Sixteen year old Emma finally arrives at the capital city Hawk Eye after escaping from being held captive for her entire life. But as soon as she arrives, every man in the city, including the king, falls madly in love with her. She is about to be forced into marriage, but is saved by a sorcerer. The sorcerer identifies himself as Shion, one of the youngest and most talented in the nation. They have met before, but Emma has no recollection. Shion explains to Emma that she is cursed with the Echidna, a mysterious magic that appears every 500 years where a girl is born with her heart packed with such powerful dark magic that it has the potential to destroy the world. With such power, one could rule the world, and Shion explains to Emma that people are going to try and hunt her down to get her heart. However, Emma is told that there exists a ritual that will rid her of the Echidna's curse but doing so will require a long and arduous process. The first of that being Emma and Shion will have to marry each other... **Included one-shot:** Volume 8: Karakuri Link (カラクリリンク)

Story told from the point of view of Kinushima Michiru. In a future not too far away, androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids. (Source: Anime News Network)

Towada Nozomi is a popular actor, and ranked as the Number 1 Most Beautiful Man. But because of his arrogant behaviour in contrast to his looks, he has always driven away the people around him. One day, after a word from Towada, Tani is made to become Towada's personal hair and make-up artist and take care of everything around him. Before he realises it, he can't take his eyes off Towada's every single move... (Source: Media Soft, translated) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*

Yawara Inokuma is a talented judoka raised and trained by her grandfather Jigoro. Her grandfather says she's supposed to become the hope of Japan's judo team in Seoul in 1988, but she has different plans: to finish high school and find a boyfriend... like all her friends. But being a normal girl and an Olympic champion are two different things. Which path will she choose to follow? **Note:** Won the 35th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1990.

One day the Yakuza comes knocking on the door of the orphaned Umino siblings. The oldest brother has gone into hiding after acquiring a huge debt. Afraid for her brother, Miyuki agrees to take responsibility for the loan. The yakuza wants her to become a ho, Miyuki wants to be a tennis pro. Turns out she used to be a very promising player before her parents died. However, becoming a pro is difficult when friends are few and everybody else conspires to make Miyuki's life hell. (Source: Anime News Network)

High-Schooler Tsukishima Satoru gets confessed to by local female High-School boxing-talent Saotome Yae. He rejects her initially because he does not want to impede her boxing career (and prevent getting beaten up by her fans). Her female coach, Shioya hears about this and decides to install him as Saotome's trainer so that they can secretly date each other. This situation is also aided by his extensive boxing knowledge.

A boy and a girl are forced to join hands for all eternity!? In a land ravaged by an epidemic known as "Troy", the only people with healing arts capable of stopping the seizures caused by the disease are the Sisters. Although they have a high resistance to the disease, they are searching for a person who is truly immune, so that they can find a cure. The main character is Sister Elraine, one of the Sisters who becomes infected with Troy. But, when she touches Kiri, a seemingly ordinary boy, her seizures stop. Could he be the one!? **Included one-shot:** Volume 1: Island

Special volume released with the DVD of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso. A story from Kousei and Tsubaki's childhood.

Eighteen-year-old Tsukasa Mizugaki has failed his college entrance exams, but after pulling some strings, he manages to land a job at the Sion Artificial Intelligence Corporation. SAI Corp is responsible for the creation of "Giftias"—highly advanced androids which are almost indiscernible from normal humans. However, unlike humans, Giftias have a maximum lifespan of 81,920 hours, or around nine years and four months. Terminal Service One, the station Tsukasa was assigned to, is responsible for collecting Giftias that have met their expiration date, before they lose their memories and become hostile. Promptly after joining Terminal Service One, Tsukasa is partnered with a beautiful Giftia named Isla. She is a Terminal Service veteran and considered the best in Giftia retrievals, contrary to her petite figure and placid nature. Time is fleeting though, and Tsukasa must come to terms with his feelings for Isla before her time is up. No matter how much someone desires it, nothing lasts forever.

Official anthology of the popular yuri manga Citrus. A collection of 17 oneshots. Story 1 : be careful not to play games to much (Eku Takeshima) Story 2: ear-nimal pandemic (Neji) Story 3: the things i want to watch with you (Kayako) Story 4: taboo (Kiyoko Iwami) Story 5: if (Aoto Hibiki) Story 6 : hair arrange (kurakawa) Story 7 : imaginery wedding (Naoko Kodama) Story 8: sweet time (Haruka Kiriyama) Story 9 : Hydrangea’s floriography (Yuuki Goto) Story 10 : love scream (Ameno) Story 11: blast (Miyami Oomiya) Story 12: M.I.B. Mei in black (kurauko) Story 13 : two sisters (Mako Takahashi) Story 14 dead or love (kino kiyuki) Story 15: Hathews (yuki yukio) Story 16 : have a bite (fujieda) Story 17 : wait for sleep… (yayoi osawa)

A human girl falls into the demon realm and can't seem to communicate with the local demon Kuro who found her. Humans are rare in the demon realm and many would love to eat a human. However, Kuro ends up falling in love with her and names her Pochi! Kuro decides to help Pochi get back to the human world and protects her from demons that try to eat her. She ends up being able to at least understand them but still can't speak the same language. She meets a demon prince who also shows interest in her as well and their long journey back to the human world begins! *Includes 2 extra chapters.*

Details the events of the manga from an investigative reporter's point of view.