"I want you." Imagine being told such a thing after a long and hot kiss from a beautiful elf. "I'm an introverted plain girl who's never had a boyfriend. There's nothing special about me, and the best I can do is just live a quiet life without bothering anyone else." That's what Sae Maizumi thought before she suddenly fell through the puddle she stepped on. After falling through what felt like a deep portal, she found herself in a world of elves. Where she arrived-the sacred spring of the elven forest. Sae, soaked in the water of the springs, is suddenly taken into the care of Elion, who is set to be the next leader of the forest elves. However, as a suspicious being who appeared out of nowhere, she's taken into c*ptivity! The moment Sae has a chance to break free, she makes a run for it. On her way out, she happens upon Elion's quarters to find him in an unexpected situation...?!!
"I wanted to lose my virginity, but I ended up kissing my childhood friend with so much passion I thought I was going to melt...!"
Yu, a very ordinary student, was yearning to get a girlfriend and enjoy new experiences. When he asked his friends for advice, they recommended Chiharu, his childhood friend and first love. But Chiharu is a guy! Yu sulked, feeling mocked, but then Chiharu said: "Pretending to be a couple sounds fun, why don't we try it?"...
The things Yu wanted to do with a lover-dating, holding hands, hugging, and kissing... At first, it was just gentle touches, but Chiharu's kisses gradually grew intense and relentless, and before he knew it, Yu's body was melting with passion...
A heart-fluttering love story starting with a kiss-featuring a long-haired quarter-Japanese beauty and an ordinary boy!
Yuki, the "Prince" of the commercial department, is perfectly content with his casual arrangement with his coworker, Yoshitaka. He prefers the distance of being friends with benefits, but his world is shaken when Yoshitaka confesses his love in the middle of sexual intercourse. Although Yuki initially dismisses a serious relationship as unnecessary, Yoshitaka's surprisingly dominant and persistent approach begins to chip away at Yuki's icy exterior.
After seven years of being single for being too traditional, Nanami moves home only to find a pack of firefighters living right next door. She hopes for a fresh "fateful encounter" but is harassed by the sound of porn all night long. Though she tries to ignore her rowdy neighbors, Nanami didn't expect intimidating firefighter, Minato, to corner her with a promise: he's going to make her his girlfriend. A spicy love story about a woman rediscovering her youth with a man who won't take "no" for an answer.
Ruri Orio, known as the Aloof Prince on campus, is the center of attention no matter where he goes thanks to his beauty. He also has a secret. He's a hardcore BL fan! He's serious about his hobby and doesn't want to be laughed at about it. But his precious, secret hobby gets found out by the playboy on campus, Takumi. Takumi sweetly melts Ruri's twisted psyche, body and soul. But Takumi has ulterior motives...?!
Watching Sui eat makes Hokuto feel an overwhelming sense of love for him, and they always end up sleeping together. However, their unstable relationship started with a lie Hokuto told in high school. He loves Sui too much to talk about the situation and possibly lose him forever. This is a story about their slightly bittersweet yet extremely sweet love."
"Are you turned on from me watching you?" It's extremely embarrassing, but it feels better than anything I've ever experienced before!
Nagisa, an introverted college student, secretly has a crush on Chihaya, his popular classmate. Their dorm rooms are next to each other, and they're good enough friends to go to each other's rooms, but Nagisa can't find the courage to tell him how he feels.
Nagisa also has a secret he can't tell anyone about... He streams himself masturbating while fantasizing about Chihaya watching him. However, one day, Chihaya happens to find him masturbating and tells him to continue doing it in front of him!
"I want you to do it with your hand..." His touch is so hot she could burst. He leaves, and she misses him immediately. Momono is worried about being a virgin. She was unsure of how to use the sex toy her coworker gave her, and her handsome, unsociable coworker, Kikuo ends up finding it! After making a mistake at work, Momono heads to the sauna to relieve stress. She ends up getting overheated, and Kikuo comes to her rescue! He loses his cool when he sees Momono vulnerable and unaware of his feelings for her! He teases her with forceful hands, and his hot breath stirs something inside her... She even admits that she has no experience with men! After all, she's almost thirty years old, a virgin, and doesn't even know how to use a sex toy!
