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Romance > Josei (P.28)
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Ami Satou works for Cobara, a company that specializes in sweets. While she may be good at sales, her confidence in pretty much everything else is low, which is why she hasn't even thought about dating since college. Instead, she fills up her imagination with romantic scenes from shoujo manga.
When she meets Alain Giraud, a handsome, older French man in charge of a new project she's assigned to work on, she begins to struggle to keep that romantic imagination in check... especially with Alain being so overly friendly! Ami keeps reminding herself that it's just because he's French, but will she be able to resist his romantic charm?
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Shuuko, Eika, Misaki, and Shio are roommates and friends making their way in the busy world of Tokyo, Japan!
Though they share an apartment and a friendship, each faces her own unique problems. Shuuko is feeling the pressure of those around her getting married and has no idea whether she'll truly be happy on her own for the rest of her life. Eika, a hardworking career woman, wants to prove herself to the judgmental men in her office. Romantic and idealistic Misaki is spurred into action when it turns out her "boyfriend" of two years didn't know she thought they were dating. Nurturing and good-spirited Shio struggles to set a work-life balance while paying her many bills.
Join these four roommates as they navigate the biggest question of their late twenties: What does happiness really mean?
"You Can't Live All On Your Own! engages with some prescient contemporary issues through the lens of slice-of-life comedy [and] it's the social factors of sexism and ageism that really loom large as the antagonist of the series. [...] With all those heavy themes, it might surprise you when I describe this first volume as "fun." [...] While it touches on some heavy themes like misogyny and ageism, You Can't Live All On Your Own! keeps its tone light, and the story addresses these issues through the lens of relatable comedy and upbeat slice-of-life antics." - Alex Henderson, Yatta Tachi
"This borderline slice-of-life story tackles many fears and dilemmas of young adults trying to figure it all out. [...] This title succeeds in creating four distinct female characters with their own unique voicing in addition to their personal struggles and situations they've been placed in. [...] Tsuno's illustrations are unique. There are lots of simple, clean lines with sparse and effective use of shading and screen tones. Characters are extremely expressive..." - Sara Smith, The Graphic Library -
USD 8.99 / 899pt ~ USD 12.99 / 1,299ptKarin's wedding is just around the corner, and while she is enjoying a blissful meal with her family, her fiance Chris and his father suddenly inform her that the engagement is off. Though shaken by their unexpected declaration, Karin asks Chris for the reason, and he reveals that he has fallen for Mary, Karin's best friend. With her honor and dignity tarnished by Chris and his father's thoughtless actions, Karin plummets into despair. However, her brother asserts that they will give them "a taste of their own medicine." The Rhedsum family shall not be trifled with! Dive into a refreshing and elegant fantasy of nobility and revenge! -
USD 3.99 / 399pt ~ USD 10.99 / 1,099ptRyo, my husband of six months, has become distant lately. Every time I speak to him, he seems irritated and responds with sharp words. Our strained relationship has taken a significant mental toll on me, but thankfully, I can lean on my best friend Miku. She's someone truly precious whom I trust and can confide in about anything. One day,I decide to surprise Miku with a visit, only to find my husband's car parked outside her apartment. He'd told me he was heading out for golf with his boss early that morning, but it turns out he was lying. The truth? He's been sleeping with my best friend behind my back! And as if that weren't enough,he showers her with affection he never shows me while also trash-talking me. As I grapple with my disbelief, a dark resolve forms within me, urging me to get rid of both my husband and best friend. -
USD 5.49 / 549pt ~ USD 5.99 / 599pt"Did you know? Even I get a turn to make my move." Temp worker Rino Amano, 27 years old, used to have a lover. His name was Haruo Higashiyama and he worked full-time at the same company as the manager of the planning department. He was 32 years old, married, and had a two-year-old daughter. While 99% of her knew that this was an unforgivable love that would never amount to anything, the other 1% was clutching her phone, spending her days waiting for him to reach out. One day he suddenly demands to break it off, throwing the feelings she had for him in the trash. This devastating blow leaves Rino distraught. Even at work she is unable to suppress her feelings, and she searches for an empty room to hide her tears. In doing so she catches Haruo secretly making out with another coworker much younger than herself. At that moment something inside her breaks and awakens something inside.
