A lazy student and a straight-laced teacher. At first glance, they seem like they are on bad terms, but things get different after classes...
Arisaka, man in his late twenties, owns a flower shop. He does his job to see the happy smiling faces of his customer, specially one who goes by the name of Shuuji. Shuuji visits his shop regularly to buy bouquet of flowers for his lover whenever she has a performance. Succumbed to his very one-sided love, Arisaka could only look from afar and pray for Shuuji’s happiness. Until one day…
Nishima is doing well at his prestigious company but after divorcing from a loveless marriage his success at work seems empty. A chance meeting at a cafe brings him into contact with the owner, Miyama, an old high-school classmate. It seems that Miyama has forgotten him until he asks Nishima why he's no longer wearing a wedding ring and what Nishina said to him 10 years ago in high school.
Our heroine is a girl who lives as a geisha in Japan. She has a male childhood friend who’s always been kind to her and is her favorite. He’s a painter, only he paints on human body parts and she loves it when he paints beautiful butterflies on her arms. She goes to visit him one day and finds a naked woman lying in his room. Immediately after, she gets a customer who’s rich and very interested in her. The thought of being away from her friend pains her, but is everything really too late? *contains an extra story called Kimi no Omoide (Memories of You) in volume 1 From Tsukishiro: Butterfly works as a geisha in Japan. Her childhood friend Chinatsu Fukazawa is a tattoo painter (Even though the government banned tattooing. She visits him almost every day, asking him for a tattoo. He refuses, but gives her paintings of butterflies instead. Butterfly loves her life right now, but soon a rich customer offers up money to buy Butterfly? Will Chinatsu and Butterfly be seperated? Or will they live happily ever after?
From Day of the River: Since her parents are a little bit slow, Matsuda Erika (or Eri for short) has taught herself to be independent and extremely reliable. Moreover, she devotes herself to taking care of those around her—even if some of her classmates find her behaviour overbearing and annoying. One day, a strange new transfer student is introduced to her class. This boy speaks in choppy sentences, has little to no facial expressions, and goes by the name Nogina Kaname. Instantly, Eri feels compelled to take care of this martian-like new boy in her class.
Nakamura Yukiko is a 13 year old middle school student, who lives together with her mother and her big brother. Since her mother got a new job, her family has recently moved from a small village in the mountains to the local town. Yukiko, however, misses her friends from the village and has problems adapting to the fast-paced town life. Will she ever come to like her new home?
Fumi Koito used to be raised by an old housekeeper named Hatoko Natsuyaki. He would call her "Peppermint Nanny" because she would eat his leftover peppermint candy drops, because he hates how they taste, then breathe into his nose because he likes the smell. Now Fumi is in his mid-20's and living on his own as a cram school teacher. One day a little girl no more than nine years old shows up at his house. It turns out she is his old nanny who misses cooking and tending to his every need. But because she is pushing eighty and has grown too frail, she drank a mysterious bottle of medicine to regain her youth, and accidentally drank too much. Thus begins their new life together, with the reader frequently left guessing who is taking care of whom
Glasses Cafe GLASS is...<br>A cafe where all the garcons wear glasses. For the sake of women who like glasses, the garcons are all beauties that wear glasses. It's a specialty cafe. From the start, the owner hired exceptional men as garcons.<br><br>And then at that time a puzzling event occurred...!? This cafe of boundless peril is the astray Kotaro's fate!
One night in 2006, when they were young, the two brothers Mutta (born 1993) and Hibito (born 1996) saw what appeared to be a UFO heading for the moon. They decided that night to both become astronauts and travel out into space. In 2025, Hibito has become an astronaut, and he's going to go to the moon. Mutta ended up following a more traditional career path with an auto development company. However, Mutta just ruined his career through a violent altercation with his boss. Now, not only has he lost his job, he appears to be blacklisted in the entire industry. Maybe this is a rare opportunity for Mutta to once again chase his childhood dream and become an astronaut like his little brother! Nominated for the 2nd and 3rd Manga Taisho Award. Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award and 35th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Category.
In the Kingdom of Lapanesta, a hero named Yulia "Yusha" Chardiet and her party of friends manage to defeat the Demon Lord. However, their sealing spell goes wrong and the girls inadvertently send the Demon Lord back in time to before Yusha became a hero. Reverted to the size of a small girl, the Demon Lord, now known as Mao, becomes a teacher at Yusha's Adventure School with the aim of expelling her so that she'll never become a hero in the future.
One day, a strange transfer student appears before Tsubaki. Urabe Mikoto is an antisocial girl, whose hobby is just sleeping during class-breaks. One day, Tsubaki goes to wake her up and accidentally tastes her drool... And gets hooked on that! After that, he starts going out with her and gets to know her better. Her second hobby, as it turns out, is carrying around scissors in her panties and cutting paper into flowers...