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An independent collection of short stories — Ultramarine Schooldays highlights the color that evokes faithful memories, tenderness, and melancholy. These stories take place in Japan and in the West, in the past and in the present. They may involve a romance in the city, an energizing walk in the forest, the daily mundane life of a waitress working in a café, or a medieval intrigue; but what connects these stories are the powerful messages they deliver.

Volume 1:
• Tale of tail / Window to the spirit world
• Princess prisoner
• Teacher and I
• Flower's cavalier
• Pink chocolate
• Forest of wonder
• White fire (three parts)
• Albertina

Volume 2:
• Ninon's love
• Time-bell
• The Ten Swords of the North / Xenia and Reuther (five parts)
• His Music
• Pink chocolate, second act

Volume 3:
• Red-roofed house
• Pink chocolate, third act
• Twilight (two parts)
• Merry garden
• Oenothera princess (three parts)
• Snowfall night

Volume 4:
• Over the Bridge (two parts)
• Rainbow (three parts)
• Spy and Spy
• Pink chocolate, acts four and five
• Old Elm
• Farewell to Gunjyo Schooldays

From The Moon in a Box:

Before Minari knew he was gay, he convinced himself he was incapable of falling in love. Having spent the last five years settling for just sex with a friend from high school, he surprises himself by falling in love with and impetuously confessing to an acquaintance, Shinkawa. But will Minari's fragile ego be able to withstand the fear and uncertainty of a real love relationship?

Original Webcomic

Hime Arikawa is a high-school boy with a huge debt, and he is saved by the girls of his school's student council after being chased down by yakuza debt collectors. The student council agrees to pay off his debt if he'll join the student council and spend his high-school life cross-dressing.

Included in this work are the following spinoffs:

• Himegoto +
Hime's younger brother Kaguya joins the public morals committee because he wants to save Hime from the clutches of the student council vice president.

• From Comic Rex and Febri

A boy met a boy. They were in the flush of youth. They were in love that felt like a dream, like sparkling soda pop.

The manga revolves around Suuko, an idol-loving hikikomori (shut-in) who has one ability: To make any idol popular through the power of blogging. She puts her sights on the Fukuoka idol Itrio and tries to make them sell more, but she is impeded by the charismatic otaku Ryu-san and the underground idol Mariko.

From Mixini Studios:

Back in the day, that place was a house filled with magic - a place where you ended up smiling even if you were crying. Surely, an invisible wizard must have lived there. Or so I thought.

What's a young child to do when her mother leaves her father for another man? Or when her father remarries a woman who brings along a child from a previous marriage? Or when her childhood neighbor friend invites her to live with him?

Find a piece of red sea glass and your wish is sure to come true. Sachiko is searching for her own piece of red sea glass. Can it make her romantic wish come true?

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From Summer Rain:

Natsume, who works at a game company, learns of his new step-sister the day of his mother's wedding. Just as he starts interacting with the game loving girl, he finds out the feelings the other siblings hold towards this girl…

Sae is a flight attendant working for ANL (AeroNippon Lines, a fictious airline). She wanted to work in this field thinking on the glamourous aspect of the job since her friends at the university were teasing her about her sex-appeal. She'll discover the truth about being a flight attendant while having to deal with the passengers!

From Aerandria Scans:

She dreams what any normal woman dreams: Find a good man and get married. There's only one hitch. She has absolutely zero talent in being a housewife! Determined to overcome this problem, she enrolls in classes to learn. The only problem is her teacher turns out to be a man and a younger one at that!

Sakura Suzu is a rookie shoujo mangaka who doesn't seem to meet success. One day, her editor who has worked with her since her debut is transferred. The new editor in charge is a handsome guy who used to work in the seinen departement. It's love at first sight for Sakura but he doesn't think the same.

From: Winter Translations

My childhood friend who loved messing with me moved away 10 years ago but now he’s back. My everyday life is filled with sweet despair!

From Shoujo Crusade:
Ichino is a high school girl who absolutely hate guys due to the fact that her father betrayed them when she was young; stealing all the valuables that she & her mother possessed & disappearing without a trace. Since then she has vowed to become strong so she would not lose to any man. She has also longed for the day she could meet the lady from a fateful encounter in her childhood.

One day, she accidentally beat up a guy who she mistook as a pervert pestering her friend, Miyabi. She tries to apologize but ends up beating him up even more.... She developed a distaste for the guy and two of his friends as they bump into each other once again resulting in more misunderstandings. Ichino personally believed that if she came across the same person thrice that would be considered 'fate'...

Coincidentally, the start of her school begun with a surprise as she found out that all THREE of them turned out to be her new classmates !!

Skipping class on the rooftop one day, Shunpei's best friend Fumi tells him he thinks he might be gay. All set to freak out ("Then up 'til now he's been thinking that way about me?!") Shunpei's a bit nonplussed when Fumi's confession turns out... to have nothing to do with him at all! In fact, Fumi's already going out with someone else. Cue adolescent meltdown.

Also contains a continuation of Otona Keikenchi.

Life is a comedy when seen from afar, and a tragedy when seen up close.

A veterinarian who can talk to animals? Even better that he uses his gift to educate pet owners.

1) Ruriiro no Yume (A Lapis-Lazuli Blue Dream)
A woman sleeps with her co-worker one night. Both are interested in more, but there's something standing in the way: the protagonist's dreams for the future.

2) Princess of the Stars
Takes a look at the realities of being in a relationship.

3) Honey & Mustard

4) Nostalgia
About the relationship between a widow and the woman who has always loved her.

5) Virgin Season
The next story in the 20-Musumex30-Otome series. Emi and Keiko have trouble finding time to spend together.

6) Mangetsu no Yoru ni wa (On a Night When the Moon is Full)
Keiko and Emi go on a trip together.

7) Soft-Boiled Fujoshi (Hanjuku Joshi side story)
"Soft-Boiled Fujoshi" is about a minor character from Hanjuku Joshi. Moe is more important to fujoshi than love is... or is it?