Contains five oneshots which involve love blooming from physical attraction. 1) Love You Madly: One day, Ami suddenly got her feelings acknowledged by Kawano. Originally a guy beyond her reach, their bodies...

A collection of beautiful, bittersweet short stories: 1. Slop Mansion ni Okaeri (Welcome to Slope Mansion) "It is said, there are other worlds than the one we live in... One of them is the fairy world." My ...

Collection of three short stories from the mangaka of Gakuen Alice. An older manga by Higuchi Tachibana based on certain fairytales. Cinderella, mermaid, and frogs. Swan Lake: Nire, a girl that can be consi...

On the day Sari transfers to her new school, she confesses her love for her cousin Kazuomi. After being subtly rejected, she find out that Kazuomi's best friend Mizuki is also interested in him. Because thos...

This tale of forbidden fruit is ripe with angst and taboo. Nineteen-year-old college girl Kasumi is traveling in Italy after a painful breakup. In Rome, she meets a handsome Japanese man and, knowing nothing...

A series of loosely-connected vignettes, each lead to the next by a stray thought. A young hit-man chased from his home; a dropped key to a bloody room; a meat-locker to hide a corpse; the watchful eyes of cro...

A composition of oneshots. Shinjuku Deluxe Goodbye, March; Please God; Time After Time; Apron and Sunglasses; Long Tall Sally; Spirit; Hot for You; Sayuri-san's Worries; Friends; A Girl’s Dream. Chiaki is ...

After young Utena's parents die, she wanders the streets. Just as she's about to drown herself, a prince comes to her rescue, telling her she must grow up to be a brave noblewoman. From that day on, she stri...

A Keio College (top notch Tokyo college) exam candidate, Touma Inaba, is interupted when a cute young girl, Urara Kasuga, arrives at his hotel room door. She later turns out to be his cousin who he barely re...

140 years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, man slayer! His killer blade helped close ...

Higuchi Asuka's mother dies shortly after she tells her teenage daughter who her father is. Only knowing the family name "Sudou", Asuka goes in search to find her absent father. On her journey, she finds a...

This is one of the best-known titles by Yamagishi Ryouko. It shocked the public immensely when first published, because the story depicted how the legendary regent of Japan, Prince Shoutoku - who supported t...

One-shot compilation featuring works written and illustrated by Tezuka between 1971 and 1972, and is very highly regarded in Japan and by Tezuka himself. Spans a variety of genres, from SF to Military to Wi...

Phoenix is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between ...