Story 1 - She and Her Love
“17 years old. We’re not children, yet we’re not adults. But every serious matter is worthy of attention.” Bored with everyday life, Haruka was feeling that she wanted something hot. And then one day, did you know of the hot Miki who has no female friends’ “unexpected face without makeup”…?

Story 2 - Only Loving You
Oshima Akito, the handsome new transfer student, catches the attention of Koto Hana. One day, Hana boldly asks him out when he makes her heart beat fast. How will he respond?

Story 3 - Please Make Me Happy!
Fed up with her family issues, Mitsuru, goes out and seeks happiness in boyfriends that seem to only want her for her body. Tired of this life and wishing for true happiness, she turns to her closest friend, Shiyoji, who through various ways tries to return the smile on her face and stop the tears running down her cheeks.

Story 4 - To the Crybaby Forehead Princess!
Being tall has it perks, but Kaoru can't quite seem to see the beauty in her height. Always selfconscious of her height, she tries to avoid short people, and dreams of having a boyfriend who is taller than her. Lost in her daily dreams, she finds herself pulled back to reality by the energetic Ei-kun.

Volume 1
Growing up in a single parent household with an abusive father, Sora always took comfort in knowing that his best friend and neighbor Tetsuya is always there for him. Their relationship has always been a close one, but when they realize they're beginning to develop feelings for each other beyond the boundaries of "best friends", Tetsuya starts to avoid Sora all together.
Will they be able to regain the comfortable friendship they once shared? Or will it all fall apart?

Volume 2
Due to problems at home regarding his future, Sora runs away to live with Tetsuya. During this time they confirm that their feelings for each other are mutual, and it naturally progresses further. But soon they find out that love isn’t the only thing they’ll need to keep their relationship going.
How will these two growing young adults maintain their increasingly difficult relationship… and figure out their own unclear futures?


English publication via Renta!

Stories included in this volume:
1. Mishiranu Machi (見知らぬ街) (Date:1989)
A group of teenagers went on a summer holiday and had a car accident. The woke up and found the whole city was empty. How can they escape the eerie place? But more importantly, can they really all go back?

Note:
It has been suggested that MATSUMOTO Yoko traced some of her panels of this stroy from Birthday Present (MIYAWAKI Akiko).

2. Youkoso Mystery Tour e (ようこそミステリーツアーへ)
In the summer holiday, a 15 year old girl Kana went on a vacation on an island, when a certain hotel giving out invitation to join a treasure hunt event with only a ridiculously impossible map to read. With a group of four along with her cousin Riku who can't handle transportation, her little brother Takashi who likes mystery and her brother's girlfriend Natsuki, the group join the event, meeting suspicious people and witnessing unexplainable occurences. Can they find the treasure? Is there any hidden agenda from the hotel owner by making such an event?

3. A wa Akuma no A (アは悪魔のア)
An almost dead man entrusted a Devil statue to Riku, a 15 year old boy. Before they realized, Kana, Riku, Takashi and Natsuki were already involved in an adventure involving antiques, cops, a devil in disguise, an angel in custody, and a cold blooded killer.

1. Kuro no Kumikyoku
After Ricardo's death Jess suddenly become so different, he even forgot about a song that he composed for Cathy, his girlfriend. His piano playing become so similar with Ricardo's and he also becomes close with Ricardo's lover.

2. Tenshi wa Yami ni Hohoemu
a. Cole: When someone encounter a person who looks exactly like theirselves, it means those person will die in a near future.
b. Linda: Violet is a girl who longs for a mother, attention, and love.
c. Violet: Short story about the lost of a lover and the happy medicine.

3. Bell ga Nattara
A mysterious phone call from afterlife.

In the eight volumes of the series, the mangaka choses some of the most famous operas of all times to tell their stories. The first two volumes deal withe the operas in Wagner's Ring Cycle, the third contains La Traviata, Rigoletto, Aida and so on, each o the volumes containing various operas, their actions being divided in acts following the staging tradition.

Kotaro has always admired the life of the "honorable outlaw" that he's seen so often in the yakuza movies of his youth…and it doesn't hurt that he’s set up to inherit his grandfather's role as the local yakuza boss! One day, after witnessing the quiet florist, Toraji, capture a purse-snatcher single-handedly, he declares him the ideal Big Brother he's always looked for in the syndicate. From that day on, Kotaro stalks Toraji at his flowershop, all the while falling in love. Toraji's dark past, including a criminal record from his affiliation with the yakuza, has hardened his heart against relationships…but will the ever-doting Kotaro help plant the seed of love to blossom once more?

5-6) Bokura wa Tada Hashiru Dake For ten years Kousuke has followed Tomonari-senpai, from high school to college and now the company at which they both work, all the while telling himself that their friendship is enough for him. Kousuke's world tips upside down when he finds out two shocking facts in one evening that change his perspective on Tomonari drastically. 7) Call Me One day the phone rings and its some guy you met at a business function some time back. For some random reason he keeps calling once a week at the same time. Simple chit-chat, nothing special. Just when did that routine phone call begin to make me feel this way?

