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A collection of 24 short stories about the troubles and stress at work faced by a wide variety of people, including a novelist, a dancer with a secret, a rabbit-powered bus driver and an elephant tamer.
Mihama Academy - on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Whatever the circumstances behind its establishment, Mihama Academy is at present home to five female students, all with their own reasons for "enrollment." For better or worse, each girl has established a routine obliging of her current situation; life moves at an idle, yet accommodating pace within the walls of Mihama. Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome? And in the first place, just who is Kazami Yuuji? While the true nature of the "job" he is wont to alight to at the most haphazard of moments remains shrouded in secrecy, one thing is for certain - his encroachment upon the quiet orchard known as Mihama Academy will prove itself momentous in one way or another. And of course, one cannot discount the possibility that perhaps Yuuji himself carries the weightiest past of any of the students...
After a very public (and humiliating) break-up with her last boyfriend, things couldn't get any worse for 18 year old Emiko. Things start looking up however, when a good-looking guy stops her in the middle of the street to offer her tickets to an upcoming rock concert. As it turns out, he's just one of three brothers from the Kanita family: Gaku - 16, Youji - 19, and Masaki - 22. A chance encounter with his older brother, Youji, leads to a whirlwind romance. He's impulsive, hot-headed, and even a bit self-centered, but she finds his frankness, though brutal at times, refreshing and she ends up falling for him....HARD. An unexpected turn comes her way however when it's revealed that Youji and Yuri, a close friend of hers from back in middle school, knew each other long before she met Youji. They don't seem to get along at all----what happened between them?
Oneshot manga with six short tales of fantasy and friendship by Shimizu Aki. -The NEET Woman and the Second Grader: A 19-year-old NEET and near-hikikomori named Tsuda Yasue encounters a crying second grade girl outside her apartment and tries to figure out how to handle her. -Flow My Tears, the Onion Said: A girl suddenly is spoken to by an onion she is preparing to cook. -The Young Lady and the Gardener: A young, wealthy lady who lost her sight after her father died sits at her window and makes grandiose requests while a gardener that works outside her window tries to fulfill them. -The Ouroboros-drome: An Alice-in-Wonderland like tale. -The Secret of the Pair: Two history fangirls meet, and one of them reveals a secret that leads to the other playing out a very familiar situation. -Advice on Love: A five-years-later continuation of the NEET Woman and the Second Grader.
Toki wa… is a manga about two guys who travel back in time and visit Tokiwa Manor in the 1950′s. Tokiwa Manor is an apartment building where Osamu Tezuka, the father of modern manga / anime, and many other early influential mangaka once lived.
While celebrating an upcoming promotion, Ikeda Mitsuko gets drunk with one of her coworkers. The next day she wakes up and finds out she entered a contract with the global wife allocation bureau. This is her story.
Gin no Spoon manga's story centers around Ritsu, a high school boy who, along with his younger brother Shirabe and sister Kanade, were raised by their single mother Kyoko. When their mother is hospitalized due to sickness, Ritsu begins to take care of his younger siblings and cook food for them, slowly entering the world of cooking. Things become more complicated when Ritsu finds out a shocking fact: that he is an adopted child. (Source: Anime News Network)
Onii-san has turned into a crocodile! How is his sister, who has a brother complex, going to use love to overcome this forbidden interspecies obstacle?
Humans are a despicable lot, committing sin after sin, filling the endless boundaries of the underworld with tortured souls. Now, it would seem, Hell isn't so endless after all, and it has become dangerously close to filling, and then overflowing into the human realm. Princess Lucuha sees this imminent disaster and has a plan: save Hell by making humans decent again. Of course, the Angels can't simply allow Demons to roam freely on Earth, and they do their best to stop Lucu and her dastardly plans. Nominated for the 12th Annual Osamu Tezuka Culture Award.
Story 1: Tsuki to Mizuumi From Shogakukan: Kazuna's late grandfather was a writer, and his unpublished novel depicting his private life was found among the articles left by him. He had written down his affection to his lover, while he was a devoted husband. Kazuna felt perplexed, and went to see his grandfather's lover. Hinako Ashihara depicts sweet, painful love in this collection of her long-piece love stories. Story 2: Nora in December from tohukyo: Dressed in frilly clothes like a princess, Nacchan lived next door in a house made of sweets. Nacchan says she doesn't like it because it is all her mother's own dream world. To help Nacchan, I decided we should go out on an adventure like Nora the cat. It was such a fun day and the best part is we actually met Nora! But Nacchan's mother was so upset that she didn't let Nacchan and I be friends anymore. Then one day, Nacchan's house of sweets next door was suddenly enveloped in flames. Nacchan was never found again...
A model who is afraid of women surrounds himself with an all male staff, but a newcomer may prove to be dangerous to the model's peace of mind.
A collection of stories: - Datsu-Eva! A man finds himself in a place he doesn't remember, nor does he remember who he himself is. There, he runs into a girl. - Hitomi to Goku (Hitomi and Goku)