Saku and Azusa have been together. They were even born the same minute. Now that they're off to college, it's finally time for them to separate, and the ever-anxious Saku is feeling lonely while the calm and cool Azusa is as aloof as ever. One day, Saku suddenly hears Azusa in his head! What's more it almost sounds like Azusa is in the middle of pleasuring himself while looking at Saku's photo! Will this newfound power bring the two closer or will it drive them apart?
Sachi is 28 years old, works at a cram school where Suwa, the school's principal is handsome and charming, putting his spell on the staff to the parents and children. However, after her friend ran off with the money she lent her, she's struggling to get by. After work she's suddenly approached by a suspicious man, Suwa comes to her rescue! Will he be Sachi's prince charming after this fated encounter?
"I want many more people to recognize your talent and appeal." - Orihara takes pride in Narikawa, the actor whom he manages. Narikawa is wary of strangers and distrustful of other people, but he has a pure heart, and his incredible acting skills set him apart from other young actors. While supporting him closely as a manager, Orihara begins to grow fond of him; finally, he agrees to help relieve certain physical urges for Narikawa. From then on, Narikawa's attachment to Orihara grows deeper day by day, until...? A quiet, but intense romance between a clumsy actor and his older manager.
Suddenly told she was going to inherit all her grandmother's kimonos, Hotori needs to learn kimono dressing in a hurry. But with her intense stranger anxiety, there's no way she can go take a class for it! Just then, a man named Ichigo - who runs a kimono shop - helps her in the street and offers to teach her kimono dressing if she'll work part-time at his shop. At first she declines, but Ichigo's gentlemanly manners put her at ease so finally she takes the job. And no sooner does he say, "Well, let's get you undressed" - could there be a devil's face hiding behind that kindly mask?!
So is this what it means to have roommates now?! Office worker Rinko, 24, lives alone and is secretly an otaku. One day, her apartment gets connected to the two neighboring rooms through a "hole" in the wall. In the room on the left is a fresh-faced yet mysterious guy who is overly-sweet to Rinko. The room on the right is occupied by a guy with violent tendences who is similarly mysterious... But wait! "I... I think I know him!" Rinko's only source of solitude, her apartment, has been turned upside down. Now, every day is full of heart-pounding surprises!
"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.
"My passion in the name of lust..." Due to a decrease in her libido, erotica novelist Kaoru has found herself dealing with severe writer's block. But as luck would have it, she hits it off with a comic artist, Shiora, from the same editorial department who is in a similar situation. They delightfully drink the night away and...wake up the next morning half-naked in the same bed together?! While gazing upon his seductive, chiseled physique, she is awash with sensation and utters, "I think I can regain my passion and lust by looking at you," and goes on to propose something even more daring?!
"Don't lick me there...!" "I told you not to be so rough!" Going to go crazy from the pressure felt for the first time as he gently and gradually loosens it up and slowly enters... I never thought that my first time would be with the person I hated the most in the world... I don't want to fall in love with you. Futaba, the only daughter of a tea shop owner, is set up for an arranged marriage match making with Mr. Kobayashi (a super wealthy man) by her parents in order to get out of financial difficulties. Futaba has a fear of men and has never been in a relationship before, but for the sake of the family business, she decides to go through with it. However, to her surprise, the blind date turns out to be with Taiga Kobayashi, her classmate from elementary school who caused her fear! When he hears that he's the reason she's afraid of men, he decides to help her get over this fear and take care of her as her husband...
Sayo was born to be the next protector of her village, but her lack of spiritual powers earned her the nickname "worthless shrine maiden." One night, she is attacked by yokai when the demon god Akatsuki, who is worshiped by the village, comes to her rescue. Nanase, her younger sister who became the shrine maiden in her place, hears of this and demands that Sayo be sacrificed as the "Bride of the Demon God." The sacrificial ceremony begins, and Sayo, dressed in the bridal kimono, makes a desperate attempt to escape when in her moment of need, a familiar figure appears...
I can't hold my voice with his fingers caressing me under my wedding dress like that. How did this happen...?
