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A little girl goes to a convenience store with her mother and befriends a worker.

Before the outbreak of the colony war, forces were at work shaping the future and preparing its players for the final game. As children, Heero, Relena, Duo, Trowa, Quatre and Wufei have endured more pain and difficulties than most people experience in a lifetime and would have broken the will of any normal person. Learn their stories and motivations for becoming prominent characters in shaping the future of the world. Each chapter is named after a character and features that character's past/origins. According to Sumisawa (author), the events of Episode Zero were supposed to appear in the TV series, just after episode 27. But due to complications in the production schedule, things didn't go as planned and it was eventually omitted. Episode Zero was created per Ikeda Masashi's (director) request. Reading direction: Right to left

A story that wonderfully depicts the emotions of an overweight woman with low self-esteem surrounded within the harsh environment of slim and good-looking women. She then decides to lose weight after getting dumped by her lover. The consequences and side-effects are explored further after the 'achievement'..is it what she really wished for?

Top reporter Tsuchiya writes a story that drives his friend to suicide, leaving his friend's son an orphan. The boy vanishes and Tsuchiya spends two years searching for him; while his own status as a reporter falls. When he finds the boy Fukuzawa he takes him in, without revealing his connection to the father, and tries to teach the lonely boy to rely on him. And perhaps to teach his own heart to rely on another as well...

The 7th oneshot from Yuri Tengoku Anthology. [From Lililicious]: The yuri in "She, I, and the Red Book" is more subtext than maintext, but it's a nevertheless sweet story about two girls and a book with a startlingly red cover.

From Nagareboshi Manga: Sachi has always been known for her gorgeous amber-colored hair that she inherited from her mother. She has a happy enough life, except for the fact that her mother is dead, which she keeps a secret. One day, she is approached by a classmate who seems to know all her family's secrets, and is forced into his "Money Game".

Welcome to the cursed island of Shina Dark. This island is called home by the dark lord Exoda C. Claw AKA Satan. He's as powerful a being as you could ever hope to meet. Feared and hated the world over for the infinite amount of atrocities he's committed. He's.....actually a really nice guy who just wants to chill out around the castle and relax... After a month long nap he awakens to find that the rest of the world has made up another ridiculous rumor and blown it way out of proportion and that has caused his little island to be crowded with a thousand beautiful princesses meant to be his mistresses/sacrifices. Worse yet is that since they have set foot on his island they are all believed to be cursed and are now shunned by their homelands. What’s a couch potato Satan to do with 1000 women who wont leave? Who can say? From Operation Boredom: During an eclipse, demon Lord Exoda. C. Crown was revived. He is supposed to bring chaos and destruction to the world. The world is panicking, and as a sacrifice to the demon lord, they decide to send 1,000 girls to the demonic island, Shina Dark. However, in Shina Dark, all the legends are lies. Exoda does not sleep with 10 girls a night, and keep the others prisoners. He does not lust for girls, he does not want to cause mass destruction - he simply wants to live in peace. So when 1,000 girls suddenly show up in his island and refuse to leave, what will happen to Exoda, who simply wants to be left alone? From Baka-Updates

SERIES 7: Steel Ball Run This is basically just another story arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure except that it has a different title. It is the seventh installment in the JoJo saga and takes place in the wild west in 1890 (about the same time period as the first arc of JoJo).

A glimpse into the lives of two women in a relationship where sterling silver comes into play.

Ichina is a 2nd year high school student. She lives with her mother Youko whom she hates with a passion. After getting dumped by her boyfriend, she ends up having a one-night stand with her best friend Sekitani, who also recently broke up with his long-time girlfriend. Will they become more than friends? And who is the strange guy who's waiting at home with Youko when she gets back? The desirable Tsuu-chan from Yogoreteru Hima Nanka Nai is a character in this story as well.

Aya loves her childhood friend Yuna, but Yuna is good at everything and Aya worries that she's not good enough for her. The metaphor of Earth and Mars is used to describe their relationship/situation.

Shin is a popular high school boy. All the girls love him, and Yukka Chisa likes him too. One day she was lucky enough to be alone with him... What will happen between the two?

Ai was just a normal girl minding her own business when she met this guy. The guy was so poor and down on his luck that he couldn't even pay for his own meal. Ai took pity on the guy and decided to treat him out for lunch. What should have been a fairly innocent meeting with the guy turns rather weird when she decides to take him home and give him a place to sleep. That should have been all since the guy left very early in the morning and nothing untoward happened...but...is it possible? After how long, has she met the guy again?

From Kodanclub: An ordinary, quiet town is shaken by a series of bizarre happenings brought about by the darkness in human hearts. There are no solutions in the real world: Only "Dream Messengers" can find the answers. Dream messengers connect the fabulous with the real and control the power of dreams. Their leader, Toko Mishima, works with 8 other messengers using the powers given by an old spell and a toy made by Toko's father. Toko, her younger sister Rinko, Hajime Tachibana, who loves young girls, and the six other Dream Messengers are given the names of days or stars - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Raff and Keito.

