Meeting Nam Yoontae, the object of his unrequited love, during the small reunions with his high school friends every Christmas is close to being Seong Chan's only desire in life. Every single time, he only has one small wish during their tradition of exchanging gifts. And that is, for his present to go to Nam Yoontae. But an even more shocking event has happened this year...?
Kayano Meguru has a bit of a brother complex. Her love for her brother is so strong that she has removed the idea of any romance with any other male other than her brother from her mind. One day she passes out and awakens 2 years in the future! To make things even more confusing for her, she is dating someone other than her beloved brother!
This is the story of Aoi Kamiya, a goalkeeper from Japan. After a super safe he made as a substitute player, he was called to play for a club in Germany. How will he deal with this when he's just 20 years old and with only 3 years of professional career as a goalkeeper?
Violette, who was the daughter of a duke and possessed a proud and striking demeanor, committed a crime due to her envy towards her half-sister. However, after being convicted, she showed honesty and remorse while locked up in prison. Suddenly, she is transported back in time to a crucial moment, her first meeting with Maryjun a year prior. Intent on preventing a repeat of her past mistakes, Violette determines to live a plain and unremarkable life without causing any trouble for anyone. Despite her efforts, unforeseen circumstances continue to disrupt her plans...!
[From Manga-Sketchbook]: Female assassins mix sex and death in a pair of hard-boiled well-drawn film-noir stories of love and murder. From Baka-Updates: Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.
From MangaHelpers: At the scene of a terrible murder, only Todo is able to find the surviving little girl in the closet--his niece Tsubasa. Four years later, Todo and his father are caring for Tsubasa, who no longer speaks, and Todo continues to work as a police detective. He's assigned to a new partner, a young woman with a promising future, Saeki. As Todo and Saeki team up to solve murder cases together, they will also both have to confront their own painful pasts. [tethysdust]
From Amazon.com: Any pairing of two masterminds can elicit murmurs of approval—or of apprehension. But all readers can rest assured that in this case, the pairing of seinen manga suspense master Urasawa and legendary cartoonist Tezuka is a very, very good thing. In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol’s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders—the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.
Collection of oneshot stories: 1. Is love between adults and high school girls really taboo? Ritsuko's boyfriend, Yuuji, is an outstanding office worker who works in a foreign company. He always treats Ritsuko like a little kid just because he is seven years her senior. Does Yuuji really like me? Ritsuko is always insecure. Do I really like Yuuji? Can we really be together? 2. Taiyou and Daichi are twin brothers, who have been Aya's childhood friends but.... 3.Minori is a shy girl who has a black cat she named Night, whom she loves very much. One day Night runs off. Will she ever find him and bring him home?
[From Fantasy Shrine:] Super-star soccer player, Gai, has a nightly duty to “service” his new boss, Yuito, the new owner of his soccer team and his old high school classmate. Is their physical-only relationship doom to eclipse their hearts…!? Or would the constant battle with Yuito’s formidable pride makes a frustrated Gai force to take drastic measures? Also included in the book is a oneshot titled “Heavenly Hell”.
1) Passion Kiss (Yokujou Kisu One night) - Manatsu has a dream of an incredibly fulfilling kiss. "Who was the boy in my dream? That's the first time a kiss has made my chest ache." That's when Manatsu gets a feeling from her classmate, Morishima-kun -- the same feeling she got from the boy in the dream. Without thinking, and despite the fact she already has a boyfriend, she... (!!!) 2) Second Virgins (Sekando Vaajinzu) - Kawori is prepped and ready to lose her virginity to Shunsuke... until he penetrates her and it hurts like hell. She wants him to stop, but he can't. They get into a fight and stop talking after that. Then, one and a half years later, Kawori gets coerced into attending a singles party -- and Shunsuke is there! ...As the boyfriend of Kawori's friend Nao? How will Kawori and Shunsuke handle their unresolved feelings? 3) Eternal Summer, Fleeting Summer (Eien no Natsu, Isshun no Natsu) - The first love letter Takeshita Riho wrote was to Sakurai Touma, the class president she had a crush on from second to sixth grade, but the letter never got sent. ...Until now, when Riho's meddlesome friend mails it out. To Riho's surprise, Touma writes back and responds well to her feelings! He's just as Riho remembers him, and the way he writes makes it sound like those elementary school days were the most important of his life. What Riho doesn't realize is the heart-breaking (and tear-jerking) reason why...
Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa, a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls.
Seven years ago, Yura found Nao washed up from the sea. No one knows who he is or where he came from. Her parents took him in, and he's been living as her "little brother" for seven years, but now that is going to change...?