Kashiwagi Haruko

Rare Gems: The Complete Collection of Kashiwagi Haruko's Award-Winning Romance Short Stories This anthology brings together six emotionally charged tales from women’s magazine masterpieces: The Breakup (Wakareru / 別れる) A woman steels her heart to leave the one she loves DIARY (Daiarī / ダイアリー) A fiancé’s sudden death reveals his hidden "other" life My Husband’s One-Sided Love (Otto no Kataomoi / 夫の片思い) After 8 years of marriage, a shocking confession First Love Guardian (Hatsukoi Gādian / 初恋ガーディアン) When youthful passion runs at full speed! Naked Ero (Hadaka no Ero / 裸のえろ) An unforgettable, mysterious encounter with "Ero-chan" The Bloomers of Longing (Akogare no Buruma / 憧れのブルマ) The shocking secret behind a fading undergarment’s legacy…!? A heartrending collection where every story shakes the soul—now available in its entirety!

An island in southern Japan, surrounded by a beautiful sea, where the sun shines brightly and a fresh breeze blows. Bambi, a calf born and raised on a farm there, is brought by a strong-willed girl named Hiyori to Koranoshima, an island where bullfighting is popular, and where bulls and cows fight for life and death!　Bambi, who hates it, chooses to become a bullfighter in order to live and not to die, and Hiyori, who loves bullfighting and wants to make Bambi the strongest bull, the Yokozuna bull, in this passionate story about growing up!

Content: Kyoushi Shikkaku - 教師失格 Weekly Big Comics Spirits, Shogakukan - April 25, 2005 Endless Yamada - エンドレス山田 Weekly Manga Action, Futabasha - August 2, 2005 Suzume - すずめ Weekly Manga Action, Futabasha - February 18, 2003 Umezaka Karin (32) no Baai - 梅沢かりん（32）の場合 Weekly Manga Action, Futaba-sha - April 1, 2003 Amauta(Zenpen）- 海女唄（前編） Weekly Manga Goraku, Nihon Bungeisha - July 18, 2003 Amauta (Kouhen）- 海女唄（後編） Weekly Manga Goraku, Nihon Bungeisha - July 25, 2003 Futari wa Kuuki no Soko ni - ふたりは空気の底に COMCUE Vol. 6, East Press - May 1, 1999 Punipuni - ぷにぷに Kowloon Comics Vol.2, Kawade Shobo Shinsha - September 30, 2002 Koakuma Boy - 小悪魔ボーイ Weekly Manga Action, Futabasha -January 2, 2001 Rocket Flower - ロケット・フラワー Kowloon Comics Vol.1, Kawade Shobo Shinsha - April 25, 2001

Three 20-something sisters, Ayame, Kaede and Sumomo, have just about had it with men. Ayame walked in on her husband's infidelity, only to have him leave her for the other woman. Kaede had a crush on a colleague, only to find out he was sleeping with his high school students and keeping a porn stash of their pictures. Sumomo just can't seem to find a guy that's good enough for her. Their lives change the day their little brother Mikio comes to Tokyo to live with them, just after high school graduation. They all become immediately infatuated and aggressively sexual with him. Mikio wishes they would just act like normal sisters, especially since they seem hellbent on ruining his budding relationship with a cute girl named Midori. Will Mikio be able to have a real relationship with a girl, or will his three housemates have their way with him?

In the middle Heian period, a small island called Onishima is isolated from civilization. As a young girl, Torago was playing with her sister, Tana, when she disappears into the sea unexpectedly. However, it wasn't Torago's fault, but the fault of another boy who was playing with them. Torago and that boy grew up with guilt, and later ended up together, but one day a woman who looks like “Tana” appears in Onishima...

Ki-itchi Aiura is determined to find the sword that belonged to his family. But during his journey, our young fifteen years old heroes got lost in the mountains. Yet through it he eventually ends up in a small hamlet of Kebigasawa. Soon, he realizes that women of this place, behave strange to him...Too curious, Ki-itchi duty will be to initiate traditional sexual rites, still in use in this small isolated village.

Shirahase Ayumu is a shy junior high school trumpeter. He isn’t the popular kid, and he has trouble speaking with other people, but when he has that trumpet he feels on top of the world. One day when playing alone in a park after running away from a social function he spots a girl playing the French Horn, whom he can’t keep up with. After entering high school, he discovers that this girl is Seryuu Yuriko, a fairly gifted musician who has attempted repeatedly to give it up because her mind enters a sort of fugue state when she plays, and she doesn’t remember what she does when it happens. She’s big and tough and sexy and angry all at once – can Ayumu bring her to just enjoy music?

Bright 1st grader Maria Hoshino is an unconventional and energetic student who lives her life aspiring to the top of the female ladder. She tries her best to be liked by everyone, but she's only popular with her classmate, Sunao Miyoshi, and that's no fun. When the class representatives for the “Children's Assembly” are elected, one boy and one girl, Maria stands as a candidate. However, the majority of the class is in favor of Sunao...! A story about a girl's pheromones in full swing, as she competes for the position of popular girl!

Stars a female college student with a pretty intense sex drive who has an "H mode" not unlike Rena from Otogi no Machi no Rena, though with a great twist: she's only able to enjoy the sex when she has no romantic feelings for the partner. She used to use her sister's pet dog as her sexual outlet, but the dog has recently died, and being a penniless college student, she can't really afford to buy a new one for herself... which is where the gutless, dorky guy who has a crush on her comes in. He's looking for a girlfriend, but she only sees him as the replacement for her dog; hijinks and sexy times ensue, etc. etc.