Is being a classmate not enough? From a slightly mature high school girl, to an otaku girl who started with NES, to two people who wanted to be more than friends but couldn't.... This collection of short stories is filled with frustrating, touching, and yet slightly daring love stories from a time when there was no "mobile phone". Nine selections by Erika Sakurazawa, a master of romance, are included in this collection. (Source: Sukima.me, translated) Collected Stories: **Just Lovers** (ジャスト・ラヴァーズ) **Kuse ni Narukamo** (くせになるかも) **Game wo Tsuzukeyou** (ゲームを続けよう) **Kanashiki Machikado** (悲しき街角) **Dial M wo Mawase** (ダイヤルMを廻せ) **Toraware no Himegimi** (とらわれの姫君) **Kin no Suzu Monogatari** (金の鈴ものがたり) **Tookute Hikatteru** (遠くて光ってる) **Friends** (フレンズ)

1. **Sakura** (桜) 2. **Mashou** (魔性) 3. **Summer of Love** 4. **WEEK END** 5. **Pin Heel** (ピンヒール) 6. **Neko** (猫) 7. **Neko #2** (猫＃2) 8. **Champagne no Awa no You ni** (シャンパンの泡のように) 9. **Zakuro** (柘榴) 10. **Watashi ni Nita Ko** (私に似た子) 11. **Ai ga Ippai** (愛がいっぱい) 12. **One Piece** (ワンピース)

Fukiko has never had a boyfriend, always being dedicated to her work. However, she is unexpectedly fired from her job because of a mistake made by an unreliable junior colleague...! Just when it seems like she has hit rock-bottom, one last great shining hope appears for Fukiko...? A new age Cinderella story by Erika Sakurazawa! (Source: Shueisha, translated)

Kirameku Kisetsu: Having just successfully started a new job, Ami's days are fulfilling and busy. But that didn't leave much time for her boyfriend of three years, which she didn't mind because she felt like they were in a stable relationship. Her friends asked her, "How can you even say you are lovers?" Caramel no Coat wo Watashi ni: My boyfriend, who goes to the same university, has been acting strange recently. We don't see each other as often as we did before, and his replies to my phone calls and emails are short and curt. Apparently, he and his roommate seem to be into "older women"? This is an comic anthology about the themes of "Love" and "Growth" for girls of all ages! (Source: Takarajimasha, translated) Included Stories: 1. **Kirameku Kisetsu** (きらめく季節) 2. **Étude** エチュード 3. **Caramel no Coat wo Watashi ni** (キャメルのコートを私に) 4. **Miracle!** (ミラクル！)

"I want to help the poor." Starting all by herself, Mother Teresa created facilities for orphans and for patients with intractable diseases. (Source: Poplar Publishing, translated) *Note: The 8th volume in Poplar Publishing's Comic World Biography Series (コミック版 世界の伝記).*

Shoko lives with her husband and daughter, but when her daughter is accepted to a prestigious private school, the high tuition fees and other expenses make it difficult for the family to make ends meet. Then, a mother friend offers her a "secret part-time job"...

Junya is an ordinary businessman who gets caught up in a summoning of a shrine maiden and is transported to a game world. Junya is treated as an "extra" because he is summoned along with other Japanese who are then worshipped as the shrine maiden. Although he is treated coldly, he is determined to live independently in this world. However, the super-beautiful first prince, the daring knight captain, and the earnest attendant are all overprotective of Junya and try to prevent him from becoming independent...? (Source: Alphapolis, translated)

Delinquent comedy about a spineless college student who's a proud member of an elite private school. He gets entangled with a rough delinquent boy from a low class school who helps him out in a fight. Shortly after their first encounter these polar opposite young men find out that their parents decided to marry each other and they are now... brothers?!