First Love - Anata ga Watashi o Sabishiku Saseru

Azayoshi lives in an empty world, there is no hope or happiness, all she wants is a person who will never leave her side. Suddenly Ai steps into her dark world. To her he was her love. But what will happen when he discovers Azayoshi's past? Why is she keeping secrets from Ai?

Essentially, Azayoshi sleeps with men for money. She becomes attracted to Ai who is nice to her and decides to stop sleeping with men for money. When she gets home one say, her mom's new bf is one of Azayoshi's old clients and to top it all off, his son is Ai. It was an interesting manga but not that great. The tone of the volume reminded me of Confidential Confessions and the like.

Collection Group

Tsumi Koi












Chapter 1
• Tsumi Koi (Sinful Love)
“If you want me to stay quiet, then have an affair with me too.”

Yashiro witnessed her classmate Maki, who is extremely popular with the girls, with a girl who wasn’t his girlfriend. Tired of her uninspiring days Yashino suggested that she become Maki’s “lover”, but because of these circumstances she finds herself being charmed by him and she can’t stop herself from falling in love with him…!?

Chapter 2
• Until I Fall in Love

About twin sisters, Tae is the older twin and Rie is the younger. One day, Rie begs Tae to switch places with her. Rie has a crush on a boy who sits next to Tae. Finally Tae agrees. In Rie's class, Tae is surprised to discover that Rie sits next to a cute guy, the one on the soccer team that she saw after school a few days ago. Then, Tae has a good time sitting with the boy. He's funny and nice. When he invites Tae to watch him play soccer, Tae agrees, but then she realizes that he invites her as Rie.

Chapter 5
• Love Spell

Momoka and a friend are standing at their classroom window, checking out some cute senpai boys. Momoka prefers boys with shorter hair. Her friend says that Shibahara isn't Momoka's type. Shibahara is a boy in their class, and he has long hair that obscures his face. The next day, Momoka finds out that Shibahara arrives to class with a new, short, haircut! And wow, he is actually very cute! Momoka can’t believe this. Could he had overheard her conversation yesterday? Or is this a coincidence? Could he really have cut his hair for Momoka? Momoka suddenly finds herself very aware of Shibahara. Is she falling for him?

I liked Love Spell. The second story is really bad. And the first one was okay.

Shuu 7

• Shuu 7 (7 Days of Week)

Kae likes Seto from her summer job, but when she's about to confess she accidentally sees Seto confessing to another woman who turns out to be married. After Kae sees Seto turned down and heart-broken she bids him farewell...and meets again in school...will Kae finally confess to Seto...? will Seto whose field of vision is narrow recognize Kae...?

• Love Chuu (In Love)

Saya is an energetic girl who loves high places, but is always teased by Ryou Natsume. Although Saya considers him as a "Black Devil King" she loves him all the same, but is afraid to confess in fear of being ridiculed and teased by him...

• Koi no Kajitsu (Fruit of Love)

Yuzuhara had to quit the track and field team due to an injury and is down because of that...then one day Tooda Shuuhei pops in at the window where she sits and asks her to date him...although shocked Yuzuhara agrees him to see at her window seat for a month until her seat changes...but on the last day before her seat changes Shuuhei doesn't turn up...

• Sweet Little Winter

Kaoru has liked Nayuki since childhood. Nayuki has only thought of him as a little kid whom she takes care of, but when she found out that Kaoru was going to go to another high school, Nayuki was surprised when she realized she didn't want Kaoru to go...

I really liked this collection. The stories were all sweet.

Akuma na Juuboku














Chapter 1
There is a place where anyone can be a princess, it's a Hime cafe, the place where the heartbroken Shiori meets the servant Kisaragi, Kind and cool... a real dream boy, or so she thought. But in real life he's mean and bullies her. There's even rumors about him being a former yankee as well.

He's an employee at the cafe and acts completely different at school, but while she is always being teased by the normal Kisaragi, she just can't stop her love for him... Aside from the title, it's a sweet love story for girls.

