Hagio, Moto

Bradbury, Ray

An adaptation of eight Ray Bradbury stories.

1. R is for Rocket
A group of boys dream of one day riding a rocket into space.

2. The Screaming Woman
"When you're living on a street like I'm living on, you just don't think awful things are going to happen. Like shooting, or stabbing, or burying people under the ground, practically in your back yard. And when it does happen, you don't believe it."

3. The Fog Horn
The sea is full of ancient wonders, perhaps even beyond human understanding. And once a year, the sounds of a fog horn reach them...

4. The Lake
Even after years away from the beaches of his childhood, the memories of a young man still remain when he returns.

5. Come Into My Cellar
It seems innocent enough when Mary's brothers receive in the mail their order of mushrooms to grow in the basement, but as the day goes on her suspicions rise.

6. Homecoming
Everyone's coming for All Hallow's Eve, which only serves to remind Timothy how much he feels like the family's black sheep.

7. Jack-in-the-Box
Her house is the world; her deceased father, God. Donna is wildly intrigued by what lies beyond those walls even though her Mother and teacher assure her that there's only death. But... what does "death" mean? 

8. The Rocket Man
Doug's father is a Rocket Man, home at last after a three-month trip. Turns out that working in space isn't as wonderful as it seems, and yet it keeps calling him back.

(Source: MAL)

U wa Uchuusen no U

ウは宇宙船のウ

Kamimura, Kazuo

Maria is a highschooler during the 70's in Japan. She feels that she don't fit in the actual society and leave her home to travel across Japan. During her travel, she will meet men and women, some of them she will love, looking for her place to be.

Maria

マリア

Kobayashi, Hiromi

Browning, Amanda

Rachel likes Nathan, but he thinks she's a tramp. Rachel's grandmother then asks for Rachel's and Nathan's help to get back her love letters which was stolen that could lead to a scandal. (Source: MU)

Hanayaka na Adventure

華やかなアバンチュール

Oda, Mitsuki

Twins Shun and Shu have no luck in love. However, a chance encounter reunites former lovers Shu and Naomichi after their breakup of three years ago. While the two had a budding relationship in the past, things fell apart and they parted ways. Now, fate brings them back together once again. Could it be that the relationship they shared in the past was what they have been looking for all along? Can they both figure out the meaning of true love that they never knew back then? Also includes the stories “Baby” and “Love Star” about an aspiring female pop star.

(Source: Aurora Publishing)

Ai Daro

Real Love

愛だろ

Kunieda, Saika

Masaki Tachibana leaves home in order to escape an oppressive existence with his father. He shows up at his grandfather's house, uninvited, and decides to live there. A garden that he saw in dream; his grandfather and his bodyguard, Harada; an old mansion inhabited by a beautiful, strong-willed girl...

At this point, the curtain rises on a mysterious drama of love and hate!

(Source: MU)

Included one-shot:
Love Letter

Hanazakari no Niwa

花盛りの庭

Kusumoto, Maki

A short all-color work broken into 8 cases and tied together at the end. Short vignettes hanging well over into the eccentric side. (Source: Storm in Heaven)

Ikasama Umigame no Soup

Mock Turtle Soup

いかさま海亀のスープ

Makino, Kazuko

Gotou, Yukio

Momoko is one of the brightest students at school, but the school is a bit overrun by delinquents from a motorcycle gang. In fact, the person who has the next desk has never come to class. Then one day she gets the upper hand on one of these bikers and they actually strike up a bit of a friendship, with the potential for more. Of course, it turns out that he's the leader of the bike gang, and the student in the next seat who has been missing this entire year...

(Source: Animeraider)

High Teen Boogie

ハイティーン・ブギ

Shimazu, Kyouko

A collection of Shimazu Kyouko's short stories filled with human drama.

Shimazu Kyouko Jisenshuu

Kyoko Shimazu Author's Edition

島津郷子自選集

The Abunazaka Hotel isn't a ordinary place. It becomes the heart of its customers and a place you long to return to. The various lodging customers meet the mysterious owner of the hotel and soon they are sucked in by this place between love, perplexity, and decision.

(Source: MU)

Abunazaka Hotel

The Hotel at the Dangerous Hill

あぶな坂HOTEL

Honda, Keiko

A woman sits in the car with a man who is bickering on her dress. Their love is not what it used to be. She wants to break up with him, but she doesn't know how to break it. The car stopped by the traffic light and then there's awkward silent in a car, so she decided to turn on the music and it startled a man. The car loses its control and they accidentally ran over a cat. 

They took the cat to the vet. After waiting for the test result, the vet came out saying that the cat has died. The couple left but the woman, Mami decided to get off the car and runs to the VET again. She asks the vet that she wants to apologize to the cat's body. So the vet let her in. Turns out that the cat is still alive, but is still in a critical stage. The vet, lies because he sees that the man who came along with the girl doesn't really care for the cat's well being. 

Relieved to see that the cat is still alive, Mami broke down and cried. She exchanges conversation with doctors, about the cats condition and how her life is right now. Since then Mami go to the clinic to check on the cat often, and her relationship with the doctor grows.

Old Fashion Love Song

Saitou, Chiho

Cousins Maya and Kazuhiko are good friends. But what happens when their passing thoughts blossom into true love? 

(Credit: MU)

Koibitotachi no Basho

恋人たちの場所

Tooyama, Ema

Chitose is the youngest daughter of the Totsuki clan, known for their vast lineage. Blessed with good looks and spiritual energy, she receives an unending string of marriage proposals. When her older sister, Kuon, lays a trap for her, Chitose is left cursed and transformed into an old woman. Although Chitose always loved children and hoped to become a mother someday, her dreams have been dashed, and she must spend her days suffering Kuon’s abuse, which she bravely endures… until a mysterious man named Kotaro appears before her and declares that he will grant her wish!

(Source: Kodansha)

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