A rose desperate to hide her thorns finally blooms in this office romance. Suzu Takamine, the office's unattainable beauty who turns down anyone that asks her to date, is carrying a painful secret. Whenever she tries to be intimate with a man, they faint for some reason. Suzu wants to get married someday, but with her condition ruining her dating life, she's losing hope for any happily ever after. When the office playboy, Kinase, learns of her unbelievable secret, Suzu is shocked to hear him offer his "expert assistance" in resolving her problem. Now she has to decide: Will she give him a try?
Rio is everything that Haruto wants in a girl: gentle, nurturing, and ladylike. The only problem is that she's the older sister of his best buddy Nao, and he fears that the difference in age means he's barely on her radar. If Haruto wants Rio to see him as more than her little brother's playmate, then he has to prove himself as a man in her eyes, no matter what it takes.
Meanwhile, Nao grows frustrated with Sena, a loudmouthed friend of Rio's who's too nosy for her own good. But what irritates him more than the constant pestering is how she just can't see him as more than a little kid. Can he help her get a clue?
Saint Blanche continued to fulfill her duty as the Saint, even while being oppressed by her fiance, Georg, the prince of the neighboring country. However, she was suddenly told that her engagement was canceled-because Georg had found the "true" Saint-and exiled Blanche from the country.
Blanche returned to her hometown, but... her worried brother suggested that she make a fake engagement with her childhood friend, Raymond. Suddenly turning into a C childhood crush to a fiance, Blanche is constantly flustered by Raymond. A love fantasy of unrequited love begins to unfold from their fake engagement!
You've heard of meet cute, but reunite cute? Now that they're both grown up, newly swole Shun visits his old friend Nana after an extended absence hoping to put a (figurative) stake in the heart of his one-time first love. But it looks like neither of these tiddy monsters is ready to let go! Join our hilariously awkward (maybe?) couple as they (hopefully!?) begin to bumble their way into an adorable relationship!
I won't date my coworkers. But marriage should be fine, right?
"When he looks at me like that, I feel like I'll get the wrong idea..." Manaka, who loves handicrafts, works in the Planning Department of Brown Sugar Honey, a hair accessory brand she dreamed of joining. She had a crush on Itsuki, the young chairman and founder of the brand, but when she found out that Itsuki had a policy of not dating his coworkers, she secretly put a lid on her feelings and immersed herself in her work. But then Itsuki called her name in a sweet voice and gently held her hand... As they gradually grew closer, the feelings of love she had almost given up on began to bloom again.
"I'll never love someone this much again..." She gave birth to his child in secret.
Seri, an unmarried woman raising a child, works at the hospital where Haruka Takato has arrived to work as a newly appointed surgeon. Seri fell in love with him six years ago. However, it was only a passing fling for him, and she only realized she was pregnant after Takato went abroad to study. When he reunites with Seri, he becomes forceful for some reason despite having abandoned her. "Now you won't be able to show your body to anyone other than me." Seri melts as he kisses her so forcefully that it leaves a mark...
The Holy Maiden Yurisia's only duty is to hear the "oracles" of the Gods. One day, the oracle was, "Go and make babies with the prince to save this world from destruction." Having understood the message loud and clear, she rushed off to propose to the prince, who happens to be her first crush. Sadly, the prince didn't believe in oracles and refused, but compromised by saying, "If you seduce me into loving you as a woman would, then I will." She got fired up by his challenge and promised to make him pay by seducing the pants off of him, but now he's strangely... showering her with affection? "I thought I was just going to seduce him, but this sweet love chase we're partaking in is getting so intense, it's driving me out of my mind!"
"Has the one I've been searching for been you this whole time?" This is the story of Garnet, a servant who transcended her social status and shared a heartfelt bond with Louis, the duke's heir. However, Louis lost his sight in an epidemic and departed for distant lands to seek treatment. At their parting, he swore to marry Garnet upon his return, and set off on his journey. But time passed, and when they finally met again, he was found to have lost his memory, transformed into a different man feared as the "Cruel Grand Duke." Louis had forgotten that day's vow and coldly pushed Garnet away. Even so, the heart that should have forgotten everything instinctively sought only her, the one who held its sole memory! What will be the fate of their burning love, cruelly trifled with by destiny...?
