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Shiharu is a high school student who loves kids, lives in an orphanage, and works at a daycare… Until the handsome uncle of two-year-old twins offers her a raise if she’ll be their babysitter. Often relying on memories of her mother’s actions for guidance, Shiharu quickly finds herself falling in love with her new makeshift family.
Based on the games of the same name, a variety of authors and artists write a large offering of short stories starring the various characters featured in the games. The stories range from being lovingly heartfelt, packed full of comedy and gags or being downright evil or messed up sometimes!
Yuki Anno just turned into a high school student. From the beginning everything seemed to go wrong. Yuki is very nervous and what's worse, she is in a different class from her best friend Jiu. Yuki feels unwanted and decides to make new friends. Upon arriving at her new class, she is frightened to see so many people and out of class, but a boy, Yuki Saeki, grabs and welcomes her, saying it is the cousin of Jiu. Saeki receives a sheet of paper and Yuki both converse wrote. Yuki goes to see him and Jiu and says that he would like to be the manager of the football team, but was not sure because there are other girls in class that she could do better.
Tarou was an ordinary university student until a strange old magician summoned him to another world, upon learning that his magical power is 8 million, he uses that abnormally powerful magic to revive the old man that caused all this... In the form of a frog. Thus begin the strange adventures of a boy with ridiculous magical power and Kawazu, the former strongest magician, now revived as a frog.
Asahina Wakaba is a shy and slightly awkward girl. She is coerced by her classmates as a punishment game to confess to Iruma Haruto, the number one most hated boy in school. Though her relationship with Haruto starts out with an air of gloom for Wakaba, her depressing school life is dyed with color when she discovers that they share more in common than what she thinks. *Note: Includes the epilogue and extra chapter in volume 2.*
Suzu, an art student in a creative rut, finds new inspiration when she meets a beautiful girl at the park who introduces her to the colourful world of birdwatching.
The manga, based on the novel Pierrot ~Yoake Mae~ by Teruhiro Kobayashi, Darai Kusanagi, and Tomoji Nobuta, tells the story of four friends at a girl's high school in Fukushima Prefecture that is feared to have been radioactively contaminated. One of the four committed suicide a month after her college student fiancee told her that he was afraid of having a child with her because he did not want an unhealthy child. The story will deal with subjects such as the fear of radiation and the guilt felt by inhabitants who took refuge in other prefectures.
A collection of short stories: 1. **Chouchou Kurabe** (蝶々くらべ); Ribon Original 2001-06 Poor Chikako, who’s always changing schools, has fallen in love with her classmate Abe. In three days, Chikako will have to face changing schools again, but what about her love for Abe… 2. **Mirai Yohou Hare** (未来予報晴れ); Ribon Original 2001-10 Hikaru loves rainy days because that’s when she gets walk to school with Takehiko, but the end of the rainy season heralds changes more disturbing to Hikaru than just the weather. 3. **Ifuu Doudou Project** (威風堂々プロジェクト); Ribon 2001 Spring Special Issue Kurinama Sho comes up with the perfect plan to get close to his ideal girl, Student Council President Sakatsumu Nakano. The plan works, but his idol is not quite the girl he thinks she is… 4. **L'Aventure!** (ラバンチュール!); Ribon 2001 Early Spring Special Issue He’s a prince–well, more like a playboy. She’s his destined lover–along with the 58 other girls he’s used that line on. Can this unlikely pair make their fairytale end happily ever after? 5. **Kakuzatou Renai** (角砂糖恋愛); Ribon 2000 Autumn Special Issue A bittersweet story of the joy and pain of first love.