Toma, a popular member of the trending princely idol group Mellow Crown... Akito, the arrogant bad boy member of the wild idol group Dishy... After a big scandal Akito's being made to put on his best behavior, throwing the whole group out of whack. He seems uninterested in everything and even a bit boring! Toma's been his biggest fan for the longest time and can't stop craving to see that angry, arrogant attitude come back. Time to take things into his own hands! "You were so boring it was hard to watch." Akito, furious over the harsh comments, gives Toma the opening he's always wanted: devise a secret plan to bring Akito back as the best bad-boy idol out there. However, Akito might have misinterpreted the "secret" part of the plan... since when did "secret" mean "sexy favors"?!
Haruka lives a happy life with her kind and handsome husband, who is three years younger than her, and their cute four-year-old daughter. The only thing that bothers her is that a mom at her daughter's preschool, Maki Ogawa, is very familiar with her husband. Haruka believes that her husband would never betray her, but a person she would least suspect is actually trying to steal him away... This suspenseful story of adultery and deception questions just what the bond between a husband and wife is, and how a woman who knows only hell awakens and goes berserk!
The impoverished estate of Baron Aitreev has been blessed with two wonderful twin children. The kind and compassionate sister Belle and the intelligent and book-savvy brother Stephan have been living an increasingly modest lifestyle so that their people can continue to survive the seasons... though they are unsure how many more winters they can manage. Suddenly, a proposition comes to them from the servant of a well ornamented Marquis. The son of this Marquis, Evert Brotaire and his fiancee Elena Gromberg are displeased with their engagement and wish to find someone to marry out of love. It seems that this Marquis wishes for the twins to give the couple experiences of love, only to break their hearts and disappear so that the two will finally cling to one another and marry. The twins are hesitant to take such an underhanded job, but things change when they get the chance to meet this troubled couple...!
Natsume, a systems engineer has missed the last train home, but wouldn't you know, Miki, an office worker also missed the last train. They both decide to go search for a hotel, but for some reason, they need to stay in the same room?! For Natsume whose face is always buried in front of his computer, this is one of the biggest hurdles he's ever faced, but the calm and friendly Miki convinces him with a smile that it'll be fine. The next morning, Miki tells Natsume, "I want to see you again." How will Natsume respond...?
Content Warning: this title contains material that may be distressing for some readers. "Do you really wanna kill me that badly?" His lips and his breath get closer as he says those words... Ever since her parents died, there's been a man Mayumi wants to kill. That man is the Kurose clan's young head, Yuya Kurose. One day, she sees him at the lounge she works at, and comes up with a plan to kill him. However, Yuya sees right through her. He takes the only keepsake she has of her parents and tells her, "Come with me quietly and I'll give it back to you." He takes her to the Kurose clan's estate. "You can kill me when winter comes around. Until then, be my 'soulmate'." What will Mayumi do? A suspenseful love story intertwined with hate and passion begins!
Hayato Fujii is a closeted gay man. To live a peaceful life, he keeps his sexuality a secret due to the trauma he experienced in high school. That is, until one day, an openly gay coworker, Yusuke Kai, blackmails him with a photo of him kissing another man. Kai promises not to expose him as long as Fujii sleeps with him just once. Fujii reluctantly agrees, but when the moment arrives, Kai seems inexperienced...? A wonderful, bittersweet love story between two men from different worlds and with completely different personalities that will pull at your heartstrings!
Kagamiya is a lot of things: superb researcher, dedicated worker, and the most charming man in the department. However, he's got one major issue... he's totally not what everyone thinks him to be. He looks stoic and charming, but really he's just a ball of anxiety who can't change his facial expression anymore. He's kept up with what's been expected of him, and is always trying his best at work, but that's left him lonely. That's where his savior comes in: Nonoi. Nonoi's the only person in the department to ever treat Kagamiya as a person as opposed to some almighty charming man. One day, the two of them are drinking on the roof when she suddenly asks him if they could spend the night together...?!
