Mangas

Amis depuis tout petits, Iku et Keita ont toujours tout fait ensemble, y compris leurs débuts au base-ball. Keita, plus doué, est promu à jouer dans la catégorie pro, bien qu'il ne désire que jouer avec son ami. Mais un jour où Iku est sur le point de se faire renverser par un camion, Keita lui sauve la vie en échange de sa capacité à jouer au base-ball. Même s'il a survécu, Iku n'arrive pas à se remettre de la tragédie qui a coûté à son meilleur ami ce qu'il aimait le plus. Ne pouvant se le pardonner, il ne peut plus rester auprès de Keita. Mais ce dernier ne compte pas perde sa raison de vivre, et pour cela, il compte bien montrer à Iku la proximité qu'il tient à entretenir avec lui.

1. Iku and Keita are childhood buddies. Naturally, having been friends for as long as they can remember, when one started to play baseball, so did the other. During their final year in middle school, Keita's baseball career abruptly ended as a result of the severe injuries he sustained when saving Iku from being hit by a truck. Presently, they go to the same high school. But ever since that accident, Iku has distanced himself from both the game and his friend, presumably out of guilt. What does Keita think about this?It also contains a couple of other short stories such as Utsukushii Asu and Sakura No Junrei.2. The Sakura PilgrimageSugaya believes that guys like Fujishiro, a highly accomplished student rumored to be the next student council president, live in a completely different world and have no impact on his life. That changes one fateful day when he catches Fujishiro making out with a teacher after school. Fujishiro pays Sugaya for his silence, but not without a parting jab at how easily Sugaya's confidence was bought.

Iku and Keita are childhood buddies. Naturally, having been friends for as long as they can remember, when one started to play baseball, so did the other. During their final year in middle school, Keita's baseball career abruptly ended as a result of the severe injuries he sustained when saving Iku from being hit by a truck. Presently, they go to the same high school. But ever since that accident, Iku has distanced himself from both the game and his friend, presumably out of guilt. What does Keita think about this? This appears to be a collection of one-shots.

Touma heard a voice calling to him that day - a voice calling out to him in a dream. That day, Sousuke forsook his family, escaping with the sword that they had guarded for generations. Touma's dreams weren't supposed to mean anything once he woke up; Sousuke's family wasn't supposed to find him or the sword ever again. But once they meet, fate binds them together - and fate has a funny way of sending all such plans awry.

On the school rooftop rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of twins, Shuji Yashiro meets Roku Ichinose, a popular boy Shuji always thought of as belonging to a completely different social world. Unable to take his eyes off Roku’s face, Shuji takes his picture on impulse. The following day, while organizing old photos in the clubroom, Shuji finds a shocking photograph that unexpectedly brings his world a little closer to Ichinose's...

Video store clerk Amamiya Shouta has a unrequited crush on salaryman Shiraishi, but has sex with fellow college student Kuraki. Shouta thinks of them as just sex friends, but Kuraki has a dark and possessive side that Shouta unwittingly brings to the surface...

Nogi is the fearless and respected karate black-belt who beats up bullies without breaking a sweat. But to Fujiwara, he's just "Kei-chan", best friend and object of his secret affections. Can their friendship survive? Or develop into something more?

On the school rooftop rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of twins, Shuji Yashiro meets Roku Ichinose, a popular boy Shuji always thought of as belonging to a completely different social world. Unable to take his eyes off Roku’s face, Shuji takes his picture on impulse. The following day, while organizing old photos in the clubroom, Shuji finds a shocking photograph that unexpectedly brings his world a little closer to Ichinose's...