SLICE OF LIFE

From NOIR:This is the story of two siblings, Joo-won and Hee-won, and one man determined to take Hee-won's heart. Both of Joo-won and Hee-won feel isolated after their parents separate due to infidelity and remarry, placing both of them in new families. However, Hee-won's new step brother,Min-hyuk, notices Hee-won's suffering. Is he determined to take care of her, or is there something more?

A collection of short stories.1. SliderWhat happens when a group of misfits run into the god of poverty? Mischief and house break-ins, that's what.2. Mister BojanglesFollows the journey of a Detective looking for a man who went by the name of "Mister Bo".3. GogglesA stubborn young girl comes tumbling into the barren wasteland of the lives of these two men. She can't take off her goggles, and the reason is...4. Tsuki no Ya's Sales and PurchasesTwo friends ride around in a car debating over their used book store.5. Let's go see the OceanA prequel to Goggles the young girl goes to the beach with her grandfather.6. TonkatsuAn old man goes looking for the tonkatsu from his youth by going to every restaurant serving it one by one.

~Spin-Off Stories from School Rumble~The female protagonist is Tenma Tsukamoto, a second year high school girl with no special qualities who has a crush on Oji Karasuma, a stonefaced eccentric. The generally clueless Tenma finds it difficult to confess her love to him. Complications arise with Kenji Harima, the male protagonist and a delinquent, who has developed a crush on Tenma. He too has difficulty confessing to her. The attempts of the two characters to confess their respective loves are running gags seen throughout the series.As the series progresses, the story changes focus to the relationship that develops between Harima and Tenma's close friend, Eri Sawachika, which results from various embarrassing situations involving Eri and Harima. Harima also develops a relationship with Tenma's younger sister Yakumo Tsukamoto, who begins to assist Harima with the development and drawing of his manga.As the story progresses, Harima gets himself into romantic situations with Tenma, the relationship between Tenma and Karasuma progresses, and Eri's and Yakumo's bonds with Harima grow stronger.

A young man comes to Tokyo to become a poet (he actually composes a lot through the book!). But one can not support himself with poetry, so the hero works for a half-legal firm running all possible errands. In the process he meets a lot of people, both men and women, who are strangely interested not in his rhymes, but in his ...body! Absolutely lovely tragicomedy.~by DaRyuAida Rendou, ex-student and would-be poet, struggles to earn a living in the big city. As a talent scout for the adult video firm, M+ Productions, he hunts for potential actresses but it's not enough to pay the rent. So boss Nanazuka offers him extra cash to use his body to seduce men and women alike. Michiru, a spoilt young woman with Yakuza connections, comes up with what appears to be a perfect solution: she'll be Rendou's patron in return for him working as her full-time host. Will Rendou finally be able to write his poetry? Or will he end up corrupted by the amoral dog-eat-dog world around him?~by Lyrebird (Half-Baked)

Hanatori Suimei, a ronin, came to his aunt's house to study for the next university entrance exam. Turn out the place he will be living in is a kindergarden ran by his aunt. There, he meets Aiko, an 8 year-old girl, Haru, a teacher there, and many other children. How will his relationship with Aiko, with Haru turn out?*Includes a side story called Same Sight in volume 1.

Enter Hikawa Naomi, son of a music critic and Ebisawa Mafuyu, a young prodigy pianist who suddenly dissapeared from the music world.

Akio and Yoshino believed all there was left for them was to graduate. But life had different plans for them.Yoshino moves on while Akio stays behind, and something between them begins to change.The story of their youth continues.

In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that sifts through memories of faces and places before settling back on the boy and pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied headdiscussing past times together, memories they have of each other.

From Attractive Fascinante:A forbidden relationship between a sensei and a student connected by chocolates and jazz, a couple who has yet to see the importance of each other's existence as a blessing, a May-December relationship connected by Millefeuille and strawberries, one who struggled to accept his own sexual preference, another who's trying to find peace with himself while carrying the burden of work, love and family and one who finally decided to go for what he wanted. 6 beautiful stories to bring you through the ups and downs of life and love, complete with humor and sweetness.

Have you ever lost anything that was so precious to you, that if it were gone you wouldn't know what to do? For Otokawa Natsuru, that item is a keychain. Hearing from Kazama Miori, a fellow student with renowned psychic powers, that taking something precious can help with relationships, Natsuru takes her keychain on a date with childhood friend Yanagi Eitaro. But somewhere along the date, her precious keychain is lost...

