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One night to make up for all the love felt in 10 years. Machida is a photographer who's never been able to get over Hideto, his first love from high school. While going through the pain of not confessing, he graduated and went to live abroad without saying anything of it to anyone. However, upon coming back to his hometown, the two suddenly reunite. As Machida tries to drink away the awkwardness of being in front of the man he's never been able to forget, he realizes they've gone back to Hideto's place... and now they're kissing... and now they're in bed together...!

Miyu ties the knot after being urged to do so by her father. Kei, her husband and first love, is an heir to an old money conglomerate. She has looked up to him ever since she was little. It had always been a dream of Miyu's to get married...but Kei has yet to touch her. Heck, she doesn't even have his permission for them to live together. Six years have passed, and now Miyu has decided to get a divorce to put an end to her lonely days. But in the middle of asking for a divorce, Kei tells her that he can't hold back anymore, and he starts showering her with love?! Why did he keep his distance all these years, and why is he trying to show his love now? Kei's extremely clumsy attempts at showing his deep love for Miyu will have you swooning non-stop!

Miki Kobayashi is a housewife living with her husband, Kazuya, and their two daughters. To outsiders, their family appears happy, but recently Kazuya has turned his contempt toward Miki. He belittles her work as a housewife, and the strain is beginning to take a toll on her. One day, while shopping with her daughters, Miki unexpectedly runs into Kazuya's former boss, who reluctantly suggests that Kazuya may not be faithful. Determined to protect her family's future, Miki resolves to take action.

The blossoming relationship between these boys is too cute to handle...! The aggressive Ren and serious Tadaomi have been inseparable since elementary school. And even though Ren is kinda scary, he instantly melts when he's with Tadaomi. Everyone around them knows how they feel about each other... except for the two of them! Don't miss this BL comedy!

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."

I am unable to resist the elite pilot's skillful love tactics! The cool and composed pilot suddenly transforms into someone who is hopelessly in love!I had vowed never to fall for a pilot, but with his tender and at times intense displays of affection, I can't help but feel my heart flutter at his overwhelming advances.

Serina, a twenty-eight-year-old airport concierge, prioritizes her work and hasn't been in a relationship for a while. Amid her busy days, she has a fateful encounter at a cafe with Hajime, who is seven years older than her. He seems cool at first, but once they get closer, he flashes a sweet smile. Serina begins to feel a spark she hasn't experienced in a long time. However, she later meets Hajime again at her workplace, where he works as a co-pilot. But Serina has a reason why she absolutely cannot fall in love with a pilot!

A naive female scientist is being played with by her forceful, hot CEO!
"Starting today, you're my girlfriend."
We first meet because of a misunderstanding... and then I end up having to play the role of his girlfriend!

Haruka Ono, a scientist with no experience in love, ended up trying to snare her company's CEO, Takashi Kanzaki, in a honey trap in an attempt to stop him from canceling her research project. She attended a party dressed unusually for her, in high heels and a low-cut dress, and somehow ended up meeting him quite easily... He escorted her sweetly, looking at her with a passionate gaze as if they were lovers, and she almost forgot her true mission! However, it seems like Takashi was under some sort of misunderstanding!

My aggressive childhood friend has determined and clingy feelings for me!

The strong yet devoted approach: spoiling the reserved, quiet girl.

"I won't give you to anyone, Saaya."
Kyouya, Saaya's first love, is the managing director of Takamura Department Store. They had drifted apart after having grown up together, but reunited when Saaya began working there, where he asked her out to eat. She had tried to forget her feelings for him, but she was taken over by his strong approach. By the way, her twin sister Maaya is also in love with Kyouya. Is this doting, sweet love the key to breaking the fear of romance that Saaya's trapped by?

"You're not alone anymore. We're married, after all."
I only went in my cousin's place, but he proposed to me!
What will happen to our relationship when it starts with us as newlyweds?

Miyuki has lived alone since she lost her parents in middle school. She attends a matchmaking date in her cousin's place and meets Takato, who comes from a wealthy family. Miyuki has no interest in love or marriage and planned to turn down his offer, but after hearing Takato's condition for the marriage, she decides to marry him.
Even though she had resigned herself to the fact that it would be a loveless marriage with no courtship, Miyuki finds herself strongly attracted to Takato, who is clumsy but kind and doting.

This relationship was supposed to be over, but he won't stop coming on to me!

