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Yuu Watase's Masterpiece Collection Volume 5 consists of four stories. 1) Mint de Kiss Me - There is a legend that if you kiss the man you like with a mint candy in your mouth, you can become one with your love. Misono is a rather superstitious girl who decides to test this out on Tohno-sensei, a young teacher she has a crush on. Unfortunately for her, she makes a mistake in the attempt to surprise him and instead kisses her fellow classmate Shindou. Of course this would be the time for the legend to work quite literally as Misono’s spirit enters Shindou’s body. 2) Genseika - Chiya goes to school with her friends and witnesses one of them die suddenly as a flower bursts out of him. The three friends had been together since elementary school, the death hitting Chiya and Yutaka hard. When other people begin dying from the flowers, they investigate possible reasons for such usual deaths. To her surprise, she finds answers close to home. 3) Furimuke Romance! - The hero of girls targeted by guys peeking into the locker room, Taka has quite the violent tomboy reputation. But all she wants is for some handsome guy to ask her out. A cheerful street vender, Ryouta gives her a special ring with a heart locket pendent to hold pictures. When two photos are enclosed, romance is in the air. 4) Hang in there Nakago (Part I) - Involves the scenario where Fushigi Yuugi was actually done by real actors. Unfortunately, Nakago (stage name) is a lot more unconfident than the character he plays. At least his one main fan, an unnamed woman with flowers, is there to support him through his worries.
• White Room Angels exist in both black and white. The white angels have pleasant jobs, like making flowers bloom and warning people of danger. The black angels have ugly jobs, like making people sick. When she was a child, the black angel Lily admired the white angels, and now as an adult she's decided she wants to be one. • A Story of Long Ago Long ago, an angel born from a daughter and her mother's lover remembers back to when she was born. • The Dreamer A girl dreams the same dreary dream every night, and meets a blind man who describes a blue sky to her. She searches for the blue sky. • Imagination Envious of the boy who always places first in her art school, she snaps at him, only to realize how wrong she was to do so. • I Dreamt of a Delicious Little Finger Dreaming that in a dream, your body parts turned to bread...! • Cups A depressed girl, seeing that her kitten is pregnant, works so that she will have money to afford kittens, only to find tragedy. • The Edge of the Sky, to the Furthest Horizon A man searches for his true love.
A mangaka summons a spirit that helps him meet deadlines at the cost of his health.
The great demon Mao Dante, exploiting the weakness of a boy exposed to his demoniac influence in the dreams, is awakened from a thousand years sleep. The will of this being, a survivor of an ancient and forgotten civilization , is to wipe out the whole human race. Anyhow nothing is so simple: the motivations of the demon aren't soo wicked as one could think and they will combine with the life of the boy which hangs between nightmare and craziness. In the meanwhile the satanist will fight against the hierarchy of the church to obtain a justice which is, as it's easy to guess, that of the demon Mao. This series didn't have an ending until it's remake in 2002. Nagai took many ideas from Mao Dante into Devilman.
Chinami was born with psychic powers. She has always wanted to join the Psycho Police Force. However, she doesn't know how to control her powers, so she failed the entry exam. However, after being saved from a psychic criminal, she joins the Psycho Merchants instead.
One day, Rise bumps into a little boy named Leo. After she realizes she lost her bento, she searches for it, and Leo had it, so he returns it to her. After that, she asks him questions and discovers that he doesn't know where he lives, his parents' names, his address, or his phone number. She decides that he has amnesia, so she takes him home and after taking a bath together she read him a story, but she fell asleep. After waking up, she discovers another guy in her room, which turns out to be Leo; older and cockier.
Neji wakes up only to find himself with white long hair. He died in 1992 and is revived again 2033. He and the girl he loved, Snow White, died in 1992, however only he managed to wake up with special powers. GERA is responsible for not letting the dead lie, and they even lied to Screw about helping the girl he loves. He destroys GERA and meets up with other people and those those in need, fighting against the people from GERA, claiming back his revenge. He soon is joined by his brother's grandson to seek out more adventures.
Hitomi Miku goes to live in a mysterious house where she meets Rauto, the young and sexy master of the house. There she discovers that the house is full of monsters! Rauto gives her a special necklace and she suddenly transforms and knocks out an evil monster who possesses a girl! What's going on? Becoming Rauto's maid and fiancé? "I'll knock out everyone's heart."
From The Zero Alliance: Wisdom brings good fortune; but wisdom that is too advanced to humans bring destruction. Ox and Ivan, a pair of “wisemen”, are on a journey to collect wisdoms that are in the wrong hands.
Dio is a rock vocalist that got stuck in a battle against the Hell Princes on Earth. In between his glamorous rock & roll life, his pop idol "sister", and being chased by his bitter past, he has to fight the creatures from hell that are trying to kill as many human as possible. This is a start of a Rock and Roll Action Series!
The great demon Almadiel has revived into the modern world, but finds herself trapped in the body of a helpless little girl due to a collar's seal. Somehow, she ends up freeloading off of a priest named Shuuto, but it seems like he fully intends on making Alma his toy... This love(?) comedy 4-koma about a useless demon and a very sadistic priest starts now! (sc: Baka-Updates)
Six stories of love and sweetness. 1) Sickness of the First Love - After a car accident Ayase begins to see hallucinations of his first love,Haigo, who died as the young man he was. An operation is supposed to fix the problem, but doesn't. Seeing a young Haigo during the day, and a grown-up Haigo at night, has Ayase finally gone crazy? 2) The Mystery That Began on the Train - There are two kinds of customers that Soo, as an attendant on a sleeper railway has to deal with: honeymooning couples and weirdos. Teshirogi is definitely one of the latter. The overly dramatic older man seems to be making fun of Soo, but why does he think they've met before? 3) Kitsune Tsuki (Fox Moon) - Tada is the heir of his family and the last fox spirit handler. As a child he saved the spirit Shiro from being abandoned, and Shiro agreed to stay till Tada was an adult. With only two years left to go, Shiro needs to reconcile his feelings for the human boy. 4) Kikusa Yayoi Zukitan - 2nd year piano student Wachi is playing one day when he's suddenly accompanied by a violin. Enter genius violinist Meguriya. When Wachi confesses to Meguriya he doesn't receive a reply, but when two people are so aligned musically, are words really necessary? 5) A Happy Person - When Komiya disappears from school, Oosakaya is sure that Komiya will contact him. They're dating, after all. But four years go by before a dirty and tired Komiya crawls into his bed and promptly falls asleep. He's happy to have Komiya back, but Oosakaya can only wonder how long it will be before the person who says he loves him disappears again... 6) Speechless - A word game between two colleagues offers one a chance to make his feelings known.
