SLICE OF LIFE

From: Easy Going Scans The story of three average women, and their not-so-common everyday life.

Collection of short stories:- Maple LoveTwo college students become friends, but one of them has fallen for the other..- Love LetterA girl asks her friend to give a love letter to a boy for her. Too bad she has no idea her friend is in love with her...- Cycling Under a Starlit Sky- Kawaii Anata (Your Cuteness)This is about a boyish girl who doesn't think she's cute, and her love interest, who does.- Winter-tinged ThoughtsShizuru is in love with Matsuri, who in turn is in love with Aya. Oh, dear.- A Lunch Made with LoveRetells some of the events of "Winter-Tinged Thoughts" from Izumi (Shizuru's best friend)'s point of view.

In a summer vacation, a group of 15 children discovered a mysterious man living in a seashore cave, along with his high-tech gadgets. The man claimed to be a game developer creating a video game with a giant robot defending Earth from 15 alien invaders, and asked those childs to test the game for him. The kids agreed happily at first, but soon they began to find the game horrifying, not only because of its realism but also because the first fatality among them happened right after their first victory. Worse yet, they had no idea how to stop or leave the "game."

When he was a child, Isao was inspired by a florist named Aiko and fell in love with flowers. After saving his father's company, Isao finally leaves his desk job to realize his lifelong dream of owning a flower shop, opening it in the same location that Aiko's shop used to be. Right before opening, he finds out that Aiko had passed away when he meets her widower Koutarou and their young son. Koutarou is utterly devoted to his son Zen and carries on the love of flowers that Aiko instilled in him. Thus the florist Isao falls in love with Koutarou, and tries to win his heart through the flowers they both love.

Five years ago, Helen lost her sight, hearing, and ability to speak in a traffic accident. She was living peacefully with her uncle and her guide dog Victor until, one day, she awoke to her mysterious powers.

Kanae dropped out of high school, because her father is a gambler while her mother ran away with her boyfriend. Kanae is twenty-two years old, and very poor working for a cleaning shop. She comes to have something to do with Haruki Oda quite by chance. Haruki is an IT millionaire and called "money-mad man," or "the god of death." Then Kanae's life makes a sudden development. Money cannot be made by love alone, though love cannot be bought with money. People of today want to have both love and money. This get-happy-story is a must read for the present-day people.

Motoko and Keiko are in a relationship. This is their story

Quoted from Slash-kun's review:"The reissue of the author's old works from mainly her djs (1991-1995). The short series of the cool romance between two cousins who love each other with a little guilt feeling. And three short stories (Stylish comedy like current author's taste. Hero finds his uncle after a long separation but the guy is not same man as his uncle.../ The forbidden relationship between hero and his young uncle-in-law seems to change after the birth of the baby of hero's sister.../ Re-issue of short story from "My beautiful green Palace". The researcher visits again the village of Merman legend to meet the mysterious guy / Kakioroshi - additional newly written sequel of the series. Cousins enjoy barbecue with their colleagues of their office)."

A full-color manga featuring 100 scenes of girls love! Featuring classmates, sempai and kouhai, teacher and student, sisters and childhood friends!

Misaki Marei is a second year in high school, and she sucks at studying. She has no real goals in life, and has zero interest in taking the college entrance exam...until her childhood best friend, Micchan, says she's going to college. Now Marei has found her goal: pass the entrance exam for Akamon University, an elite college, and go to school with Micchan.(tagged both shoujo ai and yuri for now because it's not clear to me which is accurate / more accurate. several Japanese Amazon reviews of this manga mention "yuri", but we all know there's no distinction made in Japanese)

A fluffy story about a coworker who can't express her love for her subordinate.

Mitsuki loves singing, but a malignant tumor in her throat has prevented her from pursuing her passion. However, Mitsuki life turns around when two fun-loving Shinigami appear to grant her a temporary reprieve from her illness--and give her singing career a magical jump-start. Includes a short story called Ginyu Meika in volume 2. Akiyoshi Kiryuu attempts to practice for an upcoming piano competition; however, his practice continually gets interrupted by a girl named Kanon, who claims to be the spirit of a tree.