Aya Nanakura, a former member of a high-class family, left her parents' home when she broke off her engagement and began working at a shipping company. Just when she was finally getting used to her job, she was suddenly transferred to the C-suite secretarial pool and ordered to be the vice president's secretary.
When she met the vice president for the first time, she realized that he was her ex-fiance, Minato Kurosaki!
He was as kind as always, and the feelings she thought she had gotten over began to come back...
Aya vowed not to mix her professional and private lives, but Minato asked to get back together with her!

I might be his wife in name only, but I want to stay by the doctor's side.

She's engaged to the surgeon of everyone's dreams despite the fact that they never dated! Miori, a new nurse, attended her hospital's get-together and ended up falling into a contract engagement with Dr. Mayuzumi, a surgeon she secretly harbored a crush on. He admitted that he was going to end up being embroiled in the hospital's power struggle because he was single. Miori wanted to support him in his feelings for caring more about saving as many patients as he could over hospital politics, but she turned down his proposal. Even so, he took an indirect approach and ended up making their engagement a reality! They were supposed to be a temporary married couple, but between his thoughtfulness and their gradually growing closeness, Miori was bewildered but also couldn't stop her racing heart...

When I approached the enemy General for his life...I was captured, cared for, and loved...?!"

"Please let me check every inch of your body to make sure that you're not hiding anything suspicious." Nonna, a knight of the Axia Empire, was under orders to assassinate Elios of the enemy army, but instead ended up getting captured herself. Nonna woke up to find herself a prisoner of war, upon which Elios announced that he would inspect her body. All of her clothes were removed and he inspected her so thoroughly that he even inserted his fingers deep inside her, somewhere that no one else had ever touched before. Now that he knew she wasn't carrying any weapons, Elios welcomed her to the Aeon army's base as a guest. He renamed her Sylphy, and she ended up being his prisoner of love as he continued to give her pleasure!

Mao, a 34 year old office worker, always dreamed of getting married, but her boyfriend of five years dumped her before she turned 30 and she's boyfriendless ever since. However, she's determined to get married by the age of 35. One day, Yuito, the 28 year old office ace and Mao's trainee in the same department, confesses his love to her. Mao, who had a faint liking for him but had given up because of the age difference, is elated, but... Yuito is a man who has no desire to get married! In today's world where options overflow, what choice will Mao and Yuito make?

"This bar is an affection gauge?! Then this must be one of those unlockable CG shots!!" Yuka loves playing otome games, and somehow the real world has suddenly started working just like the game menus she's been used to all this time! Going forward, she's got to figure out how to navigate her life with events being triggered and handsome men chasing after her. At work she's caught up with a charming but flirty coworker, an aggressive boss with fiery looks, and a junior colleague with a mean streak... after so long thinking there would never be a chance with any of them, the scenarios just keep on coming!

Hitomi couldn't stand living with her mother and her boyfriend anymore. She decided to go to Kabukicho to see her older sister Onee-chan, who works at a hostess bar.
Onee-chan had texted her "COME TO KABUKICHO!", but Hitomi had no idea where she lived.
When she reached Kabukicho, Hitomi was led by a mysterious cat who can speak to a large statue called K-chan. There she sees an image...that K-chan is destroying the city.
The cat, Chibi, tells Hitomi that the image will come true in a year, unless she fights to prevent it.
Now Hitomi must find the three other "Warriors" to stop K-chan from going berserk!
While searching for the Warriors, Hitomi comes closer to her sister's secret...what does Onee-chan has to do with all this?!

Shidou could see things that he calls "seeds of misfortune" ever since he was a child. It is something like a sticky shadow, and when he doesn't do anything, it brings misfortune to people.
He always smashes it with his hand to eliminate them, counting the number as "virtue points".
Shidou wishes to pile up good karma so that someday his "curse" will be lifted, and he will stop seeing nightmares.
One day, he finds a monster too powerful for him to handle... but tries anyway to save people.
There he meets Mashiro, who knows a proper way to fight with the monster. He is an Onmyouji... who is in charge of bringing harmony to this world.
Mashiro is immediately aware that Shidou has a special talent, that they'll be the most powerful pair!

