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A webcomic written by Asano Inio and put up on Big Comic Spirit's online reader.
A life-deciding match, the SAT, what is it that awaits us at the end of it? An alliance created to find that answer. Why do we study? The boy never tried answering that question because he couldn't find an answer that made sense while the girl long thought that she knew the answer when in reality she didn't. http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=495498&weekday=
A one-shot comic about a boy and his pencil. Original Webcomic: http://forums.weicomic.com/shocomic/iamalive.html
Ran is a bright and energetic first-grader in junior high school who possesses supernatual abilities. Together with Midori (her friend who also has supernatural powers) and Rui, the threesome are constantly embroiled in mysterious circumstances. Ran is troubled by her powers because it seems to spark off the ill intentions of people in contact with her. However, with the support of her family and peers, Ran learns to deal with her 'other' side and accepts who she is. The threesome also learn how to team up as a whole and solve these mysterious events. (from Animenewsnetwork)
A short but nice story, if you like Hanamizawa's work, you will LOVE this. A girl confesses to another girl. This girl confessed to sets up the other girl with her (annoying) brother, who looks like her. What predicament awaits the young girl and the brother? Note: Included in REC Volume 1.
From JShoujo Scans: Geraldine Francis is the innocent daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. Being sheltered all her life, she is oblivious to her cousin Charles' true intentions when he lures her in and makes her fall hopelessly in love with him. It is only after the murder of her father that she realizes his love was nothing but love for the money and the land that came with her name. She vows revenge, and she throws away her past in order to become "Silver," the perfect woman. With a new face, and a new lease on life, she will turn the tables on the man whom she once loved so that this time, it is he who will be left with nothing. Adaptation of English fiction Silver by Penny Jordan.
Kana loves drawing more than anything. Everyday she goes home to find her mother and brother arguing. Only with her precious art book, does she feel at peace. However, one day her mother throws the art book out. Enraged, Kana leaves home and wanders onto the streets...
Chika finds a young girl dressed in black standing in her herb garden. After learning that the girl is studying how to make medicines, she offers the girl a place in her home. Questions arise. Why was such a young girl traveling by herself? How did she acquire such an extensive knowledge of medicine? Why does she smile when people die?
Last story "twikle" is about a crossdressing ghost boy trying to help a friend get the girl he is interested in.
Witness the titular Punpun - who is depicted as a tiny, caricatured bird in an otherwise normal human setting - as he copes with his dysfunctional family and friends, his love interest, his oncoming adolescence and his hyperactive mind.
From Manga-Sketchbook: 14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology. To get anything other than the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's Sanshiro.
