Boys of Summer volume 1 features story by Chuck Austen and art by Hiroki Otsuka. Bud Waterston is a decent looking guy in full hormonal bloom. He's heading for college, and imagines the sexual liberation he will face living in a dormitory full of other post-teens just like him. But like all best laid plans (no pun intended), nothing goes as Bud hopes or expects. His roommate turns out to be a closeted homosexual and all the good-looking girls in the dorm are interested in somebody else. When the girl of his dreams, who wanting nothing to do with him, joins the school baseball team, it inspires Bud to join, too, in an effort to prove to her she's all wrong about him.
On 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?!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "The Lying Moon Princess's Marriage: I Will Gain the Wolf God's Favor"
Akari is good at her job, beautiful, and her sense of style is beyond compare... but she has a secret. She's almost 30 and she's still a virgin! One fateful day, a new department chief takes over -- the handsome Shinomiya. "You're my subordinate now, which means from today, you have to do what I say." Shinomiya is a condescending bully and he and Akari clash from day one. Akari finds herself drinking her worries away at his welcome party and before she knows what hit her, she's completely smashed. She wakes up the next day to find -- Shinomiya emerging from her bathroom half naked?!?! Thus begins Akari's comedic office romance with her callous new boss!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "From Zero to Office Romance"
Nezumi was raised by the yakuza to be a killer. It's all she's ever known. Love is something she's never experienced or even contemplated...until she meets an ordinary, hapless young man named Ao in an arcade during a hit. Suddenly thrust into the simple bliss of shared dinners, video games, and bashful intimacy, Nezumi is happy for the first time in her life. But her masters were never going to allow the dream to last forever. Now Nezumi has to make a terrible choice to save Ao's life-and her own. How far will this killing machine go to assert her humanity...?
I'm fed up with love and marriage... But, my body still has cravings... Akira Yamase (32), divorced. She came back to her hometown after her divorce, but she's tired of the rural social relationships that keep butting into her private life. One day, Mori (36) who moved in thanks to the test residency program appeared in the supermarket she works for. The villagers were spreading bad rumors about him walking around town with untidy clothes and messy long hair. Asked to deliver products, Akira carries them into his house. Being close with a man for the first time in a long time, she gets self-conscious and fantasies herself opening her body to him...
Even though she's gorgeous on the outside, Hana is a 26-year-old girl with a timid nature. Each time she fantasizes about having a bright future with the person she's with, she ends up being betrayed and having her heart severely broken. It's as if Hana's heart is a black hole that keeps attracting another "horrid" person who approaches Hana disguised as her "one true love".
From a lack of self-confidence, Hana is dependent on others and addicted to love. This is an omnibus love series that stylishly depicts the stories of a single girl falling deeper into hell as she's being taken advantage of by different men and women.
At the end of this torment, will Hana ever find real "happiness"...?
This workplace romance josei features two opposites-attract coworkers helping "train" each other to overcome their fear of intimacy.
Narumi, a hardworking but plain office worker, hides a secret from her colleagues: her traumatic dating history, which has led her to take on her alter ego, the popular live streamer Minarin. Her charming coworker, Shinonome, seems like her opposite - handsome, charismatic, and admired by all - but struggles with his own insecurities. When an unexpected taxi ride forces their secrets into the open, they make a deal... to help "train" each other to overcome their touch aversion and fear of intimacy!
As Narumi begins to see Shinonome as a path toward healing, they must confront their pasts together. Can this mismatched pair help each other find solace in shared vulnerability?NOTE: This book contains mature content and is intended for readers 18 years of age and over.
*Chapter 4: "Who Cares if My Dreams Are Lewd..." is a side story by this author and is not related to the main story.
Like a child going hungry... I want to eat you up, time and time again. Section Chief Koino has been stationed in this new position just a month earlier. He's notoriously known amongst the women in the office as an intense perfectionist, a cold and calculated businessman. Others in the office, like Nonoka Ando also find it hard to approach him... However, one day she finds her boss sitting out on a bench in the park during the lunch break, and to her surprise it turns out he makes his own neat lunches! Bit by bit, it becomes clear just how many little charming things Mr. Koino seems to be keeping to himself...!
A reincarnation isekai fantasy where a ruined slave's soul burns with desire for the Dragon King.
Himiko Midou, the daughter of a CEO, had been abandoned by her fiance. Twice, in fact. "What's wrong with me?" One day, she tries hypnotherapy and discovers the karma of her past life. Himiko was once a slave kept by the dragon king in another world. She was bound to him, yet showered with gentle love each day. She wanted to believe that he was her soulmate as he passionately penetrated her. However, her life ended in tragedy when she was killed by the same master to whom she had dedicated her body and soul. Knowing that this is why her love life hasn't gone well, Himiko returns to her past life to change her future.
"Just go ahead and call off our engagement!" Gina was betrothed at age 8 at the behest of her family. However she and her fiancé, Carlo, have spent every waking moment with each other fighting. Despite Gina secretly harboring feelings for him. One fateful day, Gina tells him to just call the whole thing off and tries to run away from an unpleasant situation, however she ends up tripping and falling down a staircase which causes her to go unconscious. When she finally wakes up, and after a small misunderstanding, her family believe that she has amnesia, so Gina pretends to not remember asking Carlo to break off the engagement and everything from the past month. However, when Carlo does come to see her, he tells her, not about their engagement breaking up, but that he proposed and that she accepted. Now that he's seemingly all over her, where will their new relationship take them...?!