An elite businessman exerting himself at a publishing company is demoted to the manga editorial department, which is out of his field of experience. Moreover, his first responsibility is a comic artist that no one can handle...

Komatsu Keiko and Saeki Ran are roommates. The kouhai, Ran, is studying to become a doctor and introduces Keiko to stretching. This is their everyday life and how they implement stretching within their lives.

From Tokyopop:K is a wizard who can grant wishes--all he asks in return is that which is most precious to the wisher...Mourning from a horrific loss, Jin Ryu wants K to bring back her parents and brother from the dead. But when K tells her that a wish such as this can only lead to greater tragedy, he agrees to take her on as an apprentice. Now Jin observes K with his various and sundry clients: A father who wants to put a stop to his son's relationship... A young woman who longs for her lover to remember... A boy who will do anything to be accepted...

After a heated argument with her mother, Keito runs away from home without knowing where to go. When she helps an old woman to carry her bags home, the woman offers to put her up in one of her rooms. Keito accepts and starts to pick up the pieces of her life. When she's not drawing her own comic, which features a black jazz singer named Angie, the young woman works at a record shop. That's where she meets and falls in love with Niki, an attractive trumpeter in a funk band. They sleep with each other. Unfortunately for Keito, Niki then explains that she's not interested in a serious relationship, but Keito is not willing to give up that easily...

From Liquid Passion:1-4) When Ryuu transfers to Hitomi's school, he leaves an immediate impression on him. Curious about rumours of a full-scale tattoo on Ryuu's back, Hitomi starts getting closer to him. Before long, the friendship and fascination Hitomi feels for Ryuu start developing into more, but before he has a chance to come to terms with his feelings, Hikaru appears on the scene.... and he has his eyes set on Hitomi.5-6) Now that Hikaru has become close friends with Hitomi and Ryuu, the group dynamics have changed. When Hikaru expresses his growing interest in Hitomi, will Ryuu admit his feelings or let Hitomi slip away...?7-8) Ryuu seems to have found comfort in other places as Hitomi and Hikaru Taira get further involved. Sexual frustrations finally find an outlet, though misdirected.9-11) In a startling series of events that lead up to Hydra's transfixing climax, hearts break, enemies resurface, and ties of friendship bind the trio in a complex web of struggle, sacrifice, and redemption.Rules series Timeline:1) Please (5 chapters)-- Kiss (MIYAMOTO Kano)-- Kiss After2) Skies **3) Hydra 1+2+3+4 (ch1-4)4) Hydra 3+4+5+6 (ch5-6)-- Hydra dj - Blue Film First (after Hydra ch8)-- Hydra dj - Heavenly (between Hydra ch9 and ch10-11)-- Hydra dj - The Days Before-- Real Thing-- Rules dj - Hello Again5) Lovers and Souls6) Fragile (MIYAMOTO Kano) **7) Vanity **8) Dreamers high **13) Rules volumes 1 & 214) If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind? **15) Rules volume 316) Rules dj - Song Birds **17) Another Day on The Planet **18) Rules dj - Double Trouble **19) Overload **** = doujinshialso the ones in ( -- ) are doujinshi's

Chiaki Sakaguchi appears to be a sociable, popular high school senior, but he carries a dark secret with him that he can tell no one about not even his closest friends. When Chiaki meets fellow student Eiji Yukimura an under-achieving social misfit for the first time, he believes he's found someone who can understand his inner pain. As the two become closer, Chiaki learns that Eiji has a secret also a secret so dark, it threatens to overshadow his own. United by common dysfunction and angst, Chiaki and Eiji begin to search for pleasure together beyond their pain. Will the pair's growing bond enable them to break free of their troubled pasts and create a brighter future? Or is the damage that's been done to both of them beyond any healing that love can provide?

