One day, 25-year-old Hajima Kanade wakes up to find himself in a child's body. While his live-in lover Kawata Yuuki freaks out, Kanade tries to take it as calmly as possible. Before they are able to figure out what to do, Yuuki's younger brother knocks on their door. Will Kanade be able to keep his cool?
Just before Saho Hanawa was about to matriculate into Seiran Middle School (her mother's alma mater), she meets a ghost girl, Chie, who's wearing the Seiran school uniform and standing in the rain. Saho assents when Chie asks to go to Saho's house, and they spend time talking and arguing with each other. Saho parents hear her talking to Chie and assume she must be talking on a cell phone—until they catch her talking to empty space in her room. Saho is forced to confess that she can see a ghost girl named Chie, which shocks her parents. They then reveal that Chie is the name of the stillborn baby that they had before Saho—Saho's dead older sister.
The manga centers on Karin, a young woman whose mother is an adult manga creator. When Karin's mother remarries, she gains an older stepbrother who is close to her in age, and a younger stepsister. Her stepbrother Kouichi is handsome but often sexually harasses her. And her stepsister Miki has a brother complex and dislikes her. The manga follows this new family with three stepsiblings in adolescence. (Source: Anime News Network) *Note: Started as a series of five one-shots, the first of which was titled "Beautiful Monday" and published in Feel Young 2016-07 issue on June 8, 2016. The one-shots are collected in the first volume of the series. Official serialization started under the title "Beautiful Everyday" in Feel Young 2018-07 issue on June 8, 2018.*
Fifth grade friends Shuichi Nitori and Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a transgender girl, and Yoshino is transgender boy. (Source: Fantagraphics)
Fumi and Akira were best friends when they were little, with Akira always looking after the crybaby Fumi, but that all ended when Fumi's family moved away. Several years later, Fumi's family returned, and she and Akira happened to bump into each other on their way to school. They became friends again, quickly slipping back into old patterns. Shortly after, Fumi began dating a cool, attractive upperclassman who, coincidentally enough, had ties to Akira's current school, the prestigious Fujigaya Girls' Academy. (Source: Lililicious; updated from an early misreading of the school name Fujigaya, called Fujigatani in initial translations of the first chapters) *Note: Includes 10 extras chapters from the volumes.*
Ayano, an elementary school teacher in her thirties, stops by a bar one day and meets another woman named Akari. Sparks fly as the two chat, and before the night is over, Ayano even goes in for a kiss. Akari is intrigued but confused...especially when she discovers that Ayano has a husband! Both Ayano and Akari are about to find out that love doesn’t get any easier, even as you grow older. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Chiaki Honda is a middle-school boy who neglects his studies. Furthermore, he smokes, and has dyed his hair a bright green. One evening at the arcade, a girl challenges him to a match. The girl, who straightforwardly introduces herself as Nanako Kikuchi, suggests a bet, nonchalantly wagering her body for Chiaki's watch. Chiaki is soundly defeated, and he goes home fuming. His life goes on, of course. The next day, he meets a strange young man on the train who looks an awful lot like him. And eventually he runs into Nanako again.
A collected volume of stories from Shimura Takako. The short works collection all the Takako Shimura fans have been waiting for! The woman who appears suddenly in front of the timid boy Megumu is Nozomi, a self-proclaimed “witch’. She uses her mysterious powers to both play tricks on and help him. The “The Devil is so Cute” series, illustrating the fantastic mingling of a mysterious witch and a young honors student, is completed with a new bonus chapter! In addition to the title story, there is also “My Summer Vacation” which traces the wavering of a young girl’s heart after she falls in love at first sight at a bath house, “Unworthy Son” which captures the suffering of a young man (who dreams of becoming a comic artist) whose former teacher and object of affection becomes his stepmother, and many others, adding up to seven stories that absolutely shine with Takako Shimura’s charm. (Souce: Jmanga)
Falling for a brother's ex. Catching unrequited feelings for a brother after a long separation. Brothers who get along even when competing for the same guy. A story of 3 pairs of brothers. (Source: Manga Planet) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
The story unfolds at a lost child center where a 10-year-old boy claiming to be an alien appears… A delightfully mysterious short story by Takako Shimura. *Source: MANGA Plus*
Awajima Opera School—where countless girls from across the country flock in hopes of one day standing on the big stage. As they work toward achieving their dreams of stardom, their time at Awajima is filled with as much friendship and admiration as competition and jealousy. The precious feelings of girls who are at once both classmates and rivals, tenderly captured in the portraits of an ensemble cast! (Source: Yen Press) *Note: Won the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award in 2015.*
The story follows a girl named Mame, whose family runs a public bath. She has held on to feelings of unrequited love for her childhood friend for ten years. The title is a pun on "Kuiiji," a word for gluttony. (Source: Anime News Network)

