Julia lost her parents and lives a hard life taking care of her two older sisters. Her sisters will be getting married and leaving home soon, but who is she going to marry? At a party, Julia is approached by Professor Gerard, a Dutch aristocrat and the head of the medical world. His impression of her is terrible when she teases him about the dress he made by tailoring the curtains.She never wants to see him again. But it's also the professor who gives her a hand when she loses her job and her house. Is he a tease, or is he kind?
Halina, a princess of the kingdom of Abkar, who has never known freedom. She sneaks into a party where she wants a once-in-a-lifetime moment to herself and meets Rico, a beautiful millionaire. She wants to live for herself just for tonight....Halina, who has been lured to him, offers her virginity to Rico. As a result, she becomes pregnant with Rico's child and is ordered by her furious father to live in a remote palace where no one comes. Two months later, Rico appears in front of Halina, who is living a lonely life. He asks her to marry him, but tells her that he will never love her. A loveless marriage...Is this the price for living freely for just one night?
Zoe, a fledgling interior designer, is training in Paris, grieving the loss of her family. One day, she receives a job offer from Jules, a real estate tycoon. It doesn't take long for the two to be attracted to each other, even though they are polar opposites: he is a rationalist and she is image-conscious. But as Zoey bites her lip in happiness, Jules tells her, "I have a rule that we can only go on three dates." She's scared of losing someone she loves, and he's the same way, unable to take love seriously. But Zoe feels like giving herself to this dangerous relationship...
Mystery author Ramsey is in a predicament he's never been in before. Even though the deadline is so close, he's drawing a blank. While he struggles, he hears someone crying through the wall. Is it Alexis from upstairs? Apparently, the daughter of a prestigious family has been left by her fiance. For some reason, every man she dates falls in love but then suddently disappears from her life. If she doesn't find someone to marry within a month, she has to marry someone her father picks out for her... And now she's inviting him to a party as her escort!
Abby writes a series of columns about her wonderful life with her perfect fiance. One day, she and her fiance receive an invitation to a charity party hosted by a high-end magazine. What am I going to do? It's all made-up! I'll lose my job if they find out my column is a lie. Abby is so distraught that she tells her best friend's brother, Luke, who is a wealthy man. He agrees to pretend to be her fiance for two hours during the party. However, they win a travel voucher to a resort in the Mediterranean during a raffle at the party...and they end up going on vacation for a week together!
After her father's death, the family's confectionery company is struggling, and Kate begins working at a nightclub to make ends meet. However, she freezes when she sees a familiar face among the customers. Nikos... Why here of all places! Three years ago, Kate fell in love with and got engaged to a man she had met on a trip to Greece, but they had a bad break up because her mother disapproved of the marriage. He has become one of the wealthiest businessmen in Greece, but... The next day, Nikos comes to Kate and says, "You will marry me. If you don't agree, I'll take over your company."
Leah is injured late at night and collapses in an unsafe alleyway. She has lost all her memories, and when she returns home, the servants are distant and her husband Paul's eyes are full of hatred. Just what was my life like? But even amid her anxiety, she found hope. Leah has come to love her husband, whom she is meeting for the first time. It seems that her previous self was cruel and she treated Paul horribly. What will happen when my memories come back? Eventually, Leah regains all of her memories, but the worst thing that could happen is worse than she could have ever imagined..!
It is said that when you make a wish on the hilltop on the morning of Solstice Day, your wishes come true. I wish to meet the person I'm destined to be with. When Beatrice made that wish, a lovely man appeared from the woods. This tall, pleasant man said he was Oliver. How wonderful it would be if this was the person I was destined to be with... A few days later, Beatrice accompanies her great-aunt to London to see a famous cardiologist at his clinic... And there was Oliver! I can't believe I'm meeting him again. He leaves her after telling her something mysterious. "This was an inevitable reunion." Is this the beginning of a sweet and tender love story?
Blythe lives alone in a ravine by the sea, working in gardening and flower arranging. One morning when she opened the door, she heard the beautiful sound of an organ. Someone had moved into an empty house in the same valley! Blythe goes to greet them with some cookies and a bouquet of flowers but Jas, a very grumpy looking man, appears. He is a mathematician absorbed in proving a certain theorem. Blythe can't help but be curious about the unsocial but kind Jas. It turns out he has a sad past...
On her wedding day, Beth is kidnapped while still in her wedding gown. Her cousin, Lile, whom she hates, asks her to marry him, which she reluctantly agreed to, but her kidnapper calls her a swindler. According to Lile's story, he needed to get married quickly in order to receive an old man's inheritance. Beth, on the other hand, was in need of money to rent the land where she worked, so the marriage was just a business deal. But the kidnapper, who is as fearless and handsome as a wild animal, coldly taunts Beth, "If you're dreaming that your beloved prince will come looking for you, you should give up..."
