Having just transferred into a new school, Shiori's "experienced" look has given her an opportunity to make friends, but in reality she is not experienced in love at all. To maintain this image, Shiori desperately hides the fact that she is a HUGE book otaku. Meeting another book fan who is a mysterious beauty, Shiori ends up in an unpredicted circumstance. What now will become of Shiori's hope for an elegant school life...?!

Toradora!'s story begins with the male protagonist Ryuuji Takasu who is frustrated at trying to look his best as he enters his second year of high school. Despite his gentle personality, he has a natural outer-appearance which makes him look like an intimidating delinquent so he is utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either.

After being greeted by his hungover mother in the morning, Ryuuji goes to school and is happy to find that he gets to be in the same class as his best friend, Yūsaku Kitamura, and crush, Minori Kushieda. However, it is then that he unexpectedly knocks into "the school's most dangerous animal of the highest risk level" - Taiga Aisaka - who just happens to also be in his class.

Oniko, as she is called, is a demon who has a severe interest in humans and one day decides she wants to become a human herself!

From Day of the River: Nanami received the opportunity to start her independent life once entering high school, and began to live on her own. However the next door neighbour, a young man named Niji, emits a mysterious aura inside and out. Little by little Nanami is attracted to Niji, until she discovers the big secret he's been hiding…

From Shoujo Crusade:
Seiji, the younger one, and Ai, two childhood friends, happen to live together.
Ai has an omamori* to get a boyfriend. She thinks she wants 'a very loving but cheeky boy.' But when she accidentally witnesses Seiji's date and kiss, her heart starts hurting. Why...?
The sparkling story that first drew Cheese!'s attention, Moto Haruka's debut FC, is now out!!

*omamori - lucky charm

A collection of 4 cute school life romance stories about first loves:

• Tonari no Hijiri-kun (Hijiri-kun Beside Me)
This is a tale about a girl named Megumi, and two brothers who are as different as night and day. Add a bit of tennis and there you go.

• Dakishi Metai!!
Mirai's family had a tragic accident and so since he was young he went to live with an older girl, Hanoka. After years of being raised together, will Hanoka give him his own space?

• Help!
A continuation of story 2. Things are still awkward between Hanoka and Mirai. Are they siblings? Are they a couple? And what happens when another girl takes an interest in Mirai?

• Sensei no Himitsu (My Teacher's Secret)
Top student Kyouko is given the task of tutoring Jin, a stubborn and lazy boy. The first thing Jin tells her is to just take the money and go home. But when Kyouko persists Jin makes an offer: if he scores in the top thirty Kyouko must never see him again!

Nagisa's good friend, Igarashi Taiga, is the popular guy at their university. After being compared to Taiga as a lover, Nagisa keeps wondering and questions Taiga, who demonstrates his skills with a hot kiss... What will come after that?

A series of short stories. First Story: Natsume, who is living in a boarding house, goes to the same school as the daughter of the house, Kayo. Though they're friends, they have no romantic feelings, especially since Natsume is a total player and Kayo doesn't understand his attraction for the other girls. But there's a reason he acts like such a playboy; his parents' marriage isn't good, and he doesn't believe anyone would love him for more than a casual encounter.

The Arisaka sisters (Hatsune and Kazuki) and the Kagura siblings (Yuuji and Marie) lived next door when they were smaller. So close that they could climb onto each other's verandas from the 2nd floor. They would always play together until one day the Kagura siblings had to move.
It's been 10 years and the Kagura siblings are moving back! Yuuji's turned into a pervert and Marie isn't the crybaby she used to be?

Included stories:

• Colored Pencils
• Fireworks
• Marigold
• Musical Bbbboooox
• Indian Summer
• Lover
• Winter Moon
• Lamplight
• Clockwork Glasses
• City of Strawberries
• Fish Boy

Before handing in his career survey, highschooler Takaya Tsugami was feeling vague and insecure towards his future. What exactly do I want to do? And is it okay to choose it? With feelings like that, Takaya's existence drifts through class. But when unexpected events occur with Rigel Minahashi, who appears as if he lives however his heart desires, will he begin anew?

(From Lacy)

From SAM-urai:

Urara is a modern day Cinderella living with a wicked aunt, instead of a step-mother. Her friends convince her to go with them to Shibuya in hopes that they will meet a popular model named Yuki. Her friends spot a fake Yuki and Urara is run over by a mob of fans. She looks up to see another good looking guy in front of her. He suddenly styles her hair and looks at her. Astonished, she knocks his sunglasses off and realizes that it is the real Yuki. Later on, she has a fight with her relatives and packs her bags. With no where to stay, Urara has no where to go...and then she sees Yuki again...is he the answer to her problems?

Tamiko lives with her two brothers, her mom, and her grandmother. It's your typical family, or so she thought. But one day, she finds out Akira, her older brother, is not her brother at all, but the illegitimate child of the famous actress Hanyuu Kaori...

This is a sweet and heartwarming love story, told from the different viewpoint of the two young lovers, a girl named Chizuru and a boy named Yudai. They mean well but cannot seem to succeed at love. They want their relationship to succeed but a combination of uneasiness and lack of self-confidence keeps them from advancing to the next step.

Sometimes, it takes an unexpected third party to intervene in order to make two people realize what is right in front of them. That is exactly what happens in this story.

Even if this love, this tenderness will bring about the destruction of the world..."Because...I met you." Mashiro Ouha was a normal high school student...until the day she got attacked by snake-like creatures. Oblivious to her destiny, she had always believed that her life would be an ordinary one...

From Suimasen Scanlations:

Milan’s father is a soccer manager. On his deathbed, he entrusts her with the team, FC Sudden Death. Once a great power in J1, they’ve found themselves kicked out of the league and on the skids. Will Milan be able to turn the team around, or will she fall victim to the numerous pranks the team members play on each other?

From Intercross:

When Kashiwagi transfers to Chiemi's school, sensei asks Chiemi to watch over him but even after a month since his transfer, Kashiwagi still doesn't get involved with anyone. Chiemi thinks it might be useless and annoying to keep trying to get close to him but continues trying to be friends with him anyways. But is it really as useless as she first thought it'd be...?

From Kokoro no Oasis:

With her little brother in a coma and no money to pay a doctor, Milan has no choice but to turn to Clock and Chrome, Time Traders who grant wishes in return for hours instead of dollars.

From Storm in Heaven:

Meet the volatile Nakichi and peaceful Seita, the two water sprites that live in a river in the remote countryside. A chance encounter with the human child Yoshiharu reawakens the half -forgotten ties between water sprites and humans, and an amazing friendship is forged. Yet can this relationship survive the test when humans once again threaten the lives of these mythical beings?

From Manga-Sketchbook:
14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology.

To get anything other than the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's Sanshiro.