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USD 0.99 / 99pt ~ USD 1.99 / 199ptOlivia Taylor opens her eyes after being caught and executed for her countless brutal murders to find that she has been reincarnated in a time and world she has no memory of called "modern-day Japan." She soon learns that the woman whose body she is inhabiting, Meisa, has been living a meager life with her preschool-age son, Reo. Meisa and Olivia's memories begin to blend together as she ends up getting caught up in a major incident involving Reo and her common-law husband, Ryuya... Surrounded by friendly faces like the loving Reo and the kind manager of the grocery store where Meisa worked, Natsuki, is this reincarnated monster now destined to navigate this new world as a mother...?! This single mom has no choice but to use the memories and instincts of her former life as a vicious serial killer to confront the evils of the present! -
USD 0.99 / 99ptYuriko, 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. -
USD 0.99 / 99ptA coworker who keeps chasing after teen idols despite her age; a useless boss; and a completely unsociable new hire. Ann, a fortyish woman who looks down on those around her and blames everything on others, dreams only of marriage with the boyfriend who won't sleep with her. But then one day, when she learns that one of the colleagues she looked down on is getting married, she reveals her hidden nasty side right in front of the newbie. From that day on, she is visited by one misfortune after another.... -
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USD 0.99 / 99ptReunited with a childhood friend after five years, I was in my first year of high school, yet you stood before me, a teacher.... Kato is a young man with a peculiar condition that causes him to age three years for every year of real time. Orihara watches over him as both a friend and a student. This is the tale of the unusual life of these two former classmates. -
Ibara Nayuki is a figure skater who performs around the globe, but audiences grow fed up with his passionless performances, and his coach doesn't know what to do with him. Just then, who should appear before him but Vasily, a ballet dancer once hailed as a child prodigy. "Not knowing why you're there in the rink is as good as not knowing who you really are!" -
USD 1.49 / 149ptMami has tried marriage once and failed, so now she's looking for something else. Even if her peers won't get it, she wants what she wants: not marriage, not romance, just a man to spend time with when she needs some company!
Sure enough, when she brings this up at her junior high class reunion, her friends all gang up against her. However, a handsome former classmate she'd almost never spoken to before--Nakamura--does empathize with her! When Mami learns that Nakamura is also once-divorced and, just like her, is looking not for a wife or a girlfriend but just a woman to spend time with, she makes a life-changing decision.
She's given up on living her life according to what's "normal." After spending thirty-some years toiling under the crushing weight of societal expectations, one woman finds herself a partner in crime and a new lease on life in this modern-day survival story. -
"Diary of My Daily Failures" is a bold comic essay of a depression survivor looking back to her past blunder. In the bleak of despair, Eriko struggled as she tried adapting to mental health institution environment. Eriko Kobayashi's superb ability to deliver dark but comedic self-narrative would not only let readers ponder about the importance of mental health but might also reveal the hidden anxiety inside our mind we never know we had... -
Sayaka Shimada, 36 and single, loves three things: her job, her favorite singer, and her mother, who lives with her. Even with her junior coworker Sugaya tossing thoughtless comments her way, she'd poured herself into her work, and when she paused to look up she found herself on the cusp of her late 30s. Partly at her mother's suggestion, Sayaka visits a matchmaking service. The man she's introduced to is sweet and earnest, and things start moving smoothly toward marriage. Though it hasn't all sunk in yet, she is well on her way to a happy future--and that's when a sudden injury leaves her mother hospitalized. The injury is nothing too serious and Sayaka is settling her nerves, until she notices something off about her mother... A poignant and much-acclaimed depiction of the struggles of caretaking and building a future, issues faced by countless people every day! -
"Humans in this country don't take sleep seriously enough." This is a story about work -- that is, an office worker in her late twenties and her sleep demon, whose job it is to get her to sleep! Yoko is a hard worker, that's for sure. She's missed her last train home yet again and feels herself losing the battle to sleep in the bathroom. That's when she senses a shadow over her shoulder. She turns around only to find -- a sleep demon?! "Oh. You can see me." says Nero, a regular old office worker at Sleep Demons Incorporated in the Underworld. His monthly salary comes from getting humans go to sleep, and from today, he's in charge of Yoko. Thus begins Yoko and Nero's daily quest to improve her quality of sleep -- for both of their sakes! -
USD 0.99 / 99pt ~ USD 1.49 / 149pt"I will never draw comics again... so please forgive me, mother." Megumi is a girl who received a sponsorship award for her manga comic at only 16 years old. However, it caused such a great distress amongst her family that it forced her out of her home. Now. 15 years later, she's living with her partner Tamaki while working as an assistant in various jobs. Out of nowhere, a famous manga artist by the name of Unsui Genda appears, putting into motion something in Megumi's life that has been at a standstill for too long. -
USD 0.99 / 99ptShizuka 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?
