Saturday, November 27, 2010

Collection Romance

Risou no Kao wo Motsu Otoko










The Guy With An Ideal Face

Noriko wants just one thing: "The Man with a Perfect Face"! To her friends' complete and utter shock, Noriko finds Takurou-kun, a man who meets all her unrealistic expectations. They go on a date, they kiss, and have what could be considered a perfect time, but then Noriko sees the real face of Takurou...!?

I'm Gonna Get Jealous
A girl who sees no point in becoming jealous learns first-hand how it could happen.

Love Slave
Kanano isn't sure what to make of her relationship with her upperclassman Ooba Yoshiya. After she first confessed to him, she hounded him until he agreed to date her, but the relationship seems to be on his terms, and poor, obediant Kanano worries that her love is one-sided. Then, Kanano learns that Yoshiya has a past with a girl who has her same face...? Who does Yoshiya think of when he's out with Kanano? How come he touched his old girlfriend but won't touch Kanano...!? Contains strong language.

I Wanna Get Lovey-Dovey
Shihomi has had a crush on Sakayori since the day of high school entrance exams, when she got lost and he helped her. He's got a good heart, but he's extremely rough around the edges, and that's what's making it so difficult for Shihomi to confess. It took her two months just to say "good morning" to him, and every time she does, he seems to be in an incredibly bad mood afterwards? What's the source of Sakayori's attitude problem??

Well Excuse Me For Being Trendy
Mayu already has a boyfriend, but she can't help admiring Shuusaku's dashing good looks, which are increasing his popularity by the minute. It doesn't matter if his personality is as one-dimensional as his expressionless face, because it's looks that count! By chance, Mayu happens to learn about Shuusaku's secret crush -- and his expression is so darn cute when he's confronted about it that Mayu feels compelled to help him win his love. But Mayu's a trend whore at heart, and falling for Shuusaku seems to be getting fashionable...!?

Love Lesson ABC













Love Lesson Abc- Watanabe Hitomi has the perfect look, she is pretty and has a nice body. Her classmates automatically assume that she is experienced and constantly come to her for advice. Little did they know that Hitomi has no experience in dating. She was also dumped by her boyfriend because she wouldn't sleep with him. Hitomi wants to know more about dating so she decides to date the schools most popular boy to gain experience But will it just be an experience or she will get more out of it?

That Guy I Met, I Kissed-
The female protagonist gets kissed by a random drunk guy on the train. It was her first kiss so she was a bit affected by it. One day at a club she runs into the guy who had kissed her on the train. It turns out that when he's drunk, he'll kiss anybody. She drags him outside the club and tells him he owes her for kissing her. They meet up the next day and the female protagonist makes him promise her that he won't drink anymore and kiss people he doesn't like.

The Best Feeling-
The female protagonist has divorced parents and a mom who is never home. She tends to be sex friends with guys. One day her friend from childhood comes back to her school. He had promised her he would always protect her before he left. Will he still keep his promise?

Delicious Darling
This protagonist's date dumps her telling her she smells like the kitchen. She's a hard worker who loves cooking and cleaning. She's devastated that her date did that to her. A guy overhears the dump scene and laughs and her and later brings her over to his house since she was crying.

Hard Na Choukyoushi













Plain House
Minori wanted to be an interior designer so she applied for a job at “Sunhouse Residence” company. During the welcoming karaoke party she took the initiative and sang a song that the director was good at. As a result she was transferred to the show house, which proved to be also the residence of one interesting guy.

Love Trainer
Asami, who hates dishonesty, often causes troubles in the company where she's working. This time, she gets a client's director angry, and she receives a letter of transfer for the fourth time. She is appointed to a post in the department of technological development where the elite and honest staff are working. Kayato is her boss and hard trainer. She dislikes him, and wants to go back to the post as a receptionist.

Organic Boys
On the 20th birthday of Yuu-chan her best friends confess to her. Who will she choose? And how will she react?

Sakura Falling After 5
Rika had no time and no personal life. She worked everyday at her office until 5 and then she helped her father with his shop. One day an university student comes to eat at the shop and this is only the beginning.

Time Two













When you're in love, life feels like it's been multiplied two times!

These five short stories of budding high school romance explore the confusion and exhilaration of falling for someone new!

Love at First Touch
When Eri was feeling down, her classmate Kohei patted her head. Ever since that day Eri has liked Kohei and has been attracted to his hands. But Kohei is a big jokester and Eri just can't seem to get close to him.

Expiration Date 2001
Miwa has always liked Kenta, a boy from her track team. In the summer of 1999 he gave her a can of soda that had an expiration date of July 2001. Miwa thought it would be nice if by that date he was her boyfriend. So she treasured the can of soda ever since.

Second Impression
Haruka is in the student committee and she has to go to school during the summer. She was walking past a flower bed when a boy accidentally splashed her with water. Intimidated, she quickly retreated. The reason being that the boy was Naoki, a popular guy that had given her a cold impression before. But soon after they start talking about the sunflowers growing in the flower bed and her first impression changes.

