Hanamaru's manga / #Slice of Life(7)

Rich guy, poor girl, idiot brother...cute story Sumi Kitamura is a poor average girl living in Meiji Era. To make it worse, she has 6 unrelated by blood baby brothers and sisters, and an older brother that left the town trying to get away from his debts, leaving them on her. In order to get money , Sumi goes wandering through the streets trying to sell herself for two thousand yen (equivalent to 3 million yen in modern-day Japan). Almost being raped by a man that will not pay, a man suddenly appears, saying that he will pay that amount if she marries him and throws all her love away for money....

From MyAnimeList.net Volumes: 6 Chapters: 34 Status: Finished Volume 1 1. Behold the Secret Candy Plan! No one ever asks Matsuzoe Kie out. She's 18 so her high school life is ending soon! Her friend tells her to eat a piece of candy that works like a love potion. All the guys are into her now, even her good friend Shimon! But when she really falls for him she worries that their love is a lie. 2. The Sugar Free girl and the Banana Pancake Shirakawa Mami (Kie's BFF and cupid) always gets asked out, but consistently turns everyone down. One day she's approached by Tarou, a Jack Johnson loving underclassman, who wants her to test out some sweets. Mami doesn't like sweets but she ends up falling for him. Unfortunately he's already got someone he likes. 3. A Happy Merry Christmas Eve Akahoshi Tomomi (Kie's and Mami's friend) is called in on the day before Christmas Eve to fill in for a volunteer that couldn't come to school to help bake cakes. The only other volunteer turns out to be the student council president, Haida, who is totally quiet and nerdy. The two end up having fun together, though. 4. Lucky Ice Cream Midorikawa Maika (Tomomi's friend and classmate) is in love with her teacher, Yamabuki. She even goes out of her way to be with him and volunteers after school to pick weeds. She thought it'd be just her and the teacher but another boy, Momoya, ends up volunteering as well. Maika confesses to her teacher and he ends up quitting his job. The other volunteer tells Maika that he did it so he could be together with her. 5. Mr. Valentine's Day Chayamachi Hiro completely transformed himself when he entered high school. He's so popular he's called "Mr. Valentine"! When Valentine's day comes around the only thing he can think of is the one girl who gave him chocolate back when he was ugly in middle school. 6. Mixed Fruit Girl Hirashima Ginjirou (Hiro's buddy) has a good friend, Akira, who always steals his thunder. It's especially humiliating because Akira is actually a girl (but she looks like a gorgeous guy). Whenever a girl's into Gin and they happen to meet Akira they always end up falling for the latter. But when a guy asks Akira out Gin gets a little jealous. Volume 2 7. Sweet Escape As high-school graduation draws near Momoya Ippei (Hiro's classmate and Maika's eye-opener) starts to remember all the things he could have done as a student. That is when his classmate Shirakawa unexpectedly joins him on the rooftop to skip classes. They decide to catch up on what they missed and realise that they have more in common than they had originally thought. 8. Fruit Cake Syndrome Haida Emma (Haida's sister) is 11 years old at heart and admires the college student Akira. She tries her hardest to measure up to her prince-like tutor. She eats eats the fruits cake Akira brings, she reads sophisticated books, and she even listens to the same western music. But somehow she still feels unhappy. 9. Marshmallow Therapy Murahashi Akane has trouble talking to boys since she always went to an all-girl's school. But when she sees fragile looking upperclassman Shirakawa in the library, she asks him to practice conversations with her and he agrees. 10. Tiramisu of You 11. Birthday Princess

Summary from MyAnimeList.net Tohru Honda is a high school freshman who is having a serious bout of misfortune. Not only was she recently orphaned with the tragedy of her mother's death, but she also has nowhere to live and is currently residing in a tent! However, when her luck to seems to be at its worst, she meets the Sohma family, and is invited to stay with them in exchange for taking care of the household chores. But it isn't long before Tohru discovers the Sohmas have a deep secret. The family is cursed by the spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, and some of the children born into the Sohma family are possessed by these spirits. When possessed, they cannot be "hugged" by the opposite sex, or they transform into their respective Zodiac animal! However, this doesn't faze Tohru, who promises to keep their secret. She continues living with them, and her humbleness and thankfulness never wanes. As a result, they come to be very important people in her life, and the Sohmas begin to realize how very lucky they are to have her.