KODAMA YUKI

Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job. So the first day at his new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual and the new transfer student, he has always been seen as an outcast and all Kaoru had to do was bear it until the next time he moved. But things were slightly different this time. First, he started to get close to the class president, Mukae Ritsuko, and, secondly, unlikely as it seemed, grew closer to Kawabuchi Sentaro. Sentaro was infamous for getting into fights, skipping class and was an overall bad boy. Strangely enough, the three of them find common ground in music, namely jazz, and Kaoru finds himself actually enjoying the new town.It won the 57th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.Volumes 1-6 contain unrelated oneshot extras at the end.

from cotton candy scans: Aoko is a ceramic painter at Hasami Wares Pottery, when suddenly an unfriendly and unapproachable man named Tatsuki arrives from overseas. Rejecting her way of life by telling her he isn't interested in painted ceramics, Aoko feels dejected, but can't help but be drawn to Tatsuki's ceramics… This is a mature love story of a man and woman, both fascinated by ceramics.

from cotton candy scans:Aoko is a ceramic painter at Hasami Wares Pottery, when suddenly an unfriendly and unapproachable man named Tatsuki arrives from overseas. Rejecting her way of life by telling her he isn't interested in painted vessels, Aoko feels dejected, but can't help but be drawn to Tatsuki's ceramics…This is a mature love story of a man and woman, both fascinated by ceramics.

Tsukina is a high school student who has always felt a certain "strange feeling". A mysterious encounter changes her destiny completely... !

In a small provincial town filled with a spirit of preservation for a traditional performance art called, "Owara," arrives Hotaruko, a transfer student from Tokyo. When a local boy named Hikaru catches her in an awkward stance in - what was supposed to be - an empty classroom, they form a strange bond. What's more, their bond makes way for an unexpected development...?!

Tsukina is a high school student who has always felt a certain "strange feeling". A mysterious encounter changes her destiny completely... !

A collection of stories that revolves around Chiisako and the humans around them.Garden 1: A little girl's unexpected meeting in the 'secret' garden of their new house.Garden 2: A romance novelist and an editor's mountain trip together.Garden 3: A withdrawn teenage boy saves a girl from a crow.Garden 4: The tipping point of the relationship between a young wife and her older husband.Garden 5: An author's precious memory involving a prince.

Collection of stories:1) Moonlight Serenade2) Housekibako no Ningyo3) Nakanai Onna wa Inai (Original: Nagashima Yuu)4) Azami Niasamu5) Tarou6) Yozora no Mado7) Underground8) Kiteretsu na Kare no Koto (Cooperation: Fujiko Puro)9) Nesshabyou