Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest...until she meets a cool, stylish employee at a CD shop. Dressed in black from head to toe, he has this air of mystery about him, and his taste in music is impeccable. Aya falls hard for him-not knowing her crush is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! For her part, Mitsuki generally keeps to herself and avoids standing out at school. But given that she sits right next to Aya, Mitsuki's all too aware of the other girl's feelings, and she's afraid to reveal the truth. So why does she find herself talking with Aya more and more...?
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?!
Rio is a completely average high school second-year, while her best friend Katsuki is pretty enough to turn everyone's heads. Sometimes Rio feels like she's just there to make Katsuki's beauty stand out better... or even worse, that she's invisible to the whole world. Discouraged as she is, Rio was holding onto a faint hope of love with Haruta, the only person at school who ever seems to notice her. When she realizes one day that he has a crush on Katsuki rather than her, she's so upset that she flees the classroom, wishing she could finally just disappear for real. But, while she's nursing her hurt feelings, someone comes and finds her; it's none other than "the reaper," aka Echizenya, the gloomy guy who's always hiding away in the corner creeping out their classmates. Enjoy this adorable will-they-won't-they romance between the "plain best friend" and the secret hottie undercover as the class weirdo!
"Lady Amalthea, will you marry me?" Amalthea receives an unfathomable proposal from the cold prince who hates women! However, their marriage is only a contractual one. Even so, with how kindly the prince is treating her, Amalthea feels she might get the wrong idea... Amalthea has exceptional skill when it comes to territory management. Her talents brought about expectations in the kingdom, and she has been asked to wed the future count, Thomas. However, Thomas takes Amalthea's proposals, leaving her name out of them and claiming them as his own. Not only that, but Thomas also has a lover. When Amalthea points this out, he causes a scene and calls off the engagement. Just when Amalthea had enough and was ready to leave, Prince Kirfas, who happened to witness everything, suddenly proposes to Amalthea?!
After becoming afflicted with a curse that leaves her with only one year left to live, Sophie comes to her fiance Laurence, the prince of the kingdom, asking to break off their engagement so that she can live freely before her life ends. The two had a somewhat cold relationship, but for some reason Laurence is unable to except the idea of breaking of the engagement...? A Love story that begins with the beginning of the end.
Eight has been forced to fight in an arena as a slave day by day for as long as she can remember. One day, however, all of that changed when a garrison of troops staged a raid on the arena, led by a Dragonkin named Celeste. In the frantic fighting and fleeing, Eight is seen fighting against her master... and in that moment Celeste realizes that he has found his destined partner... his mate.
"If you want a place to belong, I'll make one for you. Let's get along, dear wife." The newly wedded gentleman who is air to a grand corporate conglomerate is said to have had a terrible cursed placed upon him... Luna Shimizu has been working as a stylist and dealing with an endless amount of bullying from her boss. One night, while looking in the mirror, the face of a woman in a Kimono named Chizuko that looks just like hers appears and sucks her into the mirror. Suddenly, Luna now finds herself in the past?! If she wants to get back home, she will have to go along with what this mysterious organization wants of her: to pose as Chizuko and marry Keiichiro Kuroda, heir to the Kuroda Conglomerate!
Falling for the man with an obsessive love will... Kasumi Kirishima is constantly asked by her coworkers to help them with their tasks and works overtime every day. She's too put together, which creates a rift between her and her boyfriend, Sota. One day, Kasumi finishes her work early, but when she gets home, she discovers Sota is cheating on her with her coworker, Ota!
After having her world turned upside down, Kasumi pretends to be unaffected and runs out of their apartment. In the middle of her breakdown, the office heartthrob, Jun Kayanuma, comes to her rescue. At first, she doesn't know what to make of his frankness with her, but she gradually falls for him. However, there's more to Jun than meets the eye...
