"Booze! Bring me more booze!" Melissa is down in the dumps after her engagement is abruptly ended. With nowhere else to turn, she heads to a local bar to drown her frustrations. Overhearing, a mysterious figure hidden beneath a cloak strikes up a conversation with her. Although a little bossy, Jules gets along well with Melisa. Intrigued by her brazen yet delicate nature, invites her to meet again for drinks. Suspicious at first, Melissa gradually warms to him, and their bond deepens over shared drinks and lively debates. Just as things seem to be looking up, her ex-fiance, Sam, barges in! Is this Melissa's chance to finally give him a piece of her mind?!
To support her family, Liz got engaged to an abusive viscount, Maurice. For three long years, she endured his unreasonable behavior, only for it all to fall apart. Maurice breaks off their engagement, leaving Liz and her family teetering on the brink of ruin. Just as her world begins to crumble, her childhood friend, Jean, reappears. After running away from his marquis family, he's returned as a wandering musician. "Don't worry, I'll save you." Liz wants to trust in him, but how can Jean save her when he doesn't even have a job?!
Noelle is a young woman with freckles on her face who hides her face with a hat. Her fiance, Jacques, breaks off the engagement because of her appearance, which he considers gloomy. She is in the depths of despair, but her heart is saved when a maid brings her a street vendor's hat. Noelle is so moved by the hat's beauty that she goes to the stall to meet the maker. There she meets the hat maker, Flynn. At first glance, he seems to be just a young man, but in fact he has a big secret...?
Although a viscountess, Shion's family is poor and deeply in debt. Their last hope rests on Shion's fiance, Leo. However, despite borrowing all that money to meet Leo's expectations, he breaks off their engagement. Ready to give in to despair, Shion receives an invitation from a wealthy baron's son, Charlie. Determined to get back at Leo, Shion asks Charlie to help teach her how to make money. As they continue to work together to build up a hot spring, will love spring forth...?
An ordinary female nerd wakes up one day to find that she has been reincarnated as Hildegard, the villainess in her favorite romance novel. Having admired Hildegard's way of life in her previous life, she decides to live true to villainess storyline. She even has the devastating desire to seek her own execution! But she finds it difficult being an aristocratic villain, seeing as though she is a mere geek, failing every day at her attempts at villainy. Will she be the perfect villainess and be executed successfully?
Elizabeth has been called the daughter of the fallen since the disappearance of her father, the patriarch of her family. But what's this?! In order to restore her family's fortunes, she takes over her father's detective agency! She assigns Will, her father's butler, to be her assistant detective, and she now calls herself the Lady Detective, who solves every case with elegance! Now, Elizabeth, the Lady Detective, and Will, the detective assistant, are ready to solve all kinds of cases in the capital city! Love and lust lurk behind every incident... Now begins an exquisite mystery with our key detectives!
Those words from Julius, her first love, traumatized Diana and turned her into a shut-in who stayed at her noble parents' manor out in the countryside.
She became an artisan known as the Witch of Roemer, spending her days making the magic tools she was excellent at creating.
One day, Diana returned to the capital city to attend a ball and ran into Julius again.
As she tried to forget her fleeting feelings of love for him, her overprotective brother created a "Man Repellent Ring" that would drive back any annoying bugs (men) who got near Diana... But it started shocking Julius!
The man who bought me at a slave auction is... my former disciple?
The duke sorceror has been in love with her for ten years!
Linya is a demi-human who is unable to use magic due to one of her horns being broken. She was chased out of her homeland, the country of demi-humans, and made a living by selling potions in the humans' country. One day, Linya makes a deal with a black market salesman to buy a young slave, Gil. Gil has an enormous amount of magical power, something that's rare in humans, so Linya decides to make him her disciple. However, Gil is extremely clingy!
They became unusually close, and the kiss he gave her as he transferred his magical powers to her was so sweet and passionate, it was electric.
Then, three years after Linya and Gil started living together, someone appeared, looking for Gil...
In a world where humans are thought to be inferior to beastfolk, human office worker Saki Oki endures a constant stream of ridicule and scorn from her beastfolk colleagues and superiors. So when she gets called into the CEO's office, she's prepared for the worst-but instead of firing Saki, the CEO acknowledges her hard work and makes her his private secretary! With all eyes in the office on her, Saki struggles to get used to her new position, not to mention her boss's intimidating-yet oddly charming-aura...
The dapper staff of The Watering Hole are always eager to serve their clientele with grace and charm. But little do the patrons know that these handsome gents are actually penguins in disguise! The sharply dressed flightless birds love all that the human world offers, but as the saying goes: "You can take the penguin out of the Antarctic, but you can't take the Antarctic out of the penguin!"*
*Not all penguins come from the Antarctic.**** Yes, this actually matters in the world of Penguin Gentlemen.
