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?!
"Will you be taking a bath, dinner, or...?" The man uttering that cliched line was the middle-aged male housekeeper I suddenly ended up hiring! A man in the home of a radiant young (okay, twentysomething) maiden?! And on top of that, he's way older than me! What gives?! The curtain rises on a heartfelt tale of the odd-couple antics between Mei, a woman devoted to her career, and Nagisa, a man overflowing with maternal(?) warmth.
"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-?!
Unpopular manga artist Rikka is troubled by the fact that she can't draw an attractive man to save her life -- or her livelihood. This is rooted in a childhood trauma that resulted in her developing a fear of men. "I seriously need to get a series picked up...!" With her career as a cartoonist hanging by a thread, she decides to take kickboxing lessons in order to get back a life where she doesn't fear the opposite sex. While learning how to fight from Goromaru, her coach at the gym, she is touched by his awkward but sincere kindness, and falls for him hard, but....?!
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...
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...?
"Why don't you have a child with me, then?" A woman who lost the husband she adored, and a man who lost the brother he revered, united in the depths of their grief.... The widowed Shion, age 35, spends her days trying to manage the small store she ran with the husband who died three years earlier. But from a sorrow that time doesn't seem to heal, she comes to think, "If only I'd had a child with him, a piece of him would still be here with me." When her college student brother-in-law Kosei learns of Shion's wish, he makes an unexpected proposition that shakes her to the core. Is he doing it out of respect for his older brother, or is it something else...? These two bereaved souls, aching for the same lost loved one, become transfixed by a forbidden notion....
She doesn't know how it feels to be in love, and her body can't bear children, but that doesn't mean she doesn't want a perfect family like the ones you see on TV! And who should appear before down-on-her-luck, marriage-crazy Sachiko, but Keiichi! He's got looks and money to spare, and most importantly, he accepts all of Sachiko's conditions! But Keiichi's got secrets of his own... Can Sachiko overcome these hurdles to obtain the happy home she's dreamed of?!
High-school senior Chihiro is attracted to Ayuta, another boy at his school, but Ayuta only has eyes for his childhood friend Hayato, even though he knows Hayato already has a girlfriend. Ayuta continues to play the role of a devoted friend, but the anguish that shows through on his face from time to time only serves to pull Chihiro even closer... It may be too soon to call these pent-up feelings crying out from their hearts "love", though.... It's a youthful, lyrical lovestory between two immature and uncertain high school boys.
Homurako Yoshii, a country girl born and raised, transfers into an elite girls' school in the heart of Tokyo. There, she meets Sasara Takamura, admired by those around her for her brains and her beauty... but she's actually a he?! The two of them, polar opposites in both status and personality, are drawn to each other....
Living together with a handsome man...no, wait, ghost...?! Yui Yamada's in her second year of high school when her nagging parents are sent overseas to Brazil for work. She was about to rejoice over finally getting to live alone in her very own apartment (yay!!) when she found out there was a ghost already living there...?! But wait, this ghost isn't scary at all... Though he sure is obnoxious! Whether she likes it or not, this ghost whose awful personality puts his handsome face to shame is going to be her roommate from here on out...!
I've been preparing for a competition that could open doors for me as an aspiring artist, but one day, in one fell swoop, I lost my art model and my girlfriend. I was still reeling from it when a young girl suddenly showed up beside me and said she would be my new model. However, now she says I need to offer up my body in exchange for her help...?! I had lost everything, and she knew nothing of the world; this is the story of our warped and fleeting, yet innocent, love.
On my first day working part-time at a bookstore, the trainer Kai was so mystifyingly handsome that the very next day, I impulsively asked him out!! He was so quick to agree that I couldn't help asking, "Are you sure you understand what I mean?" But he fired back with a heated kiss and said, "You mean this, right?" That blitz attack had me completely head over heels, but then I learned of a rumor about Kai: "He'll hook up with people, but he never lets things get serious." Huh...?!
Due to a stroke of fate, Yachiyo takes over as the owner of a butler cafe after her father suddenly falls ill. But things don't go as planned, and Yachiyo gets called a washboard by Kido, the cafe's most popular butler. Just what will ensue from this? Will these two end up in huge fight?!
"There's no mistaking it. You're suffering from a case of L.O.V.E.!" The man I fell in love with is some weirdo who has no idea what love is -- Sachi is in love with love. She is determined to meet her soulmate -- after all, her own mother and father married for love and always seemed so happy. Sachi falls for someone new every day in the hopes that she'll find Mr. Right. She gets her heart broken over and over again -- but she doesn't let herself feel that pain, instead she just races to her next crush! After falling for countless different men, Sachi meets Jogasaki. According to Jogasaki, love is an illness. He's a total weirdo who has been trying to find the drug to cure "L.O.V.E.". Sachi and Jogasaki, neither of whom know anything about real love, set out to develop this miracle drug together. But will the two of them be able to face up to their own feelings?!