From Midnight Scans:

Ayumi became the manager of Oumi High School's kendo club. The powerful team has fallen, and the continuing of the club is in dispute. Ayumi tries to make the invincible swordsman, Mutou Hajime join the club to settle it, but all he says is: "Who are you?" "So troublesome." "Don't look down on kendo." etc. His attitude is also invincible and Ayumi falls in love with this problematic man?

Also Included:
+ Rain Colored Love
+ I'm no Match for You

From ANN:

The story follows Kanzō Wakai, a 15-year-old who is considered weird due to his hair which has looked like "dried seaweed" since birth. The boy with the troubled adolescence happens to encounter Noemi Hokari, a mysterious, peculiar girl who believes that she "cannot touch people." Were the "dried seaweed monster" and the "electrified girl" destined to meet?

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From Chibi Manga: Will Kaname's destiny as ballerina change? Because she wished to become a great ballerina, Kaname followed Miki-sama and entered in the prestigious ballet of her school. Kaname will secretly develop her talent as ballerina there.

Chapter 1-3:
Aoi is a quiet and shy girl who suffers from the attacks by classmates. Tomoya is the most popular guy in school who isn't aware of Aoi's existence at all. Atsushi is Aoi's uncle to whom she was always forbidden to approach. One day, Atsushi invites Aoi to teach her how to be a woman, so she will be able to conquer Tomoya and get her vicious revenge on her classmates. Will Aoi come to regret this decision?

Extra 1 - My Place:
Yumi is depressed after finding out that her boyfriend is cheating on her. She goes to a bar to take a breather and hooks up with a guy called Yasuharu there. It should have just been a one-night stand but......

Extra 2 - Her First Time:
Kouhei breaks up with his girlfriend and confesses to Kana. Kana agrees to date him and experiences her first love, her first kiss and her first time feeling jealous & insecure.

A first love, a broken heart, and true love are all serious affairs to a person involved. Mei Sakisaka fell out of love with her teacher Takaoka. She made the first kiss with Masami, and...

Geraldine Francis is the innocent daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. Being sheltered all her life, she is oblivious to her cousin Charles' true intentions when he lures her in and makes her fall hopelessly in love with him. It is only after the murder of her father that she realizes his love was nothing but love for the money and the land that came with her name. She vows revenge, and she throws away her past in order to become "Silver," the perfect woman. With a new face, and a new lease on life, she will turn the tables on the man whom she once loved so that this time, it is he who will be left with nothing.

Adaptation of English fiction Silver by Penny Jordan.

Aika Asakura was about to jump the cliff, but she instead saved a cat. There she encounters Hotoka Houshido, a veterinarian that saved the cat's life. However, saving this little critter had unfortunately left her in debt, so he had arranged for her to work and live with him...

Yuuya, the son of a bar owner, spends his days lazing around and juggling his nightly part-time jobs, one of which is cross-dressing as barmaid Yuria on behalf of his mother. One night, a bunch of fishermen come to the bar. Among them is Ken, an awkward youngster who falls for Yuria at first sight. They continue to meet, but what will happen if the sincere Ken finds out about Yuria's secret..?

From MangaHelpers:
One day, Son happened across a woman, named Shue, that he had loved as an older sister when they were young. It looked like it was the same woman, with the same scars, but Son had thought she was dead. In fact, she was a reanimated corpse, resurrected by a young girl named Fuu to work as her minion. Son becomes Fuu's follower, determined to find a way to return Shue's soul to her body so that she might live again. However, Son doesn't know what he's gotten into with Fuu, though, as she ends up in conflict with many other practitioners of her arts, using Shue's reanimated corpse to do things that Son would rather have never seen.

From Animeraider:
When 16 year-old Haruna runs away from an arranged marriage, her parents force her younger twin sister Wakaba into the marriage instead. But while Haruna ran off with a boyfriend, Wakaba has never even been kissed. How will a high school girl survive going from nothing to full on marriage with no steps in between?

A collection of six of Yotsuhara Furiko's short stories depicting the love between various girls.

The title story is set in a university, with Yuriko, a girl of the jou-sama type, being followed around by her puppy-like female friend Koroku. While eating lunch one day, Yuriko overhears some malicious gossip and her ensuing bad temper leads her to take Koroku to a hotel, where she tells her to do whatever she likes...

1. Laika, Pavlov, Pochihachikou
2. Koi o Egaku Hito (One Who Depicts Love)
3. Kuchisaku Onna to Teppeki no Shojo (Lip-service Girl and Iron-Walled Maiden)
4. Crow Nureba ni Hikarimono (That Which Shines on the Soaked Crow Feathers)
5. Koibumi Miman (Insufficient Love-letter)
6. Chopsticks

From Ikemen Scans:

After his parents go overseas for a few months to work, Kouta, a college student, gets to live in the family house again with his brother Tetsurou, who came back from Tokyo to keep him company. Kouta hasn’t seen his big brother for six years, and doesn’t really get along with him. The situation soon gets awkward when Kouta realizes he doesn’t know anything about his brother... And it gets worse when he becomes aware that the antipathy he felt towards him, might be more ambiguous than he previously thought...