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Bookworm Takao and class bully Sawa may not appear to be the best couple, but together, they shake up their entire rural community to its core. In love with the class idol, Takao is given a chance to become a real hero and finally break out of his shell after righting a wrong he committed in a random moment of passion. With the help - or blackmailing - of Sawa Nakamura, Takao is on his way to change his future and enter a world of decadence.

Takao must make a decision. He now has an opportunity to break free from the social shackles that Nakamura has placed on him, as he has a chance to be loved by someone he has affections for. This could also be an opportunity to be accepted by the masses in his small community. But with this choice comes fear and self-reflection.

Takao makes his decision. He will try to win the affection of one his muses. This will be no simple task, as the teens in this manga drama are all now damaged and warped. Growing up without a mother has twisted their hearts. Helping people like that open up may be impossible, but Takao has thrown away his own humanity as well.

Bookworm Takao falls in love with Nanako, but he cannot express his feelings through words. Instead he secretively acts out in a heat of passion which creates a huge scandal in his school. There is one person who knows his true nature, and this girl will do anything to nurture what this Charles Baudelaire hides.

A lonely, bookish teen struggles to find his identity through Charles Baudelaire's poetry until two girls, a bully and the class beauty, help him realize true love and real friendship.

After cracking down on troubled teens in his own school, Eikichi (aka GTO) goes home to the peaceful shores of Shonan to relax and escape the stresses of modern-day Tokyo. However, much like communities across the globe, even his hometown has not escaped the declining state of child services. In typical form, GTO decides to personally provide hard-knocks education to his old neighborhood with hopes of putting a group of troubled teens back on the track towards happiness.

Unfortunately for the GTO, he has run into a buzzsaw in the form of Miki Katsuragi. Miki is determined to rid her home, the White Swan, of nosy, know-nothing adults, and has the financial and political capital to not only have the teacher reconsider his lesson plan but probably send off the straight and narrow entirely.

Onizuka just doesn't know when to quit when his kids' lives are on the line. After rescuing one from the clutches of the underworld, he gets a chance to mend bridges with an old acquaintance. An old partner of his from his high school days is apparently working at the White Swan, also trying to change the lives of children one heart at a time. Unfortunately, her heart might still need some mending from a difficult break up that occurred a few years back along the shores of sunny Shonan.

Onizuka doesn't know when to quit when his kids' lives are on the line. After rescuing one from the clutches of the underworld, he gets a chance to mend bridges with an old acquaintance. An old partner of his from his high school days is apparently working at the White Swan, also trying to change the lives of children one heart at a time. Unfortunately, her heart might still need some mending from a difficult break up that occurred a few years back along the shores of sunny shonan.

Everyone would like to live in a happy household. Being able to sit at the dinner table to discuss the day's highlights is an ideal that is not reality for millions across the globe. In the case of the teens at the White Swan, such realities are generally fictitious for a variety of reasons. That doesn't excuse anyone involved from wishing for such a life, but changing the hearts of adults often means changing their lives at their core. Words or fisticuffs will not be enough.