There's no way you won't fall in-love by having sex with an idealistic man. Miyuki is a serious guy working at a supermarket. He wants to change the serious part of him that keeps himself from doing well in life... With the help of some alcohol, he makes a profile on a matching app for gays. The man named Kuzumi that he quickly matches with and meets, happens to be younger and more handsome than expected. "I'll hit all the areas you can't reach yourself." He easily takes the lead for inexperienced Miyuki, showing him what he can't do on his own... Inexperienced Miyuki becomes engulfed by the alluring sex with Kuzumi......
WARNING: This book includes themes of suicide and self-harm. Reader discretion is advised. An author living in Okinawa has been creating manga as a hobby, illustrating their experiences with illness and life in the hospital. One day, through a twist of fate, they decided to self-publish both an Okinawan dialect version and an English version of their manga! This is the English translation of a manga based on the real-life experiences of an author who struggles with dissociative disorder, a mental health condition
Riko's parents own a shrine, and her family has a secret power: the ability to exorcise evil spirits through sexual activity! She soon gets an unexpected request from a handsome man named Akira, and while she's doing her usual "ritual" alone, she foolishly gets caught in the act... "You can't exorcise the spirit unless you go all the way, right...?" It seems like Riko and Akira will have to work together to sexorcise this powerful spirit! If he pounds her so hard inside and keeps playing with that clit of hers that's gotten so hard in anticipation... she can't hold it in...!!! The exorcism proves to be so effective that Riko hires Akira on as her permanent assistant straight away. Evil spirits beware, because there's an XL-sized exorcism stick at the ready for a piston-pounding purification!
Tae has been practically inseparable from her best friend Kiyo since college. And while Kiyo may be loose with women, Tae can always count on him for support - like whenever she crashes at his place to drown her sorrows over being dumped yet again. But what lies ahead in the morning after another night spent drinking together till dawn?! They're not quite lovers and not quite friends... but a revelation threatens to change all that. Can they move past mixed messages and misunderstandings to become something more? Or are they stuck as "best friends forever"?
In order to shake off the hurt of being cheated on by her now ex-boyfriend, Hana goes on a trip with her best friend Mizuki. At their destination, the two meet a pair of guys, but just as they've started to get to know each other, it dawns on Hana that her troubles are the result of her own too-sweet personality. Now determined to better herself, Hana sets out to change her pushover ways...?! This is the hapless love story of a clumsy quartet: Hana, who's always sacrificing herself for others; Mizuki, who only wants to be loved; Narita, who earns others' ire when he tells them blunt truths; and Ayumu, who is kind, but also something of a playboy. Can the four of them get their acts together long enough to avoid stumbling over themselves?
After getting away from her hometown - and her delinquent brother who basically ran the place - Yui is living it up at university. There, she falls for a cool, handsome (same difference!) Prince Charming in glasses who is the total opposite of her idiot brother, but unexpectedly her prince's friend is a delinquent!? On top of that, he's always getting in her way!! Just as she thinks it's all over for her, in more ways than one, she discovers that her prince in glasses lives in the apartment next door!?
She finds her boyfriend cheating, and at the same spot her ex shows up out of nowhere!! Her harmonious lovey-dovey life with a popular photographer is suddenly overturned, and she's knocked down to her lowest rock bottom ever - what will become of Mahiru now!? Truth and lies become entangled as this complicated four-way affair begins...
"I want many more people to recognize your talent and appeal." - Orihara takes pride in Narikawa, the actor whom he manages. Narikawa is wary of strangers and distrustful of other people, but he has a pure heart, and his incredible acting skills set him apart from other young actors. While supporting him closely as a manager, Orihara begins to grow fond of him; finally, he agrees to help relieve certain physical urges for Narikawa. From then on, Narikawa's attachment to Orihara grows deeper day by day, until...? A quiet, but intense romance between a clumsy actor and his older manager.
My work at a clothing store keeps me busy every day, and my only hobby is playing erotic dating sims. While I was leading that lonely life, my friend's ultra cute younger brother appeared before my eyes. When he unexpectedly had to drop me off at home, I couldn't resist his masculine features and without thinking it through...we became friends with benefits! I know we shouldn't keep this up, but what can I do? My body can't help but yearn for him...!
Such filthy things... At school, I carry out my work as a teacher with painstaking care, and others gossip that I'm "uptight" or "not interested in sexy stuff"... But night after night, I go home and touch myself to naughty thoughts of the school nurse Mr. Shirahane. Today, it's Mr. Shirahane with his hand under the desk, his fingers brushing over that sensitive spot as he says "You love being teased like this, don't you?" - caught in that fantasy, I came. Ugh, I'm such a p*rvert...!!