Shinobu Watanuki (39), who has moved into her husband's family home, is an unsuccessful comic artist. She had planned to use this move as a chance to give up her career, but after one of her old works becomes a hit online, she decides to create a new comic instead. In need of help with this, she looks for an assistant online. A handsome 22-year-old man named Chiaki Tachibana applies to her ad, and Shinobu finds herself at a major turning point in her life. Delve into a poignant tale by a seasoned comic artist, skillfully blending themes of dreams, career, and romance in life from 40.
The new, hilarious yuri comedy! Hime gets roped into working at a weird cafe where the waitresses pretend to be students at an all-girl boarding school. She's strangely taken with her partner Mitsuki, who's so kind to her in front of the customers. There's just one problem... Mitsuki really can't stand her! Hime is a picture-perfect high school princess-she's admired by all and never trips up! So when she accidentally injures a cafe manager named Mai, she's willing to cover some shifts to keep her facade intact. To Hime's surprise, the cafe is themed after a private school where the all-female staff always puts on their best act for their loyal customers. However, under the guidance of the most graceful girl there, Hime can't help but blush and blunder! Beneath all the frills and laughter, Hime feels tension brewing as she finds out more about her new job and her budding feelings...
Soubi leads Ritsuka through a maze of new experiences, from battles wrought in wordplay to making friends at school. But is he any less alone with the secretive Soubi than by himself?
Marinette is your typical high school student: cheery and a little clumsy. Not so typical? She can transform into a superhero! As the confident, masked Ladybug, Marinette guards the streets of the City of Lights alongside Cat Noir, another superhero who, unbeknownst to Marinette, is her classmate Adrian, and her crush! Adrian doesn't know who Ladybug is, either, but he's crushing on her, too. Supervillains, school, and criss-crossed crushes? As if being a teenager and a crime fighting superhero wasn't enough!
MAKEOVER OF THE CENTURY It's a gorgeous, spacious mansion, and four handsome, fifteen-year-old friends are allowed to live in it for free! There's only one condition-that within three years the guys must transform the owner's wallflower niece into a lady befitting the palace in which they all live! How hard can it be? Enter Sunako Nakahara, the agoraphobic, horror-movie-loving, pockmark-faced, frizzy-haired, fashion-illiterate recluse who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive. This project is going to take more than our four heroes ever expected: it needs a miracle! This volume of The Wallflower includes special extras after the story!
Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda are two high school students who share a common hobby: They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends, until one day, when Chiharu confesses his love for Wataru. Wataru says that Chiharu's confession doesn't bother him, and the boys continue throughout their summer, going to pilgrimages to see film spots from their favorite movies. But the more time he spends with Chiharu, Wataru realizes that he may not only be as unaffected by Chiharu's confession as he claimed to be, but those feelings may also be mutual...
Kiyo Hori (age 29) married Mitsuhiro Yoshida in four months after a serious heartbreak with Yasutaka Mizuki, a married man who was her senior at work. Mitsuhiro is a divorcee. The divorce was caused by infidelity on the part of his ex-wife, Reina. She married Mitsuhiro, who paid monthly child-support payments to their 3-year-old who lived apart from them.... Kiyo, though, found her marraige to Mitsuhiro to be better than she had imagined. Mitsuhiro's passionate courtship led to marriage, which led to a comofortable life and perfect physical chemistry between the two. If only it weren't for the frequent interference from Reina, who uses her and Mistuhiro's child as a pretext to disturb the peace......! How many more intrusive phone calls to her husband can Kiyo take before she confronts the situation!!!!
"You are the one I care for, not your gender!" The Prince of Commander of the North wants the daughter of the Shen family as his concubine. In order to give his adoptive mother a better life in her old age, the family's mute servant, Shen Yu, conceals his gender and takes the daughter's place. But Shen Yu is afraid that once his identity is revealed, he'll be executed. To his bewilderment and relief, he only attracts the attention of the Prince even more... but is that really a good thing?
Cleo Farshid has been disowned from his noble family due to his inability to be number one in anything at the Royal Academy. Cleo decides to escape his stuffy life and live more freely, taking advantage of his skills to become an adventurer. Neither he or his father have realized how amazing it is to be ranked as second in everything at a school where the most talented compete.
"I'm just an average person. I'm not an expert in anything." That sentiment kicks off an unmatched tale about a boy who is the strongest specifically because he's always second!
