School Life - Page 671

[From Viz]: So just what is with this fascination for the Japanese teenage girl? We're talking about that extreme variant of her--that highly evolved creature of Japan's frantically trendy consumer culture...the ko-gal. Short Cuts is a unique and surreal Japanese comic strip that provides an illustrated journey into the ko-gal's world, created by Usamaru Furuya, one of Japan's most highly esteemed avant-garde comic artists.

Short Program is a collection of short stories compiled 4 volumes. The stories are all unrelated and vary in length and genre, from Shonen, Shojo, Seinen, and Josei. Many of the stories were previously published as one-shots in various manga magazines, the earliest being from 1978. Release Dates: Short Program Vol.1 - November 1988 Short Program Vol.2: -June 1996 Short Program Vol.3: - July 2007 Short Program: Girl's Type - May 2009

From Tokyopop: Meet Satsuki, a rather rough and tumble girl who acts more like a yakuza member than a sweet young lady! She's too busy teaching people lessons to see that her handsome and cool classmate, Aya, secretly pines for her. Unfortunately, she just wants to be friends -- ouch! But as they spend more time together, their relationship builds and strengthens. Will they ever be more than friends?! Find out in this sweet and sexy romance!

Puniko is a manager for the basketball club. She has always been self-conscious about her weight. Puniko believed that she had no chance to fall in love... until Shou-kun, the basketball team's diminutive yet popular ace, confesses to her. Can Pinuko really find love at last? Is such a love even possible?

From Possible Soup: Hokuto is a first year student at a famous athletic school... however, he doesn't happen to play any sports due an anxiety problem that he had developed. Now, after being pressured by his friend Yuri, he has become the manager of the basketball club. Strange things start to develop as he gets harassed by some of his senpais and begins to battle some demons...

Shoubu wa Toki no Un Daro? is actually a series which Takaguchi co-writes with another artist. SEVEN is a solo work using many of the same characters, but takes place slightly later. It is about the members of the basketball team at a sports-based high school. The first chapter focuses on a new character, Kiyoshi. Although he is attending a sports-based school, he is unable to play sports because of a childhood accident. He isn't dealing well, until Nana (Seven) takes him under his wing and asks him to be the manager of the club. Nana is a senior and captain of the basketball team. Kiyoshi quickly falls for him. But most of Nana's attention is focused on his coach, Saegusa. The man practically built the basketball team from scratch and was manager at one point. He played basketball in middle school, but fell prey to some kind of chronic illness and wasn't able to play after that. All his life he worked with the goal that he would one day be able to play again. But suddenly, he realizes that it will never happen. He begins drinking and becomes depressed. Nana works to pull him out of it, and perhaps they grow too close... from Tranlated Treasures

The manga centers on a man having love problems at work, when a girl appears before him who turns out to be his reincarnated mother.

Collection of short stories: • I Want to Become Her! A girl ends up living with a model she admires. • Her First Love Natsuki disguises herself as a boy so she can go out with the girl she likes. • Her Luck in Love Saki can't seem to keep her desire for her best friend Masono at bay. Will she confess her feelings to her and risk losing their friendship, or will her self-control win out? • Her Temptation The main character tries to--you guessed it!--resist temptation. • Her Confession An ordinary girl finds herself the unexpected target of an actress's affections. • First Bloom A short, full-color, smutty Plot What Plot manga. • Love Ride

"Kawaii”... Eve has come to hate this word. "Kawaii" has ruined her life and made her a social outcast. Yet she still has hopes Niikawa will return her feelings for him, that is if the rowdy class idol Kashii doesn't spoil everything first!

The story follows the women's volleyball team from a certain high school, especially one girl's fight to become the best.

A girl's father is relocated by his job. She's recently found the "boy of her dreams" and decides that she's staying no matter where her parents move to! She's sent to live with her grandmother and enters the same high school her mother attended. It's a religious school run by nuns. She meets a very strange girl who thinks she’s cute and shows quite an interest in her.

A compilation of short twitter comics about Maya Tendou and Claudine Saijou (a.k.a. MayaKuro) from the anime Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight.