Slice of Life - Page 501

Aoki Kaoru is a 26-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend. Normally unattached and unmotivated in her own life, Kaoru decides to start up a nail salon as a side business in addition to her regular job as a medical dispatcher. Although having a severe aversion to physical touch, she is forced to confront that fear when she meets a man who can´t help but touch others.

1. Miniature Garden of Romance Masataka Chiyo is a Cultivation Art student whose latest submission has been rejected for being 'dispassionate and uncreative'. He struggles to find inspiration, which arrives unexpectedly in the form of his brilliantly innovative roommate, Kunitachi Hiromi. 2. The Professor's Botany A reclusive artist renowned as "The Professor" lives in a secluded house that appears, at first glance, to be as bare and as empty as its occupant's heart. Knowing The Professor to be a difficult man, the company in charge of mass-producing his designs delegates the task of dealing with him to their newest employee. 3. Tracing Paper

from mangaupdates.com Mizushoubai (water business) is the term for Japan's night life activities, such as fuuzoku (similar to prostitution but none of the illegal bits), hosting and managing (entertaining at bars), and kyabakura (night clubs). Recently, it was decided that a high school should be founded to educate the youth in these area where they'd previously had no such guidance: the School of Water Business, "Mizushou", located in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward. The story is from the perspective of a teacher, Tanabe Keisuke, who was transferred there to help teach that school's first generation of students. --------------------------- From the Old Gringo --------------------------- Toritsu Mizushou first appeared as a light novel by Hikaru Morozumi. The manga series doesn't seem to share very much with the novel other than the setting, so in a way you might call it an authorized doujin. Shinobu Inokuma's series before this was Salad Days, and you can find similar character designs there. One character in Salad Days is cloned into an entire baseball team in Mizushou. But unlike Salad Days, Mizushou is much more focused on major characters, and story arcs tend to become longer as the series goes on. All in all, great comedy and good soap opera. Explicit sexual content has been surprisingly rare, more or less equivalent to Kenichi Sonada's Gunsmith Cats or Cannon God Exaxxion. Inokuma has a web site, "The Garden Plot" at http://saladplanning.pro.tok2.com/main.html

Collection of short stories: • Kimino Te wa Bokuno Mono (Your Hand Belongs to Me) When his student Kurahashi-kun falls from the sky and lands on Sugisaki-sensei, everyone at school thinks they tried to commit suicide together! Sugiaki is determined to find out why Kurahashi would jump off a roof, but this may be too much for the doctor to handle! • Ranai Sengen (Love Announcement) When his son gets married and moves out businessman Sakurai Yuusuke is very lonely. When he finds a starving kid in front of his house, he takes him in. But who is his new house-keeper really? • Kira Kira Kiseki A play boy decides to make the younger brother of a very over protective older brother his next conquest. Things don't go exactly as he wants though, and he finds himself growing closer to the older brother.

One year ago, Kotaro moved to Tokyo to follow his dream of becoming a beautician. A visit from an old school friend, Kii, reminds him of the day he left his hometown.

From Lililicious: About Club Papaya, a hostess club, and the people who work there.

On the way to work, a man and a woman pass each other every day. Through the thick glass wall, they keep exchanging glances. But can they ever do more for each other than brightening each other's day through smiles?

Ichinose Tsukasa, an elite student at a public school, can't help watching Matsubara Chitose, another student that is his complete opposite. When Matsubara confronts him, Ichinose is drawn into a physical relationship that becomes more than either boy expected.

For five years, she's been eating at the set-meal restaurant but didn't feel comfortable saying anything more, and the waitress at the restaurant who wanted to talk to that regular customer but couldn't get the words out.

I wanted to see you” are the words Kasugai Tenka wants to hear from a girl more than anything. And when the high school student hears it from Tsukimi, a girl literally out of this world, his life is about to get crazy. Tsukimi was a war general on the Moon, but she was exiled for the destruction she caused and her memory is wiped clean and she's changed into a bunny. She reminds Tenka that years ago, he fed her soba from his dad’s soba shop and that now that she's gained human form and her powers back, she wants him to be hers. A Oneshot published in Weekly Shounen Jump.

Haruna has some problems with her boyfriend... He doesn't pay her enough attention! The kid she's tutoring certainly notices her... How's a girl supposed to know her man loves her!?

A bittersweet story about an old man and his young friend