Beginning Chapter 11 is a spin-off focusing on Amamiya, the guy who was trying to get between Haruhisa and Io, and a new character, Komatora!
Kitazono Haruhisa has always been popular with the ladies! But then underclassman Io appears, and all the girls including Haru's girlfriend leave him to fawn over Io. An annoyance at first, Io is soon smitten with Haru thanks to a certain incident. He's good-looking enough to get more girls than Haru, but this dang pretty boy Io just trails after Haru like a loyal pet and gazes at him so passionately... That's nothing to feel good about!! These past ten years, Haru has let Io's affection go to his head, but now...?
That flirtatious manner... Those sweet nothings... She's had enough of playing around with men who are more concerned with themselves than a potential partner! But if she's going to have something sweet, she might as well get her fill...!! Eri Hosokawa, a thirtyish office worker in Tokyo, is beautiful and popular with men, but terminally unlucky in finding a lasting love. Nagata, a senior colleague, is reliable and well-liked around the office, but he's the same sort of no-good, full-of-himself perpetual bachelor she swore she wouldn't fall for... and yet, when she sees Nagata lamenting his lack of prospects, even she can't help but feel bad for him. But how did she end up staying at his apartment?!
Personality, education, status, money... Everything about him was perfect! Ayako Makuuchi, an up-and-coming office worker in Tokyo, has put her shameful past behind her and now struggles to become one of life's "winners". She's set her sights on Nagata, a senior colleague and her ideal man, and as the distance between them decreases day by day, she seems well on the way to a blissful wedded life... or so she thinks. Enter her childhood friend Eiji, who knows her dark secret and somehow ends up crashing at her place in the city...?!
After losing her parents and being bullied in middle school, Towako retreated into a reclusive life of reading books and writing amateur fiction, with her older brother supporting them both. But one day, a trio of handsome nightclub hosts -- her brother's new coworkers -- suddenly barge into her house, and into her life! Whether it's running into one of them naked, or being on the receiving end of a sudden embrace... Towako's days of quiet solitude may be over for good?!
"He's the CEO?! That guy from yesterday?!!" After losing my precious puppy who'd been at my side through high school, college, and since graduation, I went to a bar to drown my sorrows by the gallon. While I was wailing with grief, the man sitting next to me cut in with a majorly nasty retort: "Why not take some pills for your dysfunctional brain and start acting your age?" Well, I don't have to take that from some stranger!! So I returned the favor by sticking my leg out to trip him with an, "Oh, sorry. That was on purpose!" (Yeah, maybe I went too far...) Then, the next day that same guy turns up at my office and apparently he's the company's CEO! What's more, he's here looking for...me...?!?!
"Will you be taking a bath, dinner, or...?" The man uttering that cliched line was the middle-aged male housekeeper I suddenly ended up hiring! A man in the home of a radiant young (okay, twentysomething) maiden?! And on top of that, he's way older than me! What gives?! The curtain rises on a heartfelt tale of the odd-couple antics between Mei, a woman devoted to her career, and Nagisa, a man overflowing with maternal(?) warmth.
"That does it; my life is over now, for sure...!" -- Though he's good at his job, due to a stubborn streak and an overly serious attitude, office worker Sakura tends to take on too much. But he has a secret - after sunset on the weekends, he becomes "someone else." However, his junior coworker Arima sees him in this other form, and Sakura even gets stuck sharing his secret with the guy...!! Can straight-laced, earnest, bespectacled Sakura handle the onslaught from his blank-faced, pushy junior on top of all the rest of his stress?!
A coworker who keeps chasing after teen idols despite her age; a useless boss; and a completely unsociable new hire. Ann, a fortyish woman who looks down on those around her and blames everything on others, dreams only of marriage with the boyfriend who won't sleep with her. But then one day, when she learns that one of the colleagues she looked down on is getting married, she reveals her hidden nasty side right in front of the newbie. From that day on, she is visited by one misfortune after another....
There was a time when, overflowing with love, I let myself run wild without a thought for the other person's feelings or the people around us, and soon enough my love crashed and burned. Traumatized by this, I've now developed a bad habit of avoiding anyone I have eyes for, to keep my affection from showing. Then one day, my coworker invited me out to a bar, where I met Sawaguchi and fell in love with him at first sight - but thanks to my avoidant tendency, I ended up making him hate me... No matter how many times I reflect and repent, I just can't get this bad habit of mine to change. I want to be able to say "I love you" to the person I love! With my conviction made, I set out to see a counselor, but there I find none other than-?!
