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Kinukawa Yuusuke is a second-class pianist who earns a living by playing in small bars and clubs. His simple life soon becomes complicated when a yakuza area boss named Fukami Hikaru shows up at his current workplace. As Fukami's appreciation for Yuusuke's piano playing grows and he begins to visit more and more often, Yuusuke's feelings for Fukami become unbearable - despite his guilt over being attracted to a criminal. One night, in a desperate attempt to get Fukami's attention, Yuusuke spills a drink on him... **Included one-shot:** Volume 2: Boku wa Taisetsuna (My Precious One)
Collection of one-shots: 1. **Kimi no Kanshoku** (君の感触, Your Feelings) Takamichi and Atsuki have always been together since childhood. Everything feels like it will never change, including their relationship, but is that really true? With Takamichi going away for his archery training, this will be the first separation of theirs. Even thinking about it is making Atsuki uneasy… 2. **Hensachi Sweet** (偏差値スウィート, Deviation Value Sweet) Haruto is always coming in second to Itou. His father's disappointed in him and he just can't seem to do anything about it. Until one day he walks in on Itou masturbating in an empty classroom. What happens now? 3. **Kimi to Iru Ashita** (キミといる明日, Tomorrow, That Is With You) Story of Inori and Senou's relationship, which begins in *Kimi no Ai wa Mienikui*. Inori takes a trip with Senou to his birthplace in Kyoto. 4. **Ookami no Nedoko** (オオカミの寝床, The Wolf's Bed) Serihashi joined the arts club to be able to sleep. Mahiro joined the club and found himself to be a constant victim of Serihari's teasing. Mahiro walks in to the club to see things he wasn't ready to see. Will he stay in the club? Does Serihashi really only want to sleep? 5. **Boku to Large Size** (僕とラージサイズ, We'll Always Be Together) Yuuto and Keisuke have been friends since childhood. Wherever they go, they always hold hands. Keisuke starts to question their relationship and relinquishes Yuuto's hand. Will the quiet Yuuto be able to finally express his feelings. 6. **Omake Time** (オマケの時間) It's been a year since Senou proposed to Inori, and Inori just found out that drinking turns Senou into another man. Will they still get married?
Ise and Shima, both in their fourth year of working, are sharing a room. In order to escape their boring lives, they decide to "challenge" each other every month to do various things. One day, the challenge is to "fall in love"? Be cute! The challenge is to become a more conscious member of society! This is a comedy about living together, where every day turns into something fun little by little!
When Hiyori—a young girl whose deceased father taught her the joys of fishing—headed out to sea for some alone time, she never thought that she would encounter another girl there. After a while, this girl—named Koharu—and her end up fishing and cooking together, and they get to know each other a bit in the meantime. During their brief time together Koharu finds out that the reason Hiyori went out to sea that day was because she's hesitant towards meeting her new step family that same evening. But what a coincidence! Koharu is also meeting her new family tonight! "No. It can't be a coincidence..." Follow these two 'sisters' and their new life together! *Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.*
Naoto is a stressed-out college student doing his best to juggle the eccentricities of his divorced parents with his own burgeoning romance. His stress deepens after his gay father proposes to the handsome and elegant male lover. This is a humourous series by Ima Ichiko about the modern, dysfunctional family.
1. **Subete wa Ai no Shiwaza desu** (全ては愛のしわざです, In the End, Love is Your Own Doing) Inuzuka is known as the eccentric prince of the school's chemistry room. His classmates always stayed away from him because they see him as a weirdo. Although one day, class committee member, Akai, is requested by the teacher to "Please get along well" with Inuzuka. However, Inuzuka's interpretation of "Please get along well", turned out to be "Please go out with me" and hence begin the high school love comedy! 2. **Kagakushitsu no Ouji** (化学室の王子, Princes of Chemistry) The continuation of Inuzuka's and Akai's relationship! 3. **Mitsugetsukei Honey** (蜜月系ハニー) Who is this person that blankly states that he will have Takumi for "takeout"? 4. **Toshishita no Otoko** (年下の男, Younger Man) Story of Miyabi from Mitsugetsukei Honey and Yui's younger brother, Jun. 5. **Junsui yori mo Aimai na** (純粋よりも曖昧な, More Impure than Pure) Spoiled rich boy Kimihisa can never seem to tell his lover how he really feels. instead he's always arrogant and demanding to him. will he lose the one he loves because of it, or can he finally make his real feelings known? 6. **Kawaii dake ja Dame!** (可愛いだけじゃダメ！, I don't just want to be cute!)
1) You Are All Mine!- When Tsukasa loses a bet to Hijiri he has to be his slave for three days. But what exactly does he want Tsukasa to do? 2) What is This Thing Called Love?- Hayama just received a love letter from a guy! If only it was from Suzuya-sempai... 3) Impulse- Pretending to be drunk Naoyuki takes advantage of his friend Ikkei. Ikkei shrugs it off the next day, but Naoyuki's not ready to give up. 4) Bias- Naoyuki and Ikkei vacation at a hot spring. 5) Darling- Yuuya lives with his cousin Ryou. Ryou doesn't charge him rent in exchange for his body, but Yuuya wants something more. 6) Chatty Hibiki and quiet Madoka are childhood friends. But when Hibiki tells Madoka to be nicer to girls and Madoka gets popular, Hibiki gets angry! 7) Sentimental Courtship- Saotome has a crush on Hiragi, but afraid of rejection, all he can do is look. But when Hiragi notices him watching...
Hinata is a student at a prestigious all girls private school and looks up to Tsugeyama Saki, the shining star of the school. As the younger sister of Saori, the head mistress of the school, Saki is the most popular girl at school with her warm personality, beauty, top academic skills and is pretty much the perfect girl. Hinata suddenly learns that her parents got extremely into debt, fled the country and pretty much left her out to dry. The headmistress Saori, out of compassion and seeing Hinata's importance to the school, makes Hinata an offer to become a butler in return for providing room and board for her. Not having much choice, she accepts and is assigned to none other than Saki. Hinata soon finds out that Saki puts on a façade at school and is not the perfect girl everyone thinks she is.
Mirai, a man who keeps his emotions hidden, lives happily with his cheerful and innocent wife, Meguru. However, Mirai harbors a secret illness called "Time Reversal Syndrome", which causes him to travel back to the past due to fluctuations in his emotions. One day, Mirai receives a call from the police, regarding a major incident involving his wife... (Source: Shukan Manga Times, translated)
At the children's library "The Hollyhock," you are welcomed and advised by a young man named Mikoshiba, a bespectacled librarian famous for his unwavering character. But unlike his public face and daily life would indicate, he is a first-class professional. Every day, adults and children lost in their lives come to him, hoping that he will find a book to rescue them.
Tsubaki is her school's most proficient student, being polite and is absolutely good at everything and little by little people are hailing her to be the school's queen.... And she absolutely despises that. She quietly admits to herself that being a "perfect student" is not her real personality, but a clever ruse to become a more likable person. She is, however, still not able to interact normally with students and thus is dissatisfied; fact that prompts her to follow the advice of a magazine on finding happiness; the magazine states that by meeting your doppelganger, you will achieve long-lasting happiness. Determined, Tsubaki follows the instructions in the magazine and opens up a door that will allow her to meet her doppelganger.... ... And who she meets at the other side of the world is not who she was expecting.... well, it is someone who is strangely identical to her when it comes down to it, but it is also essentially different.