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"!
Hiroto Domori is a seemingly weakling Irregular who doesn't have any magical or spiritual powers. But what most people don't know is that he just got back from the demon world and is the world's strongest demon killer.
This "weak" demon killer goes up against an unrivaled enemy who attacks innocent people.
With the advent of the transcontinental railroad, smoke from steam locomotives veils the cities and mercenaries are a thing of the past.
Sword, a mercenary, is down on his luck when he accepts a job from the bestselling lady novelist, Verderon. They set out on a journey to a dangerous, uncharted mountain... Only to be caught up in a conspiracy between church and state?!
Franz, a fledgling mage on the verge of graduating from magic school, is having no luck lining up a job in the White Magic field. Fearing unemployment, he decides to interview at a Black Magic company on the advice of his dorm mother, even though working with Black Magic is said to be the 3 Ds: Dangerous, Disgusting, and Dirty. Turns out? It's more like the 3 Ps: Pure, Pleasant, and Permissive!
Reborn as the third prince of a tiny and insignificant country, Hero happens to learn the forbidden-yet-powerful art of alchemy. Combined with his knowledge from modern-day Japan, Hero's abilities grow beyond what anyone in his world could fathom! With his newly-acquired powers, he'll bring his country back from the verge of extinction...!
A combination of modern-day knowledge and alchemy to turn a weak little country into a prosperous nation!
Rex, a reincarnated boy with two past lives?a "Sage" and a "Hero." Having learned the dangers of standing out from the memories of those lives, he vows to live a simple third life as an "Adventurer."
But that "simple" was way too "fancy" for normal people!!
So begins the exciting fantasy adventure drama of the strongest boy with no self-awareness, overwhelming the people around him in his super new game plus!!
There has always been 16 heroes. Among them is the Darkness Hero, Shion, the strongest hero in history. Shion has only one thing he believes in--his party members. However, those girls he believed in cruelly betrayed him. Is there a way for Shion to overcome his deep pain and keep on living?
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!
Rud is a tank of the Hero's Party and is said to have the highest defense ever in history. The party often does labyrinth raids, but to Rud, it means more than just a raid. To cure his beloved sister's illness, he is in search for the wish-granting treasure that might be hidden in those labyrinths. But one day, the arrogant hero kicks him from the party after an unsuccessful raid attempt, blaming it on his skills whose effects he is still unaware of. Without nowhere else to go and nothing to do, he decides to return to his hometown, where his sister is waiting. On his way there, he saves a girl who was being attacked by a monster. Unexpectedly, this girl has an extremely rare skill called "Appraisal". Thanks to her skill, Rud is able to discover the truth behind his unknown skills, which turn out to be very powerful skills. With a defense of 9999 and powerful skills, thus begins the adventure of the strongest tank, Rud!
Magnus, a wizard who gets ordered around by the hero, is kicked out of the party. Right after that, he receives a book written in the language of the gods detailing all the information he would need to defeat the demon king-the ultimate strategy guide!
Kai, a young Dark Knight who comes from a household of elite Dark-job holders, decided to pursue even greater strength. One day, he saved the Princess who was being attacked by a monster, which ended up being the trigger for him to join an academy specialized in teaching Holy jobs. Together with Millia, his childhood friend as well as a Paladin, his little sister Chloe the Necromancer, and Princess Shel, who later becomes his tutor, their thrilling academy life begins. Despite having a body so incompatible with Holy magic that he almost passes out whenever he uses it, he is resolved to endure all hardships, for he aspires to become the polar opposite of the strongest Dark Knight: the kingdom's strongest Royal Paladin!
His looks are -255, touching girls causes him pain, and sexual acts will literally tear him apart. Just what can our ex-salesman Shigeru get in the other world in exchange for such inconveniences...? This is an epic tale of one very ugly, but ridiculously strong man!
When everyone turns 12 years old, they are granted a Mystic Arms by God. The hero-admiring Rust dreams that he'll get a powerful one of his own one day.
As his fellow villagers began receiving high rank Mystic Arms one after another, Rust nervously prayed to God. Then, before him appeared a Mystic Arms of the lowest rank, a Rusty Sword.
A tale of becoming "zeros to heroes" with the weakest boy and the lowliest weapon!
A martial artist called Nicola, who specializes in techniques considered foul by many, is kicked from the Hero's party. Feeling betrayed, he vows to never work again. Nonetheless, Nicola's older sister, Satella, has other plans for him, appointing Nicola as the teacher of the class composed of the weakest alumni in the Shanoa Academy. There, he meets Alice, a tender and lovely elf girl. In a world where a person's worth is determined by their muscles, Alice ranks among the lowest, and to change herself, she enlists Nicola's aid to learn from him a fighting style in which... anything goes! This is a battle fantasy story of rising to the top through clever but underhanded tactics!
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!
"Conquer" all the ladies! A sexy and exciting suspense-thriller series! A young man awakes to find that his life has become a video game, and one that he must either win or die. Given the cryptic goal of "conquering" all the female targets, and no guidance of how to do so, he'll have to rely on the game's systems to untangle the web of violence and intrigue he's found himself trapped in.
Fujimiya Amane, a high school student, lives by himself in his apartment. Next to him lives Shiina Mahiru, the prettiest girl at school. Someone who everyone calls "an angel." They never really talk, but when Amane lends Mahiru his umbrella on a rainy day, their relationship starts to blossom.
