A collection of late-period Yoshiharu Tsuge stories, originally published 1981-1985.

From The Back Door: Attorneys Sobaru and Igawa have set up their practices in the same building. Sobaru is always berating the laid-back Igawa, but is he actually just hiding his true desires?

Is this desire for freedom the very thing that entrapped us.Let Dai is a tragic tale of forbidden love and unforgivable betrayal. Set in a soulless neo-Seoul ruled by young punks and pleasure seekers, an amoral teenager named Dai is the living embodiment of the city's beauty and cruelty. As the leader of the vicious Furies gang, Dai seduces everyone who lays eyes on him, only to blind them to his own barbaric nature. When an honest schoolboy named Jaehee rescues a beautiful girl from being mugged by the Furies, he can't possibly realize how this brief encounter will plunge him into a downward spiral of unbridled passion and unfathomable pain. From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act committed against his girlfriend, Jaehee wavers uncomfortably between revulsion and fascination. And in Dai he finds a tender, caring friend one moment and a heartless sociopath the next, awakening strange and unhealthy desires in Jaehee that he could never before have imagined.

Yuki Tachibana, a withdrawn third grader, is convinced that the fourth floor of his school is home to supernatural creatures that few kids (and no adults) can see and he's worried about a recent influx of new, less friendly creatures and about his ability to perceive the true shape of things waning as he gets older. Most of the other kids mock Yuki - they think he's crazy due to his strange pronouncements and peculiar actions - and, aside from the creatures he sees, his only social interactions are with the school's kindly and open-minded caretaker, a new transfer student named Makoto Suzuki who's allocated the desk next to his and an enigmatic boy named IQ who always wears a box over his head.

Gosick takes place in 1924 in a small, made-up European country of Sauville. The story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who is a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. There he meets Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the entire content of the library or solving mysteries that even detectives can't solve. The series mostly focuses on Kazuya and Victorique getting involved in different mystery cases and their struggle to solve them, at the same time forming important bonds with different people. From Fate: Set in a fictional European country in 1924, a Japanese exchange student meets a mysterious, brilliant girl who only leaves the library to sleep. Her brother, a detective, relies on her mind to solve difficult mysteries, several of which draw her away from the library. With a drop of sweet romance, you will immediately become addicted to Gosick!!!

Viewed by some as a monstrous scourge and others as dark gods, the dragons are almost as ancient and powerful as Odin and the other Aesir, and for countless years have lived wild and free, unbowed and soaring across open skies. But things have changed. The dragons have been tricked and enslaved by the malevolent Loki and the traitorous Nidhogg, the Black Dragon. Now, their only hope for freedom rests with those few dragons who were able to avoid enslavement, one of whom was Iris. With ancient fire burning in her veins and hungry for vengeance, Iris has allied herself with the Einherjar so that she might gain the chance to burn Loki to ashes and free her captive brothers and sisters. Crystal Arena is a manga series based on the strategy game Crystal Arena, a story of the legendary Einherjar fighting alongside with the mighty gods in the ultimate battle of Ragnarok.

Every day in Japan, 2500 people die due to any number of causes. Do you think you'll be one of the ones to die? No, of course not. Do you think you'll win the lottery? You'd like to think so, we all would. But Sumida is different. He wants the status quo to remain in every way; live a normal life, get a normal job, have normal kids, never to be anyone fortunate or unfortunate, content in normalcy. Anyone who doesn't agree is foolish, doomed to live their life scraping up a mountain that they can never conquer, fated to die in despair wishing things had been better. When his mother kicks his father out of the house and onto the streets, he thinks he'll be fine. When his mother leaves him to live with her boyfriend, he makes the best of it. When he realizes that he's no longer average, he strives to make his life worthwhile the only way he knows how. When the demons in the back of his mind speak to him, he tries his best to ignore them.

Due to job transfers, Makoto has no choice but to stay at the home of her father's friend for the time being. But there lives a boy who makes her boiling mad!? Turns out he's the king of popularity at school, but he's a prankster who likes to mess with Makoto, and even recently dumped one of Makoto's good friends! How is Makoto supposed to handle this obnoxious brat!?

Can't find a way to break up with your boyfriend/girlfriend? These people will help do it for you.

Aki is a male escort. He takes on customers from the shop. Miyaji-san is an ordinary salaryman who becomes Aki's client. He told him he thinks he might be gay because the person he likes is a guy. Aki suggests that they first start with a kiss, but ends up sleeping with him. He likes Miyaji, so he gives him his number. Then they meet outside the store...

The history is about a half japanese, half italian man in New York, who works as a contract killer for the mafia.

