Anthology of stories by different shoujo/josei authors.

1) Borderline (NEMU Youko) **Also printed in Nemu Youko's Shounen Shoujo**
2) Akatsuki no Stallion (SHINOHARA Chie)
3) Ashita no Nyaata (NISHI Keiko)
4) Hibi Kore Neko Jitsu (HATSU Akiko)
5) Bokura Shinbun (OUSAKA Mieko)
6) Sorekara (Hozumi)
7) Neko ni Umare Kawatta Boku wa (SAKURAWA Asuka)
8) Kyou wa Shuppatsu no Hi (OOUCHI Eiko)
9) 04992 (Est Em)

A collection of short stories by the author.

These are the tankoubon version, there are also the bunkobans, called:
Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru
(bunkoban of vol. 1 and 2)
Kootta Natsu no Hi
(bunkoban of vol. 3 and 4)


1) Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni... (1984)

「訪問者は真夜中に...」 - Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni... (A Midnight Visitor) - Masami finished summer camp and returned home. However, her mother and brother are nowhere to be seen. Only a mysterious shadow follows Masami...?!
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 1.

「そして5回の鈴が鳴る」 - Soshite 5-kai no suzu ga naru (The Bell Rings 5 Times - When the Bell Rings)
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 2.

「優しい殺人者」 - Yasashii satsujin-sha (Kind Killer).
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 1.

2) Mokugekisha ni Sayounara (1986)

「目撃者にさようなら」 - Mokugekisha ni sayounara
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 1.

「冬の花は鎮魂歌」 - Fuyu no hana wa chinkonka
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 2.

「クリスタル・ドール」 - Crystal Doll
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 2.

「眠る街」 - Nemuru machi
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 1.

「紅い伝説」 - Akai densetsu
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 2.

3) Nanika ga Yami de Miete Iru (1986)

「午前0時の逃亡者」 - Gozen 0-ji no Toubousha
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi.

「なにかが闇で見ている」 - Nani ka ga Yami de Miteiru
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi.

「自殺室ルームナンバー404」 - Jisatsu Shitsu Room Number 404
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 2.

「ウィークエンドの招待状」 - Weekend no Joutaijou
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 2.

4) 3 Hitome ga Kieta (1992)

「3人目が消えた」 - 3 Hitome ga Kieta
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi.

「凍った夏の日」 - Kootta Natsu no Hi
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi and Shinohara Chie the Best Selection 1.

「殺意には蒼いリボンをかけて」 - Satsui ni wa Aoi Ribon o Kakete
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi.

From Storm in Heaven:

Soko starts feeling sick soon after moving to a new city, apparently for no reason. As beautiful as she is, a lot of guys start to bother her, especially Kashi. While trying to rape her, Kashi disappears and after a few days another guy shows up pretending to be Kashi. And everyone but Soko believes him!

He tells her he is Akira the Byakko, from the family of the West. Because she is the reincarnation of Souryo, the queen of the Oni from the family of the East, a monster that eats humans to stay alive, he must destroy her and erase her genes from Earth. He is the only one who can kill her and the one that must do so. Soko is desperate. Is she really a monster? Why does she have human memories? Why does she have to die? Will she be able to change her destiny and stay alive?

From ShoujoMagic:
It happened in the blink of an eye. Rikka's world turned upside down when her school field trip bus flipped and plummeted into a lake. Everyone inside that bus drowned... except for Rikka, but she wasn't saved by anything as simple as luck. When she was released from the hospital, Rikka was then attacked repeatedly in a series of bizarre incidents all involving water... and a sadistic aquatic beauty whose name is -- Rikka!? What does our heroine have that the sadistic Rikka wants back? What was it that saved her from drowning, and who gave it to her and why...?

Ryouko Midorikawa is a girl in her first year of high school. One day the cat she had raised and loved for 15 years suddenly dies. Although Pow hated water, he died drowning. Ryouko is lost in questions about the cause of his death. But from that night on, terrible things start happening everywhere around her!