Takao was a knight in a previous life. Now, after many reincarnations, he works as a successful corporate consultant in modern-day Japan. When he catches a glimpse on screen of Hikaru, a member of the boy band Dumas, the memories come flooding back. Hikaru is the reincarnation of the prince Takao had pledged himself to, and whom he was unable to protect. As if to atone for his failure, he vows to serve Hikaru in his present life. How? Well, as Dumas's manager of course. That way, he can watch over Hikaru closely and ensure his future is bright. But when the "untouchably cool" idol singer offers him a rare smile, Takao realizes that the feelings he bears for him (and his former prince)...may extend beyond fealty and duty...! *Chapter 6 is a shorter chapter comprised of mini episodes involving the main story's characters.
Today, I found out my friend is having an affair with a married man. Then, I discovered my own husband is cheating on me. I've always looked down on people like that, convinced I'd never become one of them. But recently... I've met someone who makes my heart race.
Is this love?
A dramatic love story tangled in betrayal, temptation, and an overwhelming storm of desire.
The daughter to a family that owns a development company, Ruka Kosaka, is reunited with her childhood friend, Mikage Mizuki, after 13 years... for an arranged marriage. The two know they are getting into a loveless marriage, but if just something can help start their relationship off on the right foot... or so Ruka thought, but Mizuki seems to be distant and uninterested in anything. Looks like it's not worth getting hopes up. However, the first chance Ruka gets to look deeply into Mizuki's eyes, it seems like there's far more feeling, passion even, than what she's been led to believe.
Nanao has always kept her feelings for her sister's boyfriend a secret, but one night, he drunkenly spends the night with her?! Two years later, still haunted by regret and unable to move on, Nanao drowns herself in a superficial relationship with the mysterious and handsome Haruto. Just as she tries to forget the past, it comes back to haunt her when a man she never wanted to see again reappears...
"If I were her, I'd send them flying!" After a traffic accident, I was reincarnated in an otome game and swapped places with the villainess, Lady Alexandra. She was right in the middle of being condemned by her fiance, the second prince, under the spell of the heroine's charm magic. I sent him and the others flying! I thought I achieved a happy ending, but suddenly the world collapsed?! I awoke and found myself reliving Alexandra's life from childhood. Since regaining my memories, I've done all I could to avoid being condemned. This time around, instead of the second prince, I've caught the eye of the older and handsome crown prince...
The Trizal Kingdom: a land that has been tied to holy beings brought from other worlds since ancient times. As a new threat looms over Trizal, a new Saintess is summoned...a 17-year-old named Yuri. Appointed to aide her in her journey to become the kingdoms hero is a priest named Hamil, and Yuri is informed that she needs to marry someone from the royal family and defeat the demon king... but as she meets the prince he suddenly declares his opposition to their union?! Is that so?! I'll do it all myself then! With tempers high, Yuri sets out on a journey to save the world- her way!
Flair is the youngest magical artisan to ever be appointed to the royal court... and she's under constant harassment from her superior who leaves her with so much work that she almost never gets to go home. The one person who has been there for her, her fiance, also suddenly decides to call off their engagement, leaving her at rock bottom. However, after coming across the second prince of the kingdom caught in a terrible curse, everything changes. Flair helps him fight off this curse, but the only way to remove it is by finding who exactly casted it...
Suddenly one day, the marquess's daughter Lobelia realizes that she's inside the world of "The Eternal Cage," an adult dating sim she played in her previous life. What's more is that she's the villain of the story, while her dear sister Lily is the protagonist! However, "this time," Lobelia vows not to bully but protect her sister, especially from any "compromising circumstances." Thus begins Lobelia's struggle against fate, and the beautiful yet lusty men it throws her and her sister's way!
I'm the next king's fiancee, and he looks exactly like a manager at work?!
Nanoka Kuroe works in the office where she's been isolated by her coworkers due to her refusal to give in to harassment. Her only solace is Renji Wagu, a manager of another department. One day, after being harassed by a coworker, leading to her work being deleted, she is forced to stay late and work overtime. To relieve her stress, hugs Renji's coat jacket, only for him to walk in on her! Embarrassed, she runs home and falls asleep, trying to forget everything that had happened. When she wakes up, she finds herself in another bed, lying next to Renji without his clothes on?!
