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This is the concentration camp of strange imaginations, and also wonderful manhua stories! Until the last second, the ending is always beyond your imagination.
From Evil Flowers: Kako Saeki is a senior in high school. She has been modeling and harboring her love for her favorite art teacher, Enjoe. Her heart breaks when she finds out that her love is actually engaged. Now, Kako's innocent love takes a dangerous turn when she finds out who is he engaged to.....
Kou Tarumizu, who wants to win the photo contest, said: "I want to photograph you two no matter what."<br>I will touch them without knowing their relationship.
After the end of the Vajra war in 2059 AD , a mysterious "Var Syndrome" suddenly appeared in various parts of the Galaxy, afflicting life forms, even gargantuan Unamushi (Eel bug) native to the planet Pipre. Result of research revealed that people who posses a special singing voice is expected to have the ability to calm the Var. Interplanetary Civilian Military Contractor: Xaos, chose the trio of female idol group "Thrones" - the candidate to start the demonstration test of the power of song: "Project Thrones". Valkyrie unit of the Xaos Pipre branch: "Echo squadron" will escort Thrones, and the novice pilot Kinjou Kaito will be ecstatic when escorting Pirika Polywanov. Kaito, knowing the sorrows and passion behind Pirika's unfriendliness, inspired him to "change" to the man who protects Pirika.
From Maboroshi's translation of the backcover: Kanon Matsukura is a high school sophmore. Her name is based on her father's favorite classical "Kanon"... One day in school while she was walking down the hallway she hears "Kanon" being played. It was her math teacher Azume playing it on the piano awkwardly. Since then, "Kanon" keeps playing in Kanon's head. A touching story of a high school girl in love! Also includes short stories: Happy Rain / Bang!! / Santa is Coming Happy Rain - Tsubasa can't confess to her basketball player Sugita directly, so she asks his teammate to pass him a present instead. Later, she takes shelter from the rain and runs into Sugita's teammate again. Can fifteen minutes in a waiting shed be enough to change one's course? From Baka-Updates: Collection of 4 short stories: 1) Kanon Kanon Matsukura is a high school sophomore. Her name is based on her father's favorite classical "Kanon"... One day in school while she was walking down the hallway she hears "Kanon" being played. It was her math teacher Azume playing it on the piano awkwardly. Since then, "Kanon" keeps playing in Kanon's head. A touching story of a high school girl in love! 2) Happy Rain Tsubasa can't confess to her basketball player Sugita directly, so she asks his teammate to pass him a present instead. Later, she takes shelter from the rain and runs into Sugita's teammate again. Can fifteen minutes in a waiting shed be enough to change one's course in life? 3) Bang!! Shinyama sees Daiyumi holding a gun to her head and jumps down the stairs to stop her from committing suicide; but it is only a toy gun... Shinyama hurts his right hand and Daiyumi feels obliged to help him taking lesson notes. What does Shinyama feel towards Daiyumi, is it only pity or is it something else? 4) Santa is Coming Inaba is always teasing Ayumi about not being able to get a boyfriend. In anger she lashes out that she does in fact have plans to meet a boy the next day; when she is really only baby sitting her nephew. What shall she do when she runs into Inaba taking her nephew to the game center!?
This dark and intense drama is set in a boy's high school where Kujo becomes the official leader of a gang. Kujo must constantly defend his position by playing a dangerous rooftop game with the other boys vying for his position. This manga has also been made into a film which has shown in various festivals throughout the world. Taiyo Matsumoto made his manga debut in 1986 in the anthology Afternoon, with the short story Straight. His credits include boxing serial Zero, the domestic drama Hanao, the sports manga Ping Pong, the beautiful and violent, Black and White, and the Moebius inspired, No. 5. Black and White and No. 5 were both published by VIZ and scanned by Jinchi who is loved by all US based manga publishers.
from Tokyopop: Ami Won’s late mother always told her to grow up to be an exemplary woman. And the chance presents itself now that her dad has been elected President of Korea. Thus begins this klutzy girl’s transformation into the girl her mother had always hoped she’d become. However, in the spotlight and imbued with a kind of social power she never expected, Ami is now beset on all sides by the jealous and dismayed. Her cousin Bi-Na leads this parade. Bi-Na considers herself naturally charismatic and infinitely more charming, so she feels she deserves the role as Korea’s First Lady.
A prestigious private school, St. Ottawa Girls' School, has a 6-year curriculum; those who graduate from middle school automatically get into high school there and the few outsiders who take a test to enter St. Ottowa's high school are called appliers and are considered to have a lower status than the others. Megumi is the only applier in her class and is looked down upon because she can't keep up with the rest during classes. This changes once she tells a classmate that, thanks to her sister's job, she can get all the cosmetics she wants (of course, this is a lie). Requests from girls start building up, but she doesn't want to be known as a liar. She then tries to shoplift, but, having no experience, she is helped by a gruop of girls who call themselves "team illusion" . The manga shows how she is troubled by her conscience while she starts to become a shoplifter.
Contains a one-shot called Embrace Me Tightly on the Highest Floor. • Embrace Me Tightly on the Highest Floor - Fuyou loves her brother. Actually, he isn't really her brother, so can she love him?
From Sugar Oasis: Riria is a middle school girl who is absolutely, hopelessly in love with the guy who lives next door. The only problem is that he is a LOT older than her. His name is Rinpei, and he is 26 and a businessman from a rich family. Although he is nice to Riria, he (rightfully) considers her just a kid, and just treats her like a friend. Poor Riria, she loves Rinpei so much, but he is so much older and doesn't see her as a real woman. To solve the age problem, Riria transforms herself into a totally different person, trying to make herself look older. Now is the test, she decided to find Rinpei on the street and see if she can fool him with her 'disguise' into considering her a real 'woman' and see how he likes her then. Amazingly enough, things go well. Riria, in her new persona manages to make quite an impression on Rinpei! In fact, he really likes her!
A short but nice story, if you like Hanamizawa's work, you will LOVE this. A girl confesses to another girl. This girl confessed to sets up the other girl with her (annoying) brother, who looks like her. What predicament awaits the young girl and the brother? Note: Included in REC Volume 1.
