"You make me wanna mess up that cool, indifferent face of yours," says Ritsuki to Sumire in the gym storeroom. So begins the game between Ritsuki, the most popular boy at school, and his friends. His objective: to make Sumire, a cold, aloof girl who's rumored to sleep with anyone, his new conquest. As Ritsuki gets closer to Sumire, however, he starts to see her true face, which is far different from what her normally stoic demeanor would suggest. It's a hurt-filled lovestory of two hearts nursing deep wounds.
Ace student Kuwahara, who has just transferred into prestigious Eikoh High School, dreams of having a best friend. But doing this is harder than it seems - maybe even harder than getting a girlfriend! "I want to get advice from a best friend, not some psychologist or philosopher..." Kuwahara may have high hopes at his new school, but what awaits him there is a den of knuckleheads: musical performances breaking out in the middle of class, doing P.E. at inappropriate times, and who knows what else?! Between Kuwahara the model student, the handsome blond Yusa, and a classful of screwballs, it's a comedy of love (?) and friendship he won't soon forget!
"Starting today, I'm your husband." The man I've admired from afar for so long is suddenly my husband?! I, Honoka Takatsuki (age 22), have had a crush on the same man since high school. He's my father's subordinate, the aloof and handsome but secretly gentle Nagakura Kosuke. Then one day, out of the blue, Kosuke became my husband...! - "Honoka, darling..." Kosuke whispers into a bewildered Honoka's ear, and...?
"You're stronger than you look, Tsubaki... But you left yourself wide open," he said, as he pinned me down... Just what is he?! - Our protagonist, Tsugumi Tsubaki, wants a romance straight out of a girls' comic. Her heart is set on her upperclassman and fellow literature club member Yamato Tamai, but just when she is about to ask him out, she overhears him say, "If I'm going to date, I'd rather be the one to ask." So, she decides to make him fall for her instead! To do that, she plans to hide the martial arts skills she's gained in her family's dojo, but then a mysterious group of punks sneaks up on Tamai... When Tsugumi steps up to protect him, what will become of her hopes for love...?!
College student Kaho has been smitten with up-and-coming novelist Tomoki, who is also her adoptive brother, for as long as she can remember. But, not wanting to ruin her existing relationship with him, she kept her feelings hidden and moved out to live alone. However, due to an unexpected mishap, she ends up moving back in with Tomoki at home - and realizes being at his side as a "sister" isn't enough. Kaho has just reaffirmed her love, but then it turns out another person is already staying at the house! And not only does this Atsufumi notice how she feels about Tomoki, but his condition to keep her secret is: "be my girlfriend"?! Adoptive siblings + the brother's friend - it's an evergrowing chain of unrequited love in this housemate love triangle!
"Why don't I take Sou's place?" - That day in the winter of our last year of junior high, the day Sou died, I sealed all my feelings away inside my heart. It was always the three of us - Sou, Keito, and me - but now there's an empty space where Sou used to be. Except, now we've met him: Sou's twin brother, Shun. His face and voice, like perfect copies of Sou's, shake up my heart and weaken the seal. Please, don't stare at me with Sou's eyes. Please, don't call out to me with his voice. Don't say that nonsense about taking his place, and then kiss me just like he used to......
The charismatic owner of the super popular ramen chain Tenshukaku passes away suddenly in an accident! His wife is left to try and hold the business together with the four branch managers of the chain. In this situation, a new employee enters the picture. A man called Shinsuke Hyodo! Will he succeed, or will he be eaten alive...?! The stage is set for a battle of ambitions!
Excellent grades ・ Excellent athletic eminence ・ Very popular ・ student, Yuzen Shindo fell in love with the beauty of the cool student council chairman Rei Omiya at first sight. Yuzen fell for Rei when he realized that he was lovely because of his pride. Yuzen expression of love is dynamic and erotic. Rei is always drawing away from him. Well they do say that opposites attract! High school love comedy!
Overcoming time, a hot embracing love ... Mizuo Yanase skipped Tea making class and snuck off to a temple, when he suddenly slipped through time from the present world the Sengoku era. There he meets Lord Takakage. "You came to this time to meet me..." Finally, a sengoku era romance!
The former chef of Hakodate's Goryokakutei, Kitagata Toshizo! The man who has been contracted to completely turn around a restaurant on the verge of failing! When it comes to cooking techniques, ideas, and spirit he is unrivaled! Only those that can make it through Toshizo's earth shattering training will be able to gain footing on the road to revival.Then comes in another shop...!!
