When you're in love, life feels like it's multiplied times two! These five short stores of budding high school romance explore the confusing emotions that arise in the first tentative phases of love. Love at First Touch: Love is in the air at Filed Day, and Eri can't figure out what draws her to Kohei Expiration Date 2001: Miwa's secret crush Kenta gives her a soda, and she decides that the date on the bottom of the can must be symbolic. Could this love taste sweet , or will it go sour? Second Impression: When delinquent Naoki tuns out to be an attentive gardener, will he and Haruka sow sees of romance together? Frequency: What happens when rascally loudmouth Kaori gains the ability to tune in to the private thoughts of model student Morihiro? Baby Universe: Can Kengo convince Saki that she is not too grown up to recapture the innocent excitement they felt while searching the sky for UFOs as kids?

Five intimate magical-realist tales from manga legend Rumiko Takahashi! A supernatural mirror compels a teenager to draw out and destroy the evil lurking within others. But will his duty destroy him? A has-been manga creator acquires the power to curse his competition. Is it worth it? A pet cat possesses a human—warning, side effects may include partial transmogrification... And more! Plus, a rare behind-the-scenes autobiographical story about Takahashi’s lifelong love affair with manga (and friendship with manga creator Mitsuru Adachi)! (Source: VIZ Media)

He’s said to be the greatest playwright and poet in history, the author of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth, but just who was William Shakespeare? Harold Sakuishi unlocks the secrets behind the writer you only thought you knew! (Source: Kodansha USA)

Ko Higaonna is a happy college student, a trusting young man with an alluring girlfriend, Satomi. But her busy schedule leaves little time for their relationship, and thus few opportunities for Ko to explore his sensual desires. When Ko discovers that a voyeur is spying on them, he embarks on a quest to uncover what exactly Satomi is doing in her spare time - and finds that he must also confront his own repressed longings. (Source: VIZ Media)

Average, unremarkable Ai Maekawa navigates school life unnoticed... until one day when a spiteful classmate totally humiliates her in front of everyone. Determined to jettison her embarrassing past, she overhauls her image and enrolls at a new high school where no one knows the old Ai. From the start, Ai is the target of romantic advances and jeolous gossip—can a formerly invisible girl handle this avalanche of attention? And is Ai's erstwhile identity as a loser really as far behind her as she hopes? (Source: VIZ Media)

A new Pocket Monsters manga based on the 2019 Pocket Monsters anime.

When Satoshi oversleeps on his 10th birthday, he ends up with a stubborn Pikachu instead of the first partner Pokémon he wanted! But after a rocky start, Satoshi and Pikachu become close friends and true partners - and when they catch a rare glimpse of the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh in flight, they make plants to seek it out together. Trainers Makoto and Souji join Satoshi on his journey, and along the way, they meet the mysterious Mythical Pokémon Marshadow. When they near their goal, an arrogant Trainer named Cross stands in their way. Can Satoshi and Pikachu defeat him and reach Ho-Oh as they promised, or will their journey end here? (Source: VIZ Media)

Shaymin, the peaceful Gratitude Pokémon, lives happily in forests and fields of flowers. But one day Shaymin is accidentally drawn into a battle between the Legendary Pokémon Giratina and Dialga. Whisked away far from home, Shaymin is found by Ash, Dawn and Brock, who soon discover that this new Pokémon is full of surprises! Of course Team Rocket wants to get their hands on Shaymin, and so does a mysterious man named Zero. Even Giratina is in hot pursuit of this little Pokémon—and just what do Giratina and Shaymin have to do with the dimension known as the Reverse World?

In a land where humans and monsters destroy each other, a young boy searches for the key to peace. (Source: VIZ Media)

There are three known worlds: the human world, the angel world, and the devil world. The evil queen Raindevilla yearns to destroy the angel world with help or her many devil minions. The goddess Aphrodite sends an angel to the human world, Limone, to summon three love angels in the form of three school girls, Momoko Hanasaki, Yuri Tanima, and Hinagiku Tamano, who together become Angel Lilly, Angel Daisy, and Wedding Peach. The three girls must fight to overcome the evils of the devils, as well as their own lives, and restore peace to the angel world by gathering all pieces of the Sacred Four Somethings (or Saint Something Four) and defeat the evil queen once and for all. (Source: Anime News Network)

A suspenseful trio of short stories. Psychic Squad Wild Com finds its lead character struggling with the denial of her psychic abilities - powers that could spell life or death for those around her. The Beasts of June is a poetic tale of urban violence, of two free spirits caught in corruption's heartless grasp. Finally, The Eye of the Needle provides a shocking thriller wrapped in the guise of a fame-twisted romance. (Source: VIZ Media)

*“I won't become a hero even if I am poor, because as long as Honoka continues to smile, it's all worth it.”* Monsters are on the loose! But luckily for the people of Japan, heroes are there to protect them, with powers that run on a rate of yen per second. For Hiasa Sen, however, there are many more important things to worry about, like catching sales on groceries, and his many part-time jobs, all to take care of his little sister. When danger approaches, however, he has a secret power of his own, but it may be more trouble than it's worth. (Source: Comikey)