Kazuma runs across a girl named Emiru crying in the middle of a busy street, desperately crying out for a hug. When he gives her one, he doesn't realize that his life is about to intersect with this girl who is suffering from unusually severe depression-----------------This is the mysterious story of Futaba Kazuma's first patient. At 18, Futaba Kazuma went to school to get his qualification in clinical psychology. While attending school, he boards at a creepy mansion, which even has a butler. Also living there is a strange young woman called Emiru. She is suffering from a terminal illness of the heart --- despair. This deep psychological problem has eerie physical effects as well: her hair has turned white, her body temperature is well below normal, and her blood pressure is also bizarre. No psychologists or counselors have been able to help cure her of this problem. Will Kazuma be able to determine the cause of Emiru's despair and save her before it's too late? [tethysdust]---- From MangaHelpers

Doujin Market. It is a place where individuals sell their self-published books. Each participant works daily to achieve their personal goals.While their are some who obtain their dreams, there are also those who get pounded by reality. This is the story of those who live in the world of Doujin.

A series of interconnected vignettes depicting how something as ordinary as rain can alter the course of peoples' lives.

When a transfer student arrives from Tokyo, Chizuru immediately develops a crush. Surprisingly, the beautiful and stylish transfer student joins Chizuru's group of friends. Will a closer relationship develop between Chizuru and Kanae?Also contains two other stories: Tojitete ne, Kokoro (Keep Your Heart Closed)Azusa is Kiwako's older cousin by one year and they've had the same unchanging relationship even on until high school, even after Kiwako moved in with Azusa due to the death of her parents. They've always been close, but Kiwako decided to take it a little further. However, this now presents the question of whether it can last... I Don't Know if This Is Love

This collection of 7 short stories by the master of romance explores love that is not easily seen.1) Kimi no Ai wa Mienikui (Your love cannot be easily visible)Inori always goes to his friend Senou with his love troubles, because Senou always listens patiently. But lately Inori has been thinking about Senou in a different way...~ Inori and Senou's story continues in Impossible Boyfriend and Extra Time from this collection, and in further two oneshots, Kimi to Iru Asita and Omake Time, from Kimi to Iru Asu ~2) Impossible BoyfriendContinuing story of Inori and Senou's relationship, which begins in Kimi no Ai wa Mienikui.3) Won't Let Go of That HandJinryou Aki just started at the clothing store where Goichi works, and Goichi can't help liking his cute new coworker. But Jinryou has a troubled past.4) Good Luck SleepingEight years after graduation Hoshizono runs into his high school crush, Kure. In school Hoshizono was always considered a brainy kid, while Kure was a jock. Now Hoshizono works at a gay host club, and Kure is a successful businessman. Can these two connect?5)Love Without BoundariesShouji and Shimizawa have been living together for one month. But with such a new relationship, problems are still cropping up!6) In A Box With YouIn a place, like an all boys school, there is no place to do it. Nishimura tells Sugawara that its common to help each other out...7) The Temperature Inside my HandCollege student Takeru has a crush on fellow student Yukihito. But Yukihito is connected to Takeru's childhood in the snowy northern regions, and a tragic incident which happened there.8) Extra TimeA quick funny look at Inori and Senou's relationship.

A collection of short, slightly bittersweet stories:1&2 ) Tableau Numero 20 Ever since he discovered the rough sketch for a lost painting by the 19th century French artist Maurice Olivier in a library book, a modern-day art expert, also named Maurice, has yearned to see the actual painting. Is it the work of art he's in love with or its mysterious subject? - The Moon in a Box3) Just Not Like a Merry-Go-Round Minoru has been in love with Kei-chan forever. "One hundred times. One thousand times. One hundred years go right by." Starting with a merry-go-round, and ending with a horse race... Minoru bets on a horse who keeps running but never catches up. If that horse wins.... maybe Minoru can too.4) Rasgueado Working in a no-name bar for petty cash frustrates Jesus, a beautiful professional dancer. Jesus prostitutes himself to tourists for extra money - but Aldero, an older man who plays guitar for the bar is sick of Jesus wasting his youth. Jesus loves Aldero and the sound of his music, but as life goes, he is forced to part with them.5) en el parquet A story about an old couple. One who has lost his memories, forever waiting for the man he loves; and one who must watch the man he loves wait for his past self. 5) le visiteur Continuation of the Tableau Numero 20 story. Yves is still searching for Maurice Oliver - his love from the past - and one day he sees Maurice Oliver in the museum...6) Extra - Sunday in Paris Yves causes Maurice more trouble in the museum.7) Extra - Monday in Paris Al and Leon from Ultras are visiting France. Al met Maurice when he brought a group of children for a tour to the Louvre. The two bump in to Maurice at a cafe... with Yves trailing behind. Where did Al see that man before?

