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A few glances at the handsome Tomoe was enough for 16-year old Hinakawa Nagi to confess love to him, only to be coldly rejected in school. Before she could even get over her embarrassment, she found out that he'll be living in her home for a year. With the touches and kisses, it's a awkward, but thrilling relationship under one roof! (Source: Shogakukan, translated)
Seven touching short stories with a bit of a magical fairy tale quality about them. A collection of Konno Kita's early oneshots; originally self-published and later collected in tankoubon format. 1) **The Road Home:** An old man reminisces about the past. 2) **Garden:** A sheltered princess experiences grief for the first time. 3) **Beyer’s Waltz:** A woman who's “getting on in years” makes a decision about her love life. 4) **The House that Waits for Spring:** A girl faces her future in the shadow of the irresponsible father she dearly loves. 5) **Rattle:** In an impossible land, an old man is reunited with his granddaughter. 6) **The Man Who Sells Glasses:** A magical glasses seller drops by a small town to sell his wares. 7) **Light Source:** One snowy night, a man meets a curious little girl. 8) **Evening Fairy-Tales:** A young man who professes to be a "cat lender" draws out long-forgotten memories in his clients.
The start of a happy life together with a high school girl who has fallen into the bottom of despair. One day, Yuusuke Yuuki, who spent his high school life only in studying and working part-time in order to maintain his scholarship, found himself strongly wishing for a girlfriend. On the way home, feeling lonely from such thought, he casually looked up into the sky and saw a girl who was about to throw herself off the rooftop of an abandoned building. "Why the hell are you doing something like this!" "Because I...don't have any...reason to live..." "Wait. It'd be a shame for a beauty to die" "....?" "Rather than dying, be my girlfriend" "Eeh?" Thus, a new love story and daily life with a mysterious girl, Kotori Hatsushiro, which all started from a strange encounter, begins. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
Masaki Ryou was sent with his older sister to clean up Hiijii-san's mansion. While he was there, Ryou found a water well and accidentally fell into it. As he regained consciousness, he meets this girl named Rose who has been supposedly expecting him, and realizes that he is in pre-modern England.
A world is governed by a Light God, a Dark God, and a slightly 'my pace' Evil God. The religion that boasted the most power in the world, the Church of Sacred Light, had suddenly lost its influence. The panicking upper echelons of the church decided to perform the Hero Summoning Ritual, as the symbol of their revival. However, due to the intervention of an even more 'my pace' Evil God, the summoned young man was granted a troublesome skill. Followed about by turmoil, the young man met a certain girl, and together they opposed the absurdity of the world. Would he ever safely make it back to his old world…? It was all "a matter of luck."
Mash, who is one of the only humans without powers, has managed to get into a school of magic, in order to recover some cream puffs stolen by the trolls...
A collection of one-shots all based on popular ballets, but in Japanese setting and with a definite supernatural twist! Ghosts were once humans, too, and their love is still alive, told by the master of lovely, but eerie supernatural stories, Kamata Kimiko.
This is a shoujo horror anthology, containing 9 stories. 1) I Know Basketgore After loving Shouhei ever since her second year of middle school, Natsumi finally gets to go out with him. But then she starts getting prank calls telling her to break up with him. Then mysterious things start happening around her. Pots falling from windows, insects in her locker, glass shards in her towel. Are these just harmless pranks, or is someone truely out to get Natsumi? 2) Labyrinth Maze of Memories "Forgive me! Don't kill me" Those are the words Honjou Kumi continues to hear in her nightmares. She lost all of her memories of the time before her accident, so she doesn't understand why the students stare at her and whisper. Pranks are pulled on her left and right. What is it that she doesn't remember? 3) Best Friend Koyuki and Hiroyo are the best of friends. They've always chosen to be with each other. Hiroyo always listens to what Koyuki tells her to do, because she knows best. So when Kinoshita says that he's in love with Hiroyo, Koyuki doesn't believe him. She says the only way she will believe him is to go to the lecture room at 5:55 pm to see the bleeding holy mother statue. Hiroyo tries to stop him, causing all three of them to see it. According to the rumor all the people who see the bleeding statue will all die. Things start happening, causing Hiroyo to be frightened. But only she is targeted. Could it be that Koyuki and Kinoshita are out to get her? 4) The Neighbor's Doll Itsumi finds her neighbor, Yurika's, doll in the trash, so she decides to adopt it. She sets it out onto the balcony to dry and Yurika notices it there. She gets jealous because now it's all clean and cute. She gets her mother to get it back saying that it was thrown away by accident. After getting the dye on her shirt she says she only wanted it back so Itsumi couldn't have it. In the morning, the doll is sitting at Itsumi's door. However, Yurika claims she didn't put it there... 5) Black Cat Sakura is a timid girl, unable to say no, so when she sees two classmates throwing rocks at a cat, she wants to stop them but can't. They tell her to join in or they'll tell everyone to ignore her. She throws a rock at the cat and runs away, hating herself for it.she goes back to check on the cat to find it dead from the rock she threw. An old lady tells her that the cat won't be able to rest in peace. Strange things start to happen around her, and the two other girls are dead, so will she end up dead too? 6) Former Residents of Darkness Mihara Yuna and her family just moved into their new home. Not soon after she notices a figure standing in the doorway and she feels a cool gust of air,but the air conditioner isn't set up and it's the beginning of summer. Her father has started feeling unwell. She starts seeing the white shadow turning up in other places. And she hears voices saying to get out. Soon she hears from the real estate agent that the house is haunted that the whole family died in that house on the 29th of July. Any family that moved in died, and the day they moved in was July 28th. 7) Last Request Mikoto and her childhood friend, Yamato are staying at her grandfather's temple which they use as a hostel. In Mikoto's room, she finds a doll. She is told that the doll is that of a dead child. She then prays for the child. She is woken up in the middle of the night by Ayano, the dead girl, asking for water. Then she continues to ask for more and more, gaining everything she wants. But then she wants Mikoto's life. Will she give it to Ayano? 8) If You Turn The Page Emiri finds the notebook of her decease mother in her study, and decides to write horror in it. But then the events that she wrote about start happening around her. She knows she must stop writing in the notebook, but suddenly her arm is taken over and forcing her to write. People around her are starting to die, but how can she stop it? 9) Red String Mayumi says that the red string tyed to her pinky is attached to her life long partner, Yuuya. And then, Yuuya is hit by a car at in intersection. But has the red string really been cut? (Source: ShoujoMagic)
In an unexpected turn of events, dull high school student Hiro Yuuki obtains the full dive role-playing game Kiwame Quest. Created by the best of technology, the game claims to take "reality to its extremes," from stunning graphics and NPC behavior to the scent of vegetation, and even the sensation of wind brushing against the skin. Everything was the result of ultimate workmanship. However, the game is a little too realistic and messy to clear. Kiwame Quest features over ten quadrillion flags and reflects the players' real-life physical abilities in the game. Being hit in the game also hurts in real life and slash wounds take days to heal. The only reward here is the sense of accomplishment. Conquer the most stressful game in history that can't be played casually.