This is a collection of romantic manga short stories from modern Japan. In these tales of yearning and betrayal, the author captures beautiful moments of passion, dissects modern relationships, and ensnares the reader with plot twists more complex than those found in American comics. -ComicsOne

Two decades ago, the dragons returned to earth. Soaring above the skies leaving behind trails of destruction. They attack humans for the simple reason, their destructive impulses. In order to fight the dragons, humanity acted. They began to dabble in magic...

From Boku-Tachi: One day Kanna comes home from school to find that the grandpa she hasn't seen in many years has sent her a huge package! On the box it says that it's a new invention. What could it be? Kanna reluctantly opens the package and inside finds what seems to be...a boy?!

Mysterious murders have been taking place in town lately and everyone is uneasy. Anne may look like an ordinary teenage girl in plain human’s eyes but she has something unique and exotic that attracts Vampires. May it be her blood type or even something in her skin that makes vampires so attracted to her? No one knows... One thing is for sure, Vampires keep coming in the city she lives in and they are even in her school now! Luckily for her, she has her brother to protect her and also one mysterious new guy...

Platonic relationships are becoming rare today. This is a collection of "Flower Comics" love stories written by seven writers. 1) Secret Housemate (Naisho No Doukyonin) by SHIMAKI Ako Sweet short story of a middle school boy in love with a high school girl. She is meticulous about wanting to know everything about the person she is dating. Her emotion conflict when she meets this middle school boy, who challenges her way of thinking about relationship. The author diligently places the character in a muddled, flustered, and distraught air of insecure emotions. She feels baffled because she can't comprehend why she likes him, even though she knows nothing about him. (Also published in Iinazuke Ryokan) Full contents: RAIN DANCEの頃には by 北川みゆき (Kitagawa Miyuki), 美徳のよろめき by 刑部真芯 (Osakabe Mashin), その手で奪って by 中原みぎわ (Nakahara Migiwa), キュア by 吉永記子 (Yoshinaga Noriko), 好きばっかり by 渋谷うらら (Shibuya Urara), キャラメルキッス by 藤原よしこ (Fujiwara Yoshiko), ナイショの同居人 by 嶋木あこ (Shimaki Ako).

Main Story: The White Shadow - Shiroi Kageboshi - 白い影法師Suzuko Hasebe, a grade 11 student, has been on a consistent transfer from one school to another (due to her father's work) before transferring to a private school. When she arrived, she saw an empty desk sitting by the window of the classroom and was given permission to sit there. No one has sat at that desk for 5 years, and strange things are about to occur. Side Story: Melody for Two - Futari no Melody - ふたりのメ? ディSawai is handsome, cultured, and a talented violinist who is searching for his soul-mate. Karumi is a boisterous and energetic girl whose greatest desire is to play the drum during the local festival. When Sawai's grandmother has heart trouble, Karumi impresses Sawai with her energy--and wrestling ability! But the gap between their worlds may be too great even for a duet with violin and drum, for Sawai's mother has returned to Japan--and declares Sawai must go to Austria. The only way he can stay is for rough Karumi to make a good impression...

Yukino Shiroi is the new cute girl in class, the kind of girl Kyousuke Kai can only dream about. Yet somehow they wind up going out together. It all seems too easy. But the girl has a secret: she draws the most ecchi manga he's ever seen. It's hard to say what will explode first, his heart, his mind, or something else...

From Iridescent Scans: "I was wondering... If you were interested in me..." Classmates from middle school, Oogoshi and Saotome reunite at their job. Oogashi is as popular and talented as he was in middle school. For long, Saotome has held on tight to his admiration but now that they're both adults he can't really tell him that easily. What will Oogashi say when he it seems like he's seen right through his feelings!? A youthful love story of two awkward salary men!

In order to remember his forgotten dreams, love, and self, Natsume Kanade, a high school teacher suffering from amnesia, is suddenly visited by a strange man with dark-rimmed glasses who claims to be "God". Natsume Kanade wakes up with a terrible headache from the day before. Wait, what happened yesterday? More importantly, who is he? And who is the the guy with dark-rimmed glasses bossing him around to prepare for school...as a teacher?! Why does everyone know what happened yesterday!?

