
Wake Up, Girls!: Leaders
Starting from the events of the Wake Up, Girls! movie, the story shows the perspective of Yoshino Nanase and Kaya Kikuma, the leader and sub-leader of the group. (Source: Wikipedia, translated)
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Starting from the events of the Wake Up, Girls! movie, the story shows the perspective of Yoshino Nanase and Kaya Kikuma, the leader and sub-leader of the group. (Source: Wikipedia, translated)

Arata returns to her parents' home to take over the family business of piano tuning. There she meets Kyoko, a woman who seems to refuse to interact with others. She later learns that Kyoko is the daughter of an international pianist. And thus, the two inexperienced musicians gradually deepen their relationship through piano. Moving closer and further apart, they live their lives, reveling in the momentary understanding and cohabitation. (Source: Kodansha, translated) Included one-shot: Asa ga Kuru

The End of Rain was distributed at Comiket 73 by Kogado as a spin-off of their visual novel Symphonic Rain. It is an anthology containing four short stories written and illustrated by various people.

Although hailed as a musical prodigy since he was very young, Fukao Kairi, now a conductor/piano major at a conservatory, seems to have lost his passion for music. He skips class and lessons left and right and has not participated in any major competitions for years. His friends are concerned for his future, but it is only when Kairi meets Miyamura Ruka and encounters her undying love for Shion that he starts to change little by little. This story is about love and its true semblance.




A set of short stories, including: 1. A drunken game of cards leads to some unexpected results 2. Shouji is in love with Miwa-chan who is in love with Shuuhei. A love triangle of childhood friends. 3-5. Introverted Ritsu and extroverted Souta both play saxophone in their school band. But Souta also plays jazz in some local clubs. One day he invites Ritsu to hear him play...

1-6. Like A Rolling Stone 7-11. Byakuya

Inoue is a young student whose secret passion is the cello. One night of drinking, he collapses in front of a rather special coffee whose clients are all fans of music and are part of the orchestra of the city. They immediately offered him to join the band. But Inoue has a problem: he has not learned to read music! He wants to progress, however, especially for the lovely Tamoto. But apparently, she is already in love. How will he get her attention?


The story will deal with Nakagawa's coming-of-age as she dealt with grade-school bullying and the passing of her father. (Source: ANN)

Kotoko gave up the piano because she hates practicing, but she still loves music and the sound of the piano. And now shes met a rough and tumble boy who has some skill as well…

A young girl named Sayoko fascinates people with her brilliant singing voice in the early days of the Showa era. In an effort to make people recognize her, she starts wanting to sing in talkie films. It's then that she happens to meet a piano prodigy, Asami, who disregards her singing as bad!! The curtains rise on the birth of the story of a songstress that glitters with the dreams and love of a young girl in this historical tale. (Source: Tokyo Otaku Mode)


From the Ultimate Manga Guide: Rio Midorikawa and Usou Ogata took violin lessons together. The sound of Rio's violin reflects her talent and has a deep effect on her audience.

The manga revolves around Izumi Kubota, a 19-year-old woman who was born and raised in Shounan, and Reiji Yamashita, a 27-year-old cameraman. The manga follows these two people who fall in love with each other at first sight after a predestined meeting. (Source: ANN)

"89th of the keyboard is played, the most beautiful sound in the world."

The story focuses on the past of Sawa Souda and Kyouko Yakumo when they were students together at Seishou Music Academy (Sawa being a third year, 74th class and Kyouko being a first year, 76th). It also introduces two new characters, Ichika Saegusa of the 74th class, and her seven year old sister, Chizuru Saegusa. (Source: Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Wiki)

Story about three students who want to make music together.


Kaoru Shiina, an ordinary high school student who lives in a tedious town where school is boring and there are no place to go to play, his only salvation is the live house where he watch local bands play. His ordinary life started to change when he decided to buy an electric guitar and met the mysterious transfer student, Michiya Kurosu, who owns a black Gibson Les Paul full of knife scars. (Source: MU)

Mitsuru Fujita, a girl who loves piano, has entered high school and is sharing a dorm room with Kanade Kobayashi, a former rival who used to be proclaimed a piano prodigy. However, Kanade has come to hate piano, because of trauma she experienced when studying abroad. Mitsuru invites Kanade to play a duet on the same piano... (Source: Houbunsha, translated)

Two baby girls were born in the same hospital: one of them is the daughter of an aristocratic family while the other belongs to a depraved household which lives in the slums of the city. However, the nurse-in-charge, Michiko, secretly switches the two babies due to a personal grudge, resulting in a change of fates of the girls from then on. Many years later, the lives of the two girls continue to be intertwined with each other, with the rich Miki ill-treating the poor Nozomi, yet both of them hold similar dreams to become a singer. (Source: ANN)