Momoko is one of the brightest students at school, but the school is a bit overrun by delinquents from a motorcycle gang. In fact, the person who has the next desk has never come to class. Then one day she gets the upper hand on one of these bikers and they actually strike up a bit of a friendship, with the potential for more. Of course, it turns out that he’s the leader of the bike gang, and the student in the next seat who has been missing this entire year… (Source: Animeraider)
This volume features three stories centered on young thugs in Shinjuku. 1. **Regent Story** (リーゼント・ストーリー): Yutaka, a member of a motorcycle gang, does everything he can to brighten the life of Junko, an innocent blind girl. 2. **Ikare Ponchi** (かれぽんち): Akira and Shizuo, a pair of inseparable thugs, find their daily lives turned upside down after Nanako and little Yuuta arrive. 3. **Chinpira** (ちんぴら): Eiji, a small-time hustler dreaming of going to California, finally decides to make his dream come true under the encouragement of Youko, a teenager running away from her violent mother. (Source: mangas.io, translated)
Hajime Hime, the leader of the Pussycats gang, tried to show his friends how to pick up girls by talking to a pony-tailed high school girl in a sailor suit uniform. But to his surprise, he got turned down. Despite the pain of rejection, Hajime fell in love at first sight, and with the help of his friends, he set out to find that girl. He managed to find her, but it turned out that she was a young lady known for her fighting skill...? (Source: BookWalker, translated) *Note: Date based on the release of the tankoubon.*
Four short stories to discover the thousand and one facets of the human soul and the hot district of the capital: Shinjuku! 1. **Shinjuku Elegy: Shiawase Shinkirou** (新宿悲歌 しあわせ しんきろう) \- Shigeru, an unscrupulous flatterer, falls under the spell of Yukiko, a young blind girl lost in the urban jungle. 2. **Sukapin** (素寒貧) \- Toshio, a needy rocker, crosses paths with Ai, a wealthy heiress eager for adventure away from the family cocoon. 3. **Good-bye** \- Takeshi, a traveling charm salesman, is forced to adopt a little girl he believes has been abandoned. 4. **Shinjuku Elegy: Shiawase Shinkirou 2** (新宿悲歌 しあわせ しんきろう・2) \- Following a fight to save a damsel in distress, Umitaro, Yukiko and Shigeru's son, puts on the gloves and enters the world of boxing...
*Note: Volume 2 contains the one-shots Tondemo Nineteen (とんでも19歳), and Honki Tonk Woman (本気トンクウーマン)*
