1) The Memory of Water... more>>

Shiina is an ex-swimmer who is now a chain-smoking high school teacher. He's tried to leave his swimming past behind him, but upright student Kadokura won't let that happen.

2) Forecast of Life's Springtime

Minori is the son of professional gardeners and he's sick to death of flowers! Gardening club student Shoutarou kills everything he touches, and Minori feels sorry for him.

3) A Child's Belongings

Hiroto's parents died in an accident and then he is approached by a businessman who wants to buy him. But he's not interested in sex, he just likes to look at Hiroto in his school uniform.

4) Sweet Home, Bitter Brother

Atsuhiro and Yousuke were childhood friends who became brothers at a young age. They've always been together with the slightly older Atsuhiro leading Yousuke. But Yousuke has feeling's he can't tell his "brother" and resolves to go away to college.

5) Paradise Game

Hazuki Junya is a professional gamer who works for a video game company, but when he gets beaten by his new coworker and amatuer Hatanaki Ryouji he can't believe it. A friendly rivalry and friendship starts between the two. <<less

1000-year-old ginseng turns into a human to find her true love.

Orphaned on the mean streets of Treasure Town, lost boys Black and White must mug, steal and fight to survive. Around them moves a world of corruption and loneliness, small-time crooks and neurotic police officers, and a band of sadistic yakuza who have plans for their once-fair city. Can they rise above their environment?... more>>

Note: Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan in 2008. <<less

Cruel Fairytales (title story) -... more>>

When they were young, a brother and sister ran away from home and went into the forest only to find an unexpected gruesome scene. Both siblings were traumatized and the younger sister ran away. Years have passed and now the older brother is searching for his still-missing sister. Many young girls come, but only turn out to be impostors after his wealth. One of the latest girls to arrive suspects foul play when the two girls she arrived with go missing and are later found dead. What's really going on here? Is she the next victim? Will the sister ever be found?

Also contains three other one-shots.

Blanche -

Blanche's life was perfect. Her father, the mayor, was rich and she got everything she wanted. But one day her house blows up and she's left as the only survivor with no money at all. She vows revenge on the person who blew the house up and plans it with a strange boy she meets...

Backstage Mage -

Lying on the floor after being beaten by his father, Aleister's mother died after saying "I will be reborn. Wait for me until then" and leaving him her precious ring. 17 years later Aleister bumps into a girl and the ring reacts...

Sono Toki Teina wa Kako wo Mita -

Translated Title: Teina Who Can See the Past

Teina has the ability to see the past and because of her ability, Sergeant Kaiji has requested for her help in in solving a case involving the sudden brutal killings of policemen. Teina realizes that Kaiji was actually her past life's lover and agrees to help him. As she tries to see the past, a sudden dark force seems to be stopping her, and she realizes that these murders are more than what they seem. <<less

Suzumori Ganjuro is a swordless samurai wandering around with nowhere to go until he stumbles across a wanted poster in the woods. To his fortune... more>> (or ill-fate), he crosses paths with the very man that everyone wants to kill — the Sister Slayer. <<less

For Tanpopo Yamazaki, life at the elitist academy in Tokyo seems way out of her league. The children of wealthy families snub her, other students... more>> make light of the fact that she actually tested into Meio, instead of relying on family connections, and the cute boy she saw tending a dandelion the day before wouldn't even acknowledge her existence. Hoping to make friends and have some fun, Tanpopo starts up a gardening committee, but will this help her survive in a school where superficiality and money reign supreme? <<less

Tastumi is a normal boy going to school and living with his strict older brother. Orphaned at a young age, his brother has been both... more>> a mother and a father to him. One day, he and his friends are about to rescue a beautiful girl from being harrassed when she beats them up herself. When she sees Tatsumi, she suddenly calls him "Rui". What does this mean? Who is the girl? Why are there strange men attacking him all of a sudden? And why is his brother suddenly so different?? <<less

