A fictionalized autobiography of gravure idol Ayaka Ichinose, the first lesbian to come out publicly in Japan's entertainment business.
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 10 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter. Kazuaki Yubara, who is the helicopter designer, and Yuichi Mishima, who is the nuclear power engineer, work frantically to save the child and find the criminal.
Ruka is a little girl in a foster home. With no one ever comes to visit her or pick her up, she often ends up fighting with other kids there who likes to tease her over this issues. Finally she decided to ran away from the foster home to find her parent and saw a teenage boy who is being chased after because he stole a box of cigarette. Ruka is scared, and so she hides and later realized that she left Yohane, her favorite plushie doll on the same place that man is hiding. While she's afraid that her doll is going to be thrown away down the river, the man cleans up the doll, leaves it on the easy to see spot, with a note saying "Lost Item". After the man left, Ruka is touched by this man's action. However, after the incident, Ruka is found and is sent back to the foster home. There, she overheard the truth that her parent is dead. Devastated, she goes to the foster home's fountain, crying with her doll, Yohane, saying that she wants to go see that kind smoking guy she saw earlier. She said, if only she grows up, she probably go to see that man easily. Right after she says this, a rainbow appears over the fountain, her doll pulls her arm into the rainbow and Ruka is drew into the fountain. When Ruka gains her conscious again, She's in a seedy pool club. Because of her age, she doesn't know where this place is. There, she is harassed by thugs and is helped by a man who seems to take charge of this place. They called him Joe. Ruka recognize him, he's that guy she wants to meet, but soon there's another surprise for her. After Joe scolds her that a woman her age shouldn't be in this place, she looks at herself in the mirror and found out that she has becomes a teenage girl. How could it be? And how could her relationship with Joe ends?
In Calamity Creek Shiori is a girl following in her detective father's footsteps to unlock a story of swirling hatred and murder between men and women. Contains four works in all that display the 'mystery and romance' of the Shiori series; the title story "Instead of Saying Goodbye", "The Smile in the Mirror", "Phosphorescence of Darkness" and "BLUE ROSE".
An Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy anthology by various mangaka.
For Nase Kouki, photography and family are a big part of his life. They are intertwined with his lowest and highest moments, -- And so is his brother.