After being abruptly jilted by her fianc?, noblewoman Iris is left heartbroken, only to receive a sudden proposal from the fearsome knight known as the Icy Wolf, Wolff. Though hesitant, Iris accepts, believing it her duty as a noblewoman. But her new husband is just as intimidating as the rumors claimed, and he greets her with a cold and distant demeanor. Worse, he leaves for the battlefield soon after they're wed, abandoning her in a hostile household where she endures cruel whispers from the servants.
Convinced she's a burden on Wolff, Iris finally makes up her mind: she'll ask for a divorce. But after she does, his icy fa?ade gradually melts away and his true feelings are revealed...
A heartfelt romance between a loyal yet awkward knight and a gentle heroine, bound by fate and a ring that changes everything!
Toma Sugawa is a cool-headed, unsociable businessman. For some reason, he's not in a relationship, and he spends his life watching the days go by. One thing that has become a part of his daily routine is waking up one of the tenants in his grandfather's apartment complex. That tenant is Kaoru Aida. He has countless alarms go off, and still doesn't wake up until Toma comes in to wake him. On top of that, he asks Toma to wake him up the next morning, without a lick of remorse. With an attitude like that, of course Toma is on the verge of snapping. But one day, Toma goes to wake him up as usual, and Kaoru, still sleepy, pushes him down?! Enjoy this clumsy, blooming love story between an inconsiderate guy and a guy still stuck on his ex!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "The Seduction of the Deep Sleeper"
Akari is good at her job, beautiful, and her sense of style is beyond compare... but she has a secret. She's almost 30 and she's still a virgin! One fateful day, a new department chief takes over -- the handsome Shinomiya. "You're my subordinate now, which means from today, you have to do what I say." Shinomiya is a condescending bully and he and Akari clash from day one. Akari finds herself drinking her worries away at his welcome party and before she knows what hit her, she's completely smashed. She wakes up the next day to find -- Shinomiya emerging from her bathroom half naked?!?! Thus begins Akari's comedic office romance with her callous new boss!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "From Zero to Office Romance"
When an annoying guy at work mocks her lack of femininity, Shoko gets dead drunk and begs for help from Jun, a boy at the bar whose beauty could outshine any girl, until she's talked him into coaching her on how to power up her feminine side. But Jun gives her two conditions: she has to live with him, and he gets to touch her breasts... This beautiful younger man's super erotic touchy-feely coaching is steadily training my body!
Fujino, now 18, belongs to an age-old family of prestige. She's been sheltered her entire life, having been raised under her family's strict rules. The only person who truly shows her kindness is Hiro'omi, her father's personal attendant. Unfortunately, that compassion has caused her to fall head over heels for him! A tale of a meek and pure-hearted heiress, and her forbidden affections for her family's servant.
"I got a girlfriend." Airi has been married to her husband, Eita, for a year, but is astonished to hear his sudden proclamation that he has been cheating. Thinking that their married life was hunky-dory, Airi falls apart. While going through her despair, Airi meets a skillful president named Rei Naruse at a cooking class. As a man who doesn't mince words, Naruse is set to help guide Airi to get her life back on track!
Koyuki Hikawa isn't great with people and always puts up a wall between others. She had been spending her high school days alone, but one day meets the overly friendly Minato Amamiya. The loner, Koyuki, the popular girl, Miki, the guy with no personal space, Minato, and the laid back member of the basketball team, Yota... The story of these four somewhat awkward students in their bloom of youth begins!
I've always been good at reading the room. That's why I'm now the villainess... so that my sister Marin can be the tragic heroine. If I do not accomplish such, Marin will have father take away my food. At today's event, the young lord of the Balgoa Marquisate, Rio, is in attendance. Of course, I know to throw wine on her dress just as she asked of me. I must make throw everyone into a fuss... at least that's how I thought things were going to go, but the young lord of Balgoa grabbed me by the wrist and suddenly- a snap. Thus began a dramatic meeting one could call a sort of destiny.
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!