Continuation of , Milk Crown H, a romantic comedy with a cute plot, is by . It is the story of Tachibana Oto, a ditzy girl who works at the Class Z dormitory as a maid to earn her school tuition. On her way to the dorm, she bumps into a gang of fighting people. When she interferes to break up the fighting, she was pushed around. A mysterious stranger, with GOD tattooed on his arm and a partly-dyed fringe, timely comes to her rescue. He turns out to be Goryukanda Jin, dormitory head of Class Z, the people considered elite to others because of the various talents they hold.... more>>

Though not in full recognition, Oto instantly falls in love with Jin for his daring ways and the un-human like traits he holds. She soon meets the other residents of Class Z, some who seem ordinary, some who seem strange, and some who seems extraordinary. The manga goes on with her life at Class Z, as she gradually discovers each of the resident’s talents and goes through, inevitable in the manga world, obstacles and seemly wrong decisions. <<less

Kotoko finds a strange wounded boy, collapsed on the ground. She saves him and asks in return that he spend her birthday with her. She... more>> lives alone because her father had passed away... How can she still smile? And what is so unnatural in this boy she saved? It appears he can see more than human beings... What will happen to him? Will he be saved? And will he agree to spend the day with her or stay a stray and be lonely as he's been from the day he was born...? <<less

Tete is a boy in a small European-like town. Recently some odd people have moved into the town, including the young vagrant Geeta who lives... more>> under the bridge. He befriends her and learns about her tragic past. Geeta then asks him to temporarily keep a mysterious clock for her. Shortly afterwards a dangerous man appears, one of the very last survivors of a race with powers over life and death. <<less

The death of a boy's parents has interrupted his life. Years later, he is detached from the world around him. A motorcyclist comes along with... more>> a deep sound that may help him. Will he be able to start his life anew? <<less

A love story between a boy and two girls who are supposedly his long-lost twin sisters. The story follows Maiku, Karen, and Miina. Maiku is... more>> a high school boy orphaned at an early age, now living in a house he believes is the house he grew up in. <<less

The distorted memory becomes a masquerade. Everyone hides behind a mask and performs the wildest acts with no consequence. But, life is not a masquerade. The main character is a girl who suffers daily from what she accidentally witnessed years ago.... more>>

She keeps having flashbacks of a gruesome scene. It always starts with her as a little girl following a black kitten, and suddenly the black kitten turns into a panther! A woman welcomes the panther to join her and the rest of the panthers. And then, unaware of the presence of the little girl, the group starts having "fun."

The girl becomes horrified by the scene. She makes a noise and they notice her.

"Hunt her down! Kill her!" the woman says to the panthers.

She managed to escape from the pack, but they got to her parents. In her flashbacks, her parents were chased and fell off a cliff. The authorities told her that it was a car accident. She has lived on the edge of illusion and reality until she sees the photo of the woman on a magazine.

A photo is all she needs to confirm what her flashbacks tell her. Now, she is ready to get even. <<less

Orphen, the tough-talking sorcerer-for-hire, is putting his wand-wielding skills to use for quite a price, but with a boneheaded companion and a wide-eyed pupil tagging... more>> along, they can’t help but attract a little trouble! Magical mercenaries are all around, and the hair-triggered Orphen is no stranger to a good fight, so he’ll have to cast his spells in record time to stay in the game of magic in Orphen. <<less

The discovery of an alien organic vessel submerged in the ocean reveals a plot to unleash planetary destruction... a collective of evil scientists called the... more>> Reclaimers works to hasten mankind's extinction. As one of Earth's defenders, Hime Utsumiya fights on a team of mecha called Brain Powereds to combat them. Unfortunately, the Reclaimers also have these mecha, and mankind's fate hangs in the balance. <<less

Chinmi, an orphan who lost his parents in a tidal wave, is a promising sumo wrestler. Even though he did very well in the junior... more>> championships, none of the sumo scouts were interested in signing him because of his body, which is unsuitable for sumo wrestling, and also because of his weird sumo style. But luck comes his way when a small sumo school owner shows an interest in him and decides to take Chinmi into his school. There Chinmi begins his training to become a yokozuna... <<less

