Yoshika and Yukina are best friends at school. Yukina is both physically beautiful and possesses a kind and gentle personality that charms everyone who knows her, including her wonderful boyfriend. Yoshika is less traditionally beautiful and has a less alluringly feminine personality. In addition, she desperately likes Yukina's boyfriend. While Yoshika does care for her friend, she is also deeply envious of her. One day, a demon in the form of a house cat appears to Yoshika and offers her the supernatural power to take whatever she wants from her friend. How far will Yoshika let her jealousy of her best friend take her?
*'Akira, are you not drawing anymore?'* That was what my childhood friend asked me. She who was always shining, a story of youth by Shueisha Bronze Award Rookie Winner that shine so bright that it'll burn the back of your eyelids.
Collection of short stories surrounding the Persona 5 cast.
Russia, 1828. Natalia's family is fallen nobility, left poor by her father's chronic illness and mother's poor management. Her family's only chance at revival is her marriage to a wealthy noble. With her family's hopes riding on her future husband, what chance does a poor poet have at winning her heart...
Novelist Fumi loves his childhood friend, Woo-tan. Woo-tan curiously sprouts rabbit ears once every month, and during that time, goes to rest at Fumi's house. Woo-tan, who has been candid and cool ever since they were little, now has a juicy body. Fumi started writing novels to sublimate his desire for Woo-tan, but somehow, they started living together...!?
Ballet is Nanami's life and passion, but what happens when her father passes away due to an illness and she has been entered into a famous theatrical troupe by a mysterious man who is deeply attracted by her potential in acting? Will she survive in the harsh surroundings in the theatre? The drama of Nanami's life as an actor and the circumstances of a small theatrical troupe are carefully woven into this manga.
Hiyumi is an ordinary teenage girl who, when her father told her they were going to move to Nagano prefecture, immediately pictured life in one of the biggest, liveliest centers of Japan. She never expected for them to move to one of the least populated towns in the area. A town which takes a mile-long walk to get to a single convenience store. A town where you can count the different families on one hand. That type of town. Anyway, let’s watch Hiyumi experience her new life in the boonies.
Popular stories from fashion magazine Zipper have made their way into a special book. Letter by Hazuki Kanae "Who are you?" On a certain day, she discovered a letter left in her school desk... My Best by Fujisue Sakura "I can't touch him, because we are friends." Where will these unsuppressable feelings lead us... Miss You by Kumiko Saiki And the day they part ways finally arrives... Goodbye, I'll See You Tomorrow by Tomoko Noguchi Yasaki, who finally gets a boyfriend, now has to enter into a long distance relationship! Even though she thought that the pain of not being able to see him was the same... CHERRY by Matsumoto Nanako The only person that would suit her is someone as extraordinarily popular as she is, right!? The person in question should definitely be... To the You Who is Here by Haneda Ibuki Does she still seem like a child to her older boyfriend? All she wants is for him to glance her way...
It's a sad and beautiful tale about Pom the panda, a little fellow who dressed as a panda and hands out balloons to children. Pom loves a human girl, Fuu. Poor Pom dies before confessing his love to Fuu. Pom becomes a ghost who waits for a long, long time on the bench where he got a date with Fuu, trying to find the right words to tell his beloved that he will never come back without making her sad.
A nightmare-devouring tapir becomes stuck in Akane's dreams until she can feed him a proper nightmare. *Note: Published in LaLa 2009-12*
The distorted memory becomes a masquerade. Everyone hides behind a mask and performs the wildest acts with no consequence. But, life is not a masquerade. The main character is a girl who suffers daily from what she accidentally witnessed years ago. She keeps having flashbacks of a gruesome scene. It always starts with her as a little girl following a black kitten, and suddenly the black kitten turns into a panther! A woman welcomes the panther to join her and the rest of the panthers. And then, unaware of the presence of the little girl, the group starts having "fun." The girl becomes horrified by the scene. She makes a noise and they notice her. "Hunt her down! Kill her!" the woman says to the panthers. She managed to escape from the pack, but they got to her parents. In her flashbacks, her parents were chased and fell off a cliff. The authorities told her that it was a car accident. She has lived on the edge of illusion and reality until she sees the photo of the woman on a magazine. A photo is all she needs to confirm what her flashbacks tell her. Now, she is ready to get even. (Source: MangaArt)
Kinoshita Rinko, 20 years old, has been fired after taking the blame of a colleague's mistake during her probation period. The reason behind her action is, *"it is very lonely when you're crying and there is no one to help you."* On her way back home, she met a beautiful woman crying and could not leave her by herself. Believing in Rinko's reasoning, the woman asked Rinko to take her place to protect her brother, Shinomiya Ryou. *Note: Chapter count includes a bonus chapter.*

