From her entrance exam days to her college years, and even when she was job hunting, Hana Kanazawa's mother has decided everything for her. Even as an adult in the present day, she continues to act as the "good girl" her mother raised. Hana's finally started living on her own near her parents' house, but her mother keeps interfering as usual and forces her to wear a fancy kimono to her best friend's wedding. For the kimono fitting, Hana drops by a barber shop, run by the unsociable Shinichirou and the effeminate Maria. Her heart races as she gets her hair and makeup done by these two handsome men. Hana discovers her first love while imprisoned by her mother's values...!!
Yuriko, 35 and single, leads a humdrum everyday routine of work and looking after her disabled father. At the kindergarten where she teaches she's treated as an old maid, and at home her father won't listen to a thing she says. And of course she has no plans to marry... after all, she's just going to live out the rest of her boring life here in the countryside anyway, right? But while she's lost in thought over it, she causes a fender-bender. She doesn't know how to react, but Sosuke, the man in the other car, tells her he'll forget it ever happened... if she has sex with him! But after she goes with the flow and "just does it," it turns out that he's actually the father of one of her students?! And as if that weren't enough, Takumi, her kindergarten's cheeky young chief director, arrives on the scene...? Thus begins a clumsy love triangle for a flawed adult who had given up on love.
"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!
"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...!
"You're stronger than you look, Tsubaki... But you left yourself wide open," he said, as he pinned me down... Just what is he?! - Our protagonist, Tsugumi Tsubaki, wants a romance straight out of a girls' comic. Her heart is set on her upperclassman and fellow literature club member Yamato Tamai, but just when she is about to ask him out, she overhears him say, "If I'm going to date, I'd rather be the one to ask." So, she decides to make him fall for her instead! To do that, she plans to hide the martial arts skills she's gained in her family's dojo, but then a mysterious group of punks sneaks up on Tamai... When Tsugumi steps up to protect him, what will become of her hopes for love...?!
"Selling my virginity for money." Appearing before me were two beautiful men. The outcome being me working for their escort service...?! This is my chance to show off my knowledge, sex appeal, and acting ability! I'll be bringing you your ultimate dream!!
The Suzunari high school detective club which consists of three good looking high school students; Suzaku Tachibana, Kohei Hiba, Sotaro Tsubaki, and a cat call Boo-chan. Boo-chan holds the power to decide the girls who get to join the club. Since there hasn't been any girls Boo-chan approved so far, the club has been a boy-only club since the first day. Until the day Suzaku used his intuition to scout Aoi Kaido, who he thought would be a cute girl. This was approved by Boo-chan, but she turned out to be a girl who's weird and doesn't smile… This is High school tale about the detective club of 4 students and one cat solving incidents on campus.
Yosuke Sakura, a novelist who can't seem to find an audience under his own name, makes a living from the shadows as a ghostwriter. Then out of the blue, he receives a request to ghostwrite the memoirs of the vanished pop idol Haruka Masaki. Sakura gets cold feet when he hears that Masaki requested him personally, wondering what she would want with someone like him. But while he's thrown for a loop by her uninhibited personality, the distance between them gradually shrinks. However, once the interviews start, the reason Masaki gives for her disappearance paints a portrait of the entertainment business that is darkness itself...?!
I've spent my 30s dating my boyfriend for ten years without a forseeable future and giving up my dreams. Triggered by a certain reunion, I'm trying to step out of my old self...
While aiming to become an illustrator, Koharu works in an editing department. In her free time, she dedicates herself to a video game starring her digital prince, Nobunaga. Koharu used to be a total normie until she was betrayed by her beloved boyfriend, but since then she's been afraid of romance and retreated into gaming... One day, her sister brings home Takumi, who's in a pickle due to losing his luggage upon arriving from the US, and he happens to look just like Nobunaga...?! Though Koharu is resistant at first, he ends up staying with them while he searches for his luggage. And on top of that, now Koharu has an illustration gig to handle, too?! Koharu gives it her all, but the job falls through anyway, leaving her depressed. Seeing this, Takumi offers some encouragement, which lightens Koharu's heart. But, when his luggage is found a few days later, it seems Takumi is leaving Japan to return home...?!
