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Collection of 23 stories about love in the everyday life of the Japanese. Contains: • Holiday Part 2 A girl reads a shoujo manga and is left unsatisfied by the ending. • At the Park Two best friends, one of them whose name is Yoko, spends time with each other as they set of fireworks at the park, but there is a meaning behind the get together. What is the reason for it? • Painfully from the Heart Showing the connection between pain and love • Heavy and Pop (?) A prostitute thinks about the concept of love. • Sweet A girl reflects herself cheating on her boyfriend.
Ulises, a brilliant but inflexible soldier, is shunned by the top brass and demoted to a station in a rural area where he meets his new wife Lea. The demotion that should've been a terrible thing turns into a blessing as Lea and her siblings teach the boorish Ulises about family and love. A soothing daily life fantasy about a silent military man and a clumsy new wife.
1-3. Shiiku Hime Takanezawa Hime is a girl from a wealthy family. When she was small she started bullying Asakawa Nachi. Under Hime's guidance she wants Nachi to become her ideal pet. And thats why Nachi always obeys Hime's commands. 4. Junai Koza Kemono Shiyou The protagonist has to teach to a boy who was her childhood friend when they were little but now the boy turned into a beautiful guy and rather than studying he prefers...other things!
The 50th NHK Taiga drama is Gou. The story focuses on the life of Gou, a wife of the second Tokugawa shogun Hidetada. Gou was the third daughter of the daimyo Azai Nagamasa, who was married to the sister of Oda Nobunaga. One of Gou's older sisters was the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, while the other married the daimyo Kyogoku Takatsugu.
I wondered if people noticed it, the numbers. It wasn't long before I realized I was the only one who saw them. <br>I found out what the numbers meant when I was fifteen. The numbers that appeared on the neck of every person I met...predicted when and where they would die. I was the only one who knew when someone would expire.<br>But Sehyun was different from the others.<br>He didn't have a bar code.
Facing this misguided fate, Zai Min, Yong Zhu and Si Xian are all struggling in order to defend their love between each other. Who can tell them exactly what is the law to maintaining this relationship of theirs?
From DMP: "The person I love is you, Haru!" Haru is shocked by the sudden confession from his best friend Kazushi and the passionate kiss that follows! However, he can't bring himself to see the perfect and widely admired Kazushi as anything more than a friend. Determined to win Haru's admiration and love, Kazushi steals a kiss every chance he can get. How long can Haru ward off his increasingly strong and bold advances?
Mashiro has spent the last thirteen years of her life locked away in a room as she protects the gods that live in her hair, being slowly restored. However, when the door opens to the room and she stumbles outside, she finds that things are not how they seem, and the gods are unleashed.
From Summer Rain: Hanaoka Sanchi married Saionji Koichi from the same high school because of the recent death of both her parents. But will they truly fall in love with each other along the way?
A new school, new friends, new romance, and a new face?! After going through major plastic surgery, freshman Mirae is ready for a fresh start. At her university, she becomes recognized as a pretty yet somewhat unnatural “Gangnam beauty.” However, all Mirae wants is to have a normal campus life without being judged by her looks. Will she be able to adjust well to the new environment and find the courage to live the life of her dreams?
By the end of the 1980s Nae wants to become a journalist more than anything and to leave Japan for the country where everything is possible, the United States. Until he is able to fulfill his dream Nae shares his passion for American culture with his friends. Where will the road to America, so near yet so far, lead them, halfway between dream and disappointment? America describes the myth of the American Dream for young Japanese people who sometimes regard their traditions as obstacles between them and their dream. America is especially dear to Keiko Ichiguchi. In this book, she paints an inner portrait of young Japanese’s torments without falling into platitudes yet flirting with realism and tragedy.
Momiji Kuramichi has all the passion in the world for the game of shogi. Unfortunately, he has none of the talent. This is especially frustrating because his brother was a legend in the game. How can he be such a flop? He's developed a unique way of dealing with his frustration—head-butting everything! But you can't headbutt your way to victory in shogi. Is he doomed to wither under the shadow of his brother forever?
