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Joshi High is an elite school that most girls in Japan only dream of attending. Then one day everything changes-the allgirl school goes coed. There's just one catch: The girls outnumber the boys. So begins a wild, noholdsbarred competition for the boys of the school. Which smart and independentminded girl will rise above the fray?

Mahiru Yanase's twin sister, Mayo, has it all-she's popular, cute and sweet. Mahiru, on the other hand, has always been the other Yanase. All her life, Mahiru's reminded herself that every time something good happens to her, something bad comes along to balance it out. She never gets her hopes up...but no sooner does she arrive for her first day of high school than Aoi Satomi, her handsome, mysterious classmate, takes an interest in her-and by the end of the day, he's already asked her out! If things don't balance out for Mahiru soon, the world's going to come to an end! From Taamo, the author of the multi-million-selling smash hit House of the Sun, comes this story of a young girl who's always seen herself as the negative to her twin sister's beautiful photograph, and the handsome boy who just won't give up on her.

"I'd rather nap at home than fall in love." Hotaru's Way, a love story about himono woman Hotaru Amemiya, has been collected into a volume! This himono woman is bewildered when she falls in love for the first time in a long time with younger man Makoto....how will this himono woman romance play out?! Also included is a one panel comic drawn especially for this volume!

I never thought I would see him again. Aki Terada said goodbye to her first love long ago. When her current boyfriend is caught cheating on her, Aki moves out of her apartment and into a shared house, where she's reunited with her first love. When things get heated between them, he drops a major bomb ... Heart and body and everything in between intersect in this fresh new adult love story.

Homely and shy, Hime is burdened by the name her mother gave her, "Princess." Wanting nothing more than to be unnoticed and live a modest life, Hime gets a jolt of inspiration when she tries a dance class where she meets Tango. Her teacher/dance partner, Tango happens to also be her classmate at school. Unfortunately, Tango is desperate to keep his ballroom dancing a secret, believing it will ruin his cool image if anyone at school finds out. Will Tango quit teaching Hime in order to keep his secret or will he be the partner Hime believes he's destined to be?

From the creator of New York Times bestselling manga That Wolf-Boy Is Mine! comes a feel-good romance about a teenage girl whose passion for photography leads her to a new school, a new dorm, and a new love triangle!UNDER ONE ROOFMako's always had a passion for photography. When she loses someone dear to her, she clings to her art as a relic of the close relationship she once had...Luckily, her childhood best friend Kei encourages her to come to his high school and join their prestigious photo club. With nothing to lose, Mako grabs her camera and moves into the dorm where Kei and his classmates live. Soon, a fresh take on life, along with a mysterious new muse, begin to come into focus!

Shiho's job is going fine, but she has no lover or friends to hang out with. In the middle of all this, she's been calling for in-home massages as a means to fill the void, when one day she meets a handsome masseur named Toudou. With his delicate touch, he makes her body and mind melt. However, the very next day he shows up at her company ... ? Here's a sexy story of a single office worker and a handsome masseur who fall in love!

"I spent all my time wondering 'what if,' then one day I woke up and I was 33." She's not that bad-looking, but before she knew it, Rinko was thirty-something and single. She wants to be married by the time the Tokyo Olympics roll around in six years, but...that might be easier said than done! The new series by Akiko Higashimura erupts with sharp opinions on girls and tons of laughs!!

Hi there! My name is Serinuma Kae. I'm the kind of girl who loves checking out boys and fantasizing about them getting friendly (and more) with each other-I'm what you might call a fujoshi. One day, my beloved (yes, he's an anime character) died, and the shock of it all was more than I could have ever prepared for! My grief over his passing resulted in some ridiculous weightloss! And you won't believe what happened next! Soon after my change, the four most divinely gorgeous boys in my school asked me out on dates! I accepted them all, and you'd think I'd be happy with my sudden popularity, but the truth is, my heart only yearns for a prince to be next to his prince. Ahh, yes, boys, I'd much prefer that you turn your affections elsewhere and KISS HIM, NOT ME!

Asayo starts university and lives alone for the first time. However the handsome blonde buy living next door turns out to be an Okama! Umenosuke Ichimatsu of the famous tea ceremony family is a cool guy who goes by the name of "Deborah." But unfortunately, he's a girl on the inside. So Asayo hangs out with him as a girlfriend... and falls in love with him? A super happy Rom-com!

