After Ryou's father remarries, he's not sure what to do with three new brothers and a stepmother at the age of 19. As he comes to appreciate his happy new home and family the glue holding them together starts to come undone. How will these four brothers weather tragedy after tragedy and stay together?
A collection of Kuroshitsuji one-shot chapters by various manga artists. **Volume 1 (2009/3/27)** Cover illustration: Toboso Yana Illustrations: Okazaki Takeshi, Ohtaka Shinobu, KEI, Kitaumi Tsuna, toi8, Hioka Yen 1. Kame Shitsuji (亀執事) \[Suzuki Jirou\] 2. Sono Shitsuji, Tomodachi (その執事、友達) \[Mochi\] 3. Haru no Musubime (春の結び目) \[Hotta Kiichi\] 4. Nayameru London (なやめるロンドン) \[Satorigi Akiyo\] 5. Shitsuji Baby (執事ベイベー) \[Hadzuki Wakana (葉月わかな)\] 6. Akairo Gekijou (赤色劇場) \[Mimori\] 7. Akuma no Asobikata (悪魔の遊び方) \[Yoshino Satsuki\] 8. ROSE & SPICE \[Nagaoka Chiaki (長岡千秋)\] 9. hide and seek \[Tajima Shima (田島シマ)\] 10. Saiyaku no Hi (災厄の日) \[Sakurai Nobara (櫻井のばら)\] 11. Card Game (カードゲーム) \[Takagi Kanako\] 12. EXP.1 \[Takeda Mika\] 13. Canary (カナリヤ) \[Nakamura Naoko (中邑尚子)\] **Volume 2 (2010/8/27)** Cover illustration: Toboso Yana Color illustrations: Shimotsuki Kairi, Kazuaki, Fujiwara Cocoa, pako, Maeshima Shigeki, Ayakura Juu 1. Konna Yoru mo Atta no Desu yo (こんな夜もあったのですよ) \[Satorigi Akiyo\] 2. Tasogare Hanayome (黄昏花嫁) \[Nakamura Naoko\] 3. Michinori no Akumu (道のりの悪夢) \[Yoshino Satsuki\] 4. Kimi wa TV-kko (キミはテレビっ子) \[Kitaumi Tsuna\] 5. Gyaku Shitsuji (逆執事) \[Miyanaga Ryu\] 6. Kuuchuu Yuuei Midnight (空中遊泳ミッドナイト) \[Mimori\] 7. Shinshuku Jizai (伸縮自在) \[Kirino Hajime\] 8. Obake nante Nai sa (おばけなんてないさ) \[ミヤミヤミ\] 9. Idol no Yoake (アイドルの夜明け) \[Suzuki Jirou\] 10. Aka-Seiba (赤聖母) \[長岡千秋\] 11. Nyantomhive (にゃんトムハイヴ) \[Mochi\] 12. Garou de Shishaku (画廊de子爵) \[Kao (香)\] 13. Survival Game (サバイバル・ゲーム) \[Takagi Kanako\] 14. Halloween Panic (ハロウィンパニック) \[Hadzuki Wakana\]
Mirai Fukuin is a side story of Kara no Kyoukai novel series. It includes two stories and three short manga chapters taking place after the events of the series. **Möbius ring** It's about two psychics, Seo Shizune and Kuramitsu Meruka, who can foresee the future. Shizune was sick of her predictable boring life and Meruka became a professional bomber taking advantage of his supernatural power. When Shizune met Mikiya and when Meruka met Shiki, their immutable future started to change. **Möbius link** Taking place ten years after the events of Kara no Kyoukai, Mana Ryougi, Shiki's daughter, spends the day with Kamekura Mitsuru. Manga shorts: 01\_feline - Shiki takes care of a cat for Mikiya. 02\_daylight - Fujino Asagami helps a friend of one of Kirie Fujou's victims get over her death. 03\_say grace - Shiki asks Mikiya out on New Years.
A collection of 4 short stories: 1. **Seishun Survival** (青春サバイバル, Youth Survival; *Betsucomi*) Summer camping trips are supposed to be filled with joy and laughter, but why is Kiriko so unlucky? At first, it was that weakling four eyes, Kazuo and cutesy Hana-chan destroying the pork soup, but when they never returned after a trip to pick wild herbs, Kiriko and Satoru are sent to search for them in the mountains. Little did they know that they would get lost too! 2. **Usotsuki Love Letter** (うそつきラブレター, Liar Love Letters; *Betsucomi*) When Ritsu's boyfriend asks to break up, she readily complies, but finds out later that he's upset she didn't beg him to reconsider. To make her pay for dumping him so easily, he puts on a bet among his friends. Trick Ritsu into falling in love, and win 30,000 yen. When she overhears this, Ritsu is determined to shoot down all the boys out to trick her. But what happens when she comes across someone whose lies actually just might capture her heart? 3. **Yaiba to Heart no Kiken na Kankei** (刃(やいば)とハートの危険な関係, Sword and Heart Dangerous Relationship; *Betsucomi DX*) 17 year-old Ohgami Shizuru is a normal high school student...except for the fact that she comes from a family of ninjas! Most of the time, she only has use for her skills when she is late for school and needs to (sneakily) enter her classroom, but Yamada Kousaku from the Ninja Association informs her that he's been sent by her father to help protect an important scroll in her house that holds the secret to becoming the most powerful ninja ever. Who are the enemies targeting her and what do they have to do with her first love Kotarou? 4. **Otokomae! Beads Club: Fushichou no You ni...!** (男前!ビーズ倶楽部〜不死鳥のように…!〜, Never Dying Crow...!; *Betsucomi DX*) A side story of the series "Otokomae! Beads Club" by the same author. Oikawa, Takumi, and the familiar crazy characters of the high school beads club are at it again. This time, they are out to save a girl named Kurahashi-san, who has become a recent target of bullying because a popular teacher, Yamaoka-sensei, has been paying attention to her more as of late.
