Shoujo - Page 555

From the back cover (v1)- China, Northern Song Era (960 - 1127) In order to help a world of injustice, the Capital selects a new Official, Hou Jyou. With him is a master of military arts, Tenjou. Enjoy as they are challenged by various events! ~~~ The setting is an era of absolute corruption, when bribery, torture, and threats were the normal way of doing business in the government. Then comes forth a young, new Official - Hou Jyou - who challenges the corruption. Gifted by the previous Emperor with three beheading devices, he is charged with bringing justice back to the courts. Based on the historical figure of Justice Bao (Chinese reading of the name), who was said to be an incorruptible official, this is a light-hearted romp through ancient China as he and his assistants work against the corruption that has become the norm in the Imperial Courts.

From Fateful Encounters: Story1 - Junior high third year Yue is convinced that being a girl really, really sucks because of... that you-know-what time of the month. But her opinion starts to change when she stumbles into the infirmary one day and accidentally comes across a certain boy named Sagami!

From Chibi Manga: Kaji, Yuzuha's unrequited love, is a good friend of her younger twin brother Hayao. He's the same age but goes to a different school and since theyre in elementary, he's been going in and out of Yuzuha's home. She's been in love with him all the time, but can't make a serious face when around Kaji. Now they both change to the same high school and there's the chance to decrease the distance between Kaji and her...!?

From Divine Sanctuary: "If you don't want your 'secret' to be exposed, would you listen to my "wish"...?" Satsuki is both beautiful and smart, and she's popular in the whole academy, but actually, she has a "secret" that she can't tell anyone. One day, she witnessed her classmate, Okuno-kun, working part-time at a butler tea house. As a "bargaining point" to get Satsuki to keep quiet about this, he agreed to listen to her "wish", but then...?! Also contains three other short stories: • Kimi no Suki na Hito (The Person That She Likes) • Omou, Clavier (Think Of You, Clavier) • Bijo wo Hirotte Sodatemasen ka? (Would You Like To Adopt And Raise A Beauty?)

Itsuki Ringo (yes, her name means 'apple') is the top student of her freshman class with one talent: studying. Coerced by her mother into tutoring the abrasive upperclassman, Tsurugi Budou (who happens to be the brother of her crush, Tsurugi Minori), Ringo unwittingly finds herself butting heads with the rebellious Budou more often than getting any actual tutoring done. In an attempt to find out why Budou hates studying so much and skips tutoring, Ringo spies on him. She discovers a whole other facet to Budou's harsh character, and soon finds herself falling for him.

From Slightly Sarcastic: Sugawa Raika is a pretty normal second year in high school... except for her unhealthy obsession with good-looking boys. When she meets Tamaki Jun, a boy at her school, she is just as determined and boy-crazy as she's ever been. But Raika has met her match in Jun; he smiles sweetly at her advances, telling her nicely that he is, in fact, not from planet earth!

Himeno is going on a school-trip with her classmates, including three boys who can transform into the buddhist monk statue, Jizo.

Rika is pretty, intelligent, and attracts the attention of all students. As her house was collapsed, she came to live with Mitsuru's family. Mitsuru, who is a babe in the woods, tries to approach Rika repeatedly, but she regards him as a fool. Love is unpredictable, however. Rika finds it difficult to keep her virtue.

Summary from Nagareboshi Manga: Sawa hates Judo. She was once really good at it, but boys always rejected her because she was so strong. Now she's entering high school and the gorgeous captain of the Judo club has selected Sawa (against her will) to be the club manager! He also claims he knows her from the past... How will Sawa deal with managing the sport she hates most, especially since the captain seems to like her!?

Two high school girls are complete enemies, and they both are in their own gangs. They fight each other all the time, and to get even with the other, one girl tries to kidnap the other's boyfriend. But the information her right-hand girl gives her is wrong, and they kidnap some really good-looking guy who is NOT the boyfriend of the other girl. You know what happens. They fall in love. Side story: Photogenic Photogenic centers around the girl in question, who has gone to cram school every day of her school life, finds a photo of an amazingly cute guy, and imagines what it would be like to be his girlfriend, instead of being one of the smartest girls in Korea.

Compilation of 5 stories with reality feeling to them.

A bunko version was released in 1998.*Contains a short story called Pollyanna no Kishi (Pollyanna's Knight).