Dear Valentine, Had we but world enough and time / Just dating wouldn't be a crime. I wouldn't think that it was right / To say that I should spend the night. But at my back I always hear / That sexy teacher slinking near. To get Miss Izumi out of your head / Should I suggest we go to bed? Be mine!

At the annual school festival Takuya and his friends deal with girls, bullies, the geeks from the Audio-Visual Club... and a whole passel of lost toddlers. Then Takuya's dad, sleeping off a few too many after-work drinks, has a very strange dream. And an overprotective parent threatens to destroy the Sunflower Nursery School with her demands for absolute safety!

Sometimes raising a baby is enough to make any overworked junior-high boy lose his patience. But when tragedy strikes, Takuya gets a painful reminder of just how much he's learned to love Minoru. In the two boys' darkest hour, with all of their friends and neighbors gathered to support them, can the bonds of brotherhood prevail?

Don't let nobody tell you there's no future in a life of crime, because some rackets can last forever. But we'll get around to all that immortality jazz later. A mafia turf war is raging on the mean streets of the Big Apple, a place where regular joes bounce between backdoor booze joints and the breadline. But this caper ain't about a simple gangland brawl. It's about hoods who can't seem to die proper after catching a bullet or five between the eyes.

His name is Baian, professional acupuncturist and assassin! A needle deftly inserted into the human body can bring relief and healing. For the defense of justice and honor - and for the right price - it can also bring instant death! This TV series authentically details the street life during the Edo period these stories are street level and often take place in the bars and brothels of Edo.

Sanshiro's been knocked out of the game, but now the monsters that saved his life are in danger! Fue makes the ultimate sacrifice to send him back into the game so he can take down Demon Mask. But will Sanshiro have what it takes to save everyone's dreams?!

One day, cards began to fall from the sky and were picked up by kids all over the world. The cards featured different characters, different environments, and different powers. Kids created a popular battle game, not knowing that these cards actually corresponded to an alternate world called Vestroia - and that their game actually controls the fate of the universe!

The final collection of stories featuring Momo, the beautiful Shinigami. In this volume, a girl copes with guilt over something she was thinking the day before her sister died. A set of twins and their stepbrother cope with the loss of someone they all loved. Then see what happens to a cat who gets caught up in the aftermath of a young romance torn apart by sudden death.

Having a fierce swordswoman like Tamaki at practice every day gives the girls of the Kendo club reason for hope, but this team still has a long way to go. Their sensei is one false move away from losing his job, the team's facing a suspension, and even Tamaki is about to experience the bitter taste of defeat. So will the girls pick each other up and stick together as a team – or will they crumble under the pressure and go their separate ways?

The girls' kendo meet continues with one victory on the board for Muroe High. Despite her inexperience, Miya's ferocious shinai is a force to be reckoned with, and Captain Kirino is no pushover either. It's a tight race until Tamaki reemerges as the bespectacled "Bureiba" to battle in the fifth and final match. But is Tamaki's weak disguise enough to mask her superior abilities?

The Kouga and the Iga, two ninja clans with four hundred years of hostilities between them, meet at the request of Lord Ieyasu. There they learn that the peace forced upon them is to be broken by the whim of royalty, and that the outcome of this battle will determine the next Shogun. The passions of the past quickly reignite as two scrolls are sent out into the night.