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After a very public (and humiliating) break-up with her last boyfriend, things couldn't get any worse for 18 year old Emiko. Things start looking up however, when a good-looking guy stops her in the middle of the street to offer her tickets to an upcoming rock concert. As it turns out, he's just one of three brothers from the Kanita family: Gaku - 18, Youji - 19, and Masaki - 23. A chance encounter with his older brother, Youji, leads to a whirlwind romance. He's impulsive, hot-headed, and even a bit self-centered, but she finds his frankness, though brutal at times, refreshing and she ends up falling for him….HARD. An unexpected turn comes her way however when it's revealed that Youji and Yuri, a close friend of hers from back in middle school, knew each other before she met Youji. They don't seem to get along at all—-what happened between them? Also contains one-shot: "I'm Going to Become That Star" Sanshiro, a happy-go-lucky 17 year old, gets a serious head injury that lands him in a coma after he jumps into the road to save a girl from an oncoming car! During his comatose state, he's told by a mysterious being (aka his pet turtle that died ages ago) that the girl he saved is actually the reincarnated form of the lover he had to part with in his previous life! Well, that's great and all, but the reincarnated form of his lover turns out to be…a 9 year old girl?!

- I Can Hear the Ghostly Drum-Beating The first guy Rika ever falls for turns out to be her older sister's fiancé. However, her sister's dream since she was a child was to be a bride, and ever since her engagement to another guy didn't work out a few years earlier due to her not being able to conceive, Rika swore to do everything in her power to help her sister fulfill her dream. Does that include helping her marry the guy that she's in love with?! - Like Snow Falling on Harbor Yori runs into Kurita, a girl he knew from basketball club back in high school. Back then, she was a quiet girl who had a quirky oddness to her. When he runs into her out of coincidence two years later, however, he finds that she's become an out-going (if not slightly high-strung) girl. A few weeks after their chance meeting, he receives a phone call from the hospital saying she had tried to kill herself, and he finds out the true reason for the drastic change. Includes other stories. This manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo in 2000. Related: - [Osusume Boyfriend](https://mangadex.org/title/f201268f-fdbd-4dd3-9725-d15a56f894ed/osusume-boyfriend) (Contains a sequel to "Like Snow Falling on Harbor")

- Ketchup Mayonnaise Atsushi's bar-tending mom remarries to a rich, strait-laced (if not slightly old) salaryman. They move into their new house, and he can now sleep in a bed fit for a Prince! With the union, they've become one big happy family with him, his mom, his new step-dad, his step-dad's kids Peter and Kurara, and the ghost of his ex-wife….wait, what?! - The Spring of Water Maki should be on cloud nine—she's snagged the boyfriend of her dreams after finally confessing her love for him on the train platform, with a little help from her friend Fumika. They've even passed the half year mark in dating when everyone around them predicted they wouldn't last a month. Why is it then that she's starting to get the feeling that this was all a mistake? - Chocolate Ice Cream Sakura's been in love with Niiya ever since she wound up in the same class as him back in elementary school. Niiya, however, doesn't seem to be as enthusiastic about her. So of course, when God gives her the chance to change her face to one he'd madly fall for, she readily agrees! Who does she become? And does she finally get her man after 14 years of unrequited love?

Machiko should be floating on cloud nine. She's snagged the most popular guy in her grade and she's finally been able to form a close friendship with someone in her class for the first time in her life. But things aren't so simple - the other girls in the class are quick to accuse her of not being serious about her new boyfriend, and bad rumors are starting to spread around the school about her. So when she meets Takaya, a rebellious teenager who's in the same grade as her younger sister, she can't help but be drawn to him, and he seems equally attracted to her. Who will she choose?

Shouko's life is a mess. Her boyfriend's a cheater, a steady job is a phrase that isn't in her vocabulary, and at home, things aren't any better with her mom being so focused on her older brother that she might as well be nonexistant. However, her life takes a sudden turn when she bumps into an old friend from middle school. Her friend, Maki is now a popular mangaka, and when she's asked to help her out part-time as an assistant, she readily agrees. It is there at Maki's house, that she meets Hajime, a budding mangaka/assistant who also happens to be Maki's boyfriend. There's something about him that inextricably draws her to him…

Shima, who is an outcast at her school and unable to get along with her mother’s third husband, decides to move out to Sapporo and live with her father. There she meets Wao and Gen, the most popular and idolized boys in her class. Even though she knows she would be shunned by every girl in school for hanging out with them, she still does it anyway, because she has fallen in love, and she just can’t help it.

A fortuneteller once told her, "Marry the second man you fall in love with." Medical clerk Miyoshi did just that. However, upon leaving a drinking party, she bumps into her first love, Arishima. Feelings reignite between the two, yet Arishima is married and Miyoshi already has an amicable husband…

Yuma is having trouble warding off perverts every morning on her way to school. Her classmate Suwa starts going to school with her, in order to protect her, and the two become a couple. However, Yuma is also interested in her biology teacher who rides the same train as her every morning, and… The work depicts each character's growth and daily love life, particularly high school girls, in an omnibus format with several complete episodes. Content: ACT 1: Yuma-hen ACT 2: Kanna-hen ACT 3: Mizuki-hen ACT 4: Ai-hen ACT 5: Kazue-hen ACT 6: Roku-hen ACT 7: Momoka-hen. ACT 8: Nene-hen ACT 9: Asami-hen ACT 10: Final chapter: Kanna-hen --- - **Won the 33rd Kodansha Manga Award for Shojo in 2009**

At the start of high school, Takae fell in love with Araki. However, Araki just happens to be indifferent to love. Against her better judgement, she begins dating someone else, but that relationship turned out to be a big mistake…What will become of Takae's love!? Includes an extra story: "Yori-chan has a Love That'll Never be Requited" (Sequel to "Like Snow Falling on Harbor" from [A Rose-Colored Tomorrow](https://mangadex.org/title/6382e96a-2416-499c-8c05-48e123531afb/barairo-no-ashita) ) It's been over five years since Yori watched the car that his best friend and Kurita, the girl he was in love with, were riding crash into another car, leaving Kurita in a coma that she hasn't come out of since. His best friend, who had also been in love with Kurita then, has already moved on and found himself a new girlfriend. For Yori though, time stopped that horrific day many years ago. Can his distant cousin, a spunky teenage girl who harbors a huge crush towards him, make him realize that it's time to let go?

Saho, in her opinion's, lived a pretty happy life up until now with her mangaka father and a grandmother she lovingly calls "Granny." Sure, they don't have the luxuries of more wealthy families, and she hates how her father has NO care for his fashion sense when he lounges around in sweats all day, but when it comes right down to it, she couldn't love her home more. However, their peaceful life's disrupted one day when they receive a phone call saying that Saho's mother, who had left her father years ago taking Saho's older brother with her, had passed away. This leads to Mugi, a brother she hadn't seen in ten years, coming to live with them. She has a hard time adjusting to life with the brother she'd only known from faded family photographs–and his selfish and egocentric nature's not helping matters! Will they ever learn to get along? -Also includes "P.S. I LOVE HER" which is a sequel to her 5-volume series "I LOVE HER" (<https://mangadex.org/title/1ea1df64-f6d0-4685-9f3a-4a456e9a49b0/i-love-her>)