In her dream world, she's the fiancee of Glen, the next in line to be king of the Kingdom of Noswald, who's the spitting image of Renji. Everyone else in the castle also resembles Nanoka's coworkers! Will things turn out better for her in this new dream world?
"You can put it in... if you tell me you love me more than Nanami." Masaki's been holding on to memories of his first girlfriend, Kotone, since the day she suddenly disappeared. Even with those memories though he's moved on, started dating Nanami, and made plenty of friends. You could say he's living a healthy college student life. However, all of that changed when his club says they've got a new person joining at the party. She has beautiful black hair and eyes that could pull you right in... it was the girl he's always been looking for: Kotone. This story contains content relating to sexual ab*se and trauma associated with such.
A rose desperate to hide her thorns finally blooms in this office romance. Suzu Takamine, the office's unattainable beauty who turns down anyone that asks her to date, is carrying a painful secret. Whenever she tries to be intimate with a man, they faint for some reason. Suzu wants to get married someday, but with her condition ruining her dating life, she's losing hope for any happily ever after. When the office playboy, Kinase, learns of her unbelievable secret, Suzu is shocked to hear him offer his "expert assistance" in resolving her problem. Now she has to decide: Will she give him a try?
Karin's wedding is just around the corner, and while she is enjoying a blissful meal with her family, her fiance Chris and his father suddenly inform her that the engagement is off. Though shaken by their unexpected declaration, Karin asks Chris for the reason, and he reveals that he has fallen for Mary, Karin's best friend. With her honor and dignity tarnished by Chris and his father's thoughtless actions, Karin plummets into despair. However, her brother asserts that they will give them "a taste of their own medicine." The Rhedsum family shall not be trifled with! Dive into a refreshing and elegant fantasy of nobility and revenge!
Ryo, my husband of six months, has become distant lately. Every time I speak to him, he seems irritated and responds with sharp words. Our strained relationship has taken a significant mental toll on me, but thankfully, I can lean on my best friend Miku. She's someone truly precious whom I trust and can confide in about anything. One day,I decide to surprise Miku with a visit, only to find my husband's car parked outside her apartment. He'd told me he was heading out for golf with his boss early that morning, but it turns out he was lying. The truth? He's been sleeping with my best friend behind my back! And as if that weren't enough,he showers her with affection he never shows me while also trash-talking me. As I grapple with my disbelief, a dark resolve forms within me, urging me to get rid of both my husband and best friend.
"Did you know? Even I get a turn to make my move." Temp worker Rino Amano, 27 years old, used to have a lover. His name was Haruo Higashiyama and he worked full-time at the same company as the manager of the planning department. He was 32 years old, married, and had a two-year-old daughter. While 99% of her knew that this was an unforgivable love that would never amount to anything, the other 1% was clutching her phone, spending her days waiting for him to reach out. One day he suddenly demands to break it off, throwing the feelings she had for him in the trash. This devastating blow leaves Rino distraught. Even at work she is unable to suppress her feelings, and she searches for an empty room to hide her tears. In doing so she catches Haruo secretly making out with another coworker much younger than herself. At that moment something inside her breaks and awakens something inside.
"Getting so into it in this situation. What a dirty girl." - I can feel you through my shirt, your skin brushing against all the most sensitive parts of my body, your fingers slipping inside me. You whisper for me to keep quiet so we don't get caught...but I just can't...!