Kataomoi no Mukougawa

• Kataomoi no Mukougawa
Azusa knew the boy in the library was already in love... So what can she do when she starts to fall for him?

• Ano Kado o Magareba
It’s summertime, and Kako is sick of the heat. She is feeling restless, and she wants to find a guy to fall in love with. Kako is actually desperate enough that she tells herself that she will try to fall for the next guy to walk through a nearby doorway. Fortunately, the guy who appears is really cute! Kako doesn’t know him. Can she fall for this guy? But already, her heart is pounding…

• Tenshi ga Kuretamono
Miyuki is working at a convenience store. One day, on Christmas Eve, an interesting guy comes in and asks for job at the store. They do, but the hours are really bad (evening shift). That-disappointed-guy then talks to Miyuki and knows she's single. The guy suddenly asks her to go out with him! She feels she can't go out with a stranger, no matter how cute he is, and no matter how persistent he is, because this stranger is just a 2nd year in High Schoo!

• Bitou na Koi
Chiaki is a tomboyish girl. Really though, Chiaki is everyone’s friend, and is treated by the guys in her class as “just one of the guys.” Until now, Chiaki has been fine with this, but she is starting to fall for one of her classmates. Will he ever see her as a girl, or is she doomed to be totally not his type?

• Kimi to Natsu no Aizu
Hyori was forced to be a manager in the baseball club during the summer by his father who is the coach. She doesn't want this, but her friend Yoshimura is on the team, so at least she can see him. Yoshimura introduces her to the pitcher of the team, Sumida-senpai. As they get to know each other, they really hit it off. But this doesn't make Yoshimura happy...

Hatsukoi Hakusho














1. Natsuiro Memorial (A Summer-Colored Memorial)
"I used to like you" This is what the rebellious guy in the class wrote in the class rep's yearbook on the last day of junior high. A painful, but unforgettable love. Two years have passed since the graduation day and they meet again during a high school reunion. His appearance has changed, but...?

2. Kimi to Watashi no Kakaomoi (Our One-Sided Love)
On the first day of HS, girlA becomes friends with a boyA and girlB who already know each other. The girlB has a boyfriend that goes to another school, but girlA can tell right away that boyA likes girlB. GirlA lets BoyA know that she knows and he confides in her. She can't believe someone can love so one sidely...until she falls in love with boyA.

3. Suki yori mo Kirai (Hate Over Love)
A girl gets kissed in the nurse's office by a popular guy she doesn't like and she never forgets it. She hates him for that kiss. And he hasn't forgotten either.

4. Yuki ni Negai (w)o (Wish Upon the Snow)
A girl has three friends (two guys, and one girl). One of the boys she doesn't know as well since he's mostly friends with the other guy, but she gets to know him a little more later in the year.

5. Shuushoku Memorial (A Fall-Colored Memorial)
A little extra for the 1st story. :)

Houkago Love Age

Story 1
Akabane loses a game of bridge and thus his feelings for their classmate, Satsuki is revealed by his friends. He denies it immediately but somehow she's attracted to him too?

Half a Year - Kimi to 6-gatsu
This story is about a couple who will soon be going out for half a year. But the girl asked the guy out and he seems indifferent to their relationship. The girl breaks up with him out of frustration but later she finds out she might have to repeat the year if she fails this math exam. She goes to her ex-bf to ask him for help in studying and he agrees.

Kirai Kirai Mo?
I LOVE THIS ONE! SO CUTE! :D
A boy is always picking a fight with a girl in his class. He manages to get them stuck together for a class event: a test of courage.

Kimi ni Yell wo!
A girl meets a sempai on her first day of HS. He is the captain of the cheer squad. She talks to him later in the year but doesn't think he remembers her from the first day of class.

Kirai Kirai Mo? - Extra
AN EXTRA OF THE EXTRA CUTE ONE! :D (since the ending was a little abrupt)
An official date between the bickering couple :)

Lingerie Logic











Yuzu has always been a tomboy so she is worried that other girls will make fun of her underwear during the class trip. Without a second thought she asks her male friend, Ken, to help her chose better lingerie. However, right after this, Yuzu can't understand why she can't act like usual around him anymore.

