Ami Satou works for Cobara, a company that specializes in sweets. While she may be good at sales, her confidence in pretty much everything else is low, which is why she hasn't even thought about dating since college. Instead, she fills up her imagination with romantic scenes from shoujo manga.
When she meets Alain Giraud, a handsome, older French man in charge of a new project she's assigned to work on, she begins to struggle to keep that romantic imagination in check... especially with Alain being so overly friendly! Ami keeps reminding herself that it's just because he's French, but will she be able to resist his romantic charm?
We all know the way the story goes. The valiant prince goes on a perilous journey, kills a ferocious dragon, rescues a captive princess, earns his family's honor. But what if this time the prince... was a princess?In a fairytale world where Queens rule and magic is power, Princess Amaltea is sent on the biggest quest of her life - to rescue a prince in need and fulfill her duties as a princess. Spoiled, prejudiced and sheltered from the world at large, Amaltea reluctantly sets out on her journey and finds her "lad in distress"... only to find out he's not so willing to join her.
Tantric Stripfighter Trina fights an evil space federation...by taking off one piece at a time! Young Trina Devi's home world Rama was destroyed by mercenaries under government orders. Now the last of her kind, Trina is skilled in Rama's native art of stripfighting: a tantalizing fusion of Shaolin martial arts and Tantric sensuality.
Bryn McMillan's boyfriend, Jack, has gone missing. She has the nagging suspicion that something terrible -- and otherworldly -- has happened to him, a feeling that only increases when she has vivid visions of Jack being chased by a vicious hunter intent on owning Jack's soul. Always one to consult psychics, Bryn finds herself at The Tarot Cafe seeking a way to aid Jack in his spiritual struggle. But when she discovers what has happened to him, Bryn finds herself with an impossible choice between a life without love or an eternity of pain by her soul mate's side.
In the midst of a crowded ballroom, the Countess Sherazade is overcome by a flood of memories. Memories of a past life as an ordinary girl in another world, reading a Teen Love novel about a meek, but kind-hearted young woman from an impoverished noble family who catches the Prince's eye, and then attracts his love. A novel that recounts the story of her own life... or what it will soon become.
The only problem is... this story ends with Sherazade as a traumatized and broken shell of herself, and there's no way she's going to sit back and let that happen. At that moment, Shera makes a promise to herself- to do whatever it takes to make sure she will never, ever marry the prince!
As a member of the Cacciatore Guild, Danielle Burroughs is one of the criminal underworld's most renowned hitmen. Despite her success, memories from her past bleed into the present-forcing her to reconsider the life she now leads. Events are set in motion once she kills Emilio Francesca, her caretaker, but accidentally also kills his daughter, Lilio, in the process. She realizes that she's had enough of this life, one now truly without meaning. Leaving it all behind, she soon realizes that even Death is no escape from her past.
This book contains mature themes and violence. It is intended only for audiences aged 16 years and up.
A pregnant woman is pursued by a supernatural creature. On the internet, videos of a bandaged hero surface. 15-year-old Tim Muley makes a terrible discovery in his neighbor's garden. Three seemingly unrelated events, all of which seem to point to an imminent zombie apocalypse! But this time the story's not about the end of mankind; it's about a new beginning...
It's the year 2504. In the aftermath of an apocalyptic war, the surviving humans are ruled by the Beasterians, animal-human hybrids created to be the ultimate soldiers, but who instead became merciless tyrants. Doomed to extinction, humanity's future rests with the savior whose birth is foretold by the Post-Testament Bible.
When the Tokyo Metropolitan Government applies a new, futuristic urban infrastructure management system called J-ctOS, it appears to be an instant success. Citizens' lives are quickly improved thanks to the ease of interconnectivity and convenience. However, all is not as it seems; while everything may appear to be going well, there are secrets lurking behind Blume Japan, the creator of J-ctOS.
Inspector Goda Gordon is a dedicated, honorable policeman who believes in justice above all - a mindset that is harder and harder to hold onto as his investigations continue to hit dead ends. After some off-the-books sleuthing, he comes to understand the grip that J-ctOS has on every aspect of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, including its police department. Soon, he realizes that his only option to fight the injustice and corruption in his city may lie in the hands of a group of vigilante hackers known as DEDSEC.
How far is Inspector Gordon willing to go in his fight against J-ctOS? And who, exactly, is DEDSEC?
