

While reading _Kare Kano_ , I noticed that the extras included in [the
tankobon
compilations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kare_Kano_chapters) seem
to have absolutely no relation to the story of the main manga. (I have just
finished the fourth volume of _Kare Kano_ , so I've read both "The Tiger and
the Chameleon: A Promise for One Week" and "Meet Me Again Tomorrow in the
Forest". The former involves students in high school and has a romance theme,
but it does not seem to belong to the same setting as _Kare Kano_. The latter
is a story of a half-alien, half-human girl's experiences with racism on
another planet.)

This observation was backed-up by some research that I did: the two extras
that I have read so far appear to be works written by [Masumi
Tsuda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masami_Tsuda) in 1994 and 1993
respectively, _prior_ to her publication of _Kare Kano_.

Why were pre-existing unrelated works included as extras? In the past, had
other manga compilations done the same thing? I could imagine this as a means
to "promote" the author or provide readers with bonus content at low cost, but
in other manga that I've read, such as _Fullmetal Alchemist_ , extra one-shots
were clearly related to the main content.


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Why are unrelated one-shots by Masami Tsuda included in compilations of Kare Kano?