A Japanese-style ayakashi Cinderella story! "You're the bride I've been searching for all this time." The ayakashi and humans coexist in harmony. The ayakashi, having superior abilities and beautiful appearances, sometimes find their partner among human women, making them their "bride". The bride, in exchange for bringing prosperity, receives absolute love from the ayakashi. Yuzu is constantly compared to her sister, a bride of a demon fox, and is resented by her family every day. One day, when Yuzu just couldn't take things anymore, a man appears before her on a bridge. This man is the most beautiful man Yuzu has ever seen... and he's calling her his wife?! "Just be quiet and let me hold you." The most powerful, "cold-hearted" ayakashi is pouring his heart out for Yuzu?!
An empire falling to ruin: The Kio Empire. Living in that empire, is an overweight 5-year-old abandoned by his parents, Prince Ageha. Ageha has memories from a previous life of him living as a Japanese man in another world. He then encounters his younger half-brother, Regulus. Ageha had a vision that Regulus will kill him in the future over inheritance, so Ageha sets out to raise him after Regulus's mother passed. Once the sparkling and fluffy-haired Regulus cozied up to Ageha, He turned into a doting older brother before he even realized! Enjoy a fantasy story of young brothers managing their kingdom, sometimes involving the gods, as they reform it step by step to bring a better land to the next generation!
Rua is a saintess-in-training blessed with healing powers-but her gift comes with a cruel flaw: to cure others, she must take their pain and afflictions into her own body, suffering the consequences herself. Branded "defective," she endures the scorn of the other saintess candidates-except for her closest friend, Arianne, who always stands up for her.
One day, Commander Garrot-the man Rua secretly loves-lies at death's door. Rua heals him completely, only to collapse and hover between life and death. When she finally wakes, it's a nightmare: the credit has been stolen, and Garrot is already engaged to Arianne.
Betrayed and cast aside, Rua swears she will never heal anyone again. Then the second prince, Sven, offers her a deal: revenge on those who humiliated her. Armed with a hidden power-to inflict on others the very ailments she once took into herself-Rua joins hands with Sven and begins a new life... not as a "saintess," but as a villainess.
As the illegitimate daughter of a count and his maid, Katrina was born into miserable circumstances. And now that she's lost her mother, the treatment from her stepsister and stepmother the countess has only grown worse. One day, her stepsister receives a royal order to move to the northern outskirts due to her unseemly behavior at a recent party. There, she is to learn proper conduct under the tutelage of the resident prince, rumored to be a cruel man. Not wanting to subject her daughter to such punishment, the countess decides to send Katrina instead. Katrina arrives in the north shaking in fear. But contrary to the stories, the "merciless and cold-hearted" prince is kinder than she believed. Might the pure-hearted Katrina find love in the wintry countryside?
Lilia, the newborn daughter of a marquis, has the memories of her previous life! With cheat-like gamer knowledge she aims to become the strongest girl in this new "other world"!
"Even if you never loved me, I still wanted to save you."
Lunia, the daughter of Count Persephone, lived a lonely life-rejected by her father and treated as a mere tool by her half-brother. When a priest selected her as the bride of Duke Hades, master of the cursed Khronoa family, she seized her only chance to escape by marrying into the duke's household.
The Khronoa family, feared as the "Dark King" for handling the empire's darkest affairs-affairs that could kill anyone who became involved-was bound by a curse: unless the duke married the bride chosen by the emperor, his life would be cut short. Unlike the rumors, Hades's presence captivated Lunia at once. Yet he made it clear he had no intention of loving love her.
Confused by his rejection when her very existence was meant to save him from the curse, Lunia deceived him to keep him alive, sharing one fateful night with him before disappearing, unaware that she was now carrying his child...
Seven years later, Hades finds Lunia-and this time, he is determined to bring her and their child back home...
Tiara Rose, the fiancee of her kingdom's crown prince, suddenly realizes that the world she's living in is actually the setting of her favorite otome game from her previous life! But she's not the heroine...she's the villainess!? By the time she remembers, it's already the day before the graduation party where she's destined to face "annulment of engagement" and "banishment from the kingdom", just like in the game's scenario. Everything seems to be following the original plot...until the handsome crown prince of a neighboring kingdom suddenly proposes to her!? A love story where the supposed villainess is adored by an ultra-perfect foreign prince!!
Eunha Park thought she was getting another chance at life when she awoke in the world of a novel. The only problem? Raeliana McMillan, the character she was reborn as, is fated to be killed by her fiance! For the sake of her survival, she comes up with an idea-get into a fake marriage with a man more powerful than her groom-to-be. But when that protection comes in the form of Noah Wynknight, the duke with a warm smile and cold heart, Raeliana realizes she might be a bit in over her head...She's going to regret this plan, isn't she?
Lady Carolina Sanchez has spent her entire life believing she is the "Sanchez family disgrace," a notion constantly reinforced by her elder sister, Flora. In public, Flora is a model of kindness and gentility, always coming to her baby sister's defense...but behind closed doors, she heaps a*use on Carolina, leveraging Carolina's perceived shortcomings to suit her own ends. When Carolina is sent to the neighboring Malcosian Empire for a political marriage to Prince Edward Ruby Martinez, she expects to disappoint her new family too. But, to her surprise, her husband-to-be and her new in-laws seem to genuinely adore her! Can Carolina escape the anguish of her past and rise to the occasion as Edward's imperial consort? She just might, especially if she's not quite as powerless as she assumed...
