A collection of short stories on love and romance:

Story 1: Candy Flower
Kobayakawa loves to tend the Garden Club plot behind the school and dream about handsome Yagi. Mizuki Aihara loves to sleep away the day on the garden bench and mooch her candies. But Aihara proves to be a good source of advice on how to catch Yagi's interest. Soon Kobayakawa basks in the glow of Yagi and friends attention. But she's pressured to leave her beloved garden...

A short web supplement for the series Candy, set during the timeskip of the last chapter and dealing with Tama's unrequited love.

Life has been hard on Makoto lately, and she's nowhere close to her wish. She wishes to have a sweet, sweet life. When she's at the lowest of her luck, after her boyfriend took all her money and split, she's rescued by the handsome and rich Aeda CEO. To make things stranger, when she's supposed to get married to the ceo, she fools around with his son, without knowing his identity! Will she be able to find and choose the man that will be able to give her a sweet life?

An Evangelion parody by Karasawa Nawoki, the author of Super Cruel and Terrible Tales of Mangaka.> Adapted from Shinseiki Evangelion

A vampire is able to escape near death by making a deal with the devil. In order to obtain a fresh woman's blood to be offered to the devil, the vampire becomes even more malicious than the devil himself.

It's also on sale in Amazon.com ISBN-10: 487031567XISBN-13: 978-4870315679ASIN: B003F7NS72

From CMX Manga:
This suspenseful, supernatural series tells the tale of Canon, the only student to escape from a bloody vampire attack that took the lives of her fellow classmates and turned her into one of the undead. Struggling against the terrible needs that compel her, Canon commits herself to use her powers for good and do whatever she can to avenge the deaths of her friends and her own terrible fate. Joining forces with a talking, vampire crow, she begins her quest to find Rodd, Lord of the Vampires.

Bittersweet, gentle one shot where love is subtly approached. With Pachabel's Canon as backdrop, feelings will gently unfold culminating in a sweet climax.

Ch1-3 Hearts in Canon (aka Canon of Youth)
Due to family matters, Hanada quits playing the music instrument he has been playing since high school and is living through one boring day after the next, until he runs into Hashizaki when attending the brass band reunion on a whim... He can't believe it when the once-serious Hashizaki shows up wearing a flashy suit... Hanada doesn't like the person he's become, gets drunk and takes it out on Hashizaki. But not only does Hashizaki passionately steal a kiss from him, he tells Hanada he's liked him since high school...! Passionate love unfolds between the flashy but loyal top and the bottom who has difficulty communicating with others. This manga also includes

Ch4-5 Trumpet of Melancholy (aka Melancholy Melody)
The bittersweet love between two high schoolers in the brass band club. The happy-go-lucky Kai is desperately inviting his fellow club member, Takara to perform a trumpet duet with him. At first, Takara, who does not like doing bothersome things, kept avoiding Kai. But when he finally started to tear down his heart wall, he accidentally heard about Kai's crush?

Note: The Renta! version contains a tiny bonus chapter called, "Memories"

From Go! Comi:

From birth, Cesare Borgia is surrounded by shadows. Damned by his own father, hated by his closest brother, separated from the sister who loves him, and driven by the demons of Hell itself, his quest for power threatens to set the world of Renaissance Italy ablaze -- unless one innocent person can drive away the poisonous shadows ravaging him!

Enter the world of the Borgias. A world of unspeakable conspiracies and forbidden desires. A family whose murderous intrigues would make them infamous throughout history. A history written in blood…and a poison called Cantarella.

Based on Kurousa-P's popular Vocaloid song "Cantarella":

Cesare (KAITO) is the first born son of the House of Borgia, while Lucrezia (Hatsune Miku) is his younger sister. One day, Cesare receives a poison from his father that has been handed down in the family called, "Cantarella".

The House of Borgia gained prosperity in the 15th century Rome. Cesare, who is in line as the next head of the family, has a sister who he has never met. Her name is Lucrezia. The story unfolds after the moment the two first meet...