*This volume compiles ch. 1-3 of "Love and Hell"
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USD 7.49 / 749ptOn a moonless night... I hear your voice for the first time. Ume was abandoned by the family she married into because she was unable to bear children. She returns to the village where she was born but finds herself alone as her parents die from a spreading disease. As told in tales of sacrifice to the gods, the village also begins to experience a shortage in the crops of their farms that will only continue until someone is offered. Ume is not able to bear a child but as she does not have any children, she is able to lie her way into being offered to the gods. Waiting for her at a shrine deep in the mountains is a wolf god with silver hair and beautiful nails that shine in five different colors... what will come from this encounter between a despised god and an unhappy girl?!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "The Lying Moon Princess's Marriage: I Will Gain the Wolf God's Favor" -
Her first love reached its first death...
"I thought this would be the only love of my life." Lacheria, the daughter of a marquis of the Gazel kingdom, becomes one of the candidates for princess consort of Prince Bradford, her childhood friend. However, he falls in love with Alamoana, a daughter of a marquis who he suddenly meets one day. Bradford's feelings for Alamoana are so deep that he forgets his position and doesn't notice Lacheria's bittersweet feelings, as she had loved him ever since they were children. Where does this story about Lacheria's faithful love and sacrifice lead? -
USD 0.69 / 69pt"What did I just 'feel'...?" The daughter of a baron, Melvy Renoir, has a peculiar constitution that impedes her ability to feel anything. Derided and oppressed by her family as an unsettling "defective product," she is ordered to marry Duke Gerald Valrier, feared as "The Bride-Slaying Duke." Feeling her life in danger, she reluctantly visits the duke's mansion. Upon meeting him, Gerald declares, "If you don't lose consciousness when I touch you, I will make you my wife." The moment his fingertips touched Melvy, her body, which should not feel anything, is overcome by a sweet, numbing "pleasure"... That encounter would come to serve as the prologue to a story in which two "flawed people" learn about love... -
USD 1.49 / 149pt"Did you notice my feelings for you back then?"
Back in high school, Hinako had secretly loved her classmate Masashi. Ten years later, they're suddenly reunited! Once reserved, Masashi has become much more handsome. When he openly expresses his thoughts to Hinako, they send her heart racing!
"I love him... I want to hold his hand. I want to be close to him."
A love reunited and finally fulfilled...?! -
USD 0.99 / 99ptCecia attends the Royal Academy as a double for a noble lady. If she can graduate with top scores, she'll be free from her life of poverty working as a maid. Enduring bullying at school and harassment at work, our heroine fights on with the support of her one and only red-headed female friend. But when things start to fall apart, why does the second prince run to her defense?
Original Story: RINGO
Art: NAZUNA NANAKO
Character Design: TSUKAZA, SATSUKI -
USD 0.69 / 69ptShe suddenly has to play family with the guy she despises for a million yen?! Ichiru and Tsukasa were raised at the same orphanage, and were constantly at each other's throats like cats and dogs. They even got into a big fight on the day they parted ways. Ten years later, Ichiru is down on her luck after getting fired from her job, kicked out of her company dorm, and left penniless on the street. As she sits on a park bench licking her wounds, she's spotted by none other than Tsukasa, who's shot up in height and stature over the last ten years. Somehow he's now a bigshot CEO, and by the looks of it... a single father?! To make matters even more bizarre, he practically forces Ichiru to raise his child with the promise of a million yen if she can do it! How is she supposed to co-parent a child with him, of all people...? The three of them are an unlikely family, but can they learn to make it work? -
What will you wish for in exchange for your lost love?
Broken Heart Hall is a shop where a witch grants wishes in exchange for broken hearts.
Matilda, the daughter of the Commander of the Knights, is scorned by her cheating fiance; Freya, the daughter of a marquis, is abandoned by her ruthless fiance; and Emily is toyed with by her womanizing fiance from her arranged marriage...
