Songs to Make You Smile

Songs to Make You Smile (Japanese: 僕が唄うと君は笑うから, Hepburn: Boku ga Utau to Kimi wa Warau kara, Because You Smile When I Sing in Australia and Southeast Asia), is a collection of five short romantic comedy stories written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya, who also authored the shōjo manga series Fruits Basket.

In "Songs to Make You Smile", quiet, sullen-faced vocalist Atsushi Takahashi prepares for an upcoming performance with his band at his high school festival.

[2] Madman Entertainment licensed the series for English-language translation and distribution in Australia and New Zealand, and released it as Because You Smile When I Sing on 8 October 2008.

[4] At the 2009 New York Anime Festival convention, Tokyopop announced that it had licensed the series for an English-language translation in North America as Songs and Laughter.

[7] Johanna Draper Carlsen, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly, had lukewarm feelings towards the collection, writing that the artwork was "stiff" and the stories emotionally overwrought; according to her, the short stories were unlikely to appeal to fans of Fruits Basket, who she thought would be put off by the false feeling of overdone emotions.