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Marika Fujisawa is a crazy plant lady who is deeply passionate about anything green and growing. While training to become a plant coordinator, Marika is hired by “HEAVEN”, a prestigious plant rental service dedicated to high quality decorative vegetation for special events. There, she meets stern Tetsuya. At first he seems dull, but then Marika comes across his rose arrangements and wonders how such a blunt man can create such heavenly decorations… On top of that, Marika has to stay on top of work! How will a wedding turn out under her expertise?
The title story, "Canon," is the story of a boy who has lost his memory and is confused by the existence of a woman who claims to be his wife and by others who call him "Grandpa." The book also includes other stories published in Le Paradis (Hakusensha) and its online supplements, including "Ningyo," "Umizibi After," "Yume no Onna," "One's Place," "Hachisu no Hana After," and "Yakusoku." (Source: Natalie, translated)
Mozu Sousuke is fired from his job as an model and half-forced to move to a farm in Hokkaido. As someone who's always lived in the city, the shift in schedules, the heavy labour, the lack of contact with the outside world, the cold, the temperamental livestock, and the rather fierce little sister are quite the ordeal. *Note: Includes the one-shot "Kimi to Meguru Sekai" (キミとめぐる世界).*
Two kids become friends, even though he has an incurable illness. One winter, he was told he wouldn't be able to live to the next spring and she...
"Nurarihyon's Bride" is a Japanese-style fantasy romance featuring Tsukiyo, a lonely girl who works in the Yukaku district. She has a burn scar on her face wich she covers with a mask. One day, a mysterious man suddenly chooses Tsukiyo. He is a youkai king named Oboro, who says he is looking for a stone to become a complete youkai. Oboro seems to think that Tsukiyo may have the stone ...
Third year student Aoi Shimizu plunges herself into the school swimming pool while still fully dressed. A male student, Oohashi, sees the incident from the school's archery range and comes running to her rescue. Why is Aoi so upset and will her chance meeting with Oohashi set her on the right path into the future?
Due to some unusual circumstances, Yutaka, a popular university students, often called a miser, raised by his strong sister, is an acquaintance of Rika, the owner of a host club. And then he meets Ritsu, the number 1 host at that club, and Kirishima, a lawyer who’s also a customer who adores Ritsu…?!
A collection of short stories originally published in Japan between 2000 and 2004. 1. **Fuyu no Kirin** (冬のキリン) 2. **Spica** (スピカ) 3. **Midori no Koinu** (ミドリの仔犬) 4. **Hana no Yurikago** (はなのゆりかご) 5. **Yuuhi Candy** (夕陽キャンディ) 6. **Innocence wo Machinagara** (イノセンスを待ちながらが)
High school girl Ai had a strange dream about a childhood past in which she was rescued by a little boy who promised to protect her. The dream seems like a fragment of her memory but she does not have any recollection of the past. Things start to get stranger when there is a guy in her class whom she does not recognize at all. It seems that everyone in the class knows about Akizuki Tohru except for her. Sensing something strange about Tohru, Ai went to conduct an investigation on him and found that the school has no records of him. After confronting him, Tohru eventually admits that he is an ESPer who has infiltrated into the school to investigate on the string of drug-overdose deaths that have been happening in school. This begins the story of Ai's involvement in the life of Tohru and the dangerous events behind the investigation...
Growing up, Takara Rio has always wanted siblings. So when her parents decide to move overseas without her and tells her she will be living with two people around her age, she's cautiously optimistic. But they turn out to be brothers who fight like cats and dogs. Is this what having siblings is like?
Ikumi is a high school girl whose hobby is making stuffed toys. When she is rescued by Ayato, the most popular boy at her school, she decides to give him a handmade stuffed doll as a thank-you, but she witnesses him secretly throwing it into the garbage. That was when the "curse" of the stuffed animal is activated and Ayato is turned into a doll himself… (Source: Natalie, translated)