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch...until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she's never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody "knows" might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem...
This fantasy story conveys the bond between a beast tamer and the strongest cat girl starting from their first meeting!
Rein, a beast tamer who fights with the help of animals, has been a member of the hero's party for the longest time. However, unbeknownst to him, he was dragging down his teammates because he had no other abilities.
"You have no worth outside of taming animals. You're fired."
With that, he was kicked out of the party. At that moment, Rein no longer wanted anything to do with saving the world and decided to live for himself. Once he set out to become an adventurer, he met a girl from the cat tribe, a tribe believed to be part of the superior race. Meanwhile, the hero's party was unaware they were only able to fight the Demon King's army all along because of Rein's power...
This story is about how the oppressed beast tamer met his destined comrades and formed bonds with them all.
"I'm really happy to hear the girl I like missed me"
Konoha Satou has a dark history. After all, she spent her teen years writing self-indulgent fantasy romance fics-like her Dark History. But since she's become its most despicable villainess, remembering every last detail is now a matter of life-and-death. Having avoided the first couple of death flags, Satou's suddenly left in the dark when a mysterious stranger returns from the Lily Kingdom-a character she doesn't recall writing in the original script. Although Yomi claims to be her ally, can Satou really trust a character she knows nothing about in such a dangerous world?
Elizabeth Leiston, the daughter of Haldoria's powerful prime minister, is the picture of a refined noble lady and the perfect future queen. But when her fiance publicly humiliates her, calls off their engagement, and starts spreading nasty rumors about her, Elizabeth reaches her breaking point. Why should her only friend be her loyal maid, and why should she continue to serve a country that doesn't respect her? Elizabeth concludes she won't stand it any longer and will bring down the kingdom, even if it's the last thing she does! As such, she uses her quick wit and, more importantly, her seven magic grimoires to embark on a quest for revenge. And let her tell you, there will be hell to pay!
In a world populated by diverse range of tribes, humans have been persecuted nearly to extinction. One day, a forest guardian known as a Golem crosses paths with an abandoned little human girl. This is the story of the bond between a member of the disappearing human species and a guardian of the forest.The anime of this story will premiere this year (2019)!This series has been published in Japan since 2015 which Japanese title name is "Somali to Mori no Kamisama"
Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity's home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel's bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship's coolheaded female captain.
A college student finds herself resurrected as Eumiella, an evil daughter of the nobility in the world of an Otome RPG that she played in her previous life. In the RPG, Eumiella isn't worth thinking about at first, but in the endgame content she returns as a hidden boss, complete with ridiculous stats that put her on par with even the game's heroes. After being essentially abandoned by her parents at their family domain, the flames of Eumiella's former gamer soul are ignited, and she takes to leveling, and leveling, and leveling, until...at the time of enrolling in the Royal Academy, she discovers that she is level 99. Though she'd originally planned to live a peaceful and discreet life, the game's heroine and her love interests suspect that Eumiella is in fact the infamous Demon Lord. These ridiculous powers invite all manner of trials and tribulations. So begins the fantasy tale of a most powerful, evil hidden boss (who wishes she could just live a life of peace and quiet).
Jill Cervel, the magically gifted daughter of a noble family, dedicated her life to training for war. It was all for her fiance and one true love, Prince Gerald der Kratos... until he sentences her to death for discovering his dark secret! In her final moments, Jill wishes for another chance at a normal life. She just might get her wish, but there's a catch-she has to propose to her kingdom's future rival, the Dragon Emperor! It's a reluctant vow for Jill, but it could end up changing the course of history...
After growing up an orphan, Mitsuha has a healthy respect for money and a desire to live well-at least, until she dies after being pushed off a cliff. Waking up in a strange fantasy world, Mitsuha narrowly survives an encounter with a pack of wolves, then realizes she has the power to move between this world and the real one. A lesser person might embark on heroic adventures-Mitsuha instead immediately recognizes the lucrative possibilities of her new situation, and heads out to buy an arsenal of modern weapons. Her goal: to acquire 80,000 gold, and the life of leisure she's always dreamed of!
Like any proper noble lady, one must have certain acquired tastes. For Melphiera Marchalrayd, she just happens to crave a rather exotic protein-monsters! But do not judge! Despite its bad reputation, monster meat can be used in exquisite cuisine, and Melphiera is determined to change the kingdom's opinion of it! Unfortunately, since debuting in society, Melphiera has been struggling to find her perfect match...until she meets the fearless "Blood-Mad Duke" of Galbraith!
Sophia Riller, sixteen years old, was about to attend the Blessing Ceremony--a ritual in which a boy or girl of sixteen years is gifted with abilities from one of the various animal gods. A blessing from one of the bird gods could grant wings that allow one to soar through the skies. The boons are many and varied. Sophia, a clumsy type, was hoping that she would be chosen by a god that doesn't stand out...but...it was the Gorilla God who chose her! She was told that those blessed by the Gorilla God will have a gift for combat and needs to take the exam to become a Junior Knight. On the exam day, she met Louis, a handsome knight-to-be and two boys, who soon found out who Sophia was blessed by. Her life changes completely from that day...