Love controls the world, it's well known...but it's also the principle of the characters in this volume of 4 stories... As stated by the philosopher Pascal, "The heart has reasons which reason does not know..." Story 01: Fall in love with her neighbor, AI will do anything in order to conquer his heart, even if it means becoming his second girlfriend...until where will she go to conquer him? Story 02: You're enjoying life when you meet once again a classmate that you haven't seen since high school, plus you still have feelings for him...but which behavior to believe when this boy seems to have a heavy past? Story 03: Obligated to leave her apartment which she had shared with her friend, Sui was offered to share an apartment with Noboru which does not leave her indifferent. Are the feelings shared? Story 04: Between bohemian life and a well arranged couple's life, Matsuno's heart is in balance... But will she follow what her head or what her heart tells her?

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A collection of oneshots falling on the darker, more depressing side of yaoi/BL. WARNING: Some stories contain incest. Includes: 1) 0.02 2)Biter 3)Trillium - WARNING: contains incest Ryouji is a college professor who is having an affair with Yuzuru, one of his students. One day he asks Yuzuru to live with him, but the next time they meet, Yuzuru coldly breaks up with him. Yuzuru then proceeds to treat Ryouji in ways Ryouji never imagined he would -- as if Yuzuru has become a whole different person. - From Trine 4)Frosty 5)Shunshou Ataisenkin 6)Suna no Shita no Suimyaku

A town is infected by something so disgusting that if someone steps on it, they are too disgusted to remove their foot, leaving them there to die.

(taken from DokiDoki) An office worker married to his job needs a bit of spice in his life and contracts a prostitute on the insistence of his dirty-minded friend. Not caring much for sexual relations, he's not particularly interested in the boy who arrives at his door. But he ~has~ always wanted a cat... Rating: 18+ (explicit, cat ears, businessman x college student)

A master and servant school boy couple. We get to sneak a peak at how this master uke is served in his dorm room. Book 1 in the Voyeur Report series.

Danny is an American teenager living in Japan. He came to Japan to improve his karate, but fell in love with Shinobu, master of a dojo.

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From ADV: With demonic possession on the rise, you can count on Dr. Taima to needle it out! Dr. Taima possesses an arcane ability to adeptly wield the taimashin, needles used to banish malefic and parasitic spirits. Together with his assistant, the lovely Maki Togetsu, Dr. Taima investigates the outbreak of demonic possessions around town that have turned ordinary and unassuming citizens into ravenous monsters that devour anything within their grasp - dogs, cats...even other people! Taima's investigation leads him to Dunwich, Massachusetts, where he meets another needle wielder, Kyogo Ayakashi. As they encounter ancient evils that are best kept secret, how will these taimashin masters bait their prey?

From A Willful Muse & Alice Dreams “Wanna book a room with me?” It was only meant to be some harmless teasing! Aoi’s never even had a first love but now a mysterious boy has accepted her joking offer seriously. From a misunderstanding, Aoi and the boy start a passionate relationship. It’s only physical, right? Or has Aoi unconsciously started to fall in love with him? Tengoku No Tsuki - At an all girls school, Yuuri is the idolized, boyish and tall, upperclassman. With rumors of the "Perverted Hand" flying about the school, what will Yuuri do when her best friend is the next victim? (Chapter 3 continues Tengoku No Tsuki) Protecting Eien's secret and granting his happiness is Yuuri's main focus of her beloved. But how will Eien react to the Priest getting too close to Yuuri during the school play Vampire Lover - Saku Mikuriya's parents divorced and she was left to live with her headmistress grandmother. As she cried of how she was unwanted, a man with golden hair and golden eyes appeared before her. "Then do you want to leave with me?" he offered, they made a promise when the flower blooms, he would come and take her away. 10 years have passed and the flower only buds, but what happens when a mysterious transfer student arrives and he looks exactly like the man she met 10 years ago? Nana is ordinary, plain, doesn't stand out, and totally in love with Shu Aiba, a model and her classmate. What happens when Shu picks her to be his "girlfriend" for his "Tropical Island Vacation with My Girlfriend" shoot?

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From etc: Based on historical setting of Korea during the Josun Age. Long ago, in Jushin, secret royal inspectors named "Angyo Onshi" wandered the country and restored the order. But now that Jushin is destroyed, only one is still wandering...

From Dark Horse: Misaki Saiki, a young woman with a troubled past, is a professional dominatrix in one of Tokyo's most exclusive S&M clubs. However, her real money is something she likes even less than being a dominatrix. Ever since childhood, Misaki has had the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, and that talent is put to use by the Livelihood Protection Agency, who pairs Misaki with Souichiro Kadotake, a martial artist who happens to be deathly afraid of ghosts. Using her gifts, Misaki is able to help troubled departed spirits resolve what is troubling them and allow them to move on to the afterlife. If all THAT isn't odd enough, Misaki is an albino AND a virgin.

