Jinbe is a very subtle and soft tale by Adachi, and certainly it'a story that deals a theme a bit more conflicting than most of his other works. At first sight, Jinbe is the story of a young 17 years old girl, Miku Takanashi, who lives alone with her step father Jinpei Takanashi (nicknamed Jinbe or shark). Jinbe has been living with Miku since his marriage 4 years ago, and considers Miku a God's sent gift from his high school sweet heart late wife. While Jinpei does his best as an over protective and jealous father, we have that Miku holds feelings for Jinbe which are much stronger than the ones an adopted daughter is supposed to have. The main core of the story is to deal how the strong, tender and unrequited feelings of the young Miku put to test their step - father and step - daughter bonds, without jeopardizing any of the happiness that she feels by being close to him as a proper daughter.
From An Endless Story: "I want to become cute for that guy that I like, but... Honestly, I'm not very fashionable. However, I truly want to become prettier, so I am trying my best to fix up my hair and dress. But despite all my efforts, nothing is going right, and my childhood friend, Koudai, keeps treating me like a child! How can I make him say that I'm cute...?" The other story is a oneshot Daydream World about a girl named Kubo-chan who works at an amusement park during the Christmas season.
Princess Aurora,Laira was awoke from coma and realized that herself is not a living thing but a doll.Her fiance,Prince Erique has been killed by a mysterious guy.Laira decided to joined FLAM, a military organization at Pillatus that hunting vampires to revenge her fiance's death.She meets Veltrich, prince at Pillatus who had a similar face with Erique. Nevertheless,in fact that similarity had a prove that he is not Erique. Laira starts to worry if she fall in love with Veltrich and betray her love for Erique.Where is the way of love Laira now?
[From Kotonoha]: Published by Kodansha in 2002 and awarded the prestigious Tezuka Cultural Prize, Fumiko Takano’s The Yellow Book is one of those rare works which you enjoy reading in order to feel the tender familiarity that arises between the protagonists and yourself. This collected volume was named after the longest of the four stories that it contains: a drama about an adolescent girl who falls in love with Roger Martin du Gard’s saga, Les Thibault. The remaining stories capture various fragments of everyday life with tenderness and humor. Through the kaleidoscope of its feminine views, The Yellow Book touches the readers heart by attending to what, in sum, makes up life—the little things of our every day.
Suppose you were so beautiful that people mistook you for a superstar, a model. So beautiful that strangers went out of their way to catch a glimpse of you and shopkeepers offered you things freely. Kyung-hee Goh is that girl. Trapped by the feelings she evokes in other people, she steers through life alone. Boys are either too intimidated to approach her or think she should reward their compliments with her attention. Then she catches the attention of the baddest boy in the school. And that's when the battle really starts...
Collection of short stories: • Kimino Te wa Bokuno Mono (Your Hand Belongs to Me) When his student Kurahashi-kun falls from the sky and lands on Sugisaki-sensei, everyone at school thinks they tried to commit suicide together! Sugiaki is determined to find out why Kurahashi would jump off a roof, but this may be too much for the doctor to handle! • Ranai Sengen (Love Announcement) When his son gets married and moves out businessman Sakurai Yuusuke is very lonely. When he finds a starving kid in front of his house, he takes him in. But who is his new house-keeper really? • Kira Kira Kiseki A play boy decides to make the younger brother of a very over protective older brother his next conquest. Things don't go exactly as he wants though, and he finds himself growing closer to the older brother.
From ShoujoMagic: High school freshmen and twins, Nae and Moe, and Ken and Takeshi, enjoy their lives as students and close friends. Until Moe suddenly dies in a traffic accident...and her corpse disappears? Between the vanishing corpse and a pharmaceutical corporation, her three remaining friends are struck with the reality that something is amiss in their world...
A collection of four short stories.Chapter 1 is the 100-page title story. It's a supernatural fantasy tale about a man with one chance to escape from death, a mysterious woman he meets, and a tribe seeking to find its way back into Heaven.Chapter 2 deals with the mystery of a man gone missing, and presumed dead.Chapter 3 is a very short story about a couple in the mountains who pick up a strange guest.Chapter 4 is a longer story about the traditions binding a family, those that would break away from them, and the dark secret that holds the family in sway.
Summary from ANN: Dorothy is on her way to school one day when she stumbles across a witch's mansion. The witch takes Dorothy as her apprentice, and the girl promptly casts a spell on the witch's nephew (she didn't think it would work). He turns into a werewolf, so now Dorothy must learn enough magic to take the curse off of him. She doesn't seem to have much talent for magic, though....
The prince of heaven does nothing but fool around with spirit-fairies--which his father finds out. Angered by the prince's lack of shame, the King sets a punishment. Somewhere else, far away, a little fox spirit wants to become human and prays to God every single day. What was the King's punishment for his son? What is the only way the little fox spirit can become human?
Our innocent and happy school campus suddenly turned into a bloody battlefield, seemingly overnight. Although we are weak, we cannot be cowardly, because we must survive
From Hyper Parfait: Golden-haired and blue-eyed Heilong is the clan's most powerful and fearsome assasin; however, he left the group with his blind best friend, Pailong. Nowadays, the two of them are doing street dance performances, but the clan continues to hunt for them... to bring Heilong back!
