"I have something I don't want to lose. So much so that these terrible feelings have grown." A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed in...

Rei Kiriyama is a child prodigy. Rei Kiriyama is also an orphan who lives alone in an empty apartment. Rei Kiriyama is a teen working in an adult world. Life is complicated for Rei. He's an up-and-coming sho...

The beautiful Athanasia was killed at the hands of her own biological father, Claude de Alger Obelia, the cold-blooded emperor! It’s just a silly bedtime story...until one woman wakes up to suddenly find s...

On his way home from picking up a matching set of rings for himself and his lover, Fuji Takahiro is hit by a car. The following amnesia degrades his live-in lover Kotou Tarou to a mere flatmate, and a series...

Arata who is in love with his childhood friend Miyamoto, always eavesdrops on the confessions his friend receives from girls but Miyamoto constantly rejects the confessions saying he already has someone he l...

Toranosuke fell in love with the servant Kaoru. For twenty years, they slowly developed their love for each other, thus a Showa couple of clumsy husband and muscle brained wife was born. They spend a lot of ...

Do these two men have any redeeming qualities whatsoever? Quirky story with some questionable humor. Med school student Jonathan pockets psychotropic drugs from the university hospital and deals them to coll...

After graduating from an all-boys’ high school, Iori Kitahara moves away from home to go to college in a seaside town. He’s eager to start a new chapter in his life–one filled with dreams of reinventin...

This volume contains two parts, Bus Hashiru and Nanairo Sekai. Bus Hashiru is a collection of five short stories centered around bus stops. In all your encounters with strangers that take place there, isn't ...

Wonyoung gets unjustly suspended from work after getting caught up in a corruption scandal. But when he accidentally discovers the chairman's favorite artist Yoon Taejun living under an alias, he is tasked w...

The novelist Shun decides to travel to his hometown of Hokkaido with his younger boyfriend, Mio. Once he escaped an arranged marriage with his childhood friend by saying he was gay, he had been estranged fro...

1-3) While moving into his new apartment, Kinishita was not careful and knocked over some heavy boxes. It was lucky that mover Manaka was there to protect him and take the damage in his stead. But now Manaka...

Shunta and Tamaki are childhood friends with a year of difference, but Shunta feels something different towards his friend, an impure, not correct, dirty feeling. As this feeling grows stronger, will the re...

Separated as children due to circumstances of their parent's making, Tatsuya and Haru meet again at the bar where Haru works part-time. Unaware that Haru is his long-lost younger brother, Tatsuya invites the...

Asano, who works part-time at a pub, is one day confessed to by a hot, antisocial coworker, Kakei. However, even after his confession, Kakei doesn't make any climactic moves, so Asano decides to take the ini...

Sasaki, an overworked salaryman, goes through an average stressful day just for a single light at the end of the tunnel: Yamada, the always-cheerful clerk at his favorite convenience store. One day, Sasaki t...

An independent collection of short stories — Ultramarine Schooldays highlights the color that evokes faithful memories, tenderness, and melancholy. These stories take place in Japan and in the West, in the...

1) Mimitabu no Riyuu (A Reason for Earlobes) Yamaguchi is a notorious womanizer. Some men admire him; others can't stand him. Ishikawa is definitely one of the latter. Nevertheless, when Yamaguchi's latest g...

Kang Eun Ju loses both her house and job at the same time. When she discovers a working position at a mansion, she immediately grabs the chance! How will her life as a live-in caretaker in a mansion play out...

Goto Nagi has travelled to the southern island of Okitsushima, and ventures out to see Umi no Misaki, a striking cape jutting out into the ocean. But when he arrives, he finds that there is much more to this...

Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, s...

Kagami Junichirou is known as a genius physicist. He wrote a thesis at a young age of 17, and it was even published by "Nature," a prominent science journal. After college, he devoted himself to being an ota...

Yuuya, the son of a bar owner, spends his days lazing around and juggling his nightly part-time jobs, one of which is cross-dressing as barmaid Yuria on behalf of his mother. One night, a bunch of fishermen ...

Mio Keisuke is a high-schooler who leads a rather dull, boring life. He can't keep a girlfriend, because being a kept man's too much of a hassle, and he can't bring himself to fall in love and want to please...

• Horyuu is a shining, good looking surfer idol. Shouin, who is enamored with him, is a calm, restrained and mature youngster. Though Horyuu is the polar opposite to the subdued Shouin, he cannot erase fro...