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A collection of 24 short stories about the troubles and stress at work faced by a wide variety of people, including a novelist, a dancer with a secret, a rabbit-powered bus driver and an elephant tamer.
Mihama Academy - on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Whatever the circumstances behind its establishment, Mihama Academy is at present home to five female students, all with their own reasons for "enrollment." For better or worse, each girl has established a routine obliging of her current situation; life moves at an idle, yet accommodating pace within the walls of Mihama. Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome? And in the first place, just who is Kazami Yuuji? While the true nature of the "job" he is wont to alight to at the most haphazard of moments remains shrouded in secrecy, one thing is for certain - his encroachment upon the quiet orchard known as Mihama Academy will prove itself momentous in one way or another. And of course, one cannot discount the possibility that perhaps Yuuji himself carries the weightiest past of any of the students...
Oneshot manga with six short tales of fantasy and friendship by Shimizu Aki. -The NEET Woman and the Second Grader: A 19-year-old NEET and near-hikikomori named Tsuda Yasue encounters a crying second grade girl outside her apartment and tries to figure out how to handle her. -Flow My Tears, the Onion Said: A girl suddenly is spoken to by an onion she is preparing to cook. -The Young Lady and the Gardener: A young, wealthy lady who lost her sight after her father died sits at her window and makes grandiose requests while a gardener that works outside her window tries to fulfill them. -The Ouroboros-drome: An Alice-in-Wonderland like tale. -The Secret of the Pair: Two history fangirls meet, and one of them reveals a secret that leads to the other playing out a very familiar situation. -Advice on Love: A five-years-later continuation of the NEET Woman and the Second Grader.
From MangaHelpers: At the scene of a terrible murder, only Todo is able to find the surviving little girl in the closet--his niece Tsubasa. Four years later, Todo and his father are caring for Tsubasa, who no longer speaks, and Todo continues to work as a police detective. He's assigned to a new partner, a young woman with a promising future, Saeki. As Todo and Saeki team up to solve murder cases together, they will also both have to confront their own painful pasts. [tethysdust]
A oneshot by Fukumoto Nobuyuki
Humans are a despicable lot, committing sin after sin, filling the endless boundaries of the underworld with tortured souls. Now, it would seem, Hell isn't so endless after all, and it has become dangerously close to filling, and then overflowing into the human realm. Princess Lucuha sees this imminent disaster and has a plan: save Hell by making humans decent again. Of course, the Angels can't simply allow Demons to roam freely on Earth, and they do their best to stop Lucu and her dastardly plans. Nominated for the 12th Annual Osamu Tezuka Culture Award.
To use his ability for the goods and helping people, is Kasuga Rito's hidden wish he's had for so long. But to do that, he needs to gain the power (magic) first. Rito is a sophomore in Rezon Institute, a school for people with special magic abilities to find, train, and develop their skills. Each student has to reach 100 points to be able to start using their ability, otherwise they won't move up to "Starlight" class. (There are two classes: "Starlight" and "Common"; "Starlight" class is for students with 100 points or more). But Rito, known as "the Eternal 99", has been stuck with an unchanging 99 points for a long time. So here comes his new plan: to become a friend with Scuse Fontana, a three-day exchange student from the Demon World, and to ask her for some food. (There's rumor that a human can increase his power by eating food from the Demon World). He slipped into the hotel where a welcome party is being held for the much respected lady, just to find that she's actually absent. Losing hope, he wastes no time leaving the hotel. At the back alley behind the hotel, he finds a tiny dragon, which for some reason sticks to his head and now he can't get it off...
A collection of stories: - Datsu-Eva! A man finds himself in a place he doesn't remember, nor does he remember who he himself is. There, he runs into a girl. - Hitomi to Goku (Hitomi and Goku)
From Fried Squid Scans: 32-year-old Bushido-sama considers himself to be a modern-day Samurai. When his wife passed away due to illness, he promised to raise their daughter into a fine woman. But, for an adult male, raising a child is not an easy task. The tasks range from teaching proper table etiquette to sex education... Welcome to the life of a Samurai father.
He died, only for a minute. Ryo Minakawa was an ordinary high school student until the day a girl jumped off a building, killing him with her. He miraculously comes back to life but with a new ability to see and hear what ordinary people cannot. Then one day a mysterious girl, Shou Hokuto, shows up and tells him that his half has become a resident of the world of the dead. His previous ordinary life has dissipated, and a new life between the "living" and the "dead" begins.
The fate of the world rests on one man's shoulders. Or, to put it more exactly, it rests on his balls. In a freak sealing accident the Queen of Terror is sealed into Satou Kohta's balls, thus preventing her from reigning destruction on the world. However, a lesser devil, Elyse, has been sent up to Earth to release the Queen at all costs. The only way to do so is to make Kohta ejaculate, and Elyse only has 30 days to do it. The battle for mankind has begun, in Kohta's pants.
