Yumeka Sumomo

Nagaru, an ordinary college student, suddenly confesses to his classmate Fugimoto. How will things turn out? This is a short but sweet oneshot.

Haneda is an office worker who has become a single father after the death of his wife. He was suddenly left to raise his two children on his own, and he spent his days being pushed around by his children's every move, which he could not understand. One day, his son falls ill on a train and is saved by Kotobuki, a young pediatrician wearing devilish makeup.

Hiyama Nachi has always hated that she didn't tan in the sun like her teammates in the softball club. The difference made her stand out and uncomfortable. Then she met a kind, quiet boy, and accidentally discovered his secret, a secret that made him different beyond what she could imagine!

Collection of stories: The Prisoner in the Miniature Garden (Hakoniwa no Toriko). He has been a recluse for the past 10 years in that big house overlooking a bicycle parking lot. One day, a girl approaches and confessed to him, disturbing the world he's been cooping himself up in. A oneshot of their story. Pinky Promise Princess (Yubikiri Hime). Kiriko is a little girl who makes pinky promises with people who expect her to pay for them, but she looks forward to the day they run out of fingers to make promises with or break their promise. An adorable yet creepy 8 page oneshot. Watashi to Watashi (Me and (the Other) Me). Two girls with the same name; one beautiful and athletic, the other awkward and shunned. But who’s the lucky one?

Toki's had it rough. His parents are out of the picture, and he's ready to give up his education in order to get a job and take care of his sick grandma. When his school intervenes to help him out, he winds up living with the quirky substitute art teacher Itsuya and a mysterious girl named Kon. Itsuya also happens to have a little magic, and she uses it to help out those who cross her path — including the young pair boarding with her.

In middle school, Ichinose Kimitaka taught his friends how to play basketball. Despite his experience with the sport, his friends quickly outmatched him in skill. After an incident brought on by his frustration and jealousy, he was crushed to overhear those same 'friends' discussing how they wished he'd just kill himself. On his way to toss out his special basketball shoes, he met a girl who was just as frustrated, throwing her own dancing shoes away. She was so tall, and her hands and feet are so large, that she had been rejected from her chosen hobby of Spanish dancing. He urged her to give basketball a try, and the two exchanged their shoes instead of throwing them away. As he enters high school, Kimitaka learns that meeting him changed that girl's life for the better, and she is now a happy, social basketball player. Will Kimitaka be able to find the courage to make new friends and pursue his own talents?

Adults–they just don't get the pressures of being babies! Thoughts on growing up from the Kindergarten of Evil students.

A heartrending and heartwarming story about two twins: one who hates everything like himself and one who wishes to keep his promise from long ago.

The flower in Itadori will bloom in the summer, taking his life as it took his sister's but giving others longer lives, but how can he leave his childhood friend Rakka behind…?

From Psycho Pandas: A short oneshot about someone who is taken in from the cold by the only person to notice him, a young man named Taiyou.

A series of romantic short stories drawn by Sahara Mizu and inspired by the music of the Japanese band Sukima Switch. Each chapter is inspired by a different song.

Only in autumn when the dead leaves flutter about can Akino meet the mysterious boy who lives inside the deep blue tree.

I have something I don't want to lose. So much so that these terrible feelings have grown. A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed indiscriminately are sentenced to death. There, she meets a man named Yuu who took the lives of 3 people. A mother's antagonism–a brother's death… Together they embrace the violent rebellion in their hearts caused by the large, deep scars they carry. However, before long, they both embrace an earnest hope in their hearts. "I want to live"… An adaptation of a novel by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young.

Yoshinatsu is a one-shot about a friend that will not be forgotten.

1: The Glasses Thief A cute story about a boy with bad eyesight and the girl who is in love with him. 2: Convenience Store Honey A boy worries about his quiet boyfriend. 3: Adult Uniform A girl wonders why her childhood friend does not speak to her anymore. 4: Refrigerator Chocolate Satoru is going to have heart surgery with a 50/50 chance of survival. One day, he comes across a girl in a refrigerator…

Kazama Masamune, a single 23-year-old man, has a kid? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.

Intent on being an independent young woman, high schooler Himeyuka lives on her own in an unremarkable apartment complex in a corner of the city. But one day, she discovers her ordinary building has turned into something extraordinary! Her beloved “castle” is covered in childish scribbles— - both inside and out! And waiting for her at the end of this rainbow-colored mess…is the perpetrator of the crime—: a little boy named Rozione, who seems to know quite a bit about Himeyuka, though she has no idea who he is. Is he really just someone’'s lost child, or is there a greater mystery behind his appearance?

