In the spring of his last year of high school, Taiyou Ashie hopes to perform his first live performance at the culture festival. However, when all of his band members quit to study for university exams, he's left all alone. <br><br>Desperate to bring new members to the Light Music Club to perform with him, he meets Tsukimoto Hikari. He rejects Taiyou time and again, and his fingers freeze on the guitar even though Taiyou thinks Hikari can play better than him. Can these boys possibly navigate the painful line between “reality,” “fantasy,” and “dreams”?
Twenty year old Ogawa Akira is taking the medical school entrance exam for the third time when he is overwhelmed by anxiety and flees the testing room. He soon finds himself wandering the streets of Tokyo lost and exhausted. Then by chance a woman drops her earring, and he picks it up and returns it to her. He is dumbstruck by her beauty. Overhearing that her name is Kyoko and that she works at the nearby cabaret club, he promptly decides to get a job at the club, with the hope of a getting closer to her and maybe finding his place in the world. Adapted into a TV mini-series in 2014
In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada (Eita) works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Haruhiko Gyoten (Ryuhei Matsuda) appears unannounced. Back in their schooldays Haruhiko was a quiet person who rarely talked. Now, Haruhiko is talkative. Both men are over 30 years old and divorced. Without giving an explanation, Haruhiko suddenly asks to spend the night at Keisuke's home. Keisuke turns down Haruhiko, but Haruhiko is persistant and finally Keisuke allows him to sleep over for one night. What Keisuke is unaware of is that Haruhiko plans to stay for more than one night. Eventually, Keisuke accepts Haruhiko as his assistant and they become involved in various cases involving an assortment of people from different walks of life.
Ayato Sanada, a serious first year student attending Okuma East High School, joins the photography club but one of it's members, a second year student named Kazuki Shindou, constantly distracts him with her embarrassing ideas and activities. How can he deal with such an uninhibited person?!
Money may be power, but these two siblings still live in poverty... Original Webtoon
Published in Bi-weekly Magazine, Evening for “Ore no Reiwa Project”
Even now, right by your side, could someone you love be eating food that tastes better than your own?
Manga pages featuring Genderless-chan and Top-chan from this art series by Kotarou Chiwa. (English) Creator-approved translation by TheElusiveTaco.
Juntoku is a priest who inherited his family's temple, and the one he doesn't want to see the most right now appears during a monthly sutra copying session: a big, handsome man named Hasegawa Michi. Michi was a high school classmate, who then became his close friend, and then… the one he loved. And yet, whether he knows of Juntoku's feelings or not, Michi suddenly reduces the distance between them…!?
Aki Kitagawa was known to be gay all through middle school, but managed to get out of his surroundings. Since he got into high school, he desperately tried to hide his secret from everyone. However, one of the students at his school, Yoshida Koutarou, discovered his secret and forced him to become a friend with benefits. The relationship began being forced, but Kitagawa started to accept Yoshida… Sawamoto Soji has draw a life-sized love between high school boys.
Highschoolers Yousuke and Shuu have become somewhat estranged due to an accident early in their childhood. However, their relationship is restored when Shuu moves to the shopping district Yousuke resides in, to stay at his grandmother's place. Yousuke, although akward at first, starts feeling stirred by the expressions and mannerisms that the usually aloof Shuu only shows to him!
Aoyama Sousuke, a college student who suffers painfully from his parent’s traffic accident. He chanced on Shinoda Kozan - a Sumi-e artist at an exhibition. Then, Kozan was interested and surprisingly accepted him as his disciple. However, Kozan’s niece strongly disagrees and decidedly makes a bet for the “Kozan Award”. She wants to defeat Sousuke at any cost. Although he seemed uninterested in Sumi-e painting at first, he finally turned out to be attracted to it. He then gradually recovers his feeling by each stroke he draws...