For some reason, Chisa's unsociable classmate Jin glares at her every day. After hearing the scary rumours about him being unstoppable, she happens to run into him on the streets. He is bloodstained, and carrying corpses!? Perhaps it was dangerous to have witnessed that!? Moreover, at school the next day, Chisa is shocked when he asks her out! Despite everything that goes against them, are they suited to be together...?

Tsubaki comes from a really rich family. Since her parents lets her do what she wants to do she parties everyday. She has many friends and guys, and it should have been a fun high school life but, because of one guy she changed!?
And that person is the one that came to Tsubaki’s house as the “strongest” male housekeeper Kazumi. He’s scary and overbearing but he does a perfect job when it comes to housework! And he said “While I’m at it I’ll break Tsubasa’s spirit as well!?” What will happen now!?

• HeartBeat Mail
Uehara has always liked her classmate Kaji, who sits behind her, but cannot find the strength to talk to him. One day, Kaji left his phone on his desk so she decided to leave a note with her mail address on it. Soon, they started mailing each other; but what will come out of it?

• 7Kiss
Asano is transferring soon. However, 7 days before she does, she sees Andou-sensei shoveling and she went up to him and kissed him, using her cellphone to take a picture of the scene! Using the picture, she blackmailed Andou-sensei into agreeing to kiss her every morning for seven days till the last day before she transfers…

• Love Lover (Part 2 is called Love Honey)
Due to Shinji and Misaki’s parents remarrying, Shinji is now Misaki’s younger brother of 2 years. But that isn’t the only thing, Shinji and Misaki are also a couple, with their parents support! One day, when they come home from school, they found out that their parents had won a prize for a trip! What will happen on that trip?! And where would Misaki’s insecurity lead to?!

• Ojousama no Okiniiri (Ojousama’s Favourite)
Ayaka is the daughter of a rich family and the madonna of her school – beautiful, intelligent, and graceful, she’s the perfect modern day princess. Ever since she was small, she has always been the target of kidnapping, which is why her father hired Masaki, a boy at the same age as Ayaka to be her bodyguard. With such a perfect bodyguard who’s good at everything he does, Ayaka feels pressured to become perfect as well. And then one day, her father informs her that she’s going to get married…

From Viz:

Shy Chise and nervous Shuji are high school seniors in a small town and have just started dating. But everything changes when Shuji discovers that Chise has been engineered by the Japanese Self Defense Force to transform into the Ultimate Weapon! Soon Chise is torn between realizing her potential as a devastating fighting force and her desire to share a bowl of ramen with her new boyfriend!

BY LOVE ALONE

From fictiondb:

Strictly business

When Lauren Martin had set out to get an exclusive interview with Cole Adams, millionaire owner of a recording company, she hadn't anticipated them making headlines--as a couple. But their relationship had ended bitterly six months later, when Lauren realized their lives were taking very different paths.

Since then, she'd resumed her career and reshaped her life. Until her editor assigned her to get the inside scoop on Cole's impending marriage--an assignment that Cole had specifically asked that Lauren cover!

Lauren knew she didn't have a choice about doing the article, but she sure had a choice about the way she'd conduct herself with Cole--she'd be cool and professional. After all, those heady days--and nights--they'd shared were definitely yesterday's news....

1-5) Please Wait
Tanaka who works as a station attendant has an odd aversion to being touched. When a businessman, Doujima, finds out about his affliction, he teases him about it. Though Tanaka hates the feeling of touching others, he can't help but feel strangely attracted to Doujima...

6) Think Drip
Minamoto and Yoshino have been best friends for 10 years... but Yoshino feels slightly inferior, even though it seems like Minamoto is always chasing after him. While they are out drinking with a friend one night, he asks the two friends if they have had sex yet.... and that one question sends Yoshino spiraling.

Extra) Please Wait Extra

There's a new student at St. George International School, and soon he becomes one of the most talked-about students. Even though it's an international school in Tokyo, Japan, the new student (Yonogi Dai) is a Japanese boy. Dai was raised in the US and recently came to Japan for the first time.

Dai turns out to be a distant person, uncaring about other people and those who want to be his friends. He looks quite cute and gentle but he's actually unsocial and can be harsh. Jerry Morton who's very popular and well liked among the student just wants to ignore this cold Dai, but being the kind hearted (and nosy) boy that he is, he begins to approach Dai.

Jerry and Marty and their other friends soon find out that indeed Dai is rather difficult to deal with, but it doesn't take long before Dai becomes their friend. However, sometimes when they feel that Dai is getting closer to them he would say or do something that shows that he doesn't really think them as his close friends.

