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The story begins with Hanabi, a sixth-grade girl who is neither an adult nor a child. She deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing, and worrying about experiencing physiological changes before her friends. This is the depiction of a 12-year-old girl's innocent worries and first love. (Source: Anime News Network)
A collection of five spooky stories: 1. **Tenchi Shinmei!** (天地神鳴!) Asuna Shio is a teenage girl with a very strong perception of the spirit world and has a shrineless god as a companion. One day, Shio's classmate is seen vanishing into a mirror. She reappears afterward, but seems changed for the worse in terms of personality. What has happened to her? 2. **Gekkouchou: Hyaku-nen no Koi** (月光蝶~百年の恋~) A two-tailed tiger-striped cat is taken in by a girl called Mitsu and given the name Torakichi. Torakichi is no ordinary cat, and the love and tragedy between them may be strong enough to transcend a simple lifetime. 3. **Friend Doll** (FRIEND DOLL) Mizuno Sachi spends almost all of her time studying, thanks to her demanding parents, and she doesn't really have friends. There's a boy she likes at school, but it seems impossible to get close to him. Suddenly, her stuffed bunny, Mimi, starts showing up in her dreams to advise her through her teenage life. But what is Mimi's motivation for all this help? 4. **Tonari no Yomi-san** (隣のヨミさん) There's an urban legend about a girl who killed herself as a teenager, "Yomi-san," due to her insecurity over her appearance. Supposedly, her father stuffed her body, and, in her quest to become beautiful, the body seeks to take parts from pretty girls. At one school, several pretty girls have been mysteriously injured. Could the culprit be the dead girl, Yomi-san? 5. **Oni no Sumu Shima** (鬼の棲む島) Saki moves out to a rural area, where she has no friends. In her loneliness, she goes out to an uninhabited island, where she meets a new possible friend. He's a demon, but as Saki gets to know him, she finds him less and less frightening...
This boy looks so cool, so it can't be helped if I fall in love. "We've been so close ever since middle school, so now, I can't tell him I like him..." is what Akemiya feels with an unrequited love towards Iwata. But upon entering high school and becoming friends with the two popular hotties, Fujiwara and Shirotaki, Iwata is starting to get cocky!! Iwata and Akemiya, the super popular side characters of "Fujiwara-kun wa Daitai Tadashii" presents the long-awaited super popular spinoff series that will make your chest squeeze, give you warm fuzzies, make you laugh and make you cry ♪.
Manager Nashizaki Tatsuya of the Pianissimo Club, wants to build the biggest hostess club in all of Japan; a club where men of all ages and nationalities would want to go. And, along with his big club, a huge event will take place, a contest for the number one hostess, with a prize of 100 million yen. Aya, a freshman, doesn't like the idea of being a hostess, but she has to become one, due to a big debt her parents owe. Encouraged by a friend, she reluctantly joins Pianissimo and, so, her life as a hostess begins.
Behind Student Council Vice President Yuuko's cool facade lies a secret that she is desperate to keep from flamboyant President Hasumi. But how long can she go before her mask cracks on Christmas Eve and she's exposed? *Note: Published in LaLa 2011-12*
Bravely Default revolves around four young heroes of Luxendarc: the wind vestal, Agnès Oblige, who finds the wind crystal consumed in darkness; a mysterious vagrant named Ringabel with no memory of his past; Edea Lee of the Duchy of Eternia, who is sent on a mission to protect the world from a great evil; and a youth named Tiz Arrior who witnesses his brother and his hometown Norende being swallowed up by a great chasm. Coming to a week after Norende's destruction in the city of Caldisla, Tiz attempts to find survivors in the Norende Ravine. But he instead finds Agnès and Airy, a cryst-fairy who appears to be helping the vestal awaken the crystals out of their corruption which is causing natural calamities across Luxendarc. But Agnès is being pursued by the Knights of the Eternian Sky, who have been terrorizing Caldisla, and aim to keep the crystals from being awakened. Though Agnès refused his aid at first, Tiz manages to convince her to let him help her in her quest. Soon after, the two are joined by Ringabel and Edea, the latter disgusted with the Sky Knights' dishonorable actions while amazed to find the vestal not to be as evil as she was raised to believe.
Sayo has always wanted to be a spirit messenger, and at last she's assigned to a position at a shrine. However, when she arrives she finds only ruins and a lazy priest. But Sayo won't let these obstacles deter her! She'll clean that shrine up and the priest with it! *Note: Published in LaLa DX 2011-02*
"I knew that eventually I would fall into hell―." One day, young executioner (Monsieur de Paris), Edward, opens his eyes in "hell." While unfamiliar monsters waltz in the place, Ed meets "that man who once stirred the surface―!? Ninomiya Ai of Are you Alice? and rookie Nao Ikuhiro draw a story of puzzles and resurrection, starting now!!