• DAHLIA NO OBI

    DAHLIA NO OBI

    A young man, about to be married to his childhood love goes to look for his best friend who was supposed to return to the small village for his wedding from Tokyo. When the young man arrives, he finds a note left by his friend and the presents he would have brought.
    The note refers to a night when there was lightning and rain, cutting off the power in his small village.
    Was it really lightning, or could this world be a result of death and ghosts?

    Genre(s): Drama, Josei, Psychological, Slice Of Life

    Updated Time: Oct 20, 2016

  • KUSAKANMORI NO HIME

    KUSAKANMORI NO HIME

    Four short stories:
    - Kusakan no Hime: The varid speculations concerning Kiriko: Evil Spirit, Demon, Ghost, Witch.
    Gossiping concerning Kifune: Stupid, Bisexual, Male-whore.
    She defends him so he decides to ask her out.
    Is there truth behind these words of malice?
    - Haine Yonde
    - Yohane Gasuki
    - Itai Natsume Itakunai Natsume

    Genre(s): Drama, Psychological, Romance, Shoujo

    Updated Time: Apr 06, 2019

  • BANANA BREAD NO PUDDING

    BANANA BREAD NO PUDDING

    Now that Ira's older sister is getting married, who will take her to the bathroom after ten p.m. and sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" outside the bathroom door in order to protect her from the beautiful, androgynous, child-eating clown? Will marrying a closeted gay man help?

    Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Shoujo, Slice Of Life

    Updated Time: Oct 21, 2016

  • WATA NO KUNIHOSHI

    WATA NO KUNIHOSHI

    Chibi-Neko is a young kitten who has been abandoned. She doesn’t know she has been abandoned, and doesn’t know the difference between cats and humans. Indeed, she imagines herself as a human girl and believes she will become human someday. She is found and rescued by a boy named Tokio, who has just graduated from high school. However, he flunked the entrance exams and now is not sure of his future or what he will do. Chibi-Neko soon begins to love Tokio and wants to become a human and marry him someday. But then she sees Tokio with another girl in the park, and sees that he is in love with this girl. She also keeps getting visited by Raphael, a mysterious male cat who tries to tell her that cats cannot become human, they are always cats. What will Chibi-Neko do?

    Was adapted into 1984 anime movie.

    Genre(s): Fantasy, Psychological, Romance, Shoujo, Slice Of Life

    Updated Time: Jun 04, 2023

  • Kinpatsu no Sougen

    Kinpatsu no Sougen

    Asahi Sonorama (2000): 1. Kinpatsu no Sougen : Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again. Enter KODAI Narisu, an 18 year-old home-care worker who is newly assigned to look after Ayumu. To his great surprise, Narisu looks exactly like the girl he had fallen for when he was twenty and he immediately mistakes Narisu for her. Narisu, on the other hand, is trying to deal with her own secret love. She is living amidst the uncertainties of youth, struggling to find her way. Ayumu's happy dream. Narisu's fragile and sometimes painful reality. The story takes place in an old house, where these two contradicting worlds intertwine with each other through their words and exchanges. Ayumu gradually begins to realize what is real, until one day, he decides to find out whether what he believes to be his life is in fact a dream. 2. Yumemushi Hitsujigusa 3. Mizumakura Hanemakura 4. Ama no kaguyama 5. Non Regaato 6. Dahlia no Obi

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    Updated Time: Apr 06, 2019

  • To Joker

    To Joker

    (from wikipedia.ja): Simon was taken in by his uncle, Gilles, an ecologist, after his parents died, but he ended up fighting with his rival Jean-Claude over his cousin Joca, his uncle\'s daughter. Joca, worried about Simon\'s weak fighting spirit, gives him a medicine developed by his father that makes him stronger, but it turns out to be a sex-transforming drug. Simon is placed in the care of his uncle\'s friend in England, and when his uncle shows Simon his own chromosomes, Simon is forced to accept. A month later, Simon was pronounced dead in England. Seven years later, after the death of his mother-in-law, Simon, now named Solange, was taken in again by his uncle and sent to live with Joca. Jean-Claude, who is engaged to Joca, becomes disturbed by Solange as a woman.

    Genre(s): Sci-fi, Genderswap, Psychological, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Drama, Medical, School Life, Delinquents, Slice Of Life, Mystery, Tragedy

    Updated Time: Mar 23, 2023

  • Long Long Cake

    Long Long Cake

    (from ebookjapan): Oo, an alien, appears in front of Kotaro when he wakes up from a mysterious dream. He is transformed into a beautiful woman through a pseudo transformation...? The title story, in which dreams and reality intersect, and six other stories are included. Note: The first one-shot of the bunko is an adaptation of a story by Kenji Miyazawa.

    Genre(s): Sci-fi, Psychological, Romance, Anthology, Drama, Slice Of Life, Adaptation

    Updated Time: Nov 12, 2023