Kotoko a third year student, fell in love at first site with Naoki Irie. But when she finally got the courage to give him a love letter. He rejected her saying, "I hate stupid women."Naoki is a genius with an IQ of 200 and a sports champion, popular with all girls.As if Kotoko's luck wasn't bad enough, her house gets ruined in an earthquake and they go to stay at her father's friends place while their house is rebuilt. By some twist of fate her father's friend is... Naoki Irie's father! Now Kotoko and Naoki have to live together?!

Mizutani is a selfabsorbed overachiever, concerned only with maintaining the highest grades in school. Haru is an impulsive short tempered brute, who scares everyone with his explosive bursts of violence. Haru gets suspended on the first day of school when he encounters some bullies harassing a student and dispatches the bullies with great bloody violence. Mizutani is tasked with delivering school materials to Haru who interprets this as an act of friendship and latches on to Mizutani, much to her dismay. And so begins a strange and potentially combustible relationship!

The Ultimate Mystery: A Girlfriend! -- Mikoto Urabe is a new transfer student in Akira Tsubaki's high school class. One day, Akira happens to find Mikoto passed out asleep on her desk after classes have ended. He wakes her and tells her it's time to go home, and discovers that she has drooled on her desk. He spontaneously reaches out to touch and taste it... and then things start getting really strange. In this surprising and sweet twist on a high school romance story, boy meets girl and they learn about each other's inner life through their highly unusual bond, and Akira learns to respect Mikoto as she sets a careful pace in the development of their relationship.

Yasuke, 15 years old, is about to build up the courage to confess his love to his childhood friend Akari, who's fallen for him, too. There's just one problem: Yasuke's family lives in a Japanese shrine, and when he breaks the shrine's sacred mirror, it triggers a curse, releasing the cute and wellendowed goddess of misfortune, Orihime, into the real world! Now Yasuke can't ever be out of Orihime's sight-if he gets too far away, he dies, and can only be brought back to life with a quick kiss from Orihime!

Kako gets tangled up when she lies about her age in order to attend a company-mixer party for singles and ends up totally infatuated with her young local policeman! And it looks like it's mutual with Kota... until he finds out Kako's still in high school. Read on to see if straight-arrow Kota manages to find a way to do the right thing as our story unfolds in the first volume of this upbeat new romantic comedy from Maki Miyoshi!

"There's no mistaking it. You're suffering from a case of L.O.V.E.!" The man I fell in love with is some weirdo who has no idea what love is -- Sachi is in love with love. She is determined to meet her soulmate -- after all, her own mother and father married for love and always seemed so happy. Sachi falls for someone new every day in the hopes that she'll find Mr. Right. She gets her heart broken over and over again -- but she doesn't let herself feel that pain, instead she just races to her next crush! After falling for countless different men, Sachi meets Jogasaki. According to Jogasaki, love is an illness. He's a total weirdo who has been trying to find the drug to cure "L.O.V.E.". Sachi and Jogasaki, neither of whom know anything about real love, set out to develop this miracle drug together. But will the two of them be able to face up to their own feelings?!

From high school to college, from college into the working world - although my life had never been spectacular, the journey had always been smooth sailing... Except when it came to men. So when I found myself an engaged woman at age 29, I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. My dream of getting married before turning 30 was going to be realized! And that's when... I met him.

What do you do when nothing's going right in your life?

Minori (29), who has been struggling from day to day, has become pessimistic about life as a whole. This year has been especially dreadful. Work has become a hellish experience because of her new boss. Her childhood friend and longtime crush, Asai, just told her he only sees her as a friend. When all seems hopeless, Minori is suddenly visited by a "Toshiotoko", a fairy whose job is to bring luck and happiness to their charge. With his gentle and encouraging support, she slowly learns to take control of her life by the reins. What will Minori discover as she continues her search for what happiness really means to her?

Nanami dreams of falling in love with a prince... And she's 29. She finds fulfillment in love through fantasizing about Yuhi, her favorite character from a love simulation game. One day, while out at a pub with her friends from work, she meets Minato -- a college student who is the spitting image of Yuhi... but then Minato calls Nanami a middle-aged hag. "What a shame, with that personality your stunning visuals amount to nothing. I know -- I'll fix that worthless personality of his and get him to cosplay as Yuhi!"Thus begins Nanami's plan to turn Minato into a prince! A romantic comedy featuring a pair mismatched in both age and personality. Your heart is sure to pound out of your chest!

"Why do I have to be the one to 'put it in'?"Shun Mizuo has always got a smile on his face. He's popular amongst his coworkers and he's good at his job... but he's useless in the bedroom. One day, heartbroken after discovering his girlfriend cheating on him, he drinks himself into a stupor and reveals his "situation down there" to Amachi, his beautiful-yet-frosty coworker. What happens when, suddenly, Amachi says that she feels that this moment with Mizuo must be fate?! An office romance between two people both hopeless in the bedroom!

