One day Itsuki chased a cat to a water courtyard at the school which is seldom visited by the students. He noticed a girl by the waterside; it was his childhood friend and kouhai Himari. When he called out to her, that was when his colourless days turned vibrant.
Ai and his childhood friends used to play together as part of the ‘World Defence Club’. But one day, it disbanded and one of the girls changed schools, so they gradually lost touch with one another.
Now the girl who had left, Hiiro, returned and their circle of friends came together once more. However, this time their club name was the ‘Shrine Gate Defence Club’. They give advice to students for relationships, even though they themselves have no experience in romance. As they participate in club activities, they started to think about falling in love too.
It was the year of the cherry blossom, when the flowers bloom longer than usual. This only happens once every 10 years in the town of Misaki, and the spring festival Shikinensai was much larger and livelier. Just like the blossoming flowers, many feelings from the past return to the forefront.
“Seeing nii-san’s smile after two years… yup, this is where I should be”
“I know… he isn’t really like that. So this year I’ll surely … the real him”
“I wonder… if I can do it. No, I must. To regain that relationship…”
“Everything should be perfectly in place. I definitely won’t let it happen again… like that time…”
“It’s been ten years since I’ve returned here. Maybe I’ll meet him again?
It would be nice if I did…”
Their feelings intermingle like the flower petals fluttering in the sky and are the catalyst for the start of a new tale that begins now.
Kyouya finally earned enough from his part-time job at the convenience store to buy the smartphone that he had yearned for. He immediately downloaded lots of apps on to it, but they were all ‘free (with in-app purchases)’. When he began to play them, he couldn’t get far before being forced to pay to unlock more content. He had worked so hard just to get his smartphone, so he resolved to not spend a dime more and set out on a mission to find an app that was truly free.
Finally, he came upon “CUFFS Story’s”, a social game RPG set in the real world using AR (augmented reality) which had been rapidly gaining popularity. He could enjoy the game fully without spending any money on it and he became completely absorbed in it. Before long, he was part of a guild and found out at an offline meeting that they were all from the same school. The bonds that had been formed online turned into ones in reality.
“Starting from tomorrow, you’ll be staying at Aki’s place”
After Kouta’s mother suddenly said that, he ended up living with his childhood friend Aki. Being together with her all the time, he developed some feelings for her. However, he did not know if it was ‘love’.
“Then, how about we try being lovers?”
A trial period as lovers under the same roof. Are they just childhood friends, or something else…?
Ryuunosuke started living by himself this summer while preparing for his entrance exams. He saw a woman in the street who was helping a mother and their child, and he was so captivated by her beauty that he also offered his help. They parted ways afterwards, but he found out later that Hinaki was actually the daughter of his next door neighbour and also his senpai at his school of choice.
He was delighted to have someone suiting his tastes so close to him. Moreover, she also became his private tutor to help bring up his grades. It was like a dream and he was motivated to pass his exam, but then one day she suddenly made a surprising request.
“Will you be my boyfriend?”
It was because she wanted a pretend boyfriend due to certain circumstances, but he readily agreed since he already had feelings for her. An older woman that became first his private tutor, and now his girlfriend. Thus begins their exciting and intimate co-habitation life.
Even though Seiichi was better at baseball than everyone else, he was unable to perform at his peak during games due to his nerves. He trained hard by himself to get over his stage fright, but it only resulted in him overworking himself and collapsing on the scorching grounds. His kouhai Satsuki held him in her arms and told him:
“I’ll become your girlfriend and your manager and support you fully so that this will never happen again!”
Thus, she started helping him with everything, from his practices to his private life. Naturally that includes lap pillows and homemade bentos, but sometimes also having sex.
“You’re too harsh on yourself, senpai. So I’ll pamper you in return♪”
Seiichi was happy for her affection, but he wished to give it his all during training. Satsuki believed in his true strength, but she wished for him to be happier. Their youthtime match starts now!
Chrome is an agent for the Divine Intelligence Agency who had just finished a difficult infiltration mission when he was suddenly called in by his boss for a new task. When he was told that it was concerning the royals, he wondered what dangerous job it would be this time, so he couldn’t believe his ears when he heard what it was.
“Eh? It’s just attending a school…?”
“Correct. They want you to enrol as a student in the human school specified in the file I just gave you. As a human, of course.”
It seems that recently the princess of the God realm was thinking about studying in the human world, so they wanted him to do some investigation in advance. He had hoped to take a much-needed break this summer, but he had no choice but to accept the mission.
“Hey Mister”
Yuuma was walking to the station one morning, when he heard a voice behind him.
“I’m talking to you, Mister”
When he turned around, there was a small girl wearing black-themed clothes and hood despite the heat of early summer. She asked him if he was bored, and he dismissed her as a fortune teller or promoting some religious group. Then, to his amazement, everything around him froze as if time had stopped. At first he thought it was a prank, but he had no choice but to believe in it when he saw that animals also stopped in their tracks.
“This is called the Atropos watch and it has the power to stop time.
You probably notice that the second hand is still moving.
It can stop time for five minutes; in other words, time will move again after the second hand has made five rotations.”
Yuuma wondered why she was explaining all this to him. She thrust the pocketwatch in his hand and left saying:
“You’re bored, aren’t you? Please use it to spice up your dull life.”
They believe that the gods will grant them love...
The charms offered at a certain, ancient Shinto shrine were long believed to grant luck in love and relationships. Recent rumors, however, say that they have the opposite effect - that they are charms of misfortune.
Supposedly, people who carry one with them are bound to break up with their partners, and drive away any potential future love interests...
But these girls still believe...
"I know that it's stupid, but..."
