"We can't live without each other. You're my other half."

"I've killed a woman." The domineering voice on the phone was that of a high school classmate, Mitsuo Ichikawa.
Buried memories from the past resurface in the heart of a man with the same name, Mitsuo Ichikawa. It drags him right back into the passions of the past. They reunite as accomplices, yet their relationship as master and servant slowly changes into something new...

What does gender matter? And why do we accept the social frames that are forced upon us? These questions are taken up when Maho, a male-to-female transsexual, saves Fujiko, a girl from a rich family who's left home and is living on her own, one night, and the two become fast friends.

Welcome to the world of baseball. Where there's an abundance of attractive athletic young men.

The story is about a professional baseball team and the interaction of the members. Drama and comedy abound the different couples.

Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the Earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the Earth, thirty-five kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the various living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments.

Won the 15th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga.

1) Honey Pie Debut
Two good friends know they have loved each other and become a couple. But being tired from accommodating one to another, they return to being good friends again...

2) Melody Melody
Two students who enjoy singing in the street: one student, a lyric writer, suffers from one-way love; the other student, a composer, comforts him and asks him to love him instead.

3) Kirei Kirei
Our hero has longed for dormitory life, but his very beautiful roommate can't clean up his room...

4) Water Drop Sacramento
A mysterious student is rumored to have killed and buried a woman under a cherry tree. But our hero finds out he buries the hero's favorite things which he wrote about on graduation...

5) Dizzy Boys Fruits Milk
A students love triangle around the son of a public bathhouse owner.

6) Donut Letter
Watching video, two boys feel sexual desire. On the next day, one student puts the blame on another and makes him misunderstand.

From Blissful Sin:

Dr. Takashima is considered a cool and handsome guy among his workers. All believe this, except Dr. Miyano who stares at him with cold eyes. With a past he'd rather not remember, what could have happened to break the bond these two childhood friends once shared?

Oba Tamako tells of her time being at art high school.

'Ebisu-san and Hotei-san' is about two female office workers. Initially Hotei is not pleased when Ebisu is transferred to her branch, but gradually those feelings begin to change.

Because of changes in seating arrangements, high school student Tsuda ended up behind the quiet and expressionless Endou. Their interaction is born from a trivial incident, and he begins to see Endou who he has never gotten to know before. That mole, slender nape, and soft hair. The subtle faces that he makes and little changes in his attitude. But Tsuda, who used to be indifferent about others and never made any deep connections, now feels impatient about the distance between him and Endou, who he has been gradually getting closer to. What on earth is drawing these feelings?

From Echochi Scans:

Itou Katsuya has been living with his guardian, a young man named Tooru, after the death of his only parent - his mother. Katsuya is having problems recalling the incident and can’t even remember how she died in the first place. To makes matters worse for poor Katsuya, he harbours conflicting feelings that are beyond what a son would normally feel for a father. Thus, life with Tooru during his puberty is pure torture.

Then one day he met a man who claimed to be his deceased mother's old friend. He was told that his mother perished in a hit-and-run accident and that even now the culprit hadn’t been caught yet. Katsuya embarks on a journey to find the killer while battling his sinful feelings for his foster father, Tooru...

In Victorian-era England, a young girl is rescued from a life of destitution and raised to become a proper British maid. Emma meets William, the eldest son of a wealthy family, and immediately falls in love with him. William shares her feelings, but the strict rules of their society prevent their relationship from ever coming out in the open. Traditional class distinctions and rich, historical details provide the backdrop for this appealing romance.

Note: Volumes 8-10 are "Emma: Further Tales". They fill in details from the Emma manga, both before and after the events in that storyline.

Each chapter explores the motivations or simply shows a day in the life of a particular character from the story.

Find out about the romance between Doug and Kelly in their early days, or follow the adventures of Eleanor as she overcomes her heartache and begins to live again, or visit with Tasha and her family on her day off.

From Tsuzuku Jinsei o...:

With her mom always fussing over her baby brother, her father busy with work, and no friends at school, Hitomi has always felt lonely. This all changes when she volunteers to raise Eye, a guide dog, for a year. However, parting is never as easy as it seems...

Kobayashi Shinobu, first year high school student, transfers to a new school only to get dumped by her boyfriend and have a teacher who breaks all her conventional preconceptions. He smokes. He leaves class without warning. And at night, he works as a host. Will their relationship develop into something more than student and teacher? Read H and find out!!

Annie's to-do list: "bird and roses tiara... buy lace and fasteners... brooch... break up with Lin Xian." The film director boyfriend, Lin, is a bit too busy to realize Annie's feelings. Whoever wants to continue the relationship will meet one day, and then...?

This story takes place in Florida, USA. The main characters are the lovable members of the Andersons; each one has his or her own different characterstics which conflict and support the others'. By going through many events (meaningful ones as well as weird ones) together, the bond between them grows stronger and tighter.

From Friendship Scans

Lin Zuning was recently dumped by his girlfriend. Depressed and angry, he rode his motorcycle in the rain. Speeding as he went, he was met with an accident and broke his leg. He thought that he would be stranded there before someone rescues him, but instead he saw a little girl. Her name is Yulan and she is an angel working under divine orders to cause such accidents. It was an encounter that would change both of their lives. The story revolves around the angel's three lives reincarnated in Ancient China - all in which she meets and falls in love with the same person, but due to fate, she can never be together with him. And so starts a bittersweet story between Lin Zuning and Yulan, as they slowly discover just how much their fates are intertwine together in their past lives.

"October with the north wind.....
November with the icy frost..,...
December with the goddess of
winter who dons her white robe."

A story about a snow princess created by humans.

From JanimeS:
This series is not about romance, exactly, but does contain the element for it. This series mainly focuses on overcoming the main characters' hardships. Each character has a different hardship. There is really nothing more to mention about the plot.

It starts with a school girl who has trouble with her surroundings. It all started when her classmate was bullied and eventually commited suicide. Being a part of the group that bullied the girl, she feels extremely guilty. Her life becomes meaningless, and she wants to end it.

The term "femme fatale", or "deadly woman", is a stereotype of an alluring woman who charms her lover into an unsatiable desire for her, and draws them into dangerous situations. Its Japanese translation means "the fated woman". In this thrilling romance, Saito Hajime joins a club at his college and meets the "femme fatale": Yukari Ebisawa, a graduate student who loves donuts and has quite a quirky personality – and a boyfriend. However, their relationship soon becomes complicated, interfering with their friends, work, and club duties…