Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai-one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself...
Virgin Yuji Ubakata dies without ever experiencing sex, and when he lands in hell, he is greeted by the swimsuit-wearing god of hell, Enma! She tells him that he must face retribution for his life as a virgin, and he is sentenced to a very unique punishment... Yuji is then taken to another room, where he finds Mayu, his first love! "Now, as punishment, you must touch each other's bodies!" What? That's the punishment? It's not hell, it's heaven!
Office worker Yugo's boss, Kanade, can be demanding and runs a tight ship around the office. However, One day, Yugo and Kanade's parents remarry, and the two become brother and sister?! Without knowing what to expect with his little sister as his boss, Yugo receives a sudden important task from Kanade; "hug closely for 30 minutes." With all the control in Kanade's hands, poor office worker Yugo must now navigate forbidden feelings of love while adjusting to the power balance with his devilishly lovely little sister boss!
High schooler Yokoya has a bad reputation at school. To change this, he comes up with a genius plan... lie about having amnesia and take on a whole new persona! However, in a stroke of wild circumstances, the new Yokoya finds himself suddenly surrounded...with three girls claiming to be his girlfriend?! This is the story of Yokoya, the boy who unwillingly becomes entangled in a three-way harem!
In a world cursed by the Demon King, where no children can be born, a young man is summoned with a limitless skill-the ability to impregnate girls without even touching them?! After meeting a tsundere royal princess, he impregnates her almost instantly. Now, she's eagerly suggesting that they get married but insists they should "seal the deal" first. As he grows closer to a voluptuous demon lord, a devoted dark-skinned princess, and a cool viscount's daughter, his power keeps leveling up! To bring peace to this world, he begins building a harem of women eager to bear his children!
Minato Seno's high school life had just begun when his homeroom teacher requested his help with Nekozane, the cat-like chronic napper who sits next to him in class. Timid and socially anxious, Minato has never talked to her or even seen her face. But when he finally musters up the courage to wake Nekozane, she unexpectedly hugs him on the spot! Thus begins a sweet tale of two teens awkwardly stumbling into a new friendship, unaware that their feelings are slowly turning into something more! (C)Akinoko/SQUARE ENIX
Dylan is a former hero and one of the Eight Martial Lords of the war against the demons. 30 years have passed since the war ended, and martial arts is now a dying craft due to the widespread use of magic items called "Arks." Unable to use magic artifacts, Dylan was looked down upon and demoted. Now 45 years old, Dylan lives with his adopted daughter Yuria who possesses "special" talent. They move from the countryside to the imperial capital, where he becomes a guard while Yuria is sent off to a magic academy...
Together, the rustic father and powerful martial lord Dylan and his loving, prodigious daughter, bring light to the darkness of the capital! Now in vertical-scrolling,VertiComix format!
Souta Takatsuki and his neighbor Rikka Amanome have been like brother and sister since they were kids, but his feelings for her run much deeper. With her birthday coming up, he wants to find the perfect gift, which presents itself in the form of a book from a mysterious shop he happens across. The owner doesn't even charge him, saying he'll return to pay eventually...Souta is wholly unprepared for the insatiable passion the book inspires in Rikka, and it seems the ultimate price of this gift may be hefty indeed...
Honor student Maruka Suzuki hides a dark secret and a death wish. She knows the world is full of monsters disguised as adults, and she's recklessly looking for a creature to turn her to mush. When one such "Groan-Up" saves her instead, she sees this rabbitlike being named Mochizuki not as her executioner...but as some serious relationship material! Girlfriend and boyfriend, human and monster, wielder and weapon-how far will Maruka and Mochizuki go, and what other mysteries lie in store for them?
The boy of her dreams...is a girl's manga artist?! To the eyes of high school student Chiyo Sakura, classmate Umetarou Nozaki--brawny of build and brusque of tongue--is a dreamboat! When Chiyo finally works up the courage to tell Nozaki how she feels about him, she knows rejection is on the table...but getting recruited as a manga-ka's assistant?! Never in a million years! But for someone who makes a living drawing sweet girly romances, Nozaki-kun is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to matters of the heart in reality. And so Chiyo's daily life of manga making and heartache begins!
