Princess Ai of Ai-Land: The Comic Strip Collection features story by D. J. Milky and art by Pauro Izaki. Long before her adventures in the original manga trilogy, Princess Ai had to cope with the pressure of becoming a teen! Take a madcap journey with the young Ai as she navigates a ruthless teenage landscape of majestic pageants, home school study halls, crash diets and volunteer service. But just give our young Princess Ai a guitar, and she'll be sure to rock the party! She's got an overprotective king for a dad, a hyperactive Dougen for a pet and a tutor who's also her best friend - and a great role model until she turns into the Groupie from Hell at their first rock concert... For the first time ever, gathered here - uncut and in full color - is the entire first year of the Princess Ai of Ai-Land Sunday comic strip feature. This collection also includes daily color strips that have never before been seen in print!
"C'mon... please... make me your girlfriend!" To think an orphaned high schooler would find himself adopted by a family of seven women! Yusuke, who grew up in an orphanage, has been adopted many times before, only to be sent back time and time again with the foster parents saying, "He's too good for us!" Then one day, the Onagawas, all of whom are female, express interest in taking him in. Their single condition for adopting Yusuke is simple-No romance within the family. Yusuke accepts this, thinking there is no way he can develop romantic feelings for a family member, but contrary to his expectations, he is fiercely approached by all five daughters!
"I'm going to be in a relationship with my step-sister!" Wait, who decided that?! There was no way he was going to fall in love. Since that traumatic event from 2 years ago, he avoids love like the plague--When his dad gets remarried! Now he has 2 sisters?! This must be some joke!! Even though Aoba wants nothing to do with the sisters, they always find themselves in sticky situations. Can they open his "door" to love? The beginning of a juicy story bound to make life a home a very ending love battle!"
She 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?
"Don't worry! I, your teacher, will help you get used to women." When a klutzy teacher finds out her tough delinquent student's secret, she decides to help him learn to control his erections... His hair's, that is! New homeroom teacher Niko Sakuochi has a bad boy in her class--Makoto "Devilhair" Karuma. Unable to ignore the fact that he can't fit in with the other students due to his frightening appearance, Ms. Sakuochi decides to help fix his little problem. "When I get hard, my hair stands up." At first, she was shocked by his confession, but as his hair stands up right in front of her very eyes, she's forced to accept the truth. "I'm going to help get you on the straight and narrow for your own sake as well as that of our class!" Will her secret plan be able to control this teenage boy's crazy libido?!
Asumi, a former stage actress, married Ryouhei, who had risen to become a popular screenwriter, and became a mother of one. Yet as she found herself swamped with housework and childcare while he stayed busy with work, the rift between them only deepened. His success was possible because of her support-or so Asumi believed. But then, something led her to uncover his affair. Tormented by the schemes of her husband and his mistress, Asumi resolves to take revenge-one that will drag the drama industry into the fray...!
It seems my crush has destroyed humanity once before in another world... One night, I finally summoned up the courage to confess my love to my crush Yua, when all of a sudden, a meteor struck me dead, and I was reborn in a different world. However, just as I'd almost accepted my fate as an inhabitant of this new world, I went on to defeat the demon king in mere seconds. I had a world to get back to and a confession to carry out, and used my newly acquired hero's hacking skills to return home! Upon my return, I made my way to my classroom. I opened the door to find that everyone was a returned hero! When I saw Yua, I couldn't believe my eyes... A former demon king in a sea of former heroes...!
Born in the Kingdom of Yua Levanna as the child of the second wife, Amelia was loathed by the royal family alongside her mother, who possessed a special power. That power: poison magic. Her mother's power was exploited to bolster Yua Levanna's military strength, and worn down by it, she soon passed away. Afterward, though she suffered horrific treatment at the hands of her family, Amelia has endured a harsh life by holding close to her heart only the words her dead mother left her: "No matter what happens, never lose heart." One day, news arrived that the emperor of Saulverka, the mysterious empire to the north, was seeking a wife. Her half-brother Craig, who had ascended the throne in place of the previous king after his sudden assassination, plotted a political marriage to make the empire his own. And so he sends Amelia to Noam, the emperor renowned for his cold and merciless nature. What awaited her there was cold treatment from the beautiful emperor. Even as she laments her own life, it is only after leaving her country that Amelia learns the truth of how her mother had been treated, and she burns with fury. To avenge her mother, she swears vengeance upon her homeland.
"Don't forget. You're my wife." A former diver is reincarnated into the world of her favorite game as Hina, an unimportant maid. She is content just watching her favorite character, General Soha of the Water Kingdom, from afar, but when things start to diverge from the game she knows so well, she finds herself embroiled in a life-changing conflict. Marked for execution as a traitor and cast into the sea, she draws upon knowledge from her past life to swim fearlessly through the raging waves to her survival. However, her graceful form is mistaken by the fearsome and ruthless villain Shuen as the legendary Mermaid Princess, and she is kidnapped and forced to become his wife... Now she's stuck in a loveless temporary marriage with the villain. Everything inside her is telling her to reject him... And yet, why can't she resist his overbearing yet awkward passion?
Hiro is broke, jobless, and unfaithful?and Mi is absolutely smitten with him! After all, he didn't dump her within a week, doesn't stand her up on dates, and even remembers her name. With the bar on the floor, Hiro can't bring himself to be full-on scum like he usually is, much to his own confusion. A romcom about a guy who flip-flops between being sweet and scummy, and the girlfriend who adores him anyway!
Homare is always cheerful and hardworking, but she harbors a secret worry: her romantic life never goes well. One day, her childhood friend, Hikaru, coincidentally moves into the apartment next door. Homare is surprised but delighted to reunite with Hikaru, who has become strikingly handsome since they last met.However, Hikaru has a hidden, dark side that even Homare doesn't know about... Will she be completely adored by her yandere younger childhood friend? A twisted love story begins!
One day, Racheli, the daughter of a fallen nobleman but a bright girl, is offered money by the king's aide to train the "king" at the castle as an educator. The poor Racheli is dazzled by the money and becomes the tutor of the current king, Gilles, who is a renowned tyrant.