Cell phone novelist Yukina Himuro has decided that, in order to satisfy her fans' demand for love stories, she must experience romance firsthand. But with her icy reputation, how can she find someone willing to play the part of boyfriend? By blackmailing the most popular boy in school, of course!

One day, a superaverage 2ndyear high school student who wants a girlfriend, Aoshima, suddenly awakens to the ability to time slip. Ten years in the future, he is *gasp* married to the cutest girl in school, Wagatsumasan! In the present, they are only classmates, so how in the world does he end up with the unobtainable Wagatsumasan?! A timeslipping Romcom coming at you from a brand spanking new duo!

Follow the adventures of Negi Springfield, a fresh magic academy graduate, as he starts his new job as a teacher at an all girls high school. Can he balance his teaching duties while pursuing his dream to become a great wizard like his father?

When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more...adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you die-discovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn't awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the prettiest girl in school, an agreeable comrade, and an outspoken prude. Fumbling over their own discomforts, these five teens get thrown into chaos over three little letters: S...E...X...!

It's not easy being beautiful. The envy, the jealousy, the vicious rumors spread by your best friend. That's life for young Momo. While everyone thinks that Momo is a wild party girl, the reality is that she is shy and honest. Can Momo confess her love to her classmate Toji, or will her best friend Sae steal him away. It's a bittersweet drama of growing up and fitting in that will charm girls everywhere.

Yamato is ready for a fresh start. So when his aunt invites him to stay rent-free in her big-city boarding house in hustling, bustling Tokyo, Yamato jumps at the chance. There's just one teensy-weensy catch: It's an all-girl housing complex and spa! Things get even more nerve-racking when Yamato meets his neighbor Suzuka, a beautiful track-and-field star. She's not just the cutest girl Yamato's ever met, she's also the coolest, the smartest, and the most intimidating. Can an ordinary guy like Yamato ever hope to win over a girl like Suzuka?

After some traumatic experiences, Komugi Kusunoki transferred from the city to start a new life in rural Hokkaido. But on her first day of school, the school heartthrob Yu ogami blurts out, "You smell good!" Despite the hijinks, Komugi tries to adjust to her new school, but it's not long before she stumbles across Yu dozing off under a tree. When she attempts to wake him up, he transformed...into a wolf?! It turns out that Yu is one of many other eccentric boys in her class year-and she's the only one who knows their secret...!

Takao Kasuga is a bookworm. And his favorite book right now is Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. While the young man may often be seen lost in thought as he rabidly consumes page after page, Takao is not much of a student. Actually when we are first introduced to the middle school teen, we find him sneaking some reading as he receives an F on a recent language exam. Nakagawa is known as the class bully. When she is not receiving zeros she is usually muttering profanities to those around her. While she doesn't care for books or their readers, she does have a thing for troublemakers. Takao may not be one, but having read over his shoulder a few times, she knows he is not very innocent. If anything he is bored and aware of it. Together, by chance, they shake up their entire rural community as Takao tries to break out of his shell in a random moment of passion and affection...not directed towards Nakamura. And contrary to Takao's predictions, the girl he was falling for, Nanako Saeki, responds by eventually accepting the bibliophile for who he is. Or at least, who she thinks he is. And therein lies the conflict. Takao is not a hero. He is not a troublemaker, either. He is a regular teen who through equal moments of cowardice and chivalry takes a long step towards adulthood as he desperately tries to cover up a dark secret. Takao Kusuga has stolen an item precious to someone he is attracted to, and if he doesn't form a "contract" with his new best friend, she is going to tell.

Since he was little, Chihiro has felt an unusual emotional connection to zombie movies. It's not that he feels bad for the survivors instead he fantasizes about comforting the poor undead girls they slaughter! When his beloved pet passes away, he decides to brew up a resurrection potion in secret. But he's discovered by popular girl and local heiress Sanka Rea, whose life isn't as perfect as it seems... and Furuya suggests that she could serve as a test subject!

What would you do if one day, a time-traveling, hammer-wielding girl from the future suddenly appeared in your backyard searching for a mysterious object? Well, that's exactly what happens to Takayuki, who is a normal high school student. Join him on a crazy but sweet adventure that delves into the world of time travel and future beings as he discovers the true power the future beholds.

