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Teijin Sakuichi was born in the home of Japan's most prominent plutocrats and Kishi Ryota was born and raised in a ordinary household and lived quite a rough life. They are neighbors and have been friends since kindergarten, elementary and middle school. But, in the winter of their third year of middle school, Sakuichi proposed to Ryota before going to study abroad. Then several years later, after having no contact with Sakuichi, he suddenly appears out of nowhere...Translated by Tracy Wright; Edited by Tracy Wright; Lettered by Tracy Wright

"Do you really think those cute little kisses will be enough to take me down?" Chikage, the son of a yakuza boss, is in love with his father's second-in-command, Aizawa. In order to be close to Aizawa, Chikage wants to join the clan in the future, but both his father and Aizawa are fiercely opposed to the idea. But Chikage's feelings towards Aizawa, who had cared for him and loved him since he was little, had long since turned to love...! He decides that he's going to use his body and anything else he can to sway Aizawa over to his side!! When Chikage desperately tries to kiss him, Aizawa used his tongue to tease him sweetly and deeply, and then slid his hot and naughty hand into his pants...!?

Which is the real me?The 18 years old heroine, Hinata Yuuki, lost her memories in an accident. Despite this, she lives an energetic life, until one day, strange things start happening to her: a diary that doesn't belong to her, a handsome guy who she has never met before suddenly talks to her, and an abnormal constitution that makes her fall asleep at a certain time.The mystery deepens, and love begins. This is a romance x mystery unlike no other!

When thief Karim sneaks into a clandestine auction, he finds Asena, a beautiful young man with animal ears and a tail.
On impulse, Karim steals him from the bidder who bought him for a hefty sum and decides to take responsibility, making arrangements to live with him for a month while he waits for the ship to his hometown to arrive.
Asena is high-minded and fiercely proud of his own race, so he treats Karim - a human being - coldly, but one day he suddenly changes like he was a different person and tries to seduce Karim. Asena's race has the sexual characteristic of going on heat.
Aroused by Asena's irresistible instinct, Karim makes love to him wildly, but...?!
An oriental fantasy love story swaying between instinct and affection!

"No... I can't believe it feels so good."
Aohara is a playboy with foreign blood and beautiful blue eyes. Life is an everlasting summer, and there's no rest for the horny, especially for a top like him.
Then a guy called Masaki falls in love with him and pursues him relentlessly. The problem is, Masaki wants to be the top and make Aohara be the bottom. Even though Masaki is a playboy too, he's friendly and soft-spoken, so Aohara is having a hard time trying to fend off his advances.
But, eventually, it's Aohara that ends up kissing Masaki on a drunken night. Aohara's virgin land gets soaked in pleasure when Masaki seizes the opportunity to give him a passionate deep kiss that makes his whole body shiver...?!

Do you have any idea what happens... when a little bunny comes to a den of wolves like this?Hinako has a dreadful fear of boys due to her past. But to save her twin brother Hinata from a crisis, she has no choice but to muster up her courage and attend his all-boys high school in his place! As luck would have it though, Rei, the school troublemaker who also turns out to be her brother's dorm roommate, sees through her ruse on her first day! Prepared to be sent home immediately for her actions, Hinako is surprised when Rei decides to help her out with her plan. And thus, with the single guy who knows her secret by her side, Hinako begins her new, sweet, exciting life as a high school boy!

Shizuku has no interest in romance, as her work and hobbies are enough to make her life fulfilling. Her mother wants her to marry, though, and at her insistence, Shizuku concedes to meeting Takaharu, a handsome and elite researcher, just to see if they might be a good match. Then, at their very first meeting, Takaharu pops the question out of nowhere...! He also gives a very well-reasoned pitch on how the arrangement would benefit them both, which Shizuku finds so persuasive that she accepts his proposal on the spot.
Despite starting on such a mercenary note, their newlywed life sees Shizuku developing deeper feelings for the calm and gentle Takaharu. At the same time, though, the way he always maintains a polite distance and never even tries to touch her leaves Shizuku full of doubt...!!
Meanwhile, Takaharu is closely guarding certain hidden feelings of his own...
Letting the right moment for a wedding night slip past them was just the start of the hectic, heart-pounding romance for this adorably unfortunate fledgling couple.