Hayate’s father, Tani no Maju (another loyal “Chiguruma Tou” clansman) had discovered and developed the “Ninja Henshin Jitsu” (Ninja Transforming Magic/Techniques) that enabled man to transform into super powerful “Keshin Ninjas” (Spiritual Ninjas) who would be able to summon and utilize their own inner mystical powers. Majin Sai wanted to use this technique to further “Chiguruma Tou’s” cause and make their warriors invincible. Tani No Majyu resisted handing Majin Sai the secrets to this technique believing that in the wrong hands, this technique could pose a monumental threat to Japan. Majin Sai sent one of his “Youkai Ninjas” (Supernatural Ninjas) to steal the secrets of this technique. In the process Tani No Majyu was killed but not before he had shown Hayate the secrets of this process. Enraged, Hayate uses these techniques to tap into his inner mystical powers and becomes the super powered ninja “Arashi” (Storm).

A collection of short stories. 1. Slider What happens when a group of misfits run into the god of poverty? Mischief and house break-ins, that's what. 2. Mister Bojangles Follows the journey of a Detective looking for a man who went by the name of "Mister Bo". 3. Goggles A stubborn young girl comes tumbling into the barren wasteland of the lives of these two men. She can't take off her goggles, and the reason is... 4. Tsuki no Ya's Sales and Purchases Two friends ride around in a car debating over their used book store. 5. Let's go see the Ocean A prequel to Goggles the young girl goes to the beach with her grandfather. 6. Tonkatsu An old man goes looking for the tonkatsu from his youth by going to every restaurant serving it one by one.

From Pink Rose Scans • Ketchup Mayonnaise Atsushi's bar-tending mom remarries to a rich, strait-laced (if not slightly old) salaryman. They move into their new house, and he can now sleep in a bed fit for a Prince! With the union, they've become one big happy family with him, his mom, his new step-dad, his step-dad's kids Peter and Kurara, and the ghost of his ex-wife....wait, what?! • The Spring of Water Maki should be on cloud nine---she's snagged the boyfriend of her dreams after finally confessing her love for him on the train platform, with a little help from her friend Fumika. They've even passed the half year mark in dating when everyone around them predicted they wouldn't last a month. Why is it then that she's starting to get the feeling that this was all a mistake? • Chocolate Ice Cream Sakura's been in love with Niiya ever since she wound up in the same class as him back in elementary school. Niiya, however, doesn't seem to be as enthusiastic about her. So of course, when God gives her the chance to change her face to one he'd madly fall for, she readily agrees! Who does she become? And does she finally get her man after 14 years of unrequited love?

Higuchi Asuka's mother dies shortly after she tells her teenage daughter who her father is. Only knowing the family name “Sudou”, Asuka goes in search to find her absent father. On her journey, she finds a guy being rather rough with a younger girl. Unable to resist, Asuka steps in by battering the guy with her motorcycle. When she discovers it was a big misunderstanding (Manato was just trying to get his sister Kazusa to go home), she drives them back to their house. Once there, Asuka finds out that Manato and Kazusa are the Sudou family she's been looking for, but the father isn't there, not to mention their mother also being dead since long ago. With no other leads, Asuka decides to move in as Neesan (the big sister) until their father shows up. Things get tricky when love builds within the complex family relationship...

Aya and her twin brother Aki thought they were going to a celebration of their sixteenth birthday at their grandfather's home, but the funeral-like atmosphere tips them off that something's not right. Their "birthday present" turns out to be a mummified hand--the power of which forces an awakening within Aya, and painful wounds all over Aki's body! Grandfather Mikage announces that Aki will be heir to the Mikage fortune, and Aya must die! But Aya has allies in the athletic cook and martial artist Yûhi, and the attractive, mysterious Tôya. But can even two handsome and resourceful guys save Aya when it's her own power that's out of control?

From Sura's Place: Boring days, boring life. She wants her life to spice up with a mystery or two. She gets her wish.

Even though she loves singing, due to fear of her older brother's disapproval, all Nonoko Sugisaki can do today is wish on a shooting star. But then, Kenji and Mikki, who hear Nonoko singing, decide to ask her to join their band...?

From ANN: An autobiographical work in which Hideo Azuma tells the story of his inability to cope with the pressures of his job as a mangaka and of his exeriences with alcoholism. The work is split into three sections, each of which details one of Azuma's breakdowns. The first section (Walking At Night) is set in 1989 when Azuma suddenly walked out on both his job and his family and became homeless for the first time. Much of this section is given over to describing the practicalities of eating, sleeping, and killing time whilst homeless. The second section (Walking Around Town) covers a similar set of events in 1992 but this time Azuma managed to find labouring work as a gas pipe layer after a period of living rough. This section also looks back over Azuma's career and describes the pressures he worked under in the 1970s and 80s. The third section (Alcoholic Ward) covers the author's descent into full-blown alcoholism and his experiences of being committed to a hospital rehab programme in 1998.

From VIZ: In 2015, the "Angels" have returned, and Shinji Ikari, a fourteen year-old child of the new Earth, is forced by his father -- Gendo, commander of the secret organization NERV -- to pilot the monstrous biomechanical weapon called "Evangelion" to match the Angels' fearsome power...