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USD 1.49 / 149pt"I want you." Imagine being told such a thing after a long and hot kiss from a beautiful elf. "I'm an introverted plain girl who's never had a boyfriend. There's nothing special about me, and the best I can do is just live a quiet life without bothering anyone else." That's what Sae Maizumi thought before she suddenly fell through the puddle she stepped on. After falling through what felt like a deep portal, she found herself in a world of elves. Where she arrived-the sacred spring of the elven forest. Sae, soaked in the water of the springs, is suddenly taken into the care of Elion, who is set to be the next leader of the forest elves. However, as a suspicious being who appeared out of nowhere, she's taken into c*ptivity! The moment Sae has a chance to break free, she makes a run for it. On her way out, she happens upon Elion's quarters to find him in an unexpected situation...?!! -
USD 0.01 / 1pt ~ USD 1.49 / 149pt"I can't believe the talented hands that make me such amazing food are really brushing across my lips..."
Office worker Miki is nearly 30, but her small stature makes her seem much younger, which scares off all but the creepiest of guys... With that on her plate on top of the stress of work, Miki keeps her spirits up with a weekly "treat": dinner and drinks at a local bar run by the handsome Chef Kayaba. Just a glimpse of his sinewy arms as he works has Miki daydreaming about what his hands would feel like running over her body, but she's content just to watch...until one day she gets a chance to drink alone with him after the bar closes and all of a sudden things are moving fast!! Yet, for some secret reason, he says he can't make love to her... -
USD 1.49 / 149ptOn a moonless night... I hear your voice for the first time. Ume was abandoned by the family she married into because she was unable to bear children. She returns to the village where she was born but finds herself alone as her parents die from a spreading disease. As told in tales of sacrifice to the gods, the village also begins to experience a shortage in the crops of their farms that will only continue until someone is offered. Ume is not able to bear a child but as she does not have any children, she is able to lie her way into being offered to the gods. Waiting for her at a shrine deep in the mountains is a wolf god with silver hair and beautiful nails that shine in five different colors... what will come from this encounter between a despised god and an unhappy girl?!
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USD 1.49 / 149ptHuh? Why? What did that kiss mean?!
Otoha is a young career woman with a great reputation at work. However, because of her success, she has earned herself an enemy who's out to get her.
Then there's her coworker, Naruse, the company heartthrob. All eyes are on him, but he often gets involved with Otoha, which always results in them arguing.
When Otoha runs into her boyfriend on a date with another woman, Naruse jumps in and... -
USD 1.49 / 149pt"Lady Amalthea, will you marry me?" Amalthea receives an unfathomable proposal from the cold prince who hates women! However, their marriage is only a contractual one. Even so, with how kindly the prince is treating her, Amalthea feels she might get the wrong idea... Amalthea has exceptional skill when it comes to territory management. Her talents brought about expectations in the kingdom, and she has been asked to wed the future count, Thomas. However, Thomas takes Amalthea's proposals, leaving her name out of them and claiming them as his own. Not only that, but Thomas also has a lover. When Amalthea points this out, he causes a scene and calls off the engagement. Just when Amalthea had enough and was ready to leave, Prince Kirfas, who happened to witness everything, suddenly proposes to Amalthea?! -
USD 1.49 / 149pt"Your housekeeping skills are 20 points. And as a wife, you're a zero."
Since Saki married her husband, Naoya, he's completely changed. He's become a manipulative man who constantly judges and "scores" her. But for the sake of her daughter, Saki puts up with his controlling behavior.
To rub salt in the wound, Naoya praises their neighbor, Madoka, as a "100-point woman." When Saki discovers he's having an affair with her, she sets out to get revenge on her toxic husband and his arrogant mistress! -
USD 1.49 / 149ptAfter her ex-boyfriend refuses to marry her because of her cooking skills, Waka decides to devote herself to cooking! Her efforts have paid off, and she now manages a restaurant of her own. Being next to a police station, cops often come by to eat, but one, Mr. Takeda, has caught her eye. His "satisfied" face when eating her cooking has her absolutely swooning! She can't help but imagine him eating more than just her food! How far can her cooking take her with this dreamy cop?
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USD 1.99 / 199ptAfter witnessing a tryst between her subordinate and an executive one late night at the office, Mihaya Hoshino suddenly finds herself betrayed by someone she trusted, and transferred to her company's branch in the boonies (also her hometown). Dejected and drunk after returning to her childhood home, she runs into Koda, the delinquent who confessed to her as a prank back in middle school. Years later, he now runs a farm that happens to be one of Mihaya's business partners. Acting as the new liaison, she must now work with the last guy on Earth she wants to see! It's an unexpected reunion between one clumsy-in-love former head class representative and a bad boy-turned-farmer! -
USD 1.49 / 149pt"Back then, we were young. We merely wandered the planet, not knowing what it meant to love, to be." Wait? Is this one of those "second chance love letters" that everyone's talking about?