A story about two college friends - both of whom have girlfriends - who fall in love and embark on a relationship that they swear will never go beyond the sexual (as the romantic part belongs to their girlfriends alone)... But which inevitably ends up being much more complicated than that and becomes subject to the scrutiny of all those involved.
Okamura Hiiro is introverted and loves books. To him, books are his raison d'etre. His story starts with usual gimmick of summoning of heroes. Five people summoned, but one of them is just an outsider dragged in accidentally, that person is Hiiro. The four others are his classmates, but it's not like they are friends. Unlike him, they are riajuus. Hiiro decided not to help the country, his reason? "I don't believe you. I'm not friends with them. It's not my business, and I'm an ordinary person who cares for my own life, so bye," and he sets for his own journey. Little does others know, that this ordinary person, Hiiro, actually hides a power which could change the world! (Source: jCafe24)
Morita Tetsuo's life changes when he meets Hirai Ginji, who works in the unknown and mysterious 'back world' of society full of villains.
1. **Penguin Prince** (ペンギンプリンス) Ranko is a girl whom is frightened by the students in her school until she is labelled as a "witch." Murakami is a good-looking boy given the title "prince" by the other students, especially among the female ones. One day, Ranko discovered Murakami's biggest embarrassing secret. By understanding the difficulties that Murakami would face as an idol, Ranko begins to know the truth meaning of love. 2. **Sennen Love Song** (千年ラブソング) It's about this boy who is always enthusiastic when it comes to class activities and attention, and a girl who scored the highest in Japanese history in the same class. She is appointed to be the class representative together with the boy. And of course, she has a secret crush on him. Having to spent time with him everyday, she found herself unable to suppress her feelings for him anymore... 3. **Seiza shite Tea Time** (正座してTea time) It's about a girl who is being forced to learn on how to act more lady-like by her sister by learning the proper way of the Japanese tea ceremony. She finds out that she will be taught by a boy who is a known delinquent in her school. However, that boy turned out to be perfectly fit wearing a kimono with no sign of the delinquent in sight. 4. **Hana to Anata to Tea Time** (花とあなたとTea time) The continuation of story 3 where both of them had become couple. One day, the boy's first crush comes back and this make his new girlfriend feel uneasy. Moreover, by knowing that he had once confess to that girl has her even more anxious. Soon, she learned that he was challenged by that girl if by the time she came back, that boy can perform the tea ceremony successfully, she might reconsider his confession. Will he perform well in the tea ceremony and he be with his first crush, or will he turn the challenge down, and continue to be together with his current girlfriend? 5. **Boku no Yotsuba no Sagashikata** (ぼくの四つ葉のさがしかた) He has always been told that he plays a piano without a soul. He plays incredibly, but it's as if hearing a machine play. One day, he meets a girl that by any chance saw him crying while throwing sheet music. Being a considerate person, she believes the piece is important to him and returns it, but the boy scolds her for being a busybody. He realizes the girl's good intentions and apologizes to her. She tells him that while searching for his piece she lost her earring and couldn't find it. The boy finds it easily and he tells her the secret to search for things.
Tetsuro Hoshino is a young street urchin who desperately wants to replace his human body with an android body, which would grant him immortality and the social freedom the androids have. Normally this is incredibly expensive but it has long been rumoured that if you board the Galaxy Express headed for the Andromeda Galaxy, at the end of the line is a planet where they are given out for free. After seeing his mother murdered by an Android Count, he has no reason to remain on his home planet and nothing to hold him back. Now, not only seeking the android body of his dreams but also a way to avenge his loss, he begins to search for a way to board the train alone. Then he meets Maetel, a mysterious woman who offers him a ticket aboard the train if he will be her companion for the journey. Their journey will take them to planet after planet, each strange and new, and each stop along the way being an opportunity for Tetsuro to reflect on being human, human actions, and the prospect of immortality. During their travels Tetsuro and Maetel meet, amongst others, Emeraldas and Harlock. **Note:** The first cycle was released from 1977 to 1981 and spans volumes 1-18.
Takeda is diagnosed with cancer and feels that he has nothing to live for. Hopeless, he decides to end his life. But when he is about to hang himself, the phone rings: the police have just found the corpse of his daughter, Sawako, who disappeared more than 14 years ago. Under Japanese law, the statute of limitations for murder only lasts 15 years. Takeda has only six months left: six months to live, six months to find his daughter's killer and deliver him to the authorities. After 14 years of silence and obscurity, the family ties are reborn... (Source: Anime News Network)
Shigeo is a high strung elementary school student living with his mother. His only concern is getting ahead in life by doing well in school. He despises his father Hanao (who is separated from them), who's an idealistic free spirit and a kid at heart, infatuated with the sport of baseball. Shigeo's mother forces Shigeo to take time to visit his father, and so begins Shigeo's lessons that there's more to life than excelling academically (courtesy of his very childish father).
A man who travels carrying a box on his shoulders, Zipher. When he collapsed exhausted, it was the inhabitant of a certain village―Domika―who rescued him. Against the opposition of other villagers, she lent her hand to him; but this village hides a big secret?!?

