Jun (35) and Takeyori Sumisu (39) have been married for 8 years with no children. Since Jun quit her full-time job, she's more or less become a housewife, spending her days quietly. But when she realizes that 5 years have gone by since the couple last had sex, frustration begins to surface. "It's not like we don't get along... I just miss the way things used to be when we had first started going out." With her newfound motivation, she's determined to make a change, and begins job hunting again. However, when spring arrives and her new job begins, new encounters and experiences abound for both Jun and her husband.
"I thought I was the happiest person in the world... Until that day." Aya is twenty-nine and in her second year of marriage. She was enjoying a peaceful life with her husband, a handsome and faithful man who was the envy of those around her. One day, Aya sees a certain message on her husband's cellphone, and now he's starting to come home late... "Is he actually busy with work? Or is there some other reason...?" Should Aya question her husband and risk destroying her marriage, or should she keep her doubts to herself and protect the peaceful life she has...? A marriage life of uncertainty is about to unfold...
"Hey Keisuke. I'm really looking forward to the wedding." Miyagi Prefecture, Sendai City. This is where our protagonists, Chiaki and Keisuke met and vowed to marry each other. After graduating college, Keisuke starts working at a big-name trading company in Tokyo. Doing LDR is a bit lonely, but Chiaki believes in the love they have. However... Keisuke changes after moving to Tokyo. Every weekend, Keisuke has vulgar affairs, and does nothing but lie to Chiaki, and the two stop talking. Things are miserable. But Chiaki put up with it. She knows about everything and stays with Keisuke for 5 years. And there are only three months until their wedding...
42-year-old Kyoko Otsuka has spent the last 13 years living life as "mom" for her rebellious daughter and soft-spoken husband. Kyoko thought her average and hectic life would continue this way until one day she is told that she only has a year left to live! Shocked by this news, Kyoko decides she wants to spend the remainder of her life "living for herself." She declares to her family, who have been spoiled and taken her for granted, that she is done being their "mom" and is going to take back her life as "Kyoko"!
Is he... in heat?! In a world where humans and beasts live side by side, Sakuya enjoys life as a newlywed - until her human husband tragically dies of illness. Bullied by her mother-in-law and with nowhere to go, she finds herself contemplating a desperate act... until she catches sight of a dragon flying overhead. Shizuomi, a half-dragon priest from a nearby shrine, comes to her aid, soothing her wounded heart. But one night, her gentle guardian pulls her into his embrace...! A heartfelt love story between a grieving widow and her dashing, beastly protector!
A detested villainess and a proper prince are instinctually drawn to each other's bodies before they have a chance to develop feelings. What will their destiny be?!
When middle school teacher Rika's lack of self-care catches up to her, she quits her job to recover her health and ends up taking a part-time gig at the local Chinese restaurant: no overtime, no take-home work, and two delicious employee meals a day. The owner Momose and his lack of brain-to-mouth filter prove to be a handful, but his amazing cooking shoots Rika's quality of life straight through the roof! This exhausted overachiever is realizing that being a "proper adult" is harder than it seemed... and her journey of healing might just come with a side of romance!
Yuriko, 35 and single, leads a humdrum everyday routine of work and looking after her disabled father. At the kindergarten where she teaches she's treated as an old maid, and at home her father won't listen to a thing she says. And of course she has no plans to marry... after all, she's just going to live out the rest of her boring life here in the countryside anyway, right? But while she's lost in thought over it, she causes a fender-bender. She doesn't know how to react, but Sosuke, the man in the other car, tells her he'll forget it ever happened... if she has sex with him! But after she goes with the flow and "just does it," it turns out that he's actually the father of one of her students?! And as if that weren't enough, Takumi, her kindergarten's cheeky young chief director, arrives on the scene...? Thus begins a clumsy love triangle for a flawed adult who had given up on love.
Mana's only friend during high school was a girl by the name of Himeno Takatou. They reunite as adults and Himeno has become even more stunning than before. While catching up, Himeno asks about Mana's love life and learns all about the man Mana is interested in. Then after hearing that Himeko had just gone through a divorce, Mana invites her to a barbecue with her colleagues to cheer her up. However, the Himeno who shows up dresses and acts like a totally different person! Little by little...another side of Himeno begins to surface.
Three years into her marriage, housewife Hana still enjoys cooking for others, but the constant complaints from her in-laws have started to wear away at her. When her marriage goes even further awry, her broken and battered heart finds a deli still open at 11 PM... Feel all your daily food stresses simply melt away in this short story collection!
"If one more guy asks you out, we'd be tied... Then how about I do it?" Chikage and Haruto have competed over one thing or another since elementary school. It even went as far as a battle to see who could get asked out more times by their high school graduation?! ...Now, several years later, these two who could hardly cross paths without challenging each other to some sort of battle have grown up: Chikage is a model, Haruto is an actor, and they are each embarking on their own paths in life. And then, just as Chikage gets her first shot at filming a made-for-TV movie, it turns out that Haruto will be her costar... As this clumsy pair is led to and fro by love and work, their romance will have your heart throbbing!
