1. **Tsubaki** (椿姫) \[Mami Takezaki - Original Story: Alexandre Dumas\] 2. **Lear Ou** (リア王) \[Kazuko Teradate - Original Story: William Shakespeare\] 3. **Rashoumon** (羅城門) \[Iruka Bandou\] 4. **Shitakirisuzume** (舌切り雀) \[Akemi Matsuzaki\] 5. **Botan Dourou** (牡丹灯籠) \[Tomo Kazuhashi - Original Story: Sanyutei Encho\] 6. **Eros to Psyche** (エロスとプシュケ) \[Chieko Ikesumi\]
At an all-boys school, ranking is everything! Suzuki, who is ranked second in the national surname rankings, cannot accept that his classmate Sato has surpassed him to take the top spot. So he decides to observe Sato to see if he is worthy of being ranked first... (Source: Hakusensha, translated)
Charlotte graduated from magic academy at the top of her class and was set to become an assistant to the highly paid royal magician. A rosy life was promised to her... But then, a letter suddenly arrived canceling her job offer, and it all crumbled away. She couldn't forgive such unreasonable treatment! To find out why, Charlotte headed to the sender, the royal magician, Clive, but... She found a man with cat ears and a tail! A love comedy about a magician who is currently reclusive due to a curse, and his cat-loving assistant, as they try to break the curse! (Source: Ichijinsha, translated)
*"I'm just scared...of falling into hell."* A certain roof-top amusement park on a certain department store. A stone monument by the mountain road. A 23 minutes, 45 seconds film. A guideline for cultivating plants. The corpse of a ghost. The sounds echoing through an elevator. As if peeking through a veil, the stories pile onto the next, evoking the most primal human fear...death. (Source: TOKYOPOP) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
Kazuki Tsukigase is a high school boy who carries a certain secret. In search of a place where no one knows him, he enrolls at Sakijima High School on a remote island. On Sakijima, there is a place known as the "Cove of Spiriting Away." One early summer day, Kazuki finds a girl lying unconscious in the cove. The girl—Nanao, 16 years old—later regains consciousness in the hospital, but her identity remains unknown. What is the meaning behind the word "1974" that she murmured? A touching boy-meets-girl story. (Source: MAL News)
The turmoil that engulfed many nations and dragged on for more than a decade finally came to an end, with the Kingdom of Weikling emerging as the dominant power. Its young king, Lionel, demanded that each country offer up hostages. In the Kingdom of Hammond, the only ones who met the conditions to be sent as hostages wwas the crown prince Jonas who was on the verge of marriage and the queen herself. Unwilling to sacrifice his family, the king of Hammond abdicated in Jonas’s favor, hastily arranged a marriage for him, and devised a plan to present a fake queen as the hostage. The woman chosen to be a wife for that purpose alone was Laura, the daughter of an impoverished baron. The person Jonas truly loved was Silvia, his original fiancée, and even after the marriage, he never spared Laura a glance. Though Laura had been threatened with her family’s safety and forced to abandon her dream of becoming a civil official to accept the royal command, she was sent off to Weikling as queen of Hammond with barely any preparations to her name. Awaiting Laura upon her arrival in Weikling were the cold and ruthless Lionel and the proud princesses from other nations, themselves hostages, who looked down on her for coming from a minor country. With not even a single lady-in-waiting by her side, Laura is bullied by those princesses as they compete for Lionel’s favor. Yet she endures it all, thinking of her family and holding on bravely. “It’ll be all right. I’m sure of it.” Even as she faces painful days, Laura continues to live with quiet optimism and in doing so, she catches glimpses of the deep loneliness and desolation that lie within Lionel’s eyes.
Iroha, a member of the Hattori family, whose members have been ninjas for generations, is not doing so well in school and is attending high school. However, her true identity as a ninja is revealed right away at the high school entrance ceremony...!? (Source: Hakusensha, translated)
In this universe, there are two worlds: "heads" and "tails", and a small trigger can flip these two worlds! But what is this trigger? Could it really be a just small coin?