"After 5pm, you're my pet!" Housemaid Raika works under ill-tempered/bad mouthed picture book author Mr. Momota. Clothing, food, shelter and a decent work place. That's all Raika thought she would need after losing her parents and having no other family near. Then this happened: Her apartment burns down and she loses even what little she had. Without anywhere else to turn, Raika decides on reaching out to her boss, Momota, for help. Little did she know that in order to stay with him she'd be met with conditions requiring her to be none other than Momota's pet.
Wait... No, you can't suck there...! Daughter of a famous movie production company's CEO, Towa, is a prominent figure at her Universtity. One day, she happens to bump into an unsuspecting delinquent of a boy on the street. "Show me how sorry you are. With your body". While these words were used to intimidate Towa, who actually thought she would do exaclty that?!
"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...?
Jin Kurosaki is a high school boy who spends his days in irritation and apathy. That is, until he falls down a flight of stairs one day to save a pregnant lady named Mai and...ends up swapping bodies with her?! Suddenly becoming a pregnant lady is a lot to take in, but Mai's cheeriness and positivity help him face the situation. As feelings he's never felt before begin to sprout, he also starts to learn more about Mai and the secret she holds.
"I got myself fired in the fall of my 33rd year." Six years into marriage, Mai Murata is now raising two young children while both she and her husband work full-time. Her colleagues often say she's "living the dream," but in reality she's struggling to handle work on top of doing all the childcare on her own, and it feels like she's constantly apologizing: to her boss, to the daycare center, and on and on. Amidst all this, she happens to try out a virtual flea market app and finds an amazing deal that makes her day... and leaves her chasing that same high again and again until it's all she can think about. Addiction can happen to anyone, even you. This tale explores one person's struggle to escape that insatiable, unstoppable need and find genuine fulfillment.
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...?
It's the late Taisho era, and the main character, Suzu, works as a waitress at a cafe for the general public. The kind-hearted Suzu endures the harsh treatment of her employer so that she can take care of the poor orphaned children who live in the shadows of the glamorous town. Her dream is to earn enough funds to build a free diner where the children can eat until they're full. One fateful day, a breathtakingly handsome noble comes to the cafe and hits her with a life-changing proposal...!
Tsutako, Age 26, Stalker. Tsutako Kagami works in an office by day, and follows Azami Li, the man she's loved for over 20 years now, by night. One day, while she's stalking him as usual, Azami is hit by a car that immediately flees the scene. When she visits him in the hospital, it is apparent that he has amnesia... the perfect chance to have her every wish granted. She tells him, "...I'm your girlfriend, Azami." What will happen in this thrilling mystery, as her lie begins to spread out into consequences with those surrounding her and Azami...?!
The most hated type of person in this world... is a delinquent!! And yet Masumi is bothered everyday by the epitome of delinquents, Kiyoharu! Their conversations don't click, and his fashion is impossible to understand. Masumi just might pass out... Then one day, after Kiyoharu forces Masumi to go on a date with him, he tells her that he's crazy about her...?!
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!
I have been in love with my sister's fiance for 7 years . I live a lie. That has never changed and never will. Or so I thought... Until I met Eichi. The day Eichi found out about my lie, that I was okay with my sister being with her husband, he told me that he wanted my sister for himself. We decided to work together to make our fantasy a reality. But, the way Eichi was coming on to me made me question if it was really my sister he was after. To grow accustomed to a man's touch, he hugged me... and even k-kissed me?! What in the world is going on?
Come experience what it's like to receive a massage from your lover. At the private women only massage parlor "KIRAMEKI", working women, mothers and even inexperienced women come to experience just that. Yamato, a new recruit known for his gentle demeanor, discovers the burdens of the women who visit the parlor. A story of healing the women from all walks of life receive from the handsome men at "KIRAMEKI" as their touch softens their hearts, minds and bodies.
"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?
His hands are groping and stimulating me as he whispers in my ear, you're so naughty! But he's my student and I'm his teacher...?! Though I've become the educator I've always wanted to be, my days are filled with worry. Ever since I saw that one student look at me with longing eyes in the library, I couldn't take my eyes off him... and now I have sex with him in my dreams?! But I'm a teacher, I can't have these feelings! But then, when the two of us end up alone in the classroom, he comes on to me and kisses me forcefully, sweetly and deeply...?! The sweet and numbing pleasure of the naughty movement of his fingertips overhwlems me.... A forbidden relationship that should never have been! Is it unbecoming of a teacher to fall in love with a student?
Mieko works at her dream job as a wedding planner and is about to turn 30. Unfortunately, not all is rainbows and unicorns as she constantly feels pressure from her friends and mother to get hitched herself. When she gets teased at a company dinner for being single when two of the younger girls at the office just got married, she begins downing glass after glass.
Seeing her in her inebriated state, Shuji, her young yet reliable (and not to mention hot) coworker offers to take her home. Once they arrive, Mieko's loneliness reaches its threshold, and with her inhibitions already dulled, she does the unthinkable! Come morning though, when the guilt begins to settle in, Shuji proposes that they move in together once he graduates college! Should she feel joy? Should she worry about their age gap? What's a woman to do?!
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...?!
After dying in a terrible accident, I find myself reborn in a love sim as the villainess, Sariel! If everything goes the way it's supposed to, Sariel is doomed to die at the hands of the other characters seeking vengeance... just thinking about this has brought me to see terrible dreams of my various potential fates. I've been keeping to myself, studying martial arts, swordsmanship, archery, and all other things to help defend myself from any possible dangers... but it seems one of the love interests is already drawn to me?!
Toma Sugawa is a cool-headed, unsociable businessman. For some reason, he's not in a relationship, and he spends his life watching the days go by. One thing that has become a part of his daily routine is waking up one of the tenants in his grandfather's apartment complex. That tenant is Kaoru Aida. He has countless alarms go off, and still doesn't wake up until Toma comes in to wake him. On top of that, he asks Toma to wake him up the next morning, without a lick of remorse. With an attitude like that, of course Toma is on the verge of snapping. But one day, Toma goes to wake him up as usual, and Kaoru, still sleepy, pushes him down?! Enjoy this clumsy, blooming love story between an inconsiderate guy and a guy still stuck on his ex!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "The Seduction of the Deep Sleeper"