Yuri's favoritism with masculine men always ends in tragedy so she decides to join a match making party to find an easy-going gentleman to settle with instead. There she meets Satsuki, the most perfect "husband material."
...Or so she thought?! Satsuki's innocent mask fooled her into marriage and now she's stuck with this aggressive sadist whose exactly the opposite man he had portrayed to be!
I should have died in the accident, but when I woke up, I found myself inside my favorite novel...To make matters worse, I'm just a side character?! According to the story, the duke and duchess have disappeared, and all the servants are about to be fired...I've made up my mind. I'm going to live as I please! Or so I thought. Somehow, I've ended up as the guardian of two orphaned twins?! This wasn't supposed to be my role, but how could I abandon them? Just as I resolved to take the twins on their journey...
Akari has been working in her company as the manager of a Judo team. One night, Akari is introduced to one of the team members, Iwashiro, during an evening outing, but things take a sudden turn when Iwashiro has a few too many drinks and Akari finds herself in his arms... and spending the night together?! Being wrapped in toned muscles and being whispered sweet words, having him all over her even with the insecurities she has...!
As things get hot and heavy, he's earnest and communicative with his feelings. All of this is enough to make anyone melt!!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-7 of "My Young Medalist Lover is a Devoted Beast: Learning to Love Each Other Despite our Size Difference"
"Just relax and enjoy yourself for me." He's usually so gentle, but now his sharp gaze is full of desire as he devours her with his eyes. Her body melts under his hands; the heat of his touch lingers on her lips, chest, and thighs and fills her mind like a fever. Her hips twitch of their own accord and despite her embarrassment a moan escapes her-... Overtime. Working from home late into the night. In the glitzy world of fashion magazines, publishing editor Fumi was run ragged in mind and body by her demanding work. Her only solace was visiting the local private pharmacy run by handsome and refreshing pharmacist Okada. Worrying over her on post-overtime mornings or at night after an exhausting workday, he kept her body in good repair. But that was just his kindness toward a regular customer - or so Fumi thought. While drunk after a mixer, she passes by the pharmacy; the usually kind Okada is acting oddly and suddenly drags Fumi into the pharmacy's waiting room...
"Koharu, you've had a fiance since you were born..." This is what my grandfather confesses to me one day out of the blue. But how could I, a 25-year-old stranger to love, possibly have a fiance? And on top of that, instead of living by myself while my grandfather is in the hospital, I have to live with him instead...?! He's tall, handsome, wealthy, and a CEO... not to mention 12 years my senior! We've got nothing in common! But his kindness and his unexpected naivete touch my heart, and before I know it...?! Between our short-term cohabitation and an marriage pact made by our grandfathers, this is one romance we can't let anyone find out about...
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...
"Can you feel yourself twitching when I touch you down here?" Mukai and I are bitter rivals always battling to avoid earning the lowest grade in class. I thought I only saw him as a dimwitted pal of mine, but why did my heart start racing when he scored that goal at the alumni soccer game and when he saved me from that girly girl trying to one-up me? Ugh, why does he seem so hot today? After all that, I couldn't ride the last train to get home and he even offered to stay at a karaoke place all night with me... Wait a minute, why are we in this position? He just put it in and I think I'm already going to come...! He's a fool, but I love him! If you're looking for a lighthearted, overly erotic romance between two silly lovebirds, this is definitely one for you!
They made a vow to always be honest with each other. They were supposed to live happily ever after. But fast forward to two years later, their relationship has become strained. Kenya's attitude towards Rin has made a complete one-eighty. Day after day, Rin puts up with his derisive comments about her appearance, all because of her weight gain. When she discovers that he's even been cheating on her, it seems they've reached the point of no return. The story of a woman's journey to discover independence after facing betrayal by the man she once loved.
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?
"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..."
On the day they met, they got married and started living together?! While out drinking, Haruhi, a construction worker who's always surrounded by men, meets Nagato, a middle-aged man with salt-and-pepper hair. She drunkenly tells him to marry her, and just like that, they get married and start living together! A heart-pounding rom-com about a shotgun wedding between a middle-aged man and a blue-collar working girl!