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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...?!
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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?!
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"I've been in love with him...ever since that day when he cried underneath the fake, starry sky. I didn't initially intend to confess to him. I only wanted us to be closer - to spend more time together... So how did things end up this way...?" Kawai is a member of his high school's Astronomy Club. He grows close to Ohara, his fellow classmate, when Ohara helps him out with his club's exhibit for their last school festival. After the two graduate, their paths begin to diverge, little by little...until one fateful day. So close that they can feel each other's breath, yet so tragically distant. A romantic tale of two men constantly just beyond each other's reach. Chasing after one another, like shooting stars.
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"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?!
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I ran into Natsume again at our junior high class reunion and, long story short, a group of us have been going out for drinks together lately. My friend claims Natsume is into me (Wow!), but if that's true then he doesn't show it. If anything, he's always giving me attitude...! (Grr...) How does he really feel about me? I need to know, so I can decide on my next move...! In this romantic comedy of self-sabotage, will Hanako keep digging herself into a deeper hole, or will she finally be upfront about her own feelings?
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What do you do when nothing's going right in your life?
Minori (29), who has been struggling from day to day, has become pessimistic about life as a whole. This year has been especially dreadful. Work has become a hellish experience because of her new boss. Her childhood friend and longtime crush, Asai, just told her he only sees her as a friend. When all seems hopeless, Minori is suddenly visited by a "Toshiotoko", a fairy whose job is to bring luck and happiness to their charge. With his gentle and encouraging support, she slowly learns to take control of her life by the reins. What will Minori discover as she continues her search for what happiness really means to her?
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Nanami dreams of falling in love with a prince... And she's 29. She finds fulfillment in love through fantasizing about Yuhi, her favorite character from a love simulation game. One day, while out at a pub with her friends from work, she meets Minato -- a college student who is the spitting image of Yuhi... but then Minato calls Nanami a middle-aged hag. "What a shame, with that personality your stunning visuals amount to nothing. I know -- I'll fix that worthless personality of his and get him to cosplay as Yuhi!"Thus begins Nanami's plan to turn Minato into a prince! A romantic comedy featuring a pair mismatched in both age and personality. Your heart is sure to pound out of your chest!
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How reliable would you say your memory is? As humans, our minds can omit memories. Memories can become idealized. Sometimes, they can even be entirely fabricated. There are various ways by which one's recollection of past events can become distorted. One could even say that it is a type of mental defense mechanism meant to protect us. But what if you had the chance to see your memories in their original state, unblemished and untouched...? Would you take it?
Meet Hakucho, the hippocampus and their assistant, Rohen, two mysterious individuals that live and work at an old-fashioned cafe that's more than meets the eye. Their shop comes to those plagued by their past, offering a chance to see the truth behind their memories. When restoring a client's memories, Hakucho summons a mystical creature from their ancient pipe. The creature enters the client's mind, scouring its depths to reveal that which has become obscured. However... sometimes, the truth is perhaps best left forgotten.
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Mami has tried marriage once and failed, so now she's looking for something else. Even if her peers won't get it, she wants what she wants: not marriage, not romance, just a man to spend time with when she needs some company!
Sure enough, when she brings this up at her junior high class reunion, her friends all gang up against her. However, a handsome former classmate she'd almost never spoken to before--Nakamura--does empathize with her! When Mami learns that Nakamura is also once-divorced and, just like her, is looking not for a wife or a girlfriend but just a woman to spend time with, she makes a life-changing decision.
She's given up on living her life according to what's "normal." After spending thirty-some years toiling under the crushing weight of societal expectations, one woman finds herself a partner in crime and a new lease on life in this modern-day survival story.
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"Why do I have to be the one to 'put it in'?"Shun Mizuo has always got a smile on his face. He's popular amongst his coworkers and he's good at his job... but he's useless in the bedroom. One day, heartbroken after discovering his girlfriend cheating on him, he drinks himself into a stupor and reveals his "situation down there" to Amachi, his beautiful-yet-frosty coworker. What happens when, suddenly, Amachi says that she feels that this moment with Mizuo must be fate?! An office romance between two people both hopeless in the bedroom!
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Sayaka Shimada, 36 and single, loves three things: her job, her favorite singer, and her mother, who lives with her. Even with her junior coworker Sugaya tossing thoughtless comments her way, she'd poured herself into her work, and when she paused to look up she found herself on the cusp of her late 30s. Partly at her mother's suggestion, Sayaka visits a matchmaking service. The man she's introduced to is sweet and earnest, and things start moving smoothly toward marriage. Though it hasn't all sunk in yet, she is well on her way to a happy future--and that's when a sudden injury leaves her mother hospitalized. The injury is nothing too serious and Sayaka is settling her nerves, until she notices something off about her mother... A poignant and much-acclaimed depiction of the struggles of caretaking and building a future, issues faced by countless people every day!
