Side stories of the "Saki" manga in 4-koma format.
A very short story about Eduard and Carrel who are trying to find their own path to love.
The Akei sisters are a happy go lucky sort of family and their lives are always filled with fun. The eldest, Hotaru, is a college student who is ditsy and is always in her own little world. The middle child, Hikari, is in junior high and her high energy keeps the family together. The youngest, Akari, is only in elementary school but she is the most mature one and is the voice of reason. The Akei family moves into a large condo complex where we see their simple and comedic lives.
When a boy's divorced mother returns from America, she brings a blonde haired girl. "She is your sister," she says, and we are going to live together.
[From DokiDoki]: An adorable allegory about peace and tolerance. According to the author ~ in the future our world has been wiped out more or less by our own stupidity and intolerance: in the world that follows, all the inhabitants are cats who live together peacefully in spite of nationality and race.
Legend says there lives a crow who could speak... but the legend never mentioned how much this crow loves to eat human food?! Karasuma "Karasu" descends to the world of humans and is driven by his longing to eat good food - he even picks up a part-time job to pay for his food cravings. Karasuma, in his human form, visits restaurants, cafes, and eateries all around Kyoto and falls in love over and over with all the different meals and dishes he encounters. Follow Karasuma as he introduces and devours all the fine cuisines that Kyoto has to offer.
Shingo is engaged and his fiance want to meet his parents, but Shingo is reluctant because of a family secret. His mother is in reality his father, he had a sex-change surgery and later married a man, that now is Shingo stepfather. Also Shingo parents own a transvestite bar, his mother being one of the star, the other being all transvestites, one of then having a love interest in Shingo, that is trying to hide that part of his life to his fiance and office coworkers. Shingo also have other secret, he have phimosis, and need to have a circumcision to correct the problem before to marry his fiance. Knowing of this problem one of the transvestites recommend him a doctor that do works for them, and is very discrete. When he goes to the surgeon, the transvestites disguise him as a woman, so he can leave the bar being unnoticed and go to the clinic for the circumcision. The doctor screws it up and thinks Shingo have asked for a sex-change. Seems circumcision is an euphemism for sex-change in the transvestite slag. The surgery is irreversible and Shingo have to start a new life as a woman, working as a OL, and having a lesbian relationship with his fiance.
At the convenience store, "Rubbers 7", the owner, small-time yakuza leader Tounomoto Munenori, has a mad devotion to the sport of table tennis -- so much so that he'll challenge shoplifters to a match. They win, they go free. They lose, they have to work for him at lousy rates. Needless to say, he's a very good player. But one girl, Soeno Natsuki, changes the rules on him... --summary from animenewsnetwork.com
From DrMaster: Experience the robot maid occupation like you've never seen it before in Hanidori Girl. Support Robot: Sally 001 has just been completed by boy technophile Yoshiki.
From Stiletto Heels: What is being sought after cannot be felt even on the fingertips. This is a series about the extravagant lifestyle of a tattoo artist named Gad, and the circle of people who revolve in it. Contains the stories: prologo, macch ia nera, il mio lavoro, balcone, esitanza, Sfortunato, ingranaggio, and epilogo.
