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Confidential Confessions is a shocking new manga series that deals with many of the hard-hitting issues that teens face today. Using emotionally moving story lines and multi-dimensional characters, each groundbreaking volume tackles such topics as teen prostitution, rape, HIV, stalkers, suicide, and sexual harassment. (Source: TOKYOPOP)
Welcome to the seedy underbelly of the enormous deai-kei industry, where men pay exorbitant fees to send emails to various girls whom they hope one day to meet in person... Rika is a young teen in need of a job. When the opportunity to join a deai-kei site presents itself, she decides to go for it--the money is good and the interaction seems innocent enough. But the longer Rika works, the more her inhibitions and boundaries are pushed to the limit--and she begins heading down a path from which there is no return. Emotionally moving and brutally honest, "Confidential Confessions: Deai" is an unflinching portrayal of teens in crisis. (Source: TOKYOPOP) *Note: Seventh in the Mondaiteiki (Confidential Confessions) series.*
Her younger brother got beat up in the street, and her grandmother died in a hit-and-run accident. One day, disasters suddenly began to strike her family....... Then, a threatening letter arrived, talking about a "secret from 14 years ago"......! Can you trust your family? A roller-coaster suspense that opens the door to a hidden "family" secret. (Source: Kodansha, translated) *Note: The eighth story in the Mondaiteiki (Confidential Confessions) series.*
The manga, based on the novel Pierrot ~Yoake Mae~ by Teruhiro Kobayashi, Darai Kusanagi, and Tomoji Nobuta, tells the story of four friends at a girl's high school in Fukushima Prefecture that is feared to have been radioactively contaminated. One of the four committed suicide a month after her college student fiancee told her that he was afraid of having a child with her because he did not want an unhealthy child. The story will deal with subjects such as the fear of radiation and the guilt felt by inhabitants who took refuge in other prefectures.
“I killed my sister. Now I will live as her.” Mischevious Nobara and good-girl Kotori are identical twin sisters. After their father’s death, they lived with their grandmother and mother, respectively, but one day, while they had switched places, Kotori was murdered! Because she was robbed of her most precious daughter, Nobara’s mother’s hair turned pure white! Nobara, who is tormented with guilt, decides to live as Kotori in order to protect her mother…!?
Midori moves from Tokyo to start her senior year of high school in Sendai. She saved her childhood friend Aa-chan from teasing, but the class boss, Erena, stirs up a revolt and makes her the new target. Midori can’t bear the never-ending torment and personally takes her own life. Midori gets a second chance at life, choices and revenge though. This is Momochi Reiko’s first challenge at a time warp story!
Megumi Yoshida (nicknamed: Useless Yoshi \*\*Yoshi-dame\*\*) entered university prep school after high school but it was difficult to make friends. Useless Yoshida wanted to make friends and because she knew her classmate likes presents, thought that was the best way to make friends. However, she doesn’t have much money, and when asked for some cosmetics, she shoplifts. Afterwards, useless Yoshida joined the shoplifting group and though she felt guilty in the beginning, she soon became accustomed to shoplifting without remorse. However after reflecting on the hurt she was causing to the people who knew about the shoplifting, she stops shoplifting and decides to make everything right again by paying back what she stole. But standing in her way are the members of the shoplifting group, Yumacchi and her friends. (Source: Starry Heaven)
Tamako, a junior high student, decides to confess to Kou, her childhood friend who will be attending a high school outside the prefecture starting in the spring. On the day before her confession, she meets a beautiful girl at the Mirror Lake which is rumored to grant wishes. Then, on Valentine's Day, an unexpected development was waiting... Near, far, passing by each other... a non-stop love story of two childhood friends. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The greatest, most shocking story!! The lovers that got involved in a confined case. The newest story that tells of love that survives even in the most extreme of circumstances. It was the night of Christmas Eve, when Haruka and Kyouichi were supposed to have spent their first night together. However, by coincidence, they became the witnesses to a convenience store robbery, and their future made a drastic change--… Confinement. Will there be a brighter future for the two, who became involved in this tragedy?
Released as Confidential Confessions volume 1 by Tokyopop This volume contains : The Door (Main Story) Mistakes (One-Shot)
