"I have something I don't want to lose--... more>>

So much so that these terrible feelings have grown."

A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed indiscriminately are sentenced to death. There, she meets a man named Yuu who took the lives of 3 people. A mother's antagonism--a brother's death... Together they embrace the violent rebellion in their hearts caused by the large, deep scars they carry. However, before long, they both embrace an earnest hope in their hearts. "I want to live..."

An adaptation of a novel by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young. <<less

Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a... more>> little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring. <<less

In middle school, Ichinose Kimitaka taught his friends how to play basketball. Despite his experience with the sport, his friends quickly outmatched him in skill. After an incident brought on by his frustration and jealousy, he was crushed to overhear those same 'friends' discussing how they wished he'd just kill himself. ... more>>

On his way to toss out his special basketball shoes, he met a girl who was just as frustrated, throwing her own dancing shoes away. She was so tall, and her hands and feet are so large, that she had been rejected from her chosen hobby of Spanish dancing. He urged her to give basketball a try, and the two exchanged their shoes instead of throwing them away.

As he enters high school, Kimitaka learns that meeting him changed that girl's life for the better, and she is now a happy, social basketball player. Will Kimitaka be able to find the courage to make new friends and pursue his own talents? <<less

Miraculous days centering on a 'tail'!... more>>

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Hiyama Nachi has always hated that she didn't tan in the sun like her teammates in the softball club. The difference made her stand out and uncomfortable. Then she met a kind, quiet boy, and accidentally discovered his secret, a secret that made him different beyond what she could imagine! <<less

To what distance would you go for your one true love?... more>>

In a future filled with a boundless potential for interstellar peace and prosperity, Mikako joins a research team to explore the recent contact between humans and alien races. She ventures out into space, leaving behind Noboru, the one young man she loves. As she travels deeper into this new frontier, her only connection with her boyfriend is through cell-phone text messages. But the years pass, and Mikako barely ages in the timelessness of space--while Noboru grows older and considers moving on with his life.

In this timeless romance between star-crossed lovers in the most tragic of settings, there are some places man may not be ready to go. <<less

Ogata Kiwa is a mediocre male university student you can find anywhere. Not skilled at job hunting, he is always scolded by his hardworking girlfriend Mahiro. Kiwa has a secret he hasn't told anyone about. --He carries the "power to make wishes come true".... more>>

But this dangerous power goes hand in hand with compensations. It's a secret he silently carries inside himself. However, once he opens up to Mahiro about the existence of this power, little by little, the gears of their fates go amiss. <<less

While struggling with a grandmother who's starting to forget him and a family who already have forgotten him, middle school student Sakamoto Toki meets substitute... more>> art teacher Itsuya Tsuruda and her housemate, Kon. Itsuya-san has no artistic skill whatsoever, but she does have a different kind of ability... <<less

A collection of oneshots:... more>>

1) The Glasses Thief

A cute story about a boy with bad eyesight and the girl who is in love with him.

2) Convenience Store Honey

A boy worries about his quiet boyfriend.

3) Adult-Uniform

A girl wonders why her childhood friend does not speak to her anymore.

4) Refrigerator Chocolate

Satoru is going to have heart surgery with a 50/50 chance of surviving. One day he comes across a girl in a refrigerator... <<less

This volume contains two parts, Bus Hashiru and Nanairo Sekai. Bus Hashiru is a collection of five short stories centered around bus stops. In all your encounters with strangers that take place there, isn't there a chance you might discover something you hadn't had before...? A new take on life, or a lost love - nothing is beyond you.... more>>

#1: Sky-Winding Bus Stop

(Karamagari Teiryuujo)

A salesman disinterested in his job meets a high school girl and after chatting with her, his viewpoint about his job changes...

#2: Sakura Street Bus Stop

(Sakurachou Teiryuujo)

A day before graduating from high school, Hikaru confessed her love to Makihara-sensei, the Biology teacher of their school. She promised to meet him at the bus stop after she graduates from college and that she'll marry him then. Five years have passed by since then...

#3: Wasurena Hill Bus Stop

(Wasurenagaoka Teiryuujo)

Yuka gets a postcard from her high school crush informing her of his marriage. She recollects how she couldn't even face him directly and confess her true feelings back then...

#4: Weather Forecast (Tenki Yomi)

His weather predictions are often wrong. He repeatedly fails his exams. But still, in his despair-filled life, there's someone who'll wait for him at the bus stop on rainy days...

#5: Dudleya Road (Dudleya no Michi)

A boy loved a girl of his neighbouring country. Only a road connected both the countries and a bus ran on it. One day, the two countries started fighting and a war was impending. The bus stopped running between their countries and the connecting road was demolished. Can the two lovers' connected hearts bridge the gap between their nations?

#6: The Glasses Thief (Megane Dorobou)

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#7: Adult-Uniform (Otona no Seifuku)

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He has been a recluse for the past 10 years in that big house overlooking a bicycle parking lot. One day, a girl approaches and confessed to him, disturbing the world he's been cooping himself up in. A oneshot of their story by the mangaka of Tetsugaku Letra and Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan.... more>>

Published in the oneshot collection Watashi to Watashi. <<less

Collection of stories:... more>>

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3-4) Watashi to Watashi: Two girls with the same name; one beautiful and athletic, the other awkward and shunned. But who’s the lucky one? <<less

In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with... more>> the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact—they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio’s promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri’s mysterious, carefully tended condition. <<less

A series of romantic short stories drawn by Sahara Mizu and inspired by the music of the Japanese band Sukima Switch. Each chapter is inspired... more>> by a different song. <<less