College student Ichiki can't help but beguile everyone around him with his dazzling smile. But the one person he's head over heels for is... his ultra ordinary manager Mr. Yomura! Homely but hardworking Mr. Yomura stole Ichiki's heart, and after a tireless pursuit Ichiki managed at long last to get his hands on boyfriend status. Now, three months since they started dating... they still haven't made any progress in their relationship?! Even with all the romance tactics popular-guy Ichiki has at his disposal, Mr. Yomura is a formidable conquest...
Unpopular manga artist Rikka is troubled by the fact that she can't draw an attractive man to save her life -- or her livelihood. This is rooted in a childhood trauma that resulted in her developing a fear of men. "I seriously need to get a series picked up...!" With her career as a cartoonist hanging by a thread, she decides to take kickboxing lessons in order to get back a life where she doesn't fear the opposite sex. While learning how to fight from Goromaru, her coach at the gym, she is touched by his awkward but sincere kindness, and falls for him hard, but....?!
"It's not that I don't want to get married. I just want to be accepted for who I am. Is that so much to ask...?" Suzu is a thirtyish woman with a cute-and-fluffy exterior that belies a strength no man can hope to match. But when she tells off her insistent mother by saying she'll only marry a man stronger than she is, she's set up with... a ninja?!? Is that his job...? How does he earn a living...? But Akitsuki the Ninja just smiles away, oblivious to Suzu's confusion. There's no way she could take him, and yet this kindhearted man, who nonchalantly accepts the true self that put off every other suitor she's ever had, secretly makes Suzu's heart flutter...
Riku is a fellow aficionado of all things cute, and his own looks are even more adorable than a girl's. We're so close that people often ask us if we're dating, but I don't think of us as "a man and a woman" - he's just my beloved friend. But then one day, after we both got hit on by some menacing guys, something in our relationship started to change... This isn't the Riku I know. But then why does he make my heart flutter?
Playboy Yamada and earnest Takahashi. Oddly comfortable around each other despite being complete opposites, these two were always together. They took it for granted that those days they shared would go on forever, and yet... Even after going their separate ways, they often overhear gossip about each other. The passage of these two years has only deepened and complicated their feelings. They cross paths again, and in that moment, what course of action do they take...?
Yuina Sawada, 24, currently single. Her ex-boyfriend was working as a porn star (unbeknownst to her!), and by learning under him, Yuina picked up enough know-how about sex to call it a special skill; her knowledge even pulled a married couple she was friends with out of a rut! Then one day, seeing promise in her ample know-how, a young CEO selects her for the position of his sex counselor...!! She never taught him to do that, though?! This young CEO seems as sweet and earnest as a puppy dog, but he's actually a hard-as-nails [redacted]!! "Ohhh, I just can't escape him...!!"
"Why don't you have a child with me, then?" A woman who lost the husband she adored, and a man who lost the brother he revered, united in the depths of their grief.... The widowed Shion, age 35, spends her days trying to manage the small store she ran with the husband who died three years earlier. But from a sorrow that time doesn't seem to heal, she comes to think, "If only I'd had a child with him, a piece of him would still be here with me." When her college student brother-in-law Kosei learns of Shion's wish, he makes an unexpected proposition that shakes her to the core. Is he doing it out of respect for his older brother, or is it something else...? These two bereaved souls, aching for the same lost loved one, become transfixed by a forbidden notion....
She doesn't know how it feels to be in love, and her body can't bear children, but that doesn't mean she doesn't want a perfect family like the ones you see on TV! And who should appear before down-on-her-luck, marriage-crazy Sachiko, but Keiichi! He's got looks and money to spare, and most importantly, he accepts all of Sachiko's conditions! But Keiichi's got secrets of his own... Can Sachiko overcome these hurdles to obtain the happy home she's dreamed of?!
Is this love a dream come true? Or is it the beginning of a nightmare? From cheating, to gold-digging, to dangerous cults, Satoru is a man so unlucky in love that every woman he's ever fallen for has betrayed him. He decides that if he's only capable of falling in love with wicked women, he might as well go with the marriage match his parents have picked out for him. But one look at Michiru, the woman they've set him up with, and Satoru is head-over-heels. And that can only mean one thing...
High-school senior Chihiro is attracted to Ayuta, another boy at his school, but Ayuta only has eyes for his childhood friend Hayato, even though he knows Hayato already has a girlfriend. Ayuta continues to play the role of a devoted friend, but the anguish that shows through on his face from time to time only serves to pull Chihiro even closer... It may be too soon to call these pent-up feelings crying out from their hearts "love", though.... It's a youthful, lyrical lovestory between two immature and uncertain high school boys.
