Chiharu Saeki is just your average woman working in an office... except she has a loan to pay after her father's company went bankrupt. One day, the young heir to one of the biggest companies around, Ritsu Kaido, is told that the only way he can inherit the company and his father's fortune, is if he were to marry Chiharu. Even without love in this marriage, there must be a way to make this work... is what Chiharu thought until she learns that Ritsu has a secret lover?!
"I can't believe the talented hands that make me such amazing food are really brushing across my lips..."
Office worker Miki is nearly 30, but her small stature makes her seem much younger, which scares off all but the creepiest of guys... With that on her plate on top of the stress of work, Miki keeps her spirits up with a weekly "treat": dinner and drinks at a local bar run by the handsome Chef Kayaba. Just a glimpse of his sinewy arms as he works has Miki daydreaming about what his hands would feel like running over her body, but she's content just to watch...until one day she gets a chance to drink alone with him after the bar closes and all of a sudden things are moving fast!! Yet, for some secret reason, he says he can't make love to her...
"I promise... I'm going to win you over, body and soul." All Aoi wants is to be able to enjoy her youth just like any other teenager her age, but she's stuck acting as a caretaker for her childhood friend, Souma. If that weren't bad enough, Souma is a total piece of trash that gobbles up any girl who comes along like some ravenous beast! "I'll never let a guy like that have me!" she promises herself, but Souma one day declares that there's a girl he "needs more than life itself" and starts making advances toward Aoi?! "Tonight... I want to sleep with you," he says and carries Aoi to his room, uses her as a body pillow, and even kisses her..?! She's unable to push him away for some reason, and... Thus begins the sugary romance between Aoi and her assertive childhood friend who's set on winning her heart...!
"Just when I was finally resigned to my fate... romance suddenly blooms in my eighth life?!" In order to broker a peace with an enemy nation, Princess Fiona is sent off to be the concubine of their crown prince, Othniel. Her new husband treats her as little more than a political hostage, and she is soon executed on false charges, or poisoned, or worse... Yet no matter how she meets her end, she always goes back to the same day and restarts her life from there. Determined to survive her eighth life no matter what, Fiona vows to give up her hopes of love and be content with life as an ornamental bride, but now, after seven straight lives of hating her on sight, Othniel seems to be madly in love... "What's going on?! I was supposed to just be here for decoration!"
enen, the best storytelling girls' comic artist, is dropping a brand new adult-oriented romance time-travel comic "Hello, Darling".
It's about Nienhsi, a single woman of a certain age who doesn't believe in love, gets zapped into a parallel world unwittingly.
Everything's the same, except... she's married?! While getting to know her perfect "husband" and colleagues, her pessimistic views on love start to change.
Different choices lead to different lives. What is Nienhsi gonna do?
"Do you want to be kissed?" "Push me away if you don't like it."
To avoid moving overseas for her second year of high school, Koko decides to live with her younger childhood friend, Shuri, whom she suddenly reunites with after two years of being apart. Until now, she had only considered him a cute little brother, but once they start living together, Shuri's behavior does a 180. He approaches her as if he's in love with her, whispers tenderly in her ear, and pins her down on the couch?! What is Shuri up to?! Who knows...but there seems to be no way to hold back his dangerously sweet advances!
"How is it? Sweet, right?" One day on her shift as library assistant, Hinano finds ultra-popular ladies' man, Haruna Iori, sleeping amongst the stacks. Not only does he tease Hinano relentlessly, he also somehow ends up stealing her first kiss! Hinano decides to pretend it never happened and goes home -- only to find Haruna at her house, too? That's when Hinano's mother breaks the news to her: she'll be living with Haruna for the next six months! Hinano's heart is sure to beat out of her chest sharing a space with the free-spirited Haruna, whose advances only grow sweeter and sweeter!
On the day they met, they got married and started living together?! While out drinking, Haruhi, a construction worker who's always surrounded by men, meets Nagato, a middle-aged man with salt-and-pepper hair. She drunkenly tells him to marry her, and just like that, they get married and start living together! A heart-pounding rom-com about a shotgun wedding between a middle-aged man and a blue-collar working girl!
"You will go in place of my daughter to be wed to the Duke of House Dubarry." Leonora has been working tirelessly to ensure her family is fed and out of harm's way. One day, however, she is kidnapped and brought before the notorious Duchess Godot who has one strong demand: pose as her daughter Angennia to be married into the rival house Dubarry, and spy on the Duke for her. Leonora can't refuse, as House Godot now holds her family hostage. Though there are many rumors of the Duke of House Dubarry being a cold and menacing man... Leonora finds herself before a kind and charming gentleman with nothing but warmth! It may be impossible to keep her identity a secret before the wonderfully kind Dinando Dubarry...!!
While secretly practicing piano in an empty music room, Mikoto Moriwaki is suddenly kissed by a mysterious, handsome stranger. Flustered, she flees... only to encounter Kanade Sakuranomiya, the former pianist she's long admired. Kanade kindly offers her a place to stay and formal piano lessons, but her unexpected kissing partner, Keito - also a brilliant pianist and Kanade's brother - strongly objects...! A spicy, sensual tale, now in manga format!