One night, Kaede accidentally locks herself out of her office, but then she runs into Shioya, the guy she's been crushing on, in the hallway outside it. He helps her out and even ends up offering to let her crash at his place for the night! Except that's when Shioya's roommate gets home, and the two of them panic and rush to hide in the closet. Their bodies are pressed so close together that Kaede's heart starts racing... Then Shioya's lips brush against Kaede's breast, and suddenly things are moving fast!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "Seal My Lips With a Kiss"
On a moonless night... I hear your voice for the first time. Ume was abandoned by the family she married into because she was unable to bear children. She returns to the village where she was born but finds herself alone as her parents die from a spreading disease. As told in tales of sacrifice to the gods, the village also begins to experience a shortage in the crops of their farms that will only continue until someone is offered. Ume is not able to bear a child but as she does not have any children, she is able to lie her way into being offered to the gods. Waiting for her at a shrine deep in the mountains is a wolf god with silver hair and beautiful nails that shine in five different colors... what will come from this encounter between a despised god and an unhappy girl?!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "The Lying Moon Princess's Marriage: I Will Gain the Wolf God's Favor"
Through music, the Hanamura clan manifested special powers that brought about prosperity to their clan; however, Akari, who didn't exhibit any powers, was deemed a "Seed of Misfortune" and scorned by her family. From then on begin her days of bearing callous treatment from her parents and sister. But one day, she finds an invitation to a soiree hosted by one of the oldest and noblest clans in the country. It seems the head of that clan, Mikoto Sazarashi, is searching for a bride. Finding herself unable to resist going, Akari attends the soiree - only to be quickly discovered by her sister. Akari is immediately berated and belittled by her, but...a handsome, young man appears, takes Akari's hand, and declares, "I've finally found you, my beloved bride." Check out this great Cinderella story set in an Eastern setting and filled with romance, turmoil, and mystery!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "The Fox Lord's Bride ~Taisho Romance Chronicles~"
Toma Sugawa is a cool-headed, unsociable businessman. For some reason, he's not in a relationship, and he spends his life watching the days go by. One thing that has become a part of his daily routine is waking up one of the tenants in his grandfather's apartment complex. That tenant is Kaoru Aida. He has countless alarms go off, and still doesn't wake up until Toma comes in to wake him. On top of that, he asks Toma to wake him up the next morning, without a lick of remorse. With an attitude like that, of course Toma is on the verge of snapping. But one day, Toma goes to wake him up as usual, and Kaoru, still sleepy, pushes him down?! Enjoy this clumsy, blooming love story between an inconsiderate guy and a guy still stuck on his ex!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "The Seduction of the Deep Sleeper"
Akari is good at her job, beautiful, and her sense of style is beyond compare... but she has a secret. She's almost 30 and she's still a virgin! One fateful day, a new department chief takes over -- the handsome Shinomiya. "You're my subordinate now, which means from today, you have to do what I say." Shinomiya is a condescending bully and he and Akari clash from day one. Akari finds herself drinking her worries away at his welcome party and before she knows what hit her, she's completely smashed. She wakes up the next day to find -- Shinomiya emerging from her bathroom half naked?!?! Thus begins Akari's comedic office romance with her callous new boss!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "From Zero to Office Romance"
Yoshiwara has been reborn in modern-day Tokyo.... In this new Yoshiwara, beloved actresses whose talents grace the screen by day spend their nights selling both their bodies and the idea of romance to their male clientele. Thrust into this world is the ingenue Asuka, who's been sold out by her foster parents to pay off their debts. While at first oblivious to the nature of Yoshiwara, she accidentally barges in on a "transaction" between a courtesan and her client. Confronted with her new reality of being bought and sold, she longs to make a break for it... but is there anyone around her she can trust...?!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-8 of "Worth a Billion: Modern-Day Courtesan"
"Did you notice my feelings for you back then?" Back in high school, Hinako had secretly loved her classmate Masashi. Ten years later, they're suddenly reunited! Once reserved, Masashi has become much more handsome. When he openly expresses his thoughts to Hinako, they send her heart racing! "I love him... I want to hold his hand. I want to be close to him." A love reunited and finally fulfilled...?!
37 years old and working to no end, Kosuke lost everything the moment his job went out the window. Everything lost leads to drinking your mind away, which leads to getting picked up by some guy, which leads to doing it before you even realize. Coming to his senses, it looks like the guy he was in bed with is the same guy he sees on TV all the time- a member of the super famous idol group REAL 5, Tomou! Now Kosuke's stuck with a young and dazzling idol boy trying to get in his pants nonstop! Chapter 6 features a bonus story about a charming company president, a struggling younger man, and a big home of cats!