Rena has been single her entire life. By day, she's a member of the general affairs department of a large corporation. By night, she's a bar hostess. One day, when Rena's having lunch with her friend Kyoko at work, Kyoko's brother and managing director, Shun decides to sit with them. Shun's popularity with the ladies at work is no surprise. He's the ideal gentleman, and his kind, charming personality even makes Rena begin to fall for him. But that evening, Rena's stunned to see that same man visit her bar. He even aggressively flirts with her, not realizing who she is. Talk about a 180! Realizing it's only a matter of time before she gets found out and loses her job, she resigns herself to her fate, downing glass after glass. When she wakes up the next morning, the first thing she sees is an undressed Shun sleeping beside her!

Natsu Yoshizawa finds herself abruptly transferred to product development at the bedding manufacturer where she works, and then given a coveted spot on the team designing a bed aimed at newlyweds. Spearheading the project is Moriba, a man from Natsu's hiring group who's since become a powerhouse at the company, and almost as soon as she arrives he proposes to her out of the blue...!! Well, not exactly. It turns out he just wanted to "play house," temporarily pretending to be a married couple, in order to better understand their target customers' mindset. Natsu reluctantly accepts, since after all it's just research for work, but when Moriba proceeds to treat her just like an actual wife she starts wondering if she's in over her head. He even puts on a morning pillow-talk act, whispering about how adorable she was last night as if something had actually happened between them...?! Now, hold on just a second! This really isn't what it looks like...! (Not yet, anyway.)

"Humans in this country don't take sleep seriously enough." This is a story about work -- that is, an office worker in her late twenties and her sleep demon, whose job it is to get her to sleep! Yoko is a hard worker, that's for sure. She's missed her last train home yet again and feels herself losing the battle to sleep in the bathroom. That's when she senses a shadow over her shoulder. She turns around only to find -- a sleep demon?! "Oh. You can see me." says Nero, a regular old office worker at Sleep Demons Incorporated in the Underworld. His monthly salary comes from getting humans go to sleep, and from today, he's in charge of Yoko. Thus begins Yoko and Nero's daily quest to improve her quality of sleep -- for both of their sakes!

Our bias got married!
What's the next big thing for these former groupies? Perhaps it's time for them to chase down... the perfect marriage partner?!
When the actor they had dedicated their lives to announces his marriage, four young women (and former groupies) call an emergency meeting. A panicked Chikako, 34-years-old and the eldest of the group, announces to everyone that she absolutely will find a partner and be married within one year. Her secret weapon? Online dating! These women are giving up on the race to snag concert tickets and stepping onto the battlefield of love and dating. (sentence).

Achieve your dreams and find love...through bouldering!Miyo, a first-year in high school, has been bouldering since she was little with her friends, Keita and Tetsu at their local gym in Utsunomiya. But recently, Keita's found a girlfriend. Miyo thought the three of them would always stay climbing buddies, but their relationship slowly begins to change. An empowering story following three high school students and the obstacles they must face and overcome in the world of bouldering, and in love.

Love is nothing to be afraid of. All you need is to act on instinct, just as animals do. For they... can sense matters of the human heart. A collection of stories depicting relationships between people and the animals around them. An office worker who can't seem to be honest with her feelings, and a stray kitty she picks up. A hairstylist-in-training who's in love and the salon's mascots, a pair of parrots. A young woman who tends to overthink and the tropical fish at a bar, fluttering ever gracefully in their tank. As humans, we have so much on our plate, having to constantly find a balance between relationships, work and self-improvement. That is why some envy the freedom that animals possess. Delve into these short stories. Let the curious critters quell your worries, soothe your soul, and perhaps do much more. I beseech you, human! It is time to discover your own freedom!

Show me just how disheveled you can be he says as he t*rtures her just-cum overly sensitive body again and again, turning that place deep inside her into a dripping hot mess...! When Misaki's company goes under and she is left jobless, the position she takes while at the end of her rope turns out to be... as a stand in for the popular novelist Mangetsu Saeki!? She supposes that to mean that she'll just be doing interviews in his place... when she is suddenly shoved down onto his futon. He wants to have sex with her to try out ideas for his new novel!? His finger and tongue manipulate her against her will turning Misaki into someone who can do nothing but moan. "Seems you cry out in a rather cute way... However, now it's time for the real thing." Misaki can do nothing but grow more and more out of sorts as she cums again and again...!!

