Machida-kun seems like the perfect brother, son, and student because he loves people. Helpful when he needs to be, but puts himself down when he feels like a total failure. However, the people that surround his daily life are there as a reminder as why Machida-kun needs no improvements because the people love Machida. *Notes: \- Winner of the New Creator Prize of the 20th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. \- Included one-shot: Kimi wa Ai*
1) **Soko wa Chuumon no Ooi Ryouriten** (そこは注文の多い料理店, The Restaurant of Many Orders) A young woman frequents a certain French bistro. She would really enjoy the food they serve if only it weren't for the bossy chef owner. "You may not like me, but I love your food." 2) **Toumei Ningen no Koi** (透明人間の恋, Invisible Girl in Love) A girl, mocked by a classmate, decides to take more care of her appearance. 3) **Matryoshka** (マトリョーシカ) As each doll is opened up to give another one, so does each memory containing his feelings towards her. 4) **Kattena Futari** (勝手な2人, The Selfish Couple) 5) **drops.** (ドロップス。) A series of interconnected vignettes depicting how something as ordinary as rain can alter the course of people's lives.
Kazuka is your average high school girl with the exception of having an irregular personality. She wakes up one morning slightly later than usual to find a red thread attached to her finger... And for her, it isn't "who" is at the other end, but "what" should she do about it...
Kawashima Kougi dreams about fish, paints fish, and has no interest in the world outside fish. He is brilliant and disturbed. His childhood friend, Nene, attempts to draw him back to the real world.
Mayumi is a girl who lost her parents in a car accident; unable to deal with the overwhelming sadness, hatred and anger, she wishes only to be able to stop feeling altogether. Five years later, the now 18-year-old Mayumi's sister is the first victim in a series of bizarre incidents that involve people receiving text messages indicating a certain body part, immediately after which said body part is removed - painlessly and without blood loss - from their body and disappears completely. Initially, Mayumi's sister's ex-boyfriend, Kanno, is suspected for the crime because the texts were sent from his phone number. Mayumi, however, is reluctant to believe the man who was like an older brother to her is capable of such a heinous act, and vows to discover the truth behind this sudden crime wave, Kanno's ex-girlfriend who killed herself on Christmas Day five years ago, and the highly advanced A.I. that Kanno had been creating at the time: the designing of which has since ground to a halt.
1. **Mysterious Person** Ruka is a high-school girl who holds affections for her teacher, Tokio. But one day, a mysterious person shows up and claims that he has come from the past! Not to mention, he calls himself by the same name as her beloved teacher, Tokio. What’s more unbelievable is that both “Tokio” have the exact same scar engraved on their palm… 2. **A Small Love Story** Hashi is one of the two sole members of her school's literature club. The other one is the romance-novel-loving club president Madoka. By chance, he finds out that her deceased grandmother happens to be one of his favourite authors. When he asks her to provide him with some original material, it sparks a change in her disinterest in love stories and their relationship. 3. **Chloe the Devil** Chroe is a loner because she has a reputation of bad things happening around her, especially to people who piss her off. What her classmates don't know is that she's a demon who causes misfortune on whomever she beholds. One day, while being confronted by a group of girls, Kikuchi defends her, causing her to look at him in surprise, which in turn causes him bad luck. Chroe starts avoiding him, scared of accidentally causing him harm, but Kikuchi is relentless in his pursuit. Chroe finds herself being drawn to him, but how is a relationship possible when she can't even throw him a glance without something bad happening to him? 4. **Alice in Wonderland** Ruu's mother just committed suicide and everyone can't stop gossiping about it, except for her new boyfriend, Mitsu, who acts like everything is normal. With everything going on, Ruu wants to seek comfort from Mitsu, but since her mother's passing, he hasn't touched her. Does Mitsu want her to disappear, too? 5. **Sugar-Coat** Ako is a seventeen-year old who is in love with her cousin (who also happens to teach at her school), Shou. Shou is getting married in a month and Ako is acting out to get his attention, and to prove to herself, and to him, that he cares about her. Shou is getting increasingly worried by Ako's erratic behavior, which only started somewhat recently. Can Ako get over her feelings? Or will she lose herself in a path of self-destruction? 6. **The Star and The Heart** Mini and Mani are identical twins who are best friends, and do everything, and go everywhere together. To help people tell them apart, Mani wears star earrings and Mini wears heart earrings. Life is great, until Mini suddenly acts loopy and distracted. Mani discovers that Mini and Suga have fallen for each other, and Mani is jealous that despite being identical, someone likes Mini, and no one likes her. On another level, she also feels that Suga is taking her best friend away from her. To what lengths will she go to to keep her sister close?
1. Hot Ice Tune 2. Kontou Shoujo (The Girl in a Faint) 3. Afureru (I'm full of...) 4. Hoono no Yukue (Come on lightly my fire) 5. Party
Yuto Tsuchiya is a boy struggling in the first year of middle school, who already feels like "my life is over." He found out that Miyamoto Kohaku, a famous ballerina, has moved in next door all alone after being forced to retire due to injury. Now Yuto is curious to meet the new neighbor whose life seems to be going even worse than his.
A special anthology paying tribute to the works of Fusako Kuramochi. Including manga, illustrations, a short story, and a conversation between Kuramochi and Taku Tsumugi. Not to mention brand new side stories from Eki Kara 5-fun and Tennen Kokekko! 1. **Prologue** (プロローグ) \[Fusako Kuramochi\] 2. **Nobuko to Aono** (野生子と青野) From Eki Kara 5-fun \[Ayuko\] 3. **Koufuku na Shokuji** (幸福な食事) From A-girl \[Yuki Andou\] 4. **Anata ni Aete Yokatta** (あなたに会えてよかった) From Cheap Thrill \[Ryou Ikuemi\] 5. **scene67.9** From Tennen Kokekko \[Kazune Kawahara\] 6. **Eki Kara 5-fun episode#16.5** \[Fusako Kuramochi\] 7. **Ruri-chan no Valentine** (るりちゃんのバレンタイン) From Eki Kara 5-fun \[Renjuuro Kindaichi\] 8. **Iriya to Haruto** (イリヤとハルト) From Eki Kara 5-fun & Hana ni Somu \[Haruko Kumota\] 9. **Shige-chan** (シゲちゃん) From Tennen Kokekko \[Karuho Shiina\] 10. **Kawaiku Naru no wa Taihen Nandesu** (かわいくなるのは大変なんです) From Tennen Kokekko \[Taamo\] 11. **Pocket ni Itsumo Chopin** (ポケットにいつもショパン) From Itsumo Pocket ni Chopin \[Aya Tsuge\] 12. **Sayonara Tango** (さよならたんご) From Obake Tango \[Asahi Tsutsui\] 13. Parody manga based on Tennen Kokekko & Hana ni Somu \[Rie Nishida\] 14. **Kiss+πr2+** From Kiss+πr2 \[Fumi Yoshinaga\] 15. **Hana ni Somari List + Special List** (花に染まリスト&スペシャルエッセイ) From Hana ni Somu \[Chiaki Hijiri\] 16. **Tennen Kokekko Tokubetsu-hen scene 1-3** (天然コケッコー特別編 scene1-scene3) \[Fusako Kuramochi\] 1 17. **Tennen Kokekko Tokubetsu-hen scene 1-3** (天然コケッコー特別編 scene1-scene3) \[Fusako Kuramochi\] 2 18. **Tennen Kokekko Tokubetsu-hen scene 1-3** (天然コケッコー特別編 scene1-scene3) \[Fusako Kuramochi\] 3