Taking a down and out restaurant on the verge of closing it's doors, retraining the staff, and rebuilding it into a booming business, this hot blooded gourmet comic tells the story of the legendary chef Toshizo Kitakata. Son of the owner of Mitsubachi, an unpopular restaurant, Shoichi goes hat in hand to plead for Kitakata's help and he is taken to an unexpected place for training...!!
On the day of her execution, Vyaria wakes up to find time has reversed itself, making her seven years old again. Thinking of the events of her future, she is truly traumatized. Her first marriage to King Cain had been a cold and unhappy one. Each time she made an attempt to get closer to him, she had been faced with rejection, and the sudden appearance of a girl from another dimension had only increased Cain's hostility towards Vyaria. Behind her back, everyone had called her the "Blue Rose Princess," after the flower that symbolizes unattainable wishes.Knowing she would eventually be sentenced to death by her own husband, Vyaria is terrified when she is once again united with the young Cain. Is everything going to repeat itself? Is there really nothing she could do to change the future?As scared as she is, Vyaria vows to fight against her cruel fate in this second chance at life...!
With a taste for the finer things in life, a mind chock full of knowledge and a solution for every problem, Hinata isn't your average kindergartener. She has a secret. Hinata is actually an 88-year-old grandma, reborn into the body of a little girl with all her memories intact! She loves pickled vegetables and enjoying a nice cup of tea on the veranda while disciplining her peers with her authoritative, old-fashioned dialect. Why has she been reborn?! Find out in this cute, nostalgic comedy filled with grandma-wisdom!
At the age of 19, Ayano makes the fateful decision to set foot into the adult film industry. Alienated from her family and feeling she lacks a place in the world, she wields what "assets" she has -- her body -- and finds success in her newfound calling. This is the story, at turns delicately nuanced and starkly graphic, of a "porn star's" journey: everyday struggles, what happens when family finds out, and even love. The novel by a real-life adult-film actress is brought to life in manga form!
"Do I really have to work here from now on...?" Maya Blanche was born the daughter of nobility, but the family's wealth is in ruins due to her father's loan. The only place she could find immediate work as a noblewoman was the most fearsome house in all the land, the San-Chevalier House. There are rumors of servants of the house going missing... as pain and fear comes over Maya, she suddenly feels a strong head pain and all her memories come flooding back to her. "In my previous life... I was a high school student!" Maya was reincarnated into the world of one of her favorite fantasy novels after an accident on her way home from her maid cafe job! She now remembers the head of the house, Etel San-Chevalier, is actually an assassin...! Now begins the story of an isekai love fantasy of excitement and wonder, avoding the death flags at all costs!
Shizuka is a housewife who's been living a sexless life since her husband has changed into an overworked and somewhat abusive man. One day, she discovers that he's been having an affair and runs off to a "rental boyfriend" that her friend introduced her to. She has one goal in mind: take back her confidence as a woman. She ends up meeting the most popular of the men in the rental boyfriend service, a man named Aki, and slowly begins to remember what was all like before her marriage. A new forbidden love is born... can a housewife really have this dream?
"I want this man for myself." Nails, makeup, hair... Remi, an office worker, doesn't slack off when it comes to investing in herself. The reason she's willing to go this far? To snag a man who's worthy of her, of course. One day, her childhood friend, Yumi, asks Remi to check out a man that she is interested in and introduces them. Much to her surprise, Takashi is ideal husband material, and the perfect high-caliber man that Remi has been looking for! She immediately decides that she'll make him hers, no matter what. And Takashi doesn't seem too put off by Remi flaunting her good looks his way... What will come of this greedy love affair?! A collection of stories about girls and their lives now that they're all grown up.
Love is a piece of cake, or is it? Shino's life takes a hard reset after she quits her job, and her boyfriend breaks up with her! She decides to move to a new city and start over. Shino quickly develops a crush on her next-door neighbor who also happens to be her new manager, Kyoshiro! Unfortunately for her, he is already living with his girlfriend, Akari! Find out how this love triangle unfolds in George Asakura's whirlwind love story!
Kotoha was born into an affluent family, never having known hardship. However, her life is turned upside-down when her half-sister Ageha enters the picture. Fooling everyone with her childish "innocence," Ageha wastes no time hijacking Kotoha's life.
Unable to see Ageha's true colors, even Kotoha's father begins treating her coldly. And before long, Kotoha loses her friends, her fiance, and any sense of belonging. Having been deprived of all she's held dear, she begins plotting revenge against Ageha in hopes that someday, she can knock her down from her pedestal. Now, Kotoha is ready, and it's finally time for Ageha to get what's coming to her...!