Hiroki was going to be an artist after high school, but has stopped drawing for an unknown reason. He became a teacher at Nadesico Academy, where his cousin, Elis, attends. Then, his childhood friend, Kiri, became a PE teacher at Nadesico who seems to be part of the reason why he stopped drawing....

1. Canvas ni Kuchizuke (w)o (Kiss to the Canvas)
Chapters 1-3 tells the story about the explosive encounter between a boy who loves that people watch him and an artist who loves to paint.

2. Canvas o Dakishimete (Embracing the Canvas)

3. Canvas ga Itoshikute (The Beloved Canvas)

4. Itoshii Yubisaki (Beloved Fingertips)
Kazune's childhood fascination with harpsichord tuner Takayama's fingers has grown into an obsession over the years. Now a high school student, how long with Kazune be able to repress his feelings for the cool Takayama?

5. Goshujinsama to Yobanaide (Don't Call Me Your Master)
Being mistaken as a girl and groped often Midori is getting sick and tired of it. Then came Fujita who is kind and keeps his distance no matter how much Fujita truly wants to touch Midori. Knowing this Midori is touched that such a guy exists. With this will love blossom and what's this... Midori is Fujita's... master!?

6-7. Kitsune no Yome (Bride Fox)
During a summer festival in middle school Akane is cornered and molested by a guy in a fox mask. It's also the night his best friend Kyouhei stopped speaking to him. It's three years later and Akane still can't move past that night, the unwilling pleasure he received at a stranger's hands, and the look on his best friend's face when Kyouhei saw Akane's ravaged body.

Taira Capeta was a 4th grader boy. He had lost his mother when he had been very little. Although he pretended to be tough in front of his father, actually he felt lonely. One day, his father brought junk parts home from his workplace and made a racing kart. Soon, they went to a circuit to drive the kart. However, Capeta found that its frame was bent and it could hardly run straight. But, with his technique he managed the kart. Furthermore, he followed soon after the fast kart and he could nearly leave it behind. The driver in the kart was Minamoto Naomi, the champion of the East Japan Junior Kart. Looking at their chase, Naomi´s mother, Minamoto Nanako, advised Capeta to take part in the official race.

Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award for shounen in 2005.

From StarryHeaven:

A bittersweet story about the life of Kojima Ari and Fujitani Sousuke as they live together in a de facto relationship (without marriage) in modern-day Japan.

But will the choices and mistakes they make bring them together or tear them apart?

One day Taku and his sister Tamaki find themselves on a foreign planet called Slaffleaze. The planet is ruled by the more intelligent creatures, who are led by Zolba (in the name of the king). Zolba plots to invade the world they know as Capricorn (the Earth) to obtain more power. Taku and Tamaki have to stop him before Zolba opens the way to the Earth. In order to do so, they have to gain the trust of Mona, the last remaining member of the Yappi clan, who is the ancestral guardian of Slaffleaze.

The title character is Arisu Tanigawa, an aircraft pilot who gained extraordinary flying skills under the expert tutelage of her father when she was young — but who also has some issues. Arisu's life changes when she has a chance encounter with a mysterious boy on the same airplane she is piloting.

From Scum-Scans:
11-year-old Tsubasa Ohzora transfers to his new school where he quickly becomes the star of the school's soccer team. His Brazilian coach, Roberto Hongo, notices the potential of the young athlete and soon offers him a chance to come with him to Brazil. Young Tsubasa trains more and more and is with each passing game more confident in his abilities. Old enemies become his friends and the World Cup seems closer and closer for him.

A special oneshot story of Captain Tsubasa as part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. This story occurs between the end of the juveniles soccer championship and the middle school soccer tournament of the original Captain Tsubasa series. Tsubasa is depressed after Roberto left him behind and his friends Genzo and Taro are going overseas. In order to cheer him up, his friends organize a friendly match with all his rivals from the juveniles soccer championship.

2nd Match: Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona