Go back to where it all began! At long last, the one-volume story that birthed the global BL anime and manga phenomenon Hitorijime My Hero arrives in English in print! "EITHER YOU LET ME MAKE LOVE TO YOU, OR WE END OUR FRIENDSHIP AGAIN. WHAT'S IT GONNA BE?" Before Masahiro and Kousuke's whirlwind romance in Hitorijime My Hero, there was Hitorijime Boyfriend- and now, the origin of one of manga's biggest franchises is finally revealed! Back in sixth grade, Kensuke had a falling out with his best friend Hasekura that still hurts three years later. Then, one day, Hasekura's suddenly back in Kensuke's life like nothing happened. What, exactly, is going on? And what will Kensuke do when Hasekura wants to take things to a whole other level...?
Hina, who works part-time at an Izakaya, happens upon an old high-school friend he excommunicated named Shinichiro. Shinichiro was Hina's first crush. Hina always loved Shinichiro for his cool, calm, and kind demeanor, but the fear that Shinichiro would find out led Hina to run away from Shinichiro upon their high school graduation. Resigned to his fate of reunion with Shinichiro, Shinichiro surprisingly forgives Hina for running away and proceeds to interact warmly toward Hina. This display of kindness makes your heart flutter! Though he swears in his heart not to run away again, something happens...?!
Igarashi, who spends his days running the teishoku-ya (Japanese food combo restaurant) and tavern he inherited from his father, secretly has a crush on Sora, an apprentice carpenter and regular customer. One day, Sora asks Igarashi to come hang out with him on his day off...! Despite the joy of being asked out, a certain thing in Igarashi's past makes it hard for the day to go in a hoped for direction....? This is a heart-throbbing story of a down-on-his-luck nice guy and a younger puppy-like guy.
A salaryman overwhelmed by his work ends up in an unspeakable relationship with his subordinate?! Kurobashi is who the company goes to for all the issues the company is having. His only reprieve is his mobile phone social dating game. Having ascended to the ranks of chief, the overwhelming nature of his job leads him to spend all of his income on the game he's addicted to. To make some extra change, Kurobashi starts a secret side hustle: work as a male ear cleaning "maid." His first client ever turns out to be his real-life subordinate, Yashirogi?! Plus, things escalate from ear cleaning to another type of "hand" service...?! So begins this BL salaryman rom-com.
Loyd is a swordsman and leader of his clan. As the leader, Loyd removes his eyesore of a team member, the Shadow Wizard, from his ranks. Shortly after the wizard's banishment, however, Loyd's party faces utter defeat due to power imbalance. Loyd, having been reduced to nothing, has hit rock bottom. It's there where the Shadow Wizard he banished, Mizuha, appears. Oh how the tables turn in this magic-filled BL world.
"When I have sex, I get inspired by my partner." Gento, a student at an idol academy, has an inferiority complex about his plain appearance. When his ability to sing is discovered by Aoe, a former model driven from the showbiz world due to scandals, Gento joins his band. However, Aoe possesses the "worst" of talents that allows him to create songs inspired by his sexual partners...!?
"I can't help my body being like this..." Inspector Anjo makes deals with his informant behind closed doors. The price for his information isn't money, but Anjo's body! When Anjo's colleague finds out the truth, prepare for all hell to break loose!
At first, I didn't think much of it... I did it once and didn't get caught. It worked the second time, too. Before I knew it, it had become a habit. I know I shouldn't be doing it! That's right. In order to keep my spot at the top, I'm cheating. But we're suddenly given a pop quiz! I panic so much that I go pale, and my homeroom teacher sends me to the nurse. Does he have me figured out...? The top student is cheating! On top of that, the teacher who found me out is actually gay...!! Can a (straight) boy warm up to the guidance of a (gay) p*rverted teacher?! Or will he get addicted to this new, forbidden world?!
Welcome to Ponpo Land, a peaceful place where humans and animals coexist in harmony!
Rookie canine cop Daifuku entered the police force with dreams of taking down baddies alongside Justice, the hero of Ponpo Land. Much to his dismay, however, he's been assigned to the quiet Missing Child Unit instead. When a missing cat girl appears one day, Daifuku hopes it will lead to a bigger case when she says she's run away from home. However, all it leads back to is the girl's father, a new cat in town who seems to need all the help he can get!
The romance between a hotshot rookie cop and a laidback single father has only just begun...
In a town where volcanic ash rains from the sky, Akio Suzu, a 32-year-old man, leads a stagnant life enjoying drinking, smoking, and finding solace in the company of cats rather than people.
Nothing ever happens in his routine life, but he's not willing to change anything or himself. That is until a couple, who are Akio's regular customers, adds a new member to its household?Yutaka, their bubbly nephew from Tokyo.
As Akio tries to remain antisocial, Yutaka disrupts his everyday life and dismantles the walls he has built around himself. Together, the two grown men clumsily start to weave a warm, bittersweet, and platonic story of love.
Shina, a college student, is on the hunt for a casual hookup. He finds a temporary job for a graphic designer without basic life skills named Masaki. Shina works for Masaki as a part-time assistant and tries everything to have sex with him. Despite Shina's relentless efforts to seduce him, clueless Masaki remains uninterested. As their friends and clients get involved in their sextual steamy playground!
"Fifty-five dollars for sixty minutes. That's my worth for today." Employed at a male-oriented escort service, Masaki works under the name "Miyabi." Though the job is challenging at times, Masaki is motivated to do his best so that the staff member who hired him at his lowest, Mr. Ichikawa, will praise him. Teased day in and day out by sexually frustrated customers, Masaki's body grows ever more sensitive... "It's your fucking job to make your customers cum." Who could stand a customer who talks like that? And yet, it feels so good from behind... But what will Masaki do when customers' demands become a bit too much?
Naoki (36) is a workaholic who's never been in a relationship. Then he meets his first boyfriend, the cheerful and animated Minato (21). Desperate for Minato's affection, Naoki does everything he can to maintain that mature, confident and perfect boyfriend. For some reason, though, he keeps on rejecting Minato's invitations to have a bit of good ol' intimate fun. Could Naoki be hiding something from Minato...?
"I wonder if he jacks off, just like the rest of us?" Sugihara has excellent grades, lots of friends, and handles his life as a student without a hitch. But his secret is that he's always felt a lustful desire towards his classmate Narise, who always spends his time alone in the corner of the classroom. He had intended to keep his secret fantasies about Narise's beautiful visage to himself. However, by a stroke of chance he ends up leading a "study session" with Narise, and the distance between them rapidly shrinks. One day after school, Sugihara discovers that the innocent Narise is also harboring his own dirty secret...
One night, Mr. Kano, a high school teacher, was led by children wearing peculiar masks to a shop run by a strange man. "Do you have anything that you've lost... that changed your life?" Mr. Kano begins to tell the story of his sultry love affair with his student, Itaru Enatsu... Students and teachers, step-brothers... In a world on the border of this world and the next, what will they choose? Love? Or illusion? The curtain raises on Nobita Akiharu's beautiful world, a boy's love omnibus!
Every morning, Matsui finds it sexually satisfying to get molested in the train. One day, a good-looking underclassman, Aizaki, happens to see him getting molested...Aizaki asks him, "can I molest you tomorrow onward?" Since that day, Aizaki's intense molesting begun with Aizaki verbally abusing him, using sex toys, and teasing. "What are you doing making a mess in a train, Senpai?" What is going to happen to Matsui with Aizaki's molesting play that gets harder and harder everyday?
Okano, who has no friends and is in the throes of his self-conscious teenager phase, spends his days doing experiments in his own personal science club. He was content with his school life until Shouta Tsuchiya, a flirty moron, appears on the scene one day. "Wow, your experiments are so cool, senpai!☆" Although they're complete opposites in every way, for some reason, Shouta takes a liking to Okano. And as he's pushed around by Shouta after he strong-arms his way into the science club, Okano begins to develop feelings he's never felt before...! Dumb puppy-dog junior x loner senior... Youth, sweat, and tears chemically react in this explosive love comedy!
Reno's got a new roommate and his name is Roger Brower. His nickname is "Casanova" and there are rumors that he sells his body for money. Soon after arriving he asks Reno if he can leave the room for 3 hours once every 2 to 3 days so he can have sex with his clients, and Reno realizes the rumors are true. He tells Reno that he'll give him some of the money he makes as payment for renting out the room for that time. Reno reluctantly agrees and everything is going just fine until the day he accidentally walks back into their shared room and is confronted with the sight of Roger having sex with one of his customers.
One day Okajima, a high-class shoe salesman, is suddenly ordered to transfer. His destination is, of all places, the condom department! And the condoms here aren't the normal shape... wait, they're humanoid!? Told to go out and make sales with the his partner humanoid condom Kondou, whose abilities he doesn't even know, Okajima is completely bewildered. Kondou and his senior approach the confused Okajima to teach him how to use this new product. Don't miss Okajima's over-erotic office romance as he struggles to somehow improve his sales results while being toyed with by the cute humanoid condom Kondou and his sarcastic senior Tamari!