Junichiro Nogi is a serious, stoic yet dull man at work and at home. Satoshi Miyamoto has a beautiful wife, a successful career, yet enjoys his extramarital relationships. Two men, both 40 years old, meet the women of their destinies. Nogi, tired of his job and family, spends time in his friend Asahina's apartment (who is currently away as an expat in a foreign country). He enjoys his alone-time, and manages to decompress there. Suddenly, a beautiful young woman named Ayami Fujimori appears at the apartment and says "Please make me your girlfriend" as she gives him a kiss...!?
University student Hitoshi Kawase's love interest---not only is it another boy, it's his older brother!…Faced with a love that will never be realized, one day Ikegami Natsuhiko appears as a fellow classmate with similar looks to his brother. Although the two continue to become closer, Hitoshi still feels his heart drawn to his brother. This bittersweet love story by Mieko Koide has now been republished!*This work is a separately published volume from the book published by Nihonbungeisha.
"Are you mocking Food battle?" An ordinary company employee, Mantaro Ohara is mentored by the famous food fighter, George Hunter! It's a steep path of gourmet foods to become a pro! This time we battle with pork Katsu! Eat, eat, eat!!
The drifter gambling chef Hanjiro Daicho!! His cooking is unbelievably delicious!! He'll change this world's B class gourmet into first class!! The giant of the world of gourmet manga Shigeru Tsuchiyama brings a new delicious work to Japan's recession. Your life will take a turn! Eat it, the shockingly delicious Food Explosion!!
An 18-year-old university student Takanori and 17-year-old high schooler Hikaru become brother and sister when their parents get married. Just when their happy family life is about to start their parents' plane crash on their honeymoon! Despite this, Takanori and Hikaru continue to live together. However, everything changes as they learn about the billion yen insurance money their parents left for them! An adventure full of comedy and romance is about to begin!
A mysterious Hostess club manager Mondo Kuwase, known as Kuwamon, starts working and introduces everyone to the world of local and regional food from all over the country! A new sensational gourmet manga!
The master of the Izakaya "Arakan" is also a famous detective. In accordance with the veteran police detective Numata's request, he joins the investigations. A gruelling detective story blended lightly with cuisine and seasoned with some human drama.
The protagonist is the second son of the Yanagiya Restaurant, Short tempered and has had a lot of problems with the police. He trained himself in the art of flavor through working at street stalls. His creative way of cooking gives a glimpse of his true potential. However after learning the difference between an amateur and professional in his battle against his older brother who has taken over the family business, he has left on a journey to train...The 18 year old hooligan of a chef Musashi, from Mito. takes to the front lines, going to the extreme to create a flavor that captures the hearts and tongues of everyone who tastes it!!
The hunger for victory begins! Momotaro High School's Competitive Eating Club was once a forceto be reckoned with. The new coach, Kutaro Moriyama, has come to restore the club to its former glory!
Kai, who's lover was murdered, searches for the murderer in the city controlled by Saruto and Maina. He finds a man with the same ring as his dead lover. Steel Ratri… A boys Love story set in the future! Finally, the spin-off of Steal moon is published!
"I'm in love with you. Like, the kind where I want you to make love to me." 10 years after losing his wife, Haru receives this confession from his step-son Ryo. The two may not be related by blood but have up to this point lived a peaceful life as a family. Haru doesn't want for their relationship to change. He just wants things to stay as they are so nothing is broken. But love doesn't always work like that. "Playing Family," the carefully written story of a step-dad battling his emotions for his step-son, and other sentimental love stories are contained in this bittersweet volume.
This is the story of a man known only as Gen, who used to be an assassin. Nobody knows his past, his real name or his age, only that he is now working at Tsubakiya, a secluded onsen inn. He had put down his weapons and intended to lead a quiet, peaceful life, but it seems his past is not willing to let him go so easily. The onsen inn gets guests from all walks of life, and anything can happen. Some guests come to end their life. Some guests just want to get away from everyday life and go crazy. There are TV shows and incognito celebrities. Every guest staying at Tsubakiya has their own story, just waiting to unfold.
The action novel written by the popular comedian, Impulse's Toshiyuki Itakura has been made into a comic! In the near future a new law in Japan is enacted, the "Shoot to kill" law. So called Triggers are selected, one in each prefecture. They are allowed to eradicate evil as they see fit. This edition has the Tokyo, Chiba and the Shizuoka trigger!
100 million yen, This girl?!Kasane Hibino, a 15 year old girl managing a ramshackle driving range, winds up meeting golf superstar Jambo Otokozaki. Will she be successful in achieving her goals? The definitive comic about golf, and about never giving up on your dreams!