A military policeman, Taka'akira, couldn't stand his childhood friend, Chiaki's way of living...he doesn't work, just plays around with women every day using money he had inherited.
Recently, Taka'akira's team has been working on "Ladykiller" cases--victims were all young men, their faces ripped off and their arms and legs chopped off.
After warning Chiaki about the serial killer, Taka'akira encountered a monster...which a young girl sliced with her sword. She was Kikyo--a priestess who exorcises Magatsuhi.
Next day, he was told that he was transferred to Special Branch Zero, a special team that deals with Magatsuhi, inhuman evil beings in this world.
He is now the partner of Kikyo...but he has a feeling he had met her long ago...when?

"Do you really like my hands that much?" Koko Kashiura has been working as a planning team member for the recipe website "Happy Kitchen" but it's been hard to come up with a new project for the site. That's when Koko found an answer to all her troubles, thanks to one video from a cafe page. Seeing how elegantly the hands in the video handle the recipes, she just knows that she has to go check out this "Cafe Coeur". After meeting the owner and chef, Kuboya Shinobu, she asks if he would be open to an interview to promote the cafe... "I don't trust any of you guys." Koko goes out on a whim and cashes in all of her paid time off... and starts to live and work in Shinobu's cafe?! "...what are you gonna do for me?"

Masato, a son of the Tendo family, is meant to marry Hojo Ran, the daughter of a baron. There's just one problem: she's a fake. The real Ran has fled after hearing that few make it out of the Tendo family alive. In her place is a young woman who says she will die if it means saving someone else's life.

It is 1926, the first year of the Showa era. Urabe Kanoko has left her hometown after it turns against her for having the ability to hear lies when spoken. She collapses from hunger after arriving in a town called Tsukumoya, where she meets a poverty-stricken detective named Iwai Soma. Is this fate? Or something more?

A pocket-sized cat-human: have you met a Nuko?
In a world where these curious creatures evolved from ordinary cats, part-timer Yuya finds two abandoned nukos on the side of the road and brings them home out of the rain. Kei needs his ducks to be in a row, while Sasame charms everyone she meets. Yuya's got the cooking and sewing skills to take care of these adorable new housemates, but when he's the one falling asleep in any warm spot of sunlight, who's really taking care of who?! Kick back and let this human, his nukos, and their ameowsing life warm your heart!

Yumiko Sato works as a voice actress with a stage name "Yasumi". She hides that she is a "Gyaru", plays an innocent character in front of the audience.
She respects Yuhi Yugure, who is also a voice actress and a highschooler. Yuhi's popularity is on the rise, and she had even done a concert in front of her fans.
Yumiko is anxious...it's her second year as a voice actress, and she has to be famous in a year or else she will have to quit this job.
One day, she is offered to be a cohost to a weekly radio program with Yuhi Yugure. The director of the program is totally excited...just because he knew that they were classmates!
Yumiko couldn't be more surprised--to know that Yuhi Yugure was Chika Watanabe, a grim-looking girl in her class!

Patricia, daughter of Count Sainraime, was rather happy when her fiance, Claude, told her he wanted to break off their engagement. She had already prepared perfectly for this day...all the documents that proved that she could receive a certain amount of money as compensation. Claude couldn't believe his eyes, for Patricia was a carefree girl in front of him for a long time. He didn't know that Patricia remembered her previous life as Akiko, an office worker, on her sixteenth birthday. There was no choice for him but to sign the documents.
With the money, Patricia bought her parents a second house and headed off to a town far away.
She wanted to find a place to work. But when she found a job at a mercenary guild, it was a tough place...!

Nicolas has started a new life in a new city and is ready to leave his dark past behind. One of the first people he meets is the mysterious Al, a man who has trouble making decisions. He asks Nicolas to be his "decision manager" and help him choose what to do every day, from what to eat for breakfast to what to wear to work. Although the decisions seem innocuous at first, Nicolas can't help but sense that something sinister is going on behind the scenes...

Tetsuo is a tough looking boy who has hair dyed bright red and wears flashy clothes. He's strong, but is trying to avoid needless fighting.
One day, he found a plastic bag with two goldfish inside abandoned in a trash box on a summer festival day. He had a trauma...of the day he killed goldfish by accident.
He tried to release them into a river, but a girl stopped him--a beautiful girl who knows so much about goldfish.
She told Tetsuo that releasing them means killing them, that goldfish were meant to be kept by humans.
When Tetsuo decided to keep the goldfish, she beamed and came to his apartment room to teach him how.
They weren't aware that another cute girl, Mayu, was watching them...she had something to tell Tetsuo about fish too.

