A collection of one-shots. You can find each story at the page number after its title: 18 Diary (1) From Ochibichan: 18 years old, the final summer in a high school life. Uchiyama Ayako from the swimming club is secretly in love with her classmate Kitamura, and yet everybody knows that Kitamura is secretly in love with his childhood friend. As Kitamura wanted to learn how to swim, he had asked Ayako to teach him. What can Ayako do to express her feelings?! 17's Bible (67) Looking for the Right Star (118) 18 Diary extra (179)
From etc: Eiko is something of a plain Jane and a doormat, while her best friend Moe is a head-turning beauty. Despite their differences, their friendship is as strong as ever. Guys are always asking Moe out, but her answer is invariably "Only if you promise to put Eiko before me.”
Rion is on a mission to find her missing friend Shihoko. Her only two clues are a card given to her by Shihoko and a confession that her best friend was in love with a vampire. Thus she heads down to a club filled with pretty male escorts whom she insists are vampires. Suou, the owner of the club, insists that he doesn't know a Shihoko at all and claims that they are not vampires. So, he decides to chase her out of the club. In order to obtain the truth, Rion throws a very, very expensive bottle of wine onto the ground to prove that she is not leaving, for now she has to work part-time at the club. Later, she realizes that Suou and gang are not the vampires that kidnapped Shihoko. However, in the nick of life and death for both Shihoko and Rion, another group of vampires comes along to save them. So, who are the real vampires now?
Yoshino’s family moves frequently due to his parent's job transfers. He’s finally made his first true friend, but has to move again. Before he leaves, he makes a promise to come back and visit her—before she gets married.
[From Ivyscan]: Miruku gets the shock of her life when she finds a strange person in her bed one morning. Ruu claims to be an angel who has cast a spell on Miruku's family and schoolmates. In return for silence about her identity, Ruu agrees to help Miruku any way she can. One day, a student quarrels with the rest of the class. Ruu tries to put things right with a spell, but it doesn't seem to work on that student...
A boy receives an apple from a fellow student. 8 pages.
Mad Hatter Scans: Unknown to humans, a separate world, populated with supernatural creatures exists beside the world of humans. Some people of that world live secretly among humans, for various reasons. This manga is about four teenage boys, Minami, Shiro, Tohru, and Takaya, who all have links to the supernatural world. They pretend to live as ordinary humans, but they work part time to help solve the supernatural incidents in the human world!
Touu, a half-human youkai with a fondness for sweets, manages a pawnshop in a secluded part of town. Wan Lon, the bad-tempered young man who has become Touu's manservant in return for his help preserving his beloved sister's 'memories', gets all the troublesome jobs pushed on to him. The shop deals in human emotions. Any forbidden or irrepressible emotion that is tormenting the customers will, with their permission, be turned into crystal and pawned. Of course, it doesn't hurt that these beautiful crystals happen to be the sweet-toothed youkai's favourite food...
A collection of historic short stories, each associated with a karuta card. The stories revolve around the red-light district of Yoshiwara, in Edo. 1) Kimori Okuma is a good-natured, sweet girl, but she is unable to find a husband due to her weight. One day, a samurai defends her from being publicly mocked. Is this samurai her chance to find happiness? 2) Kanrobai After her father ritually commits suicide, Asagi finds herself in much reduced circumstances. Some of the girls who work with Asagi bully her, and the high-class airs she puts on don't help the situation. All she wants is a way to get back to the lifestyle to which she was accustomed, but all she has is mistreatment and the company of a strange man trapped under a barrel... 3) Maigoishi Tama is a lost child, and she's taken in temporarily by a family who already has a son, Shirou. Tama can't wait to find her beloved father again. However, finding the place where she belongs may not be so simple for little Tama. 4) Akaishinyo Seiichi is the only one left to protect his princess, Miya. He wants what's best for her, regardless of their feelings for one another. But can he really tell what that might be?
A story about two friends flirting in the summer heat.
From Divine Sanctuary & Midnight Scans: Miko is an apprentice to become a sorceress, but one day, she has to perform exorcism on a super handsome...?!
