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If you yearn for someone else while committed to a partner, what path should you follow to discover your true match?
Satoyama Katsuki is a carefree 15 year-old high school kid, and a pretty lazy one at that. However, he secretly has a crush on a girl who happens to share his name: Mizutani Katsuki. Upon finding out that Mizutani's father used to be a pro-boxer, and she herself infatuated with the sport, he reluctantly joins a boxing gym in order to impress Mizutani. Satoyama is quick to find out he may have the blood of a genius boxer running through his veins...
1) Katsuai Dakaretai Misao has only been going out with Tsukasa for a week, but he's a notorious playboy and she's a virgin. She loves him, but she's nervous about sex... 2) Rouge Temptation Chizu is small and boyish looking, and is used to everyone teasing her about it. If only she was a little more sexy, maybe she could get the handsome Miyabi to see her as more than a "little brother". But her best friend Ayane wants Chizu to stay the way she is. 3) Last Romance Rei and Misaki have been dating for nearly a year, but their relationship has become strained since Misaki job was transferred to another town. After he breaks a much anticipated date with her, Rei gets drunk and wakes up in bed with strange guy! Should she tell Misaki? Is there relationship doomed? Rei is Miyabi's (Rouge Temptation) older sister, and he pops up as a cute kid here. 4) Second Virgin Futaba gave her first time to the sempai she was in love with, only to find out he was playing with her. When she's saved from drowning by the kind Haruka, she's not sure she wants to live. But spending time with Haruka is helping erase the past hurt. Is he as wonderful as he seems?
From Midnight Scans: Koyuki started dating a super handsome guy named Kanomitsu, who is known as the Prince of Ice because of his cold words and manners. Being touched by his true kindness and straightforward love, they were able to live a peaceful life, until his brother suddenly makes an appearance. That's when she discovers the truth of what had made him lock away his heart...
After his mother deserted them, senior high school student, Reo was living together with his mother's stern ex-lover, the very imposing uncle Shuuji. But 2 months ago, as he dropped by his home on his way with a friend one evening, an event occurred that changed their relationship forever. Since the day his uncle forcibly embraced him, the man demands his body time and again and Reo who has been suffering ever since seeks his close friend Kenta’s advice but… Contains another short story: Pretty After ~ After
The year is 1863 as the tumultuous samurai era is coming to an end, Japan is split between the pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate factions. The fate of the world is threatened as an army of historical revisionists are sent from the future to alter the course of history. In order to bring these forces down and protect the real history, two sword warriors, spirits who are swords brought to life by Saniwa (sage), rush to Edo. The polite and thoughtful Horikawa Kunihiro and the short tempered yet skillful Izuminokami Kanesada, who served the same master, confront the invading army along with a lively gang of other warriors including Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki, Yagen Toushirou, Tombokiri, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga. As the fate of history lies in these hero's hands, what meets the blade is yet to be uncovered...
In war, men become beasts. War makes gods out of beasts. When war ends... where do the gods go? Where can they rest their weary heads? Wolves walk the forest of despair, the wasteland of lamentation, the sea of bitterness, in the time of dark and light. To kill those that were once their friends.
By the time Katsutoshi realized he was in love, it ended as quickly as it began. Having been hurt so badly with his first few romantic experiences in life, he vowed never to get serious with anyone ever again. He’s made this very clear, especially to this old fart keep showing up wherever he goes! So why does it feel like fate is bringing them together?
Toshi is your regular senior high student, except in the evenings when he's a bartender at a joint frequented by American servicemen, where he deals drugs, pimps, and even cross-dresses a little on the side. And his best friend Miyuki just happens to be the son of a loan shark with gay tendencies. If this sounds like the hardboiled world of Yoshida's later and most well-known work Banana Fish, it's balanced by Toshi's madcap adventures at his all-male school (where his mates jerk off to everything in sight, and scenes from shoujo manga are performed in all their histrionic glory), as well as the unexpected delicacy of his relationships with the women in his life. This episodic drama is bursting with all the frustration, the tenderness, the audacity, the horniness and the hilarity that comes with being young and male. All the tough, silly, dirty, and sweet things boys get up to in the locker room and out of it never brought a bigger smile to your face. Bunko ver released in 1994. summary from Baka-Updates Manga
1) Loveliness ~ Maybe I'm Your Steppin' Stone Hirosue Kenji the convenience store clerk has a huge crush on his regular customer Mogi Kousei. When he finds out that Kousei's son is going to the same nursery as his niece, he takes the opportunity to get closer to his dream date. (Kousei was introduced in chapter 4 of I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone) 2) Loveliness ~ Passion Honey Mejiro Yasushi goes home after a hard day's work and finds his lover/cousin cheating on him. He heads over to Kousei's place for a drinking session and Nakano Shunji the grouchy co-worker joins them. Yasushi discovers Shunji's secret in the middle of the night. (continuation of Shunji's story in Otonage.) 3) Loveliness ~ Passion Baby Yasushi learns more about Shunji's painful past and his dependence on Kousei. 4) Loveliness ~ Charm Point Kenji doesn't understand why Kousei and his ex-wife is divorced even though they get along fabulously. He feels uncertain about Kousei's feelings for him, for he could start dating other women again. 5) Special Illustrations Includes: - About Delicacy Kousei and Kenji discuss public baths. - The Best! Shunji and Yasushi is finding his place hot and tight. - Kousei and Kenji's cosplay See Kousei as a host and Kenji as a construction worker. 6) Daylight Kosaka is obsessed with bikes and displays little interest in anything else, while his classmates are drooling over girls. Hotta his classmate has other matters on his mind as well...
Collection of short stories: - Maple Love Two college students become friends, but one of them has fallen for the other.. - Love Letter A girl asks her friend to give a love letter to a boy for her. Too bad she has no idea her friend is in love with her... - Cycling Under a Starlit Sky - Kawaii Anata (Your Cuteness) This is about a boyish girl who doesn't think she's cute, and her love interest, who does. - Winter-tinged Thoughts Shizuru is in love with Matsuri, who in turn is in love with Aya. Oh, dear. - A Lunch Made with Love Retells some of the events of "Winter-Tinged Thoughts" from Izumi (Shizuru's best friend)'s point of view.
In the Keisei High School infirmary, the school’s doctor is regularly visited by Atsuki, the frail and handsome ‘School Prince’. They grow closer over tea and biscuits, but could Atsuki’s feelings be real or are they merely being used to escape his loneliness from the death of his parents? And could love bloom successfully between a teacher and their student?
