"My smile is specially reserved for you." Kotori Ogata, self-conscious about her plump figure, is inexplicably adored by Soma, a younger coworker known for his frosty demeanor. The reason likely traces back to a rainy day encounter: Kotori finds Soma shivering at a bus stop and, being a meddlesome caretaker, helps him warm up. Since then, Soma has been incredibly affectionate toward Kotori. He defends her from sarcastic comments from her manager, holds her hand claiming he's cold, and even sweetly tells her, "Everything you do is adorable to me." Step into this romance and experience the cute moments between warm-hearted Kotori and her frosty younger coworker, Soma!
"This is my punishment - someone as hideous as me falling for someone as good-looking as you..." Yumeko had a mountain of complexes about herself. Then, a terrible accident befalls her. Though somehow saved from the brink of death, Yumeko wakes up a completely different person. "Is this...me...?! I'm SUPER cute!!" Those around her can't hide their surprise and wonderment at this 180-degree change... But Yumeko's new hyper-positive attitude starts to change her surroundings, too. Worries and complexes can affect anyone, and Yumeko will chop right through those of her various supporting characters!! In love, work, friendship... And an attempted murder case?! This frenzied romantic comedy will leave you bubbling with energy!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "Plus-sized Misadventures in Love!"
"Mizui, this spot of yours....is so soft...and sweet..." He's eating me out like a thirsty beast down there, but I've never felt this good before... On Christmas day, I finished work early and excitedly headed to my fiance's place only to discover that he was cheating on me with my best friend! Utterly devastated by the situation, I went to a river to rid myself of the engagement ring but ended up slipping as a result. Just as I was about to become one with the frigid winter river, Aiba, my colleague came to save the day. One thing led to another and we...
"Don't get too close to others, and don't get into other people's business."
That's Misaki's motto. She used to always go out of her way to help others but after getting tangled up in other people's problems, she's had enough! Misaki has learned to smell trouble from a mile away. Anyone with an overwhelming charm is bound to be a huge headache. The new hire is just her type, but he exudes and aura of... trouble? Misaki wants to keep her distance from him, but she's ordered to look after him...?!
Such filthy things... At school, I carry out my work as a teacher with painstaking care, and others gossip that I'm "uptight" or "not interested in sexy stuff"... But night after night, I go home and touch myself to naughty thoughts of the school nurse Mr. Shirahane. Today, it's Mr. Shirahane with his hand under the desk, his fingers brushing over that sensitive spot as he says "You love being teased like this, don't you?" - caught in that fantasy, I came. Ugh, I'm such a p*rvert...!!
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...?
"Whoa. You're this wet just from my scent?" "N-No! Mm....Nh!" Pressed up against the sofa at our office, underwear pulled to the side, his big, burly hands gently and lasciviously attacking her sweet spot... Jinkawa, a known womanizer and president of an architectural firm, happens upon a young woman named Asami being harassed by some delinquents at night and helps her out with ulterior motives in mind. She refuses his advances, saying, "I can't! That old man smell of yours is-...!" A few days later they're reunited, and she's the new intern at his company?! Feeling self-conscious, Jinkawa tries to keep his distance but it seems like the problem isn't that Asami dislikes how he smells... but that it really turns her on.
Due to past sexual trauma, Haruka was unable to find new love. Who knew meeting her strong-willed co-worker Yanase at a mixer and while under the influence would lead to an overnight stay at a hotel together?! Haruka was thrilled by his unusual and gentle behavior, but then Yanase told her that she could thank him for taking care of her by having sex with him...? Is that even okay to do here? Hearing Yanase's sweet whispering voice excites her body, which normally has aversions to sex. Why is her body suddenly sensitive and where are the noises of pleasure coming from..!
I want to be married... And someone like Tomizawa would be perfect!
Mariko, 29, wants to seal the deal by 30. However, marriage requires affection and Mariko's affection is reserved to a man she can respect! She's single at age 29, also aware that she can't let go of her pride. One day, a chance to date THE ideal-candidate, Tomizawa, falls right into her lap!! Delusional or not, she can't let anything jeopardize her opportunity to hear those wedding bells ring. A chaotic private life and dramatic sequence of events keeps her on her toes. Is marriage even on the table?!
A day before my 40th birthday, it dawns to me that my most accomplished trait is that I've been working in the same office for 18 years. Struggling with an angry customer during an event for a new department, a charismatic salesman comes to the rescue; twelve years younger Kohei Nakajima. On the way home, tears fall as anxiety kicks in, realizing I had turned 40 years old. Suddenly out of nowhere, Kohei appears and confesses his love for me?! I had lost hope... At this age, is it too late to welcome spring into my life?