High school is difficult for most kids. But for Kayano, a shy girl whose single mother seems to work all the time, it's even worse than usual. She's so afraid of drawing attention to herself that she can't tell the handsome Kamijo how much she loves him until one day she finally gets up the courage to write him a letter confessing her feelings.When she goes to give him the letter all her plans go awry. She's given the letter to the wrong person!Accidentally, she's given her love letter to Takeru Edogawa who just so happens to be the school principal's son, head of the delinquents and the notorious "Prince of Attraction"! To Kayano, he seems like Satan himself. Not only is he devilishly handsome, but he seems to take the utmost pleasure in making her suffer.Things only get more interesting when Kayano's mother comes home one day and announces she's getting married again --- To principal Edogawa! What will Kayano do when she has to live with this devil 24/7? How will she cope with her literal "Hell on Earth"?

In the spring of Kyoko's first year in high school, Eiko, a girl like a sister to her, returns with her younger brother, Jiro. The return isn't that big of a deal, but Jiro (self proclaimed super mad scientist) has it in his head that he wants to operate on Kyoko! And, what's even more, the two of them are actually high ranking members of an Evil organization at the run from the heroes of justice!(well not as much as you would think) So high school and her daily life is about to become a bit more exciting as these two begun living with her.

A collection of oneshots:Story 1: Spring and Love Come Early?Ichio Tomochika, the archery club president, likes the calligraphy club member, Komada Aoba. With black hair and black eyeballs, Komada is just like a stubborn black cat. Looking at such an adorable cat everyday, Ichio hopes Komada can sense his feelings he has for him. After an unexpected kiss from Ichio, will Komada return his feelings? (From Attractive Fascinante)Story 2: The Trap of LoveStory 3: I Want A Bit More LoveStory 4: Youth MelancholicStory 5: While Numbering StarsOmake: While Numbering Stars Extra

Nina Yamada is a junior high 7th grader who dreams about a boy who is strong, handsome, and kind enough to protect her. One day, Nina "accidentally" swallowed a Crystal Pearl that she assumed was a candy. But the Crystal Pearl was the goal of a sorcery examination. Nina is the new Crystal Pearl which is targeted by many probationer sorcerers and goes on for half a year. During this whole mix up, she meets two magician boys named Zero and Ichi and comes to a conclusion that they can protect her until a potion is made to remove the Crystal Pearl from her. However, this potion will take about 6 months to complete. Even at school and at home, Zero and Ichi protect Nina where ever she goes. Now, not only is Nina being attacked and chased around by a group of magicians, but she has to figure out which of her two protectors she likes most! ~~~ Junior high schooler Nina is ready to fall in love. She's looking for a boy who's cute and sweet and strong enough to support her when the chips are down. But what happens when Nina's dream comes truetwice? One day, two cute boys literally fall from the sky: they're both wizards and they've come to the Human World to take the Magic Exam. Their success on this test depends on protecting Nina from evil, so now Nina has a pair of cute magical boys chasing her everywhere she goes! One of these wizards just might be the boy of her dreamsbut which one?

Celestin, a young man abandoned as a baby and found wrapped in a fine cloth, tries to marry his way into the aristocratic lifestyle he considers his birthright while popular revolution is beginning to stir in the streets...

She was set up by her scumbag boyfriend. After been drugged, he send her to a president as a gift. In the befuddle moment, she thought the nightmare was the beginning of happiness. The man favored and loved her, but in facts she has to faced an overbearing strong attack each of the times. She finally gave herself away, falling under him .. However there was an accident, causing her changed her face (look) and parted ways with him. When they meet again, can the man recognize the person in front of whom he was deeply loved?

From Shoujo-Sense:While working as a monitor in the all-but-abandoned school library, first year Mei finds herself captivated by a mysterious boy with hair the colour of the setting sun. Never expecting to see him again, she's surprised when he shows up the next day, only to fall asleep and end up rushing out of the library suddenly and without a word... Who is he, and where does he go at the same time each day?