1. **Bannin** (番人) Kazuhiko Saibara finds himself dead in the woods surrounding his family's summer villa. As the family servant digs his grave, Saihara's feeble-minded younger brother gazes absently upon the scene, and Saihara himself begins to recount the events that led to his demise. 2. **Show Me Heaven** A smile of a skinny angel opens up a closed-minded man's heart. 3. **Sora no Uragawa** (空の裏側) 1 4. **Sora no Uragawa** (空の裏側) 2 Yousuke, Tamotsu and Satoshi are high school buddies until tragedy breaks them apart. Ten years later the death of one of them brings the remaining two friends back together and past wounds are torn open. 5. **Meguriai...Cosmo** (めぐり逢い…COSMO, A Chance Encounter in the Cosmos) Klaus is the hideous commander of a starship with a hideous crew. One day, his crew capture a gorgeous young man, who reminds the captain of someone from long, long ago. Repulsed by his appearance, the prisoner does his best to make things difficult for Klaus, but Klaus's warm and kind heart does him in... (Source: PresenceDear, Bushido Angel Adventures, Aarinfantasy & Countless Time)

Love starts with a burglary when art owner, Andou, has a young artist's, Kagawa Setsuyou's, masterpiece stolen from under his wing. However, he finds himself having to deal with Setsuyou's artistic whims (laugh). Setting deep in the woods, alone together in an ancient gallery... the optimal environment to enjoy Ike's artistic prowess and watch sex scenes quietly from the front row. (Source: Nakama)

A boy at a mysterious school has been splashed with a 'reducing potion' and he's searching for a way to cure himself.

The merman Sango couldn’t help but falling in love with President Minami, who had implicit trust in him. However, not only did they have a huge status difference, they were different in species! To make things worse, mer-people must not lie… unless they wanted to be turned into sea foam… (Source: Fantasy Shrine)

Ioroi Shinya is known as the playboy photographer who will do anything to get a good photograph. He is in charge of the gravure models from Tamaki Kotarou's publication, who is an outgoing manga editor. This is a battle between two semes who are both mature experts in love. "Being captured through this lens makes you want to be fucked, right?"

Sakuya, a 3rd division archangel has been watching Shirou, a human, through the fountain of life that separates Heaven and Earth for quite some time. As his halo has "fallen" into the human world he decides to retrieve it in order to meet the one he's been watching, regardless of the rules he's breaking. He'll break all the rules to be with the one he loves who has a dark shadow cast upon him...

Until now, Sunose Kei has only dated girls, and he usually changes girlfriends every couple of months. Despite his romantic history, he has become infatuated with Tsukasa Yukimura, a 27-year-old professor who lectures in some of his classes. Yukimura is aware of Kei's feelings, but as he never rejects him outright, the distance between them keeps growing smaller. Kei believes that Yukimura refuses to accept him because he is still a student, but the reasons are much more numerous and complex than that. Lonely at heart, Yukimura struggles to keep pushing Kei away—but not too far away. (Source: MAL Rewrite) *Note: Also includes “Strangler Fig”, a story about half-brothers which left a deep impression on readers when it was first serialized in a magazine.*

All the stories intertwine and are best read in sequence. 1,4) High-school student and tattoo artist Tohru is holding a secret love for his friend. So when he's confessed to by his junior he turns the boy down flat. But Katsumi isn't one to give up easily. 2,5) Former students and current sensei's Kikawa and Meguro had a relationship as children. But that was all over years ago, right? So why can't Kikawa stop thinking about Meguro? 3,6) Student Katahana can't help but wonder why his close friend Tohmune always wears an undershirt. What exactly is he trying to hide underneath his clothes? 7-9) Since he met Katsumi, Tohru feels he been acting strangely. He can't seem to concentrate on anything, even his tattoos. And the tangled relationships between artists and their subjects seem to keep coming between them.

A collection of stories: 1. **the turquoise morning** A well known photographer named Jed Knox acquires a one-sided love from his time in a foreign country. Because the target of his crush, Sahab, said he would never love another since his wife died, Jed would never tell of his feelings. Oh but how Jed wished Sahab would love him even a little bit and that he could have Sahab's soul in his hands. Although ifrits (genies, etc) are magical wish givers in story, what could happen if they were real? 2. **Sayonara no Ojikan desu** (さようならのお時間です) It is the morning after and the student finally notices that the lover's room is exceptionally sparse. 3. **Loveru** (ラブる。) A guy tells his friend that he's gay and in love with him, but his friend is surprised and leaves. 4. **Uwakimono** (浮気者) He has had it. His lover won't make love to him and refuses to stop seeing other women. 5. **Bara no Hitomi wa Bakudan** (薔薇の瞳は爆弾) The prince-like Hansumi has an effect on everyone around him, except Mitsuda. 6. **Aa Boyfriend** (嗚呼ボーイフレンド) Suzuki can't stop fantasizing about his friend. 7. **Zetsubou no Niwa** (薔薇の瞳は盲目) Isuka is still trying to come to terms with his feelings for his friend. 8. **Bara no Hitomi wa Moumoku** (絶望の庭) Continuation of chapter 5. 9. **Yokubou no Niwa** (欲望の庭) Continuation of chapter 7. 10. **Kusemono!** (曲者！) Continuation of chapter 4. 11. **GoGo Boyfriend** (GoGoボーイフレンド) Continuation of chapter 6.

A novice mortician who takes care of death, and a surgeon who saves lives. They’re in very different positions, but the distance between them is closing…

1. *Aonibi no Nemuri* (Blue Grey Dream) 1 2. *Aonibi no Nemuri* (Blue Grey Dream) 2 3. *Aonibi no Nemuri* (Blue Grey Dream) 3 After the failure attempt of eloping with his customer, Shiki (Purple Ghost), a male prostitute, gave up his hope for love… until Ootori-sensei came along. Will Shiki finally find what he had been looking for…!? So what if there's a huge gap on their social standings, what's so wrong about living and loving for the moment? Enjoy this forbidden love story in the red-light district. 4. *Hodokeru Shinon* (Untied Heartbeat) Shinobu and Washizaki parted ways in the most terrible of circumstances and after the many years that have passed, Shinobu is still scarred by the incident. When Washizaki returns to Japan and seeks treatment for cancer at Shinobu’s hospital, Shinobu must face his past and find a resolution to the difficult feelings he’s hidden deep inside. 5. *Tokimeku Oujisama* (Heartthrob Prince) Noriaki, a normal Japanese high school student befriends transfer student, Zeid, a prince from overseas. As Zeid accustoms himself to Japan, Noriaki, although frustrated with Zeid’s broken Japanese, finds the prince increasingly more charismatic and charming. Can Zeid charm his way into Noriaki’s heart, and ultimately, his bed?

When one childhood friend passed away, the two who were left behind reminisce the love from the past and the present.