Yuasa is a capable worker on the fast track to success. He has a nice face to boot, but his personality is a bit of a problem..! As he carries on with his power-harassment toward the new trainee, the amicable Iguchi, it soon comes to light that Iguchi is the CEO's son... In exchange for not telling his dad about said power-harassment, Iguchi offers him a deal...?!
"I've got no privacy, and the junior officer with isn't cute at all... I gotta get out of this police dorm...!!" Takano is a patrol officer with an oddly stern look on his face that he can never turn off. He spends his days working at the station alongside a charming but loud and energetic officer named Soma. One day, Takano sees his high school crush after so many years, only to hear him make a joke of the confession he made so many years ago, but as Soma comes to be there for him something begins between the two of them...!! "I would do it with you, you know..."
"But I want to be kind to you, because I like you, Ms. Jun." He presses his lips against hers, teasing her with his tongue... Jun Hongo is always getting work pushed onto her by her boss and colleagues. She believes if she manages it, she'll feel needed by others. She knows she has a self-sacrificing personality but continues to take on work, doing overtime every day. But one night things change when Jun's mentee, Noze, decides to help her with her overtime work...
Akari is good at her job, beautiful, and her sense of style is beyond compare... but she has a secret. She's almost 30 and she's still a virgin! One fateful day, a new department chief takes over -- the handsome Shinomiya. "You're my subordinate now, which means from today, you have to do what I say." Shinomiya is a condescending bully and he and Akari clash from day one. Akari finds herself drinking her worries away at his welcome party and before she knows what hit her, she's completely smashed. She wakes up the next day to find -- Shinomiya emerging from her bathroom half naked?!?! Thus begins Akari's comedic office romance with her callous new boss!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "From Zero to Office Romance"
"He's the CEO?! That guy from yesterday?!!" After losing my precious puppy who'd been at my side through high school, college, and since graduation, I went to a bar to drown my sorrows by the gallon. While I was wailing with grief, the man sitting next to me cut in with a majorly nasty retort: "Why not take some pills for your dysfunctional brain and start acting your age?" Well, I don't have to take that from some stranger!! So I returned the favor by sticking my leg out to trip him with an, "Oh, sorry. That was on purpose!" (Yeah, maybe I went too far...) Then, the next day that same guy turns up at my office and apparently he's the company's CEO! What's more, he's here looking for...me...?!?!
Riku is a fellow aficionado of all things cute, and his own looks are even more adorable than a girl's. We're so close that people often ask us if we're dating, but I don't think of us as "a man and a woman" - he's just my beloved friend. But then one day, after we both got hit on by some menacing guys, something in our relationship started to change... This isn't the Riku I know. But then why does he make my heart flutter?
From high school to college, from college into the working world - although my life had never been spectacular, the journey had always been smooth sailing... Except when it came to men. So when I found myself an engaged woman at age 29, I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. My dream of getting married before turning 30 was going to be realized! And that's when... I met him.
What do you do when nothing's going right in your life?
Minori (29), who has been struggling from day to day, has become pessimistic about life as a whole. This year has been especially dreadful. Work has become a hellish experience because of her new boss. Her childhood friend and longtime crush, Asai, just told her he only sees her as a friend. When all seems hopeless, Minori is suddenly visited by a "Toshiotoko", a fairy whose job is to bring luck and happiness to their charge. With his gentle and encouraging support, she slowly learns to take control of her life by the reins. What will Minori discover as she continues her search for what happiness really means to her?
"Why do I have to be the one to 'put it in'?"Shun Mizuo has always got a smile on his face. He's popular amongst his coworkers and he's good at his job... but he's useless in the bedroom. One day, heartbroken after discovering his girlfriend cheating on him, he drinks himself into a stupor and reveals his "situation down there" to Amachi, his beautiful-yet-frosty coworker. What happens when, suddenly, Amachi says that she feels that this moment with Mizuo must be fate?! An office romance between two people both hopeless in the bedroom!
Kotoka is the only daughter of the Hoshou family, a prestigious family that has only produced female heirs for generations. From a young age she was told that she would take a "mukoyoshi," a centuries-old Japanese tradition of a man being adopted into his wife's family as the heir to continue the family line. Before she knew it, she was already in her mid-twenties, and her mother arranges for Kotoka to meet her potential suitor. But it turns out to be that man from work?! The one her coworkers say is "the last man on earth I'd want to marry"?! Although his attitude and choice of words when they first meet is concerning, she decides to go along with it for a little while, confident that she can turn him down anytime. To her surprise, they get along well and thus their life trying to live together before marriage begins!