College student Kaho has been smitten with up-and-coming novelist Tomoki, who is also her adoptive brother, for as long as she can remember. But, not wanting to ruin her existing relationship with him, she kept her feelings hidden and moved out to live alone. However, due to an unexpected mishap, she ends up moving back in with Tomoki at home - and realizes being at his side as a "sister" isn't enough. Kaho has just reaffirmed her love, but then it turns out another person is already staying at the house! And not only does this Atsufumi notice how she feels about Tomoki, but his condition to keep her secret is: "be my girlfriend"?! Adoptive siblings + the brother's friend - it's an evergrowing chain of unrequited love in this housemate love triangle!
"Why don't I take Sou's place?" - That day in the winter of our last year of junior high, the day Sou died, I sealed all my feelings away inside my heart. It was always the three of us - Sou, Keito, and me - but now there's an empty space where Sou used to be. Except, now we've met him: Sou's twin brother, Shun. His face and voice, like perfect copies of Sou's, shake up my heart and weaken the seal. Please, don't stare at me with Sou's eyes. Please, don't call out to me with his voice. Don't say that nonsense about taking his place, and then kiss me just like he used to......
"Did I really...just get reincarnated into another world?!"
Saku is an office temp who's exhausted day in and day out due to all her extra work hours. Her only source of joy? Watching movies online. But when her boyfriend and failed musician Sora begins singing a new song he wrote for her, she falls into a spell-like trance. When she comes to, she finds herself in a canopy bed with female attendants offering her a drink. But with one sip, a feverish heat washes over her, and before she knows it, she's pinned to the bed by a mysterious, handsome stranger. Convincing herself that she's seeing some elaborate dream resulting from fatigue, she happily indulges in the fantasy, clinging to the gorgeous man's body desperately. But the next morning, she awakes once again in the same, unfamiliar room.
"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!
"My Childhood Friend Who Loves With Me Is So Adorable It's Frustrating"Since her parents left home, Hana is stuck living under the same roof as her childhood friend, Kou. To everyone else, he's the perfect and handsome goodie-two-shoes that can do no wrong, but when it comes to her, he's completely cruel and heartless. Having to live under a situation like that is pretty unsettling for Hana, but as it turns out, Kou has always had a huge crush on her?! In fact, he finds her so cute and adorable that it's hard to speak honestly around her. As frustrating as this situation might be, at the end of the day, Kou will do anything for Hana by any means necessary. This is a sweetly flavored love story about blossoming emotions between two childhood friends.
*Chapter 4: "Straight Pure", Chapter 5: " Request for a Prince " and Chapter 6: "His Favorite Thing" are each spin-offs featuring characters that appear in the main story.
Ayano is a pure and honest girl, the daughter of a wealthy estate, and after meeting Natsu Kurosawa, a man working on the construction of her family's home, it was love at first sight. However, he constantly teases her. Suddenly, when given the chance to confess her feelings one evening, their lips meet?! Aside from the manly Natsu, there are all sorts of handsome men in his Architectural design firm! Lost puppy types, Princely attitude types, all with their own steamy love stories and scenarios! They're all ready to please.
"If you look away, I'll kiss you." Her first love and the man she hasn't seen in seven years is the next CEO who's famous within the company!
Maiko reunites with her childhood friend Kyouichi, the son of the CEO of the major cosmetics company she had gotten her dream job in. Kyo was Maiko's first love, but seven years ago, he left to go overseas and they had been out of contact ever since then. Maiko was hurt, thinking that her love was unrequited, but after they reunite, Kyo acts just like her boyfriend! He's a possessive sweet-talker with kisses that enthrall her. What is Maiko to do?
"I bought you." Theirs is a strategic marriage, but he's stealing her heart and body!