Subaru, half wolf and half human, is a freshman in university. When he is crouching down feeling sick, his classmate, Kyoya, helps him. Subaru smells a sweet and kind scent unlike anything he's ever smelled before from Kyoya... meaning Kyoya must be Subaru's fated mate! Subaru falls in love with Kyoya, who is kind to him despite him being overly shy. One day, when Subaru smells Kyoya up close, he gets hard... Upon noticing, Kyoya says "You don't mind me touching you, do you?" and they end up pleasuring each other. A first love between a shy beastfolk and a popular university student that begins with a physical relationship!
The first pleasure pulses through Julia, Count's daughter, head multiple times. I heard he was unable to have sex. To rebuild the fallen count's family, Julia proposes to Lord Leonard knowing a rumor that he's been single is that Leonard can't have sex but on the bridal night he pushes Julia down?! Despite the rumor, Leonard has a big thing under his pants.
Driven by a fierce devotion to her lineage, Julia, the daughter of a fallen Count, makes a desperate gamble to restore her family's honor. She offers herself to Lord Leonard, a man shrouded in whispers and cold rumors.
The gossip that the Lord is incapable of intimacy, however, as the candles flicker low on their wedding night, Leonard reveals a side the world has never seen.
Suddenly, he sweeps her into his arms, shattering every expectation she held. Beneath his composed exterior lies a fervent passion and a strength that leaves Julia's heart racing, proving he is far more capable of love?and desire?than she ever dared to dream.
In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust?
Twin sisters, Arisa and Tsubasa, are separated by their parents' divorce. The twins secretly exchange letters during their separation. Finally reunited after three years, Arisa asks Tsubasa to pretend to be her and spend a day in her school just for fun. At school everyone seems very nice to Tsubasa (who is pretending to be Arisa) and everything seemed normal... until she finds a strange note in her sister's shoe locker. When Tsubasa hands over the letter to Arisa, Arisa tries to kill herself. Arisa survives but remains in a coma. The letter read, "Arisa is a traitor." Determined to unravel the mystery behind the act and the letter, Tsubasa decides to investigate...
Tsutomu Nihei's (Knights of Sidonia) breakthrough science-fiction masterpiece is now finally back in print. In a future version of Earth, there is a city grown so chaotically massive that its inhabitants no longer recall what "land" is. Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Kyrii is on a mission to find the Net Terminal Gene--a genetic mutation that once allowed humans to access the cybernetic NetSphere. Armed with a powerful Graviton Beam Emitter, Kyrii fends off waves of attacks from fellow humans, cyborgs and silicon-based lifeforms. Along the way, he encounters a highly-skilled scientist whose body has deteriorated from a lengthy imprisonment who promises to help Kyrii find the Net Terminal Gene, once she settles a score for herself ... "The amazing thing about BLAME! is that it's such a good read even though it has almost no story or characters. It's all about the art and the experience of being there, of not knowing what will happen next, of the contrast between landscapes of endless sameness and bloody eruptions of chaos and gore." --Jason Thompson, Manga Encyclopedia
It's not easy being beautiful. The envy, the jealousy, the vicious rumors spread by your best friend. That's life for young Momo. While everyone thinks that Momo is a wild party girl, the reality is that she is shy and honest. Can Momo confess her love to her classmate Toji, or will her best friend Sae steal him away. It's a bittersweet drama of growing up and fitting in that will charm girls everywhere.
Fourteen-year-old Yukio Tanaka is one heck of a boring guy. He has no hobbies, a weak taste in music, and only a small vestige of a personality. His shy and somewhat neurotic personality makes him his own worst enemy. Little does he know that his life will be forever changed when he meets rocker Ryusuke Minami, an unpredictable sixteen-year-old with a cool dog named Beck. Ryusuke has just returned to Japan from America, and when he inspires Yukio to get into music, the two begin a journey through the world of rock 'n' roll dreams! Lace up your Docs and head to the mosh pit-Harold Sakuishi's highly addictive manga series that spawned the hit anime is back at last!
