The long-awaited comic version of Monaka Toyama's novel is here!
One lonely Christmas Eve, Yoriko Fujieda, a talent production manager, discovers handsome high-school boy Taichi Ogino crying in the park. He agrees to join her agency, and like running a three-legged race, the pair stumble ahead through the entertainment industry. Seven years later, Taichi is a megastar! But, life isn't perfect. "It's your fault I still haven't done it, Yoriko..."
This is the story of a manager who takes respoonsibility to the next level.
"I'm sure I'll have to pay for this one day." When Mitsu was a junior high school student, a fortuneteller told her, "You should marry the person you love the second most." Now all grown up, she works at a clinic. One fateful night she runs into her first love, Arishima, and they start having an intimate relationship. But Mitsu is already married to a man who is a wonderful and kind husband?! Mitsu and her husband, Arishima and his wife. Four point of views, two married lives, only one way this can end... right?
"Show me more of your cute side." I can't believe he's putting his hand into my underwear in the conference room... He shouldn't touch me there... She's pursued cuteness for eight years in the character design department. Yukiko Momose, who's fallen into a rut, is asked to train a new employee. The employee who showed up was Ritsu Kogami, their first ever male employee. She thought he was a good and diligent guy, even though he was somewhat strange. One day, she was suddenly hugged by him from behind...! He said, "You're way too cute." What on earth was he thinking...? The next day, Ritsu's behavior escalated even further...
The long-awaited comic version of Monaka Toyama's novel is here!
One lonely Christmas Eve, Yoriko Fujieda, a talent production manager, discovers handsome high-school boy Taichi Ogino crying in the park. He agrees to join her agency, and like running a three-legged race, the pair stumble ahead through the entertainment industry. Seven years later, Taichi is a megastar! But, life isn't perfect. "It's your fault I still haven't done it, Yoriko..."
This is the story of a manager who takes responsibility to the next level. Now in vertical-scrolling, full-color VertiComix format!
"At your limit already? Looks like you really are just a little brat." She approached him with romantic feelings built up over the span of ten whole years, but neither her kissing nor her touch could compete with an adult's...
"When you feel good, all your worries disappear." A good-for-nothing guy satisfies both physically and mentally... after letting him in, it was impossible to get away.
Erina loves cats more than anything, even though she looks like the haughty-princess type who could have any guy she wants. But even with his cat-like name, she can't stand her aloof classmate, Nekoyama-kun. But when she rescues a hurt kitty in her yard and gives it a perfect, snuggly kiss...she suddenly finds a very human Nekoyama-kun in her room? What gives?!
After being dumped by her boyfriend, Koyori went to her longtime friend Hijiri's house to drink away her sorrow...and ended up spending the night with him! Not only that, he tells her he loves her-and she's not sure how to reconcile the new development with someone she's known since they were kids. After all, the stakes are high-if things don't work out, she'll hurt one of her closest friends. And to make matters worse, her ex wants to patch things up...? Koyori needs to figure out what she wants, before she loses it all.
Chizuru's a stoic 30-something office worker who's never been anywhere close to a nightlife district. As luck would have it, the company drinking party she participates in is in such a district, and a turn of events leads Chizuru, the ever prudent and judicial type, to sour the mood. Unable to endure being there any longer, Chizuru skips out on the after party and runs into a pack of impudent hosts on her way home. She's saved however when a handsome looking man in an expensive car comes to her rescue. "That's classic you", says the handsome man to Chizuru, and upon closer inspection he turns out to be Tsukasa, a childhood friend. In order to take over his parents' business, he's working as the lead host at a popular host club. After a 10 year reunion, conversation goes well and Chizuru let's Tsukasa know of her intentions for marriage. Hearing this, Tsukasa invites Chizuru to work at the club in order to get accustomed with men in general. Though she was hesitant, the weight of their enduring friendship convinces her to take Tsukasa up on his offer. Upon starting her work at the club, Tsukasa suddenly becomes extremely touchy-feely to the point that Chizuru can't hide her confusion. Could it be that possessive dreamboy Tsukasa's passion is too much for Chizuru... dangerous even...?!
He said "There's only one thing to do at night in the countryside" but what does that mean? We're living under the same roof, and he continues to come onto me... but I won't lose to a young guy like him!
"Oh no... if he moves his hand like that, I'll...!" Rio Kasugai, an office worker with a knack for fortune-telling, reluctantly does a love fortune for her boss, Shinya Fukamachi, whom she really can't stand. That night, she has a startling dream of her...having sex with him?! This dream makes her hyper-aware of him, and she finds it hard to contain the heat of arousal building within her. Then, one evening after work, the two find themselves getting close, leading to...?! Buckle up for a wild ride of romance, mystery, and suspense with a headstrong office worker and her snide boss!
Yae is an unremarkable girl who temps for a living. She loses her home and job in one stroke and is, at 29, at her wits' end. Then her childhood friend Takumi appears before her. A good-looking, successful architect, he lives a glamorous life. In exchange for free accommodation in his skyscraper condo in the heart of Tokyo, Yae acts as his fake wife?! This is the story of a fake marriage to a smug, handsome architect!
Minami has awful luck with men-she falls for their looks only to find that they're the worst of the worst. So when she finds out that her next work assignment involves a good-looking, rude-off-the-bat man, she feels just fine about kissing any feelings for him goodbye...that is, until she finds out he's the son of the author of her favorite childhood picture book series, Bride of the Vampire. But the rude son soon changes his tune, and Minami doesn't have long before she discovers the secret his gorgeous lips hide...
Welcome Back, Alice is the latest work by Shuzo Oshimi, the author of Blood on the Tracks, Happiness, and The Flowers of Evil. Childhood friends Yohei, Kei, and Yui are reunited in high school. But what seemed like a straightforward love triangle between the three of them takes an unexpected turn when Kei shows up looking and dressed like a girl. In this story of adolescent awakening, perversion, and love, Oshimi sets out to explore the boundaries of gender, sexuality, and identity.
Ikuma Saeki finally married his childhood friend and the girl of his dreams, Sumika. But while years of pining came easily to him, physical closeness does not...and he's having trouble navigating the intimacy that comes with marriage. Sumika, too, is having trouble bridging the gap between friend and lover...what is this innocent couple to do but navigate it together, awkwardness and all!
Popular Rei and shy Kira are worlds apart, until one fateful day brings them together. Rei stumbles upon Kira in the harassing hands of her sleazy art teacher and saves the quiet girl from his clutches. And when the jock plants a kiss on a statue of Mars in the studio, Kira finds herself drawn in and even summons up the nerve to ask him to model for her!
Mihane first met Sakura while she was working as his tutor in their school years...and after he declared his love for her, they shared one night of passion before parting ways. So imagine her surprise when a few years later she finds that he's become the president of the company she works for! But will he remember her? And even if he does, can they pick up where they left off...?!
With how far she's out of his league, Kosuke Shimizu never expected his senpai at work, Natsuna Shirahama, to go on a date with him...much less marry him! But with a wife so perfect, it's no surprise that the timid and indecisive Kosuke feels inadequate...and not just in bed. The truth is, they both have their fair share of flaws (especially when it comes to expressing their love), but working through them together will only strengthen their marriage...right?
Sex is intimate, and for some, it takes everything to bare it all...so when Misuzu was told that sex with her was "boring," she gave it up all together...and dating, too. So when, years later, she's asked out by her colleague, Mikage-san, she screws up her courage and gives it a shot. But it turns out Misuzu isn't the only one with baggage around sex. Can the two of them work together to overcome their hurdles, and enjoy each other as the couple they wish to be...?
Remi Nikitani is no shy violet-she's elegant, direct, and ambitious, with plans to take over her father's corporation. So she's not interested in marrying for business or political reasons. After all, why be saddled with someone she doesn't love when she can make her way to the top by herself? But when her father sets her up with Jun Arata, a young hotshot in his own right and someone who knows about the unrequited love Remi fostered for years, she's thrown for a loop. She rejects him, of course, but somehow he keeps finding his way back into her life. But is he interested in her? Or does he only want to take over her business and leave her in the dust? A sexy spinoff of Our Fake Marriage!