"This was an intense, action-packed story with some great moments of police drama and murder-mystery thriller thrown in. With all the conversation surrounding ethical use of artificial intelligence, this is the perfect time for this story to hit shelves." - Sara Smith, The Graphic Library
"It's a great-looking manga with detailed backgrounds that bring the futuristic setting to life. It's like a fun action flick, albeit one you've probably seen before: scrappy underdogs taking on the world when it didn't seem like they had a chance." - Lauren Ortini, Anime News Network
Hodaka Akizuki, a seventeen-year-old high school student, has finally found a girlfriend. And Chihaya Shishizaki is truly the most beautiful girl at school, too. Just the thought of spending time with her practically has him pinching his cheeks. After all, she actually likes him back! The closer they get, the more his heart flutters. There's just one slight little problem: Chihaya has a secret-and it isn't just the secret to stealing his heart. With just one kiss, Hodaka is no longer Chihaya's boyfriend, but her brand new... girlfriend?!
In the dystopian city of Pluton, a man known only as The Human Eradicator emerges as a symbol of retaliation. Haunted by the loss of his beloved daughter, who fell victim to the terrifying humanoid flesh-eating monsters that plague the city, The Human Eradicator dedicates his life to eradicating these abominations from existence.
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.
Alexandra Benno can instantly summon parallel-dimension versions of herself. But these duplicates are always super-idealized: smart, fast, tough, and often the most beautiful girls in their world -- while Alex herself is a clumsy, frizzy-haired wallflower. So when the government recruits Alex for top-secret espionage work, it's always her alternate who gets the action, and, consequently, receives all the credit. Sick of being her own sidekick, will Alex be able to crack to Vosarak Code and complete her latest mission...or is she destined to live in her own shadow?
"I thought this would be the only love of my life." Lacheria, the daughter of a marquis of the Gazel kingdom, becomes one of the candidates for princess consort of Prince Bradford, her childhood friend. However, he falls in love with Alamoana, a daughter of a marquis who he suddenly meets one day. Bradford's feelings for Alamoana are so deep that he forgets his position and doesn't notice Lacheria's bittersweet feelings, as she had loved him ever since they were children. Where does this story about Lacheria's faithful love and sacrifice lead?
"I'm going to be in a relationship with my step-sister!" Wait, who decided that?! There was no way he was going to fall in love. Since that traumatic event from 2 years ago, he avoids love like the plague--When his dad gets remarried! Now he has 2 sisters?! This must be some joke!! Even though Aoba wants nothing to do with the sisters, they always find themselves in sticky situations. Can they open his "door" to love? The beginning of a juicy story bound to make life a home a very ending love battle!"
"What did I just 'feel'...?" The daughter of a baron, Melvy Renoir, has a peculiar constitution that impedes her ability to feel anything. Derided and oppressed by her family as an unsettling "defective product," she is ordered to marry Duke Gerald Valrier, feared as "The Bride-Slaying Duke." Feeling her life in danger, she reluctantly visits the duke's mansion. Upon meeting him, Gerald declares, "If you don't lose consciousness when I touch you, I will make you my wife." The moment his fingertips touched Melvy, her body, which should not feel anything, is overcome by a sweet, numbing "pleasure"... That encounter would come to serve as the prologue to a story in which two "flawed people" learn about love...
Hoshina dreams of making it big with his band-but writing love songs has never come easy.
That is, until he meets Seto, a sweet and disarming part-timer who shines a little too brightly in Hoshina's jaded world.
When a rainy night leads to an unexpected encounter, Hoshina finds himself drawn to Seto's honesty and warmth. But discovering Seto is still in his final year of high school leaves Hoshina spiraling with guilt...
As Hoshina tries to distance himself, Seto only steps closer-determined to love, and be loved, even if he's still figuring out how to be a grown-up.
Maybe love doesn't have to be perfect to be real... Maybe it just needs a good melody!-CWs: age gap
The word in town is that the broth at the local noodle house is to die for. The secret? The people who run the shop were on the brink of death! They call themselves COUNTERS and have partnered with ghosts from the afterlife to hunt down rogue spirits. When ordinary high schooler Mun is invited to join them, his whole life flips upside down. Can his new job of fighting evil and chopping noodles give him the answers to his parents' mysterious deaths all those years ago?
