Mariko Ito is 17 years old. She works part-time at Sanko Shuppan while attending a regular high school. She dreams of becoming a top editorial reporter, but she always fails and sometimes feels like giving up. Mariko is faced with a cameraman from the same publishing company, Hitoshi Ito... Kyoko Takeda's masterpiece was serialized in Weekly Seventeen (Shueisha) from 1970 to 1971, and was dramatized for television by Nippon Television Network Corporation. *Note: Includes the one-shot "Sore wa Kisoku Ihandesu!".*

A small mannequin company has grown rapidly since Kuniko Katsuragi joined the design department. Kuniko, who is devoted to her work, has a crush on Sadaoka, the head of the design department. However, Sadaoka is 12 years older than Kuniko and has a wife and child. In a moment of inspiration, Kuniko says something that tells Sadaoka of her feelings for him, but Sadaoka doesn't seem to care... Then Kuniko meets a young man, Masanori, a member of a poor theater troupe, at a convenience store, and they easily have a relationship, and he lets her stay at his room. Kuniko wants to break up with him, but things don't go smoothly...

(from ebookjapan): Shiro and Motoko love each other in their hearts, but out of consideration for each other, they cannot say "I love you" to each other. Even though they are not related by blood, the words of love are too painful for the two, who refer to each other as sister and brother. What will happen to their love, which suffers because of their tenderness?