A high school boy, Kaoru Momota, saved a high school girl named Hime Orihara as she was getting molested on the train one day. The two of them fell in love with each other, but she has a secret that she can't tell anyone. "I'm...actually 27 years old." The high school girl actually turned out to be a 27-year-old woman!
With the hero's party having grown past the need for his training skills, the protagonist Aega finds himself sacked. In lieu of a cash severance pay, he's granted dominion over the territory of Tokumo. However, his new domain may hide a shocking secret...!
"My best friend is the only one who has my spare keys, but for some reason, his little sister always sneaks into my room..."
Ooboshi Akiteru is a high school boy who is the very definition of ordinary. He leads an efficient life while being content with his unmemorable existence until his days are completely changed by Kohinata Iroha, the younger sister of his only best friend, Kohinata Ozuma. She pesters Akiteru daily to the point he finds himself caught up in all kinds of troublesome situations. What's more, he meets other girls who also have attitudes that are hard to deal with!
Annoying and cute girls are the best! The popular, teenage romantic comedy begins now!
His father is a sage and his mother is a martial artist... Yuan is a boy whose parents are the strongest humans in this world and they raised him making him believe he's "weak". However, he can pulverize giant rocks with a flick of his finger and he hunts and eats dragons, believing they're just "lizards". His daily life isn't normal at all!! If you're raised by the strongest, it's only natural that you're going to be the strongest too. This is the story of a peerless boy who knows nothing of the world but he's about to shake it!!
Lars, an adventurer warrior, was always treated as the errand boy by his party. His life changes forever when his party kicks him out, forcing him to change jobs. It is then discovered that Lars has an overwhelming talent in magic rivaling that of the "Great Sage"! Friends, adventure, and perhaps...love? A new career with abundant talent!
Wein, a young prince, is in charge of the politics in a weak country with no resources, human resources, or troops. Together with a young girl named Ninym, who serves as his aide, Wayne shows his brilliant skills as a politician with a secret wish.
"Sell the country and get out of here"! Yes, Wayne's wish was to live a comfortable life in retirement! However, his plan took an unexpected turn when his subjects become to favor him making it difficult to fulfill that wish. The tale of running a weak government and full of unexpected surprises, begins here!
Morishita Daiki became a hero after being summoned to another world. After skillfully striking down the Demon Lord, he returned to Japan. Daiki, with his strength concealed, was living a tranquil day-to-day life. However, apparitions and those with special powers run rampant in this seemingly-normal world. A supernatural school-battle epic rarely seen in the modern era unfolds in the shadows!! A story about an unbelievably strong hero returning to the modern era after his adventures in another world!
On his way home from work one day, Shiota, a hard-working businessman, stumbles upon a stranger who's about to pass out from hunger. Surprisingly, the man happens to be a co-worker from a previous part-time job, Suzuya! Unable to leave his acquaintance be, Shiota puts his years of cooking for himself to good use and whips up a few dishes to share. Although Suzuya leaves satisfied that night, he starts to make a habit of showing up at Shiota's place whenever he's in search of a good meal.
Shiota should hate having to feed Suzuya whenever he shows up, but he's actually finding himself getting quite attached to this stray cat that has entered his life...
This volume also contains the age-gap romance stories "Slate Blue" and "The Sky and Gray Blue"!
Despite being born with the crest that's most unsuited for battle, Gaius devoted his life to researching magic, and became the world's strongest mage. Still, he yearns for more formidable enemies, even though he's painfully aware of how powerless he would be against them. And so, he goes in search of allies. But who would be fitting for the strongest battle mage?! Meet Iris, the Dragon of Darkness in a young girl's body; Yuril, the Sorceress of Annihilation, known as the strongest in the kingdom; Reuter, the Demigod of the Blade, and his skills worthy of being praised in legends. Join these four as they go through battles that transcend imagination!!
In a world where your value is determined by the amount of equipment slots you're born with, our young protagonist Noroa, who dreams of becoming an adventurer has... zero equipment slots! However, he's able to equip 9999 items only if they are cursed?! His adventure begins a fateful day after meeting a mysterious doll and acquiring a cheat-like cursed sword!
Introverted high-school student Ryuto is forced to confess to his crush, the most popular and beautiful girl in school, Luna. Surprisingly enough, she replies, "Then, how about we go out? I'm single right now anyhow." Then right after school, she invites Ryuto to her room...?!
Despite being completely different from one another, including the amount of experience with love and types of friends they have, the two of them are about to embark on a relationship full of firsts!
