Hajime Hime, the leader of the Pussycats gang, tried to show his friends how to pick up girls by talking to a pony-tailed high school girl in a sailor suit uniform. But to his surprise, he got turned down. Despite the pain of rejection, Hajime fell in love at first sight, and with the help of his friends, he set out to find that girl. He managed to find her, but it turned out that she was a young lady known for her fighting skill...? (Source: BookWalker, translated) *Note: Date based on the release of the tankoubon.*
Put into motion because of dreary feelings, what did they get from it?? The impulses and worries of youngsters carrying a scar on they hearts drawn with a feeling of transparency. A Tada Yumi short story collection published between 1995~1996.
In 1995, along with the release of the original Umihara Kawase game, Shouma Yamabuki wrote and illustrated an 8-part manga series which was published in Comic Burger magazine (this is not that). They also created a 40-page comic story that was published in the Scola/Scholar Hyper Technique guide for the game (this is that). This "gaiden", or sidestory, chapter uses the setting of his manga series, which is pretty distinct from the admittedly story-light game. In this setting, the heroine Umihara Kawase (whose name is spelled differently from the game version, to denote this is an alternate take on the character) has the mysterious power to breathe underwater and uses an electrified lure as a weapon, and must confront the legacy of her oceanographer father along with her friend Kouichi Shioji.
A man need to hide from the Yakuza after embezzling their money, and disguises himself as a woman, and under the name of Rie Kobayashi find a job as an OL for a small corporation, not knowing that this corporation is a cover for the yakuza group he owes money. And to add more problems, the yakuza boss has fallen in love with his female alter-ego, so he will have to be a mob doll for the time being.