Akuma na Kare to Ikenie Tenshi













1) The Lover of the Devil
The main girl gets entangled with a guy well-known as, "The Devil". After he saves her from the grasp of some guys she got into trouble with, a contract is made. As part of the contract, she belongs to the "Devil." What will become of this poor girl? Dinner for the devil himself? Or will she find something else?

Gokujou Twins

1) Gokujou Twins
Morinaga Sara, 16 years old, is a cool, yet calm girl... But in reality, she has this incredibly ugly smile. Because of the trauma she experienced, she became expressionless. However, the source of her trauma, the twins, who apparently became really good-looking, suddenly appears right in front of her!

2) Chocolate Sensou
Konishi has made Valentine chocolate for her secret crush Nakata-senpai but amidst giving senpai the chocolate, they accidentally get handed to Makino Shinichirou. As Konishi says its not for him and hurting Makino's pride in the process, it becomes a game of trying to get her Valentine chocolate back from Makino before the end of the day.

3) Itazura Ouji
Mayuri was asked to be in charge of educating a selfish rich young boy. What will happen to her…?!

4) Katekyo to Obenkyou
Nina has a home tutor who is extremely mean. She considers him the devil. But her feelings get confused when she sees his nice side...

5) Gokujou Twins - Mio no Jijyou
A short extra to Gokujou Twins.

Heart no Ousama














Chapter 1
A story between a woman and her neighbor who she finally meets, and then takes care of.

Chapter 2
A continuation of the first, where the woman has to get more confidence about the relationship.

Chapter 3
A story about an office lady and her younger male co-worker

Chapter 4
A 25 year old who decided to let go of her old job and go for what she really likes, but had lost confidence, gets pursued by a younger guy.

Chapter 5
A story between a short woman and a tall man who work in the same company. This one was actually pretty cute! :)

Sono Hakui wo Nuide

Box Prince
A dad sends his daughter a robot to look after her. It's a life sized man. Later it turns out it was her neighbor.

Taking Off Your White Coat
A girl thinks she feels nervous when she's around teachers with white lab coats but it turns out she only reacts to her chemistry teacher because she likes him. And so does he. His expression is really cute :)

Partner in Crime
A girls catches a guy stealing a statues from a church. In the end though, it turns out he was an undercover cop.

Spirit in the Rain
A girl loves her uncle in law who comes over when it's raining. She later thinks he is only looking after her because he feels guilty over her mother's death.

Abduction
A boy falls for a girl who loves to look at the stars. It turns out she's waiting for her astronomer bf to come back to her. At the end she leaves with her bf and the boy keeps watching the stars.

Eikoku Kikozu Goyoutashi

1) Eikoku Kizoku Goyoutashi
While working at her shop, Chiyoko Shimakura was approached by a young foreign male asking for a date. Though, at the same time, there have been a lot of incidents regarding a young foreign man conning women for their money in the neighborhood. Is he the one that has been conning others? Or is he really her Prince Charming?

2) A Thousand And One Nights
An encounter with a stranger ends up with a young girl becoming a temporary secretary.

3) Mitsuboshi School Days
In order to be with the one she loves, a girl enters Chefs School.

4) Love Bite
About a girl who didn't know what to do with her feelings, thus leading the boy to believing that she hated him.

Houkago Kiss

1) After School Kiss
All the guys think Fuyu Yamashita is the stupidest girl in school and dare the guy who does the worst on the next test to go out with her. That guy turns out to be Minato Sakurai, the scariest guy in school. Poor Fuyu?

2) Making an Angel
Sayaka Sunohara a highschool student and a talent scout find a cuteish boy playing with a cat. Thinking that he would make a perfect image of an Angel she brings him to her mother's agency. After the makeover, he fits the image perfectly. When Sayaka asks him "what would you like to eat?" as a treat for his successful photo shoot. He say "I would rather have you instead...". what would Sayaka to do with this Cute Angel or rather a Bratty Devil?

