18-year-old Tsubomi has a bit of a weight complex. After graduation from high school, she takes up a part-time job at a video rental store where she is introduced to another male employee, 19-year-old Shiro, whose shifts always seem to coincide with hers. Shiro casually mentions that she reminds him of someone familiar. A few days later, while on duty, she bumps into a customer in one of the aisles. He leaves, but not without dropping his membership card, and Tsubomi finds out that his name is Nasukawa, and that he is an acquaintance of Shiro's. Meanwhile, after a song for a commercial comes on, Shiro realizes that Tsubomi reminds him of a famous model in a commercial (her "eyes", at least), who turns out to be none other than Tsubomi's cousin...?!

Kitori Miyako is a girl who is always late and only has one special skill: Jumping. What happens when she mistakes the new ballet club as the volleyball club full of popular boys? What does jumping have to do with the hot bad boy (?) Yashita? Why does she get into a fight with the stars of the Youth Ballet World?

From World of Creation:
Salleal wakes up, injured, in a strange place, where a strange man she doesn't recognize, keeps her. She falls for him and his kindness, and she soon realizes she had once loved that man! But who was he? Who was she to him? And what had caused her to be in the state she was in? She had to find out.

1-5) Please Wait
Tanaka who works as a station attendant has an odd aversion to being touched. When a businessman, Doujima, finds out about his affliction, he teases him about it. Though Tanaka hates the feeling of touching others, he can't help but feel strangely attracted to Doujima...

6) Think Drip
Minamoto and Yoshino have been best friends for 10 years... but Yoshino feels slightly inferior, even though it seems like Minamoto is always chasing after him. While they are out drinking with a friend one night, he asks the two friends if they have had sex yet.... and that one question sends Yoshino spiraling.

Extra) Please Wait Extra

Summary: In the halls of the Orchid condo, two young men meet and live a love story, but the secrets she keeps can separate them forever.

From ShoujoMagic:

The new student body president, Kiyomasa Saionji, is more strict about rules and punishments--and poor Rika can't stop breaking the rules. Is Kiyomasa too strict? Is Rika just too clumsy? ...Or are the punishments a sweet temptation?

A collection of stories:

1. Hatsukoi Harinezumi (First Love Hedgehog)
Sora Onodera discovers he can use magic one day when he accidentally turns his older brother Riku into a hedgehog. Sora learns that his parents and brother can also use magic, and that he acquired the transformation spell because he's experiencing his first love. Now the only way to put Riku back to normal is to acquire the magic to undo the transformation, which has the condition that he must first get the girl he likes to tell him she likes him back.

2. Life for Life

3. Uno x Uno
Despite Mai and Yuu Shindou being fraternal twins and opposite sexes, they look very similar to each other and are surrounded by people who want them to act more like twins, such as wearing matching outfits or clinging more to each other. Amid this, Mai starts to realize that both of them are starting to change as they start going through puberty.

4. Simple Hot Chocolate

Includes stories about two different couples:

1) "Hitotsu no Koi no Hajimari" (Beginning of love)
When Tokita, being exhausted and starved from work, is offered some bread by the stranger, Chiba, he feels admiration towards him and wants to repay him for his kindness. That meeting signifies the start of their friendship and maybe something even more.

2-3) "Hitotsu no Koi no Ikisaki"
4-6) "Gohoubi wo Ageyou"
7) "Hitotsu no Koi no Nichijou"

This one-shot is a short but sweet age-gap romance about a girl named Hina who has suffered from social anxiety ever since she was a kid. Back then, her nursery school teacher Satoru-sensei encouraged her and helped her face her fears. Hina later grew up to become a nursery school teacher herself thanks to Satoru-sensei's influence. But when Hina gets a job at the same nursery school as him, Satoru-sensei doesn't seem to recognize her at all? Furthermore, her old fears start to return when Hina learns that she and Satoru-sensei will be in charge of MC'ing a school assembly!!

