A collection of stories by various artists. 1. *Carpe Diem* by TSUKIMOTO Telaco. The MC - Minato - bought a blue butterfly comb for Aegis during the class trip to Kyoto, which has since been lost somewhere in the school. Ryoji and Minato end up searching for it. ~Spoilers regarding Ryoji~ 2. *We are Friends* by TAMIYA Komo. Upon returning to his room, the MC discovers it has turned into the Velvet Room. However, the elevator gets stuck and won't move until repairs are made, allowing for Pharos to meet Elizabeth and Igor.
The story is set in a distant future where Japan is divided into feudal territories and conquered by other countries. There is a floating city named Musashi that is composed of eight ships in the skies. A war that will determine the fate of the world will be fought by students on the Musashi. In the far future, humans abandon the devastated Earth and ascend to the upper world "Tenjo", taking on new, god-like form. But even with their newfound "Godhood", humanity eventually fell into war, resulting in the collapse of Tenjo and the very law of causation, and humanity, having lost their divine powers, returns to the Earth, grown largely uninhabitable, with the exception of a portion of the Far-East (modern-day Japan), which they name "Shinshuu" (Divine States"). As Shinshuu alone is too small to accommodate all of humanity, they duplicate the region in a parallel world they called "Juusou Sekai" (Harmonic Realm"), calling their new territories "Juusou Shinshuu" (Harmonic Divine States). In order to rebuild Tenjo and the law of causation, the returned humans start a reenactment of history, starting from 10,000 BC, following the guidance of historical records from a source known as the "Testament". In the year 1413 TE (Testament Era), the reenactment of the Nanboku-cho War in Shinshuu inadvertently damages the mechanisms separating the worlds, causing Juusou Sekai to collapse into the original world. The humans living in the Juusou Shinshuu thus lost their land, and decide to invade the original world. The people of Shinshuu are defeated, and under the terms of their surrender, their territory is divided by the invaders, and discriminatory laws are imposed on them. Reenactment of history is resumed from 1457AD, but the updates to the Testament unexpectedly end at 1648 AD. A rumor of impending apocalypse begins to spread the world.
"Iron Maiden" is an instrument of torture modelled after Mother Mary's form. The interior is full with long nails, and people who are enclosed in it would be pierced to death. But the "Iron Maiden" that exists nowadays is simply a counterfeit made by us based off of old tales. The "maiden" who possesses a gentle, loving face as well as a violent "body"... Did the "Iron Maiden" really exist in the past? This is a story revolving around "her".
Every day in Japan, 2500 people die due to any number of causes. Do you think you'll be one of the ones to die? No, of course not. Do you think you'll win the lottery? You'd like to think so, we all would. But Sumida is different. He wants the status quo to remain in every way; live a normal life, get a normal job, have normal kids, never to be anyone fortunate or unfortunate, content in normalcy. Anyone who doesn't agree is foolish, doomed to live their life scraping up a mountain that they can never conquer, fated to die in despair wishing things had been better. When his mother kicks his father out of the house and onto the streets, he thinks he'll be fine. When his mother leaves him to live with her boyfriend, he makes the best of it. When he realizes that he's no longer average, he strives to make his life worthwhile the only way he knows how. When the demons in the back of his mind speak to him, he tries his best to ignore them.
The story follows the adventure of Takeo, the most unfortunate girl of the universe. Takeo goes to school and lives alone in an inn called Hyakkisoo (the manor of 100 demons). The life of the young Takao will begin to change the day she sees the youkai...
60 years before World War II, mankind found ten alternate worlds that exist but with different other physical laws. The force that supports these alternate worlds is called Concept. At the same time, mankind also discovered that all these alternate worlds are about to collide and the ones without the most amount of Concept will be annihilated. To survive, a world call Low-G, which has no Positive Concepts of its own, started the Concept War to try to secure the most amount of Concepts. It took all the other worlds', called Gs, positive concepts and destroyed them all. All that remains is Low-G. Now 60 years later, which is the present, Low-G is facing destruction because of its Negative Concepts are rapidly expanding. To resolve this, Low-G needs Positive Concepts from all the other alternate worlds. UCAT, the team that destroyed the alternate worlds 60 years ago formed the Team Leviathan to begin negotiation with the survivors from all the other worlds. Mikoto Sayama is the protagonist of the story. After his grandpa, who was a key figure in the Concept War and in the negotiation team, passed away, IAI, UCAT's mother branch in Japan, explained everything to Mikoto and had him take over the negotiation seat. Carrying the phrase "The family name Sayama is villain itself" and all the hatred, young Mikoto begins his negotiation with the other worlds.
Shizuku Ishiai, a second year middle school student, loves dancing, but is bad at expressing herself, so she crossdresses and posts videos of her dances on the popular website "Smile Douga", under the alias "Ai". And she had declared the "dancing prince", Hayate, her rival. But, after a few unexpected events, and her attempts to best him, she's somehow thrown into an idol unit with him; furthermore, a MALE one?! Main story: Chapters 1–44. Sidestories/bonus (related to the main stories): two in volume 2, one in volume 3, one in volume 4, three in volume 5 (one of them with less pages in a sketchy style), two in volume 7, one in volume 8, two in volume 9, two in volume 10 (one of them with less pages, refers directly to the other side story in volume 10), one in volume 11 and one in volume 12. In total: 44 chapters of the main story + 16 bonus -> 60 in total.
The story revolves around the protagonist Hirono Hiro, a poor high school boy who draws shoujo manga for his living. One cold Christmas night after meeting a very strange woman in church, his bike gets stolen by another strange girl. He runs after her and finds her collapsed on the street. Her name is Miyamura Miyako and her bag got stolen by a man on a motorbike. Soon after, they start hanging out together, enjoying highschool life and whatnot. Hiro’s life is also strongly dictated by Shindou Kei, his childhood friend.
Naori Shida is a college student who loves making alcoholic drinks but has no friends to share them with. At a mixer, she meets Hinata Ibuki, who she ends up taking home with her. After making her a drink, Naori discovers that Hinata is an ogre-girl descended from Shuten-doji who needs alcohol to live, can only drink alcohol offered to her by humans, and grows horns whenever she drinks. Thus, Hinata decides to make Naori her personal bartender.
A night-shift guard with pretty much no social life, working in a mall, who often works out at the top of the mall with only his panties on. One night he finds a wishing star and wishes for friends. For good and bad, his current life style is about to change by the people he meets.
Ui enrolls in Nanami Gakuen High School, a special school where boys and girls are paired up to live together in the dorms, aiming to become the best married couple in the world. Upon graduation 3 years later, the "Golden Couple" is chosen, and they will be immediately registered to marry and become the owner of a large IT company...! Kon, the partner chosen for Ui by the ultra-accurate matching system "Destiny", turns out to be uncooperative and a little bit mean!? (Source: Ribon, translated)
Stylist Arata has been secretly in love with Masanobu for 8 years. However, their relationship has never gone beyond friendship. Meanwhile, Masanobu’s eldest son, Masaomi, has unexpectedly confessed to him. “Since I was little, I’ve been wanting you, Arata—“ Under his manly, demanding kiss, Arata couldn’t help falling for the eldest son of the man he loves…!? How in the world... A homey love story!!