The Suzunari high school detective club which consists of three good looking high school students; Suzaku Tachibana, Kohei Hiba, Sotaro Tsubaki, and a cat call Boo-chan. Boo-chan holds the power to decide the girls who get to join the club. Since there hasn't been any girls Boo-chan approved so far, the club has been a boy-only club since the first day. Until the day Suzaku used his intuition to scout Aoi Kaido, who he thought would be a cute girl. This was approved by Boo-chan, but she turned out to be a girl who's weird and doesn't smile… This is High school tale about the detective club of 4 students and one cat solving incidents on campus.
Yosuke Sakura, a novelist who can't seem to find an audience under his own name, makes a living from the shadows as a ghostwriter. Then out of the blue, he receives a request to ghostwrite the memoirs of the vanished pop idol Haruka Masaki. Sakura gets cold feet when he hears that Masaki requested him personally, wondering what she would want with someone like him. But while he's thrown for a loop by her uninhibited personality, the distance between them gradually shrinks. However, once the interviews start, the reason Masaki gives for her disappearance paints a portrait of the entertainment business that is darkness itself...?!
Inside this too-cute rabbit is a painfully stubborn man?! Tatsuto Uzaki (age 46), harshly strict with both himself and others, lives with his daughter Honoka as a family of two. Uzaki holds only contempt for the helpless and weak-willed animals known as housepets, while Honoka has always wanted a pet of her own, and one day this conflict of opinion explodes into a huge fight. Hoping to make up, Uzaki visits a pet shop, but the moment he picks up a rabbit to bring home, he gets struck by lightning...!!
One year ago, high schooler Hana Odamaki (age 17) and auto factory worker Shogo Kine (age 38) suddenly switched places in body and mind. Now, after a year in each other's shoes, the two run into each other again. The man who found himself as a young maiden has brushed up his vessel's femininity and become an amateur model, while the girl in the body of a middle-aged man was treated as an amnesia case and lost any steady employment. They may have been reunited with "themselves", but what should they do when they can scarcely recognize the person they once were...?
Komachi Sakanoue, 20 years old. Ten days into a new part-time job and can't follow directions. But, come on, I'm so curious... I just have to know more about that man in the special seat by the window, where the sunlight hits... - The cafe where I work has a long-time regular, a comic book artist who writes a certain popular comic series, and right now I'm pretty obsessed with him. Even the boss getting angry doesn't discourage me from sneaking stealthy peeks as he works. Sure enough, the world flowing from his pen is brimming with love again today. I adore his work, and I adore him, too. I want those listless eyes to be fixed on me. I want to know what he's thinking, and what the world looks like through his eyes. Sir, please, tell me what I have to do to become someone special to you...
Living together with a handsome man...no, wait, ghost...?! Yui Yamada's in her second year of high school when her nagging parents are sent overseas to Brazil for work. She was about to rejoice over finally getting to live alone in her very own apartment (yay!!) when she found out there was a ghost already living there...?! But wait, this ghost isn't scary at all... Though he sure is obnoxious! Whether she likes it or not, this ghost whose awful personality puts his handsome face to shame is going to be her roommate from here on out...!
I've been preparing for a competition that could open doors for me as an aspiring artist, but one day, in one fell swoop, I lost my art model and my girlfriend. I was still reeling from it when a young girl suddenly showed up beside me and said she would be my new model. However, now she says I need to offer up my body in exchange for her help...?! I had lost everything, and she knew nothing of the world; this is the story of our warped and fleeting, yet innocent, love.
Sera's older brother owns an antique shop. When he brought home a "clockwork doll," it was Sera's kiss that woke the doll, Satsuki, from his long slumber. Satsuki and his constant smiles leave Sera perplexed but ever more charmed. But, when Satsuki does cry, screws fall out along with his tears, and Sera learns that when the last screw falls Satsuki will become a real doll, never to awaken again...
"Why not press the reset button on your life?" Due to her hideous appearance, Moeko had been hated by both her peers and her family ever since she was a small child. Even as an adult nothing changed, so Moeko resolved to change herself instead. While saving for plastic surgery, she wound up lending money to Ijima, a colleague who had treated her kindly. However, after falling into a physical relationship with him, Moeko learns that Ijima was only using her for her money, and she kills him. She is carted off to prison for her crimes... Then one day, a chance to start over in life arrives: full-body plastic surgery through the "Reset Program." She is offered the choice to cast off her current appearance and live as another, completely different person!!
Suzu Igarashi, age 25, draws young women's erotic romance comics for a living. The man she loves is her favorite video game character, the princely white-knight type Sir Toma. Her romantic history is a blank page...which leaves her unable to draw erotic interludes with men, and so the outlook for her next work being signed is dismal. Just as she is sinking into despair, Suzu meets a young man collapsed on the street who is the spitting image of Sir Toma! The man of her dreams, right before her eyes... Without a second thought, Suzu offers him a job modeling for her comics. He asks for a place to stay and insists she not "go prying into" his past; those two conditions set, "Toma" accepts her offer... Then, following the script of her comic, he takes her first kiss and then... A comic artist on the brink and the mysterious boy with a striking resemblance to her video game fave will share more than a roof in this non-stop heart-pounding romance!!
While aiming to become an illustrator, Koharu works in an editing department. In her free time, she dedicates herself to a video game starring her digital prince, Nobunaga. Koharu used to be a total normie until she was betrayed by her beloved boyfriend, but since then she's been afraid of romance and retreated into gaming... One day, her sister brings home Takumi, who's in a pickle due to losing his luggage upon arriving from the US, and he happens to look just like Nobunaga...?! Though Koharu is resistant at first, he ends up staying with them while he searches for his luggage. And on top of that, now Koharu has an illustration gig to handle, too?! Koharu gives it her all, but the job falls through anyway, leaving her depressed. Seeing this, Takumi offers some encouragement, which lightens Koharu's heart. But, when his luggage is found a few days later, it seems Takumi is leaving Japan to return home...?!
"You are fit to be an agent of God...an Emissary..." As mysterious and bosomy beauty Ranzaki whispered these words, he was enveloped in a strange light. Since that moment, police officer Tomoki Mishima has been able to see and manipulate "Divine Energy" - power drawn from God's domain. The serial killer Mishima is chasing, Scissorhands, has also been using tainted Divine Energy to commit his crimes. He flies through the air between buildings, wielding giant scissors to shred apart women's bodies. Due to his superhuman strength and speed, the police have struggled to apprehend this Scissorhands. "I don't want to lose any more people I care about...!" Following his strong sense of justice, Mishima resolves to use Divine Energy in his hunt for Scissorhands, but will he succeed...? This grand action suspense story will take you past the bounds of human understanding!!
"We abducted you because we need you to save the world." "...Say what?" - Upon opening his eyes, vigilante-for-hire Malice found himself in the bedroom of an unknown apartment. The last thing he remembers is being pursued by security police while fleeing a murder scene, then passing out from a tranquilizer. But he never would have expected to get such a bizarre request from this scarlet-eyed redhead girl calling herself "Phi"... Malice, a man who uses brutal methods to settle grudge after grudge for his various clients, hesitating not even to kill, was the one chosen by Phi, a phoenix descended to Earth from the heavens. Chosen for being the boorish murderer most suited to effectively teach her the hideousness of mankind. In other words, showing pure-hearted Phi how ugly people can be until she comes to hate them is the path to saving the world... Or so he's told.
Her father's pharmaceutical company keeping her family in comfort, her post-graduation employment already settled... Kana was enjoying a peaceful fourth year at university. However, after swindling her father into a shady loan with Kana herself as collateral, a gangster named Hiragi Yoji comes to collect the debt. Yoji is up for the role of second-in-command of his yakuza syndicate; in order to present Kana as a gift to the syndicate boss, he plans to make a woman out of her... Abandoned by her parents, carted off by the yakuza...and subject to the relentless Yoji. In these dire circumstances, Kana makes a dire resolution...!!
I want to become one with him, but I can't! -- On the night they celebrated three years since moving in together, 27-year-old office worker Kazuho had been hoping for a proposal from her boyfriend Wataru. And yet, he never raised the question of marriage... Since their relationship is sexless due to her own past trauma, she can hardly blame him. Just as she tells herself that the happy moments they spend together now are enough for her, she happens to meet a woman named Miya who has the same regional accent as Wataru. They hit it off, and Kazuho wants to introduce her new friend to Wataru, too, but for some reason he's acting strange... Ever since meeting Miya, something has gone off-kilter! Peaceful, everyday life breaks down in this story of romance and suspense.
"I want you to obey me." While he whispers these words, the boss's finger makes my secret place swell… and my insides begin to ache… stir me up more, more, more! Mr. Tsubaki, the Human Resources director, is the most popular boss in the company. And that boss moved into the condo where I live!? I have a certain secret that I try hard to hide, but… "You don't want to get found out, do you?" The boss who wears such refreshing smile at work makes an abrupt about-face! He said, "In exchange for my silence, be my lover." Even though I'd sworn off romance, I was fascinating by this forceful but sweet boss…