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1-2) Unforgettable Night
Kasuma, a high school student, meets his "idol", the president of Watase corporation...

3) All I Want To Do Is Embrace You
Sanjo Izumi, 14 years old, is the seemingly cool and composed heir of the Sanjo corporation...

4) The Biker Who Couldn't Stop
Yuusuke has a thing for motorbikes...

5) Sweet Violin
Sakimoto has problems with his noisy neighbour.

6) The Night of the Siamese Fighting Fish
Traumatized years ago, Fujishiro is cold to his lover, a college professor.

7) Getting Close to You With the Sound of My Flute
Tooru's family is known for its flute playing, but he's horrible at it. Then this horned guy shows up and kisses him...

8) Bloodstained Hands
Aru is a young knight who despises killing. Setsuen is a brutal warrior whose bloodlust disgusts Aru, but he can't stop thinking about him.

The story of a young ninja who travels the land in search of new jutsu and ninpo skills.
Told in the unique, surreal style of famous mangaka Shigeru Sugiura.

From Attractive Fascinante:

Because of Lionel’s viscount status, Ms Elena wanted to get engaged with him. However, Lionel was always in love with his steward, Isaac. Before the day of engagement, Lionel asked Isaac to hold him. Isaac, who was also in love with Lionel, couldn’t reject him. When Ms Elena demanded Lionel’s explanation of breaking off the engagement, Isaac felt hurt when Lionel refused to acknowledge his existence. Will our lovers be true to their own feelings?
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In this volume:

• Subete wa Anata no Oose no Mama ni (Obeying Your Every Command)
• Shinso no Hana (Treasured Flower)
• Ukiyo o Hanarete (To Leave This Transient World)
• Pet no Keiyaku (The Pet's Contract)
• Kimi to Iru Heya (Living with You)

Wild Rock takes place in a prehistoric setting.
The first story is about a boy, Yuuen, who is asked by his tribal chief father to seduce Emba (a great hunter and the next chief of the rival Lakeside clan) by pretending to be a female so that they can get more food. The other stories are in the same setting, but with different characters (including the fathers of both characters from the main story when they were young).

Since times of old, it has always been the law of natural order for subjects to obey the emperor. However, this time, not only does a powerful general defy the emperor by climbing up the royal emperor’s bed but also demands that the emperor bears his children!

From DramaQueen:
The Kingdom of Landa, once a proud country, is weakened by internal espionage and strife with its neighbors. In order to save the country, Linth Highwind Belc Landa IV, Crown Prince of Landa, returns to his country determined to bring about change. But missing from his plans is a man - the one man who had left behind the intrigue of the palace for the freedom of the sea.

General Sei- Landa’s legendary hero- now guards Landa from his command post on a naval ship. Unknown to the General, among the new ensigns on board is a young Prince who is secretly plotting his return to shore! As fate has it, the opportunity comes when the General saves Linth during a fierce battle. Using his gratitude as an excuse, the Prince confronts the General about his absence from home - but suddenly finds himself at the General’s mercy! How far will Linth go to bring Sei home? Can a battle weary soldier become a guardian angel?

Sakurai Aya's "Whisper Under the Roses" is a school story set in the early 20th century.

Beijing of the 1920s is where the young and fashionable generation confronts the old and conservative one. During this period of social change, three brothers and one sister struggle to free themselves from the oppressive traditions of their grandfather. Help comes in the unlikely form of a Peking Opera actor, and his lively crew. -- Manga Updates

From Stage Storm:

Venice, 17th century. Safinia lives a simple and happy life with her father, a renowned artisan and his apprentice Angelo. Everything changes when a man named Ricardo Carrá comes looking for her saying the rich Poliziano family wants her as the lady's companion who has "a weak constitution". However there's more to it than it seems and after her refusal, her father is mysteriously accused of robbery...

In the Taishou era, there was a girl named Kinako who loved to sing. However, her parents forbid her to sing, and forced her into an engagement! While running away from her engagement, she fainted. During the time she was unconscious, she traveled through time. She wakes up and finds herself in the modern age, where she is confronted by a group of rising idols?!

Vow of Vengeance. Seventeenth-century Japan: A rebellion in the Aizu teritory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent slaughtered. Now the surviving nuns have sworn to seek revenge. They turn to the greatest swordsman of the land to train them so they can kill the ones who slew the men and the other nuns.

He doesn't remember who he is, but he wanders the European nobility in search of the truth. On nights of the full moon, he thirsts for blood and the human memories they contain, hoping to reclaim his own.

Children have been disappearing mysteriously and it has been a major concern to many parents. One parent is found wandering about the streets asking people if they've ever heard of the swallow that cries at night. A waitress who works at a bar guides her to the bar and allows her to discuss her situation. In the bar, the waitress, a bartender, and a little girl listen. Once she has finished talking, she leaves. Now all the waitress and bartender has to do is wait. The little girl disappears from the bar and she appears on the streets. She finds and traces the girl in question and follows her to discover...?

From Antisense Scanslations:
In a certain country, drinking fresh water can be dangerous, and beer is brewed as a result. Freia, a young girl who hopes to become a master brewmeister, travels with her beer-loving companion Kater in search of a sparkling, golden beer.

From Broccoli:
In the ancient House of Nekogami, sibling rivalry is a game of life and death.

The patriarch of the Nekogami family is dead, and his grandson Sukekiyo is the rightful heir. There is just one problem--Sukekiyo is away at war, whereabouts unknown. Only one person can inherit the fortune, and the triplets, Yoki, Koto, and Kiku, aren't going to let Sukekiyo's fiancee, Tamayo, walk off with prize. With a fortune at stake, it's kill or be killed as the Nekogami family goes up against demons, thieves, and each other to protect the family... and the cash!

A parody of the Japanese mystery novel and movie "Inugami-ke no Ichizoku."

1-4) A gardener and a phantom thief steal the heart of a lonely rich boy.

5) A little dark story about a host and a beautiful male prostitute.

Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever.
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.
Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.
The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book- an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece.

Note: Won the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival's Grand Prize for manga and the Tezuka Osamu Creative Award in 2005.

From Storm in Heaven:
During the final years of the Taisho Era (circa 1926), the gloomy tea house Ginseikan had a very special patron. Hiruko is a Baku, a being who eats nightmares. Customers come to the tea house every night seeking release from the suffering in their nightmares, and for the price of the tasty nightmare, Hiruko will walk their twisted dreams with them.

Note: Yumekui Kenbun ran in the shoujo magazine Stencil up until the 3rd volume and then got moved to the shounen magazine GFantasy.