A high-school boy Sandai, who liked to spend his time alone, accidentally helped the most beautiful girl in his class, Shino, when she fell into a ditch near his home. He let her use shower at his home, and lend her some clothes, although he had never talked with her before. From that day, she started to act like his friend. In fact, she seems to like him...but that can't be! She's the most popular babe in his high school! But what he didn't know was, Shino had never went out with a guy. She was not very good with guys, and Sandai was the first guy she could talk naturally with. As they spend time together, Sandai can't help himself to have special feelings for Shino. A story of a boy whose life was completely changed by a cute babe!
Souta Takatsuki and his neighbor Rikka Amanome have been like brother and sister since they were kids, but his feelings for her run much deeper. With her birthday coming up, he wants to find the perfect gift, which presents itself in the form of a book from a mysterious shop he happens across. The owner doesn't even charge him, saying he'll return to pay eventually...Souta is wholly unprepared for the insatiable passion the book inspires in Rikka, and it seems the ultimate price of this gift may be hefty indeed...
Honor student Maruka Suzuki hides a dark secret and a death wish. She knows the world is full of monsters disguised as adults, and she's recklessly looking for a creature to turn her to mush. When one such "Groan-Up" saves her instead, she sees this rabbitlike being named Mochizuki not as her executioner...but as some serious relationship material! Girlfriend and boyfriend, human and monster, wielder and weapon-how far will Maruka and Mochizuki go, and what other mysteries lie in store for them?
The boy of her dreams...is a girl's manga artist?! To the eyes of high school student Chiyo Sakura, classmate Umetarou Nozaki--brawny of build and brusque of tongue--is a dreamboat! When Chiyo finally works up the courage to tell Nozaki how she feels about him, she knows rejection is on the table...but getting recruited as a manga-ka's assistant?! Never in a million years! But for someone who makes a living drawing sweet girly romances, Nozaki-kun is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to matters of the heart in reality. And so Chiyo's daily life of manga making and heartache begins!
Mass murderers may not have much by way of careeer skills, but Kuroko Koumori seems to have landed her dream job as a hitwoman for the Tokyo police! A license to kill other killers? That's some serious job satisfaction, right there!
The world is full of vampires, supernatural creatures who drain the blood from humans without mercy. Fighting such beings is the foundation of Isuzu Osaka's life, but with humanity losing the war, desperate times call for desperate measures. To protect his friends, Isuzu sets out to strike a deal with Baroque-a powerful vampiress whose beauty is said to drive all who gaze upon her mad...
High schooler Atami is living the dream. He's got incredibly good looks, and girls can't help asking him out nearly every day. There's just one problem, though-he's into guys, not girls! Even his gorgeous face haunts him, since it's all anyone seems to be interested in. Won't anyone see him for who he really is?
Poison princess Raffy and immortal knight Loren-there never was a pair more suited to be star-crossed lovers, right? Because, well, most of the time when people are around Raffy, they kinda just...die...from her poison emissions naturally. Still, Loren only married her to safeguard humanity as part of a peace treaty with demons, so there's no way he LIKES her. As in, like-likes her. Because even if he never gets killed off forever, when he dies, it must be painful...So why does he keep acting like he absolutely adores her...?
Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynic. He believes "youth" is a crock-a sucker's game, an illusion woven from failure and hypocrisy. Unsurprisingly, he's not the most popular guy. Meanwhile, there's Yukino Yukinoshita-brilliant, beautiful, and chillier than winter in Antarctica. Would you believe she's not exactly beloved by her classmates either? The unlikely pair gets forced into a club dedicated to helping solve their fellow students' problems. But will an ice queen and a screwup really be able to help anybody?
Tomoko Kuroki naturally assumed she'd be popular when she got to high school...but then cold, hard reality swooped in for the attack! Turns out all the popularity points she's racked up in her video game dating sims are worth squat in real life, and Tomoko's far from prepared to navigate high school! How can she possibly hope to impress her classmates when she can't even talk to them?! A new high-school heroine is born (maybe?)!
