Ashura Girl is a novel by Otaro Maijo in which the first-person voice of Aiko, a girl troubled by love, races through murder, urban chaos, and even demonic and heavenly realms. Violence, fantasy, and adolescent intensity surge forward in an excessive style.

A girl in love hurtles forward as her voice pulls the world's chaos with it.

Emily is Nobara Takemoto's collection of love stories about lonely young people finding encounter and renewal. Through the title story and others, the book links devotion to fashion and maiden culture with the difficulty and necessity of protecting what one loves.

A collection of love stories about people carrying their own sense of beauty through a cruel world.

Cabbage's New Life is Tamao Ariyoshi's love story about a new life that begins when love can no longer continue, following characters named Cabbage, Kiwi, and Kaho. Its clear prose traces young emotion and shifting relationships.

Cabbage's new life begins at the point where love can no longer be sustained.

The Morning the World Begins follows Ruby, a fourteen-year-old who comes from New York to Tokyo for treatment, meets Keigo, and begins to recover a world of her own. Anxiety over memory and the body overlaps with the feeling of fated love.

A girl with an illness of forgetting finds a beginning in Tokyo.

A Heart Close Enough to Break is Chika Sato's novel about a form of happiness created by three people and the danger that comes from such closeness. It follows relationships in which intense intimacy can be both rescue and destruction.

The closer they hold one another, the more fragile their three-person happiness becomes.

Jumping Baby is Hiiragi Nonaka's novel centered on a trip to bury a beloved cat with a former husband, tracing memories of marriage and the feeling of a new life. Warmth like sunlight enters through bitter recollection.

A journey to bury a beloved cat illuminates a finished life and the life to come.