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Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old apartment 'Chikuseisou' where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter Hakone Ekiden Marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. Kakeru soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices. *Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.*
This is an anthology full of newlywed yuri themed stories. The book includes Haru Hisakawa’s Yome ga Toutoi (lit. My Bride is Precious), which is about a woman being concerned about her bride who is avoiding sex immediately after getting married. Kozumi Miura’s Watashi no Kanojo ga Kawaii Riyuu (lit. The Reason Why My Girlfriend is so Cute) depicts a couple’s newlywed feelings, who has been in love for 10 years and has just started to live together. Ryo Tsuzu’s Kitsune no Yomeiri tells the story of a woman who lost her lover just shortly before their wedding. *This volume includes the following chapters:* 1. **Yome ga Toutoi** (嫁が尊い) \[Hisakawa Haru\] 2. **Watashi no Kanojo ga Kawaii Riyuu** (私の彼女が可愛い理由) \[Miura Koizumi\] 3. **Hodokeru Kesshou** (ほどける結晶) \[Inui Ayu\] 4. **Cinderella Matchmaking** (シンデレラマッチメイキング) \[Ahiru\] 5. **Kitsune no Yomeiri** (狐の嫁入り) \[Tsuzura Ryou\] 6. **Kaku Shite Futari wa Kono Saki mo** (斯くして二人はこの先も) \[Kiriyama Haruka\] 7. **Kekkon-Rikon wa Goshichaku no Ue** (結婚・離婚はご試着の上) \[Hazuki Ruri\]
The story follows the employees at the Genbu Shobou publishing company. Araki, who is a veteran editor for the dictionary department, is looking for a successor now that he's approaching retirement age. After Majime Mitsuya—a salesman who's a poor talker—meets Masashi Nishioka—Araki's coworker who is sociable and frivolous—Araki overhears their conversation and decides to recruit Majime into the department. The story follows "the awkward humans" Majime and Masashi as they work together to compile a medium-sized Japanese dictionary titled "The Great Passage" (Daitokai). (Source: Anime News Network)
Kogure-sou is a crumbling old apartment building of just six rooms where four people live. On the first floor are the owner, a very old man who wants to have sex before he dies, and a girl in university who pines in a sad and complicated love. On the second floor are a salary man who finds meaning to his life in spying on the university girl below him, and Mayu whose boyfriend disappeared three years ago. Also involved are the florist from the nearby shop who worries over her husband’s infidelity and Mine who is still troubled by a crime committed a long time ago. What all of them strive for is love, but they all find nothing but pain and bitter disappointments. Do they realize that what heals them is actually the run-down little apartment building and the real human warmth that they share with each other? (Source: Aerandria)
1. **Pandora no Himitsu** (パンドラの秘密) Aime is a girl, who has a sixth sense. she always wears a scarf, because she has a mark on her throat. First she doesn't know why she has them, but then she finds out what this mark and her supernatural power really means... 2. **Hibari Naku Asa** (ひばり鳴く朝) 3. **Tanabata** (たなばた)
Konno Masaki just recently moved to Tagami and has already stirred up a mess. The goddess of the land, Noshiro, lives alongside the people of the city and for some reason chooses Masaki as her mate. Without thinking about the consequences, he agrees to her demands only to regret it. At the same time, Towada Yuki, the only daughter of the wealthy family of Tagami, falls in love with Masaki and asks him to be her boyfriend. And like a fool, he agrees. Now Masaki has to juggle two of the most prominent members of the community, the goddess of the land and the member of the Tagami family, and prevent it from blowing up in his face.
Fumi Koito used to be raised by an old housekeeper named Hatoko Natsuyaki. He would call her "Peppermint Nanny" because she would eat his leftover peppermint candy drops—because he hates how they taste—then breathe into his nose because he likes the smell. Now Fumi is in his mid-20's and living on his own as a cram school teacher. One day a little girl no more than nine years old shows up at his house. It turns out she is his old nanny who misses cooking and tending to his every need. But because she is pushing eighty and has grown too frail, she drank a mysterious bottle of medicine to regain her youth—and accidentally drank too much. Thus begins their new life together, with the reader frequently left guessing who is taking care of whom.
During the basketball club's training camp, some people were caught in a landslide with Kazuki miraculously being the only one to survive. Is there a meaning to his survival or...? In order to erase the trauma from the awful accident, Kazuki becomes addicted to women, while he still looks at the world with cold eyes. It's during this time that he meets a fellow classmate named Mana. Will she be able to change Kazuki's fate?
Dependent on her boyfriend of seven years, unable to communicate well with others, and lacking self-confidence, Miki feels like a bird trapped in a gilded cage. In the midst of all this she meets callous young man named Kamaya at her post in the students affairs office. Although Kamaya seems to have no qualms about invading her personal space, he saves her when she's in trouble, and Miki gradually begins to see him in a new light.