Just three months into Sayuki's marriage, tragedy struck. When she comes home early one day, she hears her husband and another woman speaking sweet nothings to each other in their bedroom. Without a moment's hesitation, Sayuki files for divorce and decides to have a fresh start, giving up on love and marriage. A few years pass and a guy at work starts talking her up. But before she has time to worry about him, she begins receiving love poems from her ex-husband! What happened, and why is he suddenly trying to act all romantic?! -
USD 1.49 / 149ptKanane Shinohara's been in plenty of relationships, but they've never panned out. Now, she's in her mid-30s and has become incapable of falling in love. As she drinks her sorrows away, she convinces herself that the reason she can't find a decent man lies within her. However, before Kanane has a chance to fully accept her "harsh reality," a handsome man named Shirosaki appears before her. Has she finally met her Prince Charming? Or is there something more to him?
Deep down, all Kanane wants is her own Cinderella story, but her experience tells her she's too old for fairytale romances. Using age as an excuse, she attempts to make a break for it and leave Shirosaki behind. However, he might not be so willing to let her escape his reach. -
USD 0.74 / 74pt ~ USD 1.49 / 149pt"You're already 30 years old! Women are only appaealing when they're still young!" were the cruel words my husband spoke. Masumi and Shinichiro have been maried for seven years. With their five year old daughter, the three of them make up a happy family... Or so it seemed. The last time Shinichiro and Masumi had sex was three years ago. From wife to mother to 30 years old in the blink of an eye. Will Masumi spend the rest of her life simply aging and losing sex appeal? "... I won't stand for this!" Masumi's ready to polish up her charm and salvage her relationship with her husband... But then this... -
USD 0.99 / 99ptYoshiwara, old Edo's paradise of pleasure, has been reborn in modern-day Tokyo.... In this playground of the powerful, where money rules all, women sell both their bodies and the idea of romance to their male clientele. Thrust into this world is the ingenue Asuka, who's been sold out by her foster parents to pay off their debts. While at first oblivious to the nature of Yoshiwara, she accidentally barges in on a "transaction" between a courtesan and her client. Confronted with her new reality of being bought and sold, she longs to make a break for it... but is there anyone around her she can trust...?!
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USD 1.49 / 149ptMinaho and Yuichi have been married for five years, and in this time, she has been putting up with her husband's verbal harassment. One day Minaho falls ill. Despite this, Yuichi continues to berate her, and instead of worrying about her when she collapses and is rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, he swears at her. At this point, Minaho's patience has run thin, and she consults her male friend, Nanao, for advice. He tells her that she is too kind, and if she doesn't fight back, she'll be treated like a slave for the rest of her life. He then teaches her the secret to fighting in a marriage. Will Minaho be able to get out of the messy doldrums and be happy? -
USD 1.49 / 149ptWhen middle school teacher Rika's lack of self-care catches up to her, she quits her job to recover her health and ends up taking a part-time gig at the local Chinese restaurant: no overtime, no take-home work, and two delicious employee meals a day. The owner Momose and his lack of brain-to-mouth filter prove to be a handful, but his amazing cooking shoots Rika's quality of life straight through the roof! This exhausted overachiever is realizing that being a "proper adult" is harder than it seemed... and her journey of healing might just come with a side of romance! -
USD 0.99 / 99pt ~ USD 1.49 / 149pt"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! -
USD 1.49 / 149ptErika is married to a loving husband and blessed with a child; she should be feeling nothing but happiness. However, things begin to fall apart when she returns to work after her maternity leave... Erika must take care of the irregularities of her child and do all the major housework. She's left to endure parenting all by herself, and she begins to feel dissatisfied with her husband, who's only felt the need to focus on his work up until this point... -
USD 1.99 / 199pt"You, who feel more distant from me than anyone else, are the only person I want to understand better." Kasumi and Kei have been friends since they were just little kids. Kei always watched over Kasumi as she would innocently run into any situation with a smile. In their last year of high school, on Kasumi's 18th birthday, she declares that she wants to go with Kei to the love hotel in their town as a birthday gift?! Ever since her confusion on what happens there was settled, the two haven't been able to talk to each other. However, that begins to change after the two find their way to the same university.
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USD 0.99 / 99ptYuriko, 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.
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USD 1.99 / 199ptAfter marrying the person she met in the office, it's been 5 years... and he never comes home. Yuka's been juggling housework and her full-time job. She's treated at a housewife by her husband and pressured for children by her mother-in-law (typical). Everyone's got to be like this, right? It just means that more needs to be done... or at least that's what Yuka's thought. One day, after some harsh words from her husband, Yuka darts out to try and find some peace. But suddenly the headlights are coming at her when-... As she found herself dying in a hospital bed, one thing burned into her retinas... her husband embracing Riko, her childhood friend. They can never be forgiven. They need to pay. As Yuka swears this onto herself while her life begins to fade, she suddenly finds herself at the moment she was proposed to... five years ago. Now it's time to devise a plan for revenge. -
USD 1.49 / 149pt"Did you notice my feelings for you back then?"
Back in high school, Hinako had secretly loved her classmate Masashi. Ten years later, they're suddenly reunited! Once reserved, Masashi has become much more handsome. When he openly expresses his thoughts to Hinako, they send her heart racing!
"I love him... I want to hold his hand. I want to be close to him."
A love reunited and finally fulfilled...?!
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