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The anthology of short stories by the author is available in both tankoubon and bunkoban versions, divided into volumes one and two and volumes three and four. The first volume, released in 1984, includes three stories previously published elsewhere: "A Midnight Visitor," "The Bell Rings 5 Times - When the Bell Rings," and "Kind Killer." The second volume, published in 1986, features five stories - "Goodbye to the Witness," "Winter Flowers Are Requiem," "Crystal Doll," "Sleeping Town," and "Red Legend" - previously showcased in other publications. The third volume, also published in 1986, includes four stories - "Escapee at 12 AM," "Something Is Watching in the Dark," "Suicide Room Room Number 404," and "Weekend Invitation" - previously published in different publications. Finally, the fourth volume, released in 1992, showcases three stories - "The Third Person Has Vanished," "Frozen Summer Day," and "Putting a Blue Ribbon on Malice" - that have previously been featured in various other publications.
An anthology of sweet love stories from various renowned mangakas. Each chapter is a separate oneshot. Chapter 1 - Moral Hazard - by Doumoto Nao Haruka and Sougo have been going out in a steady relationship. Without warning, one day Sougo tells Haruka that the two should break up. Poor Haruka-chan is left lost and confused, and even worse, she can't stop loving Sougo. She is determined to get him back, even if that means using her sexual charms to confess to him one more time. Haruka will do it, no matter what it takes! [summary by mizuki ashiya] Others soon to come (order unknown): Real Love - Miyasaka Kaho Kinkyori Lovers - Yamada Komomo Secret - Osakabe Mashin 1 min, kiss - Kaori
From JShoujo Scans: Mayu's a looker and she knows it. However, her rotten personality and selfish ways are too much for ANY guy, and she's never been able to date a guy for longer than a month before he dumps her! Things start looking up when she bumps into Miki, a childhood friend she hasn't seen since middle school who has a...very girly side to him, and she finds out that he goes to the same school as her latest crush! She decides to take advantage of this but first she has to butter up to him...instead she finds herself falling for him! Can she really be falling for a guy who paints his nails?!
Handsome, tall, and charming bachelor Fin Deitory that every woman wanted just made the most regretfully and stupidest mistake of his life. It also changed his whole career which he imagined to be an awesome agent in the SDF, abbreviated for Special Dispatch Force. On the day he was supposed to be starting his job though, he enters the wrong room mistaking the plate name sign to be "SDF: Special Dispatch Force" but instead, it was "SDF: Special Doll Force". He learns that the group was a secret to the real SDF and was only consists of doll collectors. But the handsome people trap him there because he was also handsome making him also a doll collector. Being a little bit conceited and such, Fin can't think of himself as a doll collector but he later realizes the importance of it..... From Baka-Updates: Fen has just been assigned a position in the Special Dispatch Force (a.k.a. the "SDF") protecting the King of Vera Morgan. When he arrives at the office for the SDF he discovers he's been accidentally enrolled in the Special Doll Force instead! Fen discovers to his dismay that his new job is to search out and retrieve "bran dolls" with the help of four strange but beautiful men - who have more than just the job on their minds!
The story of Kuraku Asuka, a tough junior high student who gets involved with the gang scene in the Kabuki Chou Ichibangai, a rough area of Tokyo. (from Lililicious)
by Rosa Negra: "A stabbed and tickling heart!! A heart that only beats for you!" Even if it's a hurt love I will challenge again for that love!! A love story that began with a deal. Who is going to be the winner of this deal? Making a sweet love story of Ji Wan who doesn't believe in love and Hong Joo who is honest and foolish enough to love.
Yi Myun lives with his father. Though he possesses memories of his childhood just like everyone else, there are times when he feels like a stranger in his own home, in his own skin. He has no friends at school, and his father is alternately too cold or too loving to be entirely normal. What, really, is going on here, and why do random people who sometimes meet Yi Myun on the streets seem to know him as someone else?
Collection of short stories: • Boku no Himitsu Kimi no Koe • Junai Sadism from Osuwari Team: In order to escape the merciless teasings she received as a child, Nanako worked out until she became slim! Just as she gets a boyfriend in high school, her dreams of walking through her new life is shattered as a phony image of her visiting a love hotel is stuck on the school’s notice board. Who is this sadistic culprit intent on ruining her love life?! • Sakuranbo Doumei • Robo Kare • Taiyou no Natsuyasumi
From ShoujoMagic: A collection of short horror stories from the pages of Ciao Magazine. Story 01 - The Scream of Glass Story 02 - I Want The Lead Role Story 03 - Exciting Mysterious Club Story 04 - I Want To Be With You Forever Story 05 - Haunted Afternoon Story 06 - My Place In The World
Long ago, a group of friends banded together—and now the whole gang has been reincarnated in the present day. Each has a reminder of the past: a butterfly-shaped birthmark on their thumbs. When the marks touch, they catch a glimpse of their shared past, though what they see doesn't always match. Tsubame insists that he and Kanoko are fated to be together. By the time Kanoko finds out it's not true, it's too late: she's already fallen for him. The "butterfly" friends must reconcile their ties to the past with their present desire for fun and romance!
[From JanimeS] There are six main characters, 3 men and 3 women. The three women are sisters. In order to understand this story a little better, I am going to explain a background that is surfaced on the last volume. There were three young men. They had a plan to build a company and develop it to be the best. Luck was on their side and everything was going well until one of them decided to drop out and create a new company. He did so because he wanted to build a computer company, but the company they built was going to another direction. His business was going well first. But his company eventually went to bankrupt. He visited his two ex-business partners and asked for help. However, he was faced with a dreading fact that they were also developing high-tech market. He eventually committed suicide due to stress from lone collectors. He had a son, Sin Hoo Kang. He was left alone with nothing. One of the three original business partners, one of them had 3 daughters. But he was killed in a car accident. The last remaining business man who is now a chairman of the largest company in Korea adopted the three daughters and raised them like his own. Sin Hoo Kang found out about this, and decided to revenge them. His father was their partner also. But they never helped him. More than 10 years pass...