By all appearances, the ties that bind High King Madeth and the knight Lalvan, his childhood friend, are made of the sternest stuff. But in truth, their friendship has always struck a most delicate balance. With the arrival of Lady Prima and the birth of her son, Perseus, not long after, the precarious harmony between Madeth and Lalvan crumbles. And when the young Perseus, harboring questions about his lineage, seeks out Lalvan, will the repercussions be much greater than a friendship lost? A lone angel, its eyes replete with sadness, looks on as the tragedy unfolds...
Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom, its master one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria's faithful servant . . . and a slip of a twelve-year old boy. Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ever at his side, ready to carry out the young master's wishes. And whether Sebastian is called to save a dinner party gone awry or probe the dark secrets of London's underbelly, there is practically nothing Sebastian cannot do. In fact, one might even say Sebastian is too good to be true . . . or at least, he is too good to be human . . .
Mariela is the last alchemist alive after waking from a deep sleep that lasted two hundred years. As the sole alchemist in town, she could make a killing by brewing and selling potions...but after two hundred years of suspended animation, all she wants to do is relax, take things easy, and live at her own pace!
Most people want to be the heroine. I mean, who wouldn't after being reincarnated into a fantasy dating game as the beautiful, prodigious daughter of a noble family? But screw that, being the villainess is way more fun-and that's exactly who Alicia Williams is going to be! Yet the more pluck, audacity, and insolence she musters, the more everyone seems to like her! What's a villainess got to do to leave her mark on history?!
Can a determined tengu bride change a lonesome bachelor's ways? Well, it's not like he's got much of a choice- 'cos she's already moving in!Young systems engineer Kotarou has had to make his own way in life. Nothing remains of his early childhood before he was orphaned-nothing except his grandparents' antique house in Hachioji and memories of Hime, the winged spirit girl he's come to dismiss as a youthful flight of fancy.But after his return to Hachioji and reunion with Hime, it becomes impossible to deny the existence of his fine, feathery friend-especially given that she's declared they're getting married at second sight!
Count D has crossed space-time for a new grotesque adventure...
Count D is on an ark that can freely travel through space and time, so where is he stopping next? When is he stopping next? This volume contains the story of love and hatred that unfolded in a country beyond the desert and the life of a woman who was toyed with through plots and treachery. Count D watches over all this coldly, but what is his aim? This new series of the mystery-horror masterpiece that guarantees even more fascination is finally being published!
Ai Suzuki was a failure at work, a burden on the company, and had no friends... the only person who loved her was her boss, Tatsuro. To society, their relationship was an immoral affair, but to her, it was true love. One day, driven by loneliness, Ai goes to see Tatsuro, only to find another woman with him. It turns out Tatsuro had other mistresses! After being stabbed by the other mistress, Ai wakes up in a parallel world, reborn as a successful, confident, and highly capable version of herself...?!
26-year-old Mio Akemi is a beautiful, talented woman who always wears a poker face in the office. She's finally got a boyfriend, Atsuhiro, who she's been seeing for three months... and she still finds him absolutely adorable!!!! Everything Atsuhiro says and does makes Mio's heart flutter. So much so, she's not sure she'll be able to survive even a normal date. Though their relationship isn't progressing due to Mio's excessive adoration for him, she still experiences romantic bliss. Then one day, Atsuhiro's sick, so Mio goes over to his place to care for him. But, her usually kind and sweet boyfriend suddenly acts uncharacteristically rough and demanding...!! Could it be that Atsuhiro's actually a... werewolf? Mio is from a family that has been the sworn enemy of the werewolf clan for hundreds of years! This is the start to their wild and unpredictable relationship...!
"What do you say, Henrietta? Will you serve our kingdom not as its queen, but as the leading mistress of my harem?" One day, Prince Georges came to his betrothed Henrietta with that as a suggestion. It goes without saying that the engagement was broken off. Finally things can calm down... or so Henrietta thought until she received a new letter from her aunt. She is now tasked with going to meet with the current king's much younger brother, Lord Richard, and find some way to seduce him. From what people seem to know, he is an eccentric sort of man who loves to paint and stays cooped up in his manor in the countryside. However, the man Henrietta has been tasked with seducing is actually a handsome charmer himself...?!
The Trizal Kingdom: a land that has been tied to holy beings brought from other worlds since ancient times. As a new threat looms over Trizal, a new Saintess is summoned...a 17-year-old named Yuri. Appointed to aide her in her journey to become the kingdoms hero is a priest named Hamil, and Yuri is informed that she needs to marry someone from the royal family and defeat the demon king... but as she meets the prince he suddenly declares his opposition to their union?! Is that so?! I'll do it all myself then! With tempers high, Yuri sets out on a journey to save the world- her way!