[From Manga-Sketchbook]: Female assassins mix sex and death in a pair of hard-boiled well-drawn film-noir stories of love and murder. From Baka-Updates: Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.
The main character is a girl who everyone mistakes for a highly experienced flirt as she gives the most advice to girls on their relationship problems (and because of her cute looks) The truth is, she's no more than a whimpy novice who hasn't even experienced her first kiss yet! (Credit for her advice goes to teen magazines and much research) Her pent-out frustrations were overheard by the school's most outrageous flirt and those two strike up a deal for her to take up lessons to advance in experience...!
(From the publisher's description) The scene is of a heart forgetting and a body learning. When there’s a lot piled up, it’s time to resurrect the figure of the lascivious older brother...?! Other stories include baseball players playing a different game in the locker room, the love/hate disaster of soldiers left behind on a deserted island, and more. With three non-serialized stories plus the sequel to “Koihime”, there are over 100 pages of previously unpublished work in this gorgeous masterpiece collection!! **Be warned: Incest, rape, and pedophilia-Just as the chapters warn!
If people who turn into animals really existed in the modern world, how would they behave? This book gives some realistic, yet unexpected, answers. Nobody is a complete good guy or bad guy--every character is a complex figure, and even the bad guys have some very good reasons for what they do. Leo is an innocent caught in the midst of it all, but nothing like the "helpless killer" stereotype of American werewolf movies--he is a person in control of his own powers, trying to decide what to do with his life now that so much has changed.
Nagisa and Takaya are cousins, both brought up by Takaya's mother since the death of Nagisa's mother. While Takaya is boy with a bright personality, Nagisa feels himself sullied, because his stepmother rapes him on a regular basis. An extra of this story can be found in Yoiko no Sumu Machi.
From Lililicious: Shouji has a girlfriend but is seeing Mako on the side. Unable to continue pretending she feels less for him than she does, she breaks it off with him. Shortly before that happens, Mako is hit on by Mika, who tells Mako that she's interested in both men and women. Mika wants to pursue a relationship with Mako, but is Mako's relationship with Shouji really over?
Taehyun Choi lives with his sister Hakyung Choi. You could say they have a normal life. On the one hand Hakyung has a good job and is successful, however Taehyun isn't good at studying. His life takes a drastic change when he accidentally learns that he and Hakyung aren't siblings. Which is why he decides to confront her, but then she suffers a serious accident and loses her memory. This is where everything will change, because those feelings of kinship will become much more important.
Those who are resistant to death are called "Demi-humans". That day, Kei Nagai, a High school student, should have died in a traffic accident, but he comes back to life shortly after. In other words, Kei is a demi-human. Since then, Kei's world changes dramatically. Terrified and without knowing what is going on, Kei is saved by his friend, Kai. Together, they flee deep into a deserted mountain. Later, a group of demi-humans who are hostile against humans contact Kai… Who is he fighting against? Who should he side with?
Story: Detective Akira Yusa sees his brother Shinichi killed before his very eyes. He spots a young girl, Kilico Sakaki, at the scene of the crime and instinctively knows that she did it. After a bloody fight, Akira arrests her. Trained as a professional assassin by her stepfather, Toshio Sakaki, in everyday life, Kilico acts like an ordinary college student. Her arrest is treated as a mistake when she manages to hide all evidence of Shinichi's murder. Akira's subsequent investigation of Kilico runs into difficulty when he finds that it's too big for a police detective to handle. Her encounter with Akira makes Kilico remember her terrible past and have doubts about being an assassin. Kilico goes to Taiwan to train as a jewel connoisseur, the Sakaki family's legitimate business, behind which they hide all their illegitimate business. Fired for taking his investigation too far, Akira follows Kilico to Taiwan. The two meet again and become very close, as they get involved in the internal conflicts within the Tenrenban gang, Taiwan's biggest Mafia group.
That person just wanted to see ... could it be that there shall be love? Kanae, a student was transferred to a quiet country town. The moment they saw Kanae whole class thought of wanting violarlo.Eso is due to a peculiar condition that has Kanae, being an impossible temptation to ignore. Ougi, being the leader of the class, also has the intention to do so and begins his plan. No matter what you think Kanae, it attracts their environment and protecting Ougi follows, but in the end, there was an act of violation of Kanae by a classmate. Lust, love, friendship, jealousy ... crossings each other's opinions are the events that are drawn in this youth BL.
"I've been feeling strange ever since you arrived here. I'm terrified of being alone again." I was taken by the way he looked at me. He was supposed to be the cold and distant magician, and I was supposed to go back to my own world, but now I don't think I could ever leave his fervor behind... Overworked office worker, Yuno, found herself being reincarnated after she was involved in an unfortunate accident. Before she was sent to another world, G** told her that if she stopped an assassination plot against a prince in this new world, she would be sent back to her original one. Now, as a maid in the prince's castle, she tries to approach His Highness, but instead catches the eye of his cold and merciless magician! Thinking she's suspicious, he immediately starts to investigate her, including every inch of her body! Then, after he reaches her most intimate spot, the stony-faced magician suddenly shows Yuno another, very unexpected, side of him!+
