Yoshiie Akihito

Sakura Ueno has recently quit her job and decided to work temporarily in a nursery school at a friend's request. There she meets a whole lot of cute kids including a girl named Ai. Shindo, the girl's father, often comes to pick her up late after school. Seeing him pick up his daughter triggers a memory of her own father, following this, changes happen…

Frappé d'immortalité, Manji la fine lame accepte de devenir le garde du corps d'une jeune fille et promet de venger sa famille assassinée.

A reporter is sent through time and space to document the lives of Japanese people at various times in history. This time, he is sent to unwrap the mystery of Azuchi castle which was built by Oda Nobunaga, one of the most famous shogun of all times, and lost within merely three years after its completion.

Les jeunes amants Mari et Atsushi s'enfuient dans la grande ville qu'est Tokyo. Malheureusement, lorsqu'ils manquent d'argent, ils doivent tous les deux faire des choix difficiles. Mari trouve un job vente de « Party Tickets » (pour les soirées échangistes), avant d'être entraînée dans l'industrie du sexe pour joindre les deux bouts. Pendant ce temps, Atsushi devient un « Scout Man » - en fait un agent de recrutement pour l'industrie du sexe (c'est-à-dire recruter de jeunes femmes pour des mannequins nues, des films porno, etc.). Les conséquences de leurs décisions respectives finiront par faire des ravages sur leur jeune vie.

L'inspecteur Kazuma Asano rencontre le modèle Rena Kurusu qui possède une capacité particulière, elle a des visions de crimes. Ils s'associent pour résoudre ensemble des affaires difficiles.

Haga Ineko stopped being a school teacher for she was about to get married. When she is suddenly dumped by her to-be husband, she loses her way, and starts drinking. One day, an old friend approaches with a job offer. She would be a substitute teacher in a class on which several teachers gave up without an apparent reason. She reluctantly takes the job only to discover that there are several brutal bullying cases inside the class. Even she eventually starts being anonymously threatened due to her opposing posture against such cases. She now has to identify and reprimand them while at the same time protecting weaker students. The word "Hagane" on the title is a nickname which comes from Haga (her surname) and Ne (from Ineko, her name), but is actually a pun with the actual word hagane (which means steel, denoting how she must be in order to resist as a teacher). (d-addicts.com)