"Deep in my heart, I believe that this charm creates connections..."
"If the gods truly exist... then surely they'll make my wish come true one day."
Three girls, three hopes, three wishes. As long as they believe that the gods are listening... a trio of romances are set to bloom.
When Negi decided to attend university in Tokyo this spring, he was coerced by his grandfather to take care of a small shrine while he was there. After finishing the general cleaning, all that was left was the small pond at the back of the shrine grounds. He looked up at the blooming cherry blooms as he swept the small shrine on the banks on the pond and thought that a tranquil life like this wouldn’t be bad either.
“Thank you for making everything clean. My name is Swati.
Are you the priest of this shrine? I look forward to being with you!”
A girl appeared before him, basked in shimmering light and surrounded by cherry blossom petals. It was an unexpected encounter, like she had descended from the sky. It was from that moment that a brand new story begins.
Naoya and his twin sister Konoka had lost their parents at a young age and had a tough childhood. Nevertheless they still managed to find happiness in the little things in life and wished that these warm peaceful days would last forever. However, this faint hope was mercilessly crushed when a Grimoire suddenly appeared before them. It is a forbidden magic book that has existed since the beginning of time, but which should not be in the human realm. They thought that they were an ordinary family, but they were actually the heirs to the “Old One”, which has the power to destabilize the world.
As soon as his summer vacation started, Hikari was called to the Seishou town office where his older sister Meika and cousin Niina worked. He was shocked when they told him that since they had used the budget for the Seishou Shiosai Matsuri to cover up a previous mistaken order, it was clear that some of the planned events at the festival would have to be cancelled. They were afraid that there would be found out and fired in disgrace, and expected him to do something about it. Meika sensed resistance from him, and took drastic measures. She forced him to dress up as a girl and work as a temporary worker doing PR for the town’s tourism division. Together with help from Niina’s imouto Eiru, will the festival proceed with no problems?
The protagonist is a part-time beta tester at a game developer company which runs the popular VR game Aerial Life. However, there was an unknown bug after the latest major update and he became trapped in the VR world, along with fellow beta-tester Otome, who lost her memories of the outer world. Unable to log out, they had to stay in the virtual world for a while and complete the grand quest. Will he be able to recover her memories and break free from the game?
The former girls’ school Kokoronomori Gakuen recently became co-ed, but girls still greatly outnumber boys. Kazuki is the son of the school’s chairman and serves as the student council president. However, only he knows that his father had disappeared after incurring grave debts and that he is also acting as the chairman. His childhood friend and vice-president of the student council Sara and former student council leader Nanoka began to suspect something was amiss.
At that time, a group of exchange students arrived from overseas. It was another one of his childhood friends, the princess Alize, and her attendant Majoroline. The students’ excitement seeing these mysterious foreigners was palpable, and it became even more chaotic when Arize suddenly kissed him in front of the whole school.
“I’ve always dreamed of the day when I would be able to meet you once more”
Majoroline explained that the school had been formally acquired by the Kingdom of Stanhal to serve as a cross-cultural bridge between the two nations. He was greeted by them when he returned home, and had no option but to live with them since he was saddled with debt. His co-habitation life with the deeply-in-love Arize begins.
Satoru was a delinquent who one day decided to change for the better and aimed to do one good deed each day. He returned to his hometown to live by himself and saved the landlord’s daughter Mikoto from some thugs, helped the lone gardening club member Minato with tending the fields, and did part-time with Yuu at the military shop since they were short on staff.
However, his meeting with the student council president Ruri was somewhat different. The next day, he saw her once more and thought that she had come to thank him, but when he chased after her, he soon found himself waist-high in a pit. She took a picture of him in his pathetic state and left without helping him out.
“Does she have a grudge against me because of something I did in the past?”
Rikka’s dream is to become a servant for his sickly cousin Hai. This spring she joined him at Rinka Gakuen, a school for the upper class, but she caused trouble shortly upon arrival and was confined to a special correctional dormitory known as ‘the prison’. He refused to believe that the pretty and refined Hai would do such a thing, so he dressed as a maid to infiltrate the dormitory as Yuki with the help of the student council president Yukia.
However, when he met her again inside, he discovered that she was actually a carefree tomboy… exactly the opposite of what he thought she was! Moreover, everyone else there had a completely different side! Hai had an absurd request for him: she wanted him to help set her up with… himself. His dual life with doubled-faced girls has begun!
Akito came to Mahoshi Gakuen as a transfer student and got lost as he walked around the unfamiliar vast campus. A girl with gentle eyes, Yuki, called out to him. She showed him around the school, ending at a flower garden where the flowers were still budding.
“Let’s meet here again when the flowers bloom”
Satoshi lives together with a housemaid in a Western-style building while his wealthy father is away on business. One day, she got in an accident and was hospitalized. His classmate Shino was at the scene of the accident and felt partially responsible for the maid’s injuries. She proposed that she will take over the maid’s duties until she recovered. That’s how a girl that he was a bit interested in at school ended up being his maid. It was the beginning of heart-throbbing days living together with his classmate.
On the last day of a study tour to a rural hot spring town, Shunsuke rashly decided to peep at the women’s bath. However, it was a mysterious bath which had been closed to men since the olden times and he was immediately turned into a teddy bear by some strange power. He still hadn’t yet realized what had happened when his classmate Arisu entered the bath.
He was in a panic, thinking that he had been found out, but he looked just like a teddy bear. Arisu took interest in him and took him home with her. Thus began his life together with her, but being a teddy bear wasn’t his only problem. If he got an erection from sexual excitement, he would temporarily return to his human form (and naked at that)!
