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Kyouta Sakurai is a student in the second grade of a prestigious high school. He is suddenly assigned to be a chairman of the students council, instead of Kei Mikami, a very beautiful, respected and intelligent vice-chairman. The members of the council are cold to Kyouta because of that and Kei says to him "You are just a symbol. I will do everything instead of you". But Kyouta still tries to be as good a chairman as he can. When he is nearly raped, Kei saves him and orders Kyouta to be his pet in return of his support with the council work...
From Intercross: 1) Oikaketemo Chikazuitemo When she was small, Uiko exchanged a promise with childish Mako that when they are high school students, if they become a couple, they will kiss. All this time, she hasn't been able to forget that promise. But now that they've become high school students, Mako is a popular guy in her class, and Uiko is a plain girl without any redeeming points. No matter what she does, she can't be honest to Mako, who already belonged to a different world before anyone knows, but...? 2) Santa Clause wo Dakishimete 3) 1000% Aisuru Kimochi 4) Suki Sugi Chatte Gomen ne Chikage has been dating Manato for 3 months, they've held hands, and kissed too and now finally Manato has asked Chikage over. Even though Chikage has mentally perpared herself, can she really take that important next step? 5) Aishi Kimi wo Dakishimete
Despite his one-sided love, a prince at school encouraged his crush to confess to her crush. But he also could not resist confessing to her. What will happen?
from fictiondb: IN A CABIN IN THE WOODS . To fun-loving Sherry White, a summer camp for intellectually gifted children seemed the perfect getaway from the smothering influence of her wacky but well-intentioned stepmother. But she soon realized that sharing a cabin with seven precocious little girls and a contraband hamster, under the watchful eye of Camp Gitche Gumee's gorgeous, disapproving director, Jeff Roarke, was more than child's play. Roarke's businesslike attitude and crack-of-dawn staff meetings were anything but relaxing. Still, a midnight lakeside rendezvous had Sherry atingle in a way she was certain ran counter to Roarke's strict antiromance policy. Dare she risk falling under the spell of this unwilling prince?
Inariya returns to war fiction, with this story of two Italian soldiers on the Russian front during the last days of WWII.
From Shoujo Manga Maniac: Ruka's a junior high student in love with her father's assistant, Fumi-sempai. She wants to become an adult quickly because everyone sees her as a little kid! But what would happen if she actually became an adult with the help of a time machine?
A manager and her coworker get snowed in.
Oneshot from Sayuri Hime 2 A short but sweet story about a girl visiting her first love.
Oogami is a detective by day and exorcist by night, solving cases and hunting spirits together with his ghostly assistant Kazari. One day, a mysterious package with horrifying contents arrives in Oogami's mail, the only clue to its sender being the name of a remote village: Shirasunamura.
From Wasurenagusa Matsuda moves to Tokyo to experience student's life for the first time. Already at the first day he meets his neighbour, who lives with a small girl who calls him Yo-chan. Why are they living together and where's the mother of little girl, and also why Matsuda is so interested in their affairs...
Meguna Hirasawa has confessed 5000 times in total to her 10 year long crush Ayumu and in turn, received 5000 rejections. But that won't stop her. In fact, Meguna is retiring from simple confessions and moving to a whole new level. That being said, Meguna is ready to dive straight into seduction! Wait, the first thing she does is smash her lips into Ayumu's face for a bloody kiss?! Will her pestering finally allow her to capture Ayumu's heart? Or will this desperate girl's hard work be in vain?
Yamada's a parents gone abroad and as they are worried about him staying alone there hired a maid to look after him. Problem is that the maid seems to be a deliquent but takes her job seriously. Nothing will stay as it is for Yamada anymore.
From Intercross: The lovey-dovey love story between junior high school student/shoujo mangaka Sakura Rena and super cool Okita-kun is finally complete!! Going on a trip with just Okita-kun, having a stubborn love rival (?) suddenly appear, Renacchi is in big trouble!! Note: Sequel to Manga Mitaina Koi Shitai, although published under a different name. VIZ Media just released it as a second volume.
It contains 5 stories: 1) Erotic Trigger: Yoshino's boyfriend, Koyota, only seems to have one thing on his mind-sex. Yoshino loves him but is dying for a little romance. Can Koyota pull back enough for her birthday? 2) Liar Trigger: Akira works in designing women's and underwear he's VERY serious about it. His work always ends up to be the end of his romances because he will always bluntly chose work over women. But his co-worker Ririko seems to be different. Can she be the one woman he can truly count on? 3) Mint Trigger; 4) Vibrating Trigger ; 5) Summer Trigger. NOTE: The last two stories contain yuri themes.
Collection of short stories: • 10-gatsu no Oujo to Boku (Queen and Me in October) • Oujisama 11-gatsu no Yuutsu (The Prince Melancholy in November) • Shichigatsu no Mahoutsukai A love story between a magician and his princess! • Gozen no Mori
Inazuma and Ikazuchi, the Akatsuki-class Destroyer Kanmusume fighting with the Abyssals as their duty in the Naval School, had a secret they couldn't tell to other Kanmusume"When we fight, we want to win, but we want to save their lives...is that weird?"The kindhearted Kanmusume will do their best at their duty today as well.