Penned by Masaya Hokazono (Inugami, Watashi wa ai) and illustrated by Court Betten (Prince Standard, Harukaze - Bitterpop), Girlfriend features charming and sexy short stories involving romantic relationships between high-schoolers in contemporary Japan.

Tetsuo Aoki is a 4th year oil painter at a fine arts school. While working in an art supplies store, he meets an older woman named Akira Aizawa, who is the owner of an art gallery. Aizawa becomes interested in Aoki and she begins to pursue him when she catches him painting on the riverside. After such, their relationship begins to develop romantically. Will it develop smoothly? Or will there be unforeseen events?

The story is about a man who can see birds around unfortunate people.

I want you to touch me. I want us to have sex. I want you to like me. I want you to love me. As a brother, and not as a brother. Shimura's contribution to the Fubin BL anthology.

Takeuchi Sachiko's Honey & Honey is a realistic look at an adult lesbian couple living in Japan; to be precise, it's autobiographical. The artwork is rough, but hopefully the plot (and the information the manga imparts) will be enough compensation for those who don't like that style of drawing. The first chapter introduces the two main characters, Sachiko and Masako, and depicts their first meeting.

Love Everyday:Arata and Yamato are going out, but it seems that Yamato doesn't get like getting close to Arata at all. Arata goes crazy over not being able to figure him out!Midnight Delivery:The highlight of every late work night in Sakaki's life is seeing the parcel service man Nishimura drop by the company: the man who already rejected his love confession once before.Late Night Struggle:Miyata is woken up in the middle of the night by a call from his lover.Hands:Graduation is approaching and Murakami Tokuzou has never found the courage to confess his love to his art teacher. And then there's a mysterious love letter in his shoe locker...The Two of Them, Waiting for Spring:Always being teased for looking like his little sister, Sougo is sick of it. One day an old childhood friend of his transfers to his school and he remembers that one uncomfortable incident that happened between them...The Prey I Aim for Won't Escape:Saiga attempts to seduce his infirmary teacher who believes there's nothing better than big chested AV girls.It's HOT! (Continuation of The Prey I Aim for Won't Escape):Saiga and his sensei deal with a way too hot summer night...

A plain but considerate main character falls for a girl who happens to sit next to him in class. Using a group project as an excuse, he gets her number and they go on a date, but everything is ruined because of the unexpected rain and his credit card reaching its limit. Over the course of the story, the main character learns the hardships of love. Original Webcomic

Kanna is an office lady who is at a critical point in her career. For some reason, she is assigned to receive training from the dull and plain Haruki...?

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

From Perpetual Dreams:Through piano lessons a love slowly grows between the cool adult, Goshima-sensei, and one of his students, a high school girl named Kae. The most popular stylish love romance.

Yuan Ge, a director at an advertising firm, is interrupted in the midst of a meeting with the news that his long-estranged wife has passed away. He barely finds time to grieve for her, a woman he had long since ceased to love. Several days later, he is struck by the vision of a young girl on a subway bus, but she disappears the minute he looks away. This is a story of lost love, and of one man's personal journey.

During that time, I might have been dead had it not been for video games. Because so much time has passed, I can finally talk about it... This is an auto-biographical manga about my video game-centered youth! In "Boy's First Love," I tell the story of the girl with whom I bonded over a mutual addiction to video games. In "Candy Shoppe Boy," I describe the utopia that was that old candy shoppe. Where is that shoppe now? "Boy in Line" is the story of my harrowing night spent outside a game store waiting in line to buy Final Fantasy V. Where is my soulmate? Find out in "Sentimental Heart Boy." Where was my favorite place to play games on a rainy day? "Secret Castle Boy" answers that question. All stories are true!!

Slapstick shoujo-ai romantic comedy made special by Hayashiya Shizuru's unique brand of humour; Julia Tachibana, an experienced idol, is infuriated when her boss saddles her with playing senpai' to 15-year-old new recruit Ran Asakawa. But the moment she first lays eyes on the tall, cute blonde who is to be her kouhai, all of that changes

Kyotaro is just an ordinary guy trying to lead an ordinary high school life despite the fact that he is the son of a Yakuza boss. Then comes Kumiko, his half-sister he's never met before, who's looking for a man with a centipede tattoo who killed her loved ones in the past. Will Kumiko and Kyotaro be able to manage their family business? Will Kumiko ever find and avenge the man with the centipede tattoo? And will they be able to control their sexual urges for each other?