Hilarious manhua (Taiwanese manga) about a girl to whom money means everything.... more>>

Dahasu Zuhn's father has just gotten into debt and now his son, Dahasu Zuhn, is in poverty. He meets a girl called Amei Jin who's super strong and has a reason to get money. Dahasu also attends the High School, Freedom High School where he can get in for free. He meets Jin at the school and learns that she needs money for a special reason. Now he is her slave because he owes her 20,000 yen. Whatever shall Zuhn do? <<less

Soran's father passed away when she was ten years old and her uncle became her legal guardian, who then left her in a nunnery. Years... more>> past and he died, and at that time, she was given two choices. One was to become a sister for the rest of her life, while the other was to get married, having no choice in which man. She chooses the latter. <<less

Jamitov Hymem and Bask Om arrive at the Newtype Research Institute Headquarters located in Indiana of North America. They have come to observe the condition... more>> of the newly modified Cyber-Newtype, Subject GH-8N-281 known as Rosamia Badam, a girl who was orphaned by the colony drop on Australia during the opening days of the One Year War. <<less

As a child, Amasawa Rei had attended Shirohato Park Institution. After her parents were killed in a car accident, she lived at the institution and befriended a boy. She doesn't remember anything from the time she spent at the institution, not names, not faces, nothing, only that she and the boy shared a secret--a secret much darker than she thinks it is. ... more>>

Now, as a new student at Shirohato Academy with her old classmates from the Park, she is assailed by fragmented memories of the past. What was the secret? Why does she feel driven to find that nameless boy? And most importantly, why doesn't Rei remember anything from her past? <<less

Orphaned, blind in one eye, and hungry, Lukka tries to trade his shoes for a meal. Unfortunately, the villagers don't much care for their local... more>> homeless cripple, and he's shoved into the path of an oncoming carriage. Luckily for Lukka, what could have been a terrible death turns out to be a kind twist of fate. The passenger, Edgar, is a nobleman with striking blue eyes who invites Lukka to help him end his solitude. The two grow as close as brothers, and Lukka blossoms into a bright, helpful servant and a loyal friend. But once every month, Edgar leaves the estate for three days and entrusts Lukka to feeding his "pet" in the tower: a beautiful black wolf with clear blue eyes... <<less

A kunoichi, Henpukumaru, awakens in the mansion of her enemy. She is introduced to the future lord of the mansion, Chiyozuru. Chiyozuru is able to... more>> get the unemotional Henpukumaru to smile and react differently than she normally would. But then Henpukumaru's former allies attack one night... <<less

When Sun-Hyuk Cho became an orphan at a young age he was taken in by his maternal grandfather, an extremly wealthy and notorius businessman. However... more>> his grandfather has just died leaving teenage Sun-Hyuk Cho his fortune under the condition he finish his education. In Sun-Hyuk Cho's video journal he reveals the difficulties he's having dealing with this death. He is not helped by the eccentric employees his grandfather has left behind or by his own eccentricities. <<less

Yoshitaka Nakabayashi, a 14-year-old millionaire who got this huge inheritance after his parents died in an accident, found himself needed to be taken care of and tried to hire live-in maids to do the job.... more>>

Two runaway girls, Izumi Sawatari and her younger sister Mitsuki, stumbled into Nakabayashi's mansion and got hired by Yoshitaka immediately, for Yoshitaka is not only a rich boy but also a pervert with uniform fetishes, who wants to be addressed as goshujin-sama (master). Having nowhere else to settle down along with Mitsuki's pet alligator Pochi, Izumi accepted the job reluctantly. <<less

Kaito Yagami is a florist/gardener by day and a hired assassin by night. He kills using poisons from plants to make money to care for... more>> his brother who is confined in a hospital. <<less