Follows the story of Rinko Ikeuchi, the daughter of wealthy parents who's on the fast track to enter medical school, but when her family falls on hard times Rinko is forced to take a job, any job, to make ends meet. When the handsome Sawakura shows up offering Rinko gainful employment she can't really say no, even after she realizes that it involves working as a production assistant in the world of hardcore adult videos.
Continuation of Blood Hope and Blood Trap A man living with his only daughter and grandchild find a mysterious book and accidentally releases a demon that is trapped in the book, the demon offers to grant him one wish, but for a dirty price... 1-blood hope 2-blood trap 3-blood chip
From: MAL The story of a boxer who's been undefeated for nearly 10 years and has thus earned himself the nickname, "Zero."
From Kotonoha: Ayu, a 17-year-old high school student, believes neither in a future nor the happiness it could bring her. By selling herself, she tries to justify her existence, which is as bleak as her heart - it’s devoid of joy, sorrow, love. Not until her encounter with a kind-hearted old lady does Ayu begin to realize the true meaning of happiness…
Chronicles the events leading up to the development and eventual downfall of the Hikari Club.
Lilith is a snow woman who scorns her dead mother’s choice to live as a human being and hide her magical abilities after falling in love with a human man. But although Lilith views mortal men as mere sustenance, what will happen when she meets a handsome man who’s kind and who claims to love her…?
[From Manga-Sketchbook]: Female assassins mix sex and death in a pair of hard-boiled well-drawn film-noir stories of love and murder. From Baka-Updates: Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.
The main character is a girl who everyone mistakes for a highly experienced flirt as she gives the most advice to girls on their relationship problems (and because of her cute looks) The truth is, she's no more than a whimpy novice who hasn't even experienced her first kiss yet! (Credit for her advice goes to teen magazines and much research) Her pent-out frustrations were overheard by the school's most outrageous flirt and those two strike up a deal for her to take up lessons to advance in experience...!
(From the publisher's description) The scene is of a heart forgetting and a body learning. When there’s a lot piled up, it’s time to resurrect the figure of the lascivious older brother...?! Other stories include baseball players playing a different game in the locker room, the love/hate disaster of soldiers left behind on a deserted island, and more. With three non-serialized stories plus the sequel to “Koihime”, there are over 100 pages of previously unpublished work in this gorgeous masterpiece collection!! **Be warned: Incest, rape, and pedophilia-Just as the chapters warn!
If people who turn into animals really existed in the modern world, how would they behave? This book gives some realistic, yet unexpected, answers. Nobody is a complete good guy or bad guy--every character is a complex figure, and even the bad guys have some very good reasons for what they do. Leo is an innocent caught in the midst of it all, but nothing like the "helpless killer" stereotype of American werewolf movies--he is a person in control of his own powers, trying to decide what to do with his life now that so much has changed.
Nagisa and Takaya are cousins, both brought up by Takaya's mother since the death of Nagisa's mother. While Takaya is boy with a bright personality, Nagisa feels himself sullied, because his stepmother rapes him on a regular basis. An extra of this story can be found in Yoiko no Sumu Machi.
