An anthology of one-shots. 1. **Anta no Ballad** (あんたのバラード, Your Ballad): Sakae, born on Innoshima island, had a normal childhood. She has recently come to Tokyo to pay her little sister, Yukiko, a visit. There she meets Seo, an aspiring actor that looks like Masanori Sera from “Twist” who she gradually gets drawn to. Sakae moves in with Seo, even though her fiance is waiting for her in Innoshima. 2. **Amaoto ni Waltz wo Odorou** (雨音にワルツを踊ろう, Let’s waltz to the sound of rain): High school girl Isako Yoshinaga, arrives home the next morning after having her first time where she discovers her mother, Hatsue, has gone away on a trip. What will she do!? 3. **Do Shaburi Chic** (どしゃぶりチーク) 4. **10-Tsuki wa Ballad** (10月はバラード)

Chikako Fujitani, 18 years old, is a first-year student at Hano Women's Junior College. She finally gets to live on her own, enjoying her time with her apartment neighbors, Kanro (a fellow college student aspiring to be a manga artist) and Chiaki (posing as a college student while actually working as a tour guide, on the lookout for potential boyfriends). There's also Iwata, whom she met on a guided tour and had a crush on since junior high, Nagae, and Makoto, the landlord's son... There are plenty of guys who catch her interest. This is a special love story that realistically portrays the bold, delicate, and clumsy romances of college students.

Anthologies included with the special editions of Ueno-san wa Bukiyou.

Chikako Fujitani’s first kiss at 14 makes her heart flutter. Megumi Kanroji fell in love with the idea of love at 17. Special extra chapters showing the young days of the “Idol wo sagase” cast, which depict their pure and delicate feelings! Includes the extra oneshot of “Tsuki ni hoero onnatachi!”

**VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s…** Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash’s older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa’s insatiably ambitious hands—and it’s exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx’s acquaintance… *Source: VIZ Media*

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber... (Source: VIZ Media) *Notes: \- Won an Excellence Prize at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival \- Won a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender Awards in 2005. \- Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural the Grand Prize in 2009 and the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in Girls' Category in 2011. \- Nominated for the first annual Manga Taishou in 2008.*

Lucky Star's story portrays the lives of several school girls attending a Japanese high school with a very loose humor tone. The setting is based on the town Kasukabe in Saitama Prefecture. The main heroine is Konata Izumi, an athletic and intelligent girl who, despite these attributes, is not in a sports club, and has low grades. Her laziness at school is due to her love for anime and video games and lack of interest in anything else. The serialization began with the four main characters in their first year of high school: Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, Tsukasa Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara. As the story progresses, they move onto their second and third year.

Shiro Kakei, lawyer by day and gourmand by night, lives with his boyfriend, Kenji Yabuki, an out-going salon stylist. While the pair navigate the personal and professional minefields of modern gay life, Kenji serves as enthusiastic taste-tester for Shiro’s wide and varied made-from-scratch meals. (Source: Kodansha USA) *Note: Nominated for the first annual Manga Taishou Award (2008).*

A high school crush, a world-class pastry chef, a former middle-weight boxing champion...and a whole lot of cake! Ono has come a long way since the agonizing day in high school when he confessed his love to handsome Tachibana. Now, some 14 years later Ono, a world-class pastry chef and gay playboy has it all. No man can resist Ono's charms (or his cooking skills!) but he has just found a new position under a man named Tachibana. Can this be the only man who resisted his charms, and if so, will the man who once snubbed the "magically gay" Ono get his just desserts? And how in the heck did a former middleweight boxing champion wind up as Ono's cake boy? (Source: DMP) **Note:** Recipient of 26th Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo manga category for 2002.

Just before the start of the French Revolution, a commoner named Gerard pays a visit to a high-class brothel, where he sleeps with, and then buys the freedom of Jacques, a young noble sold into prostitution. Jacques looks down on commoners and Gerard has his reasons for hating the nobility, but they’re thrown together once again when Jacques ends up being hired as Gerard’s new houseboy. Jacques’ determination to make his own way in the world, and Gerard’s surprising, quirky shows of kindness slowly bring the two together into a romance for the ages! (Source: Blu Manga)