A collection of stories featuring unorthodox archaeologist Hieda Reijirou and his encounters with the unknown. *Note: Two chapters were combined in the tankoubon edition.*
After spending 15 years in pursuit of his master’s arch-enemy, Tasaka Denpachiro finally catches up with his prey but then decides to drown himself in a river. Tasaka is saved, however, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, who happens to be passing by. Saying “You may be willing to throw your life away, but I am just as willing to pick it up,” the famed ukiyo-e artist takes Tasaka on as an apprentice. After receiving a new name, Denpachi, he quickly distinguishes himself as a brilliant painter but cannot reveal his unspeakable past to his teacher. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival Archive)
She dreams about confessing to her childhood friend at the graduation ceremony but…
A romance story about a noble girl from the West Indies who, due to social pressure to find a husband, cannot live as herself, and a viscount from England who's tired of the upper class's falseness.
During the summer vacation of his second year in high school, Harusho Ootsuki started a part-time job as a housekeeper. To his surprise, his first client is Ayaka Tojo, the most beautiful girl in the school! As he performs his duties as a housekeeper, Ayaka's family takes a liking to him, and he begins to spend more time at her house. The two grow closer as he makes Ayaka happy with home-cooked meals, they go to the supermarket together like newlyweds, and go see a movie like a first date. This is the start of a frustratingly shy romantic comedy between the most beautiful girl in the school and a hidden high-spec boy! (Source: GA Bunko, translated)
Nakahara, a quiet and unobtrusive girl, leads an unassuming life at school, aware that her classmates look down on her. One day, she sits next to Omachi, a delinquent who has been absent from school for some reason. Nakahara gradually becomes friends with Omachi, who acts tough but isn't actually a bad person. On Omachi's recommendation, Nakahara decides to get her ears pierced. (Source: Natalie, translated)
Meet Minami Sakura, a girl who’s just started the life she’s always dreamed of with her new job in Tokyo. But it turns out that company’s clean image also has a dark underside… which bewilders Minami and causes her to struggle. And when one of the employees is found murdered, everything goes to hell. This is just the beginning of Kiriko’s party!
Second year. Rieko and Fujio are always fighting. Rieko is in love with him but this is a secret! but since they're always together everyday it's normal, right...?!
April 1968. Student movements continued to spread around the world, and even in Japan, a storm was raging, centering on universities. Hiroshi Togi, a naive young man who came to Tokyo from Sendai as a trump card for the right-wing student activity unit, fulfills a fateful encounter on a chaotic campus where left-wing and right-wing students are jumbled together. Michiko Hojo, a lovely woman who grows plants on a run-down university campus. Hiroshi begins to become attracted to her, but she is also secretly acting as a left-wing secret weapon. In a turbulent era, the drama of love and revolution begins!
"If you could redo your high school life one more time, what would you do?" A mysterious power, "Syndrome," which is contracted simply by enrolling into Wazuki High School. Due to that power, Yokosuka Hiroto had his time forcefully rewound three years back. Without knowing the circumstances, nor who's ability was responsible, what he was left with were merely faint memories. In this situation the goal Hiroto set for himself was: To make these three blank years into the best high school experience!? (Source: Amazon)