Nobuaki's classmates receive mysterious text message from 'The King'. At first it was a simple command, but step by step escalates into extremity. Insubordination link directly to death!! In order to survive, classmates starts hating and killing each other. The story originates from mobile game based box office horror novel.This series has been published in Japan since 2010 which Japanese title name is "Ousama Game"

It's the year 2050 and Japan has been ruined by desertification, Soshi Sawamura is a soldier in the Saitama Nation's military. One day he meets Nadeko, a girl diagnosed with the modern epidemic which makes her a "Flower Girl." They get acquainted and then get caught in the middle of a guerrilla ambush and are cornered by the enemy. That is when Nadeko asks Sawamura if she can fall in love with him. The moment he agrees to accept her feelings vines and branches sprout out of her body...?! This is a heartful story about the fate of the girls fighting strongly for their love and dreams in battle despite their sad fate.This series has been published in Japan since 2013 which Japanese title name is "Kalyx"

In a unique work mixing eroticism and true love, this is the acclaimed Shozo Oshimi's newest work in "Manga Action." Koichi Toki, 29, enters a net cafe on a whim and is reunited with his first true love. They are elated to meet again, but then the city around their net cafe disappears! The fated couple share the cafe with nerds, thugs, a brash young kid, girls, and business men, and as the interactions between these unconnected people unfold, it results in a sudden interdimensional love story!

Hayate Shinobu is not your regular 3rd grader; he is a fugitive ninja who keeps transferring schools in order to escape from those pursuing him.If he gets caught, the only thing waiting for him is death.On the other side, for the pursuers, the only way to compensate for failure in their mission is also death.Hayate's homeroom teacher is also a ninja, and he has decided to execute Hayate to protect the ninja code, despite the objections of the Board of Education and his own anguish at the though.Hayate must overcome numerous hardships in his pursuit of being a regular elementary school student.

At a particular shopping district located in an old Tokyo neighborhood, humans and cats seem to live together in peace. But these cats aren't your ordinary felines! They are spirits, whose human forms allow them to go about their days undetected amongst the other locals. And the truth is, this neighborhood attracts some rather unique problems because of its residents. Chisato, a shop owner and the only human aware of the cat spirits' presence, and Kotora, a young cat spirit band together in attempt to solve the various predicaments they encounter. But will luck be on their side?

Ellen's beloved home is about to be sold. The prospective buyer is Max Vasilikos, the real-estate mogul. Ellen doesn't care how rich he is. She's not going to let him have her house. But Max turns out to be an incredibly attractive man. When he finds out about Ellen's charity activities, he invites her to a charity ball. Ellen hesitates and says such a glamorous occasion isn't for someone like her. But Max insists and kindly escorts her to the party. Ellen keeps reminding herself that she mustn't fall for him, that he's only being kind because he wants her house.

Marketing manager Emily works hard at her father's company. But her father is determined that Emily should marry one of the six eligible bachelors he's found who work at the company. Emily isn't interested in an arranged marriage, however, so she plays cupid to the first five bachelors on the list and finds them their perfect mates. But before she can set up the sixth candidate, Jack Devon, with his true love, her father demands that she go on a business trip with Jack! How is Emily going to handle the nights with this undeniably attractive man? Will she be able to stick to her plan?

Every night Sarah sings at a nightclub under the stage name Sabine. But Sarah dreams of being an opera singer. Though she isn't enamored with the scandalous outfits she has to wear or dealing with the club's wealthy clientele, Sarah sings as Sabine in exchange for operatic rehearsal time at the venue. Despite her general disinterest in the club's clients, she is taken with Bastiaan, a Greek businessman who shows up backstage at her performance one day. She knows he can only be interested in the persona of Sabine and not the real Sarah, but her heart beats faster all the same.

