Mangas

From pastel rhapsody:This story begins at the end of the Meiji era. A story that creates a new breeze in a rustic long-established kimono store. A long-established kimono store Mitsuboshi (Three Stars) that once showed a great bustle. The third son, Torasaburou Hoshino, returned from England for the first time in three years. Although he's eager to make a new “three-star”, he is not welcomed by the shopkeepers. On the other hand, the mysterious man, Takatou, seems to know Torasaburou is moving independently to rebuild the Mitsuboshi business…

The forbidden love between a samurai and a craftsman.

From Nakama: Sakurai, who works for an ad agency, bumped into a young man on his way home and dropped some business materials and a magazine and they were destroyed. Luckily, the young man happened to have the same magazine and offered to give it to Sakurai, so Sakurai followed him to his house. The young man, Minagawa Youichi, who is a college student, owns a big old house which used to be a boarding home. Sakurai thinks Minagawa is unsociable and hard to get along with but somehow he ends up visiting the house frequently…

The romance story follows a young man who works at a restaurant and a career woman who works at a hotel. The man has taken an interest in the woman after always seeing on the same train together, and suddenly calls out to her.

Fujiwara is a man of unusual tastes—he finds plain-looking, borderline unattractive men appealing. And Karahashi, his lover and middle school teammate, has started to be insecure about this. What will he do to keep Fujiwara’s attention?

Yoshino moves to a building owned by his college friend, Kuga. While hanging out with him, Yoshino starts to admire Kuga for his decisiveness and free style of living. But what if Kuga's feelings towards Yoshino aren't only those of a friendship?

Unpopular model Tadashi and the junior - yet much more popular - model Aki... Even though there's undoubtedly a distance between them but after the day the drunk Aki took Tadashi, Tadashi's heart won't stop trembling...Extra chapter is about their first meeting with each other.

As a child Tanabe was always tagging behind Haruyama, but in high-school after he became a ping-pong ace their relationship is gradually getting worse. Who is the one tagging along for real and why is Tanabe always so quiet? A touching and yet funny story with ping-pong as its background.This volume also contains a one-shot about one very interesting hairdresser and a two-chapter story about a dentist and his fated client.

Upon his father's death, Akihito Kuze became a viscount at the age of 10. His smart, handsome young butler Tomoyuki Katsuragi has since managed all affairs pertaining to the viscountcy perfectly. The talented and charismatic Katsuragi is very popular in their social circle; but as Akihito grows older, he becomes colder and more distant by the day - though still as faithful to the Kuze household as he has ever been.Akihito is now a young man, and desperately in love with Tomoyuki. He determines to discover the reason behind his butler's inexplicable behaviour, and this is where their story begins...