A marriage interview with your childhood friend who's now a professional shogi player?!
Hana has always dreamed of getting married, but she just can't seem to find a boyfriend. It's been ten years since she last saw her childhood friend, Issei, and somehow they've reunited at a marriage interview?! The gentle Issei that she once knew is now called the "Demon Sergeant" with his intimidating aura! Hana is unsure of the proposal after seeing how he's changed, but when she realizes he's still as awkward and as kind as ever, she cuts to the chase and confesses to Issei!
In a world plagued by monsters and supernatural imbalance, a parentless boy named Wu Chai was taken in by a one-armed woodcutter and works as a servant chopping wood for the Li family. When a new martial arts coach comes along, he catches Wu Chai's eye with his extraordinary swordsmanship and fighting skills.
With the new coach, the overbearing young master, and the gentle young lady, what kind of turmoil will unfold in Wu Chai's once peaceful life?
The action-packed martial arts comic "Chai Lang," with bone-crushing battles, will open a new world of martial arts for you.
*This work received the 2022 Ministry of Culture Creative Grant.
Dive into the post-apocalyptic water world of Raincoat Kids with constant rain, submerged cities, and a cryptic messaged found at the bottom of a firefly lantern. In this traditionally illustrated word by Yoimachi Meme, follow Minato Aikawa as he takes his younger sistter through the dangerous world to meet with their father. At their side they have self-proclaimed bodyguard Toka and his "ultimate weapon" that seems to be just an umbrella. Will they drown in the murky waters or find their light at the end?
From the author of Raincoat Kids comes another supernatural mystery! Tadashi Endou has gone through a traumatic experience that's forced him to become a shut in. With walls lined end-to-end with mysterious photographs he cannot remember taking, the only person he really sees is his classmate Sumida, who shows up every day with class printouts. But as the mysteries behind Endou's life start to reach a breaking point, he learns that Sumida isn't an actual person in his class! What else will his recovered memories reveal and what will it mean for his life?
"Let's make a baby and become a family." A naughty playboy and a gorgeous yet mysterious guy try to start a family together! Spike is a sociable, street-smart young man who enjoys living life on his own terms. But one day, a handsome guy falls out of a tree and into his life! His name is Yuni, and suddenly, he declares that he wants "lots of Spike's babies"! No matter how attractive Yuni is, Spike insists he's not into guys... or so he thinks. Despite his initial resistance, Yuni's strange charm lures him in. Spike decides to make a move on him, but their chemistry is so undeniable that they end up melting in each others arms!
At age 27, Rina Momose works as a makeup sales clerk at a large department store. Despite her beauty and talent when it comes to the job, she's had little luck in love! That all changes when she meets Takuto Kaminaga, the handsome son of the department store's CEO who comes to temporarily oversee operations. Though Rina at first assumes that, as she's a year older than him, she'll have no chance to catch his eye, she's shocked to find the two of them growing closer by the day! However, there may be more to Takuto than meets the eye... Will Rina be able to handle the truth?
Chapter 5 is a one-shot written by this author, and is not related to the main story.
"I'll make you feel so good you won't be able to forget..." Shinogu works in an office by day and sits in a bar as a regular at night... and recently has been talked into going to a hotel with a charmer named Shindo. For Shinogu, sex is reserved for Fridays and is limited to one-night-stands but Shindo has other plans, and makes it clear. "I'll make you mine." Sweet, loving embrace unlike anything felt before. Shinogu can't resist the strong compassion and straightforward words of kindness... this was supposed to be a one-time deal. Just as things seem to be getting back to the norm, this special someone appears as the newest client in a project...!
"Yoshida, I like you. Please be my girlfriend!" Despite being rejected time and again, the ever enigmatic Koki Fujii keeps confessing his love. Hana Yoshida, 28, a self-proclaimed "dried-up spinster" working in the same company and department, eventually became known around the office as "Miss Untouchable" after constantly rejecting his advances. Still stuck on her previous breakup, Hana keeps Fujii at arm's length-until one day, the two are suddenly sent on a business trip together. And for the first time, she catches a glimpse of Fujii's gentlemanly, sweet side that she never knew existed...and her heart begins to flutter?!
A mysterious love confession sparks an irresistible office love story!
Kiichi Yagasaki is the hottest playboy on his entire college campus, and he's always said that putting labels on relationships is a massive drag. But one day, while walking around a school festival, he falls in love with a beautiful woman at first sight! He instinctively calls out to her, and even manages to take her out for a meal, but she refuses to reveal a single thing about herself. But that mystique and her gorgeous smile just draw him in even more! He gets more and more worked up until they end up at a hotel. Unable to hold back anymore, he thrusts his hot length into her moist cavern, soaked by his tender caresses. For the first time, Kiichi wants to make this woman his own, which confuses him greatly. But why won't she tell him anything about herself? So begins a slightly awkward but incredibly pure romantic comedy between a college playboy and an unknown (?) beauty!