When Keitaro Urashima fails his entrance exams to get into Tokyo University for the second time, he's officially an unemployed and uneducated slacker. To make things worse, his parents have kicked him out of his house. Fortunately, his grandmother owns the fabulous Hinata Lodge and has agreed to take Keitaro in as caretaker. What he doesn't know is that the lodge is actually a girl's dorm and he's the only guy around! Most guys would kill to live with five sexy ladies, but if Keitaro's not careful, this job will kill him.
Najika is a great cook and she likes ot make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who touched her heart and now she's determined to find him. The only clue Najika has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy. Attending Seika will be a challenge. Every kid at the school has a special talent, and the girls in Najika's class think she doesn't deserve to be there. But Sora and Daichi, two popular brothers who barely speak to each other, recognize Najika's cooking talent for what it is magical. Is either boy Najika's mysterious prince? This volume contains volumes 1 and 2 of Kitchen Princess.
SUBTLETY IS FOR WIMPS! She . . . is a secondyear high school student with a single allconsuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her? He . . . is the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization: He's got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. Lifechanging obsessions, colossal foulups, grand schemes, deepseated anxieties, and raging hormones-School Rumble portrays high school as it really is: overthetop comedy!
Amu's beloved Guardians Characters finally nab the spotlight in this new Shugo Chara series! Ran, Miki, and Su explore holidays, exercise, bears, cooking, painting, and more character changes than you can count in these hilarious and lighthearted short stories, told in the vertical 4koma (4panel) comic strip format. Includes special extras after the story!
Everybody at Seiyo Elementary thinks that stylish and super cool Amu has it all: But nobody knows the real Amu, a shy girl who wishes she had the courage to truly be herself. Changing Amu's life is going to take more than wishes and dreamsit's going to take a little magic! One morning, Amu finds a surprise in her bed: three strange little eggs. Each egg contains a Guardian Character, an angellike being who can give her the power to be someone new. With the help of her Guardian Characters, Amu is about to discover that her true self is even more amazing than she ever dreamed. This volume of Shugo Chara! includes special extras after the story!
Most people in this world are blessed at birth and receive their "Calling" when they come of age. Those who never receive their gift are known as the "Cursed Ones." When Fumi Matsukata turns ten without receiving her Calling, she's about to be abandoned by her family. Instead, however, they decide to keep her around as their servant.
Fumi's younger brother, Itsuki, on the other hand, is born with a powerful Calling, which he uses to torment Fumi incessantly. One day, the Matsukatas receive a proposal of marriage from the prestigious Togo Clan, a long line of clairvoyants. They assumed that the clan's eldest daughter wished to marry their talented son. So how will they react when they find out that the heir Seiji wishes to come take Fumi for his own?! In a world where those without a divine gift are scorned, a girl who's been taught that she's worthless suddenly becomes the wife of a formidable heir. Now that she's escaped her horrible family's clutches, will she find happiness? Will she find love?
Popular Rei and shy Kira are worlds apart, until one fateful day brings them together. Rei stumbles upon Kira in the harassing hands of her sleazy art teacher and saves the quiet girl from his clutches. And when the jock plants a kiss on a statue of Mars in the studio, Kira finds herself drawn in and even summons up the nerve to ask him to model for her!
The boys are back, in 400-page hardcovers that are as pretty and badass as they are! This hit adventure-which blends mythology from around the world into a classic adventure story-has been out of print for years, and this collector's edition is a fitting celebration of its return! Genjo is a Buddhist priest in the city of Shangri-La, which is being ravaged by yokai spirits that have fallen out of balance with the natural order. His superiors send him on a journey far to the west to discover why this is happening and how to stop it. His companions are three yokai with human souls. But this is no day trip-the four will encounter many discoveries and horrors on the way, and on the road, Genjo will wonder ... can he really trust his supernatural companions?
"Primal instincts easily overtake rationality" Handsome, well-built, and brilliant: Himuro is the picture-perfect Alpha. After suffering at the hands of an obsessed Omega, he vowed to never let his secondary-gender instincts control him again and to stay away from Omegas forever. But it seems that destiny has other plans when a chance meeting one day turns his whole world upside down...
