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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.
"One boy upset over his soft, cute appearance. The other boy, because of that boy's pretty and cute appearance, deliberately provokes and fans his anger to reveal his own Masochistic traits. What will happen between them?"
Karinne, the daughter of Viscount Tyrian, is on the verge of getting sold off as one of the lustful Count Dupo’s concubines. After sleeping with a mysterious handsome stranger, Karinne gives birth to her son…all according to plan! After deeming his daughter worthless, he sells her off. Losing the will to live, she reunites with the man who she spent that fateful night with, who is revealed to be the Grand Duke. I Gave Birth to a Villain’s Child, I Raised the Son of a Murderer, Tôi sinh con cho kẻ sát nhân, 살인귀의 아이를 낳았다c
There's a special notebook which allows you to have sex with any women if you see their panties. If the notebook is real, the one who obtains it can seduce any women that he wants...!
Berta’s marriage was suddenly arranged, she will become the second consort of the King. The current royal family values lineage above all else, with several generations of consanguineous marriages, to preserve its “purity.” The politics of the Kingdom, following the idea of the pureblood noblemen’s superiority, caused national power to decline. To retain the power of the Kingdom, the Royal Family decided to take a desperate measure, a marriage with a woman from the ethnic group to which belongs the majority of the population. The bitterness of this act… Those who were previously considered a subjugated group of people living on the frontiers. The chosen bride is Berta, the first daughter of the current lord of Kasha, the largest estate on the frontier and also a powerful faction. The marriage life started in hard mode, a husband that doesn’t love her, a Queen that hates her, however, she still is forced to fulfil her role duties. Berta has decided to endure the hardship, that was already expected by her, and wait for the day when there’s no more need of her in the palace, and she can return home. However, Berta’s initial plans are ruined by an unexpected situation. After passing three nights with the King, as the royal rules dictated for a newlywed bride, Berta got pregnant with His Majesty’s child!!