The story then begins to unfold itself. Dai's new friends start to discover the truth about the mysteries surrounding Dai. Why he's in Japan, about his family, about Ken in the States who seems to be the only one he's having personal contact with, and about his relation to a very famous game, "Sabbath Child". They discover the real Dai just like Dai discovers his true friends in life, and also himself along the way.

In the castle, a poor boy, Biskyu Cris, tries to steal a medicinal herb which can extend the life span of the Castral people who only live for 25 years. Biskyu is saved by a tall beautiful, person completely covered by a long coat.

After a lengthy period of sword training, Biskyu returns to the castle to become a knight and guard the person who originally saved him. Biskyu believed the person was a woman and wanted to sacrifice his life for her. However, his savior was a *king* of Castral, Erudora, who's 700 years old. (Erudora contracted with the Gyokuto people who have magical powers to cure any diseases. In return for his blood, Erudora received eternal life and awful blue blood which grows the medicinal herb.)

Biskyu has the opportunity to become a knight Erudora's daughter, but instead falls in love with Erudora again. Biskyu, learning of the conspiracy by the Minister of Justice to try and kill Erudora, escapes with Erudora to release him from his accursed fate...

Two abandoned boys, Kyou and Toudou, were raised at an appalling orphanage where physical violence was a part of the day to day life. One day Kyou’s real mother came searching for him and took him away from this dreadful existence. The byproduct of a man and his mistress, Kyou’s mother was forced to give him away.

Many years passed and Kyou Sugiura is now a successful prosecutor and pursing an investigation of government corruption involving a young parliamentarian named Tatsuki Toudou – the same Toudou that he grew up with in the orphanage. How the times have changed! Both men growing up in the present of uncertainty; to become, in the future, the height of success, and to stand on the opposite sides of the law. Kyou had never really forgotten Toudou, and Toudou had never really forgiven Kyou.

The meeting between the two ambitious young men results in an unintended consequence that neither had been prepared for. In this stand off between the enforcer and the law maker, there is a past that binds them together. And it is the strength or weakness of this past that will determine the outcome of their duel.

This volume contains the complete works of “The Judged” and “Spring Haze,” a short story involving Toudou’s assistant and ex-lover, Hachiko.


From DramaQueen:
Public prosecutor Kyou Sugiura is pursing an investigation of government corruption involving a young parliamentarian named Tatsuki Toudou. The meeting between the two ambitious young men results in an unintended consequence that neither had been prepared for. In this stand off between the enforcer and the law maker, there is a past that binds them together. And it is the strength or weakness of this past that will determine the outcome of their duel.

1. Kiss Yori mo Ijiwaru
Miku is admitted to enter an extremely prestigious school, where only elite students are studying, as a transfer student. Her only good point is that she's cheerful and enthusiastic. She's pleased to enter the school because it is a boarding school and the tuition is free. However, Omi, an elite but spiteful student, tells her to quit school. Miku is put in a tricky position, and accepts his challenge to a fight.

2. Sensei, Onnanoko ni Shite (Teacher, Please Turn Me into a Girl!)

3. Scandal Nante Iwasenai (Not a Scandal)
Yuuri is a total fan of the top idol Shibuki. Then during his concert, she gets an unique chance that any fan would dream of.

4. Yubisaki kara Hajimaru Furachi (The Evil Prince)
Keita, a hairstylist and a former gangster, suddenly asks Arimori Tsukasa to be his model after seeing her beautiful hair, but a street flirt comes and Keita saves her. They gradually become friends, but will there be something more?

In kindergarten, naive Mitsuko began to think of Yoshioto, who was staying at her house, as her papa. And she vowed that she would be Yoshioto's bride when she grew up. Can this dream be fulfilled? In the journey to see him, she slowly understands her own feelings and her heart that refuses to mature, but nonetheless thinks she's already mature. In her search, they gradually melt into one.

1) Reason for Goodbye
Students Yukihisa and Akira were dating secretly until Yukihisa's parents discovered them. They don't speak anymore, and now Yukihisa's family is moving. Is there anything left for them?

2) Snow Snow Melody
Mutsuki wants to be songwriter, but he's only a clumsy intern working at a television station. When the most beautiful guy he's ever seen insults him, Mutsuki hits him in the face with a dust rag! But that guy is Kyoya, a singer in a popular band, and he's taken a liking to Mutsuki.

3) Don't Worry Baby
Takaya has a crush on his classmate Wataru, but Wataru only thinks of his younger brother Tsutomo. When Takaya decides to meet his competition, Wataru gets angry. Can these guys ever sort out their feelings?

