Kaori was supposed to have the perfect life. She has a kind, caring husband and a welcoming home, but there's a sinking feeling in her gut. After changing careers and taking a remote job, her husband, Kanji, began to change. Despite also working, he leaves all the housework to her and belittles her when she slips up. Still, Kaori believes in their marriage and does her best to communicate, hoping to work things out. After a long talk, Kanji promises they'll start planning for their future. But when Kaori happens to glance at his phone and sees several suspicious messages, she grows suspicious. When he dismisses her, she finally reaches her limit!
"But she's mine, isn't she?" My girlfriend was supposed to love me, and only me, but somehow, she found happiness with another man. Taichi is your average office worker who's been dating his girlfriend for five years, ever since they were in college. He has no doubt that Mirei loves him, but when she hints at marriage, he brushes it off, instead wanting to use her as someone convenient to do his housework and take care of his needs. However, he soon becomes infatuated with Hinako, a bright and beautiful girl he met at a mixer. Then, while on a date with Hinako, he sees Mirei with a handsome man he's never seen before. Could it be that he was the one who got dumped...?
Keito, an office worker in her late twenties, has been feeling uncertain of her gender identity as of late. Nevertheless, she's getting ready to be married as a woman.
Aya, a housewife in her fifties, has been playing the role of a dutiful wife even though her relationship with her husband has gone cold.
As one feels saddled with the gender she was assigned at birth and the other with a role she felt obligated to perform, both begin to think...
"I wonder if there was another path I could have taken?"
This is a story about two "queer" people who feel uncomfortable in their "normal" labels and seek to rediscover their true selves.
This heartfelt, emotional boys love drama with disability representation explores themes of grief and depression.
Ren Kisaki has lived his life alone, writing novels from his wheelchair. Suffocated by help and frustrated by his perceived helplessness, he repeatedly pushes others away to the point that his caregivers have all but given up on him. That is, until the day newbie caregiver Rintaro Maki arrives on his doorstep.The kind and perceptive Rintaro - who sees Ren for himself, not only his condition - offers a connection Ren had long thought himself incapable of. Pushing out of his comfort zone, Ren finally starts opening up... giving him the strength to courageously confront his past and pursue, for the first time, his own story.-Content Warnings: VIOLENCE, TRAUMA, CHILD AB*SE, MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES, REFERENCES TO SELF-HARM AND GROOMING
"I'll never forgive him...!" Affairs, gambling, momma's boys... These wives are ready to serve husbands, who've trampled all over them, their just desserts. They're here to take their revenge for all the h*miliation they've suffered!
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.
"I always believed I was the only one who should stand by his side..."Prince Ashley, the first prince of the Kingdom of Sforzia, and Lady Violetta, a duke's daughter, are engaged to be married. Although their engagement was arranged for political reasons, Violetta has worked hard to support him as the crown prince since they were young.However, as she became busier, they started spending less time together, and Ashley became close to a cheerful and naive young lady, who is Violetta's complete opposite.Then, Violetta hears a shocking rumor: "Poor Lady Violetta. Imagine being cast aside by the crown prince!" Rather than let another young woman take him away, Violetta makes a firm decision: 'Fine, I'll be the one to end this engagement!'
Meiko was living a happy life with her husband, Akira. But one day, he's suddenly found murdered in a park... with his genitals and wedding ring finger severed...?! Turns out that while Meiko cherished her husband like no other, even going to fertility treatments in order to start a family, her husband was having an affair with her best friend of 15 years, Kana. As the shocking truth comes to light, Meiko, a betrayed wife, starts to cook up a juicy revenge story... a dish best served cold. *This story contains content that may be distressing to some audiences. Reader discretion is advised.
Suddenly, her life was turned upside-down.... Kinaho lived alone until one day, her boyfriend Akito brought with him two young relatives: a pair of brothers who had just lost their parents. All at once, Kinaho finds herself living under one roof with not just Akito, but serious-to-a-fault eighth grader Toma and innocent five-year-old Haruhi. As the days pass in confusion, this group starts to forge a new relationship: a family... or something like it.
Aoi is the kind of beautiful girl that everyone likes and who is always perfectly made up. Having been accepted into the art school of her dreams, she lives her days to the fullest. But she actually harbors a secret: she is actually male, devoid of self-confidence and fearful of the prying eyes of others. But then one day, her friend Rikako learns her secret....
He's off in search of a certain man's life.... Harboring doubts about Dorry, a man he had previously arrested, inquisitive cop Yagi sets off to uncover his past, arriving at a town isolated by winter snow. Despite the town's hostility toward outsiders, he secures the cooperation of a local postman and an orphan with no last name, and begins his investigation....
Those who inhabit neither Heaven nor Earth, but a place called the Space Between.... A cute little guardian deity and the sewing Between-dweller who creates them have come to peer in on the human world?! It's a 200% soothing tale that will gently snuggle into the holes in people's hearts!
Reunited 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.
Koyomi Inagawa, wedding planner. Despite working freelance, she is highly sought-after and admired for her skill even among her peers in the wedding industry. She tends to embrace every whim of the bride and groom with a sunny warmth, and it is in her nature to be fired up by an impossible challenge. While continuing to build a delicate rapport with Shinoyama - an old colleague and rival from her time working at a big-name hotel back in the day - as she goes, Koyomi spends her time rushing to and fro to make each new day "the best day of your life" for someone out there!!
One year ago, high schooler Hana Odamaki (age 17) and auto factory worker Shogo Kine (age 38) suddenly switched places in body and mind. Now, after a year in each other's shoes, the two run into each other again. The man who found himself as a young maiden has brushed up his vessel's femininity and become an amateur model, while the girl in the body of a middle-aged man was treated as an amnesia case and lost any steady employment. They may have been reunited with "themselves", but what should they do when they can scarcely recognize the person they once were...?
To all the yokai, I am here to make sure you live peacefully together with the humans.Our world and the yokai world is connected by the Flower Demon Door. We of the Sakaimeya profession are summoned to teach those yokai that want to live in the human world how to, even though things don't always go according to plan. Teaching Yokai how to feel humanity leads to a heart-warming story.
This town is unsettling, and yet somehow comforting.... When "Cee" awoke, humans had vanished from the world, leaving only the remains of their civilization behind. Desperate to evade the mysterious "Cone Heads," Cee encounters a one-eyed Golem, "Bulb." Golems are humanoid automatons, made to serve their human masters, but what befell their erstwhile creators? This is the story of a bond between girl and golem that could change the world!
In your daily life, there are many kinds of "neighbors." - A stubborn, unyielding young man who sits in the neighboring desk at work. A happy-go-lucky older guy always telling dirty jokes from the neighboring hospital bed. A tiny car with a terrible driver who parks way over to one side, just inside the line of the neighboring parking spot. It's not only the people living next door. In your daily life, there are many kinds of "neighbors." Falling in love, making memories, finding peace of mind... Five tales of the vibrant moments born when two people happen to become neighbors.
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!