Paraphrased from Kotonoha: This is a collection of eight stories (there are 9 chapters, because story 6 is composed of chapters 6 and 7). Story 1: Teased and Stepped On, What Blooms is a Passionate...

Excessive love, sex checks, and self-prioritizing toxic parents who treat their daughters as accessories. Exhausted by the selfishness of her toxic parents, the daughter turns to a "rental mother" service. The ...

Keitaro Satou is 30, successful at his job... and single. With worries about his future, he decides to have an arranged marriage interview to appease his family, yet while his prospective "wife" is a beauty...

Part-timer Horikita Akari was living a poor but fulfilling life. Having lost her mother when she was young, Akari was content simply not living under the abuse of her aunt and uncle. One day, however, her house...

A far from flattering view on Japanese society, full of cynicism and sarcasm.

Miyuki Umino was a senior in high school. Although Miyuki, her two younger brothers and her younger sister were poor, they were happy living together. But, one day all of a sudden her older brother's debt of...

Set in early 1900's Tokyo, its story is about a makeup artist named Kosannba. All the women desire to have their make up done from Kosannba because he is the best. He also manages to get intertwined into the...

The man Koharu loved wasn't cheating on her...he was cheating on his wife with her! And not only that...he was the third guy in a row to do so. Dejected, she leaves Tokyo for her hometown, and rejects a future...

An after story. The 8 chapters were relabeled as chapters 188 through 195, and published as volume 20 of the original series.

One day, teenager Takuya Onodera gets into a traffic accident with 42-year old salaryman Kazuhiro Kubota. After having been in a coma for nearly a month, Onodera wakes up at the same exact moment Kubota passes...

Takashi Sone is living on his own while he is attending college. Out of the blue, his parents tell him that his sister, Mafuyu, is moving in to live with him and that she will be attending a high school in his...

Miyamae Haruka, 22, is a soon-to-be graduate and at first glance a very unremarkable looking young woman. No one will even stop to help her up when she falls and each time she applies for a job, she's blithely...

Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother’s grave. Then for reasons he can’t explain, Hiroshi is transported back in time, and discovers...

Volume 1: Mushi to Uta (Insects and Songs) Star Lover - The odd relationship between a teenage boy and his uncle's "daughter."Violight - A boy wakes up in an unfamiliar land, with only a strange, ethereal young...

The Hanawas have four daughters. The first works as a publisher for a fashion magazine, the third is an OL and the fourth a student in arts. They are all single and still living at home with their parents. The...

This is a set of one-shot stories of working people drawn from the viewpoint of Matsukata Hiroko, who is a 28-year-old single woman and is an editor of Weekly Magazine, JIDAI. She’s often at odds with Tanaka...

In this new spinoff of the hit manga, a newbie Red Blood Cell is one of 37 trillion working to keep this body running. But something’s wrong! Stress hormones keep yelling at him to go faster. The blood vessels...

In an illegal situation such as drug abuse, set in the so-called outlaw human body that hides in the darkness and lives in the underworld. In an outrageous situation that extends to blade scratches ... What...

Due to certain circumstances, novelist Sasai Rinji, who has lived in New York for a long time, is forced to return to Tokyo. While accustomed to the freedom of living alone, every Sunday he is visited by his...