Lisary falls in love with Marquis Orion's only son, Hugo, while working as a servant in the Orion manor. Many protest the idea of a nobleman marrying a servant, but through the power of their love, Lisary and Hugo convince the marquis to allow their marriage on the condition that she go away to finishing school to learn how to be a proper aristocratic bride. Though both their hearts ache to be separated, she departs for the school... Six months later, she returns from her studies and rushes straight to Hugo's side. However, her excitement at finally seeing him again is cut short when he looks at her and blearily asks, "Who... are you...?" Thus begins a fantasy romance about this former count's daughter, raised as a commoner, and her second chance at love with the amnesiac nobleman her heart desires!
Kaname's a college student who tends to get mistaken for a girl who sleeps around when she really doesn't have any experience. Her brother's friend, Kuzumi, is a charmer with a good heart but is a bit of a scumbag when it comes to sleeping with women... and the two of them start sleeping together. Kaname thought this was just going to be physical... but Kuzumi's now saying he likes her?!
Liz, the daughter of a margrave, is told that she could never be loved, and has her engagement called off by her former fiance, a baron by the name of Physalis. After years of facing ab*se from her family and mysterious pains, Liz is finally forced her out of the estate with her family set on offering her up to as a bride to the "cursed duke"... formerly a hero of the kingdom, Lord Rishin. Rumor has it that he himself had an engagement called off due to his apparent violent nature, but things turn out to be quite the opposite...! After years of never finding someone to understand the pain they've carried, the two set out to find true happiness!
Yoshida earns a living solely through dubious part-time jobs. And the reason? He gets paid an exorbitant amount. For one such job, Yoshida's asked to live in a house with a history. As the story goes, the previous family of three who lived there committed a group suicide. What could have possibly sent the family over the edge? When Yoshida discovers the daughter's picture diary, inexplicable facts come to light... Follow Yoshida and his fellow forum denizens as they search for answers in these pulse-pounding tales. Just one question, will they solve the mystery first, or will you beat them to the punch?
A Japanese-style ayakashi Cinderella story! "You're the bride I've been searching for all this time." The ayakashi and humans coexist in harmony. The ayakashi, having superior abilities and beautiful appearances, sometimes find their partner among human women, making them their "bride". The bride, in exchange for bringing prosperity, receives absolute love from the ayakashi. Yuzu is constantly compared to her sister, a bride of a demon fox, and is resented by her family every day. One day, when Yuzu just couldn't take things anymore, a man appears before her on a bridge. This man is the most beautiful man Yuzu has ever seen... and he's calling her his wife?! "Just be quiet and let me hold you." The most powerful, "cold-hearted" ayakashi is pouring his heart out for Yuzu?!
"You will go in place of my daughter to be wed to the Duke of House Dubarry." Leonora has been working tirelessly to ensure her family is fed and out of harm's way. One day, however, she is kidnapped and brought before the notorious Duchess Godot who has one strong demand: pose as her daughter Angennia to be married into the rival house Dubarry, and spy on the Duke for her. Leonora can't refuse, as House Godot now holds her family hostage. Though there are many rumors of the Duke of House Dubarry being a cold and menacing man... Leonora finds herself before a kind and charming gentleman with nothing but warmth! It may be impossible to keep her identity a secret before the wonderfully kind Dinando Dubarry...!!
On the day they met, they got married and started living together?! While out drinking, Haruhi, a construction worker who's always surrounded by men, meets Nagato, a middle-aged man with salt-and-pepper hair. She drunkenly tells him to marry her, and just like that, they get married and start living together! A heart-pounding rom-com about a shotgun wedding between a middle-aged man and a blue-collar working girl!
Ever since she was separated from her mother at an early age, Eliza has been treated as an untouchable in the house of Adal Luna, the lord of the house. One day, however, she is summoned by the lord and told that she is his blood daughter and that she is to marry the third prince, Leo, who is rumored to be promiscuous and arrogant. Eliza is perplexed, but Sati, the lord's wife, tells Eliza an even crueler truth... Is this love a trick or the truth? Can Eliza, who has lost everything, find happiness?
Content Warning: this title contains material that may be distressing for some readers. Yuta, who is attending the best high school in the prefecture, is subjected to extreme bullying by the student council president and their two lackeys. Despite the horrible bullying, Yuta endures it all for his precious younger sister, but they eventually get to her too, "breaking" her. Then one day, a mysterious transfer student, Mirei, comes and says she's going to "start her mission to set society right"?