Maa-chan's Diary is the first manga created by Tezuka Osamu. He authored it in 1946, and it ran in Shokokumin Shinbun (Mainichi Elementary Schoolchildren's Newspaper).It follows the life of a little preschooler named Maa-chan, who lives in post-war Japan.

It's about young people in postwar Hiroshima getting involved in the black market for weapons. The main character is an A-bomb survivor whose hatred drives him to kill an American black marketeer. He asks the Americans, "Who are you to talk about justice when you massacred hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Hiroshima, in Nagasaki, in the firebombing of Tokyo? Was that what you call justice?"

Mizutani Yoshiki is a 21 year old working as an assistant director for TV shows. His friends from back in high school are all jealous because they think that he's able to rub elbows with celebrities but in reality, he's so far down the TV industry hierarchy that he's more the resident lap dog relegated to doing everyone else's dirty work.One day, he gets assigned to help out with filming for the latest "it" drama. The lead female actress turns out to be none other than Fujiidera Mitsuko, the girl he had a crush on back in high school who's now become one of the hottest rising stars in the acting world.As he quickly finds out though, she's nothing like the shy, quiet girl he knew from back in high school. What happened to her for her to have changed so much?Includes another story??My dear B?F?Ever since the car accident that ended her dreams of becoming a short track athlete, Yumi's been struggling to pick up the pieces and move on. One day, a mysterious boy who calls himself "Jiro" crashes into her in the school hallway. They quickly build up a close friendship---but there's something strange about him that she just can't put her finger on. Who is he really?

Hyunho has been single all her life and falls in love way too easily. But when love strikes again and she falls for the guy at the swimming pool, will her love life finally bloom?

From Operation Boredom:Jin is a rock artist in the making, and in a relationship with Tama, a wanna-be bread maker. However, as Jin's popularity grows, he feels he doesn't have enough time for Tama, and breaks up with her. Tama agrees to call it off... A little too easily. The two go off their seperate ways and decide to meet new people, but is their relationship really truly over? Watch their piping hot love slowly unfold!

Ever since he injured his hand and had to quit playing piano, Yanagawa has had no motivation. Then one day he receives a suspicious cigarette from a girl he knows. A collection of short stories.

Nozomi has married Shinji, an office worker in Tokyo, and is enjoying her newly-wed lifestyle. Until suddenly, Shinji's older brother runs off with his new family, forcing Nozomi to move into Shinji's family's home in the sticks! This is a cheerful manga about the struggles of mother and daughter-in-laws.

Haruse Urara is a little girl who helps her papa with his curry shop. Traveling in the car that makes up his shop, they sell curry all around a small, supernaturally quirky island. Two teenage girls--the rambunctious and cheerful Subaru, and the shyer, less adventurous Yoriko-- also work with Urara and her papa. Each day, they come up with new curry flavors and get to know the strange, friendly, and occasionally magical inhabitants of their tiny island!

Not every person can be happy about having a boyfriend that works as host. Katsuzou is one of those that have something against. To express it he throws at Tomosa (his love interest) a fire extinguisher. Luckily, it didn't kill Tomosa but it seems like he has lost his memory... What in that case will Katsuzou do?

Chihiro is the heir to Tsurumaruya, an old, well-established Japanese confectionary. He is secretly in love with Katsumi, a childhood friend, who is also the manager of the store. His feelings for the over-protective Katsumi keep growing, but Katsumi wants to fulfill the last wish of the previous owner and live his life as the manager.With the two of them unable to connect their feelings, Chihiro is asked to go to Tokyo by an important customer.The lives of the master and manager are bound by family tradition. In addition to this popular series is a story about a nephew who suddenly ends up living with President Mori and two new stories.

In kindergarten, naive Mitsuko began to think of Yoshioto, who was staying at her house, as her papa. And she vowed that she would be Yoshioto's bride when she grew up. Can this dream be fulfilled? In the journey to see him, she slowly understands her own feelings and her heart that refuses to mature, but nonetheless thinks she's already mature. In her search, they gradually melt into one.

The story covers 13 years and begins with a 19-year-old college student named Hana who encounters and falls in "fairy tale-like" love with a "wolf man." After marrying the wolf man, Hana gives birth and raises two wolf childrenan older sister named Yuki who was born on a snowy day, and a younger brother named Ame who was born on a rainy day. The four quietly lived in a corner of a city to conceal the existence of the "wolf children," but when the wolf man suddenly dies, Hana decides to move to a rural town far removed from the city.

