Have you ever seen a "very manly girl"? The heroine in this story, Oikawa Ibuki is just that type of girl. To find her true soul mate, after transferring school, Ibuki was determined to act like a gentle lady. Yet on her first day of transfer, due to her righteous sense she went to save a small dog, and at the time she was seen by the suspicious "crow messenger"! Is Ibuki's whole image ruined!? And who is this mysterious "crow messenger"!? *Includes the oneshot Very Black White Day*
Tomoya Aki is a high school otaku working part time to support his BD hoarding habit. With remarkable luck, he runs head-first into Megumi Kato, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. The unexpected encounter twists his life into a complicated web of relationships. Eriri Spencer Sawamura, his mixed-blood childhood friend who's always valued their relationship. Kasumigaoka Utaha, a stoic literary genius who shoves everyone aside from our protagonist. What is this? An eroge introduction? The tale of a small, not quite doujin circle, but not quite indie studio's journey through the tough territory of Comiket and beyond.
"Magic" is a product of neither legends nor fairy tales. It has become a technology of reality for nearly a century. Various countries in the world are locked in a race in nurturing "Magicians." Shiba Tatsuya is an honors student without magic capability at First High School, a magic high school along with his sister who happens to the top student among the freshmen. What will happen to him, and how will he live his school life where he is one of the many reserves in the school looked down upon by the chosen magical students? (Source: jCafe24)
Ogasawara Aki (age 25) is the reclusive, idealistic composer of the popular band Crude Play. Discontented with his life and with no drive to succeed, he meets Riko, the 16-year-old grocer's daughter in a band consisting of her childhood friends, and asks her to be his girlfriend on a whim. Riko, young and innocent, agrees immediately, but worries about her new boyfriend, whom she suspects has just broken up with a woman he cared very much for.
After the body dies, the soul lives on. Many spirits progress toward the world of light, through the levels of the spirit world where they study how to improve their souls. These spirits are sometimes reincarnated into the physical world, and sometimes they are sent back as guardian spirits for other living people. Guardian spirits must protect their charges souls from the blackness that oozes up from the world of darkness below. Riyon is a very laid-back spirit, who often skips her spirit classes to fool around. To train her further, she is sent back to the physical world as a guardian spirit. Instead of following a human from birth, she is helping a beleaguered man, the Japanese Prime Minister Kasuga Soichiro, in the last year and a half of his life. After an unexpected close call with death, Kasuga gains some unusual talents, including the ability to see Riyon. Will Riyon and Kasuga together be able to protect his battered soul? (Source: MangaHelpers)
Hatogaya, a man who used to love baseball and gave up on it, gets set up to take the fall for his company and gets sent to prison. A high school principal and his former coach, whose school is about to lose its baseball program bails Hatogaya out, but in exchange for getting him out of jail, he has to coach the school's "not-so-great" baseball team.
A lazy student and a straight-laced teacher. At first glance, they seem like they are on bad terms, but things get different after classes...
During the political upheavals and social strife at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan (1855), two parent-less brothers Yukimura Shoutarou and Yukimura Gentarou struggles to survive in these turbulent times. With their only possession being their deceased father's sword and clinging onto the wisdom of their mother's final words, the brothers seek to embark on the Path of the Warrior: Sidooh.
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.
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)
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.
The novel focuses on the reconstruction of Soul Society after Yhwach's defeat, and on the official couples' love lives and marriage: specifically, on Rukia and Renji's childhood friend romance.

