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From Ivyscan: Consists of 5 short stories. 1. Orange Kiss Kijima Aka had a dream. In the dream, she and an orange haired boy kissed under the setting sun. And that boy just so happens to be the guy who's in the same class as her, Shimizu! She always thought Shimizu had some kind of grudge against her because he seems to hate her. Will Aka's dream become reality? 2. Happy Words The story of the past of the main characters, Saiko and Ichi, from "No. 1 Girl" in the tankubon Caramel Milk Tea. 3. Last Train Under the Night Sky Kanama and Andou met in the train by morning and became closer. However, she is troubled by Andou's expression and decides something is wrong. She follows him only to find the last train under the night sky.... and also someone. 4. More Orange Kiss A short read about Shimizu's point of view about Kijima Aka, the girl who glares at him. 5. Another Usami's Biography A biography of the author.
This is about a lazy ass kind of a baseball player, Taro, and A very serious crazy baseball player, Takami, that want to make it to the top. They cross paths on a bus that crashes. Takami dies and Taro lives. Taro visits Takami's grave and sees Takami's ghost. His ghost tells Taro to take him to the koshien and fulfill his dream. Think of it as Taro no Baseball. (play on Hikaru no Go)
From Senpai Scans: Let us search for fellow youthful club members for our mysterious club activities! Because of her father's adventures, Miku is entering school three months late. As such, she's petrified of being excluded and not having friends. He, the school special's extracurricular "finder", gave Miku an opportunity to make friends. And thus, somehow, Miku managed to join a club...
From Possible Soup: Hokuto is a first year student at a famous athletic school... however, he doesn't happen to play any sports due an anxiety problem that he had developed. Now, after being pressured by his friend Yuri, he has become the manager of the basketball club. Strange things start to develop as he gets harassed by some of his senpais and begins to battle some demons...
School will bring a fresh start and a way to break free from her seemingly cursed fate. Disaster strikes before she even arrives for her first day at school and a most embarrassing secret is discovered by Chun Hyuk, an aspiring band vocalist who loves only money and music. Can Yu Goon Goon and her best friend, Da-Jung, find a way to shut the mouths of Chun Hyuk and his fellow band members before her high school life is ruined? Da Jung wants to make a deal with the guys but how high a price are the girls willing to pay?
It all starts when she was 8. He was kind, and nice to her. Yeo Jin is now 17 years old, and she moved back from Busan to Seoul to meet her first love... but when she arrives he has completely changed...
Oblation: A thing presented or offered to a god. Suzuki Noriko is this year's Freshman Oblation. For the sake of peace for all freshman, she must be sacrificed! What's more this has been ordained by the most troublesome person in school, Sakikimi!
It was said that being in love is much like riding a roller coaster. This holds true for most except for junior high student, Haruka who finds that her love isn't at all like this and on the contrary compares it to a merry go round. When Haruka discovers that her favorite sempai in her camera club is going to move in just a month, she impulsively confesses her genuine feelings. Even so, her sempai does not take her seriously and brushes it aside lightly with jokes. But, though Haruka was nervous and embarrassed, she was not discouraged and thus her merry go round of love begins. (summary by kiumi from The Evil Empire)
Boys are silly, sex-hungry, and naughty. This book studies boys, living creatures totally different from girls, in detail, to answer questions about boys and their behaviors.
The time of the folk dance is approaching in Takumi's school, the folk dance is a famous couples event thus people that are single and unpopular such as himself have absolutely nothing to do with it, well; he is part of the committee that sets up the event, so while he lacks romance his relationship to the event "isn't zero". .... Takumi, however keeps having this dream where a beautiful girl asks him to the folk dance, and being a "couples event" it's pretty obvious to him that someone asking him to ask is much deeper than a simple invitation for dancing..... But, a dream is a dream and even though Takumi keeps thinking to himself "this seems so real", the dream is still a dream; he can't even remember clearly the face of the girl that asked him out. ..... What Takumi obviously doesn't notice, is that his tomboyish childhood friend and pretty much every of the other (female) member of the committee also don't have a partner for the folk dance, furthermore Takumi is not as unpopular as he perceives himself to be.... Could that dream be a foreboding one?
Having no experience in romance, the vibrant Ninako curiously explores the meaning of what "love" really is, and is surprised to feel a colorful range of emotions as she grows closer to the school heartthrob, the quiet yet gentle Ren, who also happens to be involved in a longtime relationship. With every intention of keeping her head held high, Ninako prepares to face the mental pain of this one-sided love that she had allowed to take root, facing a series of trials that would either contribute to her growth as a headstrong woman, or break her as it did with other girls. However, is this really a one-sided love? Or had something been silently sown in the most hidden area of Ren's heart?
From DMG: It started out as a way to prepare for a future lover. Too long denied a flesh and blood companion, his substitute—a teddy bear—is now his love object. What happens when a persistent, excessively cheerful neighbor consumes his serious, carefully ordered life? An explosion of hurtful, panicked words. Stepping back into his quiet life, he can’t avoid what his insufferable neighbor left behind: cracks that expose his festering loneliness. Only one person can fill those cracks, but he’s disappeared. WEEKEND OF DREAMS: With her brutally honest, trembling line art, isino aya creates a companion collection to Sink into You. Love and acceptance, joy and sorrow, desire and disgust: they move beyond simple shapes in black and white.