Frequency
Kaori has to sit next to Sawaki, the class rep, when seats were changed. She doesn't like him because he seems so perfect. She bumps heads with him by mistake when the desks were being moved and got a bump on her head. After that she started hearing Sawaki's thoughts, and he's not so nice in his head!

Baby Universe
Kengo sees a girl called Saki around. She now has a reputation for dating married men but when they were in middle school, Kengo and Saki spent an unforgetable Christmas night summoning UFOs. Kengo calls out to Saki one day because he wants to see if she's the same girl as before.

Download
http://www.mediafire.com/?yltavjvmuwk

Underground Kids













Underground Kids
Everyday Kimi finds that her belongings are being searched and destroyed. She feels prying eyes watching her every move. Scared and frustrated, she decides to contact a secret organization within the school;The Underground Kids. This organization has only 3 people and they're obsessed with money. Can they help her solve her problem? ~LB

Fake
Asumi Miki is annoyed because all the girls go "Kyaa!" when thy see the gorgeous Disciplinary Committee. She's an honor student and follows the rules: Braided hair, glasses, tucked in uniform and textbooks so she wont get involved in any way with the Disciplinary Committee. But since her records are clean, she has been invited to be one of the Disciplinary Committee! ~LB

Summer Love Paradise
Ichiha's been dumped 4 times so to cheer her up, her friends bring her to the beach. She almost drowns and the lifeguard Kouta saves her....

Yubiriki








Pinky Promise

Asako lives her life day-to-day. Acutely aware of how lonely she is. That all starts to change when she meets Hongo, a boy who thought she was trying to commit suicide and tried to stop her. They form a bond and find how much fun life really is. Until Asako finds out about Hongo's past.

Cuckoo Child

Sixty Days

The Prince Who Fell In Love













Koi ni Ochita Oujisama (The Prince Who Fell In Love)

"Just thinking about it makes me want to cry. Do you know the kind of love I'm talking about?" Shiho lives next door to a prince. Toshiki-sama is the heir of a Noh music master. They shouldn't have been anything more than childhood friends, but...

Cinderella no Tegami (Cindrella's Letter)
Mashita has always been annoyed by one particular guy, in all her years of going to one school, and it just so happens he's the only person she knows in her new class.

Busu (The Ugly One)
Maki got a little arrogant, thanks to her looks when she was a child, and her confidence takes a downhill ride when Hideo-kun, her crush, calls her ugly due to peer pressure.

Iroha ni Hoheto
Kiyomi goes to her childhood friend; Atsushi, for love advice; whose face she says she's gotten sick of.

Pizzicato
A girl who has no talent, Miki, has a crush on an up and coming violinist who attends her school, and thinks it's a waste of time to tell him her feelings, since she might be moving soon.

All these stories are amazing! I wanted to run from the overwhelming feelings the stories created in me many times!
Favorite: Story 2
Least Favorite: Story 3

The One I Love
(Watashi no Suki no Hito)













Drawing on CLAMP's own personal experiences, The One I Love provides insight both into the creators' own lives, and into the oft-elusive concept of Love itself.

This intimate collection of short stories and essays doesn't skirt issues at the heart of the matter such as insecurity, honesty, distance, independence, age, and - of course - marriage.

This one-volume anthology comprises 12 individual stories, each of which consists of seven pages of manga and two pages of prose.

SOS











Will anyone answer love's distress call? Find out in this funny and poignant collection of short stories!

1) SOS -
The dark side of the search for love is revealed when high school matchmakers confront first a violent client and then a female stalker who has to learn to cope without the object of her obsession.

2) Organ -
A pipe organ is discovered in the debris after the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. What does that have to do with the dreams of two young people in the Taisho era?

3) The Easy Life -
Portrays the paradoxical love of a girl whose boyfriend treats her like a servant, or, as she complains, like she's his mom

Story 1 was entertaining. Story 2 is almost guaranteed to make you cry. Story 3 is hilarious! It's really a must read collection. :)

Himitsu Kichi













All these stories deal with a secret. Cute, fluffy, hilarious! A good read :) Highlight the parentheses for the secret spoiler. Except the last story, which is pretty much straight forward.

Story 1- Boyfriend's Secret
This story deals with a short first year HS girl who has gotten herself a college boyfriend. But he's hiding a secret... (her college bf is actually in elementary school!)

Story 2- My Own Secret
A tomboy girl saves a girly boy from some bullies. They happen to go to school together. The tomboy girl has a secret though...and the girly boy discovers it! (Tomboy girl is in love with the school pretty boy idol who is even in magazines)

Story 3- Girlfriend's Secret
This story deals with a rock band. One of the rock band members has a girlfriend. Another rock band member (the singer) secretly like the other guy's girlfriend. But it seems like everyone in this story is keeping secrets from one another... (The girlfriend actually wears tons of make up to look pretty. The band singer actually sucks at singing but no one has told him because they only like his looks.)