3) Young Nobleman Lock On!!
Iori Seto known as the "Stupidity Queen" has a crush on Motochika Ishida who happens to be a school elite, a cold student body president plus the chairman's son. Just to stay close to him she decides to join student body. But all she does is cause trouble for Motochika. How will Iori be able to lock on this cold young nobelman?

Junai Clover

1. Junai Clover
Mai is in love with her classmate Ikeda. She doesn't have too much self-confidence, so she turns him down, not believing she's a good match for him. But she cannot forget him. A year later they incidentally meet on the bus and.....

2. Sora o Miagete
"I'll make sure he always gets to see the stars, even on a cloudy day."

3. Junjou Shuushinki
"An innocent young boy's feelings have touched my heart."

4. Shuushin Ice Cube
Juu Mangetsu, the high school erotic novelist, is being sought after by the playboy, Shiizaki.

Kimi wa Tomodachi

He was always by my side... so I thought that I certainly won't fall in love with him.

Hare Tokidoki Yami

Suddenly a strange man gives Hayase Nanami, aged 16 years, a package and run away. What will happen next? Will he come back and then...

Kimi wa "Suki" no Daimeishi

1) Kimi wa "Suki" no Daimeishi
Ten years ago, you left me to become a kabuki actor. But I still remember the promise from that day... You have become famous and are called "the most beautiful high school student in Japan". I'm living in a different world from you. That's why you won't even think to meet me once again...?

2) Hetakuso Kata Omoi (Hopeless Unrequited Love)
All Yuri wants to do is talk to her crush in her art club, Yano-kun, yet she's able to do anything but. Getting an idea, she asks Yano's best friend, Kimidzuka, for some tips on how to make her ideal for Yano. Though reluctant, Kimi-kun helps out...

3) Eien ni Nemure (Eternal Sleep)
Jin's just a lowly pirate with an incredibly handsome face and loves playing with women, but this annoying female brat, who he was going to sell as a slave with the rest of them, somehow feels different from everyone else.

Rakuen

• Rakuen
Nana, a 16-year-old girl, has had a happy relationship for 1 year with a University student named Shugo. Though, it all comes to a halt, when a doctor tells her that in 6 months, she will become completely blind. While her condition worsens everyday, she decides not to tell Shugo anything because she fears she will be pitied. Will their love be able to survive this tragedy or will it go all downhill?

• Summer Rain
A girl and her mother move to the countryside where her father had been raised up in, the lonely girl finds herself in a friendship with somebody new...

• The Smiling Doll
''We'll always be together,'' her friend had said to her before she died...

Yasashii Te

• Yasashii Te
Kaoru is the type of girl who always has men fawning over her. She's pretty, bright, and has that sparkling personality that all men love. Then she met Katagiri... how will he fare against her wiles?

• Twinkle Lovers Night
Rejected by her crush and then having to work with him in the school festival committee... What'll happen to her next?

• Candy Shop
A girl is told by her flighty mother that he brother works at a baker's. She goes there and introduces herself to the young man. He takes her in although he keeps telling her he doesn't think of her as his sister.

• Unrequited Love's Night Sky
Related to Story 2, the girl loved the boy in story 2 but he got a gf. She suffers a lot but another friend of her helps her get through it.

Suki ni Naru Made Matte

Suki ni Naru Made Matte
Whenever it was break time, Hikami-kun sat at my desk and talked with his friends. I was concerned about it, but since he is a popular guy I couldn’t say anything about it. On that fateful day, I dropped Hikami-kun’s cell in the fish tank, and now I have to be his slave?!

Uso to Koi no Hajimari
Akane does a favor for her friend, Tomoko, by agreeing to show her childhood friend, Ken-kun, around Tokyo while pretending to be Tomoko! Will she be found out?

1/3 no Kareshi
Kogure Yuuya takes an embarrassing picture of Fukada Rei, but he says he will only delete it if they meet again at the same place later. What will Rei do?

Deatta Toki ni Boku wa Mou Inai
High school student Yuu finds herself pursued by a hot guy rather... spiritedly. (a pun, the boy dies and follows around the girl he liked as a ghost)

Oya Niwa Naisho no Koimonogatari

Story 1
The is a story of and airheaded girl who helps out a famous Kabuki star when he needs it and later end of together even though others think they are unsuited for each other.