Before long Mahiru finds out that Amane neglects his cooking and cleaning, and she feels obligated to step in.
Although they have zero interest in one another, they slowly find themselves growing closer...
This is the bittersweet love story of a young man and his beautiful, sharp-tongued neighbor.
Meet Kane: a D-rank adventurer with nothing going for him but his kindness. He's spent the last 20 years getting by with herb-picking requests, but one day, he comes across a super rare item: The Fruit of Revival! Giving it away for not much more than pocket change, little does he know that his life is about to change...
Since he was young, he has been on the frontlines fighting against demons. Active Rank #1, the strongest magician in the world, Alus is now 16 years old and wishes to retire to a peaceful life. However, the military will not let him go so easily. The military negotiated with Alus to hide his identity and enroll in a magic academy as a normal student. What will come of Alus's retirement plan?
Alto, an aspiring magician, is about to repeat a grade when he accidentally summons the demon Vermeil, which was sealed in a book Alto found by chance. Not only does Vermeil hold an ancient power capable of bringing about the end of the world, she's also quite naughty! A traditional fantasy story about a struggling magician and his powerful familiar begins with their fateful meeting!
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.
With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Sumire Suo's junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suo's main rival, Midori Soshizaki, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a promise that she'll never let Suo "play alone." It's an earnest offer, but the question is whether Suo will take her up on it. Thus the curtain opens on a story that collects an enormous cast of individual soccer-playing personalities!
Yusuke Saito is a normal high school kid...well, normal enough, except that he can't remember anything from his life except the last six months. But when he starts to get confronted by people who insist they're from his past, who allege that he did horrible things to them...suddenly Yusuke's missing memories become crucial to remember. Otherwise, the skeletons in his closet may just make him a skeleton, too...
Chiaki is a pretty normal teenage girl. Since they were kids, she's had a thing for her best friend Subaru-who's fast becoming the hottest young actor in Japan! With Subaru threatening to slip away, Chiaki has a decision to make: Will she finally take her shot, or give Subaru up to his adoring public?
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.
Yuuki is a 20-year-old college sophomore who has wished for one thing since moving to Tokyo: to find her soulmate. Growing a bit desperate after a long drought, she goes along with a friend to a club for the first time. Her friend thrives, but it's chaotic and loud...just not Yuuki's scene. Just when Yuuki begins to despair that she'll ever find a real, adult relationship, she meets Iori, a man with bleached hair and a slightly scary demeanor...but first impressions don't always tell the whole story. Could destiny still have more cards to play?
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.
As far as adventuring goes, supporting your party is a thankless job-even more so if you're just a lowly red mage like Yuke Feldio. So, when he gets fed up with his A-rank party of total a-holes, he ditches them for some former students-a trio of girls who just looove his company. Thing is, to conquer the world's greatest dungeon and achieve his dream, he'll have to teach these cuties a thing or two...and he may just learn there's more potential within him (and them) then he ever knew.
Eight years have passed since the sickness known as "the Sleep" ended millions of lives. Now, after a dangerous procedure that involves diving into patients' memories has ended the pandemic, Petty Officer Adam Garfield wakes up in a hospital to find an IED has taken one of his legs. But Adam's plan to retire from U.S. Navy service and cash in his pension to goof around with his younger siblings is shattered when he receives secret word that the sleeping sickness has returned, and it's his job to coax back the mysterious man who helped cure it the first time: a man known by the codename "King." Omnibus edition includes Parts 1 and 2.
Relive the good old otaku days with this sentimental and comical reflection on a teen's path to self-acceptance. This nostalgic coming-of-age story is perfect for fans of Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku! Otaku culture has finally become mainstream, and Megumi can't quite get used to it. Divorced, with a teen daughter, Megumi thinks fondly back to her days as an anime and manga otaku-in 1995. That year, she transferred to a new school and decided to start fresh by hiding her otaku interests. She found herself taken under the wing of a basketball ace named Masamune, who's got a kind heart and looks just like one of her favorite characters. Though Megumi catches a whiff of destiny in the air, she's crushed to learn that Masamune detests otaku...
Himari's a waitress with terrible luck with men, always getting compared to other women and cast aside by those she falls in love with. Thanks to a weakness for men in white dress shirts, though, she can't help but be attracted to her handsome manager. However, sick of being heartbroken, she vows instead to only date inexperienced men so she won't be compared to other women. She goes to a mixer and gets acquainted with someone she thinks could be the one, but it turns out he's only got one thing on his mind ... Then she has an unexpected encounter with her manager on the street, and the two of them end up at a love hotel, where she discovers ...
From the creator of My Summer of You comes a high school romance about two friends who've always been in the same class, but when a new school year separates them, they realize that their feelings for each other might run deeper than friendship... From their first year of middle school to their second year of high school, Kai and Ren have not only always been in the same class-they've also always sat next to each other. But in their last year of high school, the boys are assigned to two separate classes, and with each passing day, Kai feels as if he's slipping further and further away from Ren... One day, when Kai finds Ren sleeping in a classroom after school, he whispers the feelings that he can't bring himself to say out loud... and Ren hears him. Will Kai's confession draw them further and further apart, or will it be the spark that brings them back to each other once more?