Chisato is a beautiful 35-year-old writer (who looks like 18 really) and is father to Riju, a cute 15-year-old boy. Chisato's hobby is to drive away all of Riju's friends because he thinks they want to corrupt his precious child. So he shows his good side to these boys while he poisons the cake he brings them with a smile. However, there is one guy, Shunsuke, who doesn't fall for the tricks, but is Shunsuke really aiming for Riju? Who is that mysterious writer whom Chisato loves so much? And why is Chisato convinced that Riju's friends want to take advantage of him?

Ayase Minori is a new student entering Houjou Designer's College. She has had her design "Daisy" stolen by a top-class designer Hinagata Eiji when she was 5 years old, and Minori had sworn to the fact that "I will not fall in love before I can beat Hinagata Eiji!" However, her meeting with Himemiya Akira almost made her forget her old vow... while Akira is Hinagata Eiji's only-son!

From Mousou Scans:

Ogiwara Umi is an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl with an extraordinary older brother. Ogiwara Haruto is an up-and-coming star actor, and everywhere he goes girls call his name. This would be difficult for any little sister, but Umi has it particularly hard ~ she not only has a brother complex, but she’s actually in love with her brother! But perhaps the more important question is ~ does Haruto feel the same?

Retired soldier Araki Kyosuke returns to Japan to settle down for a quiet life but when he meets heir to a big corporation Mimasaka Lune, old memories of a former life flash into his mind. Reluctantly, he becomes Lune's bodyguard to protect his protégé from attacks while learning of their past lives.

Chiemi is a young romantic girl. She dreams about her final love and imagines how the confession will be. One day, a boy named Kenzo-kun, who has a reputation as an ill-mannered and violent person, claims her to himself. What will happen between these two people and with the lecherous male students who are chasing after Chiemi?

Nami has been friends with Ryouku since they were children. But ever since they watched a kiss scene on TV, Ryoku became a "kissing monster." After entering middle school, Nami is getting confused, wondering what kind of relationship she has with him.

He was always by my side. ... So, I thought that I certainly won't fall in love with him

Beautiful people are loved and revered. They have everything they desire right at their fingertips...
Even if that beauty is a complete illusion.

Before Kasane's mother died, she was given a special tube of lipstick from her mother. She was told that if times ever got really really hard, she should wear the lipstick and kiss whatever she really desires.

But is this keepsake a blessing? Or a curse?

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Myojin was once a cursed child who managed to work his way up to being a God of the Celestial Realm. For the sin of killing his fellow celestial beings, he was cast down to Earth to live -- and, eventually, die -- among humans.

But the wheels of fate turn in the oddest of ways, for one day the baby son of a celestial deity and mortal man ends up falling into Myojin's custody. Believing that showing kindness to the child will help him be accepted back into the Celestial Realm, Myojin takes him in. But can this man, whose heart has become hardened towards both suffering and joy, rear a healthy, wholesome child?

Collection of short stories including:

• Nejishiki
A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins...
Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories".

• Numa (Marsh)
A man meets a strange woman while hunting in a marsh.

• Chico
A couple takes care of a java sparrow.

• Hatsutake Gari (Mushroom Hunting)
Rain mysteriously falls around a particular place where a boy and his grandfather plan on going mushroom hunting the next morning...

• Sanshouuo (Salamander)

• Touge no Inu (The Dog of the Mountain Pass)

• Uwasa no Bushi

• Ondoru Koya (Ondoru House)

• Gensenkan Shujin (Master of the Gensenkan Inn)

• Chouhachi no Yado

• Oba Denki Tokin Kogyosho (Oba's Electroplate Factory)

• Yoshiboo no Hanzai

• Shounen

• Aru Mumei Sakka

It DOES NOT contain this story:
• Soto no Fukurami (The Outside Inflation)
The outside inexplicably threatens to collapse a man's house, leading him out to a world of anxiety and oddness in this minimalist story.

Story 1 - Confession Club
Ueda Yuki sees the boy she likes, Mashimo Arata, kissing a book that she borrowed from her senpai. Seeing the situation as it is, Yuki knows immediately that Arata likes Misato-senpai. Thus, in order to be able to talk to him freely, Yuki volunteers to become Arata's practice partner by forming a so-called 'Confession Club' to help Arata confess to Misato-senpai. Will Yuki be able to help Arata confess, or will she fall for him?

Story 2 - Please Tell Me If You Love Me
Hinako is a quiet girl with a secret. She can't say the word ¨like¨. Because of that, Hinako has suffered when she confessed to a guy in middle school, everyone heard and laughed. And the problem is that now in high school, she likes the Principal's son, Kashiki. Wanting not to be laughed at, Hinako starts to practice how to say that word, but in the middle of the halfway someone hears her...?!

