There's a shrine famous for granting wishes for people to fall in love with one another. Also, there's a mysterious legend about how you have to "pray in a special way" there...
Iori is having one of the worst days of her life and comes upon a famous (and affordable!) restaurant at the beach. Is that roast duck, or is love in the air? The heavenly meal soothes her soul... until she knocks over a priceless vase!
Shojo manga author, Aya Yuuki, hasn't been able to produce a hit in years. In order to keep working, she has no choice but to turn to writing erotic manga. However, there is one big problem -- Aya is a virgin. How is Aya supposed to write smut without any sexual experience or knowledge?! One fateful night, as she frets over her work, the sound of a man's voice trickles into Aya's room through the wall. The voice is deep and mellifluous, and the things it says... they are straight out of an S&M scene! Aya immediately takes notes, finally able to bring her erotic manga to life -- and it's a triumph! But what happens when her neighbor realizes that she is listening in and stealing his lines?! A love affair between neighbors, with a slice of risk.
One day, daycare teacher Misa happens to come face to face with Kato, the father of one of the boys in her class. This Kato is the same man Misa met at her part-time job during junior college - the married man she once had an affair with. She thought their relationship was a thing of the past, but after seeing him again something inside of Misa starts crumbling, leaving her heart in a shambles... One night, finding Kato's number still saved in her phone, Misa gives in and calls him...! Added to the mix are Kato's wife Yuka and her lover, Tomoya. All of them old enough to know better but too wretched to care, these sorry souls sink further into the tangled mess of their own murky desires, their struggles laid bare on the pages of this frank tale.
Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new t*rtures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late? Read the manga industry insiders voted their favorite of 2014! "A very powerful story about being different and the consequences of childhood bullying... Read it." Anime News Network "The word heartwarming was made for manga like this." Manga Bookshelf
From the creator of the surprise-hit romantic comedy Domestic Girlfriend! High school student Seiji is in love with Aki, the head of the tennis team, but he is unable to ask her out. Another student, Yuki, discovers his obsession with Shou, and promises to help him get closer to her ... but Yuki's help comes at a cost, and soon, the analytical, strategic Seiji finds himself deep in the messy turmoil of emotion...
The man Koharu loved wasn't cheating on her...he was cheating on his wife with her! And not only that...he was the third guy in a row to do so. Dejected, she leaves Tokyo for her hometown, and rejects a future of love and marriage for a simpler life. But things have changed-her parents are struggling, the cafe they ran is closed, and a creepy man keeps following her around. She thinks this may be it for her, until she learns that her hometown has allowed polygamous marriage, and she's in that man's sights as his third wife!
Shiho's job is going fine, but she has no lover or friends to hang out with. In the middle of all this, she's been calling for in-home massages as a means to fill the void, when one day she meets a handsome masseur named Toudou. With his delicate touch, he makes her body and mind melt. However, the very next day he shows up at her company ... ? Here's a sexy story of a single office worker and a handsome masseur who fall in love!
Yasuke, 15 years old, is about to build up the courage to confess his love to his childhood friend Akari, who's fallen for him, too. There's just one problem: Yasuke's family lives in a Japanese shrine, and when he breaks the shrine's sacred mirror, it triggers a curse, releasing the cute and wellendowed goddess of misfortune, Orihime, into the real world! Now Yasuke can't ever be out of Orihime's sight-if he gets too far away, he dies, and can only be brought back to life with a quick kiss from Orihime!
Without a single boyfriend in sixteen years, Natsume has zero relationship experience ... and it's all thanks to her super overprotective neighbor-high school teacher, Mikami-sensei!! Whether at home or at school, Natsume is always being manipulated by his strangely overbearing affections. But while it may have seemed like sibling love at first, their relationship soon takes an unexpected turn ... !
"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!
When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more...adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you die-discovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn't awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the prettiest girl in school, an agreeable comrade, and an outspoken prude. Fumbling over their own discomforts, these five teens get thrown into chaos over three little letters: S...E...X...!
28-year-old Japanese national representative for volleyball, Nohara Suzuki, and Judo, Takaya Yano, are facing the same problem: they both just got dumped because they were too inexperienced in the world of physical relationships. So what do two over-achieving athletes decide to do? Practice, of course! And as Nohara and Takaya practice more and more, they may just find the ones they're practicing for...are each other.
Takao Kasuga is a bookworm. And his favorite book right now is Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. While the young man may often be seen lost in thought as he rabidly consumes page after page, Takao is not much of a student. Actually when we are first introduced to the middle school teen, we find him sneaking some reading as he receives an F on a recent language exam. Nakagawa is known as the class bully. When she is not receiving zeros she is usually muttering profanities to those around her. While she doesn't care for books or their readers, she does have a thing for troublemakers. Takao may not be one, but having read over his shoulder a few times, she knows he is not very innocent. If anything he is bored and aware of it. Together, by chance, they shake up their entire rural community as Takao tries to break out of his shell in a random moment of passion and affection...not directed towards Nakamura. And contrary to Takao's predictions, the girl he was falling for, Nanako Saeki, responds by eventually accepting the bibliophile for who he is. Or at least, who she thinks he is. And therein lies the conflict. Takao is not a hero. He is not a troublemaker, either. He is a regular teen who through equal moments of cowardice and chivalry takes a long step towards adulthood as he desperately tries to cover up a dark secret. Takao Kusuga has stolen an item precious to someone he is attracted to, and if he doesn't form a "contract" with his new best friend, she is going to tell.
Rizu's childhood friend Souta-kun has always been super cute but also just a little helpless, so she's taken it upon herself to take care of him. Little does she know, that Souta-kun is only a facade! No scheme is too extravagant-Souta-kun will stop at nothing to keep her to himself. From the creator of Gakuen Prince and Rose & Wolf, Jun Yuzuki's newest work: a love story about a cute but cunning childhood friend!