Toru Kurusu is the captain of the basketball club. However, he is the only member of the club, and the club is on the verge of being abolished despite his desperate efforts to recruit new members. One day, he finds a boy stuck head-first in the basket. The boy, who has extraordinary jumping ability, says he wants to join the basketball club...? (Source: Shonen Jump Plus, translated)

An anthology manga based on Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, published by Twin Hearts Comics.

One summer day, Shiohara, a Boy (male clerk/server) working at a pink salon (type of brothel), was murdered. Along with the body, four female sex workers and a Boy who all worked at the pink salon vanished. Who killed him?! What was the motive?! Living on society's fringes. Crossing boundaries. A story about angry women. (Source: MeDu Comics, translated)

I hated school. I hated myself. This is the story of my family, my friends, and my "trajectory" from the time I was a truant to the time I went to school again.

The first collection of Hatoyama's one-shots. 1. **Hoshiteki, Sumireteki** (星的、菫的) 2. **Aoku Nurareta Ao no Naka ni** (青く塗られた青のなかに) 3. **Ginrin no Shinzou** (銀輪の心臓) 4. **Ryokuin no Makuai kara** (緑陰の幕間から) 5. **Kujaku Ryouri** (孔雀料理) 6. **Suikinteki** (水琴滴) 7. **Electric Rose** (エレクトリックローズ) 8. **Limonea Act I** 9. **Limonea Act II** 10. **Lithia Denkiseki-fu** (リチア電気石譜) 11. **Takujou Funsui** (卓上噴水) 12. **Cerulean Verite** (セルリアン・ベリテ) 13. **Ongaku** (音楽)

Barbara Seitel, the daughter of a count who loves handsome men, was a university student in Japan in her previous life. Due to a freak accident, she was reincarnated into her favorite book, and now, at the age of 18, she has a happy arranged marriage meeting, but who is her partner?! A wicked duke who will (supposedly) plunge the country into the depths of terror in the future!? If I fall in love with him, both myself and my family will be ruined. Even though I know this in my head, the duke's refreshingly handsome personality makes my heart flutter, and I can't stop my excitement from building... Now that it's come to this, is there no other option but to pursue a happy ending with him and his stepdaughter, the future villainess (provisional name), who will commit evil deeds with him?! "I'll show you I can avoid a bad ending!!"

A collection of unrelated oneshots, some of them entirely non-linear and in strange formats. The more linear stories are nostalgic, sad, poetic, and strange stories of schoolboys. The most relevant genre is probably josei, but several of the individual stories were originally published in Garo, which falls outside of the traditional demographic divisions.

*“Onii-chan, do you want a bite too?”* A first-person perspective imouto anthology. You and a little sister. Cover illustration: Yuuichi Kinugasa

Once upon a time, I was a boy. In a white stucco dovecote. I took care of the doves. And the doves watched over me. (Source: Seirinkogeisha, translated) Included Stories: 1. **Ernest to Kyuusha** (エルネストの鳩舎) 2. **Kakesu no Mori** (カケスの森) 3. **Parlor Roller Hato** (Parlor Roller 鳩) 4. **Alsomitra Macrocarpa-kun** (アルソミトラ・マクロカルパ君) 5. **Toshourei** (登檣礼) 6. **Hato wo Suteru** (鳩を捨てる) 7. **Kusahibari** (クサヒバリ) 8. **Itozoko no Kizu** (糸底の疵) 9. **Crushed Lilacs** 10. **Colin to Norwegian Maple Hikoutai** (コリンとノルウェイメープル飛行隊)