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High school senior Ao Kuroda is a completely normal girl, neither glitzy nor plain. Nothing beats peace and quiet, that's her motto. In spite of looking forward to a no-nonsense and calm final year of high school, Ao bumps shoulders with Sakuya Ozaki -- a freshman infamous for getting into a fight soon after the first day of high school and sending the other student to the hospital!! Ozaki tells her off -- "That freakin' hurt, watch where you're going, why don't you?!"-- and Ao is so terrified that she cries. She wants nothing to do with Ozaki! So why the heck did he have to get into a fight with someone right outside of her favorite record store?!
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It was the final summer of college - the final summer before becoming a working member of society...Miharu is a senior in college whose dream is to be a high school teacher. She's overjoyed when she receives her results from her certification exam. Amidst her excitement though, her friend and fellow aspiring teacher Yuichi, confesses to her! Unfortunately, Miharu is conflicted. Despite having the same feelings for Yuichi, she finds herself unable to say 'Yes'. It all goes back to 2 years ago, when her close high school friend and crush, Hinata suddenly passed away.Even in a world without Hinata, Miharu can't seem to let go of him. On her annual visit to his grave and the beach where they used to spend their school days together, she continues to contemplate. trying to sort out her feelings. But right when she decides to head home, she has a shocking encounter!
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Everyone at the office is a little afraid of the boss, Mr. Mano, probably because he's always scowling and rarely talks. When Akane hits a rough patch and has little choice but to crash at Mr. Mano's place for a while, he spends his days on edge, painfully aware that he's an unwelcome guest... Until one day, in a strange turn of events, Akane finds out Mr. Mano's "dark secret" and can't help but feel a sharp twinge of affection. The guy's got a scary face, but then he'll get all bashful and turn pink, or let out a shy little laugh, or... Hang on, this is just way too cute!!
A super lovey-dovey romcom chock full of books that don't match their covers, starring a do-gooder businessman and his grumpy-faced boss.
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I know you, though I doubt you know me......
Five years ago, while keeping his face hidden, he spent one unforgettable day and night with another man. When a total coincidence brings them back together, the long-banked fires of his passion reignite and he finds himself once again desperately yearning for the other man.
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"If I win, I get to do whatever I want to you, right?" Shou spends his days on the receiving end of his very intense father's wrath. Shou lets out his pent-up frustrations at a bar, with a little game. What kind of game, you say? The salacious kind -- the man who outdrinks the rest gets to spend the night with Shou. However, one day, a mysterious man named Ichijo disrupts Shou's game and even goes as far as to lecture him on it! What happens when an irritated Shou tries to give Ichijo a piece of his mind...?! A clumsy love story between an unfriendly hottie and the heir to a traditional inn!
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"I'm the type of person who can't draw what they've never experienced. Kurose, please, won't you show me how it's done...with your body?"Boys' love comic artist Mashiro only wishes to create romantic stories that touch people's hearts. So when his editor Kurose tasks him with drawing a sex scene for the first time, he finds himself in a bind. As unease fills his virgin soul, Mashiro decides to visit a shrine rumored to bring good luck to comic artists. But after he makes his prayer, a being possesses him... Instantly overcome with a surge of sexual desire, he starts coming on to Kurose! Lessons have begun for our talented yet crude editor and innocent BL comic artist-turned-seducer.
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Set on becoming a clothing designer, she got herself a job at a leading apparel company - only to end up assigned to the reception desk. Yet Mio Adachi didn't give up there. She spent her days practicing design, on top of performing her receptionist duties, in hopes of one day moving to a department where she could actually work in fashion design. That fateful day comes, though with an unfortunate twist, when a higher-up in the design department sees a sketch by handsome top-class designer Miyabi Shito and mistakenly thinks it's one of Mio's...! Caught between the pull of her lifelong dream and the weight of starting it off with a lie, what path will Mio take next...?
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"No matter how many times we're reborn, I'm sure we'll fall in love again. Because Kotaro and I are bound by the red string of fate." Kaede is a housewife, romanticist, and lover of peace, always one to avoid conflict. In fact, she and her husband Kotaro are so blissfully married that they've never even gotten into an argument. On the evening of her fifth wedding anniversary, as she heads towards the restaurant, she reflects on how much she appreciates her kind husband and the perfect marriage he's given her. But when a figure rushes in and attacks her from behind, her life begins to fall into disarray...
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Every inch of my body within the sworn enemy's tender grasp... How did this happen?! Gangly hero meets monstrous yet charmingly sweet demon in this guiltily sweet romance. -- I'm Masakiyo Kato (21), also known as Skull Black. I may be somewhat scrawny, but I'm a protector of justice. Today, once again, I'm defending the town against Baphomet, a commander from an evil organization. At least that was the plan! He somehow ends up pinning me against the wall... again. As if that weren't enough, he shows up at my place asking, "What do you want first? A bath? Dinner? Or do you want me?" What the hell does this giant beast want? And why is he trying to get me to marry him?!
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