A bride wanted only to give birth to an heir.
An innocent nun
No love was ever meant for her...
But she was sweetly and fiercely desired...

"I'll prove to you how much I love you." Her honeymoon with Duke Rodalf, who dotes on her, is something that Chloe, a nun, hadn't expected. Rodalf, Chloe's first love, had chosen her beautiful older sister, Eleonore, as his bride. When her sister eloped with another man, Chloe suddenly became his substitute bride. All he wanted was an heir. She planned return to the convent and give up on her unrequited love after giving birth to a boy. However, when he took her to bed, what was supposed to be a duty was sweet and passionate, and her innocent body was filled with lust. Though she hesitated as her body and mind were melted by his hot passion, her resentment toward him began to melt away...

I'll make sure you have all your firsts.

It was supposed to be a loveless strategic marriage, but he toyed with her using sweet caresses and she wanted him intensely from their first night together... Ririka was raised as the only daughter of a yakuza boss. Just as she graduated from junior college, she was told to enter a strategic marriage with Jin Kannagi, the next leader of a rival group. Jin had a scary face, but he made sweet, gentle love to Ririka after learning she was a virgin. Jin showed consideration toward her in all parts of their married life together, so she gradually fell in love with him. If only Jin could love her back... Ririka did her best to act as the young mistress of the group, both for Jin's sake and the sake of their group members, but it looks like there are people in the organization who don't think kindly of their marriage!

Kotori Kuramoto works in general affairs at her company. Her motto, "Work Smarter, not harder" has kept her relaxed as she's always turning down promotions offered by her superiors. One day, a top sales planner in the makeup sales department Kotori knows, Kyoko Shiramine, comes to her with an offer out of nowhere: transfer to the sales department, and work under the top hair and makeup artist who is also the heir to the corporation, Hayato Kirishima...! With enough pressure Kotori agrees, but how will the two manage with their polar opposite work styles and attitudes...?!

Shinobu and Saki Taura work for Daido Publishing and are a loving married couple. Shinobu is kind and good at his job, making him a popular guy at the office. This has Saki start to worry that he might decide to up and leave her. One day, Shinobu asks if he can go to a blind group date. On top of that, there's someone lurking behind the scenes trying to break the couple up! A friend, a coworker... or maybe even Shinobu? Just who is the traitor?!

Takuya Kujo is not only handsome but also intelligent and charming. In contrast, Fuyumi Takano is your typical plain Jane, yet she has caught Takuya's eye! Unexpectedly, he proposes, eager to build a happy family together, and Fuyumi is more than happy to oblige. However, Takuya's behavior soon grows increasingly suspicious. Despite her best efforts to suppress her doubts, Fuyumi finds the strain unbearable. Her overwhelming happiness begins to morph into a bottomless pit of despair, leaving her to question: is my husband really my husband?! This heart-pounding love story is filled with non-stop suspense!

Things get icy from time to time. 3 months ago, corporate decided to restructure our department, and now our boss is a 30-year-old marvel. He's diligent, can speak multiple languages, he's handsome, and so much more. He's seemingly perfect, but there's just one thing... he can be so harsh that people say he's practically made of salt! When he gives directions on projects, he speaks in short word and lists what's needed. Nothing more, nothing less. People keep their distance, and it feels like he doesn't really fit in around here. However, for some reason, I can't help but have feelings for him... And it seems he wants to be sweet and pamper me?! Another day, another moment to hide away from everyone in the office and be doted on!

Sumire, an average high school student, has transferred to a new all-boys school in Tokyo. Though he initially feels a bit anxious, he soon runs into the school's beautiful "Madonna-like" idol, an upperclassman named Tojo. When Sumire jumps in to save Tojo from a fight, the two of them grow closer, and Sumire gets to know the tough-talking boy behind the gorgeous visage. Despite how close they become, it still takes Sumire by surprise when Tojo kisses him out of the blue... Follow these two opposite personalities as they fall in love for the first time.

"Your nipples have plumped up into points... You are so darn cute, Lady Madoka." On a certain night, the once gentle butler became a man and as she was sweetly made to cum by him she soon made it a habit... From her nipples to her cl*t, touching both was just too much...!! The only daughter of the Saotome Company comes face to face with servants having sex on a fateful day. Seeing such naughty acts right before her eyes awakens sexuality in the previous naive Madoka. She begins to feel a throb. The one who appears to relieve that throbbing down there is the butler Arata, someone she once saw as a brother. "Now what we are about to do now, you must keep a secret from others." Arata plays her throbbing hard cl*t with his deft fingers, stroking her and making her expectant insides squelch... Madoka is taken over the edge for the first time. From that day on, will she grow addicted to this new "squelching" sensation...!? "I want Arata to love me, I want to be naughty..." However, the relationship between Madoka and the butler who drowns in his love for her is not to continue for long...