She'd always planned to save herself for marriage...so Mia is shocked when she decides to make love to a man she just met! They met at a party, and he made the world drift out of focus as she fell under his spell-it was as if they were destined to find each other. But she came back to herself when she woke up and ran out before even asking his name. Three months later, Mia was invited to her friend's house for dinner and was shocked to see the man she'd made love to standing in front of her. He must never know that Mia is carrying a huge secret.

One day when Vanessa, a butler, woke up, the owner of the house she worked in, Benedict, was sleeping next to her...and they were both naked! What on earth had happened? Vanessa sleeps in the house's various guest rooms to make sure they're each routinely aired out and ready for visitors. Last night she was a bit drunk and decided to sleep in Benedict's room since he wasn't supposed to be staying at the house. She can't believe he decided to share the bed with her. Later on when he woke up, he asked her if she knew who it was he'd slept with the night before. He had no idea it was her!

Clare was saved by millionaire Jack Straker six years ago and stayed with him afterward. When his gravely ill father died one day, she slept with him to console him. The following day, he thanked her and handed her a check. Adding to her mortification, he told her he was married. What an insult! Years later, she runs into him again, and now she has a secret she'll never tell him, not when he doesn't know what real love is...

Jo is completely focused on her job as an accountant, which is apparently why her long-term boyfriend decided to leave her. Unable to handle the sorrow alone, she turns to her best friend, Liam, for comfort. He's always taken care of her when she was in pain, but now, for some reason, neither of them can contain their desire, and they end up spending the night together. The next morning before they part ways, they promise to forget the whole thing and stay friends. But now Jo is pregnant...and Liam is insisting they get married. Jo believes it's only for the sake of the baby, but could it mean more?

Natalie is a secretary who has secretly fallen in love with her boss, Kane, an incredibly successful businessman. Kane, however, is a playboy who moves from model to model. There's no way he'd ever look twice at Natalie...or so she thinks. Determined to forget about him, Natalie undergoes an astonishing transformation. She goes on a diet and starts dating other men, but none of it makes her feel better... Kane, on the other hand, is suddenly seeing her in a new light. Assuming that she's gotten a new boyfriend, he starts meddling in her private life. He invites Natalie over to his house for business, but things between them are about to get quite steamy!

Bett, a Broadway actress, was scammed out of all of her money by her former manager. She sees a casting call for Girl in a Dark Room, a play with painful memories for her, but being broke and desperate for work, she decides to audition. The screenwriter for this play, Edward McCullough, was Bett's first love and the man who abandoned her for fame and more experienced women. When they reunite six years later, she pretends to be a woman who's willing to use a man with talent and fortune-she doesn't want him to know that she's still a virgin...or that she's still hopelessly in love with him...

Due to circumstances at work, Jen desperately needs a husband, fast, and is determined to find the right man for her. While she's in the process of selecting a husband, she meets Cole, who is quick to criticize her method of finding a soul mate. She thinks it's better to choose a husband using reason instead of unreliable emotions. Cole may be extremely handsome, but he's cocky and believes love is necessary for marriage. He doesn't match Jen's criteria for a husband...so why is she falling so hard for him?

Professional landscaper Sorrel James has had nothing but trials in her professional life and her love life, and she's at her wits' end. She's had a streak of bad luck ever since her last client, several months ago. He asked her to marry him, but as soon as she said no, his professionalism vanished. He accused her of theft and has been slandering her ever since. Sorrel doesn't know how to trust men anymore. That's when she stumbles across an old monastery in the country that has fallen into disrepair. She's fascinated by it and wants to be the one to redesign the grounds. She goes to persuade the owner in person: eccentric, handsome Garde Chevenay. To her surprise, he agrees to hire her, but is there more to him than meets the eye?

Destiny is a gifted trainer of horses, but her father and stepmother control her every move. So she agrees to a job overseas in order to earn the money she needs to become independent. The sheikh of Kezoban's prize horse has refused to leave the palace grounds ever since a traumatic incident. Sheikh Zafir Al Asmari has a wild streak, but Destiny can tell that he, too, needs to heal from the trauma of losing his sister. She wants to help him...and she finds herself attracted to him at the same time. Destiny knows their worlds are too different to reconcile, but if she can be his mistress for a time, maybe that will be enough...

