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Tomboy Katie Malloy was neighbor to Sean Fitzpatrick and his brothers...and effectively an adopted member of their family. Kate and Sean have spent the past two decades as best friends, supporting one another in their various relationships and life goals. Now, as they near their thirties, Sean is a successful private investigator in business with his brothers. And Katie? She wants to have a child, and she has a list of potential fathers for Sean to investigate. While Sean will investigate three potential baby daddies, he just has to know whose were the other two names that Katie struck from her list. One was his brother with whom she broke things off. The other was Sean himself. Would Sean want to be the father of Katie's child? Katie's been like a sister to him all these years, but maybe their friendship has been hiding something more... (Source: Renta!)
*"Do friends in a group usually talk about each other behind their backs...?"* Kiyo, like any other socially adept high-school girl, spends every day having fun with her group of friends! But somehow, things don't feel quite right... Do friends in a group usually talk about each other behind their backs...? Maybe not, but if there's one thing that Kiyo knows, it's that she doesn't want to be on her own. And so, she simply goes with the flow, even as her high school life is hit by a storm! (Source: Comikey)
Takase Tsubaki, a 29-year-old saleswoman based in Sapporo. She's cautious when it comes to love and still holds onto her virginity. Tsubaki finds herself developing feelings for her co-worker, Azuma Ryuhei. While Azuma has a reputation as a playboy, they manage to maintain their friendship. In a moment of impatience, Tsubaki unintentionally invites Azuma to a hotel, hoping for a deeper connection. However, things don't go as expected, and Azuma doesn't embrace her as she had hoped. (Source: Mangamo)
*"I'll teach you what a man is, so be my woman."* Becoming a yakuza's woman... And raising a child together!? Starting an exciting life of child-rearing to protect my family! (Source: MangaPlaza)
Charity works as a secretary in a hospital with Professor Wyllie-Lyon, a handsome and popular doctor. One day after a hard day at work, she bursts into tears. When the professor sees her crying, he offers her a job as his personal assistant in his clinic. Charity's excited to work so closely with him and soon realizes she's in love with him. But the professor has a beautiful and kind fiancee. What will happen to this unrequited love that is sure to end in heartbreak? (Source: Renta!)
Magazine editor Miku is considering her future with her live-in boyfriend, Souta, but her busy work schedule keeps them drifting apart. One day, when her work finally settles down, she comes home and discovers Souta cheating on her with a female coworker! Frantically running out of the house, Miku is saved by Aoi, the young owner of a long-established kimono shop she previously interviewed. Knowing she has nowhere to go, he invites her to his house, and when she tries to leave immediately, he tells her, "I want you to stay here a little longer!" (Source: Bunkasha, translated)
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A teenage girl, who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception," a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the "death" of everything in existence and kill the object by destroying its "origin." She recently recovered from a two-year coma caused by a traffic accident. Prior to the traffic accident, she originally had two personalities, a male personality named Shiki (織), and the original female personality Shiki (式). Children born into the Ryougi family are generally male and are raised with two personalities, so the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It is easy to tell which Shiki is speaking at a given time because they both have a distinct style of speaking, most notably that the female Shiki refers to herself with the pronoun watashi (私), while male Shiki refers to himself as ore (俺). After waking from her coma, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the male Shiki's presence and assumes that he died because of the accident. She also feels a detachment from her memories before the accident, and while she knows she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is. In the hopes of regaining herself and the "dead" Shiki, she puts on a cold facade that somewhat resembles the male Shiki's and tries to act as the female Shiki did. Touko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality. The series is regarded as being set in the same world as another TYPE-MOON series, Tsukihime, with Aoko Aozaki's sister Touko Aozaki being featured in this series and the protagonist of the series, Shiki Ryougi, possessing the same abilities as Tsukihime's protagonist, Shiki Tohno.
From a young age, Minami Harusumi has had recurring dreams of Veronica, a princess whose kingdom is on the verge of destruction. He believes them to be recollections of his past life, and that he is her reincarnation. Because of this, he is ridiculed by his classmates. One day, when the mockery escalates into bullying, he rediscovers magic—something Veronica had studied and used. Reassured his past life is not merely a fantasy, Minami tries to learn more about his past memories and the reason behind them...
Heisuke is a young man who was left in charge of taking care of his little cousin Aki for a day. Being an only child who usually stays at home alone, Aki is quiet, reserved, and will go out of his way not to make trouble for others. As they spend more time together, Aki begins to grow very attached to Heisuke, especially since Heisuke's hobby is to make sweets and desserts. The quiet Aki eventually opens up to Heisuke, and Heisuke in return teaches Aki that sometimes it's all right to be selfish and say what you really want to do. (Source: Bliss)
Keitarou Itsuki is a high-school student unhappy about the menacing look of his eyes. Keitarou tries to confess to the girl he likes, Aoi Tokujira, but she rejects him flat out. Thinking that his eyes were the reason why she rejected him, he confides in his older sister about it at her salon, who helps by giving him a complete makeover...as a pretty girl! Forced to head home like this, he runs into Aoi in town, but she doesn't recognize him and thinks he's a somewhat manly girl. Before he can leave, Aoi asks him to help her overcome a problem she's had for many years: an intense fear of men. *Volume 3 and 4 each contain extra stories.*
Gekkou, or "Moonlight", is about the peculiar relationship between a cynical boy and a perfect girl. Said cynical boy is Nonomiya who spends day in day out in boredom, taking refuge from his dull life in his imagination. One fateful day, he happens upon the notebook of the much-rumored beauty Youko Tsukimori, neglected on the ground. Poking out from it is a scrap of paper with the unexpected title "Murder Recipe". His interest ignited, he immediately stuffs it into his pocket, only to find out the promising recipe contains nothing but scenarios that may or may not lead to deadly accidents, not even worthy of being called a plan. When he tentatively asks her about it the next day, she hasn't lost anything. But then her father dies. An accident... (Source: Baka-Tsuki)