One rainy day while Motoi and his friend, Reiichi were on their way home, they encountered a young girl who looked like a foreigner who then led them to a shop by a hill slope. There, they meet the shop owner, an old man named Shouten, who deals with exotic wildlife - both ordinary and unordinary: demon beasts. Fascinated by the mysterious beasts the shop holds, Motoi agrees to work and raise a demon. Motoi's journey of encountering different demon beasts begins.
In a dystopian future, organized wars are serial entertainment, and overpopulation is controlled through a millionaire death lottery. A mute samurai, discharged with honor, finds out his wife was among the "lucky victims," and he embarks in a ruthless revenge to get her heart back. Literally.
After World War III, with humanity on the brink of extinction, the world's nations began researching cloning technology in earnest. Kris, a scientist, has successfully managed to clone a human being. However, despite his success, he's tormented by the feelings he harbors for his colleague and best friend, Seth. The stronger Kris's feelings grow, the more he suffers, as Seth is currently engaged to be married to his sweet and beautiful fiancee. As Seth's engagement party grows closer and closer, Kris comes up with a plan - one he can never reveal to his best friend...
In the present era, adventurers, demons, heroes, and demon lord, are no longer occupations that put one's lives at stake. With the world at peace, it is an era where conquering dungeons has been transformed into entertainment. Adventurers and monsters are able to fight with a substitute body made of magic, popularizing dungeon conquests with no deaths. Having lost his job, the "Black Mage" Remme struggled with finding another party until one day a beautiful woman appeared before him telling she had a job for him.
I'd like you to sleep with me. The day after my birthday, the chief I look up to made me a shocking request. I agreed wanting to be useful to him, but... he suddenly pushed me down looking nothing like himself!! Mikan Sasaki, an office lady who can see spirits, is pretty worried about all the evil spirits attached to Chief Akutsu, whom she's one-sidedly in love with. Moreover, she's been feeling a truly wicked presence among them lately... That very night, when she was drinking in the park in the name of a birthday party alone, he just happened to pass by and bring her back to his place... She then woke up with no memories of the previous night and her handsome chief sleeping right next to her!! I'm wounded and there's a bandage on it, meaning that I caused him trouble, right...? I asked him what I could do to pay him back, but for some reason he asked me to sleep with him!? In his room, in his bed filled with his scent, my heart is about to explode just from lying down next to the one I've loved for a long time. I can't believe I'm this close to him, whom I've always only watched from afar... A bed time love story about how an awkward pair get a bit closer every passing night.
Olivia Taylor opens her eyes after being caught and executed for her countless brutal murders to find that she has been reincarnated in a time and world she has no memory of called "modern-day Japan." She soon learns that the woman whose body she is inhabiting, Meisa, has been living a meager life with her preschool-age son, Reo. Meisa and Olivia's memories begin to blend together as she ends up getting caught up in a major incident involving Reo and her common-law husband, Ryuya... Surrounded by friendly faces like the loving Reo and the kind manager of the grocery store where Meisa worked, Natsuki, is this reincarnated monster now destined to navigate this new world as a mother...?! This single mom has no choice but to use the memories and instincts of her former life as a vicious serial killer to confront the evils of the present!
Former playboy Yukihiro nursed a crush on his refined and mild-mannered (or so she appeared) junior coworker, Chizuru, for just about a whole year before finally confessing his feelings. To his delight, she agreed to go out with him! Yukihiro was all set to take the lead in the relationship, but their roles were dramatically reversed as Chizuru threw back the curtain on her true, unfiltered self!
Collected here are 10 short and (relatively) all-ages comics that are 50% gag comedy, 40% flirty romance, and 10% sexiness. They follow the day-to-day lives of Yukihiro, once a womanizer and, now, fallen hopelessly in love, and Chizuru, the secretly lascivious target of his affections.
Rio is everything that Haruto wants in a girl: gentle, nurturing, and ladylike. The only problem is that she's the older sister of his best buddy Nao, and he fears that the difference in age means he's barely on her radar. If Haruto wants Rio to see him as more than her little brother's playmate, then he has to prove himself as a man in her eyes, no matter what it takes.
Meanwhile, Nao grows frustrated with Sena, a loudmouthed friend of Rio's who's too nosy for her own good. But what irritates him more than the constant pestering is how she just can't see him as more than a little kid. Can he help her get a clue?
