Midnight Children

A collection of short stories from the pages of Sho-Comi! Story 1: Side Seat de Daite by Shinjo Mayu Mamii is in love with Sawaii, the person everyone considers to be a dork. When she confesses to him, he tells her he has conditions for dating her. What are the conditions? And is Sawaii the person she really thinks he is? Story 2: Brazen Lovers (3 chapters) by Mio Ayukawa Yuuna's mother moves them everytime she breaks up with a boyfriend. This new place is a real dump. Annoyed, Yuuna heads off to the beach where she meets a very sexy guy. Sou says "Lets always be together." but when Yuuna wakes up he's gone! Two people like this are bound to meet again… Story 3: Feel It, Roast Virgin by Kousaka Yuuka Rika is a virgin and is very nervous about her first night with her boyfriend Yuuya. It doesn't help that Yuuya tries to do it everywhere, outside, at school, he's ready! But will Rika be ready? Story 4: St. Gal Chick Valentine's Day by Ibuki Kaede Mika's school has separate buildings for boys and girls and the girls have asked Mika as a student representative to get them co-ed classrooms so they can spend Valentine's Day with school idol, Subaru. Mika vows to try her hardest, even though Subaru annoys her. But maybe he's not such a bad guy. Story 5: Secret Apple by Toda Megumi Sakura Kazuki and Katou Ryu are lovers who have been meeting secretly for two years. Because they were once step siblings, and their parents had a messy divorce, they can't tell anyone. Will they ever be able to love freely? Story 6: Double Face The Dangerous Classmate by Uchuuda Kai It seems Kuroda has been caught in yet another dangerous situation! The boy; whom she considers rudest in her class, Yuuki; has locked the door to the sport supply closet..

This is a manga with several oneshots. Story 1: Pure Love Strip Story 2: Beautiful Beast Story 3: Morning Waking Kiss Story 4: Daisy by AMANE Yuko Story 5: Lustful Darling Story 6: Love Princess and W Prince Story 7: Yokujyou Nyan Nyan (Alluring Nyan Nyan)

It's a story about an amnesiac girl. But one stormy night, a sudden meeting changes her life forever. While trying to set the pieces of her forgotten life, she starts anew. Soon, her heart is put to the test as a new love emerges, risking everything on the line. By chance, she starts living with a boy-band called RISKY. That's where her adventure of love and discovery begins…

Akira Shiraishi, a young high-school boy with feminine features, joins Blaue Rosen, the all-girl band that Mizuki Sakurazaka, an androgynous girl of the same age, performs lead electric guitar in. Their high-school life is anything but typical: Mizuki is the "prince" of her all-girl school while Akira is the "princess" of the neighboring all-boy school. A series of comical events brings them closer together, even as the prejudice of the people around them tries to hold them back.

1) Teach Me More On her way home from school, Hina is attacked by a pervert on the train! She's too embarrassed to raise her voice, but - she's saved by Kyousuke!? Kyousuke is the hottest guy around, and there's not a single girl who doesn't want him. He pulls Hina off the train, and then… he does more things to Hina than the pervert on the train would have! 2) A Boy's Suggestion Kana is on a mission of love. How pathetic would it be if a senior like her completed high school without ever having had a boyfriend? That's when Takuya, a freshman with a reputation as someone you don't want to mess with, confidently asks Kana to go out with him. She has misgivings about him being younger than herself, but can she be adult enough to overlook it? 3) Lewd Melody, Obscene Fingers Yurika has grown so used to doing what others tell her to do that she never realized she was like a caged bird. She accepted it as a matter of course when arrangements were made for her to get engaged to Satoshi, her controlling piano teacher. That is until piano genius and fringe element Hibiki teaches Yurika how to put emotion in her music – how to fly from her cage – among other less innocent things… 4) Teach Me More & More - How the Wolf Feels Continuation of Teach Me More. Hina and Kyousuke finally go on their first real date, and we learn how the wolf feels about his rabbit… 5) Haou Airen Side Story - A Tale of Happier Times Kurumi's brief dream of happier times with Hakuron.

1. Midara na Senritsu Hiwai na Yubisaki (Lewd Melody Obscene Fingers) by SHINJO Mayu Yurika has grown so used to doing what others tell her to do that she never realized she was like a caged bird. She accepted it as a matter of course when arrangements were made for her to get engaged to Satoshi, her controlling piano teacher. That is until piano genius and fringe element Hibiki teaches Yurika how to put emotion in her music–how to fly from her cage–among other less innocent things… (Also included in Motto Oshiete) 2. Hyoutenka no Maria by MINAMI Kanan A story about a girl named Miona who saved the drunken university student Rikuya from freezing to death. To thank her, he takes her to an amusement park… they get along very well and Miona kinda fell in love with him. Next day she sees on tv that a female student from the same university as Rikuya was stabbed… and she begins to think that it was him… 3. Abunai Houkenshitsu (Dangerous Health Room) by AYUKAWA Mio Fujimori-sensei has a secret that involves the health room. Could he be meeting someone there…!? 4. S no Junjou M no Yuuwaku by KOUSAKA Yuuka Yuu is in love with Makoto, only to find out that her mother is engaged to Makoto's father. Now she must live with Makoto, and his equally handsome twin brother. 5. Kare no Taion Kanojo no Toiki (His Body Temperature Her Long Sigh) by ASAMI Miyabi Yukina is on the same committee as Narimiya. She notices the cologne that he is wearing and stares at him sadly. Could the fragrance be the cause…!? **Also included in [m]Kedamono Shounen Shoujo[/m] 6. Kakusei Full Moon (Full Moon Awakening) by YUUHI Ryuu Yuzuki and Takara are childhood friends and so close that people consider Takara to be Yuzuki's girlfriend. But it's all in good fun–because Yuzuki is eighteen and Takara is only thirteen. Now that Takara's body is maturing, though, the joke isn't as easy to brush off as it once was…especially with a full moon pulling Yuzuki's desires to the surface. 7. Tomodachi Ijou x H Miman (More than Friends, Not Up to Sex) by USAMI Tae Making a confession is the most difficult part in a love relationship. Follow Miku in her way of saying "I LOVE YOU TEPPEI".