Madoka marries Touma, the young CEO of Futafuji Trading Company, in order to save her father's company. The night after the party when they announced their engagement, Touma tells her that he plans on taking her to bed every night until she gets pregnant so that she can give birth to his heir. She tries to reject him, but he says, "Is that all your resolve is worth?" Agitated, Madoka makes up her mind.
Yet, despite theirs being a loveless strategic marriage, Touma's hands are gentle when he touches her...
"You're already 30 years old! Women are only appaealing when they're still young!" were the cruel words my husband spoke. Masumi and Shinichiro have been maried for seven years. With their five year old daughter, the three of them make up a happy family... Or so it seemed. The last time Shinichiro and Masumi had sex was three years ago. From wife to mother to 30 years old in the blink of an eye. Will Masumi spend the rest of her life simply aging and losing sex appeal? "... I won't stand for this!" Masumi's ready to polish up her charm and salvage her relationship with her husband... But then this...
*Chapter 8: "The Girl I Like" is a one-shot written by this author, and is not related to the main story.
The CEO faction and the managing director's faction are at odds within the company. The president's daughter, Kinu Kobayashi, falls in love with the executive director's son, Yuzuru Miike, and the two do not get along as well as they would like, leading to a love battle that involves everyone around them! This is a sexy secret office love story !
"Back then, we were young. We merely wandered the planet, not knowing what it meant to love, to be." Wait? Is this one of those "second chance love letters" that everyone's talking about?
Just three months into Sayuki's marriage, tragedy struck. When she comes home early one day, she hears her husband and another woman speaking sweet nothings to each other in their bedroom. Without a moment's hesitation, Sayuki files for divorce and decides to have a fresh start, giving up on love and marriage. A few years pass and a guy at work starts talking her up. But before she has time to worry about him, she begins receiving love poems from her ex-husband! What happened, and why is he suddenly trying to act all romantic?!
Sana, the daughter of the Chiba Dojo (martial art gym) in Okemachi Japan, had promised to marry Ryoma Sakamoto, a TOSA Samurai who was assassinated by an unknown killer at the end of the EDO period. He was once the dojo's headmaster and Sana's brother's best friend. While Sana was in charge of the Dojo when the master was absent, a woman called Ryo, who claimed to be Ryoma's wife before he was killed, appeared before her .... and eventually, Sana became involved in a mystery surrounding Ryoma's assassination.
When comic editor Masumi Shishio is transferred to a BL magazine, he finds himself out of his depth with this new genre, but he isn't about to let that stop him. He reaches out to an artist who's scary good at drawing the D, secures a meeting, and then finds out that the talented "Miss Akiina" is in fact a businessman named Satoru Akiba. The pair decide to make the most of being a two-man team by doing some hands-on research: photoshoots at love hotels to get the poses right, test-runs of kisses and dates to get the feelings right... even a bit of sex, just to safe!! If they want to sell a million copies, they'll have to really put their backs into it! But what if this editor-artist combo's romance simulations turn into something real...?
After her ex-boyfriend refuses to marry her because of her cooking skills, Waka decides to devote herself to cooking! Her efforts have paid off, and she now manages a restaurant of her own. Being next to a police station, cops often come by to eat, but one, Mr. Takeda, has caught her eye. His "satisfied" face when eating her cooking has her absolutely swooning! She can't help but imagine him eating more than just her food! How far can her cooking take her with this dreamy cop?
One day, Tori a 4 year old who lives in the poor countryside, is visited by a beautiful noblewoman who tells her that she is a descendant of the Middleton family, a family of counts. Tori is suddenly brought to the Earl's house, where she is treated roughly by the cold-hearted Earl and his older brothers. However, Tori wins them over with the cuteness of her youth...! Before long, Leonardo, the first prince of a neighboring country, asks her to marry him, saying that he is the man of her dreams...!
