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A boy who can see music... A man rescues an instrument from a museum... And a boy hears the first rhythm... These stories and more are included in this collection of music-related one-shots from the mangaka of Oh, My Sweet Alien! and Why Not Be My Dog.
Whoever wins... we lose.
Silent manga. Available free on author's website: http://www.hasimotosuzu.org/manga/
Imai, who belongs the baseball club, has feelings for his clumsy kouhai, Hikita. Hikita, whose face falls into a continuous scowl when he's nervous... That kind of Hikita is cute, nothing else to it. "When you're this cute, I'm the one who has to be careful..." Even while touching in this helpful senpai's heart of hearts, he wants to touch Hikita's naked body...?!
You're too clingy. I only saw you as a friend with benefits. With that cruel line and a broken watch, Yudai broke up horribly with Chiaki seven years ago. Unable to forget him even though he pushed him away himself, Yudai keeps Chiaki's watch with care. One day, the two meet again... The time that had stopped starts moving again, together with their lonely hearts.+
Endou Kiku, a delinquent lone wolf, is pissed off with the world and everyone in it. Until he meets Senji and Sanji, who were just like him until they met each other. This one volume story follows Kiku as he finds out what it means to have friends and not be alone in the world, while also kicking ass and taking names in the meantime. This is the original Takahashi Hiroshi delinquent manga, predating his more famous works Crows, QP and Worst.
One-shot about an ordinary Japanese man who decides to tell his parents he's gay, and the family drama that follows. An interesting (short) look inside the Japanese closet, where many stereotypes, social prejudices, and pressure to keep up appearances and be what others expect you to be still weigh heavily. This story show us a realistic experience on being homosexual in Japan. Author Go Fujimoto received an honorable mention at the 51st Shogakukan Newcomer Comic Grand Prize in 2002 for this piece
From Tokyopop: Meet Kilala, an ordinary girl who loves all the Disney Princesses. When she awakens a sleeping prince named Rei, she magically gains the power of the princesses! Rei is searching for the missing princess of his world, and has a magical tiara that will lead him to her. But before Kilala can help him find the missing princess and restore peace to his world, Kilala's best friend, Erica, is kidnapped by mysterious men! So, with the help of the magical tiara and Rei, Kilala sets off on a quest to find her!
Story: Detective Akira Yusa sees his brother Shinichi killed before his very eyes. He spots a young girl, Kilico Sakaki, at the scene of the crime and instinctively knows that she did it. After a bloody fight, Akira arrests her. Trained as a professional assassin by her stepfather, Toshio Sakaki, in everyday life, Kilico acts like an ordinary college student. Her arrest is treated as a mistake when she manages to hide all evidence of Shinichi's murder. Akira's subsequent investigation of Kilico runs into difficulty when he finds that it's too big for a police detective to handle. Her encounter with Akira makes Kilico remember her terrible past and have doubts about being an assassin. Kilico goes to Taiwan to train as a jewel connoisseur, the Sakaki family's legitimate business, behind which they hide all their illegitimate business. Fired for taking his investigation too far, Akira follows Kilico to Taiwan. The two meet again and become very close, as they get involved in the internal conflicts within the Tenrenban gang, Taiwan's biggest Mafia group.