Mass murderers may not have much by way of careeer skills, but Kuroko Koumori seems to have landed her dream job as a hitwoman for the Tokyo police! A license to kill other killers? That's some serious job satisfaction, right there!
The world is full of vampires, supernatural creatures who drain the blood from humans without mercy. Fighting such beings is the foundation of Isuzu Osaka's life, but with humanity losing the war, desperate times call for desperate measures. To protect his friends, Isuzu sets out to strike a deal with Baroque-a powerful vampiress whose beauty is said to drive all who gaze upon her mad...
High schooler Atami is living the dream. He's got incredibly good looks, and girls can't help asking him out nearly every day. There's just one problem, though-he's into guys, not girls! Even his gorgeous face haunts him, since it's all anyone seems to be interested in. Won't anyone see him for who he really is?
Poison princess Raffy and immortal knight Loren-there never was a pair more suited to be star-crossed lovers, right? Because, well, most of the time when people are around Raffy, they kinda just...die...from her poison emissions naturally. Still, Loren only married her to safeguard humanity as part of a peace treaty with demons, so there's no way he LIKES her. As in, like-likes her. Because even if he never gets killed off forever, when he dies, it must be painful...So why does he keep acting like he absolutely adores her...?
Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynic. He believes "youth" is a crock-a sucker's game, an illusion woven from failure and hypocrisy. Unsurprisingly, he's not the most popular guy. Meanwhile, there's Yukino Yukinoshita-brilliant, beautiful, and chillier than winter in Antarctica. Would you believe she's not exactly beloved by her classmates either? The unlikely pair gets forced into a club dedicated to helping solve their fellow students' problems. But will an ice queen and a screwup really be able to help anybody?
Tomoko Kuroki naturally assumed she'd be popular when she got to high school...but then cold, hard reality swooped in for the attack! Turns out all the popularity points she's racked up in her video game dating sims are worth squat in real life, and Tomoko's far from prepared to navigate high school! How can she possibly hope to impress her classmates when she can't even talk to them?! A new high-school heroine is born (maybe?)!
A kidnapped and blindfolded princess's time in darkness with her silent caretaker. The ten minutes an ordinary woman spends with her tied-up stalker. The last six months a man has before he loses his beloved wife to cancer. These are a few of the moments we share with the characters brought to life by Toryumon Takeda in this collection of seven short stories, including her highly acclaimed "My Wife Whom I Loved Dearly." But what will become of each of them?
The Nebulis Sovereignty and the Empire are embroiled in a war without end. The Ice Calamity Witch, a Nebulis mage of incredible power, and Iska, the youngest swordsman of the Empire ever to become a Saint Disciple, find themselves face-to-face on the battlefield. Each seeks to bring a close to this ceaseless conflict. Little do they know, however, that their meeting will be the catalyst that shapes the fate of the world!
Takane Takamine is the goddess of her high school. With perfect grades, athletic prowess, and unrivaled beauty, this student council president is the apple of everyone's eye-including Koushi Shirota, a below-average student with no friends or social prospects whatsoever. But he'll soon find out the secret behind Takamine's unbelievable success-her underwear! When she strips, she can undo any of her past actions, and now that Koushi knows, Takamine won't let him off so easy...
"For the past three days, there have been two Rio Futabas." After successfully breaking the time loop that he and Koga were trapped in, Sakuta's threshold for what qualifies as "odd" was higher than most. So seeing his friend Futaba in a net cafe late at night should have been downright unremarkable-if he wasn't already on the phone with another Futaba...The ever-logical second-year has a doppelgänger, and neither one can (or will) explain what's caused this sudden case of Adolescence Syndrome. With one of the Futabas staying at his place, Sakuta will have to work fast in order to solve this. After all, who knows what could happen if the two doppelgängers meet?"