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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Story 1. Boy Next Door
Takeshi is straight until he sees Kazuya lying naked on his friend's couch. After their intimate encounter, can they find a way to make a relationship work and manage to survive on their unusual part time job?

Story 2. One Heart
A story about a part-time, student worker and his ex-salaryman boss. When his boss's company is in danger of going bankrupt, how will the part-timer convince his ex-salaryman to take a loan from him?

Story 3. Otoshimono
An odd encounter between two strangers results in tales of violence of questionable validity--and of course sex. But is this just a one night stand?

Story 4. Long Way Home
Katou has money problems, loans and he hasn’t paid his rent for 5 months now. When his realtor Yui suggest that, if Katou does a job for him, he will give him 3 more weeks to pay the rent (before kicking him out or worse), Katou happily agrees… (Yui appears also in Night Walk)

Contains 4 oneshots:

1. Itsuka no Tsuki de Aimashou
When Riha goes to hospital to go see her father, who was just in an accident, she meets a boy, Nozomu-kun, who helps her find her way through the hospital so she can visit her father. After that day, they become great friends and possibly more…

2. Tsuki no Waltz
Asakura Nariko is the daughter of a wealthy family in the Showa era. As the successor of the family, she is very strictly educated to become a proper lady, and her teacher is Sawa Keiichirou, the son of her family's butler. To Nariko, Keiichirou is like a brother, or maybe even more than that, but it is her duty to marry the leader of another prominent family someday...

3. Once a Blue Moon

4. Petit Lesson
Sequel to Zenbu, Hajimete.

A collection of short stories. Note that the vast majority of these stories contain heterosexual romance themes. A few stories explore transgender issues, but it's a stretch to call them shounen-ai or BL romances. This series demographic is josei.

Le théâtre de A
1.Oeufs D'ange - Tenshi no Tamago
A man is asked by a young painter to be her model.

2. Velvet Going Underground
A doll becomes a super idol. Hijinks ensue.

3. Childhood's End
Alastair runs away and meets the Rabbit.

4. Bite Me Something
Allistaire followed Mr. Rabbit all the way to Wonderland. Will he be able to find him among the crowd?

5. Long Along Alonging
A girl asks a vampire to be his apprentice. But what is her motive?

6. Till Dawn
In a dark tower, a caged voice is singing until a hunted man enters the darkness.

7. Leçon un
Sequel to Long Along Alonging.

8. My Skin on My Back

9. Highland Walker
Sequel to Leçon un.

10. Perfect World
The story of a young wife whose husband is infected with a fatal disease called Flower-Blossomitis.

11. Perfect Lady
Sequel to Perfect World and drawn especially for this book.

12-13. Looks Like a Teaspoon
A boy named Allistaire is often teased at his all-boys school. One night he dresses like a girl and stumbles upon the boy who often bullies him, Simon. Allistaire runs off into a tower and as Simon runs after him, we see the sign "Welcome to Wonderland" hanging by the tower's door.

14. The Pearl Blue Story
Do you believe in mermaids? Coggy, a young boy finds a mysterious lady laying down near the shore of the beach. He brings her home to help her.

15. I Am a Piano
A piano tells the story of her life and the people she encounters.

16. Parade

Le théâtre de B
1. Noël
A short story about a holiday romance.

2. Teddy Bear Satsujin Jiken (The Teddy Bear Murder Case)
Four murders have taken place at an all girl school. Lying beside each of the victim was a teddy bear with one missing limb.

3. Yonshimai Satsujin Jiken

4. A is for Alice
Alastair, a grown man, is off to follow the Rabbit once again to return to Wonderland.

5. Nedai no Musume Atelier no Musume (The Bedroom Girl, The Sculpture Room Girl)
A story about a girl in her death bed finding another chance in life in the body of a doll.

6. B&W (Black&White)
A story about a boy waiting for his sister.

7. Le Jardin du thé (The Tea Garden)
A mysterious story about a poor young man who orders a kind of tea called Huan Ying – “The Illusion”.

8-9. Free Fitting for Her
A priest and his captured vampire must save a naive and selfish young girl from the murderous desires of a Lolicon. But perhaps this girl isn't all that she seems.

10. Rose Dusk, Pale Moon

11. Hello, My Sister

12. The Happy Prince

13. Welcome to Wonderland
Simon, Alastair's old classmate, is now a grown man who bumps into his childhood Wonderland traveller.

From Doko Demo Doa Manga Scanlations:

Once upon a time, there was a lazy princess of all. There were only three things that interested her, shopping, sleeping, and her childhood friend, Mars. Will Mars answer the princess’ feeling? And will this fairy tale close with “happily ever after”?

Girlfriend decided to dress up her very effeminate boyfriend in a Yukata, and she takes it personal and accuses her of loving females only, and escapes to the fire work festival, its a trap one shot, gender bender fun

Two years after the sorceress Karla escapes, Parn and Deedlit continue to search for her. Meanwhile, war is brewing between two desert clans who were once one.

Mayuri's father made a slight promise with the president of the Sakouda Group that Mayuri would visit and meet his son. Once she met him, she assumed he was like all the other rich kids, selfish, self-centered, and arrogant. But as their relationship got deeper........ - C h i b i