Constanze (Connie), a marquess's daughter, is told by Crown Prince Wilhelm that their engagement is broken off. It seems the prince has found someone he loves-and what's more, that person is apparently a saint who only recently appeared. After two whole years of serving as the de facto Crown Princess, Connie is left crushed by this utterly heartless pronouncement. Yet then, out of nowhere, memories of her past life come flooding back-and she realizes she has been reincarnated as the "villainess," the throwaway love rival in a romance novel she used to devour in her previous life. "Give me a break. I want no part of that role-I'm going to live my life as a lord!" This is the story of Connie, drawing on her innate talents to thrive in a remote frontier domain far from the imperial capital!
Tae has been practically inseparable from her best friend Kiyo since college. And while Kiyo may be loose with women, Tae can always count on him for support - like whenever she crashes at his place to drown her sorrows over being dumped yet again. But what lies ahead in the morning after another night spent drinking together till dawn?! They're not quite lovers and not quite friends... but a revelation threatens to change all that. Can they move past mixed messages and misunderstandings to become something more? Or are they stuck as "best friends forever"?
After getting away from her hometown - and her delinquent brother who basically ran the place - Yui is living it up at university. There, she falls for a cool, handsome (same difference!) Prince Charming in glasses who is the total opposite of her idiot brother, but unexpectedly her prince's friend is a delinquent!? On top of that, he's always getting in her way!! Just as she thinks it's all over for her, in more ways than one, she discovers that her prince in glasses lives in the apartment next door!?
"Will you be taking a bath, dinner, or...?" The man uttering that cliched line was the middle-aged male housekeeper I suddenly ended up hiring! A man in the home of a radiant young (okay, twentysomething) maiden?! And on top of that, he's way older than me! What gives?! The curtain rises on a heartfelt tale of the odd-couple antics between Mei, a woman devoted to her career, and Nagisa, a man overflowing with maternal(?) warmth.
A coworker who keeps chasing after teen idols despite her age; a useless boss; and a completely unsociable new hire. Ann, a fortyish woman who looks down on those around her and blames everything on others, dreams only of marriage with the boyfriend who won't sleep with her. But then one day, when she learns that one of the colleagues she looked down on is getting married, she reveals her hidden nasty side right in front of the newbie. From that day on, she is visited by one misfortune after another....
There was a time when, overflowing with love, I let myself run wild without a thought for the other person's feelings or the people around us, and soon enough my love crashed and burned. Traumatized by this, I've now developed a bad habit of avoiding anyone I have eyes for, to keep my affection from showing. Then one day, my coworker invited me out to a bar, where I met Sawaguchi and fell in love with him at first sight - but thanks to my avoidant tendency, I ended up making him hate me... No matter how many times I reflect and repent, I just can't get this bad habit of mine to change. I want to be able to say "I love you" to the person I love! With my conviction made, I set out to see a counselor, but there I find none other than-?!
"It's not that I don't want to get married. I just want to be accepted for who I am. Is that so much to ask...?" Suzu is a thirtyish woman with a cute-and-fluffy exterior that belies a strength no man can hope to match. But when she tells off her insistent mother by saying she'll only marry a man stronger than she is, she's set up with... a ninja?!? Is that his job...? How does he earn a living...? But Akitsuki the Ninja just smiles away, oblivious to Suzu's confusion. There's no way she could take him, and yet this kindhearted man, who nonchalantly accepts the true self that put off every other suitor she's ever had, secretly makes Suzu's heart flutter...
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.
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....
"If it gets you to love me, then I can do anything...!" Koh Saginuma. Age: 31. Profession: university associate professor. When his mother remarries, he becomes stepsiblings with Fuka, an 18-year-old college freshman. But suddenly they find themselves living together on their own?! Koh, who is awkward around women, is blindsided by Fuka, who excels at both housework and her studies. And for some reason, she's just a little too friendly with him...?! It's a breezy love-comedy between a man who scores (almost) zero on the romance curve, and a college girl with zero love experience and love stories on the brain!
"Who will be my prince?" At just barely 26, Akane Koyama is a capable business consultant. An outspoken beauty who doesn't suffer others' foolishness, she tends to be seen as "manly" both inside the company and out. Actually, though, she's a young maiden who dreams of a romance with her prince. One day, the CEO of a client company leaves Akane in charge of running a share house. And who should be living there, but three princely, handsome men?! And on top of that, Koh, one of the three, was actually Akane's "first"?! It's an all-out bout between a "manly" woman who dreams of love and her three prettyboy housemates!
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...?!