Mizumori Mai's an average middle schooler, with a group of really close friends. The only problem is, she'll be transferring schools after the day of the Athletic Festival! So, she really wants to try her best on that day, and she's always energetic. BUT, is it really okay to her...?
Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a kid? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.
From Chibi Manga: I've always, always longed for this. Fancy gossip with friends. And my first love. The girl who thinks this, Ayumu, met the sparkling boy Kanata. When she sees him, her heart beats fast and her chest feels tight. These feelings... is that love? Also includes two other stories: • Love Ego • Katakoi Iro
In Keigo's school, all the troubled kids are grouped into one class -- the troublemakers, the abused kids, and the scarred ones. There's a quiet kid in his class named Asato who never talks to anyone, and like Keigo, doesn't want to go home after school. One day after class Keigo cuts himself, and the two of them discover that Asato has the ability to absorb the wounds of others. What wounds will Asato heal, and what scars does he himself carry...?
Fujioka Natsu is dismayed to discover that his younger boss at his new workplace is Kirishima Takumi, the source of his long-time guilt. Since it's been seventeen years Fujioka figures Kirishima wouldn't remember him, let alone remember what happened that night, but Kirishima does remember. And he's set on making a payback.
Poppoya: Satou Otomatsu is a lonely station master of a small station in Hokkaido, situated at the end of the line in a small village with an aging population. The station is due to close in the coming spring, and he will retire with it. One night in his last winter manning the station, an encounter with a young girl marks the beginning of the events that will see him reflect on his working life - performing his duty as a railroad man, whilst enduring the pain of its cost to his personal life. Love Letter: Goro just got out from jail, but a police officer wants to talk to him right away. He announces to him that Goro's wife is dead and that he has to go to Chiba and take her body. Goro has no recollection of having a wife, but then he remembers he married a Chinese woman a long time ago. He married her for her money, and had she married him because she needed a Japanese visa to work. In fact, she's a prostitute who came to Japan hoping to find better life. At first, Goro can't be bothered by this situation, but he goes to Chiba just because he can earn a lot of money. Later on, during his trip, Goro finds a letter she wrote him and through it he discovers the pure person that lies beneath this common prostitute. She is a woman of such kindness and love that Goro is moved to learn something about the woman he married. With those few words of love and tenderness, he understands her fears, her goals, and her hopes for the future -- a future that he knows will never come.
[From Nakama] "I'll overwrite your memory." Detective Yagi of Section 1 is teaming up again with his secret love interest and junior colleague Detective Amemiya, after a long period of separation. Yagi finds out that Amemiya still wants revenge on the violent ciminal who harmed him three years ago. The feelings never stop in this love crisis between Detectives! "1 yen no Otoko" Sidestories "Houtou to burai ~ kakugo" and "Houtou to burai+" ("Decadence and Delinquence: Resolution" and "Decadence and Delinquence+") Big Collaboration! based on Yuu Asagiri's Story "Chouhatsu no repo-writer" ("The Provocative Reportage Writer")
Compilation of short stories: • Kanojo no Honnou Her Instinct "I want to crush every love that began with a love letter." Natsume began a relationship with a love letter. 3 months later, she got dumped. As she's walking home, she bumps into her classmate Aji-kun who's on his way to give a girl a love letter. Natsume decides to crush that love... • Todoketai Want to Reach You "At home, along with the thoughs that make me choke inside... there's the 'make-believe family' that I have to pretend to be a part of..." Mana hates going home to a house with no one in it... but when her mother decides to remarry, Mana begins to hate going home even more. Because at home, there's Shin. • Mekakushi no Joousama The Blindfolded Princess "I'm the queen of the library... if I'm seen, I'll disappear." Inoue Yoriko can't refuse when people ask her for things, so she gets bullied at school. The only reason she goes, is to see Maki - the guy she loves. She thinks he hate her, so she can't confess to him. But when he hears her voice in the library, and tells her he loves it, will Yoriko decide to show her face or stay hidden forever? • Multi-Vitamin "You are just.... A vitamin drug." That's what Ichimiya Ai says to a guy right before she dumps him. As she is walking in the hall, she sees her junior sleeping against the wall... but why is her heart beating just looking at him? When the guy, Natsu, asks her out, she accepts... but something feels different about him... • Lovex2 de Kishi Love Love Knight "Quickly, throw me away already! Don't hurt me more than you already have..." When Satsuki Mio confesses to the insanely popular ''Knight-kun'', she is so nervous she totally messes up (it's her first time confessing). Amused by her pureness, Knight-kun asks her to be his lover. At first, Mio can't believe she has such a good catch for her first boyfriend... but what if he doesn't really love her?
Kensuke meets, through a dating site, a certain "Michiru-san" who's erotic, has a sexy beauty mark near his mouth, and is great at playing coy. Although they both lie and claim they're 20, Kensuke is actually 17 and Michiru-san is actually 26. Not only are they 9 years apart in age, but Michiru also ends up being a teacher at Kensuke's school! As soon as the truth is out, Michiru stoically proposes to end the relationship.
A series of loosely-connected vignettes, each lead to the next by a stray thought. A young hit-man chased from his home; a dropped key to a bloody room; a meat-locker to hide a corpse; the watchful eyes of crows; a criminal?s chance at salvation; the sight of music in the air. Where will this story take you, and in what place will it end?
A girl is bored of her unchanging peaceful life, and goes to a house that is considered haunted. She meets a boy there instead of ghosts.