From Forbidden Garden

Midori moves from Tokyo to start her senior year of high school in Sendai. She saved her childhood friend Aa-chan from teasing, but the class boss, Erena, stirs up a revolt and makes her the new target. Midori can’t bear the never-ending torment and personally takes her own life. Midori gets a second chance at life, choices and revenge though. This is Momochi Reiko’s first challenge at a time warp story!!!

From Tokyopop: Unfulfilled love always ends tragically… or does it? Through different seasons and different eras in time, two lovers cross paths again and again, trying for that one chance to get it right. Different lives, at different points in history, but one thing remains constant—their love for each other. Spanning the beginning of history, WWII-era Japan, modern-day America, and the far distant future, these love stories remind us that love truly has no boundaries.

A special short story that was published in a freebie book put out in Sho-Comi, then added as an extra in the last volume of Zettai Kareshi. Chima Nagatsu, a high school sophomore, has always been able to see spirits that have died but haven't passed on yet. She also has the power to banish them. One day she gets a job from her uncle asking her to banish the spirits in an all boys school. She reluctantly accepts only to find that one of the spirits, Tsukasa, is a boy whom she admires!

1) Shiki is Koto's master, and he makes cosplaying costumes for his maid Koto. Though Koto doesn't like it, he still pleases his master.

2) Shiki's brother, the young master, Shuka who falls in love with the gardener of the house. But it seems the gardener doesn't want to be much with Shuka because he is the master of the house, but in the end...

3) Story about Shiki and Koto.

4) Sakura-sensei, and his special patient Chigaya. Though Chigaya always tries to seduced sensei and asks him to make love to him and that he always loved him, yet sensei doesn't want to do anything because he's worried about Chigaya's body, but when Master Chiki sends him a cosplaying outfit for Chigaya, it seems that it takes effect on the doctor.

5) Continues the story of the doctor and his special patient.

6-7) Story about a tiger and his master. Thought the tiger becomes human, still with the ears and tail, the master is sad because he turned the tiger into a human, but the tiger doesn't think like that at all. He's happy to be able to talk to his master and hug him like a human being would.

From Evil Flowers and Shoujo Crusade:

Tamura Aki is a maniac when it comes to historical things and she especially loves Date Masamune. Therefore, when she meets for the first time Hashiba Masaki, who happens to have a bandage on his right eye, just like Masamune, she believes that he´s her destined love. Hashiba-sama, as Aki calls him, is a rather violent guy that fights with his fists some yakuza-like fellows. How will she be able to get close to him in this kind of a situation?

[From Perfect Ilusions]:

For her first time confessing, Riko decides to go all out--especially with her makeup! In the end she winds up humiliating herself. And worst of all, she runs into her enemy from school, Kenta. But, after finding out a secret of Kenta's, things start to change. Can her enemy actually become her savior?

A story about beauty that touches beyond the surface.


Reads from left to right. ----->

From Attractive Fascinante:

Rihito promised himself that he'd never fall in love with a hetero or bisexual. However when Rihito's shop manager, Kanda Kouji, confessed to him, he allowed Kanda to hold him. Ri-chan made it clear to Kanda that it's impossible between them. But with Kanda's continuous advances, will Ri-chan give in?

(Note: Side characters Shingo and Ray are from Wonderful Days?)

Chapter 6 is a oneshot tittled Strum and Drang, it's about an infirmary sensei and his student who is sleep deprived.

About a group of girls and their plans to lose it...

Oneshot from Honnou Motto Midaretai Not only does Suzuno have to go to high school, she also has to take on the role of dorm manager at a soon-to-be demolished dorm! This dorm is known as "the city of crime,” an place with no order where trouble is always happening. When the leader of the troublemakers Kazuomi, kisses Suzuno, things start to get really chaotic!

From Kindan-no Aku:

Yui Kiryuu is a street performer who relies on (and takes pride in) her beauty and dancing skills. In order to save her friend Cecille, she makes a contract with a creature from another world - a Tinas. Her end of the bargain, however, is the thing she treasures the most...

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