Story 2
A girl thinks her cat has come back from the dead in the form of a boy. However in the end it's a boy who has always been watching her and wanted to comfort her because her cat died and he likes her.

Story 4
A story of a girl who has a class with two boys of the same name. She likes one of them, a quiet studious guy. The other one is loud and a playboy and fights with her all the time. But in time, she falls for the playboy.

Story 6
A story of a studious girl who wants to let go after graduation and asks out the playboy in the class and has fun with him. However, after a while she can't just play around anymore because she actually falls for him

Aoi Futari

Story 1
A funny, sweet, touching story about a girl and a guy who have just begun dating. They each pretend to be calm and in control, but what are they really thinking?

Really funny and cute! I liked it a lot! :)

Story 2
no translation

Story 3
no translation

Marugoto Ore no Mono

Rinka comes back to the town where she used to live during her childhood. She looked forward to seeing Shuta again, who she used to protect from being bullied. Now, Shuta is the school's board chairman and he is very popular with girls. Rinka becomes confused because Shuta is very different from before...

Sidestory
A story about a girl who loves her older cousin but he doesn't see her "that" way or so he says.

UGH! This was a torture to read :P BAD STORY and ugly art.

Kimi to Koi ni Ochiru Mahou de

Ousawa Miko is a 16-year-old girl who loves bread. Especially when it's shaped cutely! One day she decides to apply for a job at St. Molly's bread store, but when she gets there, the person who hires her on is a cute boy her age! Although he makes fun of Miko's clumsiness, he seems to be genuinely kind. But when they find out they're neighbors, they grow even closer.

It was okay, I sped through it, I wouldn't read it twice.

Hi Ga Kuretemo Aruiteru

Story 1
not translated

Story 2
The Spring When I was 15

A girl who is a big cry baby loves a boy who rides up the hill that leads to their school everyday. He's the type of boy who only knows how to talk to boys and does not know how to deal with girls. But she suddenly confesses he accepts.

It's a really sweet love story :)

Story 3
not translated

Koi Ni Ichiru

Falling In Love

Story 1
This is a story of a girl who suddenly becomes attracted to a guy in her class. She starts to write back and forth with him on his desk that she borrows during Physics class. He doesn't know she's the one he's talking to. She also gets closer to him in person. However, then she finds out he has a girlfriend who he's having a LDR with. She becomes sad but still confesses. Gets rejected. After a time, the guy breaks up with his gf and the protagonist becomes his "only girl"

Really sweet~ love the art and the story telling style.

The Best Summer
not translated

The Ringing Bell
not translated

Koiiro Omoi

Story 1

Nerdy class rep with no friends, weird new boy who transfers. No one in the class wants to be nice to him except the class rep and they become friends. Then the boy gets cleaned up by his grandma and is very handsome. The whole class wants to befriend him so class rep feels left out. And is very sad because she loves him. But he thinks she's very special to him too and wants her by his side.

Too long and cliche and "sweet" for my taste but it wasn't a bad story because the boy and girl were cute.

Story 2

Girl is the only one in her group of friends without a bf. This guy in her class laughs at her. He always picks fights with her. She figures that he likes her and is really shocked. He is really embarrassed when she figures it out but later steals a kiss. However, she says she hates him the most to her friends later and he overhears. He passes her in the hallway some other time and he ignores her. It really hurts her so she grabs him and cries that he's messed her all up and that he has to be responsible for it. He hugs her and says that she should go out for him. And then he evilly smile because he has "won" their little feud.

This story was GREEEAT!!! :D SOOO FUNNY! :)

Story 3

This boy waits at a bus stop for a bus he doesn't need to take in order to look at a girl who takes that bus. He's liked her ever since she gave him some cough candy one time. They don't talk though. However, one day he defends her from his friends who were flirting and bothering her and her friends. He's a little embarrassed and don't wait a the bus stop but she goes down the road to follow him and they finally talk.

It's was okay :P