Very determined Kaji decides to become an apprentice shoemaker with rumored is the best in the field. Mao accepts it after verifying the sincerity in Kaji's words regarding his intention of wanting to learn. Mao shows your "castle" in making the shoe making, there Kaji gets his first kiss under the context of "If you stay here you have to do the work of an adult."

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From Blissful Sin: My company senior is gay?! I didn?t even want to know that secret. But why was such a delicate and cute person thrown away by another man?! A sweet, heart-throbbing love with a younger seme? ?When Autumn Comes, You Are?? Ishii-san, the distant beauty I met in a park at lunch break, was concentrating on a book called ?How to Make Cakes?!? A report of love born in a park, in a town of offices? ?Toorinuke Dekimasen? A compilation of commissioned work and Bourbon Nobility?

The young King of Xia Yin Empire, who succeeded the throne at age 14, inherited a rare and powerful sorcery connected to the six great gods of the elements. Can this power enable him to change Xia Yin's terrible fate of imminent destruction and collapse?

From Midnight Scans: At the end of the second semester, a teacher came. Everybody in class quickly opened their hearts for the childlike adult, Jiro-chan. Kokoro knew that Sensei loved her because he asked her for help. However, Fuwa-kun, the one I love, hated Sensei.

Watami Meguru pleaded to his mom to let him move out on his own to experience being independent. She finally agrees to let Meguru rent out a room for the summer. But his sadistic mother makes the wall between him and his neighbor out of glass, meaning there is no privacy between the two rooms. If living openly with a stranger wasn’t insane enough, his neighbor is a cute girl his age, Kana. They immediately get off on the wrong foot and this isn’t what Meguru imagined it would be like at all.

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A princess and her servant, brother- and sister-in-law, doctor and high school girl student, and woman teacher and tattooed man; they are all forbidden to love each other. However, their illicit romances are all the more exciting. The best stories of forbidden love are selected in this comic!Collection of oneshots (scanlated):1) Kizuato by YOSHIHARA YukiA woman whose husband was killed in a car accident sexually abuses her handsome servant.(Also included in Sheets no Sukima)2) I Want by HOSHINO MasamiAn 18 year old school-girl begins an affair with her dentist who is in a marriage that has already turned cold. What does this cute girl with good grades really want from him?3) Blanc by YOSHIHARA YukiGirl is getting married soon and goes to visit her cousin that she grew up with. However they're closer than just family.(Also included in Sheets no Sukima)The following have not been scanlated:「あなたは知らない」by TAKEUCHI Masami「Secret Noise」by FUJIWARA Akira「情熱の蝶」by MIZUNO Yuan「奴隷願望」by YAMAMOTO Kazumi「君を深く感じて」by OIKAWA Aya

It was difficult for Yuki to have long-lasting love with anyone of her boyfriends. Now she falls in love with Shingo at first sight. He helped her nonchalantly when her separation from her boyfriend got complicated. Since he is five years older than she, his adult love excites her.

My name's Sakuragi Ritsu & my best friend is Yuuna. My worst rival is Masa. Could it be that they're going out? ... Or is there something more behind this?

From Lililicious: Mimi has realized that she has feelings for Kuro, but before she can ask her out, she discovers that she might have some competition for Kuro's heart.

Mikina's father is the president of a modeling agency. Mikina was once a popular child model, but due to an accident, she developed camera-phobia and gave up modeling. 10 years later, Mikina's father's company is going through some financial difficulty. Mikina really wishes to be able to help revive the company, and one day, she received a mysterious lipstick... In 1999 Angel lip won the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo category.

Kanade Kazamaki is Shinobi trained and brought up with the Toujo family, being Keigo Tojou's childhood friend. Defeating the Toyoda family who has reigned over the Tojou family, Kanade joins Keigo at an all boys school where the future head of the Toyoda family, Eishi Toyoda attends... But what is this about Kanade being Eishi Toyoda's first love?

A girl creates her story in an empty, deserted space. It's basically a creation story, but in this one... Eve creates Adam from a giant clay image.

{From Acacia15} Taepung is of a rather... prestigious family. But his father does not accept him, for no reason in particular. He is being beaten up by a gang when a ghost like girl comes and saves him.. And takes his most precious necklace. That girl is the "fortune teller" girl, Kain. But she seems to be possessed..