"In Tokyo, anyone can become the protagonist of a love story." Nagao Kanji has recently moved to Tokyo, where he now finds himself uneagerly working at a small advertising firm. He reconnects with an old friend from back home, Mikami Kenichi, a medical student from a wealthy household who never lacks female company. For years, the two have shared a crush for their childhood classmate, the kindhearted and innocent Sekiguchi Satomi, who now also lives in Tokyo. Mixing things up is Akana Rika, an infectiously cheerful girl working at Kanji's company who decides that she will call him by the nickname of "Kanchi."

Even though he failed his entrance examination, Shumpei scouts out the entrance ceremony of Waseda University and determines in his mind that he will devote the next year studying to get into the university. As he is leaving the campus, Momoko, an energetic freshman, suddenly drafts Shumpei against his will to help her sell school maps to fellow freshmen. Although annoyed by her overbearing persistence, Shumpei eventually befriends Momoko; but her doctor-boyfriend and his hang-ups about his former high school sweetheart keep them from getting any closer. Won the 7th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1983.

A coming of age story that follows five young university students who form a circle of friends. Tamotsu and Osamu (Kimura) fall in love with Narumi, who prefers Tamotsu. In order not to hurt each other as friends, both young men try to avoid forming a relationship with Narumi, which inadvertently leads to tragedy among the friends. After the accidental death of Junichiro, the friends leave university for various reasons, leaving Narumi to continue and finish her studies. A few years later they all meet again and are surprised by the secrets that are revealed.

"What awaits you when you run away from life?" Everyone has at one time or another wanted to escape all of life. However, not many people make it happen due to the ties of reality. In the vacation home "Rose Village," there are people living with a reason who have run away from such ties. What awaits them is either rebirth or a harsh reality. [Big Comics Release](https://bigcomics.jp/series/2f55cea5b9f5e)

Women who felt proud and confident having been the center of attention for their looks and brains in their time as students now have to come to terms with the fact that this pride and confidence doesn't bring them fortune in love and marriage as adults, grappling now with having to adjust their worldview and sense of values. Love expert Saimon Fumi brings you a short stories with these kind of women in mind!

Short stories about a young detective helping clients to find their missing objects, and co-incidentally, finding their missing parts of their life.

Nobuki Kobayakawa is a surgeon at a university hospital who is beset by troubles with human relations at work and wearied by his emotionally unstable and jealous wife, although he loves his daughter. He then happens to meet the woman Kana and is attracted to her. But Kana has a secret past. Should he seek new happiness with Kana by leaving a home that only wears him out?