There's one woman that Marc Durand, CEO of a global jewelry company, just can't forget. She's Isa Varin, the only daughter of a legendary and notorious thief. In New York, she successfully stole one of his family treasured heirlooms, the Midnight Sun, as well as his heart. She changed her name and now lives in Los Angeles, working as a professor at a gemological institute. She's washed her hands of thieving and wants only to live in peace. But her peaceful existence is about to change-a reunion with Marc is coming and her life is about to be turned upside down.

Hoping to get over her breakup, Charlotte takes the trip of her dreams to Italy. While drowning her sorrows at a bar, she catches someone's eye. Someone's very, very attractive eye. The man-Lucio-stands out in a crowd and seems brimming with confidence. His vivacity instantly steals Charlotte's heart and they spend a passionate, magical night together. The next morning he leaves without a word. Charlotte finds this odd, but not shocking. She knows she'll remember that night all her life, but life, she assumes, will go on as it always has. At least, it will until she discovers that she's pregnant!

Deeply hurt by her fiance's betrayal, Dani breaks off her engagement and decides to start life over in a new town with a new job. She leaves Seattle for a small coastal town, where she's lucky to find work as an antiques shop assistant. But her boss, John, writes her off as a fickle vacationer who will leave as soon as the summer is over, and he treats her coldly. Both Dani and John are haunted by old wounds. But as they work together, they gradually get to know each other...

Top fashion model Lena Lawrence offers herself as a dinner date at a charity auction. Since this is her last job as a model, she'll be able to go back to being Katy Meldenton when the date is over and finally pursue a career as a designer. However, she never imagined the highest bidder would be her ex-boyfriend Jake, the man who betrayed and hurt her four years ago. Why would he spend a fortune to see her again?

After her father remarried, Jodie moves in with the powerful Antoniou family in Greece. Stergios, her stepbrother, who is eight years older than her, welcomes her warmly, but her father and stepmother do not show any interest in her. To Jodie, who has longed for her parents' affection her whole life, the Antoniou house soon begins to feel like a prison. One day, she causes a scandal and is kicked out of the house and sent to live in the United States with her mother. Four years later, she comes back to Greece with one goal in mind: reconciling with her father. But Stergios doesn't believe her. He thinks she's come back to ruin her cousin's wedding, so to avoid a wedding-day debacle, he takes her to his private island as his prisoner...

Ruby was on a trip to Paris when she suddenly met Alex, a man with beautiful blue eyes and black hair... Even though she didn't know his name, she was charmed by him and they shared a kiss! He promised to contact her and they went their separate ways. He never reached out to her and she returned to London. That's when she learned who Alex really was-the crown prince of the kingdom of Euronia! It was not her place as a commoner to want to meet him again, was it? Yet she never could cast aside her feelings for him entirely. So what does it mean that, ten years later, he's suddenly summoned Ruby out of the blue?

Billionaire Alex doesn't believe in love-in fact, the idea repulses him. And yet, he can't forget Gwen, the kindhearted nurse he met at his best friend's wedding. When he takes a vacation at his friend's villa and reunites with Gwen, he realizes something's changed: she's pregnant. Much to the relief of head-over-heels Alex, it turns out she's a surrogate for a patient who can't have children. Gwen's so focused on helping others, she seems entirely uninterested in money, love or sex. So how is Alex supposed to get closer to her?

Maggie, code name Chameleon, is a master of disguise and works for a Secret Service branch called Omega. She solves cases by taking up different personas, and this time her mission is to serve as a body double for the vice president. Omega's director, Adam, will be going on the mission with Maggie, posing as her lover. His role will allow him to stay close to her. He promises to always be by Maggie's side, which is going to be tough for her because she's had hidden feelings for the calm and elegant Adam for a very long time.

Charlie trusts no one and counts on no one. She's busy running her bar to support herself and her sister. Abandoned by her father, she always had to take care of herself, especially after her mother's death. Then one day Charlie is taken hostage. Also taken is Harry, a private investigator in the middle of a case. Soaked by the rain, the two barely escape with their lives. If they're going to get through this, they're going to have to rely on each other...