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"I am unworhty to be happy. I've always waited for someone to punish me-" Rina works at a cafe. One day, she nearly gets assaulted by a man, but she is saved by a guy named Souma Shiba, one of the regular customers at the cafe and a motorcycle road racer. Souma has to pull out of the race due to his injury from saving Rina. This incident leads Rina to start living with Souma, but then -?! Story 2: "Who are we?- " Makato, Nahato, and Shuu are all connected by an incident that happened in the past. Makato is working is a detective working undercover to find a drug dealer in an all boys high school. Makato does not remember anything about her past and has a burn on her back, as Makato gets to know the "trader" she discovers he has a burn on his arm that is like a puzzel piece to Makato's burn, but he also doesn't have any recollection of his past either.

from fictiondb: She was a pawn to be used as he liked And in the circumstances, Eve had no choice but to go along with the pretense set up by Max Nilsson's schemes. A rich man's lover--or a loving daughter trying to shield her family? Eve knew very well which was her real self. Only by cruel coincidence the man being baited by Max was the one man whose good opinion Eve really longed for. And Carl Ramsay believed that she was a heartless gold digger. With the evidence stacked against her, winning Carl's love seemed hopeless ....

Collection of inter-linked stories. 1. Kikyo After losing her job, a woman in der mid-twenties returns to her hometown in the countryside and has an unexpected encounter. 2. Large Small World A junior high school girl, who has a cram school teacher for her boyfriend and a delinquent girl for her best friend, keeps skipping class, but still does her homework. What could be her reasoning? 3. Mother Ship The truant girl's mother tells the story of her youth, her love and her life. 4. Sandwich Blues A 32-year-old middle-school teacher leads the same lonesome life she had during her elementary school days. When her cousin from the countryside annouces her marriage, she starts to ponder... 5. Go Slow (continuation of Mother Ship) 6. Manimani

From Yen Press: Going home for his grandfather';s funeral, thirty-year-old bachelor Daikichi is floored to discover that the old man had an illegitimate child with a younger lover! The rest of his family is equally shocked and embarrassed by this surprise development, and not one of them wants anything to do with the silent little girl, Rin. In a fit of angry spontaneity, Daikichi decides to take her in himself! But will living with this overgrown teenager of man help Rin come out of her shell? And hang on, won't this turn of events spell doom for Daikichi's love life?!

From Stiletto Heels: What is being sought after cannot be felt even on the fingertips. This is a series about the extravagant lifestyle of a tattoo artist named Gad, and the circle of people who revolve in it. Contains the stories: prologo, macch ia nera, il mio lavoro, balcone, esitanza, Sfortunato, ingranaggio, and epilogo.

[From DokiDoki]: An adorable allegory about peace and tolerance. According to the author ~ in the future our world has been wiped out more or less by our own stupidity and intolerance: in the world that follows, all the inhabitants are cats who live together peacefully in spite of nationality and race.

A collection of one-shots, published 2003-2010. • Gomennasai (Young Animal, 2003/3) • Bousou Kiss (Rakuen web, 2010/3) • ...Gokko (Rakuen #1, 2009/10) • Otoshigoro (Big Comic Spirits, 2005 #19) • One Step (Rakuen web, 2010/4) • Ferris Wheel (Silky, 2009/8) • Yume musubi to (Rakuen web, 2009/12) • Hakuchu yamu (Rakuen #3, 2010/6) • Yoshi × Yoshi (new) • Only One (Rakuen #2, 2010/2) • Reset (new)

Applebee is the perfect maid, serving a household with a slightly twisted young master. This master has a sweet tooth, and tells her to make some home-made sweets. However, the one thing that the perfect Applebee resented was making sweets. Oneshot Greenhouse Dancing Club is about the dancing club at a girls' school. Because of their height, Eniwa and Katsurayama were both stuck leading and so never got a chance to dance together. Now Katsurayama is about to graduate...

From JShoujo Scans: Akari, who loves books, moves to Tokyo to go work at the head office of a bookstore. There she meets the assistant manager Terayama Morizou, who loves books more than people. Up 'til now Akari hasn't worked at such a large store yet so she feels a lot of pressure, but at the same time she realizes she really loves her job. This manga depicts the struggles she experiences at work as well as in her personal life.

from fictiondb: Small-town girl Trudy Baxter is ready to take on New York City. She's looking for excitement, adventure...and incredible sex! She wants to experience every little thing -- and every type of man -- the city has to offer. Her first target -- sexy Wall Street hunk Linc Faulkner. Only, once she gets Linc into her bed, she's reluctant to let him go.... Linc Faulkner has never met anybody like Trudy. She's so spirited, so sexy, so damn uninhibited! She's his every fantasy in the flesh. Only, Linc knows he's just the first man on Trudy's sexual wish list. So what else can he do but convince her that he can be any man she'll ever want -- and the only man she'll ever need....

From Storm in Heaven: Judges are the messengers of the Central Government, sent out to punish delinquent cities. They have the ability to control programmed "seeds", causing explosive growth. After a disease breaks out among the "Children of Babel", those Judges who're given power through Central's research, Central requires the data of a natural Judge like Sion. However, Central is also interested in the legend of the "Heavenly City", which Sion is named after; what could their true purpose be?

From Aerandria Scans: The king of hearts is the king that captures all girls' hearts. Yui, a teacher at a cram school, is a girl who always helps anyone in trouble. After seeing her neighbor, Sakimoto, collapse on the street, it was only natural for her to nurse him back to health. But when she did, she started to be interested in this somewhat mean guy...?!