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\"Hey, boyfriend, how you doing?\" Souta Sakuhara is a first-year high school boy. His first ever girlfriend has just been stolen away from him by a \"girlfriend.\" That girlfriend is Shizuno Mizushima, a tomboy who\'s also the tallest girl he\'s ever met, who\'s now his hated rival in love, taunting him with it. But then... \"Since nobody else wants to be your girlfriend, how about you go out with me?\" She suddenly pins him against the wall! She also started saying, \"Give me a month, and I\'ll make you fall in love with me... I\'m not going to let you go so easily!\"
Mayu, a young stylist is dumped by her boyfriend, thus she needs to find a new home. She makes an aquaintance with his neighbor, Yuka Shimizu, a lonely girl with a very particular dream, to become a free-fight champion despite her small stature.
One day a 23-year-old Japanese musician travels to Mongolia in order to get inspirations for writing a piece of music. There he meets Kanon whose mother runs the "Hotel Kanon" in the desert. Kanon grew up in Mongolia, does not know who her father is and takes him for dead as her mother told her so. Then Kanon's mother who fell from a horse dies of injury. Before her death, she tells her daughter that she came to Mongolia because she could not stay in Japan as she had an affair with Kanon's father, a musician, who is actually still alive, and she asks Kanon to find him in Japan by becoming a violin virtuosso, but dies before telling her his name. Thus Kanon goes with the young man to Japan where she learns to become a musician in a music school run by Mikami, a handsome young man and worldwide very successful musician and conductor. Soon the younger sister of her mother gives her photos of three musicians, one of whom might be her father. Kanon's erring search for her father begins...
From Esthétique: This is a crossover between Kanon (Key) and AIR (Key). Each chapter is a separate story of Kanon (Key) or AIR (Key), they're just short mini stories that were never seen in the anime.
After being away for eight years, Yuuichi Aizawa returns to his perpetually snowy hometown in Kanon. However, he faces a dilemma as he cannot recollect his experiences and acquaintances during his stay there. As a result, Yuuichi embarks on a journey to recollect his past. In the midst of it all, he encounters various girls - his cousin Naiyuki, Ayu, who is obsessed with taiyaki, the reserved Mai, the charmingly aggressive Makoto, and the critically sick Shiori, adding a touch of romance to the story.
Changing schools is something Yuuchi is accustomed to, due to his parent's profession, and with their recent venture to Africa, he is returning to his aunt's home after 7 years. The time that has passed since his last visit has faded his memories of the people he knew, and the ties that bonded them to him, including his cousin Nayuki. Slowly those people, coincidently all being girls, find their way back to him. However, time has passed and things have happened in their own lives that sets the tone for the series. Secrets that are coming to surface, and memories that are returning to not only Yuuichi, but to those surrounding him. A very heartwarming tale that touches upon a spectrum of emotions, mystery, and the supernatural.
From Maboroshi's translation of the backcover: Kanon Matsukura is a high school sophmore. Her name is based on her father's favorite classical "Kanon"... One day in school while she was walking down the hallway she hears "Kanon" being played. It was her math teacher Azume playing it on the piano awkwardly. Since then, "Kanon" keeps playing in Kanon's head. A touching story of a high school girl in love! Also includes short stories: Happy Rain / Bang!! / Santa is Coming Happy Rain - Tsubasa can't confess to her basketball player Sugita directly, so she asks his teammate to pass him a present instead. Later, she takes shelter from the rain and runs into Sugita's teammate again. Can fifteen minutes in a waiting shed be enough to change one's course? From Baka-Updates: Collection of 4 short stories: 1) Kanon Kanon Matsukura is a high school sophomore. Her name is based on her father's favorite classical "Kanon"... One day in school while she was walking down the hallway she hears "Kanon" being played. It was her math teacher Azume playing it on the piano awkwardly. Since then, "Kanon" keeps playing in Kanon's head. A touching story of a high school girl in love! 2) Happy Rain Tsubasa can't confess to her basketball player Sugita directly, so she asks his teammate to pass him a present instead. Later, she takes shelter from the rain and runs into Sugita's teammate again. Can fifteen minutes in a waiting shed be enough to change one's course in life? 3) Bang!! Shinyama sees Daiyumi holding a gun to her head and jumps down the stairs to stop her from committing suicide; but it is only a toy gun... Shinyama hurts his right hand and Daiyumi feels obliged to help him taking lesson notes. What does Shinyama feel towards Daiyumi, is it only pity or is it something else? 4) Santa is Coming Inaba is always teasing Ayumi about not being able to get a boyfriend. In anger she lashes out that she does in fact have plans to meet a boy the next day; when she is really only baby sitting her nephew. What shall she do when she runs into Inaba taking her nephew to the game center!?
An alternate retelling of KEY’s classic work, Kanon, where it asks: what if Yuuichi DIDN’T lose all his memories of 7 years before? And what if he was really sarcastic? Do NOT read if you don’t know the original story behind Kanon.> Part of the Kanon series( http://www.batoto.net/search?name=Kanon&name_cond=c&artist_name=Key&artist_name_cond=c )
Kanon's story, set in the middle of winter, regards a group of five girls who are connected back to the same boy. Yuichi Aizawa, the main protagonist, had visited the city where the story takes place seven years prior to the story's beginning. In the beginning Yuichi is very detached from the city and its inhabitants. Prior to his return, it is decided that he is to stay with his cousin, Nayuki Minase, and her mother, Akiko. After his long absence, Yuichi has forgotten almost everything except minor details of what happened seven years before and is in need of being reminded of what he left behind. On the day after Yuichi's return, he is out with Nayuki who is showing him around town. Nayuki remembers that she has to buy things for dinner and Yuichi is reluctant to go with her, arguing that he might get lost. Moments after Nayuki left him waiting on the sidewalk, a strange girl named Ayu Tsukimiya barges into him with little warning. Upon recovering, she drags him away to a nearby café and confesses to inadvertently stealing a bag filled with taiyaki after being accidentally scared away by the salesman before she had a chance to pay. Yuichi then drags Ayu back to the salesman, they both apologize for the trouble, and Ayu is forgiven. They decide to meet up again another day and Ayu scampers off. Yuichi is not aware at first, but three other girls which he had forgotten are familiar with him. Throughout the story, as he learns about the supernatural undertones of the town, Yuichi is reminded of each girl and the events of seven years ago in the city covered in snow.
From Blissful Sin: 1-4) Kanpeki na Koibito (A Perfect Lover): The beauty, Shinohara, who just moved into the staff dorms, is misunderstood by his subordinate, Ueda, to be a masochist! Even though Shinohara tried hard to clear up all misunderstandings, his body seems to be addicted to the taunting eyes and commanding kisses, that he feels extreme exhilaration...?! 5) Then I Fell in Love (Oneshot): Higaky Naoya, a successful crime novels writer, lives his life quietly and in seclusion in his big house all alone until he came across with an interloper.
Josh, who is unemployed, takes home on a whim a bundle of answer sheets he sees at a found object collection center. He meets a girl, Mika Nagasaki, who is looking for the bundle, and through his involvement with her and the people around her, he comes face to face with the love he himself is dragged into. --- Note: Includes an oneshot called Neko Sagashi.
Their date is going well. He wishes for more. She defers. He presses. She decides to trust him. She tears off her finger...