Julia, a lowly servant from the marquess' estate, has no idea how she lost the ability to speak. With no memories from before the age of twelve, she's simply been told that a traumatic incident is to blame. While everyone at the estate treats her harshly, Julia has barely been able to survive with the help of Camille, the marquess' second son. Camille even helps her speak again using his special power, "Arcana." However, that's when jealous servants plot against Julia and throw her out of the estate. The duke's eldest son, Glen, stumbles upon the injured Julia and takes her in. Caught between Camille's obsessive passion and Glen's genuine affection-where will fate lead Julia?
"I won't let anyone else touch you." She's a saintess, yet she's in a marriage of love? She's been captured by the clingy, earnest, golden-retriever-like emperor's possessiveness...
Eleanor is a saintess who worships the goddess and cares for Alex, the third son of a duke, like a younger brother. However, one day Eleanor suddenly falls into a comatose state due to reasons unknown. When she wakes up, she's being kissed by an unfamiliar handsome man! He says he's Alex and that ten years have passed since she fell into a coma. The world has left Eleanor behind. Alex is now the emperor, and he cries out sweetly, "I can't wait any longer. Your body is mine." He had kissed her three thousand times as she slept and even married her. But now he's opening up her body with far more than a kiss...
"I'm going to use my body to teach you just how much I love you." The prince who has continued to fend off her seductions is finally about to explode from lust!
"Feel it harder... You're even more beautiful when you're a mess." Leonora, the daughter of a marquis, was able to marry Clifford, the crown prince of Melz and the man she's been in love with since she was young. Before they were engaged, they exchanged passionate kisses and sweet touches... but after they got married, two years passed before they shared a bed. According to a folklore researcher, Leonora was the descendent of dragons who bring prosperity. "Does Clifford not actually love me? Did he only marry me for the prosperity of this country?" Leonora makes up her mind and decides to wear a sexy dress to seduce him. It makes his attitude change entirely and he begins to suck on her chest in a position that won't let her get away!
I'm sure I would have loved him even if I knew about our difference in social statuses...
Suzu, who helps sell rice balls at her mother's shop, is passive when it comes to romance and has never had a relationship despite being twenty-six. However, she's immediately attracted to Shinji when she meets him at the park. Shinji becomes a regular customer and they start dating with the intent to get married. Yet even as they grow closer, Shinji never tells Suzu about his work or family. Just as Suzu begins to feel uneasy, she finds out that Shinji is the vice president of the large company where she will be working. Then she hears from her coworkers that he has a fiancee...
I've never been loved so aggressively. Sakuya, a college student, was taken in by his uncle along with his sister-but what should have been a sanctuary became a nightmare. Treated like a servant and burdened by a debt he never asked for, Sakuya is forced to pay for everything he has "owed." Determined to protect his sister's future and keep her in boarding school, he takes a job tutoring for a successful illustrator named Nagi. Nagi is immediately captivated by Sakuya, eventually asking him to pose as a model. But the professional boundary shatters when Nagi makes a startling proposition: "If I pay you even more, would you let me sleep with you?" This is the story of a forbidden, intense love between a passionate illustrator and a pitiful college student.
"I will make you beautiful." A bride who has been bullied for being ugly has a spell cast upon her by her husband...
"It's your first time, right? I'll be gentle." Margot, the daughter of a count who has been bullied by her family for being ugly because of a birthmark on her forehead, is to be married to the cold-hearted Margrave Siegfried in her stepsister's place. At first, he resents her for being a substitute, but upon learning of Margot's kindness and beautiful heart, he decides to turn her to be the most stunning woman in the world. "My dear Margot, I love you," he whispers in her ear. With sweet instructions in the bedroom, her body blossoms into lust under his desire. But Margot has a reason she can't swear her love to him...
As the faint memories of her childhood return, the pure maiden surrenders herself to the young hero...
"What a lewd body. It's enough to make any man melt!" Leonhardt, prince of the fallen nation of Eileen, conquers the kingdom of Eulia, which has long been under the oppressive rule of the royal family. Despite her obligation to remain single for life as the bride of the gods, Sigrid, the shrine maiden of the Great Temple, offers her virginity to Leonhardt to protect her people. Even as her body is violently exposed, she cannot resist his caresses and drowns in pleasure. As he pours his desire into her every night, her womanhood gradually begins to crave Leonhardt... Then, one day, she catches a glimpse of the boy she once loved in Leonhardt's gaze...
