki's point of view. Nozaki isn't sure whether to trust that his relationship with Kai will last, since he's even been dumped by gay men before. What's to keep a guy who wasn't even gay from breaking up with him?

Part of Rules / Hydra Series

The stories of various shinigami and the young men they are in charge of escorting to the afterlife. Each chapter deals with a different human - shinigami pair.