"Princess Caroline... you are my destined mate." Royalty in the Acasia Kingdom is discerned by their gold and silver hair, and elegantly blue eyes. However, the third princess Caroline, born with amber hair and black eyes, is considered a shame for the royal family. She has been locked away in a small villa, being made to do petty work that the maids normally do. One day, her father calls for her... and suddenly Caroline finds herself in the audience of Prince Lienhart, prince of the beastfolk of Toscarna. With his bright white ears and waving tail, he calls to her in excitement. It seems she is to be betrothed to him as his mate?!
Ruri is your average preschool teacher, until one day she is enveloped in a blinding light and is transported to another world! While she's still in shock, Lina, a shy young girl, takes her by the hand and becomes attached to her. Before she knows it, she's become her private tutor! Until she can make it back to her world, she decides to accept her role, but she suddenly awakens her exceptional magic skills! In truth, Ruri is the rumored "Third Saint" that has been summoned to save this world! Follow Ruri in this fantastical story as she tries to balance her duty as a Saint when all she wants is to live alongside children!
I cannot marry you. Even though I know it's wrong, I can't help being irresistibly drawn to you.
I would regret it for the rest of my life if I let you go. Fumina agrees to attend a match-making meeting on behalf of her best friend Arisa, who struggles with men. She had heard that the prospective groom was the heir to a large corporation-distant and cold. However, the man who appeared before Fumina was a very gentlemanly figure. As she spends more time with him, drawn to his kindness and affection, Fumina finds herself falling for him. But then she realizes that his affection was never meant for her-it was directed at "Arisa."
On a moonless night... I hear your voice for the first time. Ume was abandoned by the family she married into because she was unable to bear children. She returns to the village where she was born but finds herself alone as her parents die from a spreading disease. As told in tales of sacrifice to the gods, the village also begins to experience a shortage in the crops of their farms that will only continue until someone is offered. Ume is not able to bear a child but as she does not have any children, she is able to lie her way into being offered to the gods. Waiting for her at a shrine deep in the mountains is a wolf god with silver hair and beautiful nails that shine in five different colors... what will come from this encounter between a despised god and an unhappy girl?!
Adeline, daughter of an earl, was offered an engagement from the Dragonkin Realm. They wanted her to be the "Mate" for the third prince. All Dragonkins have to find their "Mate" and take them to their castle built on the floating island and live together, although their lifespans might be different. Adeline was fragile...she could hear that everyone in the castle criticized her as someone not worth being the Mate to the prince. Even the prince himself seemed to hate her. She ended her miserable life by someone's poison. 250 years after, Adeline was born to the same world. And again, she received an invitation from the Dragonkin for a ball to find their Mate. She tries to run away...not knowing that there was a secret beyond this invitation.
Minaho and Yuichi have been married for five years, and in this time, she has been putting up with her husband's verbal harassment. One day Minaho falls ill. Despite this, Yuichi continues to berate her, and instead of worrying about her when she collapses and is rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, he swears at her. At this point, Minaho's patience has run thin, and she consults her male friend, Nanao, for advice. He tells her that she is too kind, and if she doesn't fight back, she'll be treated like a slave for the rest of her life. He then teaches her the secret to fighting in a marriage. Will Minaho be able to get out of the messy doldrums and be happy?
Akari had wanted to be a novel writer for as long as she could remember. However, that all changed after what her high school friend did to her. She couldn't help but put as much distance as possible between herself and her stories. Years later, a moment comes where she thinks that she may want to write again. In that moment... a cameraman starts snapping pictures of her?! He even comes to her workplace telling her to come with him... what could possibly come from this mysterious guy???
Why am I to be executed?! Catherine stands before her execution with a passionate look of anger on her face... it has been 3 years now living in the kingdom of Hyrant after moving from her homeland of Woltera. She was clearly set up by someone, but regardless of what is really happening, she is the one to die. The last thing on her mind before all goes black is that she swears to have revenge on the kingdom that did this to her... Suddenly, she wakes up to the morning she was to be sent off to Hyrant. Everything is as it was 3 years ago. Now begins Catherine's plot for revenge!