Hinatsu Hoshikawa has a reputation at work as a "capable boss," "talented designer," "cool beauty" and "mature woman." This perfect-seeming office worker has two secrets: at home, she's a lazy goof, the complete opposite of her work persona... And she lives alone with a high school student, Touya Isshiki! Though they're not related by blood, Hinatsu sees Touya as an irreplaceable part of her family. One night, however, this young man pours his heart out and reveals his deep, mature love for the older woman... "I've waited so long for this day... When I become an adult."

Demonically scary x secretly shy x dessert loving = heartthrob moe boss!! One day, Kasumi Mugino, a writer for a women's magazine, loses a photo of a past she wants to leave buried in the dark. After searching high and low for it, what she found was... her boss with the worst workplace rating in the company (because he's as scary as a demon), Hibiki Hasegawa, in the middle of making desserts!? Completely shocked, she shouts in surprise, and Hasegawa sees her... and though she thought he was one real demon of a boss, he's actually harshly sweet! Sweetly harsh! A super sweet boss!? Enjoy a taste of this 1000% sugar overloaded office romcom that's so sweet, it'll practically give a heart attack!

When Keitaro Urashima fails his entrance exams to get into Tokyo University for the second time, he's officially an unemployed and uneducated slacker. To make things worse, his parents have kicked him out of his house. Fortunately, his grandmother owns the fabulous Hinata Lodge and has agreed to take Keitaro in as caretaker. What he doesn't know is that the lodge is actually a girl's dorm and he's the only guy around! Most guys would kill to live with five sexy ladies, but if Keitaro's not careful, this job will kill him.

"I don't know what this feeling is... I don't know what I should do now... all I know is, I want him." They fight one another, they chase after one another, they capture one another-a turbulent tale of preteens on the brink of self-destruction, masterfully brought to life by George Asakura!

Najika is a great cook and she likes ot make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who touched her heart and now she's determined to find him. The only clue Najika has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy. Attending Seika will be a challenge. Every kid at the school has a special talent, and the girls in Najika's class think she doesn't deserve to be there. But Sora and Daichi, two popular brothers who barely speak to each other, recognize Najika's cooking talent for what it is magical. Is either boy Najika's mysterious prince? This volume contains volumes 1 and 2 of Kitchen Princess.

New meetings always come suddenly! The protagonist, Yuu Haruna, moves into a new town where he meets a somewhat strange girl who doesn't have a cell phone. The girl, Fuuka, seems to have a strange allure that draws people to her, very much like a summer breeze. Looks like Yuu has been caught up in one wild love story!

SUBTLETY IS FOR WIMPS! She . . . is a secondyear high school student with a single allconsuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her? He . . . is the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization: He's got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. Lifechanging obsessions, colossal foulups, grand schemes, deepseated anxieties, and raging hormones-School Rumble portrays high school as it really is: overthetop comedy!

Hikari Tsutsui (a.k.a "Tsuttsun") is a high school student who is content with his virtual life of anime and video games. One day, he gets stuck cleaning the pool with Iroha, a real live girl who is stylish, sassy and known to be easy with boys...and she aggressively approaches him! Tsuttsun, who has few friends and lives in his own world, finds himself smitten by the confident and wild Iroha...and his whole world is turned upside down!! It's the awkward and pure love story of a boy who experiences relationship for the first time.

It was the final summer of college - the final summer before becoming a working member of society...Miharu is a senior in college whose dream is to be a high school teacher. She's overjoyed when she receives her results from her certification exam. Amidst her excitement though, her friend and fellow aspiring teacher Yuichi, confesses to her! Unfortunately, Miharu is conflicted. Despite having the same feelings for Yuichi, she finds herself unable to say 'Yes'. It all goes back to 2 years ago, when her close high school friend and crush, Hinata suddenly passed away.Even in a world without Hinata, Miharu can't seem to let go of him. On her annual visit to his grave and the beach where they used to spend their school days together, she continues to contemplate. trying to sort out her feelings. But right when she decides to head home, she has a shocking encounter!

France, Paris - Beginning of the 20th century.Colette works in a brothel and entertains clients with "p*rverted" desires. She is leading a life without prospects.Her only happiness consists of the secret meetings with gigolo Leon, whom she feels helplessly attracted to. Even though he is visiting other women ..."p*rverts are people who have explored and put a shape to their desires. Just like a blind man using both hands to carefully trace the contours of a vase of flowers ..."Who are these p*rverts Moyoco Anno brings to life in Paris, the city of flowers?This is the first new series by Moyoco Anno in eight years! After "Sakuran" and "Buffalo 5 Girls" comes another story about the strong lives of prostitutes.The e-book contains all color pages published inside the magazine.This series has been published in Japan since 2013 which Japanese title name is "Bikachou Shinshi Kaikoroku"