4) Difficult Love Journey
Shouhei is in love with his classmate Wataru. But Wataru won't listen to his confession! He says he'll only hear Shouhei out if he can beat his test scores. Will Shouhei ever win?

Masaki doesn’t understand the feelings that are accumulating inside him. When he realizes them, it is too late---his best friend has moved. In the ice cold snow, he weeps and remembers his best friend’s words.

From Midnight Scans:

Story 1: Sayonara Demo Aishiteru - Yutaka's version
Yutaka has decided to confess to Mariya, the girl who saved him during the entrance examination. Being an average girl, Mariya was bewildered by the confession of the charming Yutaka. Even though there are strains in their relationship, the distance between the two slowly shortens. However, Mariya has suddenly asked for a breakup!

Story 2: Sayonara Demo Aishiteru - Mariya's version

Story 3: 1% No Kiseki
Nana falls for her rumored cold teacher.

Story 4: Sumetaku, Amaku, Koi O Shite
Rinka has always been perceived as a cold girl and is popular with the freshman boys, until that is they found out about her true personality. There is yet another freshman that proclaims that he fallen in love with her at first sight, but she gave him a blunt reply as she have given many others. However it seems that he has not been shaken by her reply, how will Rinka react?

From NOIR:

Lena Ha is a beautiful and a tough girl who is the captain of the kendo team. She meets Hye-Min Kang, the son of the president of a big company in Korea, and the two seem to fall in love at first sight.

But when Lena learns that she and Hye-Min are half-siblings, she runs away and falls into a strange body of water. When Lena wakes up, she finds herself in a strange kingdom...and learns that she may be its only hope. Now Lena, disguised as Ley, is ready for many adventures.

In 18th century England, Gabriel, an orphan girl from a fallen noble family befriended a young man named Jeremy, who was rumored to be an illegitimate child of a nobleman. After an incident occurred, resulting in his tragic death, Gabriel must impersonate her friend Jeremy, taking his place at an all boys academy for nobles, a place that may seem like heaven to others, but really hides a harshness which she would never have imagined.

From AQUA Scans:

The people that are infected with the maka's sprout, are fated to feed the flower until it blooms, which ends their lives.
The maka -humanoid demons-, carrying its own sprout, are chased by Satsuki, and the maka known as Blue Rose greets Satsuki as a "Hero". What will this encounter bring...?

From Shoujo Manga Maniac: In Korea, the deer is considered as the symbol of purity and innocence. Ria wishes she were a deer... Torn between her love for her protective brother and her desire to fend for herself, she'll need to learn how to make her own choices, as well as her brother will. Not only Rin meets a girl who falls head over heels for him, but he also starts to feel growing an odd interest in guys... Saseum is a moving story about the everyday life of teens in Korea, a beautiful story of love and human feelings.

A collection of oneshots some which are related with a final chapter linking all the dashing guys together.

1) Prisoner of the Desert
Businessman lackey Hibiki thought his one night stand with Prince Zyad in Japan would be the last time he would see the handsome sheik. But when he visits Zyad's country and is falsely imprisoned as a spy, there's only one man he can turn to.

2) Embraced by Guiltiness
When there's a press leak at the ministry, everyone falls under suspicion. When ladies man Yura discovers Shirase's lover is a man and a member of the press he decides to use the information to get Shirase into bed. But Shirase still has a much more damaging secret...

3) The Long Night
Policeman Kayano is investigating the spy in the ministry. His no. one suspect: ex-college friend and current lover Takashina. Can there be a relationship without trust? What is Takashina hiding?

4) Escort
With frequent violent attacks on his person, analyst Asami Shinobu is assigned a 24 hour bodyguard to keep him safe. Unfortunatly his bodyguard is a former one night stand named Saeki Yuuji. With Saeki in his personal space at all times, Asami's feelings are getting more tangled up.

5) Suite Love
Hotel attendant Kuga is assigned to serve Japanese-American businessman Touno. But this isn't the first time they've met, they have a past together as college students in America that Touno isn't about to let Kuga forget about.

6) The Morning Scene
Each couple is observed at 6 a.m. from Kayano and Takashina in Tokyo, to Kuga and Touno in Los Angeles.

From Tokyopop:
Minami Fujii is an employee at a high-powered advertising firm. She’s good at her job but finds herself torn between the pressure and expectations of her career and her attraction to two of her coworkers: the younger, arty Ishida, and the classy, put-together Ogiwara!