The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.... more>>

As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new ”BFF.” <<less

Reino, a book-loving college student who just got her librarian certification, was just hired to be a librarian at a large university library. Just before graduating and entering the job of her dreams, she was killed by a massive earthquake crushing her underneath a pile of her own books. ... more>>

Wishing for reincarnation in order to read evermore, she got reincarnated to a world with a low literacy rate and very few books, limited only to the nobility. As she reincarnated as the daughter of a lowly soldier, no matter how much she wants to read there there are no books within her reach.

If there are no books then what do you do? Why, you make them yourself, of course! Her goal is to become the librarian of her own library! In order to live a life surrounded by books, she starts by making books. <<less

Keitarou Itsuki is a junior high school student unhappy about the menacing look of his eyes. Keitarou tries to confess to the girl he likes,... more>> Aoi Tokujira, but she rejects him flat out. Thinking that his eyes were the reason why she rejected him, he confides in his older sister about it at her salon, who helps by giving him a complete makeover...as a pretty girl! Forced to head home like this, he runs into Aoi in town, but she doesn't recognize him and thinks he's a somewhat manly girl. Before he can leave, Aoi asks him to help her overcome a problem she's had for many years: an intense fear of men. <<less

Kanako is a young woman who is running an old book store. One day, a customer comes in who shares her taste in books. He's... more>> a teenager named Akio, and he and Kanako quickly find that their taste in books is only the first of many ways that they fit together well. Kanako immediately realizes she wants him, and soon blurts out awkward things, like proposals of marriage and cohabitation. Despite their different ages and their awkwardness, it seems like their relationship has the potential to grow into something beautiful. <<less

Charlotte, a bookworm who dreams of becoming a writer, starts her new job as a maid for Lord Matthew and his sister Lady Anna, the... more>> last remaining members of the Parvens family. Her ability to write catches the attention of them both. Now, for Matthew, she is tasked to write letters pretending to be him, while for Anna, she must secretly report on Matthew's day-to-day affairs. Putting pen to paper has never been so difficult! What will become of Charlotte when the Parvens family's twisted deceptions come to light? <<less

There's nothing in the world more enjoyable than reading for Harumi Kazuhito. He spends his days with his head buried in books. But one night... more>> when he was enjoying a good story in a café, a violent robber comes in and threatens the people inside. Kazuhito is not the hero type but something came over him and he tried to subdue the robber only to get killed. When he came to, he was reborn as a dog under the care of one of the customers who was in the café that night, Natsuno Kirihime. Through some kind of connection, Kirihime can hear Kazuhito’s thoughts as a dog. Unfortunately for Kazuhito, Kirihime has a bit of a sadistic personality and a thing for scissors. <<less

One day, I - a high schooler - found a paperback in the hospital. The "Infirmity Novel" was its title. It was a diary that Sakura Yamauchi, a classmate of mine, was writing in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. And thus, I coincidentally went from "just a classmate" to a "secret-knowing classmate". It felt like I was being drawn to her, who was my polar opposite. ... more>>

However, the world presented the girl that was already suffering from an illness with an equally cruel reality... <<less

During the 31st year of Seika, the battle between the Library Force and the Media Improvement Committee reached a new level of violence. Each group has armed itself for either the freedom of expression or the "protection" of society from the bad influences of media.... more>>

Kasahara Iku joins the Library Force with the intent of finding her "Prince" who helped her during a censorship exercise by the Media Improvement Committee and with her strong will of protecting books. <<less

The "mysterious school comedy" centers on the unusual members of a high-school literary club. Touko Amano, a high-school senior who calls herself the "literary girl"... more>> as the club president, is actually a supernatural creature (youkai) that devours stories — she tears pages from books to munch on them. Her club subordinate is Konoha Inoue, a second-year high-school boy who writes stories every day for Amano to eat. He once wrote an award-winning novel, but he wrote it under the penname Miu Inoue so readers thought the author was a mysterious 14-year-old bishoujo novelist. The stress from the novel's fame and its movie and television drama plans turned Inoue into an introverted recluse. <<less

Kitazono Meiko falls asleep in the library one day, only to be awakened by a kiss! She is unsure of who it was that kissed her, however, since there are multiple boys still in the library. Could it be the popular boy Shinoda-senpai? Or the super-cool Mikoshiba-senpai? The boy-next-door type Mogami? Or the cute underclassman Hachiya? Who could it be? They're all possible candidates, but which one does Meiko like the best...?... more>>

Oneshot in volume 1:

Soprano (released by )

Oneshots in volume 2:

Anna no kami ga nagai riyuu (released by )

Hakka drops (released by ) <<less

Collection of Toume Kei's oneshot work from 2011-2016. ... more>>

1. ELEMENT 7

2. コビト事情 (Fairy Affairs)

3. Apartment of the Dead

4. 夕闇古書市 (The Twilight Antique Book Market)

5. 天国のドア (Heaven's Door)

6. 青密花 (Blue Secret Flower) <<less

"Murakami Haruki? I know--it's actually Kadokawa Haruki." This is the love story between some human trash and a glasses guy who both fall for a... more>> (fake) literary girl who has nothing going for her aside from her face. <<less

Yomiko Readman's love for literature goes far beyond any run-of-the-mill bookworm's! In fact, she has a supernatural ability to manipulate paper in the most amazing... more>> ways. From turning a tiny scrap into a lethal throwing dagger to making a single sheet hard enough to block bullets, she's only limited by her imagination. She uses her phenomenal power to seek out legendary books containing secret information that, in the wrong hands, could be dangerous. Backed by a Special Operations Division in England, Yomiko has her hands full battling evildoers, saving the world, and trying to find time to curl up with a good book. <<less

Asamiya Aoi is a mysterious, innocent young girl who is traveling through a futuristic land with the help of her "father's" sketchbook. While she may seem naive, she can be surprisingly tough and resourceful. ... more>>

One day, Aoi encounters a young woman named Kyoko. She shares her travel plans with Kyoko and shows her the sketchbook. Kyoko can't believe her eyes! The sketchbook is more like research notes than casual sketches, and it is full of accurate maps and information that she could use to make loads of money.

