Do you ever feel like quitting? Your role as a mother or at your workplace? Suddenly whispered to me, thought it wouldn't happen to someone my age, my heart skipped a beat...
Editor Hanae Yamada, a huge fan of the mystery genre author Buntaro Kanematsu, asks said author to write a column for a magazine. It was a long shot but to her surprise... he agrees! As the column's theme is "souvenirs," Hanae decides to bring one herself when she visits Kanematsu. However, she unwittingly offends him by choosing a "safe" option as a gift, which he quickly sees through. What will happen next in this tale of two awkward adults who can't cut corners in work or love? Don't miss this delectable workplace romance!
She was only trying to protect her sister... but when the earnest and strict crown prince took a liking to her as a prostitute, she was given a huge leap in a new career?!...
Mai's experienced little romance, having been stuck in unrequited love for most of her life. She's been close friends with a group of great guys since her childhood, but their friendship has never turned into more. Now a grown woman, she reunites with her old crush. Her chance, she thinks, until she realizes how much he's changed... While she's suffering from a second broken heart, her old pal Ayato, now an actor, is there to cheer her up. He's brusque, kind, and anything but smooth, simultaneously healing and hurting her with his words. His caring, straightforward nature even makes him offer to practice dating with Mai when she tells him it's time for a change! Could this what carries them from friendship into more? A comic version of the hit romance on Love 365: Find Your Story!
A day before my 40th birthday, it dawns to me that my most accomplished trait is that I've been working in the same office for 18 years. Struggling with an angry customer during an event for a new department, a charismatic salesman comes to the rescue; twelve years younger Kohei Nakajima. On the way home, tears fall as anxiety kicks in, realizing I had turned 40 years old. Suddenly out of nowhere, Kohei appears and confesses his love for me?! I had lost hope... At this age, is it too late to welcome spring into my life?
"I want to do it," he says. Why does my boss want to take things so far? Wait... why'd he start cleaning?? Yui Ando is admired as a helpful and determined supervisor in her company. However, she has one big secret... she's an absolute slob at home and can't clean anything! As her job transitions staff to work from home, she decides to test out her new computer and turns on the camera without realizing... suddenly her strict boss, Mr. Kataoka the Department Manager, sees everything! "It's all over now..."is what she thought when he showed up at her front door, but now he's cleaning the place?! After all that is done, he suddenly says, "Let me come over every weekend to help you clean up the place!" Their secret weekends of cleaning and humor begin!
At 32, Yurika is devastated after discovering that her nearly five-year relationship was, in fact, an affair. Forced to transfer, her new coworker drags her to a welcome party where she catches the eye of a college student sitting across them. Feeling distraught, the calm and cool, Aoi, whisks her away. Despite being ten years younger than her, she gives in to a night of passion with him. Several months later, who walks in but the very man she thought she'd never meet again, Aoi. Will their relationship blossom or will it remain purely friends with benefits?
"You're not the one I have feelings for!" The man right in front of me smiles bewitchingly. "I'm not letting you go." "With such good chemistry, I'd be foolish to give you up." My spoiled brat of a coworker, Kyo Nagase. The business partner I've always admired, Hibiki Kamiya. Why does it feel this sweet when I don't even like him? Why does it feel this painful when I do? ...What is it that I really even want? A bitter-sweet story born from a no strings relationship.
"Alice, I'm breaking off my engagement to you!" are the words Echs, the son of the Knight Commander, remembers from his previous life. In the very place where the prince's engagement is about to be broken off, he remembers the exact same situation from his previous life in a dating sim game. Though clearly fale, the villainess is blamed together with another character. And when he saw the heroine sneakily smiling at him, he made up his mind. He wants to save his favorite villainess and make her his own. This is just a sweet story about a hero reincarnated as the son of a knight commander in a dating sim game who dotes on the villainess.
I got totally wasted at a party and ended up spewing my guts... and some hot guy saw me?! I ran away, thinking I'd never see him again, but we ran into each other on campus the next day! He may be good-looking, but he spilled the beans about me throwing up to his friend, and on top of that, he keeps calling me by my first name! He's seriously the worst! Despite all of that, my best friend Yuka is head over heels for him, and now she wants me to help hook her up! She even brought his friend into this mess... What will happen in this 4-way love affair...?
"I want to keep you and eat you up, Mana." Mr. Kurusu injects his heat into my burning body... It's coming inside me...! Mana, excited to make her college debut, is shook when Mr. Kurusu, a part-time lecturer at her university popular with the girls, mistakes her for a middle school student. Determined to get back at him, she follows him and discovers his astonishing secret... But when she tries to run, she falls from the stairs and dies. "Something's so warm... It feels good." Mana wakes up from the dead to an exquisite kiss from Mr. Kurusu! Although he revived her... he's a vampire?! And the two of them are living a sexy, lovey-dovey life together because he's keeping her as his food now?! Mana doesn't want that at all, but her body begins gradually changing...
My husband, leaving a love hotel with an unknown woman. What sort of punishment would suit the man who embraces another so intimately before his wife's very eyes...?
Hitoha Ikura is the chief manager of an entertainment company. Ao is a young, unknown actor with an overwhelming presence. Hitoha finds out Ao's "secret". A romantic drama set in the entertainment industry where two people overcome their trials and tribulations together!
Excia has had to endure her stepmother and stepsister's relentless ab*se since she was young. Her best friend and only source of emotional support is Hattie, a wild puppy she met one day. But when her stepfamily causes harm to him, Excia can bear her torturous family no longer, She runs away and wanders into the forest in despair. However, it is there that she encounters Gracies, a wizard with a hatred for humanity and a fondness for animals. Little does Excia know it, but her life is about to transform...
Leia is the daughter of the Sharon household, and is secretly in love with her servant, Thomas. However, her father, unable to bear his accruing dept, commits suicide. This causes Leia's stepmother to force her into a political marriage. Leia's husband is unexpectedly kind; but just when Leia is starting to have a positive outlook on her newlywed life, she hears an older woman breathing heavily in her husband's room...?!
Once upon a time... on the night of the village festival, our heroine Setona, a girl born to a warrior clan, is perplexed to hear of her love Manibe's sudden disappearance. She soon learns that he was chosen as a sacrifice to the mountain god. When she runs to the temple where he was sacrificed and breaks the enchanted mirror that divides the temple and the outside world, she finds herself facing some sinister entities... and... a man...!? And so, the hunt begins...! CHIKUHIME pours her heart and soul into this romantic historical drama!
30-year-old Reina Hirota's chill life of snacking and binge-watching TV shows gets a wake-up call through a forgotten childhood dream buried in a time capsule. Suddenly, her content solitude seems more like a forever-solo voyage, prompting her to crawl off the couch and start husband hunting-not just to find love, but to help her family find their groove again. Now, if only she knew what she wanted-not just in life, but in a guy, too.
The story of a woman who lightly teases her younger childhood friend, only for him to turn around and start seriously pursuing her. She's falters, but is ultimately overcome.