Miko is a shrine maiden who has never had much success at seeing or banishing spirits. Then she meets Kagura, a sexy demon who feeds off women's feelings of passion and love. Kagura's insatiable appetite has left many girls at school brokenhearted, so Miko casts a spell to seal his powers. Surprisingly, the spell works - sort of - but now Kagura is after her!

When Akira announces he was a boy in the first book "Ai wo Utau Yori Ore ni Oborero" so does the fact Akira goes to Dankaisan the boys school next to St. Nobora (Mizuki's school). Things start to get rough when pressure against Mizuki dating a boy from that school rise. --- **Note:** Because Shinjo Mayu stopped her job relationship with Shogakukan, she continued her incomplete manga in Asuka and called it Ai Ore! This can be considered a continuation of Ai (w)o Utau Yori Ore ni Oborero! or even as a second series.

1) Let's Make Love!! (Make Love Shiyo!!). (v01 ch1 to 6) Mari Nishimiya is a high school junior who's tired of playing it safe. Less concerned with her summer session and more with achieving the love of a lifetime, she ventures to a foreigners' pub with her childhood friend, Yuuta. There, she meets Leon Gardner, an American dancer with a talented tongue (…meaning, he's bilingual)! While Yuuta disapproves, having an unrequited love for Mari himself, he and other enemies of this international relationship may be powerless to stop it when Leon joins Mari's class as… (!!!) Let's Make Love!! - Farside Story (Make Love Shiyo!! Chou - Bangaihen). (v01 omake). Shinjo Mayu parodies her own work by inserting new dialogue into some of her pages from v01. It's the tale of the Gardner family, where Leon is Papa, Chris is Mama, and Mari is their daughter! Additional curiosities included. Let's Make More Love!! (Motto Make Love Shiyo!!). (v02 ch7). Mari wants to have an adult Christmas with Leon. Why is Leon so set against it? Let's Always Make Love!! (Zutto Make Love Shiyo!!). (v02 ch8). Attending the international wedding of Leon's friend, Randy, has Mari thinking in a new way about her future. But when Mari begins to feel strangely sick and misses her period, the circumstance forces her to make an early decision! But Leon suddenly has to leave for America!? Why?? Mari isn't going to like the reason Randy gives her… 2) I Don't Need Any Scenario! (Shinario Nante Iranai!). (v02 ch9). This ground-breaking short story was Shinjo Mayu's first work to contain a provocative sex scene and to mark her as a borderline pornographer! Read the freetalk to learn more! Yuuya is the manager of the drama club, and he's very strict and exacting about how the student thespians handle their roles. Chiharu is supposed to be playing a woman in love, but there's no emotion in her performance! So it's handsome Yuuya's job to teach her how to long for a man… Was this scenario in the script!? 3) I Want to Be Painted with Your Color (Anata no Iro ni Somaritai). (v02 ch10). This short story is Shinjo Mayu's debut work. Kazumi Inoue wants to be transformed by the magic of a white wedding dress, and then painted in a man's color. The biggest delinquent in school, Kazuya Sakurai, wasn't who she had in mind, though! He's intent on painting her a different color – why? Kazumi will have her wish - a transformation through the magic of a wedding dress - but not in a way that anyone expects! (v02 omake). A whopping nine pages covering a variety of topics. Get a sneak peek into Shinjo Mayu's office, find out her favorite stories and characters, see Leon with a top knot, see Leon touch Yuuta in inappropriate ways, and at long last the burning question is answered: How are chihuahuas significant to this serialization!?

Story 1) I Want to Be Bound by You Ayuna comes to visit her brother at the hotel where he works, but a case of mistaken identity leads her into the royal suite and the arms of Takano, a handsome young businessman. He's Daidou Corporation's ruthless behind-the-scenes manipulator who handles all of its dirty work. Nothing gives him more pleasure than corrupting that which is pure, and… Ayuna is pure. Story 2) Steal My Body Away/ Your Heart, Your Person Terumi and Kazu have been sleeping together at hotels, but the relationship is entirely physical. Can it be called love? This is when Terumi suddenly meets Kyuuji, an intense young stranger who boldly uses her to escape a fight. Because she takes offense, Kyuuji then pursues the fight to appease her. He steals Terumi's heart away, but will the jilted Kazu allow Kyuuji to steal Terumi's body? Story 3) The Devil's Mask Natsuki is content in her relationship with Showa, a boy in her tennis club. That's why she despises herself for drinking too much at a party one night and sleeping with the student body president, Kazuomi. He's a devil and a genius who publicly wears an angel's mask, and he tells Natsuki that if she doesn't want her boyfriend to know about her drunken infidelity, then she'll continue sleeping with him in secret. The secret is in danger of being exposed, however, when Kazuomi joins the tennis club. No, not that secret – Natsuki's OTHER secret. Story 4) Painful Love Everyone is a little afraid of Ryuuichirou. He's a gang leader who hangs out in an alley that Norika passes through each day to get to work. Norika is attracted to his dangerous aura and the gentility he displays towards her, but a painful past haunts him that has the potential to be both spiritually and physically painful to Norika.