What wishes did these women make to the witch? -
You cut my red string of fate!
One morning, Alex Hubert, a student in the knight department at Howard Royal Academy, suddenly begins to see countless red threads. The beautiful outcast Sarah Crowleagh tells him that these threads are "red strings of fate." But she cuts Alex's red string without a second thought!
Alex is outraged by Sarah's selfish behavior, which has earned her the reputation of being the "witch of breakups" who breaks up lovers, but he realizes that she is actually cutting the threads of unhappy couples.
Alex can't help but worry about Sarah, who is not afraid to play the bad guy and continues to isolate herself. -
"Give me back my body!" Lady Sophia was supposed to marry her beloved prince, Alfred, and live the rest of her life blessed with happiness. However, when the villainess of the story, Rosalie, places a terrible curse on her, their souls exchange bodies! Her once-happy life descends into absolute despair when Sophia--now Rosalie--is accused of a crime she didn't commit and is exiled from the palace. "This isn't me! I want to go back to my old body!" As she wanders away from the capital, she meets a merchant named Raul. With his help, Sophia sets off to change her fate and return to her rightful body! -
While working at their mother's cosmetic shop, Takeru and Ayumi discover a mermaid in one of the lotion bottles! A strange and unexpected phenomenon, the two aren't sure what to do when Ayumi volunteers to take the mermaid home. Puzzled by his sister's behavior, Takeru thinks about their childhood and how much everything changed after their parent's failed marriage. Could this mermaid mystery be just the thing to help them reconnect and rebuild inspite of their troubled past? Mermaid in a Bottle dives deep into a the bitter-sweet relationship of a brother and sister from a broken family.
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Mine-kun is Asexual. He doesn't like sexual intimacy in a relationship. He can kiss a girl, but it's not something he wants to do if he can help it. But Murai loves him so much that she's willing to overlook the fact that she can't hold his hand; that she can't cuddle up next to him when they watch movies together; that she can't fall in love with him the way that she hopes to be loved in return. In the eyes of those around them, is this even a relationship that's meant to last, or is it a train wreck just waiting to happen?
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My best friend and my boyfriend may have betrayed me, but somehow, I managed to turn my entire life around with the help of a hot CEO?! Koharu, an office worker, has been dating her boyfriend for almost two years and is expecting a proposal any day now. Her best friend and coworker assures her that their upcoming anniversary will be an unforgettable memory... or so she claims. However, on the day of her date, Koharu accidentally crashes an engagement party for none other than her boyfriend and her best friend! Her boyfriend accuses her of lies she doesn't even remember, and she's surrounded by icy glares from every direction. With no one to turn to, the person who comes to her rescue is none other than a handsome CEO, a client from her dinner event. Why is he saying that he was about to ask her out?! Suddenly, she's whisked away from the depths of despair and into a brand-new life...! -
Sae, a 35-year-old part-time worker and housewife, spends her days telling herself she's "happy" with her life married to her emotionally distant husband. One day, she crosses paths with Omi Ayase, an old classmate from high school. Once an aloof teenager with an air of maturity, he now lives in a dazzling world far removed from what Sae knows."You don't love your husband... do you?"Upon their reunion, Omi delivers words that cut straight through Sae's facade. The intense kiss that follows causes Sae's reality to fall apart, forcing her to finally admit her true feelings: "I actually hate my husband. I despise him."The next day, Sae leaves behind divorce papers and walks away from her old life with a carefree smile... -
The girl who feared love because of her mother's death meets the one and only romance in her life...
My mother lived for love, went crazy for love, and sacrificed herself for love...
Minerelli, the "Ice Noblewoman," was raised while being compared to her half-sister who gets doted on. Due to her unrequited love, Minerelli's mother left her as a young child and took her own life. As a result, Minerelli fears dying the way her mother did and worries that she'll go crazy for love. However, Kaktos' warmth and kindness touch her closed-off heart... -
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.
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