To what distance would you go for your one true love? In the midst of an alien invasion, Mikako joins the resistance, leaving behind the one young man she loves. As she goes deeper into space, Mikako's only connection with her boyfriend is through cell-phone text messages. The war rages on and years pass, but Mikako barely ages in the timelessness of space while Noboru grows old. How can the love of two people, torn apart by war, survive? (Source: TOKYOPOP)

Nachi Hiyama plays softball, but hates how she never tans like her teammates. Feeling alone and discouraged, she struggles to fit in. That is, until she meets Utsumi, a quiet, shy boy at her school, and discovers his secret; he has a tail! They might be different, but they can be different together. (Source: TOKYOPOP)

This is a tale of my heart warming and strange calamity... At a certain rural junior high school... Itsuya Tsuruta, who came as a substitute art teacher has a secret mysterious power. The junior high school student, Toki, triggered by experiencing her power, becomes obsessed with Ms. Itsuya day by day... (Source: Coamix)

Bus Hashiru is a collection of five short stories centered around bus stops. In all your encounters with strangers that take place there, isn't there a chance you might discover something you hadn't had before...? A new take on life, or a lost love—nothing is beyond you. 1. **Karamagari Teiryuujo** (空曲がり停留所, Sky-Winding Bus Stop); Comic Bunch no.193/no.2005/6/10 2. **Sakurachou Teiryuujo** (さくら町停留所, Sakura Street Bus Stop); Comic Bunch no.2006/4/5 Zoukan 3. **Wasurenagaoka Teiryuujo** (忘れ名ヶ岡停留所, Wasurena Hill Bus Stop); Comic Bunch no.2007/1/8 Zoukan 4. **Tenki Yomi** (天気読み, Weather Forecast); Comic Bunch no.285/no.2007/5/4 5. **Dudleya no Michi** (ダドレアの路, Dudleya Road); 手作り絵本展 2005 6. **Megane Dorobou** (ナナイロセカイ ~めがね泥棒~, The Glasses Thief); Melody 2006-01 7. **Otona no Seifuku** (ナナイロセカイ ~オトナの制服~, Adult-Uniform); Melody 2006-03 **Note:** Stories 6 and 7 were serialized in Monthly Melody as part of [Nanairo Sekai](https://mangabaka.org/search?q=anilist%3A33276).

The Day I Became a Butterfly is a volume which contains six chapters, each a different story: 1) The Day I Become a Butterfly There is a rumor going around school that Mikami can “hear” when one’s death is near. Uka has just turned fifteen, but doesn’t know how much longer he’ll live… Will the budding love between Mikami and Uka have a happy ending? (Source: Juné Manga) 2) You At the End (Hate Ni Aru Kimi) A short story about a guy sick of this world and the silent, unlikely boy who anchors him to it. 3) The Lonely War Can men and women have platonic friendships? Suzu is determined to try. 4) Blue Cat's Tunnel A story about one girl's hope to find a way out of her life... 5) Tokyo Alien Yulala A young student's trouble understanding his classmate makes him think the boy may be an alien. 6) Planet Yours An abused boy has trouble relying on his friends.

Nakagawa and Yokota are two boys very much in love with each other. Yokota is more open with his feelings, but Nakagawa is easily embarrassed of public displays of affection. Though they may be outwardly different, their feelings for each other are the same and their connection is such that they liken themselves to Dousaibou Seibutsu (Same-Cell Organisms). (Source: Juné) Contains the Stories: 1. **Dousaibou Seibutsu.** (同細胞生物。| Same Cell Organism.) 2. **Boku wa Suki sa** (僕は好きさ | I Love You) 3. **Tenohira☆Lullaby** (手のヒラ☆ララバイ | Lullaby in My Hand) 4. **Yaneura Yuubinbutsu** (屋根裏郵便物語 | The Letter in the Attic) 5. **Tenshi wo Tsukuru** (天使を造る | To Make an Angel) 1 6. **Tenshi wo Tsukuru** (天使を造る | To Make an Angel) 2 7. **Kono Wagamama na Bokutachi wo** (このワガママな僕たちを | We Selfish Two); BE×BOY GOLD 2000-04 Extra: **Tenshi wo Tsukuru 1998** (天使を造る1998 | To Make an Angel 1998)

Tengujin is a story about two twin brothers who live in a slightly futuristic Japan where the Eastern and Western regions are splitting apart and have formed two warring nations. When Gods of the world, mainly tengu, seek to influence the start and end of the events that lead to war, the younger twin, Mozuku, desires to end the idiotic war and meets with the God of the West, Sai, with his older brother, Shinonome. "Zanouka," the second story in Tengujin, is about the former incarnations of Mozuku and Shinonome. (Source: Aurora Publishing)

Won’t you share a scribble-covered dream with me? Intent on being an independent young woman, high schooler Himeyuka lives on her own in an unremarkable apartment complex in a corner of the city. But one day, she discovers her ordinary building has turned into something extraordinary! Her beloved “castle” is covered in childish scribbles—both inside and out! And waiting for her at the end of this rainbow-colored mess…is the perpetrator of the crime—a little boy named Rozione, who seems to know quite a bit about Himeyuka, though she has no idea who he is. Is he really just someone’s lost child, or is there a greater mystery behind his appearance? In this collection, Sumomo Yumeka presents four charming, melancholy vignettes that explore the trickling of time and the machinations of the heart. (Source: Yen Plus) This volume contains four of Yumeka Sumomo's short stories. 1) Natsukashi Machi no Rozione 2) Icchoume Kikyouya no Hime-sama. 3) Boku no Shalala 4) Robot

In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact—they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio’s promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri’s mysterious, carefully tended condition.

"I have something I don't want to lose" "So much so that these terrible feelings have grown." A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed indiscriminately are sentenced to death. There, she meets a man named Yuu who took the lives of 3 people. A mother's antagonism--a brother's death... Together they embrace the violent rebellion in their hearts caused by the large, deep scars they carry. However, before long, they both embrace an earnest hope in their hearts. "I want to live"... An adaptation of novel by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young.

Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.

In middle school, Ichinose Kimitaka taught his friends how to play basketball. Despite his experience with the sport, his friends quickly outmatched him in skill. After an incident brought on by his frustration and jealousy, he was crushed to overhear those same 'friends' discussing how they wished he'd just kill himself. On his way to toss out his special basketball shoes, he met a girl who was just as frustrated, throwing her own dancing shoes away. She was so tall, and her hands and feet are so large, that she had been rejected from her chosen hobby of Spanish dancing. He urged her to give basketball a try, and the two exchanged their shoes instead of throwing them away. As he enters high school, Kimitaka learns that meeting him changed that girl's life for the better, and she is now a happy, social basketball player. Will Kimitaka be able to find the courage to make new friends and pursue his own talents?