I don't like men, but somehow I'm the goddess of a genius horse jockey? I hate it, I can't do it, but I'm trapped by his strong arms and pure, animal-like eyes. I can't refuse him.... I'm not having a good time at all these days. I've been picked up by a lot of guys, and at work I've been transferred to the editorial department of a horse racing magazine that I don't even know much about.... I'm turning 30 soon, and I have no choice but to tough things out at my job...! It was at that moment when I saw him... Watanuki himself, the genius jockey, running with his heroic movements, burley muscles, and well-defined face... No wonder he's so popular amongst the ladies! Nervously awaiting our interview session he suddenly embraced me with a passionate hug! I was surprised when he said, "I've been thinking about you everyday since the other night". In other words, the genius jockey was actually some guy I turned down the other day...
"Show me every bit of you. Don't hide anything." Natsume is just your average piano teacher, but she ends up in trouble after realizing someone's stalking her. She goes to the police for help, but they can't do anything about it. Eventually she goes to her family for help, and after a long-winded argument decides to go home. All of a sudden someone comes up to her... the stalker?! No... her new bodyguard?! Mr. Tachibana is assigned to watch over her for the next 24 hours and investigate any leads on the stalker... however, after learning that the stalker bugged the apartment, it seems the only way to lure them out is by pretending to be in an "immoral" relationship... How can it feel so good when it's all just pretend...?
It's Sui's 20th Birthday! And her boyfriend takes her out to dinner to break up with her. Seeing that she's already out, she'd rather not end her birthday on a sour note and decides to enjoy her first legal drink! ...But it only brings her back to thinking about love and romance. "I want to be loved... desired..." The next day: Sui wakes up at home, but next to her... some gorgeous young man?! A fun romance of dumping, bouncing back, and getting busy!
Masachika has been reunited with his childhood friend, and what's more, he's a model! Kiwa suddenly moves in next door, but he can't take care of himself, so Masachika often looks after him. During one drunken night, Kiwa makes his move on Masachika and to his surprise, he relents?! Can they keep their relationship a secret or will they have even bigger problems to worry about?
"I got my happy ending after marriage! Or so I thought..." Three ladies who went to the same school together admit they have dated nothing but losers. Miraculously, they have all gotten married, but marriage was not the goal. A controlling husband, an overbearing husband, and a mama's boy... with these marital problems, where will they go from here?!
Letitia, who lost her parents when she was a child, was picked up by a traveling troupe that toured around the country performing music, and was forced to work like a slave. One day, the troupe is invited to perform in a kingdom renowned as the Land of Music, where they receive rave reviews from a music-loving prince. The prince, among others, seems to have developed special feelings for Letitia...
Within Breighlinam Palace, rumor has it that Prince Edouard has executed may of the maids and butlers that have come to serve him. Philippa is desperate. After her parents fell to the epidemic, her aunt and uncle wants to sell off her younger brother and sister. To hold them at bay, Philippa is determined to work at the palace to save her. However, on her first day, sword drawn, the prince threatens her if she were to betray him. Can Philippa save her brother and sister, or will she end up another victim of the Prince's?
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...?!
Tae has been practically inseparable from her best friend Kiyo since college. And while Kiyo may be loose with women, Tae can always count on him for support - like whenever she crashes at his place to drown her sorrows over being dumped yet again. But what lies ahead in the morning after another night spent drinking together till dawn?! They're not quite lovers and not quite friends... but a revelation threatens to change all that. Can they move past mixed messages and misunderstandings to become something more? Or are they stuck as "best friends forever"?
She finds her boyfriend cheating, and at the same spot her ex shows up out of nowhere!! Her harmonious lovey-dovey life with a popular photographer is suddenly overturned, and she's knocked down to her lowest rock bottom ever - what will become of Mahiru now!? Truth and lies become entangled as this complicated four-way affair begins...
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?!
Yuriko, 35 and single, leads a humdrum everyday routine of work and looking after her disabled father. At the kindergarten where she teaches she's treated as an old maid, and at home her father won't listen to a thing she says. And of course she has no plans to marry... after all, she's just going to live out the rest of her boring life here in the countryside anyway, right? But while she's lost in thought over it, she causes a fender-bender. She doesn't know how to react, but Sosuke, the man in the other car, tells her he'll forget it ever happened... if she has sex with him! But after she goes with the flow and "just does it," it turns out that he's actually the father of one of her students?! And as if that weren't enough, Takumi, her kindergarten's cheeky young chief director, arrives on the scene...? Thus begins a clumsy love triangle for a flawed adult who had given up on love.
Takakura and Yatsuka, who attend the same university, are such close friends that they live together. However, when Takakura told him "I have feelings for you," Yatsuka started rushing things forward without stopping to think it over?! I like you... But now's not the time!! It's a love affair that twists itself into knots while these two guys impatiently race around and around only to get nowhere.
"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...
A coworker who keeps chasing after teen idols despite her age; a useless boss; and a completely unsociable new hire. Ann, a fortyish woman who looks down on those around her and blames everything on others, dreams only of marriage with the boyfriend who won't sleep with her. But then one day, when she learns that one of the colleagues she looked down on is getting married, she reveals her hidden nasty side right in front of the newbie. From that day on, she is visited by one misfortune after another....
There was a time when, overflowing with love, I let myself run wild without a thought for the other person's feelings or the people around us, and soon enough my love crashed and burned. Traumatized by this, I've now developed a bad habit of avoiding anyone I have eyes for, to keep my affection from showing. Then one day, my coworker invited me out to a bar, where I met Sawaguchi and fell in love with him at first sight - but thanks to my avoidant tendency, I ended up making him hate me... No matter how many times I reflect and repent, I just can't get this bad habit of mine to change. I want to be able to say "I love you" to the person I love! With my conviction made, I set out to see a counselor, but there I find none other than-?!
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...
"It's not that I don't want to get married. I just want to be accepted for who I am. Is that so much to ask...?" Suzu is a thirtyish woman with a cute-and-fluffy exterior that belies a strength no man can hope to match. But when she tells off her insistent mother by saying she'll only marry a man stronger than she is, she's set up with... a ninja?!? Is that his job...? How does he earn a living...? But Akitsuki the Ninja just smiles away, oblivious to Suzu's confusion. There's no way she could take him, and yet this kindhearted man, who nonchalantly accepts the true self that put off every other suitor she's ever had, secretly makes Suzu's heart flutter...
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?