Chiisaku Furikabutte, lit. “Small Windup”, was published in Afternoon between the tankobon publications of volumes 15 and 16 and during the 2011 hiatus, and it is a series of specials about the lives of Oofuri characters. (Nice Pitching!)

Tsumugui and Shinobima Saguri loved exploring as kids, but Saguri had a weak constitution. When Saguri moved away when both were four, they promised to go exploring when they're older. Couple of years, Saguri moves back, healthy, and ready to explore!

Miyamoto Kano presents the story of an ex-gangster and an elite office worker!

"On the first snow day of the year, I let an outrageous man come inside. Inside my room, my body, and my heart."

Misa and Kaho go on a date to a cat cafe.

If you take the train to the south of the city centre for about an hour, you will arrive at "Nekohara" where the cat lives. Tarou and single mother Yuko live together. Either fun or sad things are always overcome with both of us. Bringing up a cat-raising cartoon, which is catered to by a cute mother and child, opening ♪

These people have been living unhappy lives because they've never been able to do what they want.

Ga Yeon's smart, but wants to become a singer. However, the Korean educational system strongly enforces studying to students without considering the goals and dreams of the student. She's been forced to live a life of suppression.

Jae Hee is a piano player, but he's been living in constant delusion of his life. He has mental problems and cannot distinguish reality from a dream.

Dong Woo and Min Seo are a couple who are talented musicians but cannot make music they wish to make because of the current situation of the Korean music industry.

Hyuk's a very good guitar player, but is forced to be in an idol band, rather than what he really wants to be. The 5 come together to make a band of their own.

The setting is back in the Dark Ages when the world lived in fear of the Demon King. That is until a Hero appeared who could save the world and its helpless people. The Hero gathered a party and seeks to bring love and justice to the troubled land. But the world’s a dangerous place–there’s all sorts of monsters, traps, poisonous mushrooms… when the Hero falls to these dangers, he goes to heaven and meets with a friendly NPC shepard.

Hoshi is just your average student until one day, he encounters an oddball upperclassman stuck inside a locker.

1-4) Hatsukoi wo Kojirase Sugiru na
A first love he just could not give up. Kouhei has been in love with his high school friend, Ayato, for the longest time. Having held onto this love for many years, he finally decides to cut those feelings away by going to a gay bar and taking on new ventures. But when he starts to freak out after a guy tries to take him to a hotel, he runs into Ayato! Even after cutting off all contact with him after graduation!

5) Ikiataribattari no Kinyoubi

6) Ore to Omae no Kataomoi

7) Extra

A story about Lee Seong Mi, a typical girl with big sweet dreams of becoming a great baker.With nothing but her pain from losing her mother at an early age,she discovers that baking is the key to her future. A future that will cross path with Nam Young Jin, a boy with a passion to bake, an aspiring businessman and the son of a popular baker in town.

College boy Haruno goes to meet a person he's gotten to know through an online game. He goes expecting for a cute girl, but instead he meets a guy and not just any guy but a very popular ikemen guy that goes to the same college as he does. Maybe this meeting is their fate.

Polite and proper college student Akira Takanashi has a secret. Back in high school, he fell deeply in love with his teacher but was spurned. Now, whenever the pain of his heartbreak gets to be too much, he finds comfort in the arms of med student and notorious playboy Shimakawa—very adult comfort. Shimakawa would gladly go out with him, but Akira’s past heartbreak means he insists on keeping things strictly physical—well, until his obsessed younger brother Jutta arrives to disrupt this comfortable routine!

In an instant, a host of the recently deceased discover that they've been given another shot at happiness... as adorable cats! Will they make the most of their seven-day opportunity? Or will the fur fly as they struggle to figure out what life's all about?

Comics Underground Japan presents the wild, subversive world of Japan’s most accomplished underground comics artists. Some of the dozen artists included in this anthology will be familiar to followers of manga; others make their American debut in these pages. The richly imaginative stories in this volume show a great range of graphic style, from painstakingly detailed craftsmanship to exuberant, maniacal renderings. At the heart of each work in this anthology is a unique personal vision and a fierce artistic compulsion–these manga artists are the misfits of the art form, and they are its visionaries.

Included stories are:
1. "Hell's Angel" by Yoshikaze Ebisu
2. "It's All Right if You Don't Understand" by Yoshikaze Ebisu
3. "Steel Pipe Melancholia" by Masakazu Toma
4. "Future Sperm Brazil" by Takashi Nemoto
5. "A Love Like Lemons" by Carol Shimoda
6. "Selfish Carol's Summer Vacation" by Carol Shimoda
7. "Mercy Flesh (Jiniku)" by Kazuichi Hanawa
8. "Don Quixote #1 & #2" by Yasuji Tanioka
9. "Planet of the Jap" by Suehiro Maruo
10. "Mary’s Asshole" by Hanako Yamada
11. "Volvox" by Pan Migawa
12. "Bigger and Better" by Muddy Wehara
13. "Laughing Ball" by Hideshi Hino
14. "Cat Noodle Soup" by Hajime Yamano & Nekojiro

From Stiletto Heels:

Atsuko (Ah-chan) and Kouhei (Kouhei) are both 29 years old and soon to bid farewell to their adolescence. Both think 29 is a good age to be at, but realize that it doesn't make them feel anymore grown up; both get along, but none actually want to be the first to take the plunge. After nine years of dating and living together for five, Atsuko and Kouhei are prompted to evaluate the nagging questions regarding their work, life, and the prospect of having children: What will we do? What will happen to us?

Nagata Kabi uses engaging diary comics to explore her personal issues surrounding mental health, identity, and intimacy. Her relationship with her parents is growing more difficult than ever, and she struggles with the idea of living alone for the first time. Join her on her heart-wrenching, relatable journey through the challenges of adulthood.

Middle school days: young, inexperienced, and magnificent. Chen Jiani left behind a love letter, and then disappeared from Yao Tianhai’s life. Two years later, they meet again, but Chen Jiani doesn’t recognize Yao Tianhai. “Stupid girl, we'll meet again!” Yao Tianhai is a bit angry.

Kakinozaki Ayana-sensei and student Kagami Yuuki move into a room in the girls dormitory for the new (co-ed) high school semester, requested by Ayana-sensei and approved by the schools' principal. As one would guess, no one can find out he's living there so other than school classes, he has to cross-dress or else he'll be kicked out of school and dorm.

Souta Takanashi gets a job at Wagnaria, a local family restaurant. He is "lured" there by a cute girl named Poplar, who looks like she's 10. However, she is in fact 17, a year older than him!

The quirky characters include Satou, the cool chef who is in fact in love with Yachiyo, the chief who is madly in love (admiration) with their boss, Kyoko, who can't stop eating sweets and slows down the restaurant in general. Satou's cooking assistant and "friend" is Souma, a man who can get dirt on anyone and use it against them, except for Inami, a girl who has a phobia of men and punches him before he has the chance to find out anything about her, and Aoi, a girl with fishy motives for joining the restaurant who finds Souma's one weakness... Tears.

How does Takanashi, the "normal", high-school, small-thing loving (not a lolicon!) teen deal with all of this?