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From MangaHelpers: Life does not always go as planned. Noriko fell in love, got engaged, and imagined a bright future. Instead, her fiance fell in love with her older sister, Eiko. Noriko refused to let go, and they ended up getting married despite this significant problem. Some years of marriage and two children later, Noriko became a single mother. She returned to her family home, with her daughters Eri and Madoka. Her life continued, alongside Eiko (who ended up never marrying or leaving home), and their now elderly mother. Years later, Eri and Madoka are entering the time of life where they have their own problems with love. This manga follows the lives of women in this house. [tethysdust]
Hiro has two loves: baseball and porn. But due to an elbow injury he gives up baseball choosing a school with no baseball team. His childhood friend Hikari attends a different school with baseball ace Hideo and the two wish Hiro had not given up baseball. Hiro joins the soccer team but meets Haruka, a very clumsy girl, who is manager of the unofficial baseball club. When the soccer team challenges the baseball club to a game, with hopes of humiliating them, the baseball club nearly loses until Hiro, disgusted by the soccer team`s arrogance, switches to the baseball club.
From DMP: Katsuomi and Tsurugi are fierce rivals in the Japanese sport of fencing known as kendo. Their competitive egos and contrasting fighting styles clash, and yet Katsuomi gradually finds himself attracted to the keen, graceful Tsurugi. However, he hesitates to pursue his desire, fearing that doing so will surely give his foe Tsurugi the upper hand in competition. Although Katsuomi's love for his adversary soon becomes overwhelming, Tsurugi finds himself torn between reciprocating Katsuomi's love and maintaining his pride as a competitive rival. The competition intensifies into a love triangle when Tsurugi's young brother steps in to pursue the source of his brother's angst.
After losing her parents in an accident, Chouko locked away her emotions. The one who promised to look after her until she graduated from high school was the novelist Kei, a distant relative. He also cradles darkness in his heart, and as her graduation approaches, his newest novel "Hana" (Flower) is announced, a work charged with his feelings!? This is a romance manga spun with emotion. Devastated by the loss of her parents, 12-year-old Chouko loses her will to live. After staying with several different relatives, she settles in with a handsome young writer named Kei and finds solace in tending to the flower garden. Kei's a solitary person who doesn't quite know how to deal with this emotional young woman, but Chouko's dedication eventually leads him to accept her presence. Will their mutual affection grow into something more? (from the CMX website)
From Pink Rose Scans Hiraku's a slightly moody college student who's been having a hard time getting used to his new big-city life. A flamboyantly gay guy's latched onto him like a leech and follows him around wherever he goes, and a girl who he had a one-night stand with comes up to him telling him that she's pregnant and demands money from him so that she can go and get an abortion. Amidst all this chaos, one glaring question crystallizes in the mind of all those around him ---who is it that he really loves? Also contains - いちごの生活 (Ichigo no Seikatsu) - しつもんしよう。(Shitsumonshiyou)
A short by an Avant-garde artist, Okudaira Yla.
1-3) Cross Voice, Scandalous Noise, & Quick Summer A student, Fukuoka, finally tells his feeling to his classmate Amano. But did Amano really hear it or not? 4) And He Flies Down Tired office worker with acrophobia finds someone who is going to committing suicide on the roof of the building. He takes the guy to his house and becomes intimate with him but can't accept his love. Then the guy suddenly vanishes and our hero climbs up the building to find him again...
Mini Drama: Toast This is a story of a boy who dreams of being with a girlfriend on the night of the first snowfall of the year and a girl who happened he happened to cross paths with on the night of the first snowfall of the year. The girl, however, mistakes him for a pickpocket when he tries to return the wallet that she dropped. Already in a bad mood from a breakup, the girl mysteriously gives him a piece of toast and leaves him standing there in awe. Was it fate or coincidence that those two happened to meet each other on the night of the first snowfall of the year?
From An Endless Story: On her way to a part-time job, 18 year old Shouko Abe bumps into an old high school acquaintance, Maki, now a popular shoujo manga artist. Unlike Maki though, Shouko is unable to hold onto a steady job. When she is suddenly fired from her job, she is at a total loss, until she receives a phone call from Maki...
From Eclipse Scans Aram is a high school student who lives with her food stylist aunt. Her parents had to live out of the country but her kind aunt was willing to move in to take care of her. One day, Aram and her aunt witnessed a cooking show on TV that ended in catastrophic broadcasting blunder. Out of her curiosity, Aram went to look for the patissierie who was on that show.. which will lead her to change the perspective on her life and future.
Tsuge Kazuma is arguably having the worst moment of his life. A chance meeting with the ever timid Nagano leads Tsuge to rely on a his kindness.
Just some high school girls talking at the food court.