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USD 1.50 / 150pt"Both my career and my love life were going so well...but it all fell apart on my 25th birthday, the day of that fateful incident."
Aiko Miyata may have lost her parents at a young age, but she still grew up with plenty of love in her life from her kind older sister Sae and her doting doctor boyfriend Yuuma Yoshimura. Her happy life seems to be headed toward pure bliss, with Yuuma poised to ask her a very big question at her birthday dinner, when out of nowhere she gets stabbed by a hooded figure. From that day onward, Aiko finds herself mired in a tragedy of epic proportions...! This psychological thriller blurs the lines between love and hate as Aiko struggles to stay afloat. Hard to watch, but even harder to look away... How much can you handle? -
USD 2.00 / 200ptRomance / Drama / Workplace Romance / Adultery / Only on MangaPlaza / Mature (18+) / Josei / Media Tie-InAs Maki Tomada bleeds every month, she is reminded that life doesn't turn out the way one would want it to. Seven years of marriage, yet Maki is shrugged off coldly by her husband. During a wedding ceremony, a coworker asks Maki when she plans to become pregnant, She can't confess that it's impossible because of a sexless marriage. Although sales representative Yamate lends a hand from the awkward situation, he turns around to tell her she is irritating for never standing up for herself. "Life doesn't always go as planned, right? But I don't mind knowing what that feels like." Despite hormone imbalances and a sexless marriage life, Maki learns to find the sweetness of amidst being unhappy.
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Kiyo Hori (age 29) married Mitsuhiro Yoshida in four months after a serious heartbreak with Yasutaka Mizuki, a married man who was her senior at work. Mitsuhiro is a divorcee. The divorce was caused by infidelity on the part of his ex-wife, Reina. She married Mitsuhiro, who paid monthly child-support payments to their 3-year-old who lived apart from them.... Kiyo, though, found her marraige to Mitsuhiro to be better than she had imagined. Mitsuhiro's passionate courtship led to marriage, which led to a comofortable life and perfect physical chemistry between the two. If only it weren't for the frequent interference from Reina, who uses her and Mistuhiro's child as a pretext to disturb the peace......! How many more intrusive phone calls to her husband can Kiyo take before she confronts the situation!!!! -
Meiko has the perfect life. Kentaro is the perfect husband. He supports the family with his high-salary job at the bank, helps around the house, and is the perfect father to their son, Kota. On his days off, he even volunteers at their son's daycare. Little does she know that he is having an affair with none other than one of Kota's daycare workers. Devastated, how will Meiko handle this affair? -
"Just when I thought my husband was a good partner and father, and okay with not having sex, I find out he's getting some from elsewhere?! I just want to be in his arms again, that's all..." Haruka and Ryosuke are a sexless couple. But they still give it their all to raise their two boys, 8 and 5 years old. Ryosuke also takes care of the house chores, so Haruka has no complaints. But one day, she finds out that Ryosuke is using a sex service... This hits 40-year-old Haruka not only as a wife, but as a woman as well. That's when Haruka decides to try and seduce her husband for the first time in years... -
Ayumi Suzuki was having a hard time. Between her husband Takuya's backhanded compliments and the loud parties he insisted on hosting at their house, she could barely keep her head above water. Takuya seemed to be trying to relive his glory days by inviting over the usual group of old high school friends to sing and drink all night, while Ayumi was stuck cooking and pouring their drinks. Hard as that was, she still stayed devoted to her husband... And then she found out he had been having an affair with a woman from that "usual group" of party friends! As she listens to them having sex and badmouthing her like the insults were their pillow talk, Ayumi finally hits her limit. Now she has a new party to plan: an Affair Expose Party!
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USD 1.99 / 199ptKotoha 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...! -
USD 1.99 / 199ptHaruka is married to Shoji, a kind and wealthy man, and while she dreams of having children, she enjoys her life as a housewife, though it sometimes leaves her feeling bored. One evening, Shoji goes out for drinks with friends, but something feels off...he seems to be hiding something. Haruka begins to suspect he may be having an affair. Unable to shake her doubts, she starts digging and uncovers a shocking revelation. Could her entire marriage have been a lie all along?
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USD 1.50 / 150ptHitomi, now 33, is an averagely diligent office worker who has tiptoed her way through life avoiding anything that would make her stand out. She has also been dating her younger coworker Takuma for two years. Sure he hasn't popped the question yet and she's getting a little anxious, but otherwise, Hitomi's content with life. Then, one day, news breaks that Takuma is getting married to the young receptionist at work...! Wanting to forget her heartbreak, Hitomi wastes no time and finds a new job with a publisher in their comics division. Problem is, she has to work with explicit romance comics. Oh, and the fact that she's often at the mercy of her passionate editor-in-chief Mr. Adachi, in more ways than one! ...But before she gets used to the rhythm of things (and the butterflies), a married Takuma suddenly shows up, suggesting that they continue meeting discretely...!
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