Story 3 - Countdown
Mioko is a average girl, who suddenly starts to have troubles with school. When suddenly their parents go on a trip, wanting someone to help her with, they decide to leave her with the dog and... with her not-blood-related brother, Shiro. But Shiro wanted to live in the school dorms, so Mioko just has two days left to convince him in order to not leave her alone. That's when the countdown starts!!

Story 4 - Heavenly Hallucinations
Kisa is dumped by her first boyfriend, Mori. Another boy, Shiba, confesses to Kisa--and he sounds just like Mori! Every time she tries to tell Shiba it's all a big mistake, his deep powerful voice makes her melt...

Story 5 - His Glasses
Haruki broke the scariest guy in school Onozuka Suu's glasses. He demands her to be his eyes for 5 weeks.

Story 6 - Sleeping In The Woods
Harumi is nicknamed as the Sleeping Princess, because of his cute face and sleepy personality (and... actions). One day, a girl from his class, Youko, asks him to... teach her how to sleep?! Can this princess, break the curse of his prince?

Story 7- Mermaid By The Sea
Yosuke, is treated nicely and is popular because of his looks, but he has never liked someone seriously. One day, he sees a girl he thought was drowning. But... she was swiming?! Now it seems she caught his eye. Will this playboy find some love, or will he continue playing...?

Story 8: The Confession Club
After hearing they could realize your love, she absolutly went there!! But not all is sweet and mighty, they dont do anything for free. Minamida, one of them (and future instructor), is a non beliver of true love, so in order to not pay, her task is to change his mind!! Can Nana really make Minamida believe again in love? What will happen to hers?

Story 9: Apple Cheek
Since the first day they met, she doesn't get along with him. Masaomi, a total player, always makes fun of Rinko whose cheeks are naturally apple-red. Whenever Rinko sees him, for some reason, she gets irritated. What will she do when she founds out the meaning of her anger?

Extra Story: Cat Smell

A collection of 6 stories about love relationships and sex.

Story 01 - Saikyou no H by Ouchi Rika
Eri gets scared when doing it, as her first time with her boyfriend, Hiroshi hurts. Can she overcome her fears?

Story 02 - Cinderella in Love by MIKIMOTO Rin
Nakatani Ran had just started her teaching career at a high school. There she meets an attractive student, Reiji, who loves girls. He outright asked her of her sex life, making Ran flustered, as she is inexperienced in love. He then pursues her. Can she resist his temptations?

"Stop your evil deeds and take the right path!" That is the creed of Youko Tama and her younger step brother, Jinka Sendou. The two demon siblings travel the country to stop the deeds of all evil doers, along with a scaredy-cat swordsman they picked up along the way, Hyoudou Shinsuke. During their travels, they will come across a monk organization with more than suspicious methods and they'll soon be at war.

A story about two high school boys, Ume and Take, whose relationship seems to revolve around rainy days.

I keep running away because I feel irritated at this impatience, my own small world, and something that I can’t even name…

At age 33, I am a loser, jobless and virgin, who only has remorse and pity for myself. Called by Anna, my secret crush in my childhood, and her fiance, I come to face the reality. But after I fall from the roof (caught wearing a grade school girl's swimsuit) I find myself to be back in the past. Now I will get my life back.

Ichiko has idolized Arashi-sempai from a far, ever since she saw him play in his band a year ago.
When she accidentally damages his right hand, she promises to become his right hand and do everything he needs until he recovers. Will this be the chance she's always wanted to get close to him, or will it prove to be more than she can handle?

Gouda Takeo is a freshman in high school. Both estimates: Weight: 120kg, Height: 2 meters. He spends his days peacefully with his super-popular-with-girls, yet insensitive childhood friend, Sunagawa.
One morning, on the train to school, Takeo saves a girl, Yamato, from being molested by a pervert. Could this be the beginning of spring for Takeo?

Note: Won the award for Best Shōjo Manga at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awards and was nominated for the 6th Manga Taishō in 2013.
Was also nominated for the 18th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize "Reader Award" in 2014.
Won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo.

From Cocobees:

Every Tuesday night, a mysterious man named "Ito" visits Kyosuke, who is a prostitute, and talks to him about silly things until dawn. One day, he brings a briefcase full of money and tries to give it to Kyosuke, telling him that he wants him to quit his job and do something he truly wants to do, however?

Kuraka Sui brings forth a beautiful, dark story revolving around the gunsmoke and blood of the underworld. This is her very first BL, now in tankobon!!
"Cage," a story about an S&M school of domination and control, is also included.

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