When did love start? Kisses tasting of cigarettes. The view from the veranda. In this small corner of town, they gradually fall in love. Tsubaki, who recently moved into town due to a job transfer. A gay couple living next door, Toyahashi and Takatsuki. And Tsubaki’s elusive senior, Azuma. While bewildered in an unfamiliar surrounding, Tsubaki’s naturally rigid heart slowly unfastens for the “first time”, and he starts knowing what love is.
One night, while working part-time at a bar, Leo encounters an absolutely wasted customer. At the end of Leo’s shift, he finds the customer slumped at the entrance to the bar and reluctantly decides to bring him home to let the man sleep it off. The next thing he knows, he has a lapful of drunken stranger making out with him.
From Day of the River: Crooked Star: Endou Makoto and Tachibana Aya are the best of friends. They always spend the night at each other's houses, staying up and talking until dawn. However, during their third year of high school, these two friends discover that they've been keeping secrets from each other...? Is It Okay?: Kana is the only daughter of a family that runs a bath house in the suburbs. She is a little on the masculine side, but it doesn't really matter... even if the boy she likes only sees her as a friend, it's okay, right? But soon, a university student who gets a job at the bath house begins to change her... Also includes Youth Rhapsody.
A collection of short stories about supernatural occurrences that take place in our everyday…
From Rain over Paradise After breaking up with his girlfriend, Natsuno is homeless and has to crash at his office. When he happens to meet his old school friend and admirer, Ui, at a wedding ceremony, he hopes to find shelter at his place. But Ui has lost his memory after an accident, and doesn’t remember Natsuno anymore...!
New nurse Li Xiao Guo chose Jiayu Hospital because it had a higher salary, her family had a lot of debt. Just a few days after she went to work, she suffered from unfortunate things such as her parents being scammed and going into more debt, her cell phone getting robbed, losing money for being late for work, and dereliction of duty. She wanted to sell her blood, but a special patient came to the hospital. Because of a special blood type, the two of them have formed a bond over blood...
Mio Keisuke is a high-schooler who leads a rather dull, boring life. He can’t keep a girlfriend—because being a kept man is too much of a hassle, and he can’t bring himself to fall in love and want to please his woman. Then—one day he seeks shelter from a sudden downpour under the awning of an apartment owned by Yugi Kakeru… and suddenly his life isn’t so dull anymore as he finds himself falling for his aloof and yet obviously lonely friend.
Mitsuki Amahara, a fervent follower of gymnastics, participates in his initial contest during the final year of his tenure in middle school. Upon witnessing Sakura Dogase, an esteemed club member, executing an awe-inspiring routine, his fervor transforms into admiration. With a goal to elevate his skillset, what measures will Mitsuki undertake to attain his objectives?
From MangaUpdates: A beast tamer without a familiar, Lock had been supporting his friends in an S Rank party until they finally decided to use him as a decoy and abandoned him. After a conversation with the Fenrir his party was attacking, it chose to serve him as his familiar. By using and expanding the [Mini Monster Garden], Lock gathers more and more familiars to form the strongest- and cutest- party ever. Behold, a fantasy where men and beasts go on adventures together.
Youkadou, a young man working at a certain office is in love with Seiyuu, an extremely beautiful coworker of his. She is in a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend, but she agrees to go out with him with one condition: they'll never have sex.