In a long-abandoned house, the sound of knocking can be heard night after night, creating an eerie atmosphere that has kept people away for years due to strange occurrences. Hidden within the house is a bittersweet story from the turbulent early Showa era about two young men, Saburo and Minoru, and the love that blossomed between them.
Hiram, the strongest demon king in history and ruler of all demons, defies the Demon God's demands for sacrifices. This defiance leads to a fierce battle that leaves Hiram dead. Despite being the strongest, he could not overcome the truth of this world: Demons cannot defeat the Demon God.
Five hundred years later, Hiram has finally reincarnated as a human. While humans are considered the weakest race, they actually have the highest potential for growth?and Hiram fully intends to take advantage of that fact. So begins Hiram's new quest to kill the Demon God in this unique adventure story!
From the author of "I Became a Legend after My 10 Year-Long Last Stand" and "The Strongest Wizard Becomes a Countryside Guard After Taking an Arrow to the Knee", Ezogingitune, in collaboration with an up-and-coming manga artist, PIG3rd.
Hanagami Garyo reigns supreme at the pinnacle of the manga world, a genius author boasting millions of copies sold. An unrenowned rookie, Miyama Shinobu, lurks in the shadows below, consumed by his envy for fame.
Their fates intertwine when an unlucky accident leaves Hanagami and Miyama swapped into one another's bodies. As Hanagami tries to reclaim what is rightfully his and Miyama refuses to yield, the two mangaka enter a fierce battle with their bodies and pride on the line.
Authored by a mangaka with both style and substance, Ryo Ishiyama.
An android whose mission had been long completed finds a child abandoned in the ruins of a war-ravaged city. Amidst a dystopian world, a machine and human become mother and son.
This is the serialized version of the popular "Mechanical Buddy Universe" X comics by "Knight's & Magic" author, Takuji Kato.
Eris Boreas Greyrat takes center stage in this spinoff from the wildly popular series, Jobless Reincarnation! After facing a devastating defeat at the hands of Dragon God Orsted at the Red Wyrm's Lower Jaw mountain range, Eris parts ways with Rudeus and makes her way to the Sword Sanctum in order to rectify her own inexperience as a swordsman. As the "Mad Dog" continues to hone her sword skills under the tutelage of the Sword God, her fangs continue to grow stronger and sharper!
The Girlfriends Club: A mysterious association at Yamayuri Girls' Academy and its sister schools that essentially pays you to spend time deepening your relationships with other club members. The catch? Your interactions are livestreamed to an audience of very wealthy viewers! Mizuki convinces her friend Haruka that they should join together, thinking it will be a perfect chance for the two of them to grow closer. But Haruka might not be exactly the sweet, naive girl she seems to be. Will romance bloom as Mizuki hopes, or has she made a serious mistake?
A heartfelt pair of short stories about the ups, downs, and complications of the love we have for those we call family, and how we sometimes end up finding joy in surprising places.
You've heard of meet cute, but reunite cute? Now that they're both grown up, newly swole Shun visits his old friend Nana after an extended absence hoping to put a (figurative) stake in the heart of his one-time first love. But it looks like neither of these tiddy monsters is ready to let go! Join our hilariously awkward (maybe?) couple as they (hopefully!?) begin to bumble their way into an adorable relationship!
Ever since elementary school, Kazuya Kawaguchi has had a crush on the lovely Miki Toda. But every time he tried to give her a love letter to confess his feelings, he would turn away in fear! Unable to ever pass on a letter, the two don't see each other again until many years later at an alumni homecoming. Hoping to try again, Kazuya is dismayed to learn that Miki doesn't seem to remember who he is! Leaving him with only one choice; to act like the revelation didn't affect him at all. Except, Miki soon garners a vague recollection of Kazuya and thinks that he doesn't remember who she is. Sure that the night will end in nothing but frustration, Miki is shocked when Kazuya finally builds up the courage to ask her out! Enjoy a story filled with awkward love and a stack of undelivered love letters that are overdue.
The school nurse, Miss Kiyattou, is in love with the PE teacher, Miss Inui, but has a hard time approaching her. This makes it all the more frustrating since she gets to see other two fellow teachers, Miss Mujina and Miss Gaoda, being lovey-dovey all the time. But what will happen when Miss Inui comes to the school infirmary to consult about the relationship their fellow teachers have?