Ryo and Akira travel through time in order to eradicate demons that could have changed history. Various periods are visited: from pre-WWII to ancient Greece, middle ages in France meeting Joan of Arc, far-west America, renaissance.

Emi has a friend, Kei, whom she keeps in contact with via text messages. They promised to meet in the summer but Kei didn't come. It turns out Kei has actually passed away! So who has been messaging Emi? And at the same time, Emi meets Kazumi who reminds her of Kei. Who exactly is Kazumi?

What happens when wolf (male top) meets wolf (male top), and both want to do the other?

Poppoya: Satou Otomatsu is a lonely station master of a small station in Hokkaido, situated at the end of the line in a small village with an aging population. The station is due to close in the coming spring, and he will retire with it. One night in his last winter manning the station, an encounter with a young girl marks the beginning of the events that will see him reflect on his working life - performing his duty as a railroad man, whilst enduring the pain of its cost to his personal life. Love Letter: Goro just got out from jail, but a police officer wants to talk to him right away. He announces to him that Goro's wife is dead and that he has to go to Chiba and take her body. Goro has no recollection of having a wife, but then he remembers he married a Chinese woman a long time ago. He married her for her money, and had she married him because she needed a Japanese visa to work. In fact, she's a prostitute who came to Japan hoping to find better life. At first, Goro can't be bothered by this situation, but he goes to Chiba just because he can earn a lot of money. Later on, during his trip, Goro finds a letter she wrote him and through it he discovers the pure person that lies beneath this common prostitute. She is a woman of such kindness and love that Goro is moved to learn something about the woman he married. With those few words of love and tenderness, he understands her fears, her goals, and her hopes for the future -- a future that he knows will never come.

From Tokyopop: A lonely yet caring 15-year-old Chiaki, the half-angel daughter of the Archangel Michael and a human woman, welcomes into her home a dejected devil Ororon who pledges to stay at her side forever. Both of them have been ostracized from their respective celestial realms--Chiaki because her origins are impure and Ororon because he is the youngest son of the Lord Devil and therefore a threat to his older brothers for leadership of the underworld. As various agents of heaven come by to destroy the angel Chiaki, she learns that having the incredibly powerful Ororon by her side is useful. And as assassin after assassin comes to eliminate Ororon, he learns that Chiaki can teach him a valuable lesson about the sanctity of life.

Eratarou Kamegashira is a normal guy. All he wants is to live his high school years in peace and tranquility, hopefully making a girlfriend or two in the process. However, his brother Maratarou is a gigantic pervert. Due to Maratarou's shenanigans, Eratarou has been having trouble making any girlfriends due to being associated with him. However one day, the beautiful Takahara-san asks if she could visit Eratarou. Will Eratarou be able to keep his cool and win the girl, or will his brother cause things to "heat up"? Find out in the Kamegashira Brothers!

[From Manga-Updates] 1) Takaoka has always been smooth with the ladies, but has yet to find someone he truly cares for. While sent to a marriage counselor by his mother, he comes upon Yoshizawa, who works as a matchmaker. A cute twist of fate brings the two lovelorn men together. 2) An extra story about marriage counselor, Yoshizawa, and the shy professor, Takaoka. One too many days dealing with bad relationships makes Yoshizawa question the strength of his love for his man.

From StarryHeaven: Hashiba Rin lives together with her grandpa. One day, while she was praying to the gods at a shrine, a devil calling himself Char appeared. Char who seeks the "blood of a virgin" is perverted, ill-tempered, and pompous. He isn't very straightforward, but the truth is that his kind touch is full of love, and while knowing an unforgivable a love before he knew it, his heart and body grew weak...

Juuza is a total rebel who obeys and bows to absolutely no one, and with his terrible self taught fighting style, he has absolutely no one to fear. Juuza once gave up on his true love since he realized blood relation made a relationship impossible... But now that she is dead, Juuza has a thing or two to say to the man who was unable to protect her.

From momiji_mii's livejournal: A story about a teenage girl whose life has become a living hell because of her alcoholic father. Her mother seems to love her little brother better than her and she feels a lot of pressure because of the circumstances of her family. She's definitely more grown-up than the rest of the girls in her class. She lately feels some sort of connection with one of the bad guys in school, who has been showing kindness to her younger brother lately. He takes both of them to the zoo after the father breaks his promise due to being hungover.