Arina Tanemura's Short-Tempered Melancholic and Other Stories is a single-volume compilation that tells several short stories in which quirky heroines are put face-to-face with experiences they aren't used to having - love and romance. In each of the tales, the main character discovers love in places she least expects it, usually directly under her nose. While all four shorts could easily be labeled as formulaic and their twists and turns as predictably obvious, they all have a certain charm that is likely to leave receptive readers and shoujo fans feeling pleasantly satisfied.
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