Taniya, a member of the accounting department, does not like irregularities and prefers to live a quiet, unassuming life. One day, he is coaxed to attend a drinking party by a colleague where he runs into paperwork resubmission man?! His name, Irobe, and he was someone Taniya would seemingly never be able to get along with, until a conversation between them proved to be unexpectedly, pleasant. On their way home, while Taniya was basking in the ambiance of good vibes, he's suddenly kissed by Irobe. Though Irobe confesses his attraction to Taniya, bitter memories of a same-sex partner in Taniya's past resurface...?

Pregnant and stuck at home with her emotionally abusive husband and self-serving in-laws, Sekka tried to grin and bear it by holding onto the hope that he would change once the baby came. Then she finds out he's been cheating...and while she's still reeling from that news, he deliberately sets her beloved pet cockatiel loose, which finally pushes her past the breaking point. Unable to stand by and watch her suffer anymore, her twin sister Rikka makes an offer: "I'll take your place and get revenge on your husband!"

Aoi, landlord of a share house and a florist, can't keep his mind off his first love, Mukahi. One day, the two bump into each other at a wedding. They realize that they are still in love with one another, and spend a blissful night full of passion. However, Mukahi comes to live at Aoi's share house, and there's no doubt about it... Mukahi is a high school senior?!

In the novel Princess of the Black Rose, the wicked Esther finds pleasure in tormenting her younger sibling, the protagonist. However, this depiction couldn't be further from the truth. Esther, as the (current) world knows her, is an upright and kind individual. Due to her ability to heal, she is well-liked and admired among the citizens. Her younger sister Mytia, however, could not be more envious. During the evening of her engagement party, Esther catches Mytia secretly meeting with her fiance Daniel. An infuriated Mytia lunges towards Esther, and the next moment, Esther discovers that her Ability has been stolen!

As if thrust back into the events of the novel, Esther can no longer heal. And her engagement? Annulled. Weary of her younger sister's cruelty and her parents' now cold demeanor towards her, she seeks the comfort of Adele, her dearest friend, In an attempt to cheer Esther up, Adele suggests that she join her and her family on a trip to the neighboring country. However, before Esther can reply to her friend...she falls victim to her sister's scheme and is placed in a mental asylum. Sometime later, when Esther has all but resigned herself to a miserable life in confinement, Adele's family dispatches a messenger, providing her a chance at escape. But as soon as she makes it out, she receives the heart-wrenching news of Adele's passing. Spurred on by her dear friend's dying wish for her to find happiness, Esther now assumes her late friend's identity, vowing to bring justice to Mytia. Along the way, she meets the royal family's second son Prince Sirius. Esther...may soon realize that her new life might not go as planned.

A startling workplace short story by Tomoko Yamashita, the acclaimed creator of Diary of a Strange Land.
"Would you like to have lunch with me?"
An invitation from a girl with a white rabbit's grace promises a meal like no other...

In her past life, Ella endured constant belittlement from her husband, who eventually left her for another woman. Overwhelmed by despair, her life ends in an accident. However, when she wakes up, she finds herself in a strange room with soup and a fridge?! Ella has been reincarnated with a completely new appearance, finally free to live and cook as she pleases or so she believes. Even in this new world, she faces harassment from her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, but even so, it's an improvement from her previous life. One day, while preparing pickled plums, a dog eats one and transforms into a handsome man! The mysterious stranger turns out to be the kingdom's second prince. Cursed to live as a dog, he asks for Ella's help to break the spell by proposing a fake engagement. In return, he sweeps her away from her miserable home.

Saya, son of Louie and Zeth and a part of the Royal family, has fallen for the white deer Yullur. Though they are so far apart in age, Saya has always held on to the playful vow he made as a child to make Yullur his mate. Currently, Saya has been unable to decide on a candidate to be his mate, and is beginning to feel the pressure to find one as he is royalty. Realizing now that he cannot avoid how he has always felt, now might just be the time to confess his feelings. However, Yullur seems to have different thoughts...?