It was later released in the "30th Aniversary - Ay", a special book.

From Friendship Scans:

In the history of the Kingdom of Siegerland, there has always been a powerful Shadow Messenger who acted as a guardian for the country. Yet the Shadow Messenger himself doesn’t have a shadow!
Every Shadow Messenger chooses a guardian out of all the knights. In order to show his devotion, the knight then offers his own shadow as a gift to the Shadow Messenger and by that becomes a Swordsman.

Lisa is a normal girl who leads a happy life like everyone else, when suddenly her father dies a tragic death. From that day onwards, her mother forbids her to leave the house. In the end, she secretly steals away with her childhood friend Louis. They are playing outside, when her playmates die under strange circumstances… Only Lisa survives, but she lost her memories of that day...

Resumes from WoC Scans:

Collection of mysterious stories by Chie Shinohara, a great artist of suspense manga.

Story 01 Part 01 & 02: 海に堕ちるツバメ (Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame - Swallow Falling into the Sea)
Masako Minase, a scriptwriter, was murdered by Shiki Morimura, her rival in the same profession. Shiki was sure that she had destroyed evidence completely. However, someone who knew the truth appeared, and tried to get Shiki in his power. Is it a mysterious spot or unhappy desire that lurks in her mind?
Published in Petit, 4-5/2006 and also printed in Akatsuki ni Tatsu Lion (bunkoban version)

Story 02: 記憶の足音 (Kioku no Ashioto - The Footsteps of Memory)
This is the story about Shouko and the almost tragic moment that changed her life and emotions ...
Published in Petit, 9/2005 and also printed in Akatsuki ni Tatsu Lion (bunkoban version).

Story 03: 死刑台の72時間 (Shikeidai no 72-jikan - 72 hours of death stand)
Five young people receives a letter saying that they murdered someone and they must go to the address in the letter if they don't want other people to found out. They all find themselves in a old European house, where a crazy lady tells them that one of them is a murder and if that murder don't confess in 72 hours, they will all die.
Published in Petit, 11/1997 and also printed in Toubou Kyuukou (bunkoban version).

From Aerandria Scans:

Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people she cares about. What will the powerful magic awakening inside Rinko bring her?

In 1987, Purple Eyes in the Dark was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo manga category.

Later it got a continuation: Yami no Purple Eyes - Bangaihen - PANTHERS.

Volume 1

1. Kootta Natsu no Hi
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 4.

2. Yasashii Satsujinsha (Kind Killer).
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 1.

3. Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni... (Someone in the Dark...)
A Midnight Visitor: Masami finished summer camp and returned home. However, her mother and brother are nowhere to be seen. Only a mysterious shadow follows Masami...?!
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 1.

4. Mokugekisha ni Sayounara
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 2.

5. Weekend no Joutaijou
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 3.

6. Nemuru Machi
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 2.

Volume 2

1. Jisatsushitsu Room Number 404
It was also published in Kootta Natsu no Hi and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 3.

2. Soshite 5-kai no Suzu ga Naru (The Bell Rings 5 Times - When the Bell Rings)
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga Naru and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 3.

3. Crystal Doll
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga Naru and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 2.

4. Fuyu no Hana wa Chinkonka
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga Naru and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 2.

5. Akai Densetsu
It was also published in Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga Naru and Shinohara Chie Kessakushuu 2.

Content in the tankoubon:
「逃亡急行」 - Toubou Kyuukou (Escape Express) (published in Petit comic, 05-07/2003)
Magazine reporter Natsumi comes across the scene of a murder and is captured by the youth who seems to have committed it. He insists he's innocent and the two go off to Switzerland together in pursuit of the real murderer!