Tae has been practically inseparable from her best friend Kiyo since college. And while Kiyo may be loose with women, Tae can always count on him for support - like whenever she crashes at his place to drown her sorrows over being dumped yet again. But what lies ahead in the morning after another night spent drinking together till dawn?! They're not quite lovers and not quite friends... but a revelation threatens to change all that. Can they move past mixed messages and misunderstandings to become something more? Or are they stuck as "best friends forever"?
She finds her boyfriend cheating, and at the same spot her ex shows up out of nowhere!! Her harmonious lovey-dovey life with a popular photographer is suddenly overturned, and she's knocked down to her lowest rock bottom ever - what will become of Mahiru now!? Truth and lies become entangled as this complicated four-way affair begins...
My work at a clothing store keeps me busy every day, and my only hobby is playing erotic dating sims. While I was leading that lonely life, my friend's ultra cute younger brother appeared before my eyes. When he unexpectedly had to drop me off at home, I couldn't resist his masculine features and without thinking it through...we became friends with benefits! I know we shouldn't keep this up, but what can I do? My body can't help but yearn for him...!
Suddenly told she was going to inherit all her grandmother's kimonos, Hotori needs to learn kimono dressing in a hurry. But with her intense stranger anxiety, there's no way she can go take a class for it! Just then, a man named Ichigo - who runs a kimono shop - helps her in the street and offers to teach her kimono dressing if she'll work part-time at his shop. At first she declines, but Ichigo's gentlemanly manners put her at ease so finally she takes the job. And no sooner does he say, "Well, let's get you undressed" - could there be a devil's face hiding behind that kindly mask?!
Takakura and Yatsuka, who attend the same university, are such close friends that they live together. However, when Takakura told him "I have feelings for you," Yatsuka started rushing things forward without stopping to think it over?! I like you... But now's not the time!! It's a love affair that twists itself into knots while these two guys impatiently race around and around only to get nowhere.
"That does it; my life is over now, for sure...!" -- Though he's good at his job, due to a stubborn streak and an overly serious attitude, office worker Sakura tends to take on too much. But he has a secret - after sunset on the weekends, he becomes "someone else." However, his junior coworker Arima sees him in this other form, and Sakura even gets stuck sharing his secret with the guy...!! Can straight-laced, earnest, bespectacled Sakura handle the onslaught from his blank-faced, pushy junior on top of all the rest of his stress?!
One day, my older brother came home with a young coworker, and I'd never seen someone so innocently, earnestly, uselessly in love as this guy was. What does he mean, just looking is enough for him? Getting off is obviously the better option here. His attitude was a novelty to me, as a notorious slut (and card-carrying bottom to boot). So at first it was out of curiosity, plain and simple, that I laid hands on him without a second thought (figured I'd let him show me the sexual side he can't show to the one he so virtuously loves). That was the idea, at least...
A 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....
There was a time when, overflowing with love, I let myself run wild without a thought for the other person's feelings or the people around us, and soon enough my love crashed and burned. Traumatized by this, I've now developed a bad habit of avoiding anyone I have eyes for, to keep my affection from showing. Then one day, my coworker invited me out to a bar, where I met Sawaguchi and fell in love with him at first sight - but thanks to my avoidant tendency, I ended up making him hate me... No matter how many times I reflect and repent, I just can't get this bad habit of mine to change. I want to be able to say "I love you" to the person I love! With my conviction made, I set out to see a counselor, but there I find none other than-?!
Unpopular manga artist Rikka is troubled by the fact that she can't draw an attractive man to save her life -- or her livelihood. This is rooted in a childhood trauma that resulted in her developing a fear of men. "I seriously need to get a series picked up...!" With her career as a cartoonist hanging by a thread, she decides to take kickboxing lessons in order to get back a life where she doesn't fear the opposite sex. While learning how to fight from Goromaru, her coach at the gym, she is touched by his awkward but sincere kindness, and falls for him hard, but....?!
High school sweethearts Akiharu and Teru were as happy as could be. However, those happy days did not last for very long. Teru, who was aiming to become a professional soccer player, had an unexpected accident one day... After losing out on his soccer career, Teru began to grow sullen and mean, almost like he'd become another person, and finally the damage spread to Akiharu, too... "I'm telling you to go sleep with another guy!" Following that order from his beloved boyfriend Teru, Akiharu smothered the pain in his heart and set out for a gay bar...
