Shiratori Ryushi wants to become a picture book writer, and he moves to an apartment, Narutaki-So, in order to go to an art school in Tokyo. Narutaki-so is an old Japanese style one-story house which doesn’t fit in urban scenery. It is owned by the cousin of his mother, and the manager of the apartment is Aoba Kozue. She is his second cousin, and they met with each other when they were children although he doesn’t remember her much. She is in the second grader of a high school attached to Aoba Junior Collage. There are five people living in Narutaki-So. First, Chanohata Kotomi is living in the room #1. She is a best friend of Kozue. Then, the resident of the room #3 is Momono Megumi. She is a kind of person who goes her own way. In the room #5, Kurosaki Sayoko and her daughter Asami are living. Asami is in the first grade of a junior high. Finally, in the room #6, Haibara Yukio is living with his puppet, “Johnny”. They are all characteristic and eccentric persons. However, in fact, the most eccentric person is Kozue. She has a secret; when she is shocked at something, she changes her personality. Not knowing this, Shiratori moves to Narutaki-So to realize his dream. What kind of a new life will be waiting for him?

Company employee Hideo has been going out with his lover for 9 years. Despite being busy as a pediatrician, the younger Tomohisa only thinks about Hideo. The two of them love each other from the bottom of their hearts, but as they approach the age of 30 they come face-to-face with a harsh reality. Although they hold each other close, their hearts are distant, controlled by fear… (Source: Libre Shuppan, translated)

Kikuchi woke up one fine morning to a message from his ex-girlfriend telling him that she was seeing someone else. Having to go to work after such a crappy experience, he was faced with his uni friend, Sera’s boyfriend, Akaboshi who was also his adorable student. Usually Akaboshi’s rather stoic and aloof but in front of Sera, he just brimmed with so much happiness. Sadly, Sera harboured a secret that will threaten their relationship and poor Kikuchi, being Sera’s good friend, knew about it is caught in between. It didn’t help that Kikuchi’s falling for his student too…

At Takamanohara School, lots of the students have crushes, but all on different people. In fact, if you trace out who likes who, it makes a full circle! This is the story of that circle of crushes.

Takeru, who just graduated from middle school, learns that his father has suddenly remarried. While being happy for him, Takeru leads, what he believes to be a boring life. His only hobby is taking pictures of things he finds 'nice' with his cell phone. Upon entering high-school, he is taking pictures of some Cherry Blossoms, when he sees a strange foreign girl and accidently snaps a picture of her. And thus begins Takeru's interesting new high school life.

Takuya, Yuiji, and Aki are childhood friends who have always been together. Takuya secretly likes Aki, but she suddenly gets a boyfriend. Takuya nurses his broken heart with Yuiji, who suddenly confesses that he's always liked Takuya. (Source: Enterbrain)

Two stories centering around people whose cats helped them through difficult times. **Story 1.** A star model in full height of her career suffers an accident that leaves her paraplegic in a wheelchair. She has no will to live, but finds strength in the family pet cat.

"Mitsuru and I, we're Romeo and Juliet." High school students, Ryousuke and Mitsuru are lovers since childhood. But their fathers are with daggers drawn. They really don't want to be separated...With this mind, the decision to elope...?! Besides the main title work, this book also contains the love of a popular idol x childhood friend, and the timid love of the one carrying out someone else's love letters ♥ The sparkling high school loves, a short compilation gem! (Source: Tokuma Shoten, translated)

High school is traumatic enough, but as a new office lady (OL) she's terrified of men. By chance, she runs into a senior employee who also has a fear of women...?

Shino is a high school student transferring schools from Tokyo to Ibaraki. When he’s late for his first day at school he meets a beautiful girl, Sera Ichigo, standing in the shade. As the day goes on, he gets carried away and accidentally winds up in the Astronomy Club. There, he discovers that Ichigo is actually a member! The Astronomy Club takes the stage, and Shino’s sparkling youth days begins! (Source: Kodansha, translated)

Run by a young man passionate about literature, the small secondhand bookstore Jugatsudo welcomes a diverse array of visitors every day: lifelong book lovers, a high school student hoping to mark her transition into adulthood through reading, a widow who has come to part with her late husband’s collection, a man who seems to want to get rid of some books... Each need is an opportunity for the bookseller to connect, if only for a few minutes, with a customer’s memories. (Source: Kadokawa, translated) *Notes: \- Nominated for the 2025 Next Manga Award in the Print Manga Category. \- Ranked 4th in the 4th Crea Late Night Manga Awards in 2025. \- Ranked 1st in Da Vinci's 2025 Book of the Year ranking. \- Ranked 1st in the Men's Division of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2026 guidebook. \- Ranked 9th in Freestyle Magazine's "The Best Manga 2026" ranking in 2025. \- Ranked 2nd in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2026. \- Ranked 1st in the Nationwide Publishers Recommended Comics of 2026. \- Winner of the 19th Manga Taishou in 2026. \- Winner of the Bookseller Prize at the 2026 EbookJapan Manga Awards. \- Winner of the 30th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2026.*

Collection of one shots: 1. **Kimi ni Utsuru Hoshi** 2. **Futari no Aida no Ao** 3. **Yozora no Hate made** 4. **Nanadome no Gomenne** (The Seven Things I'm Sorry For) Stuttering, recluse Tooru believes he has seven things he's sorry for. His twin brother Satoru knows all but the seventh... the very one that may shatter their way of life. 5. **Koi no Awai no** 6. **Afuretara Saigo** (also included in Syrup! - Bitter) Segawa and Kousaka have been best friends forever. When Segawa tells Kousaka that he likes men, that doesn't stop them from being friends.... but perhaps it's because Kousaka actually loves him. But Segawa is stuck on a man he saw at a gay park... 7. **Extra**