Hirano Fumi

Life is but a dream. Or is it? How do you know if you are awake, or just dreaming that you are awake? This may sound like a silly question — unless you are a student at Tomobiki High School. Something strange, stranger than usual, is happening at Tomobiki High School, but with wacky classmates like Lum (a beautiful alien princess with a "shocking" personality), Ataru (the…

It seems that when Lum was born, a postal screw-up resulted in a witch friend of the family not getting an invitation to the celebration. The witch put a curse on Lum, that she would never be happy with her true love. In the present, a new amusement park has been built in Tomobiki, and opening day finds the whole gang sampling its pleasures. At a magic show, however, Ataru…

Strange things begin happening in Tomobiki town... When a great cherry tree, Tarozakura is cut down while Lum and friends are making a movie, Lum loses her horns — and her powers! Thus begins the strange adventure...

Lupica, another one of the legion of space princesses that all seem to have found out about Earth in some tour book, appears and abducts Ataru! But Lupica is not after Ataru for his great looks or charming personality (because he does not have either). Lupica's goal is the greatest love potion in the galaxy, which she intends to use to induce her sweetheart to tie the knot.…

Lupa, yet another one of Lum's fiancés, arrives on the scene, and Lum and Ataru have to repeat their game of tag in order to prevent the Earth from being destroyed. All Ataru has to do to win is say "I love you" the three words he has steadfastly refused to say to Lum. Will he admit his true feelings and save the Earth? Or will his pride doom it to destruction? Note: This is…

Lum does not need much assistance going ballistic when everyone in Tomobiki gets an invitation to Ataru's wedding... and she is not listed as the bride! It seems that some 11 years ago, Ataru played "Shadow Tag" with a young girl named Elle and won. Unfortunately, Elle was yet another alien princess; and on her planet, if a boy steps on a girl's shadow, they have to marry.…

Moroboshi Ataru is possibly the most unfaithful, unlucky and lecherous idiot to have ever been born, but for some reason Lum, a tigerskin-bikini clad alien package of sex appeal, jealousy and electricity has fallen for him. The misadventures of these two stubborn teenagers are spiced up by a veritable entourage of eccentric characters. Among these characters is Shuutarou the…

We have met, for each of us to walk forward. Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each…

* Based on a comedy romance shounen manga by Hata Kenjirou.

In the near future a woman named Okamura Aya, or Aa-chan, has been working for two years and has begun living on her own for a job opportunity. With Aa-chan's mother working overseas as a doctor, Aa-chan's father Kouji is now living alone with the family's long-time pet cat Mii-san. One night, Aa-chan returns from a long day at work, and as she rests on her bed, she…