"It's not that I don't want to get married. I just want to be accepted for who I am. Is that so much to ask...?" Suzu is a thirtyish woman with a cute-and-fluffy exterior that belies a strength no man can hope to match. But when she tells off her insistent mother by saying she'll only marry a man stronger than she is, she's set up with... a ninja?!? Is that his job...? How does he earn a living...? But Akitsuki the Ninja just smiles away, oblivious to Suzu's confusion. There's no way she could take him, and yet this kindhearted man, who nonchalantly accepts the true self that put off every other suitor she's ever had, secretly makes Suzu's heart flutter...
Playboy Yamada and earnest Takahashi. Oddly comfortable around each other despite being complete opposites, these two were always together. They took it for granted that those days they shared would go on forever, and yet... Even after going their separate ways, they often overhear gossip about each other. The passage of these two years has only deepened and complicated their feelings. They cross paths again, and in that moment, what course of action do they take...?
"Why don't you have a child with me, then?" A woman who lost the husband she adored, and a man who lost the brother he revered, united in the depths of their grief.... The widowed Shion, age 35, spends her days trying to manage the small store she ran with the husband who died three years earlier. But from a sorrow that time doesn't seem to heal, she comes to think, "If only I'd had a child with him, a piece of him would still be here with me." When her college student brother-in-law Kosei learns of Shion's wish, he makes an unexpected proposition that shakes her to the core. Is he doing it out of respect for his older brother, or is it something else...? These two bereaved souls, aching for the same lost loved one, become transfixed by a forbidden notion....
She doesn't know how it feels to be in love, and her body can't bear children, but that doesn't mean she doesn't want a perfect family like the ones you see on TV! And who should appear before down-on-her-luck, marriage-crazy Sachiko, but Keiichi! He's got looks and money to spare, and most importantly, he accepts all of Sachiko's conditions! But Keiichi's got secrets of his own... Can Sachiko overcome these hurdles to obtain the happy home she's dreamed of?!
Is this love a dream come true? Or is it the beginning of a nightmare? From cheating, to gold-digging, to dangerous cults, Satoru is a man so unlucky in love that every woman he's ever fallen for has betrayed him. He decides that if he's only capable of falling in love with wicked women, he might as well go with the marriage match his parents have picked out for him. But one look at Michiru, the woman they've set him up with, and Satoru is head-over-heels. And that can only mean one thing...
High-school senior Chihiro is attracted to Ayuta, another boy at his school, but Ayuta only has eyes for his childhood friend Hayato, even though he knows Hayato already has a girlfriend. Ayuta continues to play the role of a devoted friend, but the anguish that shows through on his face from time to time only serves to pull Chihiro even closer... It may be too soon to call these pent-up feelings crying out from their hearts "love", though.... It's a youthful, lyrical lovestory between two immature and uncertain high school boys.
"I've missed you, Shota…" "Tohru... Me, too...!" I still can't get used to it no matter how many times we do it, so sometimes it hurts a little... But it feels so good... When Shota returns to Tokyo after visiting home, he and Tohru enjoy a long-awaited reunion. He brings back happy news - he's come out to his family and told them that he's dating a man - and the pair's love starts heating up from there! But in the midst of that happiness, Shota starts to worry that he isn't the right match for this handsome older man and is only a burden on Tohru, and misunderstandings begin to grow between the two of them...
He told me "I'm a man first, then I'm a monk" and gave me a tender yet passionate kiss. Our tongues and our fingers became lustfully entwined with each other. Is it okay for a monk to do this?
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....
Long ago, in the Edo period -- Abandoned by his master due to the two bumps which appeared on his forehead, male prostitute Shion was taken in by a doctor who grows medicinal plants for the province. Shion, both his means of earning a living and his reason to live now lost, tries to win the doctor's favor with his body in hopes of gaining a new purpose and livelihood...
"Be my partner!" - Aiming to get their paws on money and food, fox spirit Ginjiro and tanuki spirit Kinsaku take on human form and cozy up to an unknown human. But this human, Yoichi, sees through their disguises in an instant and leaves them both besotted with him. From that day, they each pursue him fiercely, but Yoichi's heart cannot be swayed. One day, the two spirits learn of Yoichi's past and, knowing there is just one thing that can soothe his wounded heart, they decide to steal into his bed that night...
"Help...help me cum…" I'm straight but my new job is to seduce a man!? After being groped to the max by my super sadistic boss, I make a move on my target…!
"I love it when you make that sound." Unrequited love… She shouldn't be turned on by her boss' touch, but he has the unbridled energy of a wild stallion!