He died, only for a minute. Ryo Minakawa was an ordinary high school student until the day a girl jumped off a building, killing him with her. He miraculously comes back to life but with a new ability to see and hear what ordinary people cannot. Then one day a mysterious girl, Shou Hokuto, shows up and tells him that his half has become a resident of the world of the dead. His previous ordinary life has dissipated, and a new life between the "living" and the "dead" begins.

Based on a series of light novels, Kure-nai is about the adventures and misadventures of 16-year-old Shinkurou Kurenai. Shinkurou is an authority in settling disputes between people, and is one day approached by Murasaki Kuhouin, the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family, asking him to be her bodyguard.

When there is darkness in your heart, when you want someone to disappear, he will find you and grant your wish… Shizuku is used to being the best at everything, but when a transfer student comes to steal her spotlight, she is overcome with jealousy. Hal, a death god, offers her a bargain–he’ll kill three people for her–and by kill, he means he’ll make it so they never existed. All she has to do is say the word. But when Shizuku gives in to temptation, there will be consequences…

From Wikipedia : Two years ago, a pair of idols, Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amō, collectively known as ZweiWing, fought against an alien race known as Noise using armor known as Symphogear. To protect a girl named Hibiki Tachibana, who got severely wounded by the Noise, Kanade sacrificed herself. Two years later, as Tsubasa has fought the Noise alone, Hibiki ends up gaining the same power as Kanade.

K, a robot detective, joins the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force’s Science Division and is partnered with human partner, Shinjo Go much to the chagrin of Chief Inspector Shiba Daizo, who distrusts the Robot. Together they battle the crimes perpetrated by the renegade conglomerate R.K.K. “BADO” (Robot Kaishi Kabukigaisha – Robot Rental Company)

"There’s only one rule: don’t leave this apartment." After his girlfriend was murdered, Takeshi brings the killer, Koichi, back to his apartment in order to carry out an unprecedented form of "revenge". By treating the man who he should hate gently, what does he hope to accomplish? And what is the actual result of carrying out his revenge? A unique book about an eccentric type of "Love".

A scholar with absolutely no desire to study met a mysterious girl called 'Miss Ugly' who had no memories of her past. She resigned to fate that she was destined to be sacrificed to the Huang Deity, but the scholar was determined to save her.

Collection of 4 short stories including: 1. Rinjin wa Chou Chouhana, a 20-year-old college student, is a freely flying butterfly and has never been captured. She always fools around with men and everything seems to be under her control. However, her life changes when she met her neighbor, a 33-year-old man… 2. Suki de Tamaru ka! 3. Datte, Yueni, Hatsukoichuu... 4. Iki wo Kirashite Ai ni Kite

Hanamoto Mika is a shy, self-conscious 17-year-old-girl who wants very much to love and be loved. Hopelessly superstitious and unhappy with her current self, Mika tries to find answers and guidance to her life through fortune-telling and romance magazines. She decides to go on a group date with her friends and meets Takada. It’s love at first sight; at least on her end. Soon after, she encounters Takada coincidentally on the subway, but Mika trips and falls at his feet, then runs away in mortification before he could say a word. They meet again on a second group date, but to Mika’s humiliation, he has no recollection of her from the first date! But he does remember her embarrassing moment on the train. He apologizes for not remembering her and then explains that he had lost his contacts and couldn’t see clearly on that first date. Emboldened by his confession, she shocks him and herself by asking him out on a date! This is the story of unlikely relationships, and the trials and tribulations that await Mika and Takada - and their friends- in their search for love.

The story of two childhood friends - growing up and growing apart.

From Liquid Passion: Takeshi is straight until he sees Kazuya lying naked on his friend's couch. After their intimate encounter, can they find a way to make a relationship work and manage to survive on their unusual part time job? A series of short chapters currently running in Mellow Mellow. From 'Sweet Tale' collection of short stories/oneshots: Story 1. Boy Next Door Story 2. One Heart Story 3. Otoshimono Story 4. Long Way Home

From Nekohana: It all starts when Tomoe's hair gets caught in Kouga's button. Like a red-string of fate they're tied together. Through a twist of that fate Tomoe is forced to work in a house of prostitution lead by the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters/mafia), and who might be one of the Yakuza heads, but Kouga. Funny and dramatic, but more innocent than you think. ^_~

A follow-up to a heavy response to the original yomi-kiri manga by the same title. Good Ending follows the main character Utsumi's interactions with Kurokawa Yuki, a member of the school tennis team, in order for Utsumi to confess his feelings to the captain of the tennis team. It is implied that the title of the manga is derived from the "good endings" that are achieved in visual novels.