Her father's pharmaceutical company keeping her family in comfort, her post-graduation employment already settled... Kana was enjoying a peaceful fourth year at university. However, after swindling her father into a shady loan with Kana herself as collateral, a gangster named Hiragi Yoji comes to collect the debt. Yoji is up for the role of second-in-command of his yakuza syndicate; in order to present Kana as a gift to the syndicate boss, he plans to make a woman out of her... Abandoned by her parents, carted off by the yakuza...and subject to the relentless Yoji. In these dire circumstances, Kana makes a dire resolution...!!
I want to become one with him, but I can't! -- On the night they celebrated three years since moving in together, 27-year-old office worker Kazuho had been hoping for a proposal from her boyfriend Wataru. And yet, he never raised the question of marriage... Since their relationship is sexless due to her own past trauma, she can hardly blame him. Just as she tells herself that the happy moments they spend together now are enough for her, she happens to meet a woman named Miya who has the same regional accent as Wataru. They hit it off, and Kazuho wants to introduce her new friend to Wataru, too, but for some reason he's acting strange... Ever since meeting Miya, something has gone off-kilter! Peaceful, everyday life breaks down in this story of romance and suspense.
"We can make a show of it." Why...does my husband desperately want my body while my coworker is sleeping right in front of us? He's supposed to have erectile dysfunction, so why is he getting so excited about this!?
Office worker Shiho, age 28, plays the go-getter career woman so well that everyone at work calls her the "Iron Lady." Feeling uneasy about her relationship with her boyfriend Ken, Shiho takes the leap and invites him to a company party, but as the party begins he's still not there... In that moment, her handsome coworker, and heir to the company, Miyagi strikes up a conversation with her. Miyagi is a big hit among the female employees, but Shiho has always treated him casually, never taking much interest in his charms. However, when she runs into him again on the way to the bathroom, the usual sweet and chipper Miyagi is nowhere to be found! His speech is rougher, and he's dropped the workplace niceties, and on top of that he backs her up against the wall, blocking her retreat with his body...?! An office romance with a high-class bachelor, at once wicked and earnest, who just might be her Mr. Right!
After losing her parents, Mio's dream of becoming a pianist was all but taken from her. Now, she works as a house keeper at Arc en Ciel, a luxury hotel in the heart of the city. One day, a flurry of expected events introduces Mio to Taisei, the heir to Arc en Ciel. The next thing she knows, she is accompanying him to the hotel's anniversary party -- as his lover! The task? To put an end to his arranged engagement! On top of that, Mio has to continue to pretend to be Taisei's fiance even after the party is over...?! A story of the sweet adoration that grows between one brave housekeeper and the successor to a luxury hotel!
Look, it's not like Azusa doesn't want to get married. She's a wedding planner, after all, and in spite of her boss's biting sarcasm, she actually finds a lot of comfort in her job. Her boyfriend of five years, Ayumu, just hasn't really brought up the conversation, that's all. Or at least, that's what Azusa thinks, until she catches Ayumu having an affair! Though usually extremely unpleasant, Azusa's handsome boss, Kiryu, offers her sudden and uncharacteristic kindness: "If you don't get married, then I'll step in." What's that supposed to mean?! The sudden tension between Kiryu's usual offensive nature and his sweet words has Azusa wrapped around his little finger, and she's not sure if she can get away... or even wants to?!
Kiyo works in product development at a chocolate manufacturer; she's what they call a "science type" with her white lab coat and glasses, plus her lack of romantic prospects. "I've spent my whole life focused on research, but now I want to give 'love' a try." -- Her mind made up, Kiyo registers with a matchmaking service, but the dates just keep going down in flames... Then one day, she's met with a shocking invitation from the young and handsome president of her company, Mr. Sendo: "Would you like to go out with me? I need you." Kiyo has zero experience with romance, so this well-mannered and gallant man gazing sweetly at her as he calls her beautiful is enough to leave her reeling...! Her heart is still pounding on the day of their date, and then Mr. Sendo suddenly reveals his red-blooded, manly side and proclaims, "I'll shatter that logic of yours with my passion"...?!