This was Watase's debut work, and because of it's comic situations and plot twists, was a perfect springboard stardom. Aguri Misaki is the only female member of hr high school's judo club, bu she probably wouldn't be there if it weren't for the handsome captain of the judo team, Isozaki. Aguri doesn't even mind that Isozaki can never remember her name and calls her Meguri, as long as he calls her something! A classmate tells Aguri about an ancient Chinese magical charm where if you sleep in the same type of pajamas as your beloved, and place his picture under your pillow, the next morning, you will wake up with him. To Aguri, this is the perfect plan, so she asks Isozaki about his pajamas, and secretly takes a picture of him as he is walking along a busy street. Armed with these weapons, Aguri falls asleep, but wakes up in a different boy's room! The boy, Naoki, is not exactly thrilled about some weird, obsessive, teleporting girl showing up in his bedroom, but Aguri teleports away before he can get really angry. The rest of the story reveals Isozaki's feelings, Naoki's personality, and allows Aguri to grow up a little, and find out the limitations of magical powers.

Pajama de Ojama was first published in Shojo Comic, 1989 Vol #3, and was reprinted in the Gomen Asobase Anthology compilation volume.

Nanako is the next in a heriditary line of matchmakers who have a secret advantage. Using a special pair of sunglasses, Nanako can see the thin red thread that attaches to the little fingers of people who were meant to be together: A quick glance at her on hand shows that her thread isn't yet attached, but when it comes to other people's threads, she can tie them together and create love instantly. She is also doing her best to avoid a connection to the annoying guy, Yugo, who always seems to appear behind her to try to pick her up. A girl comes to Nanako with a lot of money and a request to make a boy named Toyama fall in love with her. Nanako is a good business-woman and accepts the commission, so that night, she and her escort, Yugo, go to a bar in the entertainment district of Shibuya for a party that will include Nanako's client and Toyama. But Toyama is charming and suave, and Nanako is sure she's seen him somewhere before... Nanako wakes up in a drunken stupor only to find that she's tied knots in people's threads right and left, and not the right people. Every now and again she comes across a "natural" match, wher she cannot find the knot in the thread, but for the most part, the relationships that have just started aren't a part of the natural order of events. Suddenly Nanako is busy untying knots and making sure the unusual "couples" (straight boy-straight boy, straight girl-straight girl) newly created will be "broken up" by the end of the night. But she also finds two natural threads attached to her own hand, and at the other end of one is the annoying Yugo, and the terminus of the other is Toyama. Can Nanako shor her own threads out as easily as she does for other people?

Musubiya Nanako was first published in Shojo Comic, 1996 Vol #14-15, and was reprinted in the Anthology compilation volume of the same name.

Aya Mikage is a strong willed high school girl who just received an ominous fortune from a local teller. The fortune teller said her future was ruled by the dark star and would be filled with blood, anger and sadness. Aya's gentle twin brother Aki tries to clam her down, but she is more angry at the fortune teller than afraid of the fortune. But soon odd powrs begin to awaken in Aya. When stopping a purse snatcher who is running across an overpass walkway, she is thrown off the walkway into oncoming traffic. Her own powers break her fall, and a mysterious, handsome man rescues her from the speeding truck bearing down on her. Later, her plans for her sizteenth birthday celebration are crushed when her parents inform her that she and her brother must go to her grandpfather's house to celebrate. The "celebration" looks more like a funeral, and Aya and Aki are presented with a mummified hand. The presence of the hand creates a reaction in Aya's powers but she comes out unscathed, whereas Aki's reaction is both painful and bloody. Aki and Aya's parents are taken from the room, and Aya learns that the powers that protected her from the mummified hand mean a death sentence, and the rest of her family are the executioners. Once again Aya's explosive powers save her, this time from her murderous family. ...Aya is rescued by the team of Suzumi Aogiri and her brother Yuhi. Safely in the Aogiri house, Suzumi explains about Aya's family's history and how a "Woman from Heaven" came down to earth, and the man who found her stole her heavenly raiment so she could not go back. Then the man made h er his wife, and she had children with him. Aya is directly descended from that woman. The Aogiri house is also descended from her, but by an offshoot family, so their powers are diminished. But because Aya has inherited the powers of the "Woman from Heaven," by Aya's family laaw, she must die. The Aogiri family has different agenda... Aya goes back to confront her family, but they are no less anxious to kill her, and in their haste, they shoot Aya's father. This sends Aya's powers into a frenzy, and only the mysterious Toya, who seems to be working for Aya's family, can withstand her powers. Yuhi comes once again to take Aya away to safety, and Toya, in a moment of hesitation, lets them go.

Ayashi no Ceres was published in Shojo Comic, 1996 Vol #17, and is reprinted in compilation volumes. It is still continuing.