Continuing on the story of the Obinata household from Mainichi Seiten, the focus this time is on the two youngest members, Yuuta and Mayumi.Mainichi Seiten series:Vol 1-2 Mainichi SeitenVol 3-4 Kodomo wa TomaranaiVol 5 Children's TimeVol 6-7 Kodomo no Iibun----Aki-chan no IibunVol 8 IsoganaideVol 9-10 Hanaya no Nikai de

Continuation of Touhou Sangatsusei ~ Strange and Bright Nature Deity.

From Wingtip Cafe:Yu has found the stage full of dreams and happiness. Fascinated by magic of the drama, she struggles to be a stage director and a scriptwriter. This is her drama.

Tsuji and Aizawa have been friends for yearsuntil one day, out of the blue, Aizawa kisses Tsuji and confesses that he's in love with him. Tsuji wants to stay just friends, the way things have always been between themafter all, love can be messy, and things are just better keeping the status quobut will they really be able to do so, or is it love-or-nothing between them?

DMG:Love is found in the strangest places and with the most unexpected partners. The men (and cats!) of SENTIMENTAL GARDEN LOVER burst into heart-throbbing bloom!A scruffy stray cat wishes for big hands to hold an abused man, and a cute kitten begs for speech to comfort a broken-hearted stranger. Wander further into the garden, and you'll find close siblings upset by a love rival; a jaded delinquent flustered by a trusting bookworm; an evasive, glasses-hating man; and a president eager to find a weakness in his perfect secretary.For both cat and human, the quest for love is here!

A manga adaptation of an internet thread in which a girl attempts to reveal her "perfect" friend's weakpoint, confessing her love for her in the process, and the relationship between them thereafter.

From Attractive Fascinante:Aiming to become a sensei like his former sensei, Sugiura Sakae came to an elementary school as a contract teacher. Coincidentally, his former sensei, Fukada Ryuuji, is currently teaching here. Ryuu sensei is Sakae's idol as well as his pillar of support. However, the "Ryuu-sensei" he once so admired, is totally different now. Feeling bothered, Sakae slowly realizes that his feelings for sensei have become love. But what about Ryuu-sensei?

30 year-old Odu is feeling left out. His friends are slowly marrying off and with his tiny salary as a video store clerk, he can't afford to go on trips with them when they can all hang out. Oh, and just to top it all off, his popular friend Araragi just found out Odu's most embarrassing secret... Odu's still a virgin at 30, but maybe it's not so bad after all cause Araragi's never been with a girl either?

Kazuma runs across a girl named Emiru crying in the middle of a busy street, desperately crying out for a hug. When he gives her one, he doesn't realize that his life is about to intersect with this girl who is suffering from unusually severe depression-----------------This is the mysterious story of Futaba Kazuma's first patient. At 18, Futaba Kazuma went to school to get his qualification in clinical psychology. While attending school, he boards at a creepy mansion, which even has a butler. Also living there is a strange young woman called Emiru. She is suffering from a terminal illness of the heart --- despair. This deep psychological problem has eerie physical effects as well: her hair has turned white, her body temperature is well below normal, and her blood pressure is also bizarre. No psychologists or counselors have been able to help cure her of this problem. Will Kazuma be able to determine the cause of Emiru's despair and save her before it's too late? [tethysdust]---- From MangaHelpers

Kyoumei suru Echo a collection of short stories: Runner's High (released and translated by Lililicious, Tsubomi vol 1) Unbalance (released and translated by Lililicious, Tsubomi vol 3) Asymmetry (released and translated by Lililicious, Tsubomi vol 5) Lonesome Echo Part A (released and translated by Lililicious, Tsubomi vol 6) Lonesome Echo Part B (released and translated by Lililicious, Tsubomi vol 7) Lonesome Echo Part C (released and translated by Lililicious, Tsubomi vol 8)

[From AnimeNewsNetwork]:Tending to his sister, who is paralyzed after a fall from a tree, Tatsuya Kitazaki wants revenge. Yet, just as he is about to cut down the tree, a strange and seemingly ageless girl, Sara Nishikujo, appears to stop him. What's more, the girl seems to have the ability to communicate with plants - and she tells Tatsuya the tree's version of his sister's accident. This marks a watershed in Tatsuya's life, as everything begins to change.