An orphaned girl named Blue has always dreamed of joining the ranks of the noble Angels, servants of the floating palace who protect the Quartz Kingdom against demons. Yet, Blue is not like the other children at the orphanage. Where their fledgling angel wings are downy white, Blue's are pitch black, giving rise to whispers that she is cursed. One day, the orphanage comes under attack by a host of demons. Angels swoop down from the palace to drive the demons back, but Blue watches in horror as they are cut down one after another. Just when all seems lost, Blue feels a dark power welling up inside of her. It may be enough to avenge her friends...but will the cost prove too great?
Following a wave of immigration, Japan has become a volatile mix of people and cultures, rocked by the protests of xenophobic extremists unhappy with the new status quo. A brash, job-hopping young woman named Riko is driving her scooter through one such protest when she sees a boy about to get run over by a truck. Riko just manages to shove him out of the way, and, in the hours that follow, she finds herself looking after the boy, named Eito. Riko takes Eito out for a bowl of ramen, but just as they're about to dig in, Eito is fired upon by a distant army sniper. As the bullet pierces the restaurant window and comes whizzing toward Eito, plant-like tendrils snake out from his arm and stop it in mid-flight. Who in the world is this boy, and why is the army after him?!
Having fallen in battle long ago, Count Vlad Dracula is reborn as a katana-wielding young vampiress in an alternate-history Europe. After the reincarnated Dracula rescues a girl named Clara from a mysterious stranger, Clara explains that she is the creation of a certain Victor Frankenstein. She also reveals that she is fleeing from an organization called Cerberus, which seeks to capture and study "monsters" such as herself in order to create an army of human-monster hybrids. Clara begs the vampiress to flee with her to an island of monsters where the two of them will be safe...but as they set out for Monster Island, the sinister forces of Cerberus are in hot pursuit.
27-year old Maki Enomoto is done with relationships. One year ago, her terrible boyfriend made her the joint guarantor on a loan before promptly ghosting her with a mountain of debt. Now she just wants to be left alone to her quiet otaku life, working her office job to make her ex's monthly repayments, and devoting what scant little is left to her hobbies. Namely, her virtual boyfriend Allen-kun, who is hot, kind, and dependable in a way that real-life men aren't-least of all the hotshot young VP that keeps getting on her case about deadlines and deliverables. But when said VP shows up with a rather interesting proposal, Maki must decide if she's ready to roll the dice one last time...
Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment-exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering the truth and seeking vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!
It's been two years since the infamous Unabara Tournament, but things aren't over for Iori Sengoku-in fact, he's received a summons from the Tokugawa Shogunate. He's to join in battle against the Shogunate's top martial artists to determine the strongest of the lot. Not only that, he's accompanied by the sword-crazy Ran Ichinose. No matter what, this is an adventure you won't want to miss-the thrilling sequel to Gamaran!
This is a story about a piano, pitifully abandoned in the woods, and a young boy, Kai, who grew up playing it as his favorite toy. While Kai cannot even read sheet music, one day, he meets Shuhei Amamiya, an aspiring child pianist who transfers schools from Tokyo, and their music teacher, Sosuke Ajino. Ajino was also once a gifted pianist, until a tragic accident stole his promising future from him forever. Each from a different background, the trio's personalities gravitate to one another and rebound. All the while, the piano sits patiently, awaiting a hand to play it.
When career-minded Kentaro Hiyama finds out that he's pregnant, it will change the course of more than just his own life. In the Japan of Eri Sakai's thought experiment, ten years have passed since the male sex has spontaneously gained the ability to get pregnant, and society has struggled to adjust. Kentaro isn't sure at first who the mother might be, and quickly finds himself butting up against regressive attitudes and discriminatory policies-most of which long precede male pregnancy. In his previous life, he'd never given any of it a second thought-he may have even held the same views. But through his encounters with other pregnant people, and galvanized by his new perspective, Kentaro turns his skills in business and marketing to effecting social change.
Leo Cornelia has dedicated her entire life to the battlefield. There is no demon she can't slay, no challenge she can't handle-at least, not until that confounding halfwit mage Foolie Dent confesses his love to her. Nothing feels farther from her than long-discarded notions of femininity and romance, but this annoying but dependable new friend might just be the key to opening the heart she closed long ago.
Yui Mitsuya and Masugu Tateishi aren't just any coworkers-they totally have the hots for each other. His helpful yet humble attitude makes her giddy, and her cuteness leaves him grinning like a fool. Problem is, they're trying to keep their new relationship under wraps to avoid making things awkward at work. But seeing how they can't keep their hands off each other, they run the risk of spilling their little secret with each passing day at the office.