nobile's manga / #4*(240)

Short snippet on university dormitory life, two bored guys waste some time while waiting for their laundry to be done washing.

Sempai from the baseball club stopped coming to practice after the team lost on the qualifiers to go to Koshien. Kohai takes it upon himself to bring him back to the field.

A beautiful boy will do anything to keep the man he longs for near. This man designs the shoes for his company, and the boy will wear them anywhere while doing ANY to promote his company and the shoes his most precious person makes.

A boy enrolls in a boarding school in hopes to find his brother, whom he hasn't seen since he was 4, and lost all contact with 3 years ago. While trying to find about his brother's whereabouts, he befriends a few guys that are trying to resolve a certain mystery in the school.

A girl with the gift of giving life to inanimate things is suddenly kidnapped and forced to endure living nightmares, but slowly she seems to be remembering something from her past, something that she wished to forget. I kind of wish the ending were a bit more fleshed out, I think I sort of get the gist, but it feels kind of unfulfilling in a way. CH11

The chair of the cultural department is always butting heads with the chair of the sports department, not only is he more popular than him, but he's even younger! After unwittingly saving his kouhai from some 3rd year persistent girls, he starts teasing him as he usually does, except this time for some reason his kouhai is acting rather meek. Finding himself intrigued by this behaviour, he pushes things a bit too far, but soon finds himself quite captivated and honestly aroused by this new side to his supposed rival.

The young heir to a yakuza family seems to have found a man that is just his type, he seems to be a swindler though. Despite his bodyguard's protest he continues seeing this man, even when that means he'll get in tell trouble with another yakuza family. Second story is about the bodyguard friend and the aftermath of getting his heart broken.

A boy who feels like he's been left alone transferred to a new school and moved to the dorms there. He is put under the care of a Sempai that seems to want to keep his distance from him as well. Turns out the Sempai used to be the caregiver type, but something happened the year before that made him stay away from others.

There is a festival every 7 years, to celebrate the god of the sea; the head miko performs a dance while the doors to the other world open and she becomes engaged to marry the god of the sea. On the last festival, a girl found a boy stranded ashore, nobody knew about him nor where he came from. She felt a strong attachment to that boy, so she convinced her father to adopt him as her little brother. Seven years later, the festival is coming up and the girl is expected to be the Head Miko and perform the dance, but she doesn't want any attachments to anything, she values her freedom, and the boy will do anything to protect her, the ones she loves, and her wishes; even if that means letting go of the one thing he wants to be near.

I would have imagined that the anime was behind the manga, but it seems to be the other way around. At least up to what has been scanlated so far. I do hope the manga goes beyond where the anime ended... Ch 57