The story opens several years after a devastating war, where incredibly strong 'mechanical dolls' slaughtered many, many people. These robot weapons, which look exactly like humans, are still feared and hated. During a storm, Craw finds one of these 'dolls.' She is nothing like the weapon he would expect, but is instead gentle, cheerful, and very eager to be of use to the people around her. She claims her name is Mayple, and she seems to be programmed as a maid and cook.

Soon, Craw has set up a cafe for Mayple to run, where she can cook sweets and tea for everyone in town. It's going to be a rough road ahead of her, as many townspeople hate her on principle and will not shrink from violence against her. But maybe Mayple, who always keeps a sunny attitude, will be able to find a way through the prejudice and make a place for herself in the post-war world.

Contains 3 oneshots:

1. Mascara Blues
Mugino falls in love with any boy who "sparkles" in front of her eyes! But after they accept her confession, the "sparkle" dies. She talks about her problems to her friend, Shuuya. After seeing another guy lose his "sparkle", Mugino goes to talk to Shuuya but finds that he has a "sparkle" too! She doesn't want to date him because she has a feeling that if his sparkle dies, then she'll have to dump him and their friendship may never be the same again.

2. Draft of Romance
Tsuda always stares at Takasuga. But when their eyes meet, Takasuga glares at her with scary eyes. She only stares at him because she remembers a day when she was going on the bus and dropped her bag. She quickly tried to pick it up and found a guy who helped her. When she got on the bus she said "Thank You" but the doors were already closed. She was determined that Takasuga was the guy, but if he isn't...

3. So I Can Be Myself - A Long Dream
Hikaru wakes up every morning and feels that every day's going to be a long dream. This is because, though she has the heart of a woman, she was born as and has the body of a man. She soon meets a hairstylist, Mashima Eiji, who asks her to be his hair model. When she tells her friends this, they warn her not to fall in love with him because hairstylists are known to "play" with their clients. But she can't stop thinking about him! Is he just going to play around with her, or will he take her seriously if she confesses her secret?

Fujiwara Momoe, a girl who loves to eat, was raised by her rich parents eating only the best.

When her father dies from heart disease and Momoe has to support her and her mother, she can't stand the food that she makes (she never cooked before).

One day, she walks into a little French restaurant and recognizes the food from its taste. She had eaten it several years earlier when celebrating her birthday at a 5-star restaurant with her parents. She asks to work there as a cook under the head chef, Oda-san. She falls in love with Oda, but he doesn't notice her feelings and only considers her an annoying apprentice. This series goes through joy and heartbreak, as experienced by Momoe. How does the situation end?

Note: Was also made into an 11-part Jdrama, and a 20-part Taiwanese drama

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Mariko Kazunori ("Nori") is a 28-year man who hated bicycles until he almost runs over roadracer Oda Rin.

A collection of stories, Includes:

1) Natura-turaly from Joshi BL
My twin brother and I, we like and dislike the same things. Whatever we do, we do together. I thought we’d always be together—it seemed obvious. But a man appeared who says he loves my brother. Is the world I thought would go on forever starting to collapse?!

2) Veranda Nite (On the Veranda)
A boy moved to a new apartment but when he goes out on the veranda to smoke, he encounters something out of this world.

3) Count 3632
A boy gets trapped in an elevator with a not very nice novelist.

4) Step One
Suichi does not like to socialize with people. Why does Hana keep finding excuses to talk to him?

5) Test Play from Itai Ero
A couple's relaxed routine is disrupted when the one partner proposes a new kind of play. To his surprise, his significant other discovers a higher affinity to his role than expected.

6) Michidzure from Gesu BL
A boy who is easily roped into things & a cool beauty who is a natural asshole.

Extra: Prologue & Afterword

A collection of stories:

1. Konoyo no Hate Made I Love You (I Love You Until the End of the World)
A story about a stalker and the object of his affection.

2. Inu to Kami-sama (God and the Dog)
From Takase Hajime's perspective of his stalker.

3-6. Seesaw Game
The story of glasses-wearing salaryman and his stalker continues.

Extra - Yasaotoko to sadistic (Gentleman and Sadistic)

Gag manga about Kou, a young "elite" man, who has a policy of not being in debt to anyone. But he ends up owing his life to a strange girl who saves him. Nino, the girl who claims she's from Venus and lives under the bridge by the Arakawa river, demands that Kou become her lover. So the young man ends up living there too.

This is the story of three girls who all realize that the boys they've been chasing aren't available at the same time, and so decide to meet on a Sunday to invite the first boys they see to a party they're going to put together. Of course, it's not anywhere near that simple, and the three boys/men they pick up are all connected although none of them are aware of it, and some events in their own lives are going to complicate things...

Aoba Koo works part time at a cafe at the capital of the demon world. Very cute and very funny.

Tsubaki is her school's most proficient student, is polite, and is absolutely good at everything, and little by little, people are hailing her to be the school's queen.... And she absolutely despises that. She quietly admits to herself that being a "perfect student" is not her real personality, but a clever ruse to become a more likable person.

She is, however, still not able to interact normally with students and thus is dissatisfied--a fact that prompts her to follow the advice of a magazine on finding happiness: the magazine states that by meeting your doppelganger, you will achieve long-lasting happiness. Determined, Tsubaki follows the instructions in the magazine and opens up the "door" that will allow her to meet her doppelganger....

...And the one she meets at the other side, "the other world" is not who she was expecting.... Well, it is someone who is strangely identical to her when it comes down to it, but it is also essentially different.

A summer story of 17-year-old Yousuke who has a crush on his teacher Aiko.

The comedic life of two young cats and their surroundings.

Due to his scary face, Shougo has been alone since entering university. But unexpected events lead him to become close with Hina, from the same university. Shougo, elated at the fact he's become friends with the cool and kind Hina, finds out that Hina breaks out into hives when people treat him with affection - a "love allergy"?!

Ume-sensei's C74 doujinshi. Includes pages on Monster Hunter and an original manga.

The life of the journey.

In an old antique store off a back alley, the vocalist of Vanishing Starlight discovers a futuristic information terminal in the form of a pair of sunglasses with the ability to transcend time and space. He's then possessed by a mysterious cat being, and his adventure begins.

Note: This manga is an omnibus collaboration between several artists, based on the fantasy band Sound Horizon's 9th Story CD, Nein, which depicted some of their earlier stories in "what if" scenarios.

It’s about school life and there are three girls and three guys but only the first guy and girl are introduced in the first chapter. The girl, Taeko, even forgets her own friends’ names, and the guy, Ushio, is also an airhead. They make a cute couple.