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A collection of six short stories originally published in various josei, shoujo, and seinen magazines. Chapters 1-2 are related; the rest are standalone.Chapter 1 (Shirube no Michi) --Mao lives a complex life, she attracts spirits and she constantly has to keep her father from losing his soul! One day she meets a man who says he is a 'guide' for souls that are lost and it turns out he had come for her father! Being motherless, losing her father would mean that Mao would be sent to live with her relatives, but when all hope seems lost the 'guide' proposes a deal that will allow Mao to keep her father temporarily...Chapter 2 (Illusion Orangery) --Mao is still working for the mysterious spirit guide, but on the day he warns her to "beware of the invitation", the smell of citrus fruits lingering in the air accompanies our young psychic on an odd game of hide-and-seek in a haunted house.Chapter 3 (Heaven's Fairy) --Shinobu’s plans for the summer are ruined when her mother sends her off to her grandparents' countryside home. Bored and friendless, she prepares herself for a long, dreary holiday -- but soon discovers that she has something in common with her grandfather -- something quite magical...literally!Story 4, Foxfire (josei): An adopted girl comes to terms with her family. Story 5, Box (seinen): An abused girl loses her mother. Story 6, Angel’s Ladder (shoujo): The story of the relationship of two sisters — one sickly and abusive, and the other struggling to cope with her.
Cute story about neko-mermaid Mel and her Mistress
A story about family bonds and pure love story!Living with ikemen brothers under the same roof, a drama between five men starts!“I left my parents who work overseas and coming back to Japan to start my high school life. Then, they asked me to live with their boss’s sons. There are four of them. The youngest only 3 years old, the second and third son are my seniors at school, and the oldest is a social worker. They have a good term with each other. But, the more I know them, I feel there’s something different with my feelings …”Family bonds and pure love story,The warmness like a sunshine, we convey them right to your heart!(by Oyaji)
Seven years after graduating from high school leaving the boring northern fishing village she grew up in for a career in the bright lights and fast pace of Tokyo, Miyo comes back and finds things much as she left them. Coming home again is never easy, but it's the place you can always return.
One day, on a whim, twenty-year old Minato decides to walk around the city dressed in her friend's cute high school uniform. To her horror, she ends up running into her stepbrother, Tooru, who is actually only months younger than her. Since he's cute and a notorious player, Minato has had to deal with constant jealousy and suspicion from other girls throughout her entire school days.Amazingly, she manages to convince Tooru that she's actually someone who just happens to look a lot like his stepsister. He is so convinced that he starts trying to date her and, for various reasons, she goes along with it. What started as a simple joke is now evolving into the biggest lie Minato has ever told!
"Ah...when faced with such cuteness, I can't help but fall in love".
This is the story of Hamada Akari, a sixteen-year-old girl whose father has problems with money. To pay off one of his debts, her dad sends her as a servant to the Otomo family. She is forced to live with them and attend a private school where only the richest and snobbiest kids enroll. The son of the Otomo family fights constantly with her and the tension between the two never seems to disappear.
A young craftsman meets the daughter of a painter he admired.
Through the activity of “Elfenbein” – an anti-government organization that Fon, Jacques and their other classmates established – Fon, now a 3rd grade student in Ilegenes Military Academy, became a threat for those important people in the government with connections to the black market. Meanwhile, two female military cadets entered the academy – something unusual in the all-male environment of the academy. One of them, Gabrielle, is surrounded by mysterious movements of unrest… The long-awaited new series of Ilegenes finally begin!!Prequel: Ilegenes - Kokuyou no Kiseki( https://manhuascan.com/comic/_/comics/ilegenes-kokuyou-no-kiseki-r8404 )
Vega is an alien who fights to protect Earth from Monsters. One day, she loses her powers and in order to get them back, she constantly asks her friend, Washimine to kiss her.
An unhealthy obsession with boys' hands, voices, and other things. Protagonist Mizuhara Hiyori has a difficult-to-explain fetish. In order to live a peaceful life, she hides her fetish away from the world and entered Blue Star Academy. There, she meets Narita Naohisa, a beautiful boy who discovers her fetish one day at school. How? Because he possesses all of the lovely qualities that Hiyori fetishizes! However, Narita-kun turns out to be a rather troublesome teenager...
Investigative reporter Izumi ventures to a mysterious commune for a scoop on why visitors there never want to return home. After being begrudgingly allowed to stay there for a single night, she gets her scoop and then some. Is the commune ready to let its secret be known to the rest of the world...?
Michiru and Mayama dream of going on vacation together, so they work hard at their part-time jobs. They're working hard again today... but then they find themselves alone together, and the mood takes an unexpected turn... Michiru's has to dress as a maid, then she's in a yukata, then a swimsuit, and then she's an advertising model... What is this!? Cosplay!? Follow the romantic path this couple walks through their jobs, all squeezed together into this manga anthology!
Chizuru likes one of the regular customers at her convenience store job. He's a truck driver. She doesn't know his name, but wonders what places he's seen... In addition to the title story Highway, When the Dawn Comes, which tells the sensitive tale of Chizuru's one-sided love, there are three more stories in this collection that will move any young girl's heart.
Minato is a member of the science club. The club leader, Shuu Tajima, is an eccentric mad scientist with an incredibly high IQ! She's actually in love with Shuu, but what does Shuu think of her? What will be the results of this couple's love experiment?! Read this popular science series and other stories that'll play on your heartstrings in Yuuki Hinase's first comic book!
Yoko, who works at a university, is a masochist. Her boyfriend dumps her, so she gets drunk and has sex with an older gentleman. The next day, he tells her, "I want to make you cry myself." He turns out to be a true sadist! She realizes there's no love between them, but she cannot reject him...
Samantha is rooted to the spot in the lobby of an office tower. She has come to tell CEO Cesare that she's pregnant. The tabloids have been full of his rumored is love affair with an actress, he's from a different world and he's so rich that he earns in a minute what she might earn in a lifetime How is she going to tell him about the baby? He doesn't even know her name. The two of them met when he was a guest at the B and B where she worked. On that stormy night, he was in the darkness of despair from having suddenly lost his eyesight in an accident, and Samantha felt compelled to comfort him...
Juliette, a destitute seamstress living in nineteenth-century London, comes upon a man being attacked by ruffians in the dead of night. Instinct takes over, and she pelts them with potatoes to save the man. He is Sir Douglas Drury, a courtroom lawyer and a baronet. His mind in a haze, he calls out to her and plants a sweet, passionate kiss on her cheek. When he wakes up, though, he's forgotten all about the kiss and treats Juliette as his servant, but when Sir Douglas's mysterious assailant targets Juliette's life, she pretends to be Sir Douglas's lover and makes her debut in high society in search of the culprit!
To college student Mahiru, relationships are just a cycle of hellos and good-byes. She only sticks around when the going is good and doesn't want any pesty deep connections. That all changes when she gets to know her next-door neighbor Kazuhiko, a kind-hearted man who's over ten years her senior. Although she goes into this new friendship with her usual blase attitude, their relationship becomes more important than she could have ever imagined...
Tomo and Yuu have been together since grade school, but has that relationship matured along with them, now that they're adults? As she sees how much taller he's grown, his big muscles, and the size of his hand on her skin, Tomo starts to see Yuu as a "man." But he seems to be acting strangely... "Like," "like-like," "love." Where's the line between friends and lovers...?
Four original glittering love stories set in different themes and genres.