After her parents divorce, An Uekusa and her mother move from Tokyo to rural Shimane. Used to the anonymity of city living, An can't get used to the almost overbearing kindness of the people in her mother's hometown. But when personal tragedy strikes, An discovers how much she needs that kindness.

In 2005 Sand Chronicles was awarded the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.

Kazu is afraid of communicating with people, because she has a bitter experience in the past. Kirishima is the only person that can understand her, and they are brought together.
From Royal Alliance:
"Falling in love with him" is her biggest mistake...After being badly bullied in junior high, Kaze started to avoid getting involved deeply with other people. The one who moved her heart is the number one playboy in the school, Kirishima Kenta. "You don't really smile, do you?"...The unexpected words made Kazu cry...

Kazuna's late grandfather was a writer, and his unpublished novel depicting his private life was found among the articles left by him. He had written down his affection to his lover, while he was a devoted husband. Kazuna felt perplexed, and went to see his grandfather's lover. Hinako Ashihara depicts sweet, painful love in this collection of her long-piece love stories.
(Source: Shogakukan)

Will anyone answer love's distress call? Find out in this funny and poignant collection of short stories!

1) SOS

2) Organ -
A pipe organ is discovered in the debris after the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. What does that have to do with the dreams of two young people in the Taisho era?

3) The Easy Life

A series of oneshots:

Story 1) Kobini S
This is about a girl and her 3 friends that get an offer to help out an old lady for a week (board and food included) for 20,000 yen. During this experience she learns many things about herself, her boyfriend and the old lady.

Story 2) Happy? Happy!
About a girl and her requited love.

From Tokyopop:
When a young girl loses her confidence to dance, she fears she'll never set foot on the stage again. But then she falls in love with an all-guy avant-garde dance troupe and their leader...and everything changes. Soon, her primary goal in life is to join the troupe and snag the guy. So what if she's missing a Y-chromosome? She's got spunk, skill, and passion--and, in the end, she hopes that love will conquer all.

The best stage for a thoroughbred to shine is a derby race. For young Hime and her jockey dad, the day of that derby race was supposed to be the best day of their lives. But during the race, her dad's thoroughbred was hit by another horse and after being thrown off, he was trampled to death. 10 years later, Hime is now a high schooler and has had nothing to do with horse racing ever since that fateful day. However, chance meetings with two guys are about to significantly draw her back in...?

Collection of 4 short stories:

1) Butterfly Cloud
Best friends Kiyo, Kanta, and Goma live in a small, depopulated island in the Seto Inland Sea. One day, a transfer student from Tokyo arrives. Before long Ritsuka, a cute and fair-skinned girl, started hanging out with the three best friends, but what happens after?
This story was released as a oneshot in the Bitter - Nakechau Koi Monogatari anthology volume.

2) Middle School - Less Than Love

3) Middle School - Man Hater

4) Middle School - The Cherry Blossoms Scatter

When Chinatsu falls in love, she falls in love hard. Her current crush is the boys' tennis team ace Kasai-senpai, whom she has liked ever since she saw him on her first day of high school. She joins the girls' tennis team in hopes of getting closer to him, but not only does it turn out that practice is grueling, but Kasai-senpai almost immediately tells her he has no special feelings for her. On top of that, his girlfriend bullies her regularly for getting in her way. But, as Chinatsu's childhood friend Iku says, love earned easily is boring...right?

Life isn't going too well for Yuzuki. She's a 34-years-old and without a boyfriend. The elementary school she works at is close to firing her, and to top it off she doesn't know what to do with her life at all. But even when she quits her job and tries to have an arranged marriage things don't work out. Only the bread she eats at the small stationery store around the corner gives her comfort. So one day, she asks the storeowner to marry her on a whim and to her surprise, he agrees...?

(Source: MU)

Asako lives her life day-to-day? acutely aware of how lonely she is. That all starts to change when she meets Hongo, a boy who thought she was trying to commit suicide and tried to stop her. They form a bond and find how much fun life really is. Until Asako finds out about Hongo's past.

Source: Baka-Updates

Includes two other stories once called Cuckoo's Child and another called 60 days.