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Raised in the hope that I would be a boy full of courage and strength, they named me "Yuu." To be a girl filled with kindness and love; that's how my twin sister, "Ai," was raised. That's how our parents named us - But... Our parents' wishes were reversed. A story about twins who risk everything to protect one another and to find his or her happiness in the switch they call twins game.
Twenty year old Ogawa Akira is taking the medical school entrance exam for the third time when he is overwhelmed by anxiety and flees the testing room. He soon finds himself wandering the streets of Tokyo lost and exhausted. Then by chance a woman drops her earring, and he picks it up and returns it to her. He is dumbstruck by her beauty. Overhearing that her name is Kyoko and that she works at the nearby cabaret club, he promptly decides to get a job at the club, with the hope of a getting closer to her and maybe finding his place in the world.
Korea in the 1990s. Yuna's life is going really well. She's about to graduate from college and she's dating the heir to a major company. However, one of her acquaintances, Sonhi, hates her for reasons that Yuna does not understand. Unfortunately, Sonhi's father is the head of a major bank and she uses her influence to destroy Yuna's father's company, leading directly to his suicide. Now Yuna has to shoulder the responsibility of caring for her mother and her little brother, dropping out of school to find work and breaking up with her high-class boyfriend. However, not only is Korea in a major financial crisis, but Sonhi is further interfering to ensure that Yuna is unable to find respectable work. Yuna realizes that she must enter the night world of hostessing, in order to provide for her family. She may be seen as a 'fallen woman,' but she will not be defeated forever! She and her family are determined that they will survive this disaster and find a new life on the other side!
Born in the small mountain village of Domremy in France, she rose to eventually carry a flag in the front lines of a feudal war, and still stands today as the tragic symbol of freedom in France: Jeanne d'Arc. Country, family, village, descent... and the opposite sex... A human story where many types of love intertwine. The five burning years of the girl named Jeanne, who later came to be known as La Pucelle d'Orleans (The Maid of Orleans), passed in the blink of an eye. Kurashina Ryou, famous for his "Empress" series, joins up with the sentimental Shiba Akio for a new interpretation, boasting gentle and elegant scenes, as well as a tragic darkness that swallows up time into a swirl of conspiracy... This is a very bravely drawn depiction of Jeanne d'Arc! (Source: Coolmic)
China is a county with a deep history. This land has had many emperors, but only one "empress regent"...... and her name was "Wu Zetian." Set in China at the beginning of the Tang dynasty, this is the spectacular epic tale of a woman's harsh chaotic life as she went from a lowly court lady in the emperor's harem to an empress who built her own empire! This romantic historical piece is brought to you by the wonderful Ryo Kurashina and Takeshi Mine! (Source: Group-Zero)
Manager Nashizaki Tatsuya of the Pianissimo Club, wants to build the biggest hostess club in all of Japan; a club where men of all ages and nationalities would want to go. And, along with his big club, a huge event will take place, a contest for the number one hostess, with a prize of 100 million yen. Aya, a freshman, doesn't like the idea of being a hostess, but she has to become one, due to a big debt her parents owe. Encouraged by a friend, she reluctantly joins Pianissimo and, so, her life as a hostess begins.
Ai is a fifteen-year-old girl who is living in the bad part of town, with her drunken, promiscuous mother. Her delinquent friends, Kana and Miki, regularly use Ai as bait to extort money from middle-aged men trying to buy sex. Ai feels horribly alone and trapped in a life she does not want. Jun is a fifteen-year-old boy living in an elegant mansion. He has a teacher to give him lessons at home, and he studies the violin. He never leaves his home, though, due to his severe congenital heart disease. When any overexertion might lead to his death, playing it safe has always taken priority over interacting with other people. Jun and Ai, both feeling confined and lonely, find each other through an internet social network on their cell phones. Soon, they have formed a deep friendship and possibly more. But will their affection for each other be able to overcome the extreme differences in their lives and upbringing? (Source: MangaHelpers)
Tired of living in the shadow of her mother Ayaka Shindo, the hostess known as the Empress of Ginza. Asuka decided to surpass her mother by becoming the top geisha in Gion, Japan's oldest and most established red-light district.
