Back
A touching story of a young woman on the verge of adulthood who reminisces about a certain bakery she visited many times during her youth as she is on her way to visit it once more.
From Summer Rain Kouki and Shiori are high school students. The both of them will start to weave a story about their first love in the month of April, among the dancing sakura. Their inexperienced love will tremble among the slightest wind of the changing seasons. Throughout the twelve months, there will never be a day that passes by without a stir. The scenery that is viewed from inside the Ferris wheel, walking on the streets together through the rain. This is how these two that are tied together by a red thread, live their lives through the first six months.
The storyline starts when a junior-high student, Moritaka Mashiro, forgets his laptop computer in course. His classmate, Akito Takagi, requests him to turn into a manga artist to his tales and notes Mashiro's drawings inside. Mashiro fall, mentioning from overworking his late manga artist uncle, who perished. Takagi incites Mashiro and Miho Azuki, the puppy love of Mashiro to fulfill, and tells her the two strategy to become manga artists. In reaction, Azuki unveils her plans to be a voice actress. Mashiro proposes when Azuki becomes a voice actress for the anime version of the manga that they need to both wed. The 2 then begin creating their manga, assured of having serialized in Weekly Sh?nen Jump, beneath the pen-name Muto Ashirogi. After distributing several one-pictures to Shueisha, Ashirogi start Detective Trap, with their first printed collection in Weekly Sh?nen Jump, which will be eventually canceled because of the decreasing popularity, for over-working on the manga after Mashiro is hospitalized. Their next set is the gag manga Run, Daihatsu Tanto!, that they they offer up on, understanding it'll unpopular. After being challenged by the editor in chief of Jump to generate a manga that is top-notch with their opponent's, Ashirogi develops their present set Perfect Crime Party. It's met with substantial popularity but is unfit for an anime show. When Eiji Nizuma, their opponent, submits a-one-shot for serialization, Ashirogi competes by distributing Reversi which replaces Perfect Crime Party while the latter is transferred to the fictional monthly journal, Hisshou Jump of Shueisha. After she passes a community audition after several battles involving the voice actress selection and the graphic-novel revenue, Reversi is selected as the main performer for an anime version with Miho. The collection finishes with Mashiro formally proposing in the spot they made their assurance, accompanied by by their very first kiss to Miho after executing their wishes.
From Attractive Fascinante: After his parents passed away, Aizawa Kyouichirou, a middle third year high schooler, rented out the 6LDK apartment in the form of room sharing as suggested by his guardian, Yagi Akira. The occupants were Rio Forest - a foreign college student, Mutou Keigo – a National Literature college student, Kawakami Shinji – a top host and Tachibana Jinpei – a workaholic. After they started to live with each other, they learned how to love and care for each other.
From Whitelies Fansub: Hasegawa Mitsuki, a college freshman. Mitsuki has been thinking about the same person since she was 16 years old. That person, being 18 years older. A Coffe Shop Manager, Asai Ryusei, a divorced man with an only son. To Mitsuki, Ryusei is a really important person but, her romantic interest for him is slowly...?!
Story about Makoto Osawa, a university student on the regatta (rowing) team. He and his friend have dominated the intercollegiate competition for the double scull. Along with his friend's girlfriend (and team manager) Misao , the team has dreams of participating in an Olympic competition. But his friend's death in a racing accident leaves Makoto broken up, and he has to deal with pulling himself together as well as facing the trials of love and friendship.
Nagomi Mameshiba (18), for the first time in his life, he invites a girl to his house with "oden" as bait. Just what is he planning? Can he convey his feeling with an oden dinner!? (Taken from Cave Scanlations)
The succubus' target was a second grader!? So begins a seductive comedy with a clumsy succubus and a mature grade schooler!
From Intercross and Divine Sanctuary: A collection of Oneshots 1) Animal Jungle Her mother has decided to remarry. Sumi suddenly has to live with three handsome brothers, Amane, Midori, and Hitomi. She wanted to have a happy family, but the house has become a dangerous animal zone. Fighting dangerous situations everyday…?! 2) Saikyou Venus Aoi is a weak girl... A REALLY, REALLY weak girl. One day, on the roof, she was about to be "attacked" by some perverted guys until suddenly, the strongest and most feared guy in the school (Tatsumi) comes crashing in... covered in the blood of the two half-dead guys in his hands!! The boys run away, leaving Aoi behind... and she faints. The next day, there's rumours going around that... Aoi is Tatsumi's girlfriend!? 3) Ultimate Bishie Paradise Sachika has always found Mitsuki-kun to be an unbelievably perfect, ultimate bishie. Thus since because of this perfection she finds herself victimized every day which in turn makes her declare to Mitsuki that she will reveal his true colors!!! 4) Oshaberi na Sympathy After Asahina bumps into Kira they can hear each others thoughts. How can they change this back?
Consists of 4 oneshots.
[From Kotonoha]: Published by Kodansha in 2002 and awarded the prestigious Tezuka Cultural Prize, Fumiko Takano’s The Yellow Book is one of those rare works which you enjoy reading in order to feel the tender familiarity that arises between the protagonists and yourself. This collected volume was named after the longest of the four stories that it contains: a drama about an adolescent girl who falls in love with Roger Martin du Gard’s saga, Les Thibault. The remaining stories capture various fragments of everyday life with tenderness and humor. Through the kaleidoscope of its feminine views, The Yellow Book touches the readers heart by attending to what, in sum, makes up life—the little things of our every day.