"Your body is saying that it feels good." Giuliana, the daughter of a lower noble, is being asked to enter into a fake marriage with Renato, an intelligent, attractive, and princely man! He's being pushed into marriage after having a fling with the daughter of a famous family, so he wants Guiliana to act as his fake wife to make the other woman give up on him. Guiliana can't tell anyone about the truth of their relationship, and Renato treats her like a proper wife, giving her sweet touches and teaching her pleasure. She starts having feelings for him, but he says, "You don't need love to get wet when it feels good"!
The daughter to a family that owns a development company, Ruka Kosaka, is reunited with her childhood friend, Mikage Mizuki, after 13 years... for an arranged marriage. The two know they are getting into a loveless marriage, but if just something can help start their relationship off on the right foot... or so Ruka thought, but Mizuki seems to be distant and uninterested in anything. Looks like it's not worth getting hopes up. However, the first chance Ruka gets to look deeply into Mizuki's eyes, it seems like there's far more feeling, passion even, than what she's been led to believe.
Coral is self-conscious about her rust-colored hair. Neither her family nor her childhood friends ever cared for her. To make matters worse, she was sold by her stepmother to a man living in the remote frontier. Her husband, Jade, is a marquis and head of the noble house that commands the dragon knights. Bound by a contract to continue his bloodline, Coral is required to welcome him into her bed each month.
"Even if you're scared, you can't stop me."
Although it began simply as a contract, Jade can no longer hide his growing affection for his devoted wife?!
Nicknamed "Belle Poupee"--the Beautiful Doll--duke's daughter Lady Leticia is admired for her elegance and delicate beauty. But behind her porcelain mask lies her true self: a bold and compassionate soul, more knight than damsel. She ends up engaged to the infamous second prince, Gilbert, whose cursed crimson eyes and icy demeanor have made him the subject of troubling rumors. Fate binds together an infallible Princess Charming and a lonely, awkward prince as they search for their happily ever after in this ultimate role-reversal love story. (C)Asaki Asagiri/SQUARE ENIX (C)selen/SQUARE ENIX
This great revenge story starts with a foolish denouncment...
At his graduation party, the second prince suddenly denounces Irmhild for the crime of threatening her half-sister. He claimed Irmhild had committed crimes such as pushing her half-sister down the stairs, but the only proof he had was a witness claiming the criminal was a girl with blue hair. "Are you sure you want to do this? I, Irmhild Rippencrock, haven't even been at school this year..." She must clear her name of these crimes, so... Are you ready, Your Highness?
Natsumi Ichihata is a single 27-year-old office worker with a secret wish: to have some really great sex! Her sex life has been underwhelming so far because she's always been too focused on trying to make her partners happy to enjoy herself, but she can't take it anymore. Hungry for some good sex, she books a male escort... only for Hidaka, the stupidly handsome jerk from her office, to see the confirmation message! Even more shocking, he offers to save her the trouble of going to an escort by doing it with her himself. And unlike his usual mean, overbearing self, Hidaka is so sweet and attentive in bed that Natsumi might just get addicted...
In a world where humanity lives in constant fear of magical beasts, nobles wield magic to protect the land as "noble sorcerers." Stella, the daughter of Count Norris, was supposed to die. After a miserable marriage to the violent Ethan Elliott and being left to rot in his cellar, she thought it was the end. But when she opened her eyes, she had regressed to the very day her engagement was decided. Desperate to escape her tragic fate, Stella fled and encountered a man named Lucas in the depths of a forest. Lucas, the son of Count Bloodrare, was mocked as "incompetent" for his inability to use magic. He was even rumored to be impotent, having never shown interest in any woman. However, Lucas discovered that while he could not replenish his magic on his own, a simple touch from Stella restored his power-something that had never happened before. To regain his strength and secure Stella's freedom, the two entered into a one-year contract marriage. But as their physical contact deepened, so did their attraction, until they finally gave in to their desires. With his magic overflowing, Lucas was about to awaken his true, dormant power...