A kidnapped and blindfolded princess's time in darkness with her silent caretaker. The ten minutes an ordinary woman spends with her tied-up stalker. The last six months a man has before he loses his beloved wife to cancer. These are a few of the moments we share with the characters brought to life by Toryumon Takeda in this collection of seven short stories, including her highly acclaimed "My Wife Whom I Loved Dearly." But what will become of each of them?
The Nebulis Sovereignty and the Empire are embroiled in a war without end. The Ice Calamity Witch, a Nebulis mage of incredible power, and Iska, the youngest swordsman of the Empire ever to become a Saint Disciple, find themselves face-to-face on the battlefield. Each seeks to bring a close to this ceaseless conflict. Little do they know, however, that their meeting will be the catalyst that shapes the fate of the world!
There's something odd about Sakuta Azusagawa, an acerbic, standoffish high schooler who doesn't even own a cell phone in this day and age. And perhaps strange things happen to strange people, which is why on the last day of the Golden Week holiday, in a tranquil library, he meets a wild bunny girl. With that unforgettable encounter, their bizarre and mysterious love story begins.
"For the past three days, there have been two Rio Futabas." After successfully breaking the time loop that he and Koga were trapped in, Sakuta's threshold for what qualifies as "odd" was higher than most. So seeing his friend Futaba in a net cafe late at night should have been downright unremarkable-if he wasn't already on the phone with another Futaba...The ever-logical second-year has a doppelgänger, and neither one can (or will) explain what's caused this sudden case of Adolescence Syndrome. With one of the Futabas staying at his place, Sakuta will have to work fast in order to solve this. After all, who knows what could happen if the two doppelgängers meet?"
"Today...is yesterday?" Sakuta may have cured Mai's Adolescence Syndrome in the nick of time, but now he faces a no-less-harrowing task: convincing her to officially date him. After managing to win that round of verbal fencing, he gets some well-deserved rest...only to wake up "yesterday," with all his progress reset. This inexplicable phenomenon seems to be caused by Tomoe Koga-the self-righteous yet self-conscious schoolgirl who offered up her own butt to be kicked after mistakenly assaulting Sakuta's-and the only cure is to...pretend to be her boyfriend?!
Mugi and Hanabi are the perfect high school couple...but their relationship is built on a single shared secret: They're each in love with someone else.
Togame and her husband are happy in love and want to have kids. There's just one problem: Their bedroom has turned into a no-bang zone! With her raging libido frustrated by her beloved husband's practically nonexistent sex drive, Togame is climbing the walls in search of release...Left to her own devices to get her fix, will fulfilling her needs spell doom for Togame's marriage?!
Minato Sahashi is a rounin, a two-time loser who's failed his college placement exams. Just as he's contemplating giving up and heading home, though, a chance encounter changes his life forever! Enter Musubi, a girl who literally falls into Minato's life! Musubi is a Sekirei, a modified human caught up in a game in which only one of her kind can be left standing. In order to be victorious in this contest, though, she needs to find her Ashikabi (her fated partner)...and guess who fits the bill?? Caught up in battle he barely understands, can Minato survive "The Sekirei Project" and emerge victorious? Either way, with his buxom new cohort by his side, his life will certainly never be the same!
One day, first-class Grim Reaper Lisara, for her own reasons, secretly enters the human world. After searching in vain for her target, Lisara is completely exhausted. That's when Ryosuke Kaga approaches her. To help Lisara out, he leads her out of the rain and to his cozy home, where he tells her, "I will do anything to help you." When Lisara hears that, she suddenly embraces Ryosuke and......?!
This spin-off of the bestselling Haruhi Suzumiya series takes place in the world of the "Disappearance" arc of the original novels, focusing on the high school life (and romance!) of a tentative and bashful Yuki Nagato quite unlike the one you've come to know and love through the usual exploits of the SOS Brigade...but no less charming!