What's a prince to do when Beauty is a Beast ? When chronically shy Hikaru gets cast in the school play of  Beauty and the Beast , it doesn't seem like such a bad role–she gets inside the Beast costume while super-popular Sakon-sempai reads th...

Hikaru's wet hot Japanese summer ! There's a new music teacher at Seika Academy, and all the girls are talking about him. When Ayase-sensei's fingers caress the piano keys, it's like magic. And if Hikaru's daydreams would only come true, those fin...

All Hikaru wanted was a life more ordinary... In the play of life, all Hikaru Takabayashi wanted was to be part of the scenery, but fate had other ideas. When the 15-year-old introvert transfers to an all-girls academy, her new roomate turns out t...

Just as Koki and Tanpopo are about to confess their true feelings for one another, both are called away on family emergencies ! Realizing how much her ailing grandparents need her, Tanpopo is faced with a heartbreaking choice : staying by her family'...

When Koki's mysterious older brother Yoji shows a blossoming interest in her, Tanpopo finds him hard to resist. In order to give her feelings for Koki a rest, Tanpopo quits the Gardening Committee, and without her the club falls apart. Tanpopo has h...

Every club needs to take a field trip, and Tanpopo's Gardening Committee is no exception. Koki gets a tip that his elusive older brother may be living incognito in Hokkaido, so the rest of the group packs their bags and heads north with him. Tanpopo ...

It sure isn't easy being a working-class girl attending the most posh high school in town. Even more difficult is starting up a Gardening Committee in a place where every bit of flora and fauna is artificial (wouldn't want to flare up the aristocrati...

For Tanpopo Yamazaki, life at the elitist Meio Academy seems way out of her league. The daughters of wealthy families snub her, other students make light of the fact that she actually tested into Meio instead of relying on family connections, and the...

It all comes down to this grand finale ! Simmering eomtions reach a crescendo in this final volume. Will Mitsuko choose the younger Reiji of her former lover, the mercurial conductor named Bartholomew ? Reiji is finally on the verge of attaining t...

The conflict heats up between Reiji and Bartholomew ! Torn between her troubled student Reiji and the manipulative conductor Batholomew, Mitsuko struggles with her conflicting loyalties and emotions. Then Reiji's estranged, adoptive mother unexpec...

Love complicates a friendship and a rival turns violent. On the verge of their violin competition, Nachi confesses her love to Reiji, throwing him into confusion. Then Nachi finds herself forced to confront the abuse within her family. Aoi, Reiji'...

Reiji uncovers the truth about Hane's secert past ! Bartholomew, conductor of New York Philarmonic, has taken a liking to Reiji and wants him to join the orchestra when they play throughout Europe. But when the young violonist learns that his new ...