「失踪都市」 - Shissou toshi (published in Petit comic, 01/1996)

「サルでもできるガーデニング」 - Sarudemo Dekiru Gardening


In the Bunkoban:
It has everything, but Sarudemo Dekiru Gardening, instead it has:

「死刑台の72時間」 - Shikeidai no 72-jikan - 72 hours of death stand (was also published in Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame)

「買って飲んであそんでデンマーク」 - Katte Nonde Asonde Denmark (Omake)

Nobody know where it is, but it's a place that offers shelter to those who hate their lives or are trapped in the labyrinth of their own hearts... a mysterious hotel. Even now, those who are tired of their lives come to stay in the "Kiri no Mori" Hotel...

In 2012, the author released another chapter, not yet included on a volume, as part of the 35th anniversary of Petit Comic.

In her Ay (Aniversary Box - 2013) the author wrote that this work is unfinished.

There's 2 versions, one tankoubon and one bunkoban.

The tankoubon includes:
「暁に立つライオン」 - Akatsuki ni Tatsu Lion (published in Betsucomi, 05-07/2003)
「トルコ取材記」 - Turkey Shuzaizakki (Omake, 06/2003)

The bunkoban version also have the one-shots:
「海に墜ちるツバメ」 -Umi ni Ochiru tsubame
「記憶の足音」- Kioku no Ashioto
Both also present in Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame.

Resume from ShoujoMagic:
Izumi Erina is a senior in high school. She only has one living relative - her older brother Takashi. However, Erina receives an arrest notice for Takashi one day, who is supposed to be in Turkey at the time!! In order to look for Takashi, a mysterious man Sinclair came to Japan and brought Erina along with him. What is the "Black Trap" that awaits Erina in a foreign country...?! A shocking romantic suspense work filled with waves of love and hate!!

Yuri, a modern day teenager who had just received her first kiss, is suddenly whisked away to ancient Anatolia where an evil queen wants her for a blood sacrifice. Luckily, the timely intervention of Prince Kail saves Yuri from the queen's grasp. For now. Kail promises to send Yuri back to her home, but the queen's persistent schemes to kill them both, plus their growing interest in each other, keep those plans delayed.

Note: Contains a side story called Orontes Renka that is published in the final volume (28) of Anatolia Story, which is set in the same historic period.

In 2001 this series won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo.

Story about a mirror princess/demon. It seems that a new condo building was built on a certain location where this princess was housed and worshiped with a stone monument but it was moved due to the new construction.

One room in particular seems to have a direct link to the princess who calls herself the owner of the pool of time. Beware when mirrors are placed opposite of each other because you may just be drawn in her world and powers.

In her Ay (Aniversary Box - 2013) the author wrote that this work is unfinished.

From Friendship Scans:

Beginning of 16th century, Alexandra was captured by slave traders in Ukraine during one of their many raids. When the traders arrived in Greece to sell the female slaves, a young handsome man named Mateus bought her and promised to give her true freedom. He hired countless teachers, scholars, and palace ladies to train her into the one perfect woman of her time.

Mateus's kindness has caused Alexandra to deeply fall in love with him, and she secretly wishes to be his concubine. But cruel fate! Mateus has already promised her to his best friend, who is Suleiman the Great, Emperor of the Ottoman Empire! Mateus promised Alexandra of true freedom, but where is freedom when she is in another man's harem and can only look at the one she loves from afar?

Not willing to endure this agony, Alexandra promises herself that one day, she will free both of them from their bird cages. But Mateus is the Grand Vizier, a power only second to the Emperor himself. So Alexandra must become the most influential concubine in order to have any hope—which also means bearing Suleiman's son. However, Suleiman already has a son by another concubine, and this woman is determined to keep her son as the only prince and only heir.

Thus begins the story of a slave that becomes the story of one of the greatest empresses of all time, Alexandra, the woman who would one day be known as Roxolana, Empress of the Ottoman Empire.

Two twin sisters contracted a mysterious bacteria from a trip and suddenly gained enormous power. One psycho sister began trying to kill the other because they both loved the same man, while the other sister and her boyfriend began to flee as everyone else became innocent victims...