After the funeral, Natsumi reluctantly agrees to date her sister’s fiancé Togo. But as their relationship develops with the passing seasons, Haru’s memory lingers over them like a curse. Asuka Konishiâ€...

Imagine if your grandparents magically became 17 years old again...That they had a second chance to relive their youth and possibly fall in love again, or actually for the first time. It’s the beginning of...

Yuki Okada, at the age of 33, had everything to be fulfilled: married and happy, mother of a little girl, and practicing the profession she loves - a manga artist. Also, when she consults her doctor for a si...

The main character, Kazuyoshi Takeda, is 35 years old and is currently living as an assistant while having a dream of becoming a manga artist. One night, my wife said, "I feel like your testicles are strange...

Futaba Yoshioka thought all boys were loud and obnoxious until she met Kou Tanaka in junior high. But as soon as she realized she really liked him, he had already moved away because of family issues. Now, in...

A single mother is diagnosed with cancer. What's worse, she is told that she only has one year left to live. She seeks to insure her daughter's future... by getting back together with her ex who she broke up...

Nayu only lived alone with his grandmother. Because of trivial things, Nayu being rude to his grandmother she really cares about. But it turns out, the life of her grandmother is not much left! How Nayu woul...

These people have been living unhappy lives because they've never been able to do what they want. Ga Yeon's smart, but wants to become a singer. However, the Korean educational system strongly enforces stud...

An old man dies, leaving a large percent of his vast fortune to mysterious girl, Alisa, who has supposedly been abandoned on an island for her entire life. The old man's death becomes Alisa's ticket back in...

Mika is just a normal high school student who dreams of having a wonderful love. And then one day, she happens to meet Hiro, the guy of her destiny. While experiencing many sad events, and while getting hurt...

Ritsuro is an expert in surfing and sex but a novice in love. As fate would have it, he meets another novice in both love and surfing. On the Shonan* beach, these two novices actually fell in love... with ea...

In a small regional town in 1980s southern Japan, Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto and Aki Hirose, who were classmates all through junior high school, become high school students and then fall in love with one anot...

Mitsuki loves singing, but a malignant tumor in her throat has prevented her from pursuing her passion. However, Mitsuki's life turns around when two shinigami appear to grant her a temporary reprieve from h...

Takeda is diagnosed with cancer and feels that he has nothing to live for. His wife had died of cancer and his only daughter has been missing for fourteen years. One day, when he is about to attempt suicide...

A collection of short mahjong-centric stories by Fukumoto Nobuyuki.

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 ...