Manga About MangaPlaza Originals (P.9)
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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?
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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...?
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"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....
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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?!
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Is this love a dream come true? Or is it the beginning of a nightmare? From cheating, to gold-digging, to dangerous cults, Satoru is a man so unlucky in love that every woman he's ever fallen for has betrayed him. He decides that if he's only capable of falling in love with wicked women, he might as well go with the marriage match his parents have picked out for him. But one look at Michiru, the woman they've set him up with, and Satoru is head-over-heels. And that can only mean one thing...
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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.
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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....
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Komachi Sakanoue, 20 years old. Ten days into a new part-time job and can't follow directions. But, come on, I'm so curious... I just have to know more about that man in the special seat by the window, where the sunlight hits... - The cafe where I work has a long-time regular, a comic book artist who writes a certain popular comic series, and right now I'm pretty obsessed with him. Even the boss getting angry doesn't discourage me from sneaking stealthy peeks as he works. Sure enough, the world flowing from his pen is brimming with love again today. I adore his work, and I adore him, too. I want those listless eyes to be fixed on me. I want to know what he's thinking, and what the world looks like through his eyes. Sir, please, tell me what I have to do to become someone special to you...
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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...!
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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.
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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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After pulling overtime alone together with Sato, her towering overgrown puppy of a junior colleague, Riko suddenly finds herself wrapped in his arms as his hot tongue runs over her skin, until her cocky stepbrother Yuta catches them in the act. After that day, Yuta starts watching her with a not-so-brotherly look in his eyes...? She'd always been married to the job with no time for love, yet now these two younger men are wreaking havoc on both her heart and her body with their fawning pursuit of her love...
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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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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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From high school to college, from college into the working world - although my life had never been spectacular, the journey had always been smooth sailing... Except when it came to men. So when I found myself an engaged woman at age 29, I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. My dream of getting married before turning 30 was going to be realized! And that's when... I met him.
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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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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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