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！)

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"...

Tsugumi, who works part-time at a botanical garden, has always hated his uniquely colored eyes—blue mixed with yellow, a shade uncommon among Japanese. To hide this insecurity, he wears colored contacts. One day at work, he meets Keito, a young jewelry designer. Keito is bright, overly friendly, and definitely not Tsugumi’s type—or so he thinks. Yet, Keito quickly closes the distance between them and insists on seeing Tsugumi’s real eyes. *“…Wow, they’re beautiful. Like gemstones,”* Keito says, gazing at him with sparkling eyes. Before Tsugumi can react, Keito suddenly leans in for a kiss…!? (Source: Tokuma Shoten, translated) Note: Includes an extra.

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He has excellent grades, is handsome, and has a girlfriend. For some reason, Aoi Monaka, a model student with a lot of talent, has to repeat a grade. When he looks around the classroom, he sees another isolated and helpless problem child: a JK model with a poor expression, a former student council president who was exiled for being too serious, and a landmine girl who is at the center of an online scandal... Monaka decides to form a school excursion group with these girls!? Inside, they are all thinking, "If it's Monaka-san, can you change me?" From class rejects to a fulfilling life!? Youth liberation romantic comedy! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Nagamitsu Bakushuu is an adviser in the "Clean Break Helpline" (commonly called "Ashinuke Call")—a special unit in the Organized Crime Department at Tokyo Metropolitan Police which helps those who want to make a clean break from a gang group. Although she treats gang member clients like "scum," she goes far beyond her responsibility to help them quit the organization by getting a written agreement from the gang boss and finding jobs for them afterwards. Also, her colleague and a former detective at the Organized Crime Department—Mikajima Kakeru doesn't get along with Bakushuu. One day "Clean Break Helpline" receives a call from a client. He is the leader of a gang group under the umbrella of a designated organized crime group "Kanto Kifune-gumi," and claims that he already made an apology to the boss—Tachibana Isao. The client says that his group has got in trouble because of Bakushuu... (Source: TBS, DramaWiki)