Ako is an office lady who works in Tokyo and she's soon to be married. Her fiance's father passes away and she decides to attend the funeral by herself, so off she goes to his hometown, which is on the in-land island of Shiojima. What she doesn't realize though is that behind her back her fiance's family is trying to prevent her from going back to Tokyo for some reason... (Source: Clairparfait)

"Miyazaki can't speak, so she has to use a sketchbook to talk" is the one fact most of her classmates know about her. Without being bullied for it nor having people approach her because of it, she spends her time by herself both during class and lunch break. Caught by the rain on the way home, she finds shelter under the same roof as another person; Shimazaki Ao, one of her classmates. After an unsuccessful attempt to idle talk with her to pass time, he has the impression his presence is making her feel uncomfortable, seeing as she is trembling and avoiding eye contact. The sound of marker writing on paper and her clumsy smile as she shows him the words on her sketchbook marks the beginning of their first conversation...

An aloof young man will reset the world with a young girl he meets by fate. A futuristic world where particles related to time and space have been discovered. An aloof and remarkable soldier who lived through the third world war, Hazama Yuuhi, joins the genius scientist Oshidori Keina for a secret experiment. Directly following, Yuuhi and Keina lose their lives to a mysterious attacker. After waking up again, he notices he has traveled back to a time before the the start of the experiment. In the midst of their experience with the death looping phenomena, his bond with Keina gradually grows stronger as they continue to unravel the mysteries before them. Will Yuuhi be able to save Keina from the despairs of death and prevent the future from being thrown into chaos? (Source: HJ Bunko, translated)

I, Toru Shiina, a high school boy, found that a dungeon portal has been created in a my dorm room closet. Inside, the dungeon is as vast as a video game, and when I reached the bottom, under a large tree in the heart of the dungeon, my eyes widened in surprise. Because my younger sister, A-chan, who had died in an accident when we were children and whose body was never found, was sleeping there under the tree. From that day on, A-chan and I became masters of the dungeon in the closet, and we watched over the dungeon's growth. Today, I will go into the dungeon once again, to see my sister who is supposed to be dead. I'm still not sure what might be waiting for me there. This is a story of joy and misfortune, about trying to capture some happiness. (Source: MF Bunko J, translated)

An anthology of 4-page BL short stories by various mangaka.

The story centers on two Tokyo high schoolers who connect over a painting of fireworks. They trace the painting to the Nagaoka Fireworks Festival in Niigata, one of Japan's three major fireworks festivals, and to a mysterious promise that connects the two to the past. (Source: Crunchyroll News, edited)

**Includes one shot:** Ban Game Night (バンゲームナイト, Board Game Night); Big Comic Zoukan 1997-9/18

Makoto prepares for his first encounter with his boyfriend Satoshi by researching how physical love takes place between men. Does his research turn up too much scary information for him to be able to go through with it? (from B-U)