She\'s competent at work, but her personal life is a mess. Then she meets a younger boy... or is it a girl?
Collection of short stories. Contains: - Ki no Mi Kusa no Mi (樹の実草の実, 1976)- Easygoing (イージー・ゴーイング, 1976)- Fable-kun no Yume (フェイブルくんの夢, 1976)- Akazukin-kun (赤ずきん君, 1976)- Menu (メニュー, 1976)- Jiman (自慢, 1977)- Shuumatsu (終末, 1977)- Kugi (釘, 1977)- Kyuumen Sankaku (球面三角, 1977)
When Tsukamura Masaki's company shuts down, he's worried he may have to leave the city and go back to Hokkaido. So when charming Nagasaka offers him a job as janitor of an apartment building, he jumps at the chance. But the job is more than just cleaning up, he's expected to take personal care of the weird assortment of tenants.
When Itsusu Touki learns about the demise of his estranged twin Kazuki, he hurriedly offers to provide any aid he can. Eventually, he becomes responsible for Kazuki's young son, Ryouta. Though Ryouta thinks Touki is his biological father, Touki's priority is to support the budding parent in coping with the unforeseen trials of raising a child alone.
The not-so-distant future, Asticassia High School, Kanagawa Japan. A transfer student named Suletta happens to meet Miorine, the daughter of a prominent local family. With Miorine unable to find her dream for the future, Suletta makes her a proposal. - \"Wanna help me fill out my list of things I wanna do?\" These two girls and their friends spend their glory days exploring new frontiers!
Popular writer Itsusu Touki learns about the death of his estranged twin brother, Kazuki, and rushes to help in any way he can. This eventually ends up in him being given custody of Kazuki's toddler son, Ryouta. Ryouta quickly comes under the impression that Touki's his father, but this is the least of the young man's problems as he struggles to overcome the trials of suddenly finding himself a single parent. Ryouta begins to attend the nursery where Kuramoto Yuuji (nickname: Nacchi) is the caretaker. Nacchi's bright and cheerful disposition is an instant hit with kids and parents alike, and Ryouta loves him. But what does Touki think of this sunny guy, his polar opposite in terms of personality?
Five childhood friends -- Dabin, Jaeha, Taehyeon, Sehui, and Hanbin -- make a promise to always stay friends, even after they become adults. Fast forward to the present, where they are now 24-year-olds facing pivotal moments in their journey into adulthood. As they face different challenges, the five friends try to carve out their own paths and figure out what they want for the future, lending each other a helping hand or offering a shoulder to cry on along the way. And amidst it all, unfamiliar feelings begin to blossom where there was once only friendship…
Hane Hajime, who spends his life lazing around and being dependent on others, is twenty-two years old. One day, having lost his way, he wakes up in a blood-stained bed, with the lower half of his body in full view and his rear end stinging-not surprisingly because he’s serviced a pair of twins! The curtain rises on completely innocent Hane’s new lifestyle as it starts to head for trouble. While he’s taken aback by unique adults, he finds kindness... or perhaps it’s love.
From [url=http://aoc-translations.tumblr.com]AOC Translations![/url]: Sasakura Hakka, 14 years old. One day, when I got home a strange creature in a Kigurumi suit, Ginger, was standing there! It seems like Hakka has been chosen to rise with her comrades as, Guardians, to protect this world from the evil invaders of a different dimension, but... The Kigurumi suited creatures have suddenly transformed into gorgeous male eye candies!? A heart-pounding, action packed Kigurumi Adventure!! From LuffyNoTomo: Hakka is a normal girl who's life gets turned around when an invader comes from another planet and large stuffed animals have come to protect the world from invasion. She, among others are chosen to be the guardians and team up with these stuffed animals to save the world! One strange thing other than them being stuffed animals, is that when the guardian and stuffed animal kiss - the stuffed animal turns into a handsome man!
[From Kotonoha]: Published by Kodansha in 2002 and awarded the prestigious Tezuka Cultural Prize, Fumiko Takano’s The Yellow Book is one of those rare works which you enjoy reading in order to feel the tender familiarity that arises between the protagonists and yourself. This collected volume was named after the longest of the four stories that it contains: a drama about an adolescent girl who falls in love with Roger Martin du Gard’s saga, Les Thibault. The remaining stories capture various fragments of everyday life with tenderness and humor. Through the kaleidoscope of its feminine views, The Yellow Book touches the readers heart by attending to what, in sum, makes up life—the little things of our every day.
From MangaHelpers: This is the visual diary of Kiitarou's experience with youkai. He's a boy with a very strong spirit sense, but when he entered a forbidden storehouse, he was kicked out of his home. He soon found a new place to live, where he met a zashiki warashi (house spirit) named Suzu. He and Suzu soon began to attract all kinds of spirit creatures, starting with a nurikabe (appears as a wall that impedes travelers) and mokumokuren (appears as eyes in a torn paper wall). What kind of folkloric creature will he meet next? [tethysdust]
One day a beautiful girl who is famous at school suddenly comes to kento Ikuno\'s apartment. She shows him a \"ticket\" written in bad handwriting that reminds him of his childhood. This is a love comedy about a \"ticket that makes you do anything they want\".