Story 4- My Secret
This story deals with a serious boy who has an embarrassing dad he tries to keep a secret from his school friends. His dad goes on a lot of embarrassing tv comedy shows.

Fushigi na Chikara de













Story 1- My Mysterious Power
The first story is really cuute! It's about an optimistic girl who says she has a mysterious power of wishing for something and getting it. On the train to school she is "saved" by dark haired boy when he thought she was getting harassed by another boy (who turns out was just her childhood friend). She follows the dark haired boy around (who goes to her school) because she has fallen for him. She wishes for him to like her back. Will her wish get granted?

Story 2- Drop Kiss
This story is about girl who likes her sempai ever since he was nice to her at the school entrance ceremony and gave a mint flavored candy. A while after that incident, their paths cross and he starts to notice her more often. Can this clutzy and love struck girl get her sempai to like her?

Story 3- Secret Paradise
In the story, the female protagonist gets a job just so she can meet a boyfriend material guy. She accidentally bumps into a member of the student body government at work and freaks out because part time jobs are prohibited by her school. She just quickly runs away from him. At school, her path crosses with the same student body government guy and he asks her if they've met before. She stutters a no and he says that she must be his destined girlfriend then because he feels that he's met her in a past life!

Story 4- Memory of a Kiss
In this story, the female protagonist has a male best friend who she is in love with. He, however, once told her that he didn't see their relationship as a male female one. He even encouraged her to go out with another guy who liked her and who is now her current boyfriend. But one night her best friend kisses her!

All the stories are light and optimistic. The heaviest was the last one. Ah~ HS romances :)

Beautiful People












Beautiful People is a manga comprised of six profound and thought-provoking short stories. It includes a tale of a vampire who raises a child as her own, a story of a young man who copes with an alcoholic father amongst other problems with the help of an online friend and four others short stories.

Tenshi no Pocket











Angel's Pocket

When Sui refuses to date a stalker guy at school, he's insistent to the point of being scary. Sui starts to run, but then slips on the stairs... and lands on top of Taki -- the school delinquent! The stalker is still in pursuit, so Sui makes like she's going to run again, but Taki grabs her and kisses her!? The stalker gives up... and although one of Sui's problems has gone away, she now has a whole new one: Taki demands compensation for saving her. She has to become his slave...!? It's out of the frying pan and into the fire for poor Sui!

To You, the Avante-gardes
High school senior Mishima Kasuga hates the fact that she can't say no to anyone's requests... especially now that it has attracted the 200% weirdo junior Ikeda Tomoo to her. Rumor has it that when he wants something, he'll chase it to the ends of the earth. Can Kasuga find the nerve to say no to him? Or, better question: Does she want to...? She's going to have to figure it out soon, because graduation is coming up, and there's an entire junior class of girls who've developed crushes on Tomoo since Kasuga punched the glasses off his surprisingly handsome face!

I Have Love
Minazuki Kaoru, age 17, is a high school junior who still makes embarrassing mistakes like a freshman, but this one has got to be her worst... she accused the handsome goateed guy of being a pervert, ran away from him, and then found out that he's Nachi Takeshi, age 22, her new student teacher! He wanted to be a novelist, but turned to teaching when he realized he had no talent for it. All the girls in class are attracted to his boyish charm, yet he seems to lavish his most immature moments on Kaoru. In spite of herself, Kaoru wants to know more about Nacchan's world, through his novels. What will it take to make him open his books -- and his heart! -- to her...?

9 o'Clock Bomb
Sakada Mayu was saved from a tight spot on the street by Nagato Hiroshi, a cute boy from her class, and then got a little too obvious about her attraction to him. That's when they were stopped by a photographer and asked to participate in a "best couple" competition. Mayu was hesitant, Nagato wasn't -- and they won first prize! They're not really a couple, but now Mayu wants to change that... She gathers all her courage and coerces him into going with her to the fireworks festival at 9:00 PM -- and something's bound to explode!

Megane ni Koishite









Megane ni Koishite

Yuzuko who loves guys in glasses breaks the class' fearsome Maki-kun's contacts by mistake. When he has to wear glasses for the time being, he turns out to be her ideal glasses boy. So she enters him in the Glasses Boy Contest to win money for his new contacts.

Yuki no Waltz
Michiru's parents died in a car crash and now she has found out she has a rich grandfather. The grandfather disowned Michiru's mother when she eloped with a poor man. Michiru's parents left a lot of debt and the grandfather is willing to pay it off for Michiru if she comes to live with him. Now Michiru has a grandfather that hates her, a strict butler, and relatives that want to get rid of the new family heir, her.

Sekai no Owari ni Dakishimete
A romantic retelling of the volcanic incident in Pompeii

Kawaii Hito
Math teacher, Suruga-sensei has a secret relationship with his student, Kimura Hatoko! However, Yuzuko knows his secret... But is it really what he thinks it is?!

No comments:

Post a Comment