Contains 5 stories : 1-2) Faraway & Over the Rainbow- Tomoi is a skinny slacker with a rough home life who always dreams of leaving town. When tall and super-cool basketball star Kajita returns a lost item to Tomoi with a made up story, he draws Tomoi attention and the two slowly become close. 3) Thistle Field Line no. 18- Beautiful, gentle Sakurai sensei, Hoshi can't help but admire him. With a mutual love of records the two connect, but Hoshi knows that something dark haunts his sweet sensei- and it has something to do with that abandoned house... 4) Three-Piece Spirit 5) The Secret Path by the River Edge
Taken from In The Water : Reality isn't a shoujo manga, and Miku Ikenouchi's friends know that perfectly well. But then again, they are not Miku-chan. The reason for this is that Miku-chan has a boyfriend, a third year, and is content with what she has. But then a chain of events occur which leaves Miku-chan with a rival (for cuteness), her father quitting his job... and a new roommate ?
From Fantasyshrine: Scientist Eric Stuart has been kidnapped! To rescue him, Steve McDaniel, an elite soldier, must infiltrate the enemy's fortress, find the kidnapped scientist, and bring him home. “I’ll protect you with my life!” After hearing such a solemn promise, Eric couldn’t help but fall for Steve…
A collection of short stories: 1) You're The Closest to Me - Minato and Ozumi are best friends and neighbors. But lately Ozumi has started feeling restless when Minato isn't around. Then a Ozumi meets a handsome older man who likes him... 2) You're the Closest to Me Side Story - Ozumi is still being approached on streets and sexually harassed by guys, but Minato is there to protect him. But lately Minato hasn't been around. Does he have a secret? 3) Forbidden - A rainy day is the perfect opportunity to play indoors in this fourteen page story. 4) Excellence - Student obsessed with miniatures discovers there are other fun things to buy on the internet. 5) Rivalry 6) Last Chance A boy has a hardcore one-sided love. His crush finally agrees to go with the boy, but soon after the boy learns that his crush might be moving away to England! His last chance to take his crush all for himself is at the trip!
A nameless high school dropout teenager turns into an assassin for hire. He is a complete loner who uses his knife to kill his targets without any emotion or hesitation. He kills anyone who gets in his way whether they be a complete stranger or even the client that hired him in the first place. He meets a man named Iwanishi after one of his jobs goes bad. Iwanishi nicknames him Semi (Cicada) because he apparently talks too much and offers to become his manager, handling the business side of assassination. But it seems like Iwanishi has some secret agenda Semi isn't aware of.
Ebi sacrificed everything to get into art school, studied hard for a whole year, drew like crazy to ready herself--only to fail the entrance exam because her mind went blank. Worse, while heading home with an armful of doujinshi, she meets her friend Tachibana. Exposed as an otaku, Ebi is humiliated when Tachibana denies knowing her. Ebi resigns herself to attending a vocational school. And one of her classmates is a weird girl named Tachibana, who lost her memory in a strange accident...
Satoyama Katsuki is a carefree 15 year-old high school kid, and a pretty lazy one at that. However, he secretly has a crush on a girl who happens to share his name: Mizutani Katsuki. Upon finding out that Mizutani's father used to be a pro-boxer, and she herself infatuated with the sport, he reluctantly joins a boxing gym in order to impress Mizutani. Satoyama is quick to find out he may have the blood of a genius boxer running through his veins...
A collection of late-period Yoshiharu Tsuge stories, originally published 1981-1985.
[From DMP]: The Kourenji Family, a wealthy Japanese empire, is looking for an heir to its massive family. The two candidates, Karou and Ryuugo, are fighting to succeed as the next heir. But as they two pit their strength against each other, Kaoru starts to show another side of himself. It seems he might be more interested in winning Ryuugo than the family fortune.
A sequel to the manga that was made into a movie, "Shiawase na Jikan" is comprised of two stories. The first is a continuation of the first book, two years into the future, and Shizuku is now preparing for her entrance exams. The second story, "Kikyou no Saku Koko" (The Blooming of the Balloon Flowers), is an unrelated original story. Tsuge Takayuki is a normal college boy, who, one day, sees a girl admiring the flowers in his front yard, and was reminded of a girl who stood by the flowers one year ago, crying in the rain. He falls in love with her, but will her injured heart accept his feelings?