Homurako Yoshii, a country girl born and raised, transfers into an elite girls' school in the heart of Tokyo. There, she meets Sasara Takamura, admired by those around her for her brains and her beauty... but she's actually a he?! The two of them, polar opposites in both status and personality, are drawn to each other....
Sumito Kayashima, a wealthy man from a long-esteemed family, passes his days in solitude. It is hard to say what our Mr. Kayashima was thinking when he suddenly visited his gardener's home... and confessed that he was in love. Angered by this high-handed and unilateral attempt at courtship, the gardener made Mr. Kayashima a cruel demand...
"Why don't I show you what being a woman's all about? Physically..." Mayu Minagawa, marketing whiz at a major foods company, is a virgin who has zero aptitude when it comes to cleaning. One day, she learns that her senior colleague (and one-sided crush) Yanagi's ideal woman is one who can do housework. But when she arrives at home still in shock, there's a man in an apron standing in a neat-and-tidy room!! And on top of that, this man, Shin, confronts her with a harsh truth: "I don't think men want to be with women who can't clean"! To bring herself in line with Yanagi's ideal, Mayu begs Shin for cleaning lessons. But then Shin suddenly tries to plant a kiss on her lips?!
"If it gets you to love me, then I can do anything...!" Koh Saginuma. Age: 31. Profession: university associate professor. When his mother remarries, he becomes stepsiblings with Fuka, an 18-year-old college freshman. But suddenly they find themselves living together on their own?! Koh, who is awkward around women, is blindsided by Fuka, who excels at both housework and her studies. And for some reason, she's just a little too friendly with him...?! It's a breezy love-comedy between a man who scores (almost) zero on the romance curve, and a college girl with zero love experience and love stories on the brain!
"Who will be my prince?" At just barely 26, Akane Koyama is a capable business consultant. An outspoken beauty who doesn't suffer others' foolishness, she tends to be seen as "manly" both inside the company and out. Actually, though, she's a young maiden who dreams of a romance with her prince. One day, the CEO of a client company leaves Akane in charge of running a share house. And who should be living there, but three princely, handsome men?! And on top of that, Koh, one of the three, was actually Akane's "first"?! It's an all-out bout between a "manly" woman who dreams of love and her three prettyboy housemates!
A boyfriend whose love is so strong it becomes smothering - "Sena, look only at me." - an impudently wicked underclassman - "You should just break up with that boyfriend of yours." - and the girl wavering between them on a seesaw of love! Since Sena struggles to speak her mind, her boyfriend Minoru worries and has been taking extra care to watch over her. Then one day, Sena decides to attend her school club's drinking party after Hayato, an underclassman in the same club, asks for her help.She's always turned down the parties before to avoid worrying Minoru, and the moment she tells him she's going to one, his whole demeanor suddenly changes... While she's tossed about like a ship in a storm, which man will Sena choose in the end...?!
The wealthy Mr. Kayashima has a fine pedigree and a vast family fortune, with which he leads a solitary and idle life. Having wanted for nothing until now, our Mr. Kayashima has found an object of desire for the first time - an arrogant gardener with neither status nor fortune!
Born to a family of high standing and in possession of extraordinary wealth, Mr. Kayashima is a man of great means. He is indifferent to the ways of the world outside his mansion and rarely given to passionate emotion. And yet, our Mr. Kayashima has suddenly barged in on a visit home taken by the gardener with whom he is having a secret love affair...! In this volume: after sneaking along to the gardener's family home, a night of summer fireworks; the sweet ache of mistaken intentions in autumn; and a joyful Christmas spent in a wintry garden...
"Demons." Ageless, immortal beings living in the shadows of the mortal realm. The way to gain immortality is to kill a "Demon"; the price is to take on their role. A man who killed his Demon lover; a Demon who commits suicide over and over without someone to kill her; a girl who interacts with Demons.... The curtain rises on a life-and-death stakes game of musical chairs between Demons and mortal humans.
Those who inhabit neither Heaven nor Earth, but a place called the Space Between.... A cute little guardian deity and the sewing Between-dweller who creates them have come to peer in on the human world?! It's a 200% soothing tale that will gently snuggle into the holes in people's hearts!
Reunited with a childhood friend after five years, I was in my first year of high school, yet you stood before me, a teacher.... Kato is a young man with a peculiar condition that causes him to age three years for every year of real time. Orihara watches over him as both a friend and a student. This is the tale of the unusual life of these two former classmates.