Contains the stories: \-Escape (エスケープ) \-Yokubou to iu Na no Jitensha (欲望という名の自転車) \-Ie no Hikari (家の光) \-Boku wa Tori ni Naritai (僕は鳥になりたい) Contains four stories: a boy's escape from reform school; an aspiring mangaka's final bid (one of the brothers of piano boy makes a not insubstantial appearance here); a tiny alien family crashes accidentally into Earth and into the lives of two human families; finally, the eponymous story of a guy's mysterious, quiet classmate who turns out to be a modern day Icarus.

Claudine, Helena, Louis and Roger were created together in Lorient, a hamlet north of France, but their friendship in broken after they grow up and their lives follow different paths. But destiny, love and tragedy will unite them again years later... And they will find out the true value of friendship, which can be a clenched, hurtful fist, or an open, saving hand. (Source: Arechi manga, translated)

The story is set in an isolated house in Tokyo. After all the kids left, the only people living in the house are an old couple: a blunt and unsociable husband, and a gossipy wife, with only their cat Chibi for company. The manga depicts the quiet life of the elderly couple. (Source: Anime News Network)

Ren waited 10 years for her brother to complete her prince, the android Tetra. But as he finally awakes, he's just pissed! For 10 years they tinkered with his body as he had to listen to Ren's stupid girly talk! Now he wants revenge! But each day while being charged, he lies down sleeping and just looks like the prince Ren has awaited so long for!

Financial power is an unbeatable power! With the power of money, you can have the "best youth" with the person you love! In the hands of the most powerful young lady, Seira Kinryuin, love and youth are at her mercy!

Miriam's father considers Miriam Blue Lake to be the most beautiful in the world, and that is why he gave that name to his daughter, a romantic and dreamy fifteen-year-old girl whose life will change forever when a handsome boy, with big blue eyes, looks out his window. Because together with the awakening of love, secrets will also come, and Miriam will have to consider what is the future that she wants to live. (Source: Arechi Manga, translated)

19 short stories by 19 different writers.

Susumu Yamada is Japanese, but had never lived in Japan due to his father's international line of work but has now seemingly settled down in Los Angeles, USA. But when Sukumu flunks out of school his parents convince him to go to Japan and stay in his uncle's apartment at the western style residence "Rosemary Hotel". Instead Sukumu arrives at a shabby run down building resided by an eccentric cast. A pair of detectives, a spoiled girl who keeps a literary genius as a servant, and a trio of poor day laborers. During his stay Sukumu and the other residents solve a mystery from the past, have an otherworldly encounter, and much more **Included one-shots:** Volume 4: Yamada-ke no Haha, Jiman no Koibito