With the original plan of finding a chance to steal the sketchbook, Kyoko feigns concern over Aoi and joins her on her travels. As the two girls encounter and affect the lives of various people on their journey, will Kyoko be able to learn more about this unusual young girl? <<less

A young man sits in the inner room of a library, diligently restoring old - but valuable - books to their former splendour. An enthusiastic,... more>> upbeat young police officer often comes to him for help with hard-to-solve cases...But what exactly is the mysterious skill that allows this man to unfailingly discover the truth lying in places that even the watchful eye of the Law has failed to penetrate? <<less

In the Mimi (w)o Sumaseba series:... more>>

V.1 - Mimi (w)o Sumaseba

Shizuku Tsukishima loves books. One day, she notices that the name Seiji Amasawa appears on the checkout cards of nearly every book she's borrowed! Before she realizes it, her heart is pounding for a boy she's never met... and that's when a mysterious black cat and Shizuku's sense of wonder guide her to an unusual shop--and introduce her to someone she's been curious to meet! Amazing things can happen...when you listen to your heart.

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V.2 - Shiawase na Jikan

Two years into the future, and Shizuku is now preparing for her entrance exams. The second story, "Kikyou no Saku Koko" (The Blooming of the Balloon Flowers), is an unrelated original story. Tsuge Takayuki is a normal college boy, who, one day, sees a girl admiring the flowers in his front yard, and was reminded of a girl who stood by the flowers one year ago, crying in the rain. He falls in love with her, but will her injured heart accept his feelings? <<less

Two polar opposite personalities, brought together through their common interests in novels.

A boy whose father fell prey to a book which drives its readers to take their own lives, a girl who tries to protect the... more>> boy from meeting a similar fate, a forensic pathologist who cannot forgive herself for the death of a girlhood friend, a mysterious used-book store - The Book Club - that only deals with books about death and despair, and a suicide which was committed in the ancient Library of Alexandria are all inexplicably connected in this unusual Korean horror story. <<less

After his bibliophile father passed away, the boy Lucas sees a beautifully decorated book in a shop window in Paris. The book decorator there, Stefan... more>> Bosch, takes him to his publishing house, and he wanders into the atelier of Stefan Louis. Lucas is enchanted by the bookbinding world of the two Stefans, and he takes up training at their atelier. To find the place where he belongs—- <<less

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... more>> day.

Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize in 2003. <<less

Nobunaga was just taken out of power and there are signs of civil unrest even in the far reaches of Kyuushuu. A small precinct of Kyuushuu is ruled by the Harima family and headed by the 15-year-old Harunobu who, despite everyone's hopes, has no interest in war nor being a lord. Instead, he spends his time surveying the land to make maps or record plant and animal life. ... more>>

Harunobu's dream is to create an encyclopedia that contains all the information in the world. So when the opportunity to travel the world and eventually end in Rome appears, Harunobu leaves the land in capable hands and sets sail on his journey that he has dreamed of his entire life. <<less

• Shining Mars ... more>>

Aya loves her childhood friend Yuna but Yuna is good at everything and Aya worries that she's not good enough for her. The metaphor of Earth and Mars is used to describe their relationship/situation.

• Omoi no Kisetsu

What happens when two nuns-in-training are discovered to be having a relationship with each other?

• Rooftop

A girl confesses her love to her crush many, many times, but her crush thinks that she's just saying it out of pity.

• Bound by a Red String

A romance blooms between two roomates in an all-girls' boarding school.

• The Glade in the Forest Behind the School

Two girls share a secret place, and become close because of it.

• I'm Here

Agirl returns to a place she lived in as a child and sees a childhood friend again.

• She, I, and the Red Book

• You're Lovelier than a Rose

Aparody about an all-girls school with an underground student council that's a bit... unusual. It makes a few funny references, to things like Marimite and Takarazuka.

• Autumn Sleepiness

Two girls are stuck coming into school on a Sunday to do work for the Student Council. But why is one of them so sleepy?

• Beyond This Sky

A girl consoles a new student who has just come to the school.

• Friends

Two particular girls, one of whom just happens to be the board chairman of their school, become friends with each other.

• My Partner

• Princess Academy <<less

Michelle is a romantic daydreamer and hardcore book collector. Maggie is a soft-spoken bookworm who always gets mistaken for a boy. Anita is an athletic... more>> tomboy who doesn't have time for reading. Together, they're the Paper Sisters, three very different siblings united by a strange power--the ability to control paper in any way they desire! And from their Hong Kong detective agency, they solve any and all cases involving books! <<less

Hibiki has always been very attached to his older neighbour Yui. The shy boy used to admire her for her extensive knowledge. But now that... more>> Hibiki attends middle school, his attitude towards high schooler Yui has changed. What will become of those two childhood friends? <<less

Atsu-chan (Shinoda) usually sleeps in class. One day, she goes to the library to borrow books for her history report. She sees a sofa in... more>> the library and wants to sleep there. Will it be her chance to get a good place for her sleep? Or will it cause some changes to her sleeping habit? <<less