From Storm in Heaven: Chidori absolutely hates men. For her entire life, she's been forced to put up with a bunch of irresponsible, useless slackers, and she's sick of it. Can one innocent little lie change how she feels about men?

A short 16-page oneshot about the relationship between two high school boys who are incapable of admitting their feelings to each other and the girl who perpetuates their anxiety.

This volume contains two parts, Bus Hashiru and Nanairo Sekai. Bus Hashiru is a collection of five short stories centered around bus stops. In all your encounters with strangers that take place there, isn't there a chance you might discover something you hadn't had before…? A new take on life, or a lost love - nothing is beyond you.

"Are we all really alive?" Shinobu, a high school student, questions as he spends each day just passing the time away.

Due to her uncle's debt, Mozu is forced to marry someone she hates. So before she has to marry him she runs away to see the world before she is locked away forever. While on her journey she sees a man who goes flying through the air, and then disappears. Left amazed she travels in to town and is pulled in to a mountain guide shop. To her surprise, the man she saw flying through the air is now her guide. To HIS surprise, she is the spitting image of his former lover, Suzume.

Psycho Pandas: A cute 4 page color oneshot about a young man who compares his boyfriend to a frog throughout a single day.

A 4 page story about an 8-year-old boy who doesn't understand the difference between life and death and the man who helps him.

Futaba, whose father is an oceanographer, has transferred schools 8 times because of his work. Afraid of eventually being forgotten, she tries not to make any new friends at her new school.

Psycho Pandas: A oneshot about two teens hiding who they are from the rest of society, one perceived as a genius and the other perceived as a delinquent, and how their true selves come together.

The Day I Become a Butterfly There is a rumor going around school that Mikami can “hear” when one’s death is near. Uka has just turned fifteen, but doesn’t know how much longer he’ll live… Will the budding love between Mikami and Uka have a happy ending? You At the End (Hate Ni Aru Kimi) A short story about a guy sick of this world and the silent, unlikely boy who anchors him to it. The Lonely War Can men and women have platonic friendships? Suzu is determined to try. Blue Cat's Tunnel A story about one girl's hope to find a way out of her life… Tokyo Alien Yulala A young student's trouble understanding his classmate makes him think the boy may be an alien. Planet Yours An abused boy has trouble relying on his friends.

A story about a rebellious young man with unimaginable beauty named Hana who dreams of being a swordsman. Due to his beauty, his mother has other plans for him, so he leaves home to become a swordsman like Soyogo who slayed 14 people. Amongst the guards, he meets an enigmatic youth named Hijiri who lives without knowing joy or sorrow. A sweet story about two young men, their dreams, and their blossoming love.  (From: Psycho Panda)

1-3: Same Cell Organism, I Love You, Lullaby In My Hand Nakagawa and Yokota are two boys very much in love with each other. Yokota is more open with his feelings, while Nakagawa is easily embarrassed by public displays of affection. Though they may be outwardly different, their feelings for each other are the same. Their connection is such that they liken themselves to same-cell organisms. 4: The Letter In The Attic Two lonely boys visit a favourite spot. 5-6: To Make An Angel An angel follows a young boy throughout his life. 7: We Selfish Two Sora is in love with Midori, a kindergarten teacher.

Ogata Kiwa is a mediocre male university student you can find anywhere. Not skilled at job hunting, he is always scolded by his hardworking girlfriend Mahiro. Kiwa has a secret he hasn't told anyone about— he carries the "power to make wishes come true". But this dangerous power goes hand in hand with compensations. It's a secret he silently carries inside himself. However, once he opens up to Mahiro about the existence of this power, little by little, the gears of their fates go amiss…

In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact—they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio’s promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri’s mysterious, carefully tended condition. This is a manga version of the film the Place Promised in Our Early Days

To what distance would you go for your one true love? In a future filled with a boundless potential for interstellar peace and prosperity, Mikako joins a research team to explore the recent contact between humans and alien races. She ventures out into space, leaving behind Noboru, the one young man she loves. As she travels deeper into this new frontier, her only connection with her boyfriend is through cell-phone text messages. But the years pass, and Mikako barely ages in the timelessness of space–while Noboru grows older and considers moving on with his life…In this timeless romance between star-crossed lovers in the most tragic of settings, there are some places man may not be ready to go. Summary taken from Manga-Sketchbook.

Miki Tamura can read people like a book. To maintain his happy home-life and to please people, it's a skill he's learned to acquire. But what happens when he meets someone that he can't read so easily?