Toma, a popular member of the trending princely idol group Mellow Crown... Akito, the arrogant bad boy member of the wild idol group Dishy... After a big scandal Akito's being made to put on his best behavior, throwing the whole group out of whack. He seems uninterested in everything and even a bit boring! Toma's been his biggest fan for the longest time and can't stop craving to see that angry, arrogant attitude come back. Time to take things into his own hands! "You were so boring it was hard to watch." Akito, furious over the harsh comments, gives Toma the opening he's always wanted: devise a secret plan to bring Akito back as the best bad-boy idol out there. However, Akito might have misinterpreted the "secret" part of the plan... since when did "secret" mean "sexy favors"?!
Toma Sugawa is a cool-headed, unsociable businessman. For some reason, he's not in a relationship, and he spends his life watching the days go by. One thing that has become a part of his daily routine is waking up one of the tenants in his grandfather's apartment complex. That tenant is Kaoru Aida. He has countless alarms go off, and still doesn't wake up until Toma comes in to wake him. On top of that, he asks Toma to wake him up the next morning, without a lick of remorse. With an attitude like that, of course Toma is on the verge of snapping. But one day, Toma goes to wake him up as usual, and Kaoru, still sleepy, pushes him down?! Enjoy this clumsy, blooming love story between an inconsiderate guy and a guy still stuck on his ex!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "The Seduction of the Deep Sleeper"
The son of the president of a company, Makoto Saionji, has a secret crush. It's Kohei Azuma, the president's secretary, and it was love at first sight. Azuma has only been at the company for 2 years, but he's known to be very capable. One day, Azuma gets appointed to be his mentor! Excited, Makoto tells his twin sister Mami about this. Little did he know that this would be the start of an unusual experience... Mami's curse turns Makoto into a doll in front of Azuma?!
Toa is a "jewel child". When he cries, his tears turn into gems. With no memory of his past, blind, and working at a brothel, he lives a miserable life. One day, he is bought by a man named Rio, the eldest son of a lord, who is bound by tradition to marry a jewel child. At their first meeting, Toa is bewildered by Rio's cold dismissal as he tells Toa he will never love him. And yet, Toa feels a sense of familiarity in Rio's voice. Rio also senses the likeness of his childhood fiance, who vanished without a trace, in Toa...
An orphan named Noah is tricked by a friend and ends up being sold in an auction. The man who successfully bid on him for two hundred million was Gilbert, an entrepreneur rumored to be cruel and merciless. Noah is sure he would be treated terribly, but instead, he is taught the pleasures he had never known through having sex for the first time. He wanted to go home so badly, but after feeling Gilbert's awkward kindness and finding out the true reason for buying him, Noah's determination to escape wavers... *This story contains material that may be distressing for some readers.
Beginning Chapter 11 is a spin-off focusing on Amamiya, the guy who was trying to get between Haruhisa and Io, and a new character, Komatora!
Kitazono Haruhisa has always been popular with the ladies! But then underclassman Io appears, and all the girls including Haru's girlfriend leave him to fawn over Io. An annoyance at first, Io is soon smitten with Haru thanks to a certain incident. He's good-looking enough to get more girls than Haru, but this dang pretty boy Io just trails after Haru like a loyal pet and gazes at him so passionately... That's nothing to feel good about!! These past ten years, Haru has let Io's affection go to his head, but now...?
"That does it; my life is over now, for sure...!" -- Though he's good at his job, due to a stubborn streak and an overly serious attitude, office worker Sakura tends to take on too much. But he has a secret - after sunset on the weekends, he becomes "someone else." However, his junior coworker Arima sees him in this other form, and Sakura even gets stuck sharing his secret with the guy...!! Can straight-laced, earnest, bespectacled Sakura handle the onslaught from his blank-faced, pushy junior on top of all the rest of his stress?!
One day, my older brother came home with a young coworker, and I'd never seen someone so innocently, earnestly, uselessly in love as this guy was. What does he mean, just looking is enough for him? Getting off is obviously the better option here. His attitude was a novelty to me, as a notorious slut (and card-carrying bottom to boot). So at first it was out of curiosity, plain and simple, that I laid hands on him without a second thought (figured I'd let him show me the sexual side he can't show to the one he so virtuously loves). That was the idea, at least...
High school sweethearts Akiharu and Teru were as happy as could be. However, those happy days did not last for very long. Teru, who was aiming to become a professional soccer player, had an unexpected accident one day... After losing out on his soccer career, Teru began to grow sullen and mean, almost like he'd become another person, and finally the damage spread to Akiharu, too... "I'm telling you to go sleep with another guy!" Following that order from his beloved boyfriend Teru, Akiharu smothered the pain in his heart and set out for a gay bar...
Playboy Yamada and earnest Takahashi. Oddly comfortable around each other despite being complete opposites, these two were always together. They took it for granted that those days they shared would go on forever, and yet... Even after going their separate ways, they often overhear gossip about each other. The passage of these two years has only deepened and complicated their feelings. They cross paths again, and in that moment, what course of action do they take...?
After splitting up with his friend with benefits, he's just been building up stress with no outlet, and so police officer Ritsu spends every day working at the neighborhood police station bursting with irritation. When a chance encounter brings him to Naoya - a man who's got Ritsu's ideal "package" - his irritated mood does a complete one-eighty. His skin is glowing, his spirits are high, and everything's coming up roses... or so he thought?!
Sumito Kayashima, a wealthy man from a long-esteemed family, passes his days in solitude. It is hard to say what our Mr. Kayashima was thinking when he suddenly visited his gardener's home... and confessed that he was in love. Angered by this high-handed and unilateral attempt at courtship, the gardener made Mr. Kayashima a cruel demand...
The wealthy Mr. Kayashima has a fine pedigree and a vast family fortune, with which he leads a solitary and idle life. Having wanted for nothing until now, our Mr. Kayashima has found an object of desire for the first time - an arrogant gardener with neither status nor fortune!
Born to a family of high standing and in possession of extraordinary wealth, Mr. Kayashima is a man of great means. He is indifferent to the ways of the world outside his mansion and rarely given to passionate emotion. And yet, our Mr. Kayashima has suddenly barged in on a visit home taken by the gardener with whom he is having a secret love affair...! In this volume: after sneaking along to the gardener's family home, a night of summer fireworks; the sweet ache of mistaken intentions in autumn; and a joyful Christmas spent in a wintry garden...
Long ago, in the Edo period -- Abandoned by his master due to the two bumps which appeared on his forehead, male prostitute Shion was taken in by a doctor who grows medicinal plants for the province. Shion, both his means of earning a living and his reason to live now lost, tries to win the doctor's favor with his body in hopes of gaining a new purpose and livelihood...
"Be my partner!" - Aiming to get their paws on money and food, fox spirit Ginjiro and tanuki spirit Kinsaku take on human form and cozy up to an unknown human. But this human, Yoichi, sees through their disguises in an instant and leaves them both besotted with him. From that day, they each pursue him fiercely, but Yoichi's heart cannot be swayed. One day, the two spirits learn of Yoichi's past and, knowing there is just one thing that can soothe his wounded heart, they decide to steal into his bed that night...
On my first day working part-time at a bookstore, the trainer Kai was so mystifyingly handsome that the very next day, I impulsively asked him out!! He was so quick to agree that I couldn't help asking, "Are you sure you understand what I mean?" But he fired back with a heated kiss and said, "You mean this, right?" That blitz attack had me completely head over heels, but then I learned of a rumor about Kai: "He'll hook up with people, but he never lets things get serious." Huh...?!
"I've been in love with him...ever since that day when he cried underneath the fake, starry sky. I didn't initially intend to confess to him. I only wanted us to be closer - to spend more time together... So how did things end up this way...?" Kawai is a member of his high school's Astronomy Club. He grows close to Ohara, his fellow classmate, when Ohara helps him out with his club's exhibit for their last school festival. After the two graduate, their paths begin to diverge, little by little...until one fateful day. So close that they can feel each other's breath, yet so tragically distant. A romantic tale of two men constantly just beyond each other's reach. Chasing after one another, like shooting stars.
One day, Hane, an office worker, pays a visit to a high-class gallery space. There, he meets Takakura, the gallery manager. The two of them hit it off immediately! With his angelic features, one would never expect that Hane is actually a fan of the artist Fujii, famed for his salacious artworks. Takakura finds himself drawn to Hane's indescribable charm, so much so that they meet every weekend for drinks. However, everything changes when it turns out that Hane actually has quite the extraordinary relationship with Fujii, that favored artist of his...! A sweet, soft love story between a gentle gallery manager and an airheaded office worker, chapter 1!
Kanae Sakura lives with his university's folklore studies professor, Tsubaki. In exchange for free room and board, he helps out at the bar that Tsubaki runs - a bar that caters only to supernatural spirits. Crazy, right? However, everyone has secrets. Even Kanae.