Second-year student Yamato Nissei spends his days lazing around, unable to find anything he'd be interested in. Though he's on great terms with his friends, he isn't doing all that well otherwise, having just...

A chance encounter between two Tokyo ladies as they are having a terrible day, and reflections on what it means to be a Tokyoite. Oneshot published in Flowers 2019 Fall issue.

First chapter of Arai Rie Gekijou: Nekoyama-san

Laughter has a boy named Kou-kun, who I love. However, there was a beautiful girlfriend named Satomi in the announcement, and she looked very good friends. One day, when they were dating in the city, they came...

Chika Yamagishi, single, computer programmer. And much to her dismay, now 35 years old. When she’s got a crush on a younger coworker, what options are left for a woman who’s almost 40?! (Wait, she just turned...

In the immediate future, a giant meteorite has collided with earth. All living organisms, including mankind, have been wiped off the face of the planet. The government, who had foreseen this outcome, took...

The final act of 7SEEDS. What became of the people who survived to the end? Young men and women were cryogenically frozen as part of the “7SEEDS Project” in order to prevent the destruction of mankind. They...

Akiko is a 33-year-old single woman who moved from the countryside to Tokyo and became the manager of a general store called "Wahldo." One day, she finds a cardboard box with the words "please pick me up...

From StarryHeaven: The era is the Taisho period (1912-1926). Kaibara Aria, who wishes to become a pianist, takes the examination to become a preparatory student at the Tokyo School of Music. The passion in her...

During their senior trip on the cruise ship Victoria, a group of friends is suddenly pulled back in time and separated. The main character, Hayumi Natsuki, arrives in the year 1636. In Japanese history...

Miho decided to live in her maternal grandmother's house, which had been estranged since her mother died around she was 7. There was also a young man named Hashimoto, a university lecturer who said he was...

From Shoujo Manga Maniac: Tsubaki Kamui is the granddaughter of a prestigious antiquarian. A mysterious man named Sena Takuto asks for an appraisal on an artifact, one that he stole in order to prove that he is...

Yori Iwatani is close to her 40s and is giving up on love and marriage. She has decided to live a quiet solitary life in her hometown. But when a handsome former classmate appears, things change for her.

A forbidden escape suspense story! Marimo and Rin are very young sisters. Who are the two continuing to fight and what are they escaping from? The answer to that secret lies in what happened several years...

One summer, Arata meets a troubled girl that he can't let go of.

In the Anywhere But Here series: V.1 - Yama e Iku• Yama e Iku (Going to the Mountains)It's about a sensitive writer with an overactive imagination and intolerance for the banalities of everyday life. • Yanagi...

Aoko is a ceramic painter at Hasami Wares Pottery when suddenly an unfriendly and unapproachable man named Tatsuki arrives from overseas. Rejecting her way of life by telling her he isn't interested in painted...

Hagiwara Chihiro is a high school freshman. Her mother died when she was very young, so while her father is out at sea, she is staying at the house of Azumi, a close friend of her father's. As it turns out...

Kyounosuke Miyama is fascinated by the novelist Shikou Takamura, and applies to become his apprentice, but is turned down. Instead, he becomes a live-in student, doing clerical and personal work for the teacher...

A surreal ☆ cat gag presented by Rie Arai! Like a cat, like a person? An unidentified creature, Mr. Nekoyama. Sometimes he's a teacher, sometimes he's a popular idol, and sometimes he's a high school girl...