Have you ever seen a "very manly girl"? The heroine in this story, Oikawa Ibuki, is just that type of girl. To find her true soul mate, after transferring schools, Ibuki was determined to act like a gentle lady. Yet on her first day of transfer, due to her righteous sense she went to save a small dog, and at the time she was seen by the suspicious "crow messenger"! Is Ibuki's whole image ruined!? And who is this mysterious "crow messenger"!?

Also included are the following stories:
• Handsome! Beads Club "Hyper Version"
• Very Black White Day

From Intercross:
A collection of short stories.

1) Friendly Fire by YOKOYAMA Mayumi
Azusa was recently dumped by her boyfriend, so her best friend, Naoto, tries to cheer her up. However, the following morning Azusa wakes up next to Naoto, naked and covered in kiss marks... What the heck happened!!?!

2) B・F Romance by MITSUKI Kako
The first meeting was caused by Misato's hair getting caught on Nagao's button. The second time, coincidentally the same thing happened. A fated meeting with a boy with a hidden secret.

3) Ookamitachi no Shiikuhou by SHIIBA Nana
Meguri's parents are overseas so she is entrusted with her new friend's family. She's living together with two bullying brothers in a gorgeous house. And there is only a brief time to be pleased...

4) 7 Days by KONNO Risa
Satsuki of the track and field club is attracted to Kishimoto-kun, who motivated her to get out of her slump. But he's going to transfer in a week.

5) Mikkai Coffee Flavor by MOTOMI Kyousuke
Ayuko ends up taking care of the house on her own on a stormy night. Shouta, who's in the same class as her, ends up coming over, but she was rather unprepared...

6) Puchi no Koto by MAME Moyashi
It's a story about the overflowing love and deep emotions between a tiny, overweight rabbit named Petite and Mame Moyashi!!

1) Penguin Prince
Ranka has an intimidating personality which scares her classmates, thus earning her the nickname of ‘witch.’ Her classmate Murakami, in the meantime is labeled as a ‘prince’ by the girls. So Ranka was surprised to discover Murakami’s embarrassing secret: he keeps a small penguin toy that he brings around everywhere and he panics if anything ever happens to it! Through their shared secret of this, they both begin to see what lies behind the ‘witch’ and the ‘prince.’

2) One Thousand Years Love Song
It's about this boy who is always enthusiastic when it comes to class activities and attention, and a girl who scored the highest in Japanese history in the same class. She and the boy are appointed as the class representatives. And of course, she has a secret crush on him. Having to spend time with him everyday, she finds herself unable to suppress her feelings for him anymore...

3) Sitting Straight Tea Time
t's about a girl who is being forced to learn how to act more lady-like by her sister by learning the proper way of the Japanese tea ceremony. She finds out that she will be taught by a boy who is a known delinquent in her school. However, that boy turned out to be perfectly fit wearing a kimono with no sign of the delinquent in sight.

4) Tea Time with Flowers and You
The continuation of story 3 where both of them have become a couple. One day, the boy's first crush comes back and this makes his new girlfriend feel uneasy. Moreover, knowing that he had once confessed to that girl makes her even more anxious. Soon, she learns that he was challenged by that girl that if by the time she came back, he can perform the tea ceremony successfully, she might reconsider his confession. Will he perform well in the tea ceremony and be with his first crush, or will he turn the challenge down, and continue to be together with his current girlfriend?

5) Searching for Four-Leaf Clover
He has always been told that he plays piano without a soul. He plays incredibly, but it's like hearing a machine play. One day, he meets a girl that by chance saw him crying while throwing sheet music. Being a considerate person, she believes the piece is important to him and returns it, but the boy scolds her for being a busybody. He realizes the girl's good intentions and apologizes to her. She tells him that while searching for his piece she lost her earring and couldn't find it. The boy finds it easily and he tells her the secret to search for things.

1) Youth Survival
Summer camping trips are supposed to be filled with joy and laughter, but why is Kiriko so unlucky~~? At first it was that weakling four eyes, Kazuo and cutesy Hana-chan destroying the pork soup, but then they never came back after asking them to go pick up some wild herbs! Oh, fine! So she and Satoru went up the mountains to get them, but who knew they’d get lost too?!

2) Liar Love Letters
When Ritsu's boyfriend asks to break up, she complies - only to find that he's angry about it. To make her pay for dumping him so easily, he puts on a bet. Trick Ritsu into falling in love, and win a good amount of money. When she overhears this, Ritsu is determined to shoot down all the boys out to trick her. But what happens when she comes across someone whose lies capture her heart?

3) Sword and Heart: Dangerous Relationship
When you add the Japanese kanji character for heart underneath the character for sword, sword becomes the character for shinobi. Shizuru, when younger, had a crush on her very brave and handsome ninja senpai, and still likes him to this day. Things in her life get a little complicated when other ninjas decide to steal something valuable that her family is taking care of.

4) Never Dying Crow…!
Otokomae! Beads Club side story

From Viz:
Leo Aoi looks like a crazy animal with wild eyes, and he goes berserk whenever he feels threatened and sees blood. That doesn't stop animal-lover Yuiko Kubozuka from befriending him, however. In fact, Yuiko is the only person Leo will listen to when he has one of his violent fits...

Includes Extra Stories:
Fly
Cactus Summer Surprise

Katsuragi Anna is a former ballerina who tries to find herself when her dreams of ballet stardom fall flat. She is tricked into joining the archery club by her friend... only to find that the president is her childhood rival, Jinnai!?

Katsuragi Anna is a former ballerina who tries to find herself when her dreams of ballet stardom fall flat. She is tricked into joining the archery club by her friend... only to find that the president is her childhood rival, Jinnai!?

From Viz:

After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with Daisy, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her. Meanwhile, Teru meets and forms a strange friendship with mysterious Tasuku Kurosaki, her school's janitor. For some reason, Kurosaki always seems to be around whenever Teru needs help which leads Teru to wonder: Could Daisy be a lot closer than she thinks?

As the mystery of Daisy unfolds, Teru also discovers that there may have been a lot more to the life and death of her brother than she ever dreamed . . . and that the man she thought was her friend just might have all the answers.

Kyuutarou Horikita is the tall, dark and handsome... cleaning expert of Kurokado High. His classmates find him mysterious mostly because he's hard to get to know. One day in his club's room in the school's oldest building, he stumbles upon a sleeping maiden: transfer student Fumi Nishioka.

With nowhere else to go and having the eyes to see spiritual dirt, Fumi will learn from the cranky Kyuutaro how to rid the school of the grime that attracts spirit-damaging bugs, and how to fight the bugs themselves.

Has she finally found a place she can call home in the large house of Kyuutaro's small family of sweepers? Will her brazen goal of marrying a rich guy disgust or amuse them? And her heart, once it learns the way of purifying cleansing, will it be cleansed in return—in spite of her missing memories and her ever-looming secret?

Note: This three-volume cleaning fantasy powers up and continues in Queen's Quality!