"I'm comfortable, yet I feel uneasy. I want to stay away from him, yet I want to touch him." "Love is just an annoyance." Shintaro, who is apathetic about others, meets Kippei, who becomes his mentor at the design company he enters. Shintaro first thinks of Kippei as just another coworker, but as the caring and friendly Kippei easily breaks down the walls around him, Shintaro begins to have interest in him. One day, Shintaro ends up crashing at Kippei's place after going out for dinner. Being drunk, Shintaro tells him that he's gay, and kisses him...! *Chapter 5: "Your Home" is a one-shot written by this author, and is not related to the main story.
"I don't want anyone else to see how cute you are." After his father's death, Toki worked hard to support his four younger brothers and mother. After his mother remarries, her deepest wish is for Toki to live for his own sake. As his family wishes, Toki enrolled in a correspondence high school at 27. There, he meets his younger brother's friend and actor, Takara. The overly touchy but caring Takara wants Toki to be his friend, rather than an "older brother." It was at that moment that Toki's budding feelings began. A touching and heartwarming story of first love as they search for happiness.
Natsume, a systems engineer has missed the last train home, but wouldn't you know, Miki, an office worker also missed the last train. They both decide to go search for a hotel, but for some reason, they need to stay in the same room?! For Natsume whose face is always buried in front of his computer, this is one of the biggest hurdles he's ever faced, but the calm and friendly Miki convinces him with a smile that it'll be fine. The next morning, Miki tells Natsume, "I want to see you again." How will Natsume respond...?
1979, the start of summer, faculty member of the science department Dr. Ukai is in the middle of a lecture when he first lays eyes on a visiting student from the humanities department, Toki. Toki is quiet, with a stoic air about him... and Ukai realizes he's completely fallen for him. However, ever since Ukai lost his long-time friend and secret lover Amakata, he's been hiding the fact that he is gay, keeping his feelings bottled up for no one to know of. One day, Ukai notices a student has been following him around and trying to get closer to him. As things start to become more than just a minor issue, Toki steps in to help. Ukai offers to take him out to eat as a way of thanking him, but it seems there's more to things than just a simple meal...
Naoya has always been the top dog in school. The son of a CEO, he excels in both his studies and sports. Conversely, Takaaki has always been at the bottom of the totem pole, an introvert and Naoya's errand boy, obedient to his every command. So much so that he even licked Naoya's feet when ordered. Years later, their positions are reversed: Naoya has failed at running his company and is now unemployed, while Takaaki has become the president of a successful startup. Yet upon their reunion, Takaaki continues to serve Naoya with the same blind devotion?!
24 and 39 finding love in the office! Yataki has been working as a manager in an office for entertainment for a long time, and from working in the industry has come to feel that most decent adults don't really go for flings or romance. He's put some distance between himself and the idea of romance and has been dedicated to his work for as long as he can remember. At the same time, Takaya is a new member of the team who has been assigned to work under Yataki. One day, after a mistake in the hotel reservations for their work trip, the two have to now share a bed...?!
37 years old and working to no end, Kosuke lost everything the moment his job went out the window. Everything lost leads to drinking your mind away, which leads to getting picked up by some guy, which leads to doing it before you even realize. Coming to his senses, it looks like the guy he was in bed with is the same guy he sees on TV all the time- a member of the super famous idol group REAL 5, Tomou! Now Kosuke's stuck with a young and dazzling idol boy trying to get in his pants nonstop! Chapter 6 features a bonus story about a charming company president, a struggling younger man, and a big home of cats!
Makino was always great in school and took care of everyone around him, but all of that changed when he struggled to find work and failed to make things work during his first time in bed. After the shock of it all he's been a total mess, but he finally got something to do out in the middle of nowhere. On his way there he got lost, nearly died, and hit on by another guy living in the area, Kiyomiya. Makino's got no idea how to talk to people, how to handle his emotions, or the issues he's been facing sexually, but at least where he is now, he has someone he can talk to about it all... and maybe close some distance talking about what's been going on down there...
In a world where humans and non-humans with animal forms fall in love regardless of gender or species, college student Kayu was an outlier: he could only fall in love with plants. Yet, for some reason, his heart would start racing around Chin, the panda who owns the flower cafe where Kayu works part-time. After learning this, Chin asked if he wanted to try dating platonically on a trial basis. He may not feel desire for his kind-of boyfriend, but Kayu is enjoying the warm, peaceful days they share... except that whenever he sleeps over at Chin's apartment, he has this weird dream about countless vines and tentacles crawling all over his body and having their way with him...!
"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...
College student Ichiki can't help but beguile everyone around him with his dazzling smile. But the one person he's head over heels for is... his ultra ordinary manager Mr. Yomura! Homely but hardworking Mr. Yomura stole Ichiki's heart, and after a tireless pursuit Ichiki managed at long last to get his hands on boyfriend status. Now, three months since they started dating... they still haven't made any progress in their relationship?! Even with all the romance tactics popular-guy Ichiki has at his disposal, Mr. Yomura is a formidable conquest...
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...?
"I've missed you, Shota…" "Tohru... Me, too...!" I still can't get used to it no matter how many times we do it, so sometimes it hurts a little... But it feels so good... When Shota returns to Tokyo after visiting home, he and Tohru enjoy a long-awaited reunion. He brings back happy news - he's come out to his family and told them that he's dating a man - and the pair's love starts heating up from there! But in the midst of that happiness, Shota starts to worry that he isn't the right match for this handsome older man and is only a burden on Tohru, and misunderstandings begin to grow between the two of them...
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...