"You act like this is our first time together." We had only just met when my neighbor Kamiya said that to me... - Shii Hayama, 27 years old, is an office worker at an advertisement company. With the intense workload she has, taking the last train home late at night is just part of her routine. One such night, a man she doesn't know wakes Shii up after she drifted asleep on the train. She later discovers that this man was her new neighbor, Azusa Kamiya. Even though they've just met, how is it that he knows her body inside and out?! This Kamiya guy is hiding an astonishing secret...!
Every day, Haru Inui (27) goes hard in both her personal and professional lives. And every day, her boyfriend tells her that he loves her. Those words alone give Haru the strength to work hard -- until the day she discovers that her boyfriend has been bringing other women to her house when she isn't around. How could she have believed his simple "I love you"s?! Haru feels like an idiot... when suddenly, her junior at work, Okuma, tells her that he has feelings for her! Determined to win her heart, Okuma promises to tell Haru, who doesn't believe in those three little words anymore, that loves her once a day, every day. Seemingly aloof, Okuma turns out to be unexpectedly bold! Haru doesn't know when, and she doesn't know where, but Okuma's surprising daily "I love you"s quickly turn into the office romance she didn't know she needed.
"Your lips are so sweet... I could melt with a single kiss..." Michi is a beautiful and chipper receptionist at a major company, working hard every day at her job. She seems perfect at first glance, but she actually loves to eat, and her insatiable appetite has lost her boyfriend after boyfriend. There's no way she could confess her feelings to Taichi, the heir to one of her company's clients. But then one day, Taichi spots her while she's secretly scarfing down some sweets during her break. And as if that weren't enough, Taichi's got his sights set on her...?! It's the Cinderella story of a receptionist who's hungry for true love!
What happens when The Boss with a Past marries The Bachelorette after zero days of dating?! Ayaka's been enjoying her life and her job; she has no intention of getting married any time soon. She's been working at her dream company, inspired by her incredible boss Kunihiro Kasai, and living life to the fullest. That is, until her country bumpkin parents and one of the upper brass badger her about her single status, and this undue pressure convinces her to get totally drunk. The next think she knows, there's a filled-out marriage certificate in front of her and someone whispering softly in her ear. Who's her sudden groom...? None other than Kunihiro! Can a chaotic marriage of convenience turn into something more? A comic version of the hit romance on Love 365: Find Your Story!
"Did you want to exchange husbands?" One husband is all about the bedroom, where the other just wants to sleep. What would happen if these two women began living with the other's husband...?!
Akari had wanted to be a novel writer for as long as she could remember. However, that all changed after what her high school friend did to her. She couldn't help but put as much distance as possible between herself and her stories. Years later, a moment comes where she thinks that she may want to write again. In that moment... a cameraman starts snapping pictures of her?! He even comes to her workplace telling her to come with him... what could possibly come from this mysterious guy???
Office worker Mizuki Kamiya is feeling deeply down about her recent break up with her ex-boyfriend Yukihiro Narimatsu. She can't catch a break, having to see him even at the company's anniversary party. Out of nowhere, someone swoops Mizuki off her feet, expressing affection for her... it's the CEO of the company, Keishi Seo! Keishi, only trying to avoid a woman stalking him, has now dragged Mizuki into his troubles. In order to keep her safe from his stalker and keep up the appearance of things, the two agree to a "contractual marriage". The CEO of a company and a worker in the offices of that same company now together, their quiet life as a "fake couple" begins. However, Mizuki becomes drawn to some of Keishi's small personal quirks. Could this be something more than a contract? What will happen to the two of them now that they can't stay apart from each other?
A boyfriend whose love is so strong it becomes smothering - "Sena, look only at me." - an impudently wicked underclassman - "You should just break up with that boyfriend of yours." - and the girl wavering between them on a seesaw of love! Since Sena struggles to speak her mind, her boyfriend Minoru worries and has been taking extra care to watch over her. Then one day, Sena decides to attend her school club's drinking party after Hayato, an underclassman in the same club, asks for her help.She's always turned down the parties before to avoid worrying Minoru, and the moment she tells him she's going to one, his whole demeanor suddenly changes... While she's tossed about like a ship in a storm, which man will Sena choose in the end...?!
Shizuka is a housewife who's been living a sexless life since her husband has changed into an overworked and somewhat abusive man. One day, she discovers that he's been having an affair and runs off to a "rental boyfriend" that her friend introduced her to. She has one goal in mind: take back her confidence as a woman. She ends up meeting the most popular of the men in the rental boyfriend service, a man named Aki, and slowly begins to remember what was all like before her marriage. A new forbidden love is born... can a housewife really have this dream?
Once, she lived the life of a criminal. Now she lives a life married to her doting husband, the Beast King! His beautiful violet eyes upon her, she's warmly embraced by his large body covered in fur. But...can she trust him?