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A collection of historic short stories, each associated with a karuta card. The stories revolve around the red-light district of Yoshiwara, in Edo. 1) Kimori Okuma is a good-natured, sweet girl, but she is unable to find a husband due to her weight. One day, a samurai defends her from being publicly mocked. Is this samurai her chance to find happiness? 2) Kanrobai After her father ritually commits suicide, Asagi finds herself in much reduced circumstances. Some of the girls who work with Asagi bully her, and the high-class airs she puts on don't help the situation. All she wants is a way to get back to the lifestyle to which she was accustomed, but all she has is mistreatment and the company of a strange man trapped under a barrel... 3) Maigoishi Tama is a lost child, and she's taken in temporarily by a family who already has a son, Shirou. Tama can't wait to find her beloved father again. However, finding the place where she belongs may not be so simple for little Tama. 4) Akaishinyo Seiichi is the only one left to protect his princess, Miya. He wants what's best for her, regardless of their feelings for one another. But can he really tell what that might be?
[Otome Cafe:] Ao Ringo Kiss is about a girl who is a big fan of the idol group G-A and often writes letters to Satoya. One day on a class trip to Tokyo he suddenly appears while she's been confessed to by a boy and takes her away.
From Turtle Paradise: It's not that she tries to keep to herself, exactly: It's just that everyone seems to look right through her! Naturally, Sakuya Tohno has a complex about it. She says she's just like air: ever present, but never seen. All she wants is a friend, but building relationships isn't exactly easy for someone who is, for all intents and purposes, invisible. But then she hears a legend about the "Thousand-Year Sakura" and how, if one makes a wish beneath its perpetually-blossoming boughs, it's sure to come true. So in a moment of desperation, she races to the tree, only to find four very attractive boys waiting for her... And at that moment, beneath the cherry blossoms of the ever-blooming Thousand-Year Sakura, something incredible happens!
From Wingtip Cafe: Rina is always busy studying and working to support herself. After the depressing news that she again lost first place in the school rankings to Julius, an expressionless guy who is her arch rival, Rina finds Milch, a little fairy girl. Later, she meets Sylvie, a Fairyland knight who has come to rescue Milch.
Rin is always sending messages with her phone and doesn't speak to anyone. Even though she's like that, Taka got interested in her and keeps on following her. But why doesn't she want to look at him...? And who is this mysterious person with whom she always exchanges messages with...?
Even after all these years, you’re still the only one I think of… I’ll put all of my feelings into this letter for you.
Although she doesn't get along with people very well Kanoko considers herself a perfect "observer". Her hobby is observing the students in her third year junior high class and keeping a journal of the classroom drama. But what will happen when Kanoko becomes involved with some of her classmates? Sequel:Koi Dano Ai Dano
The summer vacation...with a teacher in a vacant classroom. It is a sweet painful love affair that a girl often (o rly?) experiences. This is the sixth issue of the best-selling Cheese selection. Nine other stories are included besides the title story written by Sugi Emiko.
"Wedding Theme" is a historical romance, the setting is same as that of the "Romance of The Three Kingdoms." This manga creates a entirely different image of Zhou Yu who is portrayed more as a bad guy in "Romance of The Three Kingdoms." But, Zhou Yu is dashing, handsome, and young when he meets the heroine of this manga...
1) "Easy Chocolate" is about a guy who thinks women are annoying, but there's a particularly persistent one! Will she succeed in winning his heart? 2) "Heavy Clouds, No Rain" is about a young couple that suddenly gets a visit from a stranger who demands consolation money! 3) "Broach" is basically a story revolving a cat that a couple picked up once. 4) "From the Cabbage Kingdom '03: Hesitation" is about a reluctant but budding teenage love between an unlikely pair.
From Houkago Scanlations: Shiki threw everything away for the sake of revenge. But at the new school where she disguises herself as a male, she meets 4 popular rich guys... Haru (spring) the prince, Natsu (summer) the bishounen, Aki